Radiohead - The Thief

The song 'The Thief' was released in 1982 on Can's album 'Delay' The album features unreleased songs from 1968/1969'. This song almost made it to setlist at the Amnesty International Concert in Paris (december 10th 1998), but was eventually replaced by Street Spirit.

Radiohead played this song on September 8th 2000 in Copenhagen (Denmark) at Valby Hallen as well as August 8th 2002 at the Palacio Congresos in Salamanca, Spain.


http://www.ateaseweb.com/songs/thethief.php

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Music

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• Radiohead
• Cover
• Can
• Live
• Rare
• Rock
• Thief
• Delay

[reebty2]

I think Yorke's voice is a great match for the song, and his upper register is great. Mooney could actually sing in a conventional way (see She Brings the Rain), but whatever he was doing, he did it best in his lower register.

On the one hand, this is a pretty straight up cover, but on the other hand, it's a testament to Can's influence on Radiohead that they could play it like that and it would pass for a Radiohead song.

[earinsound]

i think this sounds great.

--from an old time CAN fan!

[andymcb10572]

just in time for the reissue of Cans back catalogue too. he he

[L0dG]

Is this the thief radiohead told us to hail to? :)

[rogeorgie]

what is this song about?..

[flame0154]

Fuck

Standard Radiohead magnificence.

I have no idea how time and time again they pull-off effective covers of bands which just aren't meant to be covered (cf The Smiths, Joy Division, Can)

[arseropes]

This is shit, Can's original crushes it. Tweendie rock.

[MasterJuancho]

Respectful cover.

[slimcatch]

i think this is bloody amazing!!

[seintzeit]

@kristina80ification its not better its just different, and CAN has had a huge influence on Radiohead sound; especially the Malcom Mooney CAN sound...is really astonishing how much Malcom Mooney's sound has impacted music.

[MarkVll]

@interista7878 Can't think for yourself eh

[thecoralies]

@kristina80ification I agree with you.