'All I Need' was one of the titles that appeared on the blackboard the band used during two weeks of rehearsals from september 19th to 30th 2005. At the end of that session, Colin posted a picture of this board on Dead Air Space on september 30th, unfortunately (and probably intentionally) in rather low resolution, so that some of it can't be deciphered:
On june 20th 2006, the song was premiered live in Chicago. The audio track of this video was replaced by a better recording for this website:
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The lyrics changed slightly on the first three live performances. The main difference of these three versions compared to all later ones is the first verse, most of which would be rewritten soon. At San Diego 2, the fourth performance, the lyrics had reached their final state already:
i'm the next act waiting in the wings I'm a flash flood running through your ground floor I am all the things that you choose to ignore you are all I need you are all I need i'm in the middle of the picture lying in the reeds I'm a cloud of moths that just wants to share your light I'm an insect who wants to get out of the night you only stick with me because there are no others you are all I need you are all I need I'm in the middle of the picture lying in the reeds |
I'm the next act waiting in the wings I'm a flash flood running through your ground floor I am all the days that you choose to ignore you are all I need you are all I need I'm in the middle of your picture lying in the reeds I'm a [...] moth who just wants to share your light I'm just an insect trying to get out of the night you only stick with me because there are no others you are all I need you are all I need I'm in the middle of your picture lying in the reeds |
I'm the next act waiting in the wings I'm a flash flood running through the ground floor I am all the days that you choose to ignore you are all I need you are all I need I'm in the middle of the picture lying in the reeds I am a moth who just wants to share your light I am an insect trying to get out of the night I am all the days that you choose to ignore you are all I need you are all I need I'm in the middle of your picture lying in the reeds |
Sometime in late 2006 or early 2007, the following video clip, depicting the band working on "All I Need", was recorded. The clip was shown almost 5 years later during Adam Buxton's comedy show "Bug":
On june 7th 2007, a picture titled 'lyinginthereedssm' appeared in the Hodiau Direkton section of radiohead.com:

On june 12th 2007, another picture, titled 'allineedsm', was posted:

On june 15th 2007, Nigel posted a video on Dead Air Space which showed the playback of a reel of assembled tape snippets, which were cut out during the editing process.
The reel contains 4 fragments from the finished recordings of 'All I Need'. Below you find these fragments, two of which actually flow seemlessly into each other and can be combined if one switches the order around (third audio clip here). The first two clips were backwards on Nigel's reel:
The reel contains 4 fragments from the finished recordings of 'All I Need'. Below you find these fragments, two of which actually flow seemlessly into each other and can be combined if one switches the order around (third audio clip here). The first two clips were backwards on Nigel's reel:
Click here for a more detailed description of this reel, including all 20 snippets in isolation.
An instrumental mix of the song was prepared by the band for licensing purposes and was available shortly after the release of In Rainbows on the website of Radiohead's publisher Warner/Chappell Music:
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