Radiohead - Live In Chicago, June 1993 - Vinyl Record

June 1993 at Chicago's Metro, and Radiohead are still a Pablo Honey band playing clubs. "Creep" had broken in America months earlier, which is the reason this show exists on tape at all, and it opens the set rather than being saved for the end.

What makes the recording interesting is everything around it. "The Bends" is here two years before the album it named, in an early and noisier shape. "Inside My Head", "Faithless, the Wonder Boy", "How Do You Do?" and "Vegetable" fill out a set drawn from the debut and its B-sides, songs that mostly disappeared from the live show once the band moved on. "Stop Whispering" stretches past five minutes, and "Pop Is Dead" closes things out with the sound of a group already impatient with their first record.

An early-years document from a small stage, before the arenas and the reinvention. For collectors who want Radiohead at the start.

Tracklist

Side A
1. Creep
2. You
3. Prove Yourself
4. The Bends
5. Vegetable
6. Ripcord

Side B
1. Faithless, the Wonder Boy
2. How Do You Do?
3. Stop Whispering
4. Inside My Head
5. Anyone Can Play Guitar
6. Pop Is Dead

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