And it brings something out in me." Godrich said in 2008 that songs "have a window where they are really most alive – and you have to capture it", and that "Nude" had missed its window. After it was finished, he said: "Now I enjoy it exactly for that reason – because it is a bit uncomfortable, a bit out of my range, and it’s really difficult to do. Yorke said he did not enjoy singing the song when it was first written, as it was "too feminine, too high". The final take was used, with overdubs recorded in the Hospital Club in Covent Garden, London. They performed the new arrangement, along with other new material, on their 2006 tour before recording three takes for In Rainbows. The band also removed a chorus and wrote a new ending. According to Godrich, this "transformed it from something very straight into something that had much more of a rhythmic flow". But I don't have the guts to ask them." ĭuring the early sessions for Radiohead's seventh album In Rainbows (2007), Colin Greenwood wrote a new bassline for the song. Because I know they'd play it much better than us. In 2004, Yorke said: "I would literally get down on my hands and knees and beg Elvis Costello and the Attractions to do it. They and Godrich worked on "Nude" again during the sessions for their albums Kid A (2000) and Hail to the Thief (2003), but were not satisfied with the results. Radiohead performed it several times over the following decade, and it became one of their best-known unreleased songs. "Nude" was first performed in the late 1990s by singer Thom Yorke in a solo performance in Japan. The band was initially pleased with the recording but, according to Godrich, "for some reason everyone went off it". This version, inspired by Al Green, featured a Hammond organ, a "straighter" feel, and different lyrics. Radiohead recorded a version of "Nude" during the first sessions for their third album, OK Computer (1997), with producer Nigel Godrich. The final title derives from an early version of the chorus, which had the line: "What do you look like when you’re nude?" "Nude" had working titles including "Failure to Receive Repayment Will Put Your House at Risk", "Big Ideas" and "(Don't Get Any) Big Ideas". Boosted by sales of the stems, "Nude" reached number 21 on the UK Singles Chart and number 37 on the US Billboard Hot 100, making it Radiohead's first US top-40 hit since their debut single " Creep" (1992). "Nude" was promoted with a music video of Radiohead performing in slow motion, and a competition inviting fans to create remixes using the separated stem tracks. For In Rainbows, Radiohead rearranged the song around a bassline written by Colin Greenwood.
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They performed it several times over the following decade, and it became one of their best-known unreleased songs. Radiohead first recorded "Nude" during the sessions for their third album, OK Computer (1997), but were not satisfied with the results. It was released in March 2008 as the second single from their seventh studio album, In Rainbows (2007). " Nude" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead.