Big Boots
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"Big Boots" is a song by the band Radiohead.
A huge fan favourite, but unreleased as yet, the song is a kind of tribute to James Bond themes in its sound. It was played frequently before the release of OK Computer under the title "Man-O-War". It was written around the time of The Bends, but never made it on to that album. The band had tried many times to record it - including in March 1998 for the soundtrack to the film The Avengers, but they just could not get it to sound right.
Thom Yorke speaking on MTV's 120 Minutes (26-April-98) : "We ditched it because we were so messed up and we went in, tried to do the track, but we just couldn't do it. It was actually a really difficult period of time. We had a five week break and all the shit was coming to the surface. It was all a bit weird - I mean we went in and tried to do this old track that we had and it just wasn't happening at all. It was a real low point after it. It was quite an early song, written around the time of The Bends and it didn't make it on to The Bends. We couldn't find the proper way into it or whatever."
There have been a few failed attempts at recording this song, with two sets of lyrics. A video of such an attempt appears on Meeting People Is Easy (1998). The band performed it on request at one concert in 2002, but otherwise it has been dormant since 1998. It remains to be seen if this song will debut on Radiohead's new album.
| Radiohead |
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| Thom Yorke • Jonny Greenwood • Ed O'Brien • Colin Greenwood • Phil Selway |
| Discography |
| Albums: Pablo Honey • The Bends • OK Computer • Kid A • Amnesiac • Hail to the Thief • TBA |
| EPs: Manic Hedgehog • Drill • Itch • My Iron Lung • No Surprises/Running from Demons • Airbag/How Am I Driving? • I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings • COM LAG |
| Singles: "Creep" • "Anyone Can Play Guitar" • "Pop Is Dead" • "Stop Whispering" • "My Iron Lung" • "High and Dry"/"Planet Telex" • "Fake Plastic Trees" • "Just" • "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" • "Lucky" • "Paranoid Android" • "Karma Police" • "No Surprises" • "Pyramid Song" • "Knives Out" • "There There" • "Go to Sleep" • "2 + 2 = 5" |
| DVDs: Live at the Astoria • 7 Television Commercials • Meeting People Is Easy • The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time |
| Related articles |
| Nigel Godrich • Stanley Donwood • Dead Air Space • Covers of Radiohead songs • Rare songs • Trivia |
| Other projects |
| Bodysong • The Eraser • Spitting Feathers |
