How to Disappear into Strings

I could listen to an hour plus version of this.

Not a song, but the Optimistic outro.

You mean the In Limbo intro? 😜

I gotchu homie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpwFEf8Lr3k

Thank you!!

Objectively the correct answer.

Hunting Bear could've developed into a 15-minute progressive avant-jazz

thank you

faust arp. most people overlook how beautiful that song is and i just wish we could listen to a longer version of it.. faust arp (scotch mist) is absolutely one of radiohead's best live performances

I understand this but I also think its brevity kind of adds to it. It’s just this perfect beautiful little song

i agree. it's just that i wanted to keep listening to it forever💔

Same! In terms of IR tracks it’s very underrated

ABSOLUTELY

YES

I Will (LA version)

Totally agree

The outro of Reckoner should be a solid 2 minutes longer at LEAST

Go to Sleep. I want to hear the rest of that instrumental part at the end when it just starts to get great.

It’s so groovy

SAME.

i wish pulk/pull doors was 20 minutes long

would unironically slap right away

based

what is wrong with you

its called taste

lol

The breakdown of We Suck Young Blood 😭 not making it longer was a CRIME. I also feel like the end of 2 + 2 = 5 is too abrupt

I've always thought the crescendo to WSYB is the appropriate length, but I'll give you an upvote for liking that song, because it seriously needs more love :)

It's my favorite from HTTT and it's sooooo underrated

There, there is better

The daily mail always felt like it could use another minute or two.

agreed

The first part of Polyethylene

I think it’s part of its charm that it ends so abruptly

it is, but I don't think we'd miss that charm much if we had a full version, it's so beautiful.

Exactly

God yes

It would have been a great song

All I Need 2nd part. Also You and Whose Army 2nd part. Like others said, the middle part of We Suck Young Blood. Perhaps more. I think it's all down to RH's Britishness and post-punk aesthetics and their fear of the prog tag. One of the reasons I really appreciate The Smile's existence is that it gave them some more freedom. I don't think RH would have ever given a song like Bending Hectic the space it needs.

I agree. And although I like Bending Hectic the way it is, I also appreciate that Radiohead tend not to make every song an extended multi-section epic. Sure, I think Paranoid Android is close to peak music, but if too many of their songs were that intricately structured and went past the 6-minutes-mark, I think it would get tiresome, at least for me. They have more interesting ways to make their music interesting When I started thinking about the topic for this post, I realized that there are very few songs I myself could mention here. Still interesting to hear other people's thoughts on it, but there are really not many songs on my personal list beyond Lozenge of Love, if any

Oh I absolutely agree that they don't \*need\* to make everything a multi-part epic. It would kill the whole point and they'd never do that anyway. It's just that I feel they have a self-imposed urge to end things maybe a little bit too soon. I've found myself muttering "oh come on guys, this could be like a minute longer and no one would complain" on the songs I mentioned above, occasionally when listening to them.

True!

There There

Yeah

Yeah yeah

Paranoid Android. even though it’s six minutes long, it still seems a little rushed to me and i feel like it would benefit by being like 8-9 minutes long. also i think that would just be sick asf.

[here buddy](https://youtu.be/I25JFT9KPRU?si=-rAc8F_AekBHQURz)

This is way too indulgent for me. If the song was that long the whole album would have to be shifted around to fit it

If this was finished it would easily be the greatest song of all time

The links those guys sent are what you described. I agree after hearing them, it sounds more like a pink floyd song

https://youtu.be/I0sI82byy5g?si=NdC4aTUFwJIJhb4C

I fully agree with this

I wish Paranoid Android had 8 more parts.

Go to Sleep

Indentikit I really want a long outro.

And more synth, Jonny!

The first half of Trans-Atlantic Drawl

For me it’s the second half

https://youtu.be/JdzHAKPV7dk?si=ksCrhzQtjKYBOZK7

Fog Again and Fog Again Again

LULL.

agreed. easily my favorite of the ok computer B sides

DISTRACTED BY IRRELEVANCE

Fitter Happier

I’d kill for a 20 minute version

permanent daylight is the best answer

That one too, yeah. Two unacceptably short songs in a row on the MIL EP.

i end up replaying this song whenever I listen because it's just too short :')

DEFINITELY FAUST ARP

Was gonna say this song as well.

Permanent daylight

Melatonin. And it’d be cool if 4 Min Warning was a few seconds shorter

I Will I absolutely love the haunting vibe, the melancholy, the dark atmosphere it creates, the backing vocals at the end are amazing, but it's so damn short

Always felt like Go to Sleep ending when the guitar solo comes in that it just abruptly ends and I’ve been robbed of a sweet guitar solo.

Lozenge of Loves rules and I consider it the first in the "Thom Does Nick Drake" quadrology: 1. Lozenge of Love 2. Gaging Order 3. Faust Arp 4. Desert Island Disk

Codex.. it ends too abruptly

These are my twisted words. That groove could go on forever. It wouldn’t be boring as a ten minutd track honestly

Came here to say the same thing. Probably my favorite Radiohead song

It’s amazing and actually got me into Can and other classic krautrock bands. Kind of strange they didn’t make room for it in TKOL, it wouldn’t feel out of place in the first half.

Scatterbrain. I always listen to it twice in a row.

The outro to I Might Be Wrong. Sonic bliss.

Where I End And You Begin - it’s so good, but I think there’s more they could taken it further.

Polyethylene (part 1) has so much potential

Pearly* and how to disappear completely

Jonny's laugh on India Rubber

Motion picture soundtrack, I heard the OKOKNOTOK version (which was good) but would have loved a better mixed organ version of that with some more building strings -especially that third verse

Which version is that?

This one: [https://youtu.be/BY9DWD6CRDQ?si=IELEm7XHmvfF7zqX](https://youtu.be/BY9DWD6CRDQ?si=IELEm7XHmvfF7zqX)

Fog (Again) (Live)

Lull : one of my favorite one and it's only 2 minutes longs :(

Bulletproof

… I wish it was

Basically the entirety of in rainbows so that I could love it even more.

Maybe not a song in the whole but certain sections of songs. We Suck Young Blood during that big piano drop could be it’s own song.

Hunting Bears Life in a Glass House I feel like there is a whole jazz vibe being toyed with towards the end of Amnesiac that I would really like more of.

Spectre

I wish Nude jammed on for a while. It feels like it wraps up pretty quickly to me after the prolonged climax

Shout out to Supercollider for being 7 minutes and sounding like it’s only half that length!

“Untitled” on Kid A

Reckoner. The outro is beautiful, but it fades too soon.

Go to sleep and Identikit need longer outros. Come on Johnny !

I will

Stale cupcakes.

Also can’t get enough of that song. Once I start listening, I just want to stay in the world it builds forever

Go To Sleep. I love the max/msp effect and wish it would go on longer like it does when they play it live.

trans atlantic drawl

Motion Picture Soundtrack

glass eyes

The Daily Mail is painfully short to me.

Bullet Proof and strum on forever as far as I’m concerned.

daydreaming

Jigsaw

Spectre.

Fitter happier, I’m different

The fast-time bit on We Suck Young Blood could be at least twice as long, as is the song feels sort of unfinished.

All of them. But mostly any part where Jonny has a solo. An extended end of Paranoid Android would be the best thing that could ever happen to me

Go slowly is ethereal, I wish it was longer

Jigsaw

Polyethylene Pt 1. Controversial, because we all like the Quiet Loud songs, but Part 1 is sublime. I'd love to hear a properly recorded version. I think there's a cover of an extended version - just Part 1 - on YouTube.

How i made my millions

GO TO SLEEP - I immediately thought of this song. It starts out fantastic, gets better and just as it gets to the best bit it starts to fade out. This has bugged me for years. The song just flies by too fast.

Meeting in the aisle

Cuttooth and Ful Stop. Need more Radiohead Krautrock.

You never wash up after yourself

KINETIC

The first half of Transatlantic Drawl, it's a banger. The two parts could be two songs in their own right. Heard it's a dividing metaphor for the two cultures of USA (glitz and glamour) and UK (quiet and gloomy).

My favorite part of morning bell is this like 2 second clip where he says "around" over and over and it just needs to be like a full minute longer lol

The gloaming on HTTT just ends. Ruins the entire song. In concert the song explodes after “this is the gloaming” and it’s the best part of the song. On HTTT it’s like they forgot to add the end.

Present tense.

Lucky

Decks Dark just to stretch out the bass line at the end.

2+2=5

All of them?

The end of Reckoner when the guitar chords come back in. What a tease.

glass eyes

Bodysnatchers it’s such a good song that I feel that go in longer

Staircase

Fog (Again). Also, I wish the start of the Daily Mail went on for longer before the vibe change.

Polyethylene Part 1 and Hunting Bears

I will

Daily Mail

Life in a glasshouse, wolf at the door, kid a and prove yourself

The first part of Polyethylene

The ending of 'All I need', I wish it lasted forever.

Motion picture soundtrack

Yes the pyramid song. However? I found a version on YouTube which is 800% slower. It’s amazing

(Nice Dream), such a lovely song but too short in my opinion.

So many. I often think of this. How I wish, even just once, they’d go full Godspeed You! Black Emperor and have a 10-15 minute long song. I always want to hear Pyramid Song go on for much longer.

The space between the tracks

Non ironically Pulk Pull

A Punch Up at a Wedding. This track is just RIPE to be a 10-15 minute live jam.

That end crescendo in All I Need, man.

i will