Enough time has passed to make it painfully clear: Spectre was not a good Bond film. While it's definitely not Die Another Day bad, it definitely creeps uncomfortably close to Quantum of Solace bad. However, like both of those movies, it signals the disappointment to come with its theme song.

Following Skyfall's pitch-perfect choice of Adele was a hell of a tall order, and Sam Smith was an inspired choice—but his inconsolably sad theme song really puts a damper on things, dialing back on Smith's terrific belting to send the audience into a sinking depression. It was kind of like the experience of...watching Spectre, a film that leads you to believe it will have Skyfall's pizzazz, only to commit the cardinal sin of being a Bond movie where it is not very cool to be Bond.

That theme song could've been much weirder, though. It could've been a Radiohead tune.

Over the Christmas holiday, the band posted a song to their SoundCloud page, saying that they were asked to compose a theme tune for the movie that didn't pan out, but ended up being something they still liked. Called "Spectre," it isn't any less dour than Smith's "Writing's on the Wall"—the lyrics are all about being "dispossessed, like a ghost"—but it is very Radiohead. Thom Yorke croons, Philip Selway pockets an understated yet interesting drum pattern, and everything feels all ethereal and shit.

One intrepid fan even set it against Spectre’s opening credits, which doesn't make for a perfect match since the credits are pretty well timed for the original Sam Smith theme, but it does serve as a nice reminder of how goddamn strange the Spectre opening is. Mostly because of all the tentacles.

Regardless, it's nice to imagine a weirder Spectre than the one we got, one that would just lean right into the sort of stuff the Radiohead theme implies—which, as far as I can tell, seems to be about how sad you feel after banging a ghost.