Song · OK Computer era (1996–98)
Pearly*
A loud one from the OK Computer sessions, described by its author as a dirty song for people who use sex for dirty things.
1997
the b-side
It went out on the first CD of the “Paranoid Android” single in 1997, and later on the Airbag / How Am I Driving? EP and the OKNOTOK reissue. The asterisk in the title has never been explained.
It is one of the band's straight rockers from that period, riff-led and closer to a rock samba than to anything on the album it accompanied. Yorke's own summary of it was blunt: “a dirty song for people who use sex for dirty things”.
on stage
Live at Toronto, 1998.· Red Grapeswatch on youtube →
Live history
| Times played | 36 shows |
|---|---|
| Live debut | Sunday 9 November 1997 · Copenhagen |
| Last played | Tuesday 2 October 2001 · Tokyo |
| Longest absence | 2 years · back on Monday 11 September 2000 · Werchter |
Nights played include broadcasts; opened and closed count gigs only. A cancelled night has no setlist. All setlist stats →
Tabs (1)
sources2
- Tim Footman, Radiohead: Welcome to the Machine, pp. 173–174, for Yorke's description.
- Wikipedia, “Paranoid Android”, for the single's B-sides.