Songs → Nude
Released on In Rainbows. Nude appears on the MiniDiscs as a rough demo by Thom and an unfinished studio mix.
Recording Chronology
Older Recordings
April - May 1996: Ideas + Rehearsals
Recordings → Nude Rough
Rough demo. Thom solo guitar and vocals. This is a monophonic recording that was dubbed to MiniDisc, likely from a dictaphone or similar cassette-based source.
Assumed to predate the MiniDiscs, although it is possible that Thom used a cassette recorder available as a backup in case the MiniDisc was out of batteries or out of blank discs.
Discs → MD115 → Nude Rough
Transcription
I want you to know / I want someone else / It's not all that bad / I had a bad dream / You buried me / One look [?] / So I get to know / I want to go / At least I know / (?) / (?) / (Yeah.) / It's just what it is / I strangle and kill / I know what I'm up to / So don't say a word / Just get one of those / [?] / And all that I need to know / All that I need to go / All that I want to know
Recordings → Nude
Early full band version. Incomplete recording, there is a cut in the middle of the song.
This is an unfinished mix of a studio recorded version of the song, and uses many of the same instrumental tracks as the version released on the OKNOTOK white cassette. The lyrics were entirely rewritten and re-recorded between the mix on the MiniDiscs and the mix released on OKNOTOK.
The following is included in the OKNOTOK notebook:
These notes appear to have been made at some point between the mix on the MiniDiscs and the mix released on OKNOTOK. The "feedback guitar from old version" referenced appears to have been added in the final verse of the mix released on OKNOTOK.
Discs → MD113 → Nude {part 1}
Transcription
Don't get any big ideas / They're not going to happen / People do it all the time / In [?] and planes / So why can't I? / I am so--
Discs → MD113 → Nude {part 2}
Transcription
Right now you look like you're the sexiest thing on earth / So don't get any big ideas / 'Cause they're not gonna happen / You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking / But I am so weak when you ([?]) / I just stare at you ([?]) / We look so [?] ([?] in fields and [?] and beds, and beds, and beds, and beds)