Negamuse wrote:That's really interesting, thanks. A song like that I guess it's pretty much impossible to arrive in one lump without things being trimmed and lost along the way. I've always thought it pretty remarkable it holds together as well as it does for all the swerves and changes in tone.
Oh, it's a fascinating song. I adore it either way. It's just very obvious that the studio version (again, if I had to take a concrete guess....probably eight and a half to nine minutes on the dot) was cut down from the jam it was to the six and a half minute version we know.
Radiohead does this for the better sometimes though often I feel it's for the worse. Imagine if Jigsaw ended after "...dance, dance, dance...."
That's Bodysnatchers, IMO. Moment it gets going, you get Thom sort-of yelling and then an abrupt end.
Could not be more anti-climatic in a way that if applied to JFIP would absolutely ruin the song in every way. Anyway, for whatever it's worth, Paranoid Android usually averages about a minute longer played live, which is at the very least some sort of more apropos rendition of the track. When they played in AZ it was roughly 8:15, though they did all sorts of odd stuff at the time too, including the first time ever playing Packt... a la original studio version.