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/thethi...

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[Rory McLeash]

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!

[Tom Rogers]

The riff is very similar to "go slowly"

[Yokonono99]

I stand by the comment I made 2 years ago.

[TheRodco]

how come hadn't I heard this song before?? I swear, this is pure awesomeness

love you radiohead

[John Morris]

That bass tone, god damn.

[TheGamekid93]

oh will you please stop, just stop...man how everyone claims to have the truth

[brownmisthero]

I can't seem to find the song by Can I only get covers by Radiohead. I like this cover though

[Emilios Farrington-Arnas]

except...it wasn't Damo

It was Mooney