Following the 2019 release of "MiniDiscs ", "Pitchfork" critics Greene and Jeremy D Larson wrote that it had a superior version of "Lift": "It's not mixed very carefully, but it sounds scrappy and untamed, like the band is pushing it into the red unselfconsciously. It lives up to the myth." "Rolling Stone" considered this version the "crown jewel" of the release and "well worth" the price of purchase. The "Guardian" wrote that this "satisfying" version would likely have pleased EMI had Radiohead released it as the first "OK Computer" single, but that it was "ultimately a conservative song and feels like a path the band were right to fork from".