Radiohead - Ok Minidisc (Ok Computer Archives)

MINIDISCS
[HACKED]
THIS
DOCUMENT IS
A GROUP
EFFORT
ORGANIZED
BY
a_universal_sigh
belargu
the bumstickler
Darth thater
dreamgazing
girlpowerchords
loomer
rhett
spnii_
teafork
… and of course the

community on
r/Radiohead,
W.A.S.T.E. Central
Discord and /mu/ ♥
ANOTHER STATEMENT FROM THE
GROUP - THE TRUTH
Written on June 11th, 2019
This month so far has been an insane turn of events, from receiving information about the
leak, to it being featured on major publications, to the band releasing it themselves based
on a strange, and as far as we know, incorrect rumor of a ransom from the original
bootlegger. As a group we have so much running through our minds, but unfortunately a lot
of the things we have to say are regarding the misinformation being spread around.
Stories about the discs being held for ransom are untrue, and it seems that even the band
believed them. The band may be intentionally crafting their own story, or they may be
misinformed. It was incredibly frustrating reading the articles that got it all wrong. Now that
everything is out of the bag, we believe the world deserves to know the real truth - what
actually happened that led to this release. The following section outlines the events
chronologically.
The Story
On May 26th, 2019, a user named Zimbra joined the Radiohead subreddit’s official Discord
server, W.A.S.T.E. Central. He asked people if there were any people knowledgeable about
bootlegs he could contact, as he claimed he had something he wanted to factcheck. Discord
user belargu pointed him to another user named Rhett, and so they took it to the DMs.
Zimbra soon revealed to Rhett that he had acquired 18 hours of unreleased material
recorded around the time OK Computer was made, and was contacting him to make sure
they were never heard of before up until this point. He provided several audio files of
previews to show what he had gotten was legitimate. Zimbra then claimed that he traded a
rare unreleased song from another artist with someone else who provided the digital
minidisc files. He planned to sell them. Beyond this, we don’t know who or where Zimbra
got hold of these files.
On June 1st, Rhett added several people to a group chat - people whom he trusted, and
several who are now part of the current group. He told us about what had been revealed to
him, and that a leak of this magnitude is something that cannot be ignored. He then
proposed a plan to recruit trusted fans to discuss the matter further. He wanted to keep this
a secret in case word got to Zimbra, which could have led him to raise the price if he saw the
demand.
On June 2nd, Rhett made a private server in anticipation for more people. He then asked
Zimbra for the price of the files, to which he replied that he was selling each track for $500,
and each live version for $50. Given the prices and the length of the discs combined,
someone in the group estimated that the entire thing would cost around $150,000. This
likely where the incorrect blackmailing rumor comes from.
Someone in the group searched online to figure out who Zimbra is. We soon found out that
he was a very reputable leaker on a forum called leakth.is, who has sold many other rare
tracks from different artists. He was also in that forum’s affiliated Discord server, where he
was seen sending previews to other users. There was a leakth.is post (which is now taken
down) of Zimbra selling the now-famous version of Lift for $500.
We then discussed to great lengths on what to do next. After several hours, we came to the
conclusion that the band should be alerted online, particularly through Reddit. We believed
that letting everyone know would have a better outcome than letting someone shell out
thousands of dollars for the leak, which was essentially stolen. We all worked together to
word the Reddit post properly, and Discord user dreamgazing took the initiative of posting
this in the very early hours of June 3rd. People listened to the snippets and were convinced.
Moral debates aside, our post gained traction. Some news sites were already picking it up,
and the announcement spread to other parts of the internet, such as r/indieheads and /mu/.
Other people figured out that Zimbra was involved in this, and they were not happy. On
Reddit, people were expressing disappointment that he would have the nerve to sell these
for such a price, let alone even having the leak. /mu/ was very keen on getting them as soon
as possible - to the point of conspiring to dox Zimbra. People were pinging him en masse on
the W.A.S.T.E. Discord server. This put a lot of pressure on him.
On June 4th, Zimbra approached Rhett again privately, having figured out that he had
spread the previews. He was upset that he shared them, and that we claimed he was selling
them for $150,000. They also had a lengthy discussion on what to do next. Zimbra came to
the conclusion that he should release the leak for free to rid him of all the social pressure.
He told Rhett that he would be posing as hoserama, a famous Radiohead bootlegger, to
shift the blame away from him. Rhett is a master at 4d chess
and girlpowerchords is getting much better at checkers with practice! (he ordered belargu to add this to the document)
The mega.nz link was posted to W.A.S.T.E. on June 4th, 10:40 pm EST.
As soon as we got the leak, we were so shocked at the size and the legitimacy of it that we
immediately started timestamping the songs as we listened through for the first time; we
figured that the least we could do was to help the community in this way. Many of the group
members online at the time split the files amongst each other to get through all 17 hours
quicker. This was finished in the very early morning of June 4th, and the first version of this
Google Doc was posted to Reddit, particularly in this thread.
A lot more work was done to update the document to beautify the formatting and fix any
inaccuracies. During this time, some more articles were made (some of which were
inaccurate and had the ransom story), some journalists contacted us, and one of the group
members got into contact with XL Recordings. The second version of this Google Doc was
finished and updated on June 7th.
After that, we were exhausted but satisfied. We saw that the hype surrounding this leak
was starting to die down, so we were preparing to take a break. However, we were in for
another surprise when the band themselves released the statement from Jonny that they
were uploading this officially. Even more articles were made, now spreading the ransom
story. All of this has led us to this point where this statement has to be made.
Regarding Smaller Inaccuracies
There are many other rumors that are not as significant but are still untrue. For example,
hoserama was not involved in any of this at all. He has come forward in AtEaseWeb stating
so. He has also appeared in W.A.S.T.E. to defend himself.
There is another popular rumor spread by a Discord user that claimed he had connections in
the music industry. He claimed that a disgruntled intern at XL Recordings ripped all of the
discs as Colin Greenwood sat there and did nothing. This is most likely untrue, as he has also
claimed bizarre things such as Thom’s son and Frank Ocean having Papa John’s together,
and that Damon Albarn is 5’9”. (he isn’t!!! I was like an arm’s reach away from him when i saw him live last year
and I CAN CONFIRM HE IS 5’11” - belargu) (also noah doesn’t even follow frank on instagram this is complete bullshit)
There is also a common misconception that the 18 discs are the entirety of the OK
Computer sessions. They are not. They are simply a sliver of outtakes and demos during the
making of this album. Who knows how much more material is out there.
News sites and journalists are also slinging around the wrong numbers. The discs - even the
leaked, unedited version - add up to a total of 17 hours, not 18. The 8 minute version of
Paranoid Android on Disc 5 is not 11 or 12 minutes, either.
The Conclusion
Despite everything, we are pleasantly surprised by how everything played out and how well
the band handled this. Not only are the files officially out in a higher quality, all proceeds are
going to combat climate change. In all honesty, this cause deserves more attention and
traction than the leak itself. We recommend you all look into the Extinction Rebellion, and to
purchase the minidiscs here.
If you haven’t noticed, the official files are shorter, due to chatter and movie samples being
removed. The current document you are now reading is the third, and hopefully the final
version. The update was finally painstakingly finished on August 15th, 2019. We have
pushed all the older info down like we did with the first. (sorry for taking so long we were
procrastinating :( also i might work on a very pretty doc of lyrics for every unreleased song… if i feel like it - belargu)
Thank you, everyone, for reading what we have to say, and for keeping up with this
document. Thank you again to every group member that has contributed to this effort -
especially Rhett, and to an extent, girlpowerchords for influencing this release, belargu for
beautifying and editing the bulk of this document, and spnii_, Teafork, A_Universal_Sigh,
Loomer, dreamgazing, girlpowerchords, The Bumstickler, and Darth Thater for helping out
with the timestamping and editing. Thank you to everyone else on Reddit, Discord, and /mu/
for pointing out errors and details regarding the timestamps. Most of all, thank you,
Radiohead, for everything.
Sincerely,
The group
xoxo the bumstickler loves you
TIMESTAMPS & NOTES
FILE NAME: MINIDISC [HACKED].zip
RUNTIME: 16:18:52
Color Coding Symbols

▉ Early Studio Version/Demo 🤤 Our favorites
▉ Early Live/Soundcheck Version
⭐ HOLY GRAIL (rare, rumoured tracks)
▉ Unreleased Song
▉ Other (unstructured material ✏️Fan named track
that might
be of significance) 🌚 Bedroom recording (Solo Thom)
▉ Unmastered/Final Album Mix 📼 Already featured in the white cassette
▉ Chatter/Noises/Unstructured
Jamming
The numbers in each title indicate…
ex: Lift 1-2 (San Francisco) [live - 27 March 1996]
▉ Disc number
▉ Version number (in the disc. This is to differentiate different
versions/takes of songs that were recorded multiple times)
This titling format follows the .cue files, which conveniently splits each audio file into
separate tracks without losing its quality. Google how to use them.
Color coded for easy understanding.
Info:
These updated timestamps were roughly based off the cue files downloaded from this site.
Thank you to Reddit users SelfDenyingPity and m_cherb for painstakingly updating them!
The info of the removed snippets were left on the tables, but greyed out and timestamped
as N/A just to show what has been removed from the original leak.
Any unreleased song without a bolded name has no official fan title yet. We will let the
community choose names for them in the future. A lyric from each untitled song was
chosen to act as a placeholder title for now. Many of the placeholder names are by
girlpowerchords.
DISC 1
RUNTIME: 1:10:47
Time Title Notes
0:00 Poison (Early Exit Music For A Film / Though it resembles both Exit Music
Life In A Glass House) [Thom solo] 🌚 and LIAGH, it is titled as neither of
them.
1:39 I Promise 1-1 (Portland) [soundcheck - “I won’t fool around no more…”

25 March 1996]
5:34 Attenzione! (Portland) [soundcheck - Full band

25 March 1996]
10:36 [tape blip - Electioneering +

Attenzione! (Portland)] [duplicate]
10:54 Electioneering 1-1 Early version
13:05 Lift 1-1 (Toronto) [live - 6 April 1996] Early version
15:39 True Love Waits ⭐🤤 Features a full band
22:12 Not For Sale 🌚 “Little by little falls away…”

Mistaken for an early version of Little
by Little during the leak
23:24 Film A [found sound - Yellow Panic Snippet taken from a film
from 3 Days Of The Condor]
24:11 Lift 1-2 (San Francisco) [live - 27 First live performance!

March 1996]
28:14 Electioneering 1-2 (San Francisco)

[live - 27 March 1996]
32:11 I Promise 1-2 (San Francisco) [live - 27

March 1996]
36:20 Vacancies [Thom solo] 🌚 Solo Thom on acoustic
37:18 $alty [Thom solo] 🌚
37:59 Airbag 1-1 (Minneapolis acoustic) Early version

[soundcheck - 3 April 1996]
43:08 Airbag 1-2 (Toronto) [soundcheck - 6 This version has a long reverb-y intro
April 1996]
48:18 I Promise 1-3 (Minneapolis) [live - 3

April 1996]
52:21 Lifesaver [Thom solo] 🌚
53:11 I Promise 1-4 (Toronto) [live - 6 April

1996]
57:14 Electioneering 1-3 (Toronto) [live - 6 With acoustic guitar & harmonies
April 1996]
1:00:48 Paranoid Android Early version; different lyrics
1:05:28 Airbag 1-3 Clip starts midway, sounds like the

complete version
1:07:33 Electioneering 1-4 Ed/Jonny harmonizing? Cuts off early
DISC 2
RUNTIME: 1:01:27
Time Title Notes
0:00 No Surprises Please (Lyon) Early version; already heard in the

[soundcheck - 17 April 1996] 📼 cassette
2:54 Risk Of Suffocation [Thom solo] 🌚 Acoustic. Song cuts off midway. “If I
get my head out of this…”
5:44 Girl Club 2-1 [Thom solo] 🌚 Acoustic. Groovy guitar riff.
7:58 Girl Club 2-2 [Thom solo] 🌚
8:38 Ride A Pony [Thom solo] 🌚
12:16 (Chateau Birds) [found sound]
13:05 Umbilical [Thom solo] 🌚
15:47 Poison Lake (Early Exit Music For a Very similar to Exit Music - Poison or
Film) [Thom solo] 🌚 Poison Lake might have been its
original title. This was a snippet
included in the previews before all 18
discs leaked
19:22 Get Together #2 [Thom solo] 🌚
20:54 Get Together [Thom solo] 🌚
21:28 (Prague Train) [found sound] Ladies chattering in a foreign language

& sounds of public transportation.
These sounds are heard in the intro of
A Reminder.
25:21 (Bus Home) [found sound]
N/A TV Show Recording Mentioning An audio clip taken from Dynomutt,

Dogwander Dog Wonder, a Hanna-Barbera show.
This might also be the inspiration for
Dogwander.
26:01 Annoying Neighbors 2-1 [Thom solo] fragment
26:26 Annoying Neighbors 2-2 [Thom solo] Fragment; 2nd take
26:37 Annoying Neighbors 2-3 [Thom solo] 3rd take
29:36 Motion Picture Soundtrack 2-1 🤤 Early rehearsal; sounds pretty Bends-y
34:45 Amazing Drums For Exit Music 2-1 Similar chord progression to the album
Exit Music
35:37 Amazing Drums For Exit Music 2-2
35:58 Amazing Drums For Exit Music 2-3
36:46 unknown song (full-band instrumental) Has some vocals to an unknown song.
Drums sound similar to Pearly
37:25 Let Down (Early Rehearsal) (2-19) Early rehearsal; some jamming at the
end
42:23 Motion Picture Soundtrack 2-2 Early rehearsal
47:18 Airbag Early Rehearsal with A false start at

the beginning
52:21 My New Clothes 2-1 🤤 Originally fan named by belargu as

Hurts To Walk (My Funky Cloak) ✏️
This is the goofiest shit I’ve ever heard
lol I LOVE it
56:14 My New Clothes 2-2 [fragment] Seems to be take 2 of the previous

song
56:31 My New Clothes 2-3
59:54 Attenzione! (Early Attention) 2-1
1:00:22 Attenzione! (Early Attention) 2-2
DISC 3
RUNTIME: 1:05:08
Time Title Notes

N/A Unreleased Flute and Sitar Jam (3-1) This snippet is from Ahir Bhairav/Nat
Bhairav - Hariprasad Chaurasia & Brij
Bhushan
Kabra & Shivkumar Sharma
0:00 I Promise 3-1 (NY) [live - 12 April 1996] Cut intro
1:10 Motion Picture Soundtrack Solo Thom on electric guitar

(Rockville) [Thom solo - 10 April 1996] According to redditor /u/EsotericCD, this is from the
4/10/96 “Just Passin’ Thru” radio session in Rockville,
MD, but is a “FAR FAR better sounding version of it
than the off-air recording we used to have.” Thanks
for the ID!
4:41 [tape blip - I Promise (San Francisco)]

[duplicate]
4:46 I Promise 3-2 (San Francisco) [live - 27 First ever live performance,
March 1996] [duplicate] announcement at beginning. Duplicate,
Thom Intro.
8:57 Mahler's Double Basses [found sound] Snippet of something else
9:01 Nude Full band version. Different from the

cassette version. Pretty raunchy
lyrics...
13:04 Monk Noise [found sound] A part of this segment has seemingly
been removed
13:42 Moog A synthesizer solo
14:56 S3000 This is a snippet from Joe Henderson -

El Barrio.
15:42 Soft Pain 3-1 Instrumental stem of piano & other

noises
17:17 Soft Pain 3-2 Similar to above
18:42 Soft Pain 3-3 Similar to above, now with a drum loop
and more synths
22:24 Thomas Pynchon Soothing instrumental
26:07 Maybe [Thom solo]🌚
28:44 Soft Pain VOX 3-4 [Thom solo]🌚 Combined with the Soft Pain
instrumentals above, it forms a more
tangible song. u/k0stil made a mix of it
here.
31:17 Soft Pain 3-5 Similar to 3-3, but with acoustic guitar
panned to the left
35:20 Oranges [Thom solo] 🌚
38:17 $ Island [Thom solo]) 🌚
42:37 Poison 3-1 [Thom solo ] 🌚 Very early version of Exit Music. Thom
solo, alternate arrangement, rhythm
and lyrics.
46:24 Poison 3-2 [Thom solo ] 🌚
47:00 7/8 Session Very early rehearsal of Paranoid

Android, & only a section
(before “you don’t remember, why
don’t you remember my name?”
excerpt live) Fragmented Instrumental.
48:32 No Surprises Early Soundcheck
51:55 Messy Jams Originally fan named by the

Bumstickler as Thom’s Screechy Song
✏️
Screechy Sonic Youth-like Guitar
56:49 Soft Pain 3-6 even more layers
1:02:14 unknown song (lyric - 'I don't get it')

[Thom solo] 🌚
DISC 4
RUNTIME: 00:57:21
DESCRIPTION: This disc is mostly rehearsal takes/experiments in the studio. No
unreleased songs here.
Time Title Notes
0:00 Organ Intro

1:32 No Surprises Please Crazy outro
5:49 [tape blip - Bullet Proof.. I Wish I Was] 3 second blip
5:51 True Love Waits (prog) Early instrumental with drum machine,
acoustic guitar, and bg synth.
10:57 Soft Pain 4-1 Very staticy midway, ends with drum
solo.
14:32 Soft Pain 4-2 Both instrumentals on this disc seem

more aggressive than the others heard
previously
18:13 Paranoid Android M8 4-1 to 4-4 Starts at “You don’t remember... “

section, Thom stops band halfway
through to talk about changes.
Includes multiple takes & jamming.
27:15 Motion Picture Soundtrack 4-1 Take One. Fairly slow paced.
32:35 Motion Picture Soundtrack 4-2 Second take. Also fairly slow paced.
37:59 Airbag 4-1 Early full band version. Different intro

and very rough, longer outro
42:53 Airbag 4-2
47:59 Tourists 4-1 Early title for The Tourist.

Contains a different melody than what
is on the album.
50:55 Tourists 4-2
52:02 Tourists 4-3
53:15 Silicon Valley Early demo of Palo Alto. with slightly

different lyrics. Chorus has slightly
different melody
DISC 5
RUNTIME: 00:57:02
Time Title Notes
0:00 [drums + band chatter] Unstructured jam; goofing around
1:06 Paranoid Android Outro 5-1 Practice run from “rain down” section
5:36 Paranoid Android 5-2 (Long 8 minute early version w/ outro jam
Version, Full Length Rehearsal)
⭐
13:44 Jam Jam.
16:46 Attenzione! 5-1 [fragment] Another snippet of “Attention”
17:18 Attenzione! 5-2
17:51 Touchies + Feelies 5-1 [fragment] Gets fast forwarded
18:01 Touchies + Feelies 5-2 Has vocals at one point
25:53 Leave Me Alone Has vocals. “When I Get Bored Give Me

One of Those”
30:09 No Surprises Please 5-1 Early version, full band
33:57 No Surprises 5-2 Early version, full band
37:42 Attenzione! 5-3 Unreleased full band song
42:41 'We Have Registered', ‘Good Morning’, Little sound effects that have been
‘Fax’, ‘Bell’, ‘Squeal’ [found sounds] individually named by Thom
43:56 Lights Down [Thom solo]🌚 Acoustic. Cheap mic.
45:35 Boggle Eyes [Thom solo] 🌚
46:48 'Silly Voices' [found sound]
46:57 27° [Thom solo] 🌚 “You don’t see the signs”
48:30 Chairman Mao [Thom solo] 🌚
49:48 Nude Rough [Thom solo] 🌚 Thom solo acoustic demo (early)
53:09 'Beauty Voices' [found sound] Lo-fi
53:44 Paranoid Android [Thom + Jonny - Early fragment of a Thom/Jonny

fragments] 5-3 version
54:07 Drum Loop Lo-fi
56:09 Piano Sketch by Jonny 📼 Included in the OKNOTOK cassette

DISC 6
RUNTIME: 00:25:57
DESCRIPTION: A big chunk of this disc used to be filled with snippets taken from a James
Bond soundtrack. Perhaps they were for inspiration or reference; this makes sense since
they have mentioned they wanted to make a Bond song in the past (even before Spectre).
Other than that, this disc is filled with unreleased solo songs.
Time Title Notes
0:00 Guitar Loop Crunchy
0:52 Phil’s Loop Drummy
1:18 Walls [Thom solo] 🤤🌚 Acoustic. Thom pls enunciate

’And If It…’
3:29 Not All Angels Have Wings (Early Early version

Last Flowers) [Thom solo] 🤤🌚 “No evaluations, no deliberations”
5:22 Felix The Cat [Thom solo] 🌚 Acoustic. “If I Don’t Seem Him”
8:00 Hollow Tugboat x2 [Thom solo] 🌚 Acoustic. Seems to pick up from the
previous song; maybe a retake.
10:36 Not All Angels Have Wings #2 (Early Thom solo acoustic.
Last Flowers) [Thom solo] 🌚
14:18 Life In A Glasshouse [Thom solo] 🌚 Very early version. Contains Tin-can
audio.
18:04 Bubble [Thom solo] 🌚 Lofi, and Acoustic.
20:08 Spokes [Thom solo] 🌚 Acoustic. Lo-fi. Thom interrupts the

song to talk about letters; possibly a
retake halfway through. “We Don’t
Spend, We Don’t Know.
23:48 Snidy [Thom solo] 🌚
24:04 Bee Sting [Thom solo] 🌚 Lofi, and Acoustic. Also “We Don’t
Spend, We Don’t Know”. *Have to
double check … the time seems weird
on the guy’s new timestamps.
N/A James Bond soundtrack excerpt (?) (6- Includes many short snippets of movie
13) soundtracks, some/all from James
Bond. This lasts until the end
N/A James Bond soundtrack excerpt (?) (6-

14)
N/A Violin, unknown source (?) (6-15)
N/A Unknown soundtrack excerpt, string

section (?) (6-16)
N/A Unknown soundtrack excerpt, strings

and choir (?) (6-17)
N/A Unknown soundtrack excerpt, strings
and full orchestra (6-18)
N/A Unknown soundtrack excerpt, more

avant-garde (6-19)
N/A Unknown soundtrack excerpt, tribal-

like drums (6-20)
N/A Unknown soundtrack excerpts, drums,

bells and brass (6-21)
N/A Unknown soundtrack excerpts,

somewhat jazz-y (6-22)
DISC 7
RUNTIME: 00:55:28
Time Title Notes
0:00 Our Guarantee To You [Thom solo] Acoustic. “Leave your comments and
🤤🌚 reactions here”
2:42 Not All Angels #1-3 (Full Band Last Full Band. Drop out or mixing error at
Flowers) 5:52
7:19 Melatonin (Alternate Studio Version) Alternate version or mix

aka Crumar Song
9:28 Julie Got Married [Full band] “You would do the same, thousand
miles, wanted to believe in”
11:41 Ed's French Loop Might be a song fragment
12:27 August 🤤 With organ and ride cymbal keeping

time
14:55 Nigel AMS Delay + AMS Hello 📼 7-4 Both on the cassette.
16:14 EQ Loops/Loop 1-8/Tom Loop
17:53 Karma Police (Early Rehearsal, Very early, unfinished lyrics. “This is
Electric Guitar, Alt. Lyrics) what you get when you fuck with me”
22:10 I Need A Job [Full band] “You won’t try, I wanna go to the
edge(?)”
27:52 The Cupboard Monster? [Full band] “Psychedelic-ish”
28:41 Airbag Intro (Early Rehearsal, Heavier Very early guitar. Slower tempo, rock
Rock Guitar Only) arrangement intro
29:13 Airbag Groove (Early Rehearsal with Funky rock jam turns into early Airbag,
Jam Intro) full band
30:17 Airbag Ace! (Early Rehearsal, Heavier Very early attempt #3

Version) 🤤
35:04 Let Down (Early Rehearsal) Early Let Down
42:11 I Can’t Control It [Full band] Almost sounds like Last Flowers.
Funky, “Something Got A Hold of Your
Mind”.
42:55 Radio chaser noise 📼 Extended version that is on the white

cassette.
43:46 Movie dialogue (7-18) Verses from the Bible - 1 Corinthians

13:2-3
Thanks for the ID, u/blakandblue!
44:02 Dying Of Boredom [Full band]

DISC 8
RUNTIME: 00:57:03
DESCRIPTION: A couple of unreleased solo songs. The rest are live performances.
Time Title Notes
0:00 Science Helps Build A New India Some kind of open or low drop tuning
[Thom solo] 🌚
4:16 Human Error [Thom solo] 🌚 “You want it all”
06:59 Nervous [Thom solo] 🌚 Acoustic. “Send me away”
9:07 Ground [Thom solo] 🌚
11:27 Karma Police (Live, Pittsburgh, 27 Soundboard. “This is what you’ll get
Aug 96 with Alt. Chorus Lyrics) when you fuck with us”
15:15 Paranoid Android 8-1 (Live, Soundboard. Early ver. Same show as
Pittsburgh, 27 Aug 96) above. Has “rain down” but no “that’s it
sir”. Excerpted on OKNOTOK
22:21 I Promise 8-1 (Live, Pittsburgh, 27 Aug Early Soundboard.

96)
26:11 Let Down (Live, Pittsburgh, 27 Aug Early. Acoustic intro. Organ ending.
96) Repeats 2nd verse.
31:07 Climbing Up The Walls 8-1 (Live, Early version, also soundboard. Same
Hershey, 26 Aug 96) show possibly.
35:18 No Surprises (Live, Hershey, 26 Aug Early live soundboard recording

96)
38:59 I Promise 8-2 (Live, Hershey, 26 Aug Early live soundboard recording
96)
42:46 Electioneering (Live, Hershey, 26 Aug Early live soundboard recording

96)
46:13 Paranoid Android 8-2 (Live, Hershey, Another early live ‘96 version w/ organ.
26 Aug 96) Extended outro.
52:55 Climbing Up The Walls 8-2 (Live) Early live soundboard recording.
DISC 9
RUNTIME: 00:53:37
Time Title Notes
0:00 Piano 5ths There's some chatter in the

background of this - it could be Thom
testing stuff.
2:40 Theme Tune / My Everyday Life [Full Originally fan named by spnii_ as Walk
band] Down ✏️
Unreleased full band song. Starts off
acoustically, then into full band. Hard to
decipher all the lyrics.
7:31 Let Down 9-1 Very rough early rehearsal.

Early/alt lyrics.
12:58 Karma Police 9-1 Early rough rehearsal. Different drums,

no guitars, more bass, different lyrics.
15:04 Karma Police 9-2 Same rehearsal, more distortion on

bass and guitars. Sounds more rock.
Instrumental after first chorus.
17:32 Hospital 2 (Early Last Flowers) Very rough. More band oriented.
Different lyrics, but same melody and
key. Jonny is also doing weird things to
his guitar.
20:41 The State Disco [Full band] Most likely also a rehearsal. Audio
tears alot. Same as 7-5. Probably a
second take. “Decided, You Don’t Try.
24:33 Let Down 9-2 (10 Minute Rehearsal) Mostly guitars, different arrangement.
Possibly the band learning how to play
it live due to Thom once saying its “too
complicated” to play live. Jonny
switches to organ later on.
35:23 Life in a Glasshouse [Full band] Very different from the finished
version, sounds like a rehearsal, but
has the same melody, jonny is killing it
on the organ.
37:58 Exit Music #2 (Early Life in a Thom acoustic. Different chords, lyrics,
Glasshouse) [Thom solo] 🌚 and slightly different vocal melody.
The energy in this one is great.
40:42 Piano! Lie down in the middle of the Glitching noises and piano. No text-to-
road (Fitter Happier piano) 📼 speech. On OKNOTOK cassette as
well.
43:22 Play Me This Song 9-1 (Early A Thom solo acoustic. Low quality
Reminder) [Thom solo] 🌚 recording.
46:48 You’re The One 🌚 Fairly sloppy and raw rough acoustic
recording. Droney guitar tuning and
catchy riff. Hook contains lyric “You’re
the one”.
50:47 Play Me This Song 9-2 (Early A Thom solo acoustic recording. Vocals
Reminder) [Thom solo] 🌚 are very prominent. Same lyrics as
studio version.
DISC 10
RUNTIME: 00:58:17
Time Title Notes
0:00 Hospital 1 10-1 (Early Last Flowers) First take early different lyrics, more
[Full band] + (Guitar Octaves) band structured, heavy rock & roll
sound
3:49 Hospital delay 10-2 (Early Last Second take from a different
Flowers) [Full band] rehearsal? Includes intro and effects
with heavy rock & roll sound.
5:36 True Love Waits (drums) 10-1 [Full Full band, Instrumental, A jam, starts
band] midway
8:06 True Love Waits bass riff 10-2 [Full Alternative arrangement, Stops
band] midway
9;55 Everyone 4-track (Early The National 4-track demo, The National Anthem,
Anthem) 📼 same one as the cassette tape.
'Everyone' was the working title
13:11 The Bends (4 Track Demo) 4-track demo, released on Long Live
Tibet
18:02 Montee aka 'I Don't Want To Hurt Acoustic guitar with drum machine.
You’’ [Thom solo with drum machine] Most likely from the same 4-track
🌚 demo.
21:34 Let Down 10-1 A more acoustic arrangement with no

drums, different lyrics, also the gain is
too fucking high
27:21 Airbag drumming 10-1 Live demo recording, slightly seeks

and skips, also jamming at the end
29:24 Airbag 10-2 Jamming, features Colin’s bass playing

isolated at some point
30:18 You'll Never Know 10-1 [Thom solo] Thom on guitar

🤤🌚
34:33 You’ll Never Know 10-2[Thom solo] 🌚 Another take of the same song
“Don't stop, do you want to?”
“You’ll never know”
39:21 Climbing Up The Walls read by little The transcript from the cassette tapes
Dan Clements (from OKNOTOK) 📼
40:37 Climbing Up The Walls read by little Kinda spooky not gonna lie or sumshin.
Dan Clements, Slowed Down
43:09 TR-606 Song 10-1 [drum loop] Roland TR-606 drum machine that
Thom is playing along with
(u/TraxusXII)
43:40 TR-606 Song 10-2 [Thom solo] 🌚 aka ‘If You Want to Stay’
46:49 Easy Line for ‘Hospital’ (Early Last This is actually a scrapped part of Last
Flowers) [Thom solo] 🌚 Flowers. Thanks for the ID, u/MajorMajorSeven!
48:19 The State Disco 10-1 [Thom solo] 🌚 Bedroom recording of Thom on the
guitar
51:12 The State Disco 10-2 [Thom solo] 🌚 Same song as above, just another take
53:20 Karma Police [Thom solo] 🌚 Bedroom recording, only Thom and his
guitar, different lyrics, and vocal key
57:19 unknown song (lyric - 'I hope you The same bedroom recording, only a
choke on your nice cuisine') [Thom short glimpse of this song before the
solo] 🌚 tape ends
DISC 11
RUNTIME: 01:00:21
Time Title Notes
0:00 Stockhausen Voices (11-1) A snippet of Stimmung ('Singcircle

version') by Stockhausen
Thanks for the ID, u/agentleBout!
2:27 No Tomorrow (Early Exit Music) Very different lyrics, thom singing with
acoustic, sounds like colin singing with
him
5:59 Jonny's Ocean Song [Thom + Jonny] 🌚 Thom on tour bus with Jonny, playing
together
7:38 Live A Little [Thom + Jonny] 🌚 Same ride, another song
10:33 Hotel Room Noise Maybe the rest of the tour bus ride
11:33 Mute Button 11-1 [Thom solo] 🌚 “Let me go” thom solo acoustic song
12:48 Mute Button 11-2 [Thom solo] 🌚 Same guitar melody, different lyrics
14:01 Climbing Up The Walls (Mansfield) Live at Mansfield 1996, higher quality,
[live - 14 August 1996] SBD for sure
18:14 I Promise (Mansfield) [live - 14 August Live at Mansfield 1996, higher quality
1996] than the promo released before
OKNOTOK
22:11 Paranoid Android 11-1 (Mansfield) [live Live at Mansfield 1996, best recording
- 14 August 1996] out there
29:05 Karma Police 11-1 (Mansfield) [live - 14 Live at Mansfield 1996

August 1996]
33:27 Service [Thom solo] 🌚 Thom solo acoustic recording
36:18 ‘Jaz’ Song [Thom solo] 🌚 Thom acoustic solo recording
39:16 Let Down 11-1 (Galway) [live - 28 July Live early version, an organ instead of
1996] Jonny at the ending
44:35 [tape blip - (Citizen Cane Intro)] Very droney, a recording of one of
them playing maybe an organ or
something else
41:36 Let Down 11-2 (East Rutherford) [live - Another live recording, early version
19 August 1996]
49:27 Paranoid Android 11-2 (East Live early version; I think this one could
Rutherford) [live - 19 August 1996] be the Hershey stadium in 1996
56:22 Karma Police 11-2 (East Rutherford) Same show for sure, live and early
[live - 19 August 1996] version
DISC 12
RUNTIME: 01:13:13
DESCRIPTION: A disc mostly comprised of live performances.
Time Title Notes
0:00 Climbing Up the Walls 12-1 [live] Early lyrics, full band.
4:05 Climbing Up the Walls 12-2 [live] Early lyrics, full band performance.
Nearly identical to the studio version.
8:10 I Promise 12-1 [live] Full band performance. Thom plays

electric instead of acoustic. Early lyrics.
12:03 Paranoid Android 12-1 [live] Drums have lots of reverb in the
beginning. Features organ. Some
lyrical differences such as last verse in
rain down part being missing. Different
ending/breakdown.
N/A TV Show Noises “Tomorrow they shall be swimming in

the new lake in babyland.”
18:51 No Surprises Please 12-1 [live] Thom: “Hello, we’re the support band”.
Performance during the tour with
Alanis Morisette most likely.
22:42 Paranoid Android 12-2 [live] Also features organ and some lyrical
differences. Nearly identical to the
previous above live version.
29:31 I Promise 12-2 [live] Same venue as previous live stuff here.
Possibly some small differences in the
lyrics. Features different bassline and
washy organs.
33:18 Karma Police 12-1 [live] Right-channel-heavy mix. Some lyrical

differences and prominent jonny piano
magic. Same show as well as the rest.
37:13 Climbing Up the Walls 12-3 [live] Thom: “It’s a song about murder”.
Lyrical differences and some sonic
differences. Same performance too.
P.S. Great Idea performing this to Alanis Morissette
fans idiots.
41:20 I Promise 12-3 [live] Similar to previous performance on

this disc.
45:08 Let Down 12-1 [live] Early version. Beautiful and rough
performance. Lyrics are quite similar to
the studio version and same with the
music.
50:06 No Surprises Please 12-2 [live] Similar to studio. No real differences

besides lack of some sonic textures
and different backing vocals. Some
slight melody difference at one pint.
53:50 Climbing Up the Walls 12-4 [live] Another early version that is again
quite similar to the previous version in
this disc. Nice scream at the end,
Thom!
57:57 Electioneering [live] Features cool breakdown, but besides

that, it’s the same as the studio.
1:01:21 Paranoid Android 12-3 [live] Similar to all the other different live
versions in this disk.
Different lyrics: “if you’re so important,
why don't you remember my name, are
you ignorant?”, then says “stupid”
followed by “motherfucking stupid”
before they play the rain down part.
1:08:25 Let Down 12-2 [live] Really great performance similar to the
studio version.
DISC 13
RUNTIME: 00:17:52
Time Title Notes
N/A Dialogue
N/A Fridge Buzz 📼 Literally a buzzing fridge
0:00 Silicon Valley (Early Palo Alto) [Thom Has Jonny guiding Thom through some
solo] chords
3:54 1000 Miles (Thom solo Acoustic) 🌚 Sounds like an early version of Exit
Music
N/A Field recording with TV audio
N/A Field recording with distant music Band rehearsing in the background?
5:42 Lift (Seattle) [live - 24 March 1996] Full band monitor. Incomplete.
N/A TV dialogue and audio (13-8) This audio can be heard in Fitter
Happier
7:35 This Is The Panic Office [Thom solo] 🌚 Talking before acoustic jam with Thom
mumbling overtop
9:21 §? [Thom solo] 🌚 Reminiscent of I Might Be Wrong?
Acoustic IInstrumental
10:04 Harmonics Riff [Thom solo] 🌚 Might be Attention. Acoustic
11:09 Lay Off The Beef [Thom solo] 🌚 “Lay it on the ground / it’s driving me
insane” Acoustic.
N/A Soft Machine drums
N/A Unknown snippet Acoustic. Sounds like incidental

western music
N/A Choir from TV with dialogue Recording might be from another disc
15:13 Polyethylene Pt. 2 [Thom solo] 🌚 Thom acoustic demo. Alternate lyrics
“The little things”
DISC 14
RUNTIME: 01:12:22
Time Title Notes
0:00 [My New Clothes] Only a blip
0:04 Ed’s Song (Early Lull)
3:18 My New Clothes 14-1 Another version of “Hurts To Walk” by

“Thom” Yorke. Played in a “room.”
4:20 My New Clothes 14-2 Cut in the tape, an extra snippet
5:49 My New Clothes 14-3 Thom remarks about how he is proud

of his funky clothes
8:51 For Sale Full band. Contains lyrics “little by

little”; seems to have no relation to
TKOL
9:30 Airbag 14-1 (DC) [soundcheck - 10 Early, acoustic, full band.

April 1996] Alternate lyrics:
“In the next world war, an angel at my
door..”
N/A Noise - Chatter (14-8) Overlapping conversation, sounds

English
13:08 Electioneering 14-1 (DC) [live - 10 April “This is a new song.”

1996] Some lyrical variation from final
version. Also screams potatoes.
16:33 Lift 14-1 (Cleveland) [live - 8 April Same live session, transitions to Lift,
1996] with O Superman by Laurie Anderson
intro. Good performance.
Thanks to u/shanerichmond for fix!
20:38 Airbag 14-2 (Philadelphia) [live - 11 Similar to 9:33 above.

April 1996]
24:55 Airbag 14-3 (DC) [live - 10 April 1996] Acoustic again, live. See above.
29:23 Attenzione! 14-1 (Fast) Full band recording.

“Joy of the uprising, an action with
some meaning”
33:15 Attenzione! 14-2 (Minneapolis)

[soundcheck - 3 April 1996]
38:03 Stampeding Elephants Full band recording. Sounds serene,

twangy, and folk rocky.
39:14 Lift 14-2 (Minneapolis) [soundcheck - Skips around a couple times, resolves
3 April 1996] to Lift
42:58 Airbag 14-4 (Minneapolis acoustic) Jamming on Airbag

[soundcheck - 3 April 1996 - fragment] “It’s on tape, yeah?” -Thom
[duplicate]
43:16 Manhattan Dogs [Thom solo] 🌚 Thom singing over muted acoustic
guitar track.
“Is anyone around? I think you’re crazy
for wanting me to tell”
“You’re always on the phone”
47:48 Paranoid Android 14-1 (NY) Thom directing volume levels a bit.
[soundcheck - 12 April 1996] Slight variation in “rain down” section
lyrics; “It’s gonna rain down on you”
51:00 Airbag 14-5 (NY) [soundcheck - 12 See all above instances of Airbag it’s
April 1996] very similar. Maybe some extra synth-y
stuff in this one
55:39 Electioneering 14-2 (San Diego) [live - Sounds weirdly distant. Vocal tracks
30 March 1996] almost seem isolated? “Give me one of
them prizes”, “Doin’ it all” lines are in
here. Must be an early performance.
59:12 I Promise 14-1 [live] Fast-forwarded intro speech; “I can’t

read music, these are words.” --- “-
REM tour, and I still look” --- “-he said
he didn’t mind. This is a new song,
called I Promise”. Has “I won’t fool
around no more” verse.
1:03:23 1/2 Paranoid Android? 14-2 “Why don’t you remember my name”
part. Alternate “rain down” lyrics from
above (49:04) are not present here.
“Hallelujah” variation of “rain down”
lyrics also absent. Thom sings a
backing harmony part here after the
normal lyrics. No “that’s it sir” part.
1:05:16 Attenzione! 14-1 (Palo Alto) Cuts in for first verse, no intro. Unsure
[soundcheck - 28 March 1996] of lyrical differences with other
versions on this file.
1:08:46 Attenzione! 14-2 (Palo Alto) not sure I’ve heard these lyrics yet?
[soundcheck - 28 March 1996] “There’s nothing better to do / I’m
taking off my clothes because I’ve got
the hots for you”. No backing vocals.
1:09:30 I Promise 14-2 (NY) [live - 12 April “This is for the girl who just said ‘Thom
1996] help me I’m dying’ down in the front!”
Drums similar to remastered version.
Has extra “fool around” verse, but no
“funny look” line from 1:00:26 version.
According to redditor /u/EsotericCD, this
performance is from 4/12/96 Roseland Ballroom.
Thanks for the ID!
DISC 15
RUNTIME: 00:56:10
Time Title Notes
0:00 Three Seconds of Subterranean What do I need to put here? Like

Homesick Alien seriously.
0:03 Karma Police - Final Version Final Version
4:39 Let Down - Near-Final Version with Slightly different from the album
Acoustic Intro version. Acoustic guitar from ending is
now in the intro.
9:46 Lift - Alternate Version, Mix #1 Full band finished studio recording. It's
⭐ incredible.
N/A Silence / Lift synth intro bit Cut synth bit from previous lift intro
13:55 Airbag - Late/Final Version Late/finished version. may be a

different vocal take; different reverb.
18:42 Electioneering - Final Version Late/finished version
22:38 A Reminder - Final Version Late/finished version
26:32 Uptight (less room) - Late/Final Early title of Subterranean Homesick

Version Alien. Late/finished version
31:19 Uptight (less drums) - Late/Final Late/finished version. Must be
Version something different..?
36:05 Uptight (Nigel's master) - Late/Final Late/finished version. Must be

Version something different..?
40:52 No Surprises Please - Late Mix, Different vocal take from album
Original Speed version. Original recorded speed; half-
step down from album version.
45:00 Exit Music (For A Film) - Late Mix Starting with a thom chuckle and an
“Okay”. Same as Tape 18 version?
49:40 Paranoid Android - Late Mix Synths seem quieter. Slightly different
mix.
DISC 16
RUNTIME: 01:08:04
DESCRIPTION: This disc contains an early alternate tracklisting of OK Computer, labelled
as containing the “finished mixes” in the official MINIDISCS [HACKED] release.
Time Title Notes
0:00 Airbag (unmastered album version)
4:47 Paranoid Android (unmastered album

version)
11:11 Subterranean Homesick Alien

(unmastered album version)
15:39 Exit Music (For A Film) (unmastered

album version)
20:10 Let Down (early fade out)
23:55 Fitter Happier (unmastered near-final Unclear if this is the finished mix as
version) there is another mix on disc 17.
25:57 Climbing Up The Walls (unmastered

album version)
30:41 No Surprises (unmastered album

version)
34:28 Electioneering (unmastered album
version)
38:21 Lucky (unmastered album version)
42:40 Karma Police (unmastered album

version)
47:04 The Tourist (unmastered near-final Unclear if this is the finished mix as
version) there are other mixes on disc 17.
52:30 A Reminder (unmastered final

version)
56:25 Lift (“finished mix” #1)⭐
1:00:15 Lift (“finished mix” #2)⭐
1:03:59 Noise - Fitter Happier beeps
1:04:13 Polyethylene Pt. 2 - Late Mix w/ Vocal

Effect
1:07:53 Noise - The Tourist

DISC 17
RUNTIME: 00:26:49
DESCRIPTION: This might be a continuation of Disc 16, since it also contains unmastered
song versions & it is only 27 minutes long.
Time Title Notes
0:00 The Tourist (unmastered near-final

version)
05:25 The Tourist (Louder Choir)

(unmastered near-final version)
10:58 Polyethylene Pt. 2 (near-final version) With its own count-in. Close to album
version. Slightly different vocals, less
compressed.
14:53 Polyethylene Pt. 2 (Less Bass and According to Thom’s note, has less
Snare) (near-final version) bass and snare.
18:38 Fitter Happier - Unmastered Album

Version
20:56 unknown song 17-1 (lyric - 'tomorrow “Everybody wants you but nobody
night in Paris') [Thom solo] 🌚 wants you”
25:26 unknown song 17-2 (lyric - 'tomorrow

night in Paris') [Thom solo] 🌚
DISC 18
RUNTIME: 00:41:52
DESCRIPTION: This disc contains several takes of Thom singing A Reminder to himself.
Very intimate.
Time Title Notes
0:00 [chatter/wind noise] “Hello… It’s working…”
1:08 A Reminder 18-1 [Thom A Cappella] Thom singing quietly by himself

outside
3:53 [wind noise]
4:56 A Reminder 18-2 [Thom A Cappella]
7:11 [wind noise]
7:44 A Reminder 18-3 [Thom A Cappella - Cut off at the end

fragment]
12:05 A Reminder 18-6 [Thom A Cappella] In a new key
14:38 unknown song 18-1 (lyric - 'what did

you mean') [Thom solo] 🌚
19:28 unknown song 18-3 (lyric - 'what did Clearer vocals

you mean') [Thom solo] 🌚 “That wasn’t a shooting star, that was
an airplane landing”

22:03 unknown song (lyric - 'you're a sleazy Rock/bluesy

bastard, you're no friend of mine') “I am the sun and the moon”
[Thom solo] 🌚 Cut off
25:45 Thom beatboxing to Laurie’s Theme Best song in this compilation hands
from Halloween 🤤⭐ down
26:27 Exit Music - Late Mix [duplicate] Background voices at “sing us a song”
are different. Definitely the album take
of everything else.
31:07 No Surprises - Late Mix #2 [duplicate] Different vocal take from album
version. Original recorded speed; half-
step down from album version. Same
as tape 15?
35:24 Paranoid Android - Unmastered

Album Version [duplicate]
END OF MINIDISCS
For the sake of archiving history, we have kept all

previous versions below. These timestamps and notes
were recorded before the official release of the
minidiscs, so they were based off the leaked version. It
included more chatter and copyrighted material from
James Bond soundtracks, hence the different lengths
and times.
OK MINIDISC
THIS DOCUMENT IS A GROUP EFFORT ORGANIZED BY
spnii_ teafork rhett a_universal_sigh belargu loomer
dreamgazing girlpowerchords the bumstickler darth thater
… and of course the community on

r/Radiohead, W.A.S.T.E. Central Discord
and /mu/ ♥
Jump to Timestamps
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A STATEMENT FROM THE GROUP
Written on June 7th, 2019
We were one of the first people to receive the leak. Because of this, we went
to work right away to timestamp and organize everything. We hope our hard
work brings you convenience.
Many of the theories online regarding this leak are incorrect. No, we are not
the leakers. No money was spent. No, we did not hold Radiohead themselves
for ransom. No, this is not the entirety of the OKC sessions. No, hoserama did
not supply the files. The rumor about the XL Recordings intern stealing the
tracks right in front of Colin Greenwood as he sat there doing nothing is
unconfirmed, but most likely untrue.
We hope this statement answers some questions and misinformation in the

community.
FAQ
Q:What are these minidiscs?
A:These minidiscs are recordings from the OK Computer sessions that took place from
1996-1997 (possibly earlier) that have been leaked onto the internet by fans.
Q: How do you know they’re minidiscs?
A: In MPIE, Thom answered that he keeps recordings on his minidiscs. The timestamps also
don't exceed 80 mins which falls into a minidisc standard.
Q: How much did you pay for this?

A: $0, but a lot of hours with multiple volunteers was spent making and cleaning this
document.
Q: Why is it called OK Minidisc? Why not OK Computer Sessions Leak?

A: The leaker’s last request was to refer to this compilation as OK Minidisc.
Q: What are bedroom recordings? Is it actually recorded in Thom's bedroom?

A: Bedroom recordings are just Thom, his guitar and nothing else. It's just a nickname…
Q: Can I get a download link?

A: No… due to copyright, the files should not be shared. This includes Youtube, Reddit, and
Discord.
Q: Can I split the files into smaller files by song?

A: Yes, but please do not re-encode them and, instead, use an mp3 splitter like FFmpeg.
They are already second generation lossy transfers and a third transfer will make them
sound awful. Do research into mp3 splitters that don’t re-encode the files if you are
interested in doing this. Thanks!
Q: What is the W.A.S.T.E. Central Discord? Can I join it?

A: Its a server group by Radiohead fans, for Radiohead fans. You can join by finding the link
on the r/radiohead sidebar.
spnii_ was the last to finish timestamping this entire page, as everyone else fell asleep.
Multiple users listened in and helped timestamp as well to get this information released for
documentation. We are very thankful for these users for their time to contribute to this.
OLD TIMESTAMPS & NOTES

FILE NAME: OK Minidisc.zip
RUNTIME: 17:15:52
Color Coding Symbols

▉ Early Studio Version 🤤Our favorites
▉ Early Live/Soundcheck Version
⭐ HOLY GRAIL (rare, rumoured tracks)
▉ Unreleased Song
▉ Other (unstructured material ✏️Fan named track
that might
be of significance) 🌚 Bedroom recording (Solo Thom)
▉ Unmastered/Final Album Mix 📼 Already featured in the white cassette
▉ Chatter/Noises/Unstructured
Jamming
The numbers in each title indicate…
ex: Lift 1-2 (Live First Performance) (1-10)
▉ Disc number
▉ Version number (in the disc. This is to differentiate different
versions/takes of songs that were recorded multiple times)
▉ Track number (in disc)
This titling format follows the .cue files, which conveniently splits each audio file into
separate tracks without losing its quality. You can find the .cue files floating around on
Reddit.
Color coded for easy understanding.
Info:
You can press Ctrl + F and search for the symbols to quickly find a track.
Any unreleased song without a bolded name has no official fan title yet. We will let the
community choose names for them in the future. A lyric from each untitled song was
chosen to act as a placeholder title for now. Many of the placeholder names are by
girlpowerchords.
DISC 1
RUNTIME: 1:11:14
Time Title Notes
0:00 Silence (1-1)
0:14 Exit Music / Life in a Glasshouse Interestingly, Exit Music transitions

(Thom Solo) (1-2) 🌚 into LIAGH as if they were 1 song
1:52 I Promise 1-1 (Early Rehearsal) (1-3) “I won’t fool around no more…”
5:48 Attention (Early Rehearsal) (1-4) Full band
10:49 Electioneering 1-1 (Early Rehearsal) (1- Early version

5)
13:19 Lift 1-1 (Early Live) (1-6) Early version
15:55 True Love Waits (Full Band) (1- Features a full band
7) ⭐🤤
22:27 Unreleased Thom Solo (Acoustic) 1-1 Possibly a Thom solo recording of
('Little by Little Crawls Away') (1-8) 🌚 “Little By Little” (different from TKOL
track) due to the lyrics
23:38 Unknown Movie Snippet (1-9)
24:25 Lift 1-2 (Live First Performance) (1-10) First performance!
28:30 Electioneering 1-1 (Early Live) (1-11)
32:11 I Promise 1-1 (Early Live) (1-12)
36:34 Unreleased Thom Solo (Acoustic) 1-2 Solo Thom on acoustic

(1-13) 🌚
38:14 Airbag 1-1 (Early Rehearsal) (1-14) Early version
43:28 Airbag 1-2 Fragment with Feedback This version has a long reverb-y intro
and Reverb (1-15)
44:00 Airbag 1-3 (Early Rehearsal with

Feedback Intro) (1-16)
52:36 Unreleased Thom Solo (Acoustic) 1-3

('I Wanna Sing Along') (1-18) 🌚
57:28 Electioneering 1-2 (Early Live with

Acoustic Guitar and Harmonies) (1-20)
1:01:03 Paranoid Android (Early Rehearsal) (1- Early version; different lyrics
21)
1:05:42 Airbag 1-4 (Early Rehearsal, Cut Intro) Clip starts midway, sounds like the
(1-22) complete version
1:07:47 Electioneering 1-3 (Early Live with Ed/Jonny harmonizing? Cuts off early
Acoustic Guitar and Harmonies) (1-23)
1:10:58 Silence (1-24) Silence be like. Silence noises.
DISC 2
RUNTIME: 1:04:38
Time Title Notes
0:00 Silence (2-1)
0:05 Band Talking (2-2)
0:25 No Surprises (Soundcheck Demo) (2- Early version; already heard in the
3) 📼 cassette
3:05 Unreleased Thom Solo (2-4) 🌚 Acoustic. Song cuts off midway. “If I
Get My Head Out Of This…”
5:44 Unreleased Thom Solo (2-5) 🌚 Acoustic. Groovy guitar riff. “I Think
That I Will”
8:38 Unreleased Thom Solo (2-6) 🌚 Thom solo acoustic. “I Want You To
Know”
12:21 Field Recording of Outdoor Sounds (2-

7)
12:54 Unreleased Thom Solo (2-8) 🌚 Thom solo acoustic. “I’m So Good At
Everyone’s…”
15:31 Exit Music (Thom Solo Acoustic) (2-9) Early lyrics. This was a snippet included
in the previews before all 18 discs
leaked
19:18 Unreleased Thom Solo (2-10) 🌚 Thom solo acoustic. “You Stay Away
But You’re Too Good”
21:28 A Reminder (Czech Public Transport Ladies chattering in a foreign language

Field Recording) (2-11) & sounds of public transportation
25:03 TV Show Recording Mentioning An audio clip taken from Dynomutt,

Dogwander (2-12) Dog Wonder, a Hanna-Barbera show.
This might also be the inspiration for
Dogwander
28:29 Field Recording of Transportation (2-

13)
29:15 Unreleased Thom Solo 2-6 (Acoustic) The song is interrupted a few times by
(He Wants To Save His) (2-14) 🌚 some knocking; could mean retakes of
a song
“Is there anyone at all?”
29:56 Unreleased Thom Solo 2-6 (Acoustic) Another take
(He Wants To Save His) (2) (2-15) 🌚
32:49 Motion Picture Soundtrack (Early Early version; sounds pretty Bends-y
Rehearsal) (2-16) 🤤
37:59 Exit Music (Full Band Rehearsal/Jam) Similar chord progression to the album
(2-17) Exit Music
39:59 Unreleased full band rehearsal/jam 2-1 Has some vocals to an unknown song.
(2-18) Drums sound similar to Pearly
40:41 Let Down (Early Rehearsal) (2-19) Early version; some jamming at the end
45:37 Motion Picture Soundtrack (Early Early Rehearsal.

Rehearsal) (2-20)
50:32 Airbag (Early Rehearsal) (2-21) Early Rehearsal with A false start at
the beginning
55:29 Unreleased Full Band Rehearsal ‘Hurts Fan name by belargu

To Walk (My Funky Cloak)’ (2-22) ✏️🤤 This is the goofiest shit I’ve ever heard
lol I LOVE it
59:40 Unreleased Full Band Rehearsal ‘Hurts Seems to be take 2 of the previous
To Walk’ (2-23) song
1:03:08 Unreleased Full Band Jam 2-1 (2-24) Snippet of “Attention”
1:03:43 Unreleased Full Band Jam 2-1 (2-25)
DISC 3
RUNTIME: 1:08:57
Time Title Notes
0:10 Unreleased Flute and Sitar Jam (3-1) This snippet is from Ahir Bhairav/Nat
Bhairav - Hariprasad Chaurasia & Brij
Bhushan
Kabra & Shivkumar Sharma
2:25 I Promise (Live) (3-2) Cut intro
3:38 Motion Picture Soundtrack (Live) (3- Solo Thom on electric guitar
3) According to redditor /u/EsotericCD, this is from the
4/10/96 “Just Passin’ Thru” radio session in Rockville,
MD, but is a “FAR FAR better sounding version of it
than the off-air recording we used to have.” Thanks
for the ID!
7:06 I Promise (Live) 3-4) First ever live performance,

announcement at beginning. Duplicate,
Thom Intro.
11:22 Unused String Arrangement for Possibly for CUTW? Most likely a
Unknown Song (3-5) snippet from an existing score
12:11 Nude (Full Band Version) (3-6) Different from the cassette version.
16:12 Metallic Percussive Noises (3-7) The following snippets are just
instrumental bits & pieces
16:54 Synthesizer Solo (3-8)
18:13 Saxophone with tape manipulated This is a snippet from Joe Henderson -
drums (3-9) El Barrio.
19:35 Unreleased delayed piano song, synth

brass and reversed drums/sub bass
(3-10)
26:20 Unreleased synth bass and drum

machine song (3-11)
30:11 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 3-1

(Maybe this is love…) (3-12) 🌚
32:28 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 3-2 (I

Must Control It) (3-13) 🌚
35:15 Unreleased delayed piano song, Take

2 (3-14)
39:19 Unreleased Thom solo (3-15) 🌚 Acoustic. “It’s Gonna Be Done”

(Can anyone help us) (3-16) 🌚
46:31 Exit Music (3-17) 🌚 Very early version. Thom solo,

alternate arrangement, rhythm and
lyrics.
50:53 Paranoid Android (Early Rehearsal) (3- Very early, & only a section
18) (before “you don’t remember, why
don’t you remember my name?”
excerpt live) Fragmented Instrumental.
52:25 No Surprises (Early Soundcheck) (3- Soundcheck

19)
55:48 Unreleased Full Band Jam ‘Thom’s Fan name by The Bumstickler
Screechy Song’ (3-20) ✏️ Screechy Sonic Youth-like Guitar
1:00:54 Unreleased delayed piano song with

more layers, Take 3 (3-21)
1:06:16 Unreleased Thom solo (3-22) 🌚 Acoustic. “I Don’t Get It”.
DISC 4
RUNTIME: 00:57:29
DESCRIPTION: This disc is mostly rehearsal takes/experiments in the studio. No
unreleased songs here.
Time Title Notes
0:05 Unused bass/organ (4-1) Possibly Man of War and or meant for
Airbag at some point.
1:41 No Surprises (Early Rehearsal/Demo) Crazy outro
(4-2)
5:56 Bullet Proof (Live Snippet) (4-3) 3 second blip
6:05 True Love Waits (Unfinished Backing Early instrumental with drum machine,
Track) (4-4) acoustic guitar, and bg synth.
11:03 Unreleased drum machine with A Very staticy midway, ends with drum
Reminder chime sample (4-5) solo. Contains crowd noises meant for
A Reminder.
14:40 Unreleased drum machine with A

Reminder chime sample, Take 2 (4-6)
18:25 Paranoid Android (Early Rehearsal) (4- Starts at “You don’t remember... “
7) section, Thom stops band halfway
through to talk through changes.
Probably a practice. This includes
multiple takes & jamming. Contains
several attempts at Ambition section.
27:22 Motion Picture Soundtrack (Full Band Take One. Fairly slow paced.
Version) (4-8)
33:07 Motion Picture Soundtrack ( Full Second take. Also fairly slow paced.
Band Version Take 2) (4-9)
38:12 Airbag (Early Rehearsal) (4-10) Early full band version. Different intro
and very rough, longer outro
43:20 Airbag (Early Rehearsal, Take 2) (4-11)
48:09 The Tourist (Early Rehearsal) (4-12) Contains a different melody then what
is on the album.
51:07 The Tourist (Early Rehearsal, Take 2)

(4-13)
52:09 The Tourist (Early Rehearsal with

Chorus, Take 3) (4-14)
53:21 Palo Alto (Early Rehearsal) (4-15) Early demo with slightly different
lyrics. Chorus has slightly different
melody
DISC 5
RUNTIME: 00:57:02
Time Title Notes
0:04 Drum solo and chatter with brief Unstructured jam; goofing around
Paranoid Android discussion (5-1)
1:08 Paranoid Android (Early Rehearsal, Practice run from “rain down” section
'Rain down' section) (5-2)
5:36 Paranoid Android (Original Long 11 minute early version w/ outro jam
Version, Full Length Rehearsal)
(5-3) ⭐
13:50 Unreleased full band song/jam with

tape effects (5-4)
16:46 Unreleased full band song/jam, Another snippet of “Attention”

ascending chord progression (5-5)
17:55 Unreleased full band song/jam with Gets fast forwarded

synth (False Start) (5-6)
25:53 Unreleased full band rock song (5-7) Has vocals. “When I Get Bored Give Me
One of Those”
30:09 No Surprises (Early Rehearsal), Take 1 Early version, full band

(5-8)
33:57 No Surprises (Early Rehearsal), Take 2 Early version, full band

(5-9)
37:42 Attention (5-10) Unreleased full band song
42:41 Wake up call recording (5-11) “We have registered your call”
43:57 Unreleased Thom solo (5-12) 🌚 Acoustic. Cheap mic. “I Won’t Be

Halfway Down”
45:35 Unreleased Thom solo (5-13) 🌚 Acoustic. Cheap mic. “I’m going to get
you back again”
46:49 Fast forwarding through tape (5-14) Tape fast forwards a bit
46:58 Unreleased Thom solo (5-15) 🌚 Acoustic. Cheap mic. “You don’t see
the signs”
48:34 Unreleased Thom solo (5-16)🌚 Cheap mic. Acoustic.
49:54 Nude (Thom solo Acoustic), Lo-fi (5- Thom solo acoustic demo (early)
17) 🌚
53:14 Choir, Lo-fi (5-18) Lo-fi. Recorded from a TV show
53:44 Paranoid Android (Early Rehearsal, Early fragment of a Thom/Jonny

Thom/Jonny only) (5-19) version
54:07 Drum jamming, Lo-fi (5-20) Lo-fi
56:13 Piano Sketch by Jonny (5-21) 📼 Included in the OKNOTOK cassette

DISC 6
RUNTIME: 00:35:51
DESCRIPTION: A big chunk of this disc is filled with snippets taken from a James Bond
soundtrack. Perhaps they were for inspiration or reference; this makes sense since they
have mentioned they wanted to make a Bond song in the past (even before Spectre).
Other than that, this disc is filled with unreleased solo songs.
Time Title Notes
0:09 Unreleased solo guitar, Lo-fi (6-1) Crunchy
0:51 Solo drumming (6-2) Drummy

1:21 Unreleased Thom solo (6-3) 🤤🌚 Acoustic. Thom pls enunciate so I can
figure out a fan name for this kplsthx
’And If It…’
3:46 Last Flowers (Thom solo Acoustic), Early version

Take 1 (6-4) 🤤🌚 “No evaluations, no deliberations”
5:23 Unreleased Thom solo (6-5) 🌚 Acoustic. “If I Don’t Seem Him”
8:00 Unreleased Thom solo (6-6) 🌚 Acoustic. Seems to pick up from the
previous song; maybe a retake.
10:36 Last Flowers (Take 2) (6-7) 🌚 Thom solo acoustic.
14:15 Life in a Glasshouse (Thom solo Very early version. Contains Tin-can
Acoustic, Early Version) (6-8) 🌚 audio.
18:01 Unreleased Thom solo (6-9) 🌚 Lofi, and Acoustic.
20:09 Unreleased Thom solo (6-10) 🌚 Acoustic. Lo-fi. Thom interrupts the
song to talk about letters; possibly a
retake halfway through. “We Don’t
Spend, We Don’t Know.
23:46 Thom talks about old letters (6-11)
24:57 Continuation of Unreleased Thom solo Lofi, and Acoustic. Also “We Don’t
(6-12) 🌚 Spend, We Don’t Know”.
25:56 James Bond soundtrack excerpt (?) (6- Includes many short snippets of movie
13) soundtracks, some/all from James
Bond. This lasts until the end
29:26 James Bond soundtrack excerpt (?) (6-

14)
30:10 Violin, unknown source (?) (6-15)
30:19 Unknown soundtrack excerpt, string

section (?) (6-16)
30:48 Unknown soundtrack excerpt, strings

and choir (?) (6-17)
31:59 Unknown soundtrack excerpt, strings

and full orchestra (6-18)
32:52 Unknown soundtrack excerpt, more

avant-garde (6-19)
33:42 Unknown soundtrack excerpt, tribal-

like drums (6-20)
34:53 Unknown soundtrack excerpts, drums,

bells and brass (6-21)
35:18 Unknown soundtrack excerpts,

somewhat jazz-y (6-22)
DISC 7
RUNTIME: 00:55:23
Time Title Notes
0:09 Unreleased Thom solo (7-1) 🤤🌚 Acoustic. “Leave your comments and
reactions here”
2:42 Last Flowers (Full Band Version) (7-2) Full Band. Drop out or mixing error at
5:52
7:19 Melatonin (Alternate Studio Version) Alternate version or mix

(7-3)
9:28 Unreleased Full Band Song (7-4) “You would do the same, thousand
miles, wanted to believe in”
11:41 Unreleased Full Band Jam (7-5) Might be a song fragment
12:27 Unreleased Full Band Jam (7-6) 🤤 With organ and ride cymbal keeping
time
14:55 Nigel AMS Delay + AMS Hello 📼 7-4 (7- Both on the cassette.
7)
16:14 Solo drums semi-processed through

Moog (7-8)
17:56 Karma Police (Early Rehearsal, Very early, unfinished lyrics. “This is
Electric Guitar, Alt. Lyrics) (7-9) what you get when you fuck with me”
22:10 Unreleased full band song 7-5, “You won’t try, I wanna go to the
'Decided, You Don't Try' (7-10) edge(?)”
27:52 Unreleased full band song (7-11) “Psychedelic-ish”
28:41 Airbag (Early Rehearsal, Heavier Rock Very early guitar. Slower tempo, rock
Guitar Only) (7-12) arrangement intro
29:13 Airbag (Early Rehearsal with Jam Funky rock jam turns into early Airbag,
Intro) (7-13) full band
30:17 Airbag (Early Rehearsal, Heavier Very early attempt #3

Version) (7-14)🤤
35:04 Let Down (Early Rehearsal) (7-15) Early Let Down
42:11 Unreleased full Band Song (7-16) Almost sounds like Last Flowers.
Funky, “Something Got A Hold of Your
Mind”.
42:55 Radio chaser noise 📼 Extended version that is on the white

cassette.
43:46 Movie dialogue (7-18) Verses from the Bible - 1 Corinthians

13:2-3
Thanks for the ID, u/blakandblue!
44:02 Unreleased full band jam (7-19) Continuation of 42:10 w/o vocals?
What is this? Vocals enter @ 50:12 w/
lyrics. Funk jam. NEEDS
INVESTIGATION
DISC 8
RUNTIME: 00:57:59
DESCRIPTION: A couple of unreleased solo songs. The rest are live performances.
Time Title Notes
0:05 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic Some kind of open or low drop tuning
instrumental) 8-1, (8-1) 🌚
4:38 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 8-2, “You want it all”

'You Want It All,' (8-2) 🌚
7:14 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 8-3, Acoustic. “Send me away”

'Send Me Away' (8-3) 🌚
9:21 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 8-4,

(8-4) 🌚
11:42 Karma Police (Early Live Soundboard Soundboard. “This is what you’ll get
with Alt. Chorus Lyrics) (8-5) when you fuck with us”
15:30 Paranoid Android (Live) (8-6) Soundboard. Early ver. Same show as
above. Has “rain down” but no “that’s it
sir”. Extended outro from oknotok tape
side 2. Excerpted on OKNOTOK
22:36 I Promise (Live) (8-7) Early Soundboard. Same show.
26:28 Let Down (Live) (8-8) Early. Same show? Acoustic intro,
vocals start when drums come in.
Organ ending. Repeats 2nd verse.
31:23 Climbing Up The Walls (Live) (8-9) Early version, also soundboard. Same
show possibly.
35:34 No Surprises (Live) (8-10) Early live soundboard recording
39:14 I Promise (Live) (8-11) Early live soundboard recording
43:08 Electioneering (Live) (8-12) Early live soundboard recording
46:29 Paranoid Android (Live) (8-13) Another early live ‘96 version w/ organ.
Extended outro.
53:10 Theremin-like synthesizer and misc.

noises (8-14)
53:55 Climbing Up The Walls (Live) (8-15) Early live soundboard recording.
DISC 9
RUNTIME: 00:53:33
Time Title Notes
0:10 Unreleased Ambient Piano Song (9-1) There's some chatter in the
background of this, it could be thom
testing stuff.
2:40 Unreleased Full Band Song ‘Walk Fan name by spnii_

Down’ (9-2) ✏️ Unreleased full band song. Starts off
acoustically, then into full band. Hard to
decipher all the lyrics.
7:31 Let Down (9-3) Very rough early rehearsal.

Early/alt lyrics.
12:58 Karma Police (9-4) Early rough rehearsal. Different drums,

no guitars, more bass, different lyrics.
15:04 Karma Police (9-5) Same rehearsal, more distortion on

bass and guitars. Sounds more rock.
Instrumental after first chorus.
17:32 Last Flowers (9-6) Very rough. More band oriented.

Different lyrics, but same melody and
key. Jonny is also doing weird things to
his guitar.
20:41 Unreleased full band song (9-7) Most likely also a rehearsal. Audio
tears alot. Same as 7-5. Probably a
second take. “Decided, You Don’t Try.
24:33 Let Down (10 Minute Rehearsal) (9-8) Mostly guitars, different arrangement.
Possibly the band learning how to play
it live due to Thom once saying its “too
complicated” to play live. Jonny
switches to organ later on.
35:23 Life in a Glasshouse (9-9) Very different from the finished

version, sounds like a rehearsal, but
has the same melody, jonny is killing it
on the organ.
37:58 Life in a Glasshouse (9-10) 🌚 Thom acoustic. Different chords, lyrics,

and slightly different vocal melody.
The energy in this one is great.
40:42 Fitter Happier (9-11) 📼 Glitching noises and piano. No text-to-

speech. On OKNOTOK cassette as
well.
43:22 A Reminder (9-12) 🌚 Thom solo acoustic. Low quality

recording.
46:53 “Unreleased Thom Solo” (9-13) 🌚 Fairly sloppy and raw rough acoustic
recording. Droney guitar tuning and
catchy riff. Hook contains lyric “You’re
the one”.
51:01 A Reminder (9-14) 🌚 Thom solo acoustic recording. Vocals

are very prominent. Same lyrics as
studio version.
DISC 10
RUNTIME: 00:58:23
Time Title Notes
0:07 Last Flowers (Early Rehearsal First take early different lyrics, more
Version) (10-1) band structured, heavy rock & roll
sound
3:52 Last Flowers (Early Rehearsal Second take from a different

Version) (10-2) rehearsal? Includes intro and effects
with heavy rock & roll sound.
5:36 True Love Waits (Early Rehearsal) Full band, Instrumental, A jam, starts
(10-3) midway
8:06 True Love Waits (Early Rehearsal) Alternative arrangement, Stops

(10-4) midway
10:05 The National Anthem (OKNOTOK 4-track demo, The National Anthem,
Demo) (10-5) 📼 same one as the cassette tape.
'Everyone' was the working title
13:13 The Bends (4 Track Demo) (10-6) 4-track demo, this was already
released at some point in 1996
18:02 Unreleased Thom solo with acoustic Acoustic guitar with drum machine.
guitar drum machine, 10-1 'I Don't Most likely from the same 4-track
Want To Hurt You' (10-7) 🌚 demo, could also be on the cassette
tape. “I Don’t Want To Hurt You”.
21:48 Let Down (Early Rehearsal, Alt. A more acoustic arrangement with no
Arrangement with Acoustic Guitars) drums, different lyrics, also the gain is
(10-8) too fucking high
27:26 Airbag (Early Rehearsal, Instrumental) Live demo recording, slightly seeks
(10-9) and skips, also jamming at the end
29:29 Airbag (Early Rehearsals, Jamming, features Colin’s bass playing

Instrumental, Prominent Bass) (10-10) isolated at some point
30:32 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 10-2, Thom on guitar

'Don't Stop,' Take 1 (10-11) 🤤🌚
34:39 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 10-2, Another take of the same song
'Don't Stop,' Take 2 (10-12) 🌚 “Don't stop, do you want to?”
“You’ll never know”
39:21 Climbing Up The Walls read by little The transcript from the cassette tapes
Dan Clements (from OKNOTOK) (10-
13) 📼
40:44 Climbing Up The Walls read by little Kinda spooky not gonna lie or sumshin.
Dan Clements, Slowed Down (10-14)
43:16 TR-606 drum machine pattern intro to Roland TR-606 drum machine that
10-16 (10-15) Thom is playing along with
(u/TraxusXII)
44:02 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) with

TR-606 10-3, 'If You Want To Stay'
(10-16) 🌚
46:55 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 10-4, This is actually a scrapped part of Last
'Standin' Take 1 (10-17) 🌚 Flowers. Thanks for the ID, u/MajorMajorSeven!
48:27 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) Bedroom recording of Thom on the
same as 7-5 , 'Decided, If You Try' Alt. guitar
Lyrics, Take 1 (10-18) 🌚
51:20 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) Same song as above, just another take
same as 7-5 , 'Decided, If You Try' Alt.
Lyrics, Take 2 (10-19) 🌚
53:28 Karma Police (Thom solo Acoustic, Bedroom recording, only Thom and his
Alt. Lyrics, Different Key) (10-20) 🌚 guitar, different lyrics, and vocal key
57:43 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 10-5, The same bedroom recording, only a
'I Hope You Choke' (10-21) 🌚 short glimpse of this song before the
tape ends
DISC 11
RUNTIME: 01:02:01
Time Title Notes
0:00 Ambient vocals and effects (11-1) A snippet of Stimmung ('Singcircle

version') by Stockhausen
Thanks for the ID, u/agentleBout!
2:23 Exit Music (Alt. Lyrics with Harmonies) Very different lyrics, thom singing with
(11-2) acoustic, sounds like colin singing with
him
5:49 Unreleased Thom solo (with Electric Thom on tour bus with Jonny, playing
guitar) 11-1, 'Don't Want To' (11-3) 🌚 together
7:30 Unreleased Thom solo (with Electric Same ride, another song
guitar) 11-2, 'One Look' (11-4) 🌚
10:23 Noise (11-5) Maybe the rest of the tour bus ride
11:20 Unreleased Thom solo (with Electric “Let me go” thom solo acoustic song
guitar) 11-3, 'Let Me Go' (11-6) 🌚
13:37 Unreleased Thom solo (with Electric Same guitar melody, different lyrics
guitar) 11-3, Take 2 (Alt. Lyrics), 'Let
Me Go' (11-7) 🌚
14:46 Climbing Up the Walls (Live Mansfield Live at Mansfield 1996, higher quality,
1996, Soundboard) (11-8) SBD for sure
19:03 I Promise (Live Mansfield 1996, Live at Mansfield 1996, higher quality
Soundboard, OKNOTOK Promo) (11-9) than the promo released before
OKNOTOK
22:56 Paranoid Android (Live Mansfield Live at Mansfield 1996, best recording
1996, Soundboard) (11-10) out there
29:24 Karma Police (Live Mansfield 1996, Live at Mansfield 1996

Soundboard) (11-11)
33:54 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 11-4, Thom solo acoustic recording
'Do You Agree?' (11-12) 🌚
36:38 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 11-5, Thom acoustic solo recording
'You Got Two Months To Get Out
Before I Sic The Dogs On You' (11-13)
🌚
39:32 Let Down (Early Live with Organ) (11- Live early version, an organ instead of
14) Jonny at the ending
44:50 Unknown movie soundtrack (11-15) Very droney, a recording of one of

them playing maybe an organ or
something else
45:58 Unknown woman laughing (11-16) Evil laugh (duh)
41:32 Let Down (Early Live) (11-17) Another live recording, early version
51:40 Paranoid Android (Early Live) (11-18) Live early version; I think this one could
be the Hershey stadium in 1996
58:19 Karma Police (Early Live) (11-19) Same show for sure, live and early
version
DISC 12
RUNTIME: 01:13:56
DESCRIPTION: A disc mostly comprised of live performances.
Time Title Notes
0:05 Climbing Up the Walls (Live) (12-1). Early lyrics, full band.
4:05 Climbing Up the Walls (LIve) (12-2) Early lyrics, full band performance.
Nearly identical to the studio version.
8:10 I Promise (Live) (12-3) Full band performance. Thom plays

electric instead of acoustic. Early lyrics.
12:03 Paranoid Android (Live) (12-4) Drums have lots of reverb in the
beginning. Features organ. Some
lyrical differences such as last verse in
rain down part being missing. Different
ending/breakdown.
18:56 TV Show Noises (12-5) “Tomorrow they shall be swimming in

the new lake in babyland.”
19:37 No Surprises (Live) (12-6) Thom: “Hello, we’re the support band”.
Performance during the tour with
Alanis Morisette most likely.
23:28 Paranoid Android (Live) (12-7) Also features organ and some lyrical
differences. Nearly identical to the
previous above live version.
30:18 I Promise (Live) (12-8) Same venue as previous live stuff here.
Possibly some small differences in the
lyrics. Features different bassline and
washy organs.
34:05 Karma Police (Live) (12-9) Right-channel-heavy mix. Some lyrical

differences and prominent jonny piano
magic. Same show as well as the rest.
38:00 Climbing Up the Walls (Live) (12-10) Thom: “It’s a song about murder”.
Lyrical differences and some sonic
differences. Same performance too.
P.S. Great Idea performing this to Alanis Morissette
fans idiots.
42:06 I Promise (Live) (12-11) Similar to previous performance on

this disc.
45:55 Let Down (Live) (12-12) Early version. Beautiful and rough
performance. Lyrics are quite similar to
the studio version and same with the
music.
50:53 No Surprises (Live) (12-13) Similar to studio. No real differences

besides lack of some sonic textures
and different backing vocals. Some
slight melody difference at one pint.
54:37 Climbing Up the Walls (Live) (12-14) Another early version that is again
quite similar to the previous version in
this disc. Nice scream at the end,
Thom!
58:44 Electioneering (Live) (12-15) Features cool breakdown, but besides

that, it’s the same as the studio.
1:02:08 Paranoid Android (Live) (12-16) Similar to all the other different live
versions in this disk.
Different lyrics: “if you’re so important,
why don't you remember my name, are
you ignorant?”, then says “stupid”
followed by “motherfucking stupid”
before they play the rain down part.
1:09:12 Let Down (Live) (12-17) Really great performance similar to the
studio version.
DISC 13
RUNTIME: 00:50:15
Time Title Notes
0:12 Dialogue (13-1)
1:13 Fridge Buzz (13-2) 📼 Literally a buzzing fridge
1:47 Palo Alto (Thom solo Acoustic) (13-3) Thom acoustic demo (breaks into “Are
🌚 You Someone” @ 3:21, then returns)
5:41 Field recording with TV audio (13-4)
14:42 Exit Music (Thom solo Acoustic) (13- Thom acoustic demo. Has alternate
5) 🌚 lyrics
16:31 Field recording with distant music (13- Band rehearsing in the background?
6)
27:45 Lift (Live) (13-7) Full band monitor. Incomplete.
29:39 TV dialogue and audio (13-8) This audio can be heard in Fitter
Happier
35:44 Ed and Thom talking with Unreleased Talking before acoustic jam with Thom
Thom solo (13-9) 🌚 mumbling overtop
37:40 Unreleased Instrumental (13-10) 🌚 Reminiscent of I Might Be Wrong?
Acoustic IInstrumental
38:17 Unreleased Thom solo instrumental Might be Attention. Acoustic

(13-11) 🌚
39:32 Unreleased Thom solo (13-12) 🌚 “Lay it on the ground / it’s driving me
insane” Acoustic.
43:24 Unreleased full band rehearsal/jam Full band. Jazzy. Phil drum solo in
with drum solo (13-13) stereo midway
46:01 Unreleased Thom solo Instrumental Acoustic. Sounds like incidental

(13-14) 🌚 western music
46:24 Choir from TV with dialogue (13-15) Recording might be from another disc
47:32 Polyethylene Pt. 2 (Thom Solo Thom acoustic demo. Alternate lyrics
Acoustic) (13-16) 🌚 “The little things”
DISC 14
RUNTIME: 01:13:39
Time Title Notes
0:04 Unreleased full band snippet (14-1)
0:08 Lull (Early Rehearsal, Different Key)

(14-2)
3:22 Unreleased Full Band, 'Hurts To Walk' Another version of “Hurts To Walk” by
(14-3) “Thom” Yorke. Played in a “room.”
4:25 Unreleased Full Band, 'Hurts To Walk', Cut in the tape, an extra snippet
(14-4)
5:53 Unreleased Full Band, 'Hurts To Walk,' Thom remarks about how he is proud
(14-5) of his funky clothes
8:56 Unreleased Full Band, 'He’s Not For Full band. Contains lyrics “little by
Sale' (14-6) little”; seems to have no relation to
TKOL
9:35 Airbag (Live) (14-7) Early, acoustic, full band.

Alternate lyrics:
“In the next world war, an angel at my
door..”
13:12 Noise - Chatter (14-8) Overlapping conversation, sounds

English
14:08 Electioneering (Live) (14-9) “This is a new song.”
Some lyrical variation from final
version. Also screams potatoes.
17:33 Lift (Live) (14-10) Same live session, transitions to Lift,

with O Superman by Laurie Anderson
intro. Good performance.
Thanks to u/shanerichmond for fix!
21:39 Airbag (Live) 14-11) Similar to 9:33 above.
26:15 Airbag (Live) (14-12) Acoustic again, live. See above.
30:43 Attention, Unreleased Full Band (14- Full band recording.

13) “Joy of the uprising, an action with
some meaning”
34:35 Attention, Unreleased Full Band, Take

14-2 (14-14)
39:23 Unreleased full band song, Full band recording. Sounds serene,
instrumental (14-15) twangy, and folk rocky.
40:35 Lift (Soundcheck Version) (14-16) Skips around a couple times, resolves
to Lift
44:19 Airbag (Early Rehearsal/Jam) (14-17) Jamming on Airbag

“It’s on tape, yeah?” -Thom
44:37 Unreleased Thom solo vocal with Thom singing over muted acoustic
bleedthrough from acoustic guitar (14- guitar track.
18) 🌚 “Is anyone around? I think you’re crazy
for wanting me to tell”
“You’re always on the phone”
49:09 Paranoid Android (Soundcheck with Thom directing volume levels a bit.
Thom direction) (14-19) Pretty unstructured. Slight variation in
“rain down” section lyrics; “It’s gonna
rain down on you”
52:15 Airbag (Soundcheck) (14-20) See all above instances of Airbag it’s
very similar. Maybe some extra synth-y
stuff in this one
57:00 Electioneering (Early Live, Probable Sounds weirdly distant. Vocal tracks
Monitor Mix) (14-21) almost seem isolated? “Give me one of
them prizes”, “Doin’ it all” lines are in
here. Must be an early performance.
1:00:27 I Promise (Live with Fast Forwarded Fast-forwarded intro speech; “I can’t
Thom Intro) (14-22) read music, these are words.” --- “-
REM tour, and I still look” --- “-he said
he didn’t mind. This is a new song,
called I Promise”. Has “I won’t fool
around no more” verse.
1:04:37 Paranoid Android (Early Live, Alt. “Why don’t you remember my name”
Lyrics) (14-23) part. Alternate “rain down” lyrics from
above (49:04) are not present here.
“Hallelujah” variation of “rain down”
lyrics also absent. Thom sings a
backing harmony part here after the
normal lyrics. No “that’s it sir” part.
1:06:29 Attention (Full Band Version), Take Cuts in for first verse, no intro. Unsure
14-3 (14-24) of lyrical differences with other
1:09:20 Attention (Full Band Version with not sure I’ve heard these lyrics yet?
Backing Vocals), Take 14-4 (14-25) “There’s nothing better to do / I’m
taking off my clothes because I’ve got
the hots for you”. No backing vocals.
1:10:44 I Promise (Live 4-12-96 at Roseland “This is for the girl who just said ‘Thom
Ballroom) (14-26) help me I’m dying’ down in the front!”
Drums similar to remastered version.
Has extra “fool around” verse, but no
“funny look” line from 1:00:26 version.
According to redditor /u/EsotericCD, this
performance is from 4/12/96 Roseland Ballroom.
Thanks for the ID!
DISC 15
RUNTIME: 00:58:20
Time Title Notes
0:02 Three Seconds of Subterranean What do I need to put here? Like

Homesick Alien (15-1) seriously.
0:07 Karma Police - Final Version (15-2) Final Version
4:57 Let Down - Near-Final Version with Slightly different from the album
Acoustic Intro (15-3) version. Acoustic guitar from ending is
now in the intro.
10:13 Lift - Alternate Version, Mix #1 Full band finished studio recording. It's
(15-4) ⭐ incredible.
14:22 Silence / Lift synth intro bit (15-5) Cut synth bit from previous lift intro
14:55 Airbag - Late/Final Version (15-6) Late/finished version. may be a

different vocal take; different reverb.
19:50 Electioneering - Final Version (15-7) Late/finished version
24:19 A Reminder - Final Version (15-8) Late/finished version
28:18 Alien synths
28:26 Subterranean Homesick Alien - Late/finished version

Late/Final Version (15-10)
33:17 Subterranean Homesick Alien - Late/finished version. Must be

Late/Final Version (15-11) something different..?
38:07 Subterranean Homesick Alien - Late/finished version. Must be

Late/Final Version (15-12) something different..?
42:57 No Surprises - Late Mix, Original Different vocal take from album
Speed (15-13) version. Original recorded speed; half-
47:06 Exit Music (For A Film) - Late Mix (15- Starting with a thom chuckle and an
14) “Okay”. Same as Tape 18 version?
51:51 Paranoid Android - Late Mix (5-15) Synths seem quieter. Slightly different
mix.
DISC 16
RUNTIME: 01:07:54
DESCRIPTION: This disc contains an early alternate tracklisting of OK Computer.
Time Title Notes
0:06 Airbag - Unmastered Album Version

(16-1)

Album Version (16-2)
11:11 Subterranean Homesick Alien -

Unmastered Album Version (16-3)
15:41 Exit Music (For A Film) - Unmastered

20:10 Let Down - Unmastered Album

Version with Early Fade-Out (16-5)

Version (16-6)
25:57 Climbing Up The Walls - Unmastered

30:41 No Surprises - Unmastered Album

Version (16-8)
34:28 Electioneering - Unmastered Album

Version (16-9)
38:22 Lucky - Unmastered Album Version

(16-10)
42:41 Karma Police - Unmastered Album

Version (16-11)
47:04 The Tourist - Unmastered Album

Version (16-12)
52:32 A Reminder - Unmastered Album

Version (16-13)
56:25 Lift - Alternate Version, Mix #2 (16-

14)⭐
1:00:15 Lift - Alternate Version, Mix #3 (16-

15)⭐
1:03:59 Noise - Fitter Happier beeps (16-16)
1:04:14 Polyethylene Pt 2 - Late Mix w/ Vocal

Effect (16-17)
1:07:54 Noise - guitar bit (16-18)

DISC 17
RUNTIME: 00:27:16
DESCRIPTION: This might be a continuation of Disc 16, since it also contains unmastered
song versions & it is only 27 minutes long.
Time Title Notes

Version (17-1)

Version (17-2)
11:26 Polyethylene Pt 2 - Near-Final Mix With its own count-in. Close to album
(17-3) version. Slightly different vocals, less
compressed.
15:23 Polyethylene Pt 2 - Near-Final Mix Same as above, may be a slightly

(17-4) different mix.

Version (17-5)
21:30 Unreleased Thom Solo (Piano) - “Everybody wants you but nobody
“Tomorrow Night In Paris” (17-6) 🌚 wants you”
25:55 Unreleased Thom Solo (Piano) -

“Tomorrow Night In Paris”, Piano Only
(17-7) 🌚
DISC 18
RUNTIME: 00:41:52
DESCRIPTION: This disc contains several takes of Thom singing A Reminder to himself.
Very intimate.
Time Title Notes
0:00 Chatter/wind noise (18-1) “Hello… It’s working…”
1:15 A Reminder - Thom A Cappella Take 1 Thom singing quietly by himself

(18-2) outside
3:46 Wind noise (18-3)
5:00 A Reminder - Thom A Cappella Take 2

(18-4)
7:17 Wind noise (18-5)
8:01 A Reminder - Thom A Cappella Take 3 Cut off at the end

(18-6)
10:27 Wind noise (18-7)
10:43 A Reminder - Thom A Cappella Take 4

(18-8)
12:10 Wind noise (18-9)
12:37 A Reminder - Thom A Cappella Take 5 In a new key

(18-10)

('What Did You Mean'), Take 1 (18-11) 🌚

('What Did You Mean'), Take 2 (18-12)
🌚
19:36 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 18-1 Clearer vocals
('What Did You Mean'), Take 3 (18-13) “That wasn’t a shooting star, that was
🌚 an airplane landing”

('What Did You Mean'), Take 4 (Guitar
Only) (18-14) 🌚
22:21 Unreleased Thom solo (Acoustic) 18-2 Rock/bluesy

('You’re a Sleazy Bastard, You’re No “I am the sun and the moon”
Friend of Mine') (18-15) 🌚 Cut off
25:51 Noise - phone ringing (18-16)
26:03 Thom beatboxing (18-17) 🤤⭐ Best song in this compilation hands

down
26:35 Exit Music - Late Mix (18-18) Background voices at “sing us a song”
are different. Definitely the album take
of everything else.
31:17 Silence (18-19)
31:24 No Surprises - Late Mix #2 (18-20) Different vocal take from album
version. Original recorded speed; half-
step down from album version. Same
as tape 15?

END OF MINIDISCS
MEDIA COVERAGE
This section was included to document the magnitude of this leak and its impact on music
history. We all know 17 hours of unheard material is massive and significant, especially for
Radiohead, and there is bound to be a lot of discussions surrounding it. This may help set
the record straight and prevent misinformation for future fans and researchers (though
admittedly, some of these articles get some details wrong).
Here are some outlets covering the leak:
● Tone Deaf Blog (First article to report on leak!)
● Stereogum
● Spin
● NME
● Far Out Magazine
● Paste Magazine
● Exclaim
● The Evil Jam
● Binaural (Spanish)
● Tracker Magazine (Portuguese)
(It’d be great to have melon on this list; help us get his attention!)
FAN COVERS
Here’s a couple of cover designs to use for your copy of the compilation! Here’s an imgur
link for the photos.
By Rhett (the superior cover)) By u/burntheTwitch By u/Scatterbrain1992
By u/a3poify By u/SlodLicker By Darth Thater
By u/lukano1602 By The Bumstickler By belargu

By Younite By girlpowerchords
ORIGINAL TIMESTAMP FORMAT
This is for anyone who wants to see the old document for some reason.
RADIOHEAD – OK MINIDISC.ZIP
OK COMPUTER LIVE/SOLO/STUDIO ARCHIVES FOR OKNOTOK
RUNTIME: 17:15:52 (yes that's 17hrs)
DISC 1 TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - 1:52 Exit Music Melody / Life in a Glasshouse
1:53 - 5:47 Early I Promise
5:48 - 10:48 Attention Unreleased #1 (Hurts to Walk, possibly Attention?)
10:49 - 13:15 Early Electioneering
13:20 - 15:53 Early Lift
15:54 - 22:29 Full Band True Love Waits
22:34 - 23:38 Unreleased #2 (Little by little, crawls away)
23:38 - 24:22 movie recording?
24:32 - 28:26 First Performance of Lift
28:30 - 36:33 Early Electioneering and I Promise (Live)
36:34 - 38:10 Unreleased #3 (Solo Thom on Acoustic)
38:13 - 43:11 Early Airbag
43:29 - 43:55 Reverb w/ some airbag at end
44:02 - 48:27 Early Airbag w/ reverb at beginning (sounds like planet telex)
48:28 - 52:34 Early Live Performance of I Promise
52:36 - 53:24 Unreleased #4 (i wanna sing along?)
53:25 - 57:28 Early Live Performance of I Promise
57:28 - 1:01:00 Early Live Performance of Electioneering
1:01:02 - 1:05:42 Early Paranoid Android
1:05:42 - 1:07:47 Early Airbag Midway (Sounds like complete version)
1:07:48 - 1:10:48 Early Electioneering (Harmonic vocals, possibly ed or jonny? Cuts off early)
1:10:48 - 1:11:21 Silence
END OF TAPE
DISC 2 TIMESTAMPS:
0:05 chatter
0:25 no surprises (soundcheck demo? sounds like the 1 on cassette)
3:02 ?
5:38 ?
8:33 ?
12:21 outdoor sounds
12:47 ?
15:30 ? (this is what i thought was exit music)
19:15 ?
21:28 some ladies chattering n public transport (russian? idk what language) (A REMINDER
NOISES)
25:01 tv noises (dogwander/dog wonder inspiration?)
28:25 more noises
29:10 ? (this kinda cuts out into diff tracks i think? not sure if it’s supposed to be 1 song)
32:46 MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK DEMO (sounds very bends-y) (HAS THE
BEAUTIFUL ANGEL VERSE)
37:56 ? (has warbling in the middle… idk if it’s a separate take or they're just jamming)
39:55 Exit Music (again)
40:36 LET DOWN (early version) (some instrumental jamming at the end)
45:32 another motion picture soundtrack demo
50:28 airbag (w/ false start)
55:31 ? (fan name: Hurts To Walk (My Funky Cloak)) (w/ little jams in the end)
59:40 hurts to walk take 2?
1:03:01 random jamming
1:04:31 start of a song i've heard but i forgot the name (the one that goes pa pa pa pa pa pa)
DISC 3 TIMESTAMPS:
0:10 (unknown flute and sitar jam, skipping around)
2:25 I Promise (cut intro, live)
3:37 Motion Picture Soundtrack (electric guitar, solo Thom so far). According to redditor
/u/EsotericCD, this is from the 4/10/96 “Just Passin’ Thru” radio session in Rockville, MD, but is
a “FAR FAR better sounding version of it than the off-air recording we used to have.” Thanks for
the ID!
7:07 I Promise (first ever live performance, announcement at beginning)
11:24 String arrangements for something (Climbing Up The Walls? unsure)
12:10 Nude with full band (similar to OKNOTOK cassette, may be same take?)
16:12 Metallic percussive noises
16:52 Synthesizer solo
18:11 Saxophone solo, tape manipulated drums
19:35 Solo piano with delay, synth brass and reversed drums/sub bass
26:33 808 and acid-like bassline
30:00 Unreleased Thom solo demo tape #1 3A (Maybe this is love…)
32:40 Unreleased Thom solo demo #2 3B (I Must Control It)
35:14 Same piano delay song as before with more layers (sounds more like a song now)
39:15 Unreleased Thom solo demo #3 3C (It’s gonna be done)
42:14 Unreleased Thom solo demo #4 3D (Can anyone help us)
46:30 Exit Music (solo Thom, alternate arrangement/rhythm and lyrics)
50:50 Very early Paranoid Android section (before “you don’t remember, why don’t you
remember my name?” excerpt live
52:25 No Surprises at soundcheck
55:50 Full band song that sounds vaguely familiar but I can’t identify @ soundcheck
1:00:53 Same piano delay song again with even more layers
1:06:17 Unreleased Thom solo demo #5 3E (I Don’t Get It)
DISC 4 TIMESTAMPS:
Overview: Mostly the band practicing/trying stuff out with earlier versions of well-known tracks.
Some interesting synth-ish stuff thrown in towards the beginning.
0:05 This is background for some track I should recognize but I don’t (bass + synth) (Someone
should see if they can ID this) Is this Man of War? What is this?
1:38 No Surprises demo. Much acoustic guitar strumming, kind of jammy
5:55 Blip of Bullet Proof
5:58 Weird techno drums + piano Oh this is True Love Waits with synths and electronic drums,
no thom singing tho (PLS CONFIRM TLW SOMEONE) [< its for sure tlw]
11:03 Wacky electronic drums with some weird ambient type crowd-ish noises very OKC
14:37 Either another version of the above or a continuation. Crowd noises sound like
metro/transport announcements from A Reminder?
18:22 Paranoid Android “You don’t remember” section but like.. Different. Thom is talking
through changes and they’re practicing
20:27 More practicing of the same section
21:41 More practicing “You don’t remember” section. Transition to “Rain down” section this time
No backing vocals. “Hallelujah” version of this section. Rain down section jam that’s fire
27:22 Motion Picture Soundtrack early version super chill bass/drums/lil electric guitar. Has
synth strings. Beautiful angel verse included.
33:01 Motion Picture Soundtrack same style early version. These are good versions.
38:05 Airbag Lacks final intro. Full band. Somewhat rough. Guitar solo similar to album version.
Longer outro.
43:02 Airbag fast forwarded? Then started again. Much like previous but perhaps fuller? Outro
is better? This is gud.
48:03 The Tourist early version, different lyrics, can’t make them out well “If you ..something”.
Different vocal melodies in here interesting stuff
51:03 Practicing alternate verse of The Tourist? Uncertain.
52:09 More practicing Tourist. Early version of chorus in here. Different lyrics, similar melody.
53:21 Palo Alto Some different verse lyrics here. Chorus has slightly different melody. Groovy.
END OF TAPE
DISC 5 TIMESTAMPS:
0:05 jamming with brief Paranoid Android (“rain down”) vocal, goofing around
1:10 Paranoid Android run through starting from “rain down” section
5:43 Paranoid Android run through from the beginning (THE 11MIN VERSION)
13:45 jamming with tape effects – guitar riff sounds slightly like electric “I Promise” but it isn’t
16:47 tape cuts into a different jam
17:57 a different jam – that gets fast forwarded through
18:08 jam begins again – heavy keyboard/synth sounds – (“I go running into the light”)
25:53 new rock jam with vocals (“when i get bored so give me one of those and … machines / i
just Wanna be like …”
30:08 No Surprises early version, full band
33:58 No Surprises early version, full band #2
37:42 Unknown full band song runthrough (“don’t want it to die (?)”)
42:41 Wake up call recording and phone recording/ambience miscellany (“We have registered
your call have a nice sleep”)
43:57 Thom solo demo, very cheap microphone (“I won’t be halfway down (?) / just about to
make you (?)”)
45:35 Thom solo demo #2, very cheap microphone again (“One thing …” / “Is it right to (?)” /
“I’m going to get you back again”)
46:49 Fast forwarding through tape
46:57 Thom solo demo #3, very cheap microphone again (“You don’t see the signs”)
48:30 Thom solo demo #4, very cheap microphone again
49:57 Nude, Thom solo acoustic demo
53:11 Choir, lo-fi recording
53:45 Paranoid Android, early Thom/Jonny version
54:06 Drum jamming, lo-fi
56:10 Solo piano, Thom?
DISC 6 TIMESTAMPS:
0:08 crunchy guitar playing
0:50 some drumming
1:17 ?
3:30 LAST FLOWERS EARLY VERSION (“no evaluations, no deliberations”)
5:22 ?
8:00 ? (idk if it’s connected to the last song or not) (“i lost my feet”?) (cool riff at around 9:40
mark)
10:37 last flowers (another early version (wtf does he say semen here) (“appliances have
stopped”) (this is so sweet i’m gonna cry))
14:15 ? (kinda sounds like a very early version of LIAGH) (audio quality sounds like he's inside
a tin can)
18:00 ? (song fades away near the end)
20:08 ?
23:46 thom talks about old letters or some shit (cuts in the middle of song)
24:57 ? (continues from the other track)
25:52 ? (sounds like carnival music at the start) (woah cool harp) (cool jazzy instrumental) (this
is good) < u/iscreamyouscreamweall says its the James Bond Soundtrack
29:23 ? (scary urgent instrumental music; it’s like bond soundtrack muzak) (low brass sounds)
30:07 ? (snippet of scary violin)
30:14 ? (scary bgm; tim burton-esque)
30:32 ? snippet of a song repeating
30:45 ? similar snippet as above but with choir (REMINDS ME OF MPS STUDIO VERSION)
31:36 ? skipped to the end of this piece
31:57 snippet of violin
32:03 bouncy horns & guitar
32:14 sounds like battle music
32:23 more battle music
32:49 more score sounds (ominous & curious) (weird high freq. noises)
33:38 big drum sounds & some beats n shit (almost tribal)
34:19 bongos (w/ fleeting guitar? string?)
35:01 more battle music
35:14 jazz?
35:25 twinkly bgm that moves into jazz
(last few secs r silent)
DISC 7 TIMESTAMPS:
0:10 Unreleased Thom solo demo #1 7A (Leave your comments and reactions here)
2:42 Last Flowers, Full Band (drop out or mixing error at 5:52)
7:17 Melatonin alternate version or mix (!)
9:29 Unknown song, full band rough (“You would do the same, thousand miles, wanted to
believe in, take a little piece of it” … “never go back tomorrow”)
11:43 Unknown song fragment/jamming
12:27 Gorgeous full band jam or instrumental song with organ and ride cymbal keeping time
15:03 Ambient jam, may have been used as background sound on an official song, can’t identify
(Climbing Up the Walls?) – also has Thom going “hello,” pitch-shifted up under tons of delay
16:13 Solo drums — Airbag drums?
17:57 Early electric guitar version of Karma Police with very early, unfinished lyrics and the
chorus: “This is what you get when you fuck with me”
22:13 Unknown full band song (“You won’t try”, “I wanna go to the edge(?)”), early
version/runthrough
27:52 / 28:20 Psychedelic-ish full band, unknown song
28:41 Very early Airbag guitar, much slower tempo, rock arrangement intro –
29:18 Groovy/funky rock jam, then turns into very early Airbag full band
30:17 Very early Airbag attempt #3
35:05 Early Let Down
42:10 Maybe Last Flowers (very skronky) (?) full band version – or another song entirely?
42:54 Zx computer noises
43:46 Radio or TV ambience recording – dialogue from a movie?
44:00 Sounds like a continuation of 42:10 without Thom’s vocals – a veritable Radiohead funk
jam
50:12 Jam continues — Thom vocals enter with lyrics
DISC 8 TIMESTAMPS:
00:04 Acoustic jam/demo. Thom’s really bashing on it. Some kind of open or low drop tuning.
End 4:17
4:36 Acoustic Demo 1 (“you want it all”) end 7:13
7:13 Acoustic Demo 2 (“send me away”) end 9:20 (hard cut)
9:20 Acoustic Demo 3 end 11:42
11:42 Karma Police - Early live soundboard. “this is what you’ll get when you fuck with us”. End
15:29.
15:30 Paranoid Android - Early live soundboard, same show as above. Has “rain down” but no
“that’s it sir”. Goes into extended outro part! The one on the oknotok tape side 2. End 22:35
22:36 I Promise - Live soundboard, same show. End 26.26
26:27 Let Down - Early live soundboard, same show? Acoustic intro, vocals start when the
drums come in. Organ at the end! Second verse again instead of the third. End 31:21
31:22 Climbing Up The Walls - Early live soundboard, same show? End 35:32
35:33 No Surprises - live soundboard End 39:13
39:14 I Promise - live soundboard End 43:01
43:01 Electioneering - live soundboard End 46:28
46:28 Paranoid Android - live soundboard, another ‘96 version with organ, into extended outro.
End 53:09
53:10 synthy theremin thing? Loud and scary. Climbing up the walls noises?
53:54 Climbing Up The Walls - live soundboard
58:05 END OF TAPE
DISC 9 TIMESTAMPS:
0:10 - an ambient piano track (idk either)
2:40 - ? (starts off acoustically, goes full band, slow song. “Walk down to the” idk)
7:31 - Let Down (sounds like a rehearsal, very rough, early lyrics too)
12:51 - Karma Police (again probably a rehearsal, different drums, no guitar, more bass…
sounds like a really rough version of it… different lyrics too)
15:04 - Karma Police (the same rehearsal, more distortion on the bass though, and guitar…
sounds more like a rock song tbh “THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU FUCK WITH ME”, it
then goes instrumental til the end.
17:32 - Last Flowers (jonny is fucking killing it here, jk idk what he's doing. More band oriented,
different lyrics, but same melody and key)
20:41 - ? (“tell me something, I need a job” unknown song, audio tears alot)
24:33 - Let Down (Guitars mostly, different arrangement, REALLY LONG, they’re probably
learning more how to play it. I remember they said back then they never really played Let Down
live due to it being “too complicated”, jonny switches to organ later on.)
25:23 - Life in a Glasshouse (very different from the finished version, sounds like a rehearsal,
but has the same melody, jonny is killing it on the organ tho)
35:01 - Life in a Glasshouse (bedroom recording, just thom and his guitar)
40:42 - Fitter Happier glitching noises and piano
43:22 - ? (very low quality acoustic recording of thom)
46:53 - ? (louder… bedroom recording)
51:01 - A Reminder (acoustic bedroom recording)
53:38 - END
DISC 10 TIMESTAMPS:
0:06 - Last Flowers (different lyrics, more band structured, rock n roll sound.)
3:23 - Last Flowers (different rehearsal? includes intro and effects)
5:36 - True Love Waits (jamming)
10:06 - Everyone (4-track demo, The National Anthem, same one as the cassette tape,
'Everyone' was the working title')
13:13 - The Bends (4-track demo, this was already released at some point in 1996)
18:02 - ? (most likely from the same 4-track demo, could also be on the cassette tape)
21:40 - Let Down (a more acoustic arrangement with no drums, different lyrics, also the gain is
too fucking high)
27:25 - Airbag (live demo recording, slightly seeks and skips, also jamming at the end)
29:30 - Airbag jamming
30:05 - Colins bass notes (for airbag)
30:24 - ? (its thom on guitar again, i'm gonna nickname this “dont stop”)
34:40 - ? (“don't stop, do you want to?”)
39:21 - Climbing Up the Walls (the transcript from the cassette tapes)
40:45 - the same climbing up the walls transcript, slowed down
43:16 - ? (beats followed by thom on guitars) According to reddit /u/TraxusXII, this is a “Roland
TR-606 drum machine that Thom is playing along with.”
46:54 - ? (another bedroom recording of thom on the guitar)
48:27 - ? (anotha one)
51:20 - ?
53:28 - Karma Police (bedroom recording, only thom and his guitar, different lyrics, and vocal
key)
57:43 - “I hope you choke” (the same bedroom recording, only a short glimpse of this song
before the tape ends)
58:23 - END
DISC 11 TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - vocal singing (through effects, doesn't sound like radiohead tbh)
2:17 - Exit Music (very different lyrics, thom singing with acoustic, sounds like colin singing with
him)
5:49 - ? (thom on a car ride, playing a song acoustically)
7:28 - ? (same car ride, another song)
10:23 - random noise, maybe the rest of the car ride
11:16 - ? (“let me go” thom acoustic song)
13:37 - ? (same guitar melody, different lyrics)
14:45 - Climbing Up the Walls (live at Mansfield 1996, higher quality, SBD for sure)
19:04 - I Promise (live at Mansfield 1996, higher quality than the promo released before
OKNOTOK)
22:56 - Paranoid Android (live at Mansfield 1996, best recording out there)
29:24 - Karma Police (live at Mansfield 1996)
33:45 - ? (thom on acoustic)
36:38 - ?
39:32 - Let Down (live performance, early version, an organ instead of jonny at the ending)
44:50 - Old cinema soundtrack.
46:01 - old cinema evil lady laughing
41:32 - Let Down (another live recording, early version)
51:23 - Paranoid Android (live, early version, i think this one could be the Hershey stadium in
1996)
58:18 - Karma Police (same show for sure, live and early version)
1:02:01 - END
DISC 12 TIMESTAMPS:
(Most of these are live, unknown dates but highly likely during 1996)
0:05 - Climbing up the Walls (live performance, early lyrics)
4:05 - Climbing up the Walls (another live performance, early)
8:10 - I Promise (live performance)
12:03 - Paranoid Android (live, drums have a lot of reverb in the beginning)
18:56 - tv show noises
19:37 - No Surprises (thom says “hello we’re the support band”)
23:28 - Paranoid Android (another live performance)
30:18 - I Promise (sounds like same venue, live)
34:05 - Karma Police (live performance, altho bad mixing cuz most of the stuff is on the right
channel...)
38:00 - Climbing up the walls (thom: “it's a song about murder”, live)
42:06 - I Promise (live…)
45:55 - Let Down (early version, live.. Really good audio.)
50:53 - No Surprises (live, great audio again)
54:37 - Climbing Up the walls (early version, great audio)
58:44 - Electioneering (live)
1:02:08 - Paranoid Android (live)
1:09:12 - Let Down (live)
1:13:58 - END
DISC 13 TIMESTAMPS:
Temp copied in from 4chan thread we can go back over this later if we want:
DISC 13
0:12 radio chatter
1:16 literally a buzzing fridge
1:45 Thom acoustic demo of Palo Alto, lyrics differ slightly from final version
3:21 above abruptly breaks into Are You Someone? (featured on OKNOTOK cassette), then
returns to Palo Alto
5:43 found sounds of the city and TV
14:33 Exit Music Thom acoustic demo, more alternate lyrics
16:30 found sounds of the city, band rehearsing distantly in the background?
27:43 Lift full band monitor (incomplete)
29:35 return of television found sounds
35:50 Ed and Thom talking before acoustic jam with Thom mumbling overtop
37:38 acoustic guitars, reminiscent of the ending of IMBW
38:10 acoustic guitar noodling, Attention?
39:25 Thom acoustic demo, unknown song ("lay it on the ground/it's driving me insane")
43:21 jazzy full band rehearsal noodling, Phil drum solo in stereo midway
45:57 acoustic guitar noodling,sounds like incidental western music
46:22 choir sounds recorded off a TV
47:32 Thom acoustic demo of Polyethylene pt. 2, alternate lyrics ("the little things")
Thank you anon
DISC 14 TIMESTAMPS:
Lots of live versions, a few unknown tracks. A few appearances from “Attention” track.
0:05 Lull early version, different key?
3:22 another version of hurts to walk
4:24 Cut in the tape, sounds like more hurts to walk
5:53 More hurts to walk, Thom proud of his funky clothes
8:55 Acoustic Demo “He’s not for sale” (Contains lyrics “little by little,” seems to have no
relation to TKOL)
9:33 Airbag, early, acoustic, alternate lyrics (“In the next world war, an angel at my door..”)
13:13 Overlapping conversation, sounds English
14:06 Electioneering live, Thom introduces it as “This is a new song.” They have some fun with
it. Some lyrical variation from final version.
17:29 Same live session, transitions to Lift, with O Superman by Laurie Anderson intro. Good
performance. (thanks to u/shanerichmond for fix)
21:35 Airbag acoustic-ish. Similar style to 9:33 above, but a different performance.
26:11 Airbag acoustic again, live. See above.
30:40 Unreleased performance of “Attention” - lyrics about “Joy of the uprising / an action with
some meaning”
34:25 “Attention” again. Sounds like a full performance. Seems cleaner.
39:19 Unknown jam session sounds very OKC not sure if it’s any song in particular? Someone
check this
40:26 Skips around a couple times, resolves to Lift, sounds like a live performance
44:15 Jamming on Airbag (sounds like) “It’s on tape, yeah?” -Thom
44:32 Unknown - Thom singing over muted acoustic guitar track. “Is anyone around? / I think
you’re crazy / for wanting me to tell” or something like that. Volume level on voice jumps around
a bit. Almost sounds like early version of a couple different things. Guitar cuts in/out a bit near
end. Thom’s really gettin’ it. “You’re always on the phone”
49:04 Paranoid Android, Soundcheck? Thom directing volume levels a bit. Relatively
unstructured. Slight variation in “rain down” section lyrics. “It’s gonna rain down on you”
52:15 Airbag, see all above instances of Airbag it’s very similar. Maybe some extra synth-y stuff
in this one?
56:53 Electioneering live. Sounds weirdly distant. Vocal tracks almost seem isolated? “Give
me one of them prizes”, “Doin’ it all” lines are in here. Must be an early performance.
1:00:26 I Promise, live. Thom introduces. Most of his speech is fast-forwarded. “I can’t read
music, these are words.” --- “-REM tour, and I still look” --- “-he said he didn’t mind. This is a
new song, called I Promise”. Has “I won’t fool around no more” verse. Otherwise, lyrics identical
to remastered version.
1:04:37 Paranoid Android “Why don’t you remember my name” part. Sounds live? Not sure.
Alternate “rain down” lyrics from above (49:04) are not present here. “Hallelujah” variation of
“rain down” lyrics also absent. Thom sings a backing harmony part here after the normal lyrics.
No “that’s it sir” part.
1:06:29 “Attention” again. Cuts in for first verse, no intro. Unsure of lyrical differences with other
1:09:20 “Attention”, but I’m not sure I’ve heard these lyrics yet? “There’s nothing better to do /
I’m taking off my clothes because I’ve got the hots for you”. Also there are backing vocals this
time.
1:10:00 “Attention”, cut to the actual “Attention” part, with backing echo vocals, and some vocal
effects now.
1:10:44 I Promise live. Introduction: “This is for the girl who just said ‘Thom help me I’m dying’
down in the front”. Drums sound very much like they do on remaster version. Has extra “fool
around” verse, but no “funny look” line from 1:00:26 version. According to redditor
/u/EsotericCD, this performance is from 4/12/96 Roseland Ballroom. Thanks for the ID!
1:13:31 Song cuts out
1:13:39 END OF TAPE
DISC 15 TIMESTAMPS:
0:02 Literally 3 seconds of Subterranean Homesick Alien
0:05 Karma Police Sounds like album version
4:55 Let Down slightly different from album version? Acoustic guitar from ending is now in the
intro. Otherwise sounds like album version.
10:12 LIFT GUYS I THINK THIS IS THE VERSION FROM THE PREVIEWS
14:44 Cut synth bit from previous lift intro
14:52 Airbag - Late/finished version. may be a different vocal take; different reverb.
19:47 Electioneering - Late/finished version. End 23:41
24:19 A Reminder - Late/finished version. end 28:10
28:18 bit of Alien synths
28:29 Subterranean Homesick Alien- Late/finished version. End 33:00
33:19 Subterranean again.- Late/finished version. Must be something different. Someone help
me figure out what… end 37:54
37:59 Subterranean again. What’s different? End 42:44
42:52 No Surprises - Different vocal take from album version. Original recorded speed; half-
47:05 Exit Music (starting with a thom chuckle and an “Okay”). Same as Tape 18 version?
51:51 Paranoid Android - album take? Synths seem quieter. Slightly different mix.
58:26 END OF TAPE
DISC 16 TIMESTAMPS:
0:06 Airbag - unmastered album version.
4:46 Paranoid Android - unmastered album version. This tape might be the album?
11:10 Subterranean Homesick Alien - unmastered album version.
15:39 Exit Music - unmastered album version.
20:09 Let Down - unmastered album version BUT starts fading out slow at 23:21 during the
bridge. I guess they didn’t have an ending yet?
23:55 Fitter Happier - unmastered album version.
25:57 Climbing Up The Walls - unmastered album version.
30:41 No Surprises - unmastered album version.
34:27 Electioneering - unmastered album version.
38:20 Lucky - unmastered album version.
42:40 Karma Police - unmastered album version.
47:03 The Tourist - unmastered album version.
52:31 A Reminder - unmastered album version.
56:25 Lift - final version?? No intro. Main strummed guitar on the right instead of left…Cleaner
mix than previous tape.
1:00:15 Lift - similar to above but different mix. cleaner/more polished. Louder vocal. Louder
synth. Lower guitars.
1:04:02 Polyethylene Pt 2 - another late mix. Distorted thom vocal.
1:07:54 some guitar thing
1:08:00 END OF TAPE
DISC 17 TIMESTAMPS:
0:11 The Tourist - studio take. Unmastered album version. End 5:34
5:44 The Tourist - Same as above? End 11:11
11:25 Polyethylene Part 2 - with its own count-in. Close to album version. Slightly different
vocals, less compressed. End 15:16
15:22 Poly Pt 2 - same as above end 19:07
19:10 Fitter Happier - raw album version. End 21:22
21:29 Unknown Demo 1 - thom at the piano. “Everybody wants you but nobody wants you”
“Tomorrow night in Paris”. Beautiful. Thom totally going for it. End 25:48
25:55 Unknown Demo 1 (2) - piano only.
27:18 END OF TAPE
DISC 18 TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 thom, quiet/wind noise
1:15 A Reminder - Thom singing QUIETLY BY HIMSELF (just vocal), outside? 3:46 end
3:46 quiet/noise
5:00 A Reminder - Thom by himself (2) / 7:17 end
7:17 quiet
8:01 A Reminder - Thom by himself (3) / cut off 10:27
10:27 quiet
10:43 A Reminder - Thom (4) / end 12:10
12:10 quiet
12:37 A Reminder - Thom (5), in a new key / end 14:43
14:43 acoustic demo 1 (“what did you mean”) (1) end 17:13
17:23 acoustic demo 1 (“what did you mean”) (2) end 19:33
19:39 acoustic demo 1 (“what did you mean”) (3) - clearer vocals (“That wasn’t a shooting star,
that was an airplane landing”) / cut off 21:28
21:31 acoustic demo 1 (“what did you mean”) (4) - just guitar - End 22:09
22:11 acoustic demo 2 rock/bluesy - (“you’re a sleazy bastard; you’re no friend of mine”) (“i am
the sun and the moon”) cut off 25:50
25:50 phone ringing
26:00 Thom beatboxing!
26:35 Exit Music - studio take. May be the album vocal take. This may just be the unmastered
album version? Background voices at “sing us a song” are different. Definitely the album take of
everything else. End 31:09
31:17 No Surprises - studio take. Different vocal take from album version. Original recorded
speed; half-step down from album version. Same as tape 15?
35:31 Paranoid Android - studio take. Unmastered album version.
41:52 END OF TAPE
END OF MINIDISCS
Contributed with love by

W.A.S.T.E. Central Discord
Extra Info:
Notice, this will be color coded, cleaned up, more detailed, and will eventually get around to
lyrics and fan titling*? And more consistent formatting soon
Notes:
If there's any fix needed, write on the reddit post, or the leak discussion on the discord.
Q&A:
Q:What are these minidiscs?
A:These Minidiscs are leaked recordings from the OK Computer sessions that took place from
1996-1997 (possibly earlier) that have been leaked onto the internet by fans.
Q: How do you know they’re minidiscs?

A: I remember in MPIE, thom answered that he keeps recordings on his minidiscs, the
timestamps also don't exceed 80mins which falls into a minidisc standard.
Q: Why is there so many ??, can't you just explain it?

A: ? just means its an unheard song, Radiohead being radiohead it's hard to explain.
Q: What are bedroom recordings? Is it actually recorded at thoms bedroom?

A: Bedroom recordings are just thom,his guitar and nothing else, it's just a nickname…
Q: How much did you pay for this?

A: $0 but a lot of hours with multiple volunteers was spent making timestamps
Q: Can I get a download link?

A: No… due to copyright, the files should not be shared, this includes the youtube, reddit, and
discord.
Q: What is the W.A.S.T.E. Central Discord? Can I join it?

A: Its a server group by radiohead fans, for radiohead fans, yes you can, it's on the r/radiohead
sidebar.
spnii_ was the last to finish timestamping this entire page, everyone else fell asleep. Multiple
users listened in and helped timestamp as well to get this information released for
documentation. We are very thankful for these users for their time to contribute to this. These
users include.
spnii_ teafork rhett a_universal_sigh belargu
dreamgazing girlpowerchords loomer the bumstickler
And all redditors/discord users that helped fix small things
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The numbers in each title indicate…

ex: Lift 1-2 (San Francisco) [live - 27 March 1996]

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Time Title Notes

1:39 I Promise 1-1 (Portland) [soundcheck - “I won’t fool around no more…”

5:34 Attenzione! (Portland) [soundcheck - Full band

10:36 [tape blip - Electioneering +

10:54 Electioneering 1-1 Early version

13:05 Lift 1-1 (Toronto) [live - 6 April 1996] Early version

15:39 True Love Waits ⭐🤤 Features a full band

22:12 Not For Sale 🌚 “Little by little falls away…”

24:11 Lift 1-2 (San Francisco) [live - 27 First live performance!

28:14 Electioneering 1-2 (San Francisco)

32:11 I Promise 1-2 (San Francisco) [live - 27

36:20 Vacancies [Thom solo] 🌚 Solo Thom on acoustic

37:18 $alty [Thom solo] 🌚

37:59 Airbag 1-1 (Minneapolis acoustic) Early version

48:18 I Promise 1-3 (Minneapolis) [live - 3

52:21 Lifesaver [Thom solo] 🌚

53:11 I Promise 1-4 (Toronto) [live - 6 April

1:00:48 Paranoid Android Early version; different lyrics

1:05:28 Airbag 1-3 Clip starts midway, sounds like the

1:07:33 Electioneering 1-4 Ed/Jonny harmonizing? Cuts off early

Time Title Notes

0:00 No Surprises Please (Lyon) Early version; already heard in the

7:58 Girl Club 2-2 [Thom solo] 🌚

8:38 Ride A Pony [Thom solo] 🌚

12:16 (Chateau Birds) [found sound]

13:05 Umbilical [Thom solo] 🌚

19:22 Get Together #2 [Thom solo] 🌚

20:54 Get Together [Thom solo] 🌚

21:28 (Prague Train) [found sound] Ladies chattering in a foreign language

25:21 (Bus Home) [found sound]

N/A TV Show Recording Mentioning An audio clip taken from Dynomutt,

26:01 Annoying Neighbors 2-1 [Thom solo] fragment

26:26 Annoying Neighbors 2-2 [Thom solo] Fragment; 2nd take

26:37 Annoying Neighbors 2-3 [Thom solo] 3rd take

35:37 Amazing Drums For Exit Music 2-2

35:58 Amazing Drums For Exit Music 2-3

42:23 Motion Picture Soundtrack 2-2 Early rehearsal

47:18 Airbag Early Rehearsal with A false start at

52:21 My New Clothes 2-1 🤤 Originally fan named by belargu as

56:14 My New Clothes 2-2 [fragment] Seems to be take 2 of the previous

56:31 My New Clothes 2-3

59:54 Attenzione! (Early Attention) 2-1

1:00:22 Attenzione! (Early Attention) 2-2

Time Title Notes

0:00 I Promise 3-1 (NY) [live - 12 April 1996] Cut intro

1:10 Motion Picture Soundtrack Solo Thom on electric guitar

4:41 [tape blip - I Promise (San Francisco)]

8:57 Mahler's Double Basses [found sound] Snippet of something else

9:01 Nude Full band version. Different from the

13:42 Moog A synthesizer solo

14:56 S3000 This is a snippet from Joe Henderson -

15:42 Soft Pain 3-1 Instrumental stem of piano & other

17:17 Soft Pain 3-2 Similar to above

22:24 Thomas Pynchon Soothing instrumental

26:07 Maybe [Thom solo]🌚

35:20 Oranges [Thom solo] 🌚