In 2002, Radiohead performed "Lift" in a slower, more restrained arrangement, which "Pitchfork" described as "a somber, almost queasy affair". O'Brien and guitarist Jonny Greenwood later dismissed this version as inferior. In 2003, O'Brien said: "The spirit of the song was there in '96 ... And we're not in that place at the moment." In 2015, Greenwood suggested that Radiohead had worked on "Lift" again, describing it as a "management favourite". He likened the situation to "Nude", a song released on Radiohead's seventh album "In Rainbows" (2007) but written years earlier.