During
the making of Kid A
and Amnesiac,
Ed O'Brien's diary listed a
lot of brand new unreleased
songs that either made it the
two albums or didn't. "Innocents
Civilian" never did and
to tell you the truth, the song
may have never existed in the
first place and may just be
a joke from the band. In February
2000, Ed made the following
entry in his diary: "go
on message board and someone
asks us about 'innocents civilian'.
so once we get off the web we
decide to put up the master
tape of it. can't find it anywhere
which is incredibly strange.
it's got to turn up."
After this there was this whole
brew-ha-ha on the official Radiohead
message board about someone
stealing the "Innocents
Civilian" master tape.
It turns out that this was all
a fake... Ed said in a press
conference that song was a hoax.
It was actually one of their
worst songs but as a joke Ed
decided to write in his diary
that it was one of the best
songs they had ever done and
that the master tapes were stolen.
This was done to fool the press
because they were following
his diary closely. (from ne
pas a.v.a.l.e.r.)
If you find a mp3 online entitled
"Innocents Civilian",
it is fake and most likely a
song from the band Palo Alto
called "Some Things Must
Go This Way."
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