Song · Radiohead
“I Promise” by Radiohead
Released 2017
“I Promise” by Radiohead appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2017. It was first released in 2017. Its best result is #88 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #434 indie & aaa song of 2017.
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For two decades "I Promise" was the Radiohead song that lived on bootlegs. The band first played it at the Fillmore in San Francisco on 27 March 1996, kept it in the set on and off that year while opening for Alanis Morissette, and tapes of those shows got passed around widely. They cut it during the OK Computer sessions, then judged it not good enough and put it away.
Ed O'Brien floated re-recording it for the next album in 1998, but once In Rainbows was out he said they'd dropped it for good. It finally surfaced on OKNOTOK 1997 2017, the 20th-anniversary reissue of OK Computer, premiering on BBC Radio 6 on 2 June and arriving as a download with a video. All five members share the writing credit.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 88 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
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