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'''''I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings''''' is a 2001 [[live album|live]] "mini album" by [[England|English]] [[rock band]] [[Radiohead]], consisting of live performances of eight songs recorded on a then-recent tour of Europe and North America: seven from their albums ''[[Kid A]]'' and ''[[Amnesiac]]'', and one never released on a studio album, "[[True Love Waits (Radiohead song)|True Love Waits]]", performed on acoustic guitar by singer [[Thom Yorke]].
'''''I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings''''' is a live album by the English rock band [[Radiohead]], released on 12 November 2001 in the UK by [[Parlophone]] and a day later in the US by [[Capitol Records]].


Recorded during Radiohead's 2001 tour, ''I Might Be Wrong'' comprises songs from their fourth and fifth albums ''[[Kid A]]'' (2000) and ''[[Amnesiac (album)|Amnesiac]]'' (2001). Radiohead developed the songs through studio experimentation and rearranged them for live performance. ''I Might Be Wrong'' also includes an acoustic performance of "[[True Love Waits (song)|True Love Waits]]", a song Radiohead did not release until their 2016 album ''[[A Moon Shaped Pool]]''.
The live arrangements differ somewhat from the studio versions. For instance, "[[The National Anthem]]" has a larger "fuzz bass" guitar sound and lacks the free jazz ending of the studio version, "[[Idioteque]]" builds into a frenzied audience singalong, "I Might Be Wrong" emphasizes the rhythm section and is more of a dance tune, while "[[Everything in Its Right Place]]" is about three-and-a-half minutes longer, with a more jam-like rave quality, as well as making use of improvised effects on a Korg Kaos Pad. Most drastically altered for live performance is "[[Like Spinning Plates]]." The studio-recorded ''Amnesiac'' version featured backwards singing over a pulsing electronic backdrop, while the live version is a haunting piano ballad accompanied by sparse bass notes and a string synth. (This recording also marks the first time "Like Spinning Plates" was performed live, recorded at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in August 2001. The CD is labeled inaccurately and does not mention this performance as a source of the recording. Corrected information about the concerts heard on the live album can be found at [http://www.greenplastic.com/discography/eps/index.php Green Plastic].)

''I Might Be Wrong'' received mainly positive reviews. Critics praised the performances and arrangements, but criticised its brevity and lack of earlier Radiohead songs.

== Content ==
''I Might Be Wrong'' comprises live performances recorded on Radiohead's 2001 tour.<ref name="Letts2010">{{cite book |author=Marianne Tatom Letts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3HSuhm6DRGgC&pg=PA167 |title=Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album: How to Disappear Completely |date=8 November 2010 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-00491-8 |pages=156–167}}</ref> It features songs from ''[[Kid A]]'' (2000) and [[Amnesiac (album)|''Amnesiac'']] (2001),<ref name="Letts2010" /> plus a solo performance of another song, "[[True Love Waits (song)|True Love Waits]]", by the singer, [[Thom Yorke]], on acoustic guitar.<ref name="Reilly-2016" /> Radiohead did not release "True Love Waits" until their 2016 album ''[[A Moon Shaped Pool]]''.<ref name="Reilly-2016">{{Cite web |last=Reilly |first=Dan |date=10 May 2016 |title=The 21-year history of Radiohead's 'True Love Waits', a fan favorite two decades in the making |url=http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/history-radiohead-true-love-waits.html |access-date=10 September 2016 |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]}}</ref>

As Radiohead had developed ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' through studio experimentation,<ref name="rolling_stone">{{cite magazine |last1=Fricke |first1=David |date=24 May 2001 |title=Radiohead warm up with ''Amnesiac'' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-warm-up-with-amnesiac-20010524 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715085158/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-warm-up-with-amnesiac-20010524 |archive-date=15 July 2014 |access-date=14 July 2014 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> they rearranged the songs to perform them live. For example, the electronic track "Like Spinning Plates" was rearranged as a piano ballad.<ref name="p4k3">{{cite web |last=LeMay |first=Matt |date=17 December 2001 |title=Radiohead: ''I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings'' |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6657-i-might-be-wrong-live-recordings-ep/ |access-date=19 March 2012 |publisher=Pitchfork}}</ref> The guitarist [[Ed O'Brien]] said: "You couldn't do ''Kid A'' live and be true to the record. You would have to do it like an art installation ... When we played live, we put the human element back into it."<ref name="Rolling Stone-2001">{{Cite magazine |date=2001-06-21 |title=Radiohead take ''Amnesiac'' on tour |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/radiohead-take-amnesiac-on-tour-242596/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=2021-10-04}}</ref> The drummer, [[Philip Selway]], said Radiohead "found some new life" in the songs when they came to perform them.<ref name="Rolling Stone-2001" />
==Reception==
{{Album reviews
|MC = 76/100<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/i-might-be-wrong-live-recordings/critic-reviews |title=Critic Reviews for I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=23 May 2012}}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AllMusic"/>
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Radiohead |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |title=[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]] |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment.ie]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="ie-review"/>
| rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev4score = B+<ref name="ew-review">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,253071,00.html |title=I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |last=Brunner |first=Rob |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=7 December 2001 |page=105 |access-date=23 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906223924/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C253071%2C00.html |archive-date=6 September 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings EP review |date=December 2001 |journal= [[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |page=114 }}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="NME">{{cite journal|url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/album/reviews-nme-5805|title=Radiohead – 'I Might Be Wrong' review|journal=[[NME]]|date=7 December 2001|access-date=23 May 2012|last=Kessler|first=Ted}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev7score = 8.0/10<ref>Matt LeMay (17 December 2001). [http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6657-i-might-be-wrong-live-recordings-ep/ Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings EP review] [[Pitchfork Media]]. Retrieved 10 December 2011.</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |issue=#184 |journal= [[Q (magazine)|Q]] |page=127 }}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/recordings/review.asp?aid=2043270|title=Recordings: Radiohead, I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings|last=Moon|first=Tom|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=22 November 2001|access-date=23 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011215122043/http://www.rollingstone.com/recordings/review.asp?aid=2043270|archive-date=15 December 2001|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Stylus Magazine|Stylus]]''
| rev10Score = A−<ref>Keith Gwillim (1 September 2003). [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/radiohead/i-might-be-wrong.htm Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong – Review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604182437/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/radiohead/i-might-be-wrong.htm |date=4 June 2007 }} [[Stylus Magazine|Stylus]]. Retrieved 10 December 2011.</ref>
}}

At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, ''I Might Be Wrong'' has an average score of 76 based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".<ref name="metacritic"/>

The ''[[Entertainment.ie]]'' critic Andrew Lynch wrote: "Unlike most live albums, this one captures some of the excitement of actually being there and gives Radiohead back the human dimension they've recently been in danger of losing."<ref name="ie-review">Andrew Lynch (14 November 2001). [http://entertainment.ie/album-review/Radiohead-I-Might-Be-Wrong/1725.htm Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong review] [[Entertainment.ie]]. Retrieved 10 December 2011.</ref> Stephen Thompson of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' wrote that the album "cast new light" on ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac.<ref name="av-review" />'' In ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', Jonah Weiner described it as "explosively raw", praising the "twisty, insular" performance of "[[Idioteque]]" and Yorke's "beautifully chilling" vocals on "Like Spinning Plates".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Weiner |first=Jonah |date=2016-06-20 |title=Radiohead: A Complete Album Guide |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/radiohead-a-complete-album-guide-38091/ |access-date=2019-07-25 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> Matt LeMay of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' also praised "Like Spinning Plates", saying it showcased Radiohead's "songwriting virtuosity rather than their sonic adventurousness".<ref name="p4k3" />

LeMay said the performance of "True Love Waits" was "absolutely gorgeous" and that the song "holds its own" against any on Radiohead's 1997 album ''[[OK Computer]]''.<ref name="p4k3" /> He felt it justified the release of the live album, along with "Like Spinning Plates".<ref name="p4k">{{cite web |last=LeMay |first=Matt |date=17 December 2001 |title=Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6657-i-might-be-wrong-live-recordings-ep/ |access-date=19 March 2012 |website=Pitchfork}}</ref> Ted Kessler of ''[[NME]]'' praised Yorke's vocals on "True Love Waits" as "clear and true".<ref name="NME"/> However, Mac Randall felt the performance, with "whiny" vocals, was inferior to a widely shared [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] version. He wrote: "One gets the feeling that this was a song Radiohead knew they liked and knew audiences liked but the band never came to grips with an arrangement for it; finally they threw up their hands, putting it out as it is."<ref>{{cite book |last=Randall |first=Mac |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0q9bTJp2Bi4C&q=My+Iron+Lung+Live+at+the+Astoria&pg=PT203 |title=Exit Music: The Radiohead Story Updated Edition |date=1 February 2012 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-1-4584-7147-5}}</ref>

Several critics felt ''I Might Be Wrong'' was too short. Thompson found it "marred by characteristically unrevealing packaging and inexplicable brevity".<ref name="av-review">Stephen Thompson (12 November 2001). [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/13049 Radiohead: ''I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313235718/http://www.avclub.com/content/node/13049 |date=13 March 2007 }} ''[[The A.V. Club]].'' Retrieved 10 December 2011.</ref> Randall wrote that its brevity made it "something of a letdown", and that the lack of earlier Radiohead songs meant it did not capture "anywhere near the scope of a real Radiohead concert".<ref>{{cite book |last=Randall |first=Mac |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0q9bTJp2Bi4C&q=My+Iron+Lung+Live+at+the+Astoria&pg=PT203 |title=Exit Music: The Radiohead Story Updated Edition |date=1 February 2012 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-1-4584-7147-5}}</ref> LeMay also criticised the lack of older songs, and said the album had the feeling of a "promotional item" for ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac''.<ref name="p4k3" /> Sam Samuelson of [[AllMusic]] suggested it could instead have been packaged with ''Amnesiac'' as a complete package from the ''Kid A'' sessions, rather than a "couple of thrown-together releases".<ref name="AllMusic">{{Cite web |last=Samuelson |first=Sam |date=2001 |title=''I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings'' review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-might-be-wrong-live-recordings-mw0000015418?1659441297572 |publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>

== Reissues ==
Radiohead left EMI after their contract ended in 2003.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Nestruck |first=Kelly |date=8 November 2007 |title=EMI stab Radiohead in the back catalogue |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2207489,00.html |access-date=22 November 2007}}</ref> In 2007, EMI released ''[[Radiohead Box Set]]'', a compilation of albums recorded while Radiohead were signed to EMI, including ''I Might Be Wrong''.<ref name="Guardian" /> Radiohead had no input into the reissues and the music was not remastered.<ref name="MCCARTHY">{{cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Sean |date=18 December 2009 |title=The Best Re-Issues of 2009: 18: Radiohead: ''Pablo Honey'' / ''The Bends'' / ''OK Computer'' / ''Kid A'' / ''Amnesiac'' / ''Hail to the Thief'' |url=https://www.popmatters.com/best-album-re-issues-2009-2496140735.html |url-status=live |publisher=[[PopMatters]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220175703/http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/117848-the-best-re-issues-of-2009/ |archive-date=20 December 2009 |access-date=29 August 2011}}</ref>

In February 2013, Parlophone was bought by [[Warner Music Group]] (WMG).<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Knopper |first=Steve |date=8 February 2013 |title=Pink Floyd, Radiohead Catalogs Change Label Hands |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/warner-music-pays-765-million-for-parlophone-20130208 |url-status=live |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714183928/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/warner-music-pays-765-million-for-parlophone-20130208 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |access-date=2 September 2016}}</ref> In April 2016, as a result of an agreement with the trade group [[Independent Music Companies Association|Impala]], WMG transferred Radiohead's back catalogue to [[XL Recordings]]. The EMI reissues, released without Radiohead's consent, were removed from streaming services.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Christman |first=Ed |date=4 April 2016 |title=Radiohead's Early Catalog Moves From Warner Bros. to XL |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/radioheads-early-catalog-warner-bros-xl/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=6 May 2017}}</ref> In May 2016, XL reissued Radiohead's back catalogue on vinyl, including ''I Might Be Wrong''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Spice |first=Anton |date=6 May 2016 |title=Radiohead to reissue entire catalogue on vinyl |url=http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/radiohead-reissue-entire-catalogue-vinyl/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826093045/http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/radiohead-reissue-entire-catalogue-vinyl/ |archive-date=26 August 2016 |access-date=6 May 2017 |website=[[The Vinyl Factory]]}}</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
All tracks written by Radiohead, except where noted.
|headline=''I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings'' track listing
#"[[The National Anthem]]" – 4:57
| all_writing = Radiohead, except where noted
#"[[I Might Be Wrong (song)|I Might Be Wrong]]" – 4:52
| extra_column = Venue
#"[[Morning Bell]]" – 4:14
| title1 = [[The National Anthem (Radiohead song)|The National Anthem]]
#"Like Spinning Plates" – 3:47
| note1 =
#"[[Idioteque]]" (Radiohead, [[Paul Lansky]], [[Arthur Krieger]]) – 4:24
| length1 = 4:57
#"[[Everything in Its Right Place]]" – 7:42
| writer1 =
#"Dollars and Cents" – 5:13
| extra1 = Vaison-la-Romaine, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France {{smalldiv|28 May 2001}}
#"[[True Love Waits (Radiohead song)|True Love Waits]]" – 5:02
| title2 = I Might Be Wrong
| note2 =
| length2 = 4:52
| writer2 =
| extra2 = South Park, Oxford, England {{smalldiv|7 July 2001}}
| title3 = Morning Bell
| note3 =
| length3 = 4:14
| writer3 =
| extra3 = South Park, Oxford, England {{smalldiv|7 July 2001}}
| title4 = Like Spinning Plates
| note4 =
| length4 = 3:47
| writer4 =
| extra4 = Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA {{smalldiv|8 August 2001}}
| title5 = [[Idioteque]]
| writer5 = Arthur Kreiger, [[Paul Lansky]], Radiohead
| length5 = 4:24
| extra5 = South Park, Oxford, England {{smalldiv|7 July 2001}}
| title6 = [[Everything in Its Right Place]]
| length6 = 7:42
| extra6 = Vaison-la-Romaine, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France {{smalldiv|28 May 2001}}
| title7 = Dollars and Cents
| length7 = 5:13
| extra7 = South Park, Oxford, England {{smalldiv|7 July 2001}}
| title8 = [[True Love Waits (song)|True Love Waits]]
| length8 = 5:02
| extra8 = Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway {{smalldiv|9 September 2001}}
| total_length = 40:11
| lyrics_credits =
| music_credits =
}}


==Personnel==
{{Radiohead}}
Adapted from the liner notes.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes|title=I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings|type=liner notes}}</ref>
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[[Category:Radiohead albums]]
=== Radiohead ===

[[Category:2001 albums]]
* [[Thom Yorke]]
[[Category:Live albums]]
* [[Jonny Greenwood]]
[[Category:Parlophone albums]]
* [[Ed O'Brien]]
[[Category:Capitol Records albums]]
* [[Colin Greenwood]]
* [[Philip Selway]]

{{col-2}}

=== Production ===

* Jim Warren – engineering and mixing (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8)
* [[Nigel Godrich]] and Will Shapland – engineering and mixing (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7)
{{col-end}}

==Release history==
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! Country
! Date
! Label
! Format
! Catalogue number
|-
|rowspan="2"| United Kingdom
|rowspan="2"| 12 November 2001
|rowspan="2"| [[Parlophone]]
| [[LP album|LP]]
| 12FHEIT 45104
|-
|rowspan="2"| CD
| CDFHEIT 45104
|-
| United States
| 13 November 2001
| [[Capitol Records]]
| CDP 7243 5 36616 2 5
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Discogs master}}

{{Radiohead}}
{{Authority control}}


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Latest revision as of 11:31, 10 August 2024

For the song, see Amnesiac (album).
I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
Live album by
Radiohead
Released12 November 2001
RecordedMay–August 2001
Genre
Length40:11
Label
Radiohead chronology
Amnesiac
(2001) 		I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
(2001) 		Hail to the Thief
(2003)

I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings is a live album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 12 November 2001 in the UK by Parlophone and a day later in the US by Capitol Records.

Recorded during Radiohead's 2001 tour, I Might Be Wrong comprises songs from their fourth and fifth albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001). Radiohead developed the songs through studio experimentation and rearranged them for live performance. I Might Be Wrong also includes an acoustic performance of "True Love Waits", a song Radiohead did not release until their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool.

I Might Be Wrong received mainly positive reviews. Critics praised the performances and arrangements, but criticised its brevity and lack of earlier Radiohead songs.

Content

[edit]

I Might Be Wrong comprises live performances recorded on Radiohead's 2001 tour.[1] It features songs from Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001),[1] plus a solo performance of another song, "True Love Waits", by the singer, Thom Yorke, on acoustic guitar.[2] Radiohead did not release "True Love Waits" until their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool.[2]

As Radiohead had developed Kid A and Amnesiac through studio experimentation,[3] they rearranged the songs to perform them live. For example, the electronic track "Like Spinning Plates" was rearranged as a piano ballad.[4] The guitarist Ed O'Brien said: "You couldn't do Kid A live and be true to the record. You would have to do it like an art installation ... When we played live, we put the human element back into it."[5] The drummer, Philip Selway, said Radiohead "found some new life" in the songs when they came to perform them.[5]

Reception

[edit]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic76/100[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[8]
Entertainment.ie[9]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[10]
Mojo[11]
NME[12]
Pitchfork8.0/10[13]
Q[14]
Rolling Stone[15]
StylusA−[16]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, I Might Be Wrong has an average score of 76 based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[6]

The Entertainment.ie critic Andrew Lynch wrote: "Unlike most live albums, this one captures some of the excitement of actually being there and gives Radiohead back the human dimension they've recently been in danger of losing."[9] Stephen Thompson of The A.V. Club wrote that the album "cast new light" on Kid A and Amnesiac.[17] In Rolling Stone, Jonah Weiner described it as "explosively raw", praising the "twisty, insular" performance of "Idioteque" and Yorke's "beautifully chilling" vocals on "Like Spinning Plates".[18] Matt LeMay of Pitchfork also praised "Like Spinning Plates", saying it showcased Radiohead's "songwriting virtuosity rather than their sonic adventurousness".[4]

LeMay said the performance of "True Love Waits" was "absolutely gorgeous" and that the song "holds its own" against any on Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer.[4] He felt it justified the release of the live album, along with "Like Spinning Plates".[19] Ted Kessler of NME praised Yorke's vocals on "True Love Waits" as "clear and true".[12] However, Mac Randall felt the performance, with "whiny" vocals, was inferior to a widely shared bootleg version. He wrote: "One gets the feeling that this was a song Radiohead knew they liked and knew audiences liked but the band never came to grips with an arrangement for it; finally they threw up their hands, putting it out as it is."[20]

Several critics felt I Might Be Wrong was too short. Thompson found it "marred by characteristically unrevealing packaging and inexplicable brevity".[17] Randall wrote that its brevity made it "something of a letdown", and that the lack of earlier Radiohead songs meant it did not capture "anywhere near the scope of a real Radiohead concert".[21] LeMay also criticised the lack of older songs, and said the album had the feeling of a "promotional item" for Kid A and Amnesiac.[4] Sam Samuelson of AllMusic suggested it could instead have been packaged with Amnesiac as a complete package from the Kid A sessions, rather than a "couple of thrown-together releases".[7]

Reissues

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Radiohead left EMI after their contract ended in 2003.[22] In 2007, EMI released Radiohead Box Set, a compilation of albums recorded while Radiohead were signed to EMI, including I Might Be Wrong.[22] Radiohead had no input into the reissues and the music was not remastered.[23]

In February 2013, Parlophone was bought by Warner Music Group (WMG).[24] In April 2016, as a result of an agreement with the trade group Impala, WMG transferred Radiohead's back catalogue to XL Recordings. The EMI reissues, released without Radiohead's consent, were removed from streaming services.[25] In May 2016, XL reissued Radiohead's back catalogue on vinyl, including I Might Be Wrong.[26]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Radiohead, except where noted

I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)VenueLength
1."The National Anthem" Vaison-la-Romaine, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
28 May 2001
4:57
2."I Might Be Wrong" South Park, Oxford, England
7 July 2001
4:52
3."Morning Bell" South Park, Oxford, England
7 July 2001
4:14
4."Like Spinning Plates" Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA
8 August 2001
3:47
5."Idioteque"Arthur Kreiger, Paul Lansky, RadioheadSouth Park, Oxford, England
7 July 2001
4:24
6."Everything in Its Right Place" Vaison-la-Romaine, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
28 May 2001
7:42
7."Dollars and Cents" South Park, Oxford, England
7 July 2001
5:13
8."True Love Waits" Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway
9 September 2001
5:02
Total length:40:11

Personnel

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Adapted from the liner notes.[27]

Release history

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Country Date Label Format Catalogue number
United Kingdom 12 November 2001 Parlophone LP 12FHEIT 45104
CD CDFHEIT 45104
United States 13 November 2001 Capitol Records CDP 7243 5 36616 2 5

References

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