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

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

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

Content

I Might Be Wrong comprises performances of songs from Radiohead's albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), recorded during their 2001 tour. It also includes a performance of "True Love Waits", by the singer, Thom Yorke, on acoustic guitar. Radiohead did not release "True Love Waits" until their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool. they rearranged the songs to perform them live. For example, the electronic track "Like Spinning Plates" was rearranged as a piano ballad. The guitarist Ed O'Brien said: "You couldn't do Kid A live and be true to the record. You would have to do it like an art installation ... When we played live, we put the human element back into it." The drummer, Philip Selway, said Radiohead "found some new life" in the songs when they came to perform them.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, I Might Be Wrong has an average score of 76 based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews". Stephen Thompson of The A.V. Club wrote that the album "cast new light" on Kid A and Amnesiac. Matt LeMay of Pitchfork also praised "Like Spinning Plates", saying it showcased Radiohead's "songwriting virtuosity rather than their sonic adventurousness". Ted Kessler of NME praised Yorke's vocals on "True Love Waits" as "clear and true".

Several critics felt I Might Be Wrong was too short. Thompson found it "marred by characteristically unrevealing packaging and inexplicable brevity". Randall wrote that its brevity made it "something of a letdown", and that the lack of earlier Radiohead songs meant it did not capture "anywhere near the scope of a real Radiohead concert".

Reissues

Radiohead left EMI after their contract ended in 2003. In 2007, EMI released Radiohead Box Set, a compilation of albums recorded while Radiohead were signed to EMI, including I Might Be Wrong.

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

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the liner notes.

Radiohead

  • Thom Yorke
  • Jonny Greenwood
  • Ed O'Brien
  • Colin Greenwood
  • Philip Selway

Production

  • Jim Warren – engineering and mixing (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8)
  • Nigel Godrich and Will Shapland – engineering and mixing (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7)

Release history

{|class="wikitable"

! Country

! Date

! Label

! Format

! Catalogue number

|-

|rowspan="2"| United Kingdom

|rowspan="2"| 12 November 2001

|rowspan="2"| Parlophone

| LP

| 12FHEIT 45104

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|rowspan="2"| CD

| CDFHEIT 45104

|-

| United States

| 13 November 2001

| Capitol Records

| CDP 7243 5 36616 2 5

|}

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