Live
The song continues to be played in an extended, more rave-like version at nearly every Radiohead concert. Live performances feature Thom Yorke singing and playing keyboards, Colin Greenwood playing bass and guitarists Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien doing live manipulations of Thom's performance. Jonny uses an effects device (the KORG Kaoss Pad) that samples and changes Thom's vocals, while Ed usually samples Thom's keyboard to create a loop, often using a DigiTech Whammy for pitch effects. Phil Selway starts the song off with a shaker (that looks strangely like a lemon), and eventually picks up a snare drum beat. Ed sometimes samples the drum too. As the song nears its end, band members leave the stage one by one until the stage is empty, but their sampled performances continue. It has often been Radiohead's set closer, or closed the main set before encores. A version can be found on the band's 2001 live album I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings.
Another aspect of the live performance is the fact that sometimes another song segues into it. Thom will sing a portion of something over the keyboard drone before the song begins, so that Jonny may test the Kaoss Pad. In 2001 he referenced the Manics' "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next", 2003 saw Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" played before it, in 2006 unrecorded Radiohead fan favourites "True Love Waits" and "Follow Me Around" were sometimes played before, while 2008 sometimes saw short portions of R.E.M.'s "The One I Love" or Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps" played. The "After the Gold Rush" snippet was revived for the band's 2012 Coachella Festival performance.
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