Radiohead are by far my favourite band and I’m pretty sure they're about to split up.Įverything about this band is deliberate, and the release of such songs - which for two decades they didn't believe suitable or worthy - either signals an unlikely drop in perfectionism or, more likely, a fitting way to say goodbye.Įvidence is stacking up. Who knows what secrets they will reveal? Does the new album suggest they're about to split? What’s more, that £120 gets its buyers copies of an old diary and a tape full of demos.
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That’s the price of three beers, drunk within the time this masterpiece runs through, and it's hard to price art that takes you on entirely accurate journeys through our difficult existence, and offers real ideas about how to cope or flee. When I was 16, I paid £12.99 for the CD and it’s hard to think of something I have had more value from. The album is so human in that way and, well, as I write, £120 for the top range edition seems reasonable. The narrator has been stuck, but people are trying to reach him and that is what OK Computer is about - people in situations they don’t feel comfortable in, but have hope said situation will improve. "Lift", obviously, is about going up, looking for a way out. It would have been huge, but the band had other ideas and yet, in its intimately alienated technological way, the anthem encapsulates all they were trying to say with OK Computer.
The melody is their finest the message their most optimistic (“So lighten up squirt!”) and it rolls along not unlike Yellow. Radiohead, being Radiohead, wrote it, were never happy with it, and stuck it in a box. "Lift" is the type of song that if Coldplay had written, would be the focus of their entire career. It is in my favourite ten songs the band have ever done.Īs is "Lift" - the finest of the three unreleased songs. The song is a message from Yorke to his older self to not be distant, to remember that “one night we kissed and I really meant it”. I can’t see how it would have fitted on OK Computer apart from, maybe, in place of the elegiac Exit Music (For A Film), but that’s like saying you should ditch chips and have battered cod with mash - it will work, but something will seem wrong. A ballad that sounds like the sort of thing Blur would do on 13 two years later.
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