Radiohead
I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (Capitol) For a band that six months ago seemed to hold the answers to everything except what happened to Atlantis, it sure didn’t take long for Radiohead to drop off the radar screen. Circumstances beyond their control, to be sure, but suddenly creeping dread and pervasive unease aren’t quite as entertaining as they were in June. Nothing wrong with any of the seven Kid A/Amnesiac selections assembled here — especially the brooding “Everything in Its Right Place” and unrelenting alternate-universe hit single “The National Anthem” — but without the pillowy buffer zone of the Bends and OK Computer songs that made their summer tour magisterial, this live album seems only half complete. Save the yearning, unreleased “True Love Waits,” I Might Be Wrong comes off as something to eat up one of the albums they owe Capitol, because who knows when they’ll feel like going back into the studio to make a new one. Nice knowing you, lads.
This article appears in November 30 • 2001.