So let’s see what an entirely different version of Radiohead might release as their third album. But these are still excellent songs, an endlessly replayable counterpoint to the too-serious version of Radiohead that are more about art than writing some fun songs. None of this sounds all that much like the band who, consensus would dictate, released the best album of the ’90s. “Man of War” even pays homage to the music of James Bond-they even submitted the track for consideration in recent Bond entry Spectre, before writing a new song entirely for it (and then losing out to Sam Smith after all that). “Palo Alto” is the Britpoppiest thing they ever did. “Lift” is a fairly conventional, mainstream alternative rock song. The b-sides released during the OK Computer era and the outtakes on last year’s OKNotOK reissue sound more like they belong to the Radiohead of The Bends. And, more fascinatingly, it depicts what sounds a lot like an entirely different band. For one, this isn’t going to be anywhere near as ambitious or transcendent as the original album. Doing so requires an acknowledgement of a couple of facts. Today, we celebrate one of the greatest albums of all-time by making a counterpart record: We’re turning the b-sides from Radiohead’s OK Computer into an entirely new album. Welcome back to Remake/Remodel, the column where one of Treble’s editors or contributors takes a classic-if imperfect, to our ears-album, and proposes an alternate tracklist in an effort to provide a different, albeit highly enjoyable listening experience.

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