OAF Demos is one of the 20 eras on the community Radiohead tracker, which runs from OAF Demos to The Smile. The tracker places it before Pablo Honey. unreleased.world has 31 tracks from it: all 31 full songs — 2 hr 8 min of music in all, played 3 times on the site.
The tracker dates 2 of these leaks to 1992; the most recent, “Thinking About You [V1]”, surfaced May 5, 1992.
The most played cuts are “Happy Song”, “To Be a Brilliant Light” and “Sinking Ship”. “Swing” is the longest at 18:00.
27 tracks of 31 stream free in the player; 4 play in full with Premium.
The community tracker documents all of these 31 tracks, with leak dates for 2 of them and producer credits for 2; it is in the tracklist below.
Tracklist
- 1Happy SongHigh Quality · Throwaway2 plays2:54
- 2To Be a Brilliant LightHigh Quality · Throwaway1 plays3:47
- 3Sinking ShipHigh Quality · Throwaway3:20
- 4Fragile FriendHigh Quality · Throwaway3:52
- 5Everybody KnowsHigh Quality · Throwaway4:26
- 6Fat GirlHigh Quality · Throwaway3:13
- 7SwingPremiumRecording · Throwaway18:00
- 8ApocalypsePremiumRecording · Throwaway4:23
- 9Climbing Up a Bloody Great HillHigh Quality · Throwaway3:53
- 10Burning BushHigh Quality · Throwaway4:19
- 11Mr. B/JerusalemHigh Quality · Throwaway5:05
- 12Everyone Needs Someone to HateHigh Quality · Throwaway1:12
- 13Upside DownHigh Quality · Throwaway2:36
- 14Give It Up [V1]High Quality · Throwaway3:03
- 15I Don't Want to go to WoodstockPremiumRecording · Throwaway5:51
- 16Life with the Big FHigh Quality · Throwaway1:22
- 17RattlesnakeHigh Quality · Throwaway6:32
- 18Tell Me BitchHigh Quality · Throwaway3:21
- 19New GenerationHigh Quality · Throwaway3:58
- 20High And Dry [V1]PremiumRecording · Live Version3:06
- 21How Can You Be So Sure [V1]High Quality · OG3:39
- 22The Greatest Shindig of the World [V1]High Quality · OG3:34
- 23Anyone Can Play Guitar [V1]High Quality · OG3:48
- 24I Can’t [V1]Lossless · OG4:07
- 25Nothing Touches MeHigh Quality · Throwaway3:46
- 26Give It Up [V2]High Quality · Throwaway3:50
- 27Stop Whispering [V1]High Quality · OG4:12
- 28What Is That You See?High Quality · Throwaway4:02
- 29Thinking About You [V1]Leaked May 5, 1992 · High Quality · OG · prod. Chris Hufford2:12
- 30Phillipa ChickenHigh Quality · Throwaway3:44
- 31You [V1]Leaked May 5, 1992 · High Quality · OG · prod. Chris Hufford3:19
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Most played from OAF Demos
- 1Happy Song2 plays
- 2To Be a Brilliant Light1 plays
- 3Sinking Ship0 plays
- 4Fragile Friend0 plays
- 5Everybody Knows0 plays
The OAF Demos era
What has surfaced of the 55 entries the tracker files under OAF Demos: 47 in full and 5 unavailable.
The band members of Radiohead met each other sometime during 1985 while attending Abingdon School in Abingdon, Oxford, in which they used the working band title of On A Friday. Throughout their tim under this moniker, they would experiment with outlandish band names such as "Shindig" and "Dearest" according to Ed in a BBC Radio 6 Interview.
- 1985On A Friday is established in Abingdon, Oxfordshire
- 1991Radiohead is signed to EMI records
- September 1992Work on Pablo Honey begins
All 11 Radiohead eras
In the order the community tracker lists them.
More unreleased eras
From other trackers on unreleased.world.
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