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THE ulTIMATE MuSIC g u I dE
new coLLectorS’ edition
From “creep” to the king of Limbs – and beyond!
“This is whaT you geT
when you mess wiTh us…”
the
complete story
of
rock’s most fearless band
Classic Thom Yorke and Radiohead
interviews, unseen for years
In-depth new reviews
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introduction
O
n December 3 last year, nigel Godrich sent an
early christmas present to his 62,000 followers on
Twitter. In a move doubtless sanctioned by his old
friends, the producer posted a photograph of
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood poring over a
fiendish tangle of studio kit, styled very much as
radiophonic engineers absorbed in the process.
Yorke’s
Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
had recently been disseminated
via the one-time pirate channel, bitTorrent. Greenwood’s score for
another Paul Thomas Anderson movie,
Inherent Vice,
was being
readied for release. Philip Selway had a run of solo dates booked
for February. no other comments, from either Godrich or the
perennially enigmatic band, were forthcoming. nevertheless,
the implication was clear: radiohead were active once again.
As another chapter in the radiohead story begins to open, then,
it feels like the perfect time to reconsider what has gone before. For
this
Ultimate Music Guide,
we’ve uncovered a fascinating tranche
of old interviews from
NME, Melody Maker
and
Uncut,
that chart
the band’s long and sometimes tense relationship with the press
and the music business, with their fans and even with themselves.
Often, this manifests itself as wariness and frustration: Yorke’s
annoyance with an
Uncut
writer’s flippantly provocative line of
questioning in 2001 being a justifiable case in point. “maybe you
want to retract that…”
Just as often, though, these terrific interviews reveal a band whose
reality is at odds with the morose stereotypes: an endlessly droll
and charming group of men, whose wry contempt for the wearier
rituals of rock’n’roll has informed most every professional and
artistic move they’ve made in the past 20-odd years. “I’m not
trying to define rock’n’roll,” Thom Yorke told
NME’s
Stuart
bailie in February 1993. “To me, rock’n’roll just reminds me
of people with personal hygiene problems who still like
getting blow-jobs off complete strangers. That’s not what
being in a band means to me.”
radiohead’s music is the product of notable hard work
and no little angst. but, as we put together
extensive new essays on each of their
albums, patterns started falling
into place, and certain inherent
virtues recurred again and
again. Images of fairy-tale
forests and twilit roads. Songs
that aren’t exactly
about
a world
on fire, but which could only have
been written by men with consciences
and aesthetics informed by very
21st-century anxieties. A creative desire to
avoid the obvious, which at this point feels far
more intuitive than self-conscious.
How such an adventurous,
uncompromising band also
became such a successful
one is among the best and
strangest musical stories of
the past two decades, and we
hope we’ve done it justice in
the next 124 pages. “It’s
the
best thing that you ever had/
The best thing that you ever,
ever had…”
Welcome!
PeTer PAkvIS/reDFernS
“I’m not trying to
define rock’n’roll…”
Thom Yorke onstage
at Waterpop,
Wateringen, Holland,
August 20, 1993
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“Wegenerallyand yell
and
are…
completely tragic!”
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“We
are
lucky!”
fucking
ALbUM REVIEW
Amid the
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
On tour with the
group in ’95, talking stardom,
REM and new songs
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
We meet the wry
young men already keen to avoid
the clichés of rock’n’roll…
10
14
pAbLo hoNEy
ALbUM REVIEW
Radiohead’s uneven,
38
ok CoMpUTER
42
but promising debut – propelled
by the massive hit, “Creep”
lunacy of Cool Britannia, the
band create a masterpiece of
pre-millennial tension
“Suddenly everyone’s
nice to you. And it’s
like, fuck you!”
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
The loves, the vices,
the Chomsky books… Radiohead-
mania on the US East Coast!
“We’re still
capable of
producing
enormous trauma
for ourselves,
unfortunately…”
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
From
20
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
After nearly breaking
“I thought I’d turned
into a monster”
up, Thom Yorke’s gang return
revitalised with “My Iron Lung”
drunken Belfast award
ceremonies to star-studded
New York shows, we follow
Radiohead as they embrace
the madness of
OK Computer
suddenly
24
“Therethis need to
wasn’t
cower in the corner
any more…”
ThE bENdS
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
The Bends
done, we
find Yorke pondering his paranoias
52
“I was basically
becoming
unhinged…
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
The band
completely unhinged”
28
shed light on their extremely
painful reinvention
ALbUM REVIEW
Radiohead do it
their own way – and come up
with their first rock landmark
56
kId A
ALbUM REVIEW
Born to anxious
parents, a difficult new child…
60
64
78
AMNESIAC
ALbUM REVIEW
A fiery and
and his “psychic garbage”,
the frontman branches out
eccentric sequel to
Kid A
between modern
boxes… Thom
yorke, 2013
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
Even with their
“Who the fuck wants
to be a big band?”
88
92
IN RAINboWS
ALbUM REVIEW
A romantic
masterpiece, with an equally
pioneering release
millennial makeover vindicated,
Thom Yorke remains wary
“We think this is a
sparkly, shiny pop
record. but people
won’t get it…”
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
With
In Rainbows
“The internet is not
the fucking universe!”
out, the band reveal its creation,
from stately homes to rat poison…
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
We enter the Oxford
gloaming to talk politics, pop and
the band’s “clear, pretty” new LP
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joNNy gREENWood – ThE ALbUMS
ALbUM REVIEW
The extra-
82
hAIL To ThE ThIEf
curricular adventures of an
avant-classical maverick
ALbUM REVIEW
To Hollywood, and
a radical new departure: an album
recorded live, at speed
I do?
102
“What doworryI just
generally
about things…”
CLASSIC INTERVIEW
Inside Jonny’s
studio lair, talking soundtracks,
orchestras and Radiohead
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ThoM yoRkE – ThE ERASER
ALbUM REVIEW
Alone with a laptop
Everyone in their right
place: radiohead at
the o
2
Arena, London,
october 8, 2012
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110
ThE kINg of LIMbS
ALbUM REVIEW
The band
reconvene, and skilfully weave
together the organic and electronic
114
ALbUM REVIEW
More nightmares in
ThoM yoRkE – ToMoRRoW’S
ModERN boxES
phILIp SELWAy – ThE ALbUMS
the garden and revolutionary
delivery mechanisms
plus guest appearances
and a guide to the
costly world of
collectables…
ALbUM REVIEW
The masterful
drummer’s late-flowering
solo career
116
118
CoMpILATIoNS
ALbUM REVIEW
EPs, live
122
112
AToMS foR pEACE
SAMIR HUSSEIN/REFERNS vIA GETTY IMAGES
mini-albums and bumper
collections of remixes
Stop
Me…
If you’ve
Heard This
one before
ALbUM REVIEW
In which Thom
MISCELLANy
Yorke jams with Flea and ends up
with “some pretty cool shit”…
The band’s full singles
discography, Radiohead on film,
Champagne! Spike
Milligan’s Dalek!
A decadent night in
Paris with Thom Yorke
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UncUT EdITor
John Mulvey, whose favourite Radiohead song is
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
ArT EdITor
Marc Jones
Talk Show Host
ProdUcTIon EdITor
Mick Meikleham
Just
SUb-EdITor/WrITEr
Tom Pinnock
Airbag
dESIGn
Michael Chapman
Everything In Its Right Place
EdITorIAL/PIcTUrE rESEArcH
Phil King
Creep
covEr PHoTo
Danny Clinch/Getty Images/Contour
conTrIbUTorS
John Robinson
Knives Out
| Michael Bonner
Codex
| Peter Watts
Exit Music (For A Film)
| Andrew Mueller
Street Spirit
| Louis Pattison
Idioteque
| Graeme Thomson
Fake Plastic Trees
Sharon O’Connell
There There
| Rob Hughes
Airbag
| Mark Bentley
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
| Jason Anderson
Reckoner
| Piers Martin
No Surprises
| Bud Scoppa
There There
Nick Hasted
High And Dry
THAnkS To
Lauren Sharp and Ben Allan
MArkETInG
Charlotte Treadaway
SUbScrIPTIonS
Sarah Begley, Gemma Bernie
PUbLISHInG
dIrEcTor
Jo Smalley
MAnAGInG dIrEcTor
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