"Nude" was promoted with a music video and a competition inviting fans to create remixes using the separated stem tracks.

"[2] Radiohead recorded a version of "Nude" during the first sessions for their third album, OK Computer (1997), with their producer, Nigel Godrich.

This version, inspired by Al Green, featured a Hammond organ, a "straighter" feel and different lyrics.

[1] They and Godrich worked on "Nude" again during the sessions for their albums Kid A (2000) and Hail to the Thief (2003), but were not satisfied with the results.

[4] During the early sessions for Radiohead's seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), Colin Greenwood wrote a new bassline for the song.

[3] Pitchfork described "Nude" as a "graceful and sorrowful" version of "sneering, knees-up" songs by the Kinks or Blur, or an inverse of Radiohead's 1998 single "No Surprises".

[9] It premiered as part of a Radiohead webcast on December 31, 2007, one day before the retail release of In Rainbows.

Colin Greenwood said: "It was so cool because we didn't have to go through three weeks of video commissioning and receiving dodgy scripts set on abandoned skyscrapers in downtown LA or something.

[11] Radiohead held a competition for fans to create remixes from the stem tracks of guitar, drums, bass, vocals and strings, available to purchase via iTunes.

[16] In 2020, the Guardian writer Jazz Monroe named "Nude" the seventh-greatest Radiohead song, writing: "After kicking around in Radiohead lore for more than a decade, 'Nude' ... found stunning form, first by channelling Björk – choppy coos, weeping strings – and then in a finale as bright and penetrating as dawn.