Several critics felt the version released on "OKNOTOK" was lacking. "Rolling Stone" wrote that it was "restrained, decelerated and boasting an uncharacteristically blasé Yorke vocal take" and did not match the "magnitude" of the live bootlegs. "Spin" critic Andy Cush felt it was "strangely neutered, with drums that patter instead of exploding with energy", and that the widely circulated 1996 bootleg remained "canonical". Fellow "Spin" writer Winston Cook-Wilson agreed that the bootlegs were "a bit more staggering", but wrote that this was "a testament to the band's remarkable pop sense at the time – an inclination they, for their own neurotic reasons, quickly moved to complicate or subvert".