Talk:Big Boots

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"Big Boots" is a song by the band Radiohead.

A fan favourite, but unreleased as yet, the song is a tribute to James Bond themes in its sound. It was played frequently before the release of OK Computer under the title "Man-O-War". It was written around the time of The Bends, but never made it on to that album. The band had tried many times to record it - including in March 1998 for the soundtrack to the film The Avengers, but they could not get it to sound right.

Thom Yorke speaking on MTV's 120 Minutes (26-April-98) : "We ditched it because we were so messed up and we went in, tried to do the track, but we just couldn't do it. It was actually a really difficult period of time. We had a five week break and all the shit was coming to the surface. It was all a bit weird - I mean we went in and tried to do this old track that we had and it just wasn't happening at all. It was a real low point after it. It was quite an early song, written around the time of The Bends and it didn't make it on to The Bends. We couldn't find the proper way into it or whatever."

There have been a few failed attempts at recording this song, with two sets of lyrics. A video of such an attempt appears on Meeting People Is Easy (1998). The band performed it on request at one concert in 2002, but otherwise it has been dormant since 1998.