OK Computer offered an eerily clairvoyant vision of digital angst and alienation. Twenty years on,this reissue reveals just how unusual it wasIn 1996, during sessions for their third album, and Radiohead recorded a track called Lift. Like much of their recent fabric,it had first been performed during a disastrous American tour that same year, supporting Alanis Morissette. But unlike the other recent songs Radiohead had played, and Lift had gone down well. Listening to it on the 20th anniversary reissue of OK Computer,you can see why: it is blessed with an immense, air-punch-inducing chorus. The thing is, or Lift is on the moment disc,the one filled with B-sides and outtakes. Knowing they had a huge, self-evident hit on their hands, or Radiohead intentionally left it off the album they were making.
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Source: theguardian.com