(Radio.com) It's been seven years since Radiohead played 'Faust Arp' and 'Follow Me Around,' but Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood reintroduced those rare tracks at a benefit on Sunday night (Aug. 20) for the earthquake-stricken Italian region of Le Marche. In addition to those songs, the duo performed 'A Wolf At The Door' for the first time since 2012 and 'Cymbal Rush,' a Yorke solo track, for the first time since 2008.
It was a deep dive into the vaults for Radiohead, in support of a good cause. The evening of rarities took place at the Marcerata Sferisterio and proceeds helped Italians recovering from the devastating 2016 earthquake.
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So I’m making this post in response to the overwhelming number of complaints I’ve been reading on the concert threads recently about the band’s setlists. I get the sense that a lot of people on this sub care more about hearing rare songs on their Periscope streams than hearing a high-quality performance. It’s reached a peak recently for some reason, to the point where half of the concert thread is people saying how boring the shows were and how “disappointed” they were at the band for not changing it up to their standards.
After The Numbers came on, I closed the concert thread and wrote this post. It makes me annoyed when people get furious at the lack of rarities and not wish for but DEMAND ultra-rare stuff, like Radiohead owes it to them or something. And I’m sorry, but that just isn’t feasible. I mean, it’s not like just before they go on stage Thom can say “hey guys let’s play Trans-Atlantic Drawl to close” and then go out and play it flawlessly. If they played like 10 rarities every night, the show would be really clunky, shoddy and poorly-prepared. These are songs that were written 5 to 25 years ago. There are bands out there of similar age and popularity, such as Gorillaz, Muse and The Flaming Lips, that play almost exactly the same setlists night after night after night - and not once do you hear a similar complaint on their subreddits.
People don’t realise that Radiohead are trying to play the best SHOW they possibly can. If they decided to play, say, Jigsaw live, I’m sure they could do it - after time to rehearse and make it perfect. They’ll only introduce a rare song when they think it’s ready. A show where they play Jigsaw, Man of War, Lift, A Wolf at the Door, Follow Me Around, High and Dry, Go to Sleep and Fog would look great as an encyclopaedia entry but would sound terrible as a performance. If you have a legitimate criticism about the performance itself, then by all means post it. And if you’re hoping for a song or songs, go ahead and share - if they played Just I would die! But I personally think that Thom hasn’t sounded this good since the In Rainbows tour, and the band are playing tighter than ever.
Like, listen to tonight’s Nude, or Exit Music, or Idioteque and tell me that Thom has sung like that in the past 10 years. Of course, if you disagree then that’s a legitimate complaint to have! But I would MUCH rather them play the standards better than they’ve ever played them rather than hear rarely played stuff in a poorly rehearsed performance. In the last year they’ve done two By Request shows (although the second one had fewer choices, they realised what they had let themselves in for. The fans were asking for a show where they could vote for songs after a show where they randomly played rarities. Fans could choose from a reasonable range of songs (that got reduced second time round) and the setlists included ten fan choices plus a fair few hits.
They kept the band choices as rockier numbers mostly, hence no Dig Down, Starlight, Madness, etc.