I Might Be Wrong – Live Recordings Newark NJ

I Might Be Wrong - Live Recordings

Radiohead

Capitol, 2001

REVIEW BY: Sean McCarthy

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 11/17/2006

Fans who hoped Radiohead were going to assume the mantle of “best rock band in the world” in 2000 were put off by Kid A. Those fans must have been crushed when they heard Amnesiac after being teased in late 2000 and early 2001 that it would be a “return to guitars” album. On first listens, both albums seemed to bury Thom Yorke’s vocals in a cocoon of computer blips and atmospheric droning. How the hell could this translate into a live concert environment?

Actually, fairly easily.

Concert reviewers marveled how the sterile, standoffish songs from Amnesiac took on a much warmer tone in a live setting. For fans who couldn’t catch the band on their Amnesiac tour, I Might Be Wrong – Live Recordings is a testament that even Radiohead’s more experimental tunes merit the Bic lighter treatment in a live setting.

I Might Be Wrong captures highlights from Radiohead’s shows in

Berlin and

Oxford, among other places. The album kicks off with Radiohead’s most ‘arena-ready’ song from their Kid A and Amnesiac albums, “The National Anthem,” where Johnny Greenwood and Ed O’Brien unleash a scorching guitar assault while drummer Phil Selway shows why many of Radiohead’s best songs have his percussion at the forefront of their sonic attack.