Some random woman at a bar in Los Angeles who erupted in anger when someone spilled a drink on her "A lot of the things I write are triggered by books."ġ3. The book inspired some of the death-obsessed lyrics of "Airbag." "The whole basis of was that Western civilization doesn't deal with death until it's too late," Yorke told Q.
And you can hear he's ill, he can't hit the notes, and yet the songs are so powerful in that environment with the prisoners there, whooping and laughing."ġ2. You can hear the audience willing him on. "I hate live albums but I get spine tingles every time I play that. "If you listen to the rhythm at the beginning of 'Exit Music,' it starts off like a Johnny Cash song from Prison Tapes," Yorke told Q, presumably referring to Cash's live recordings At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin, both recorded for audiences of convicts. The article apparently appeared in AAA magazine. You can probably guess which song this inspired. A magazine article titled "An Airbag Saved My Life" The way that insensitive farming happened."ġ0. The text inspired one of the most disturbing phrases from "Fitter Happier": "a pig in a cage on antibiotics." "It's a really funny book," Yorke told Select Magazine, "but a lot of it's based on the way.farming has changed. "One of them says something like, 'Whatever worked last time, never do it again.' It's incredibly depressing, but it's true."Īpparently Radiohead was reading Jonathan Coe's satirical novel about '80s Britain. "A friend sent me a copy of these flash cards that Eno uses when he's recording," Yorke said in 1997. It was at the core of what we were trying to do with OK Computer." you're never quite sure where you are in it, it seems to be swimming around you. Then gradually something incredibly brutal about it and incredibly beautiful. Yorke told Q Magazine that the explosive Miles Davis album from 1970 was an enormous influence on him: "The first time I heard it I thought it was the most nauseating chaos. "After writing pages and pages of words about the third world and wars and world politics," Jam! reported, "Yorke thought of Chomsky's writings and ended up boiling it all down to just one phrase: 'Cattle prods and the IMF.'" According to Yorke, the title was chosen "as a joke."Īccording to a 1997 profile, Yorke spent a lot of time "ploughing through the collected works of the brilliant media critic, especially the classic text, Manufacturing Consent." Chomsky's writings helped inspire the album's most explicitly political song, "Electioneering," with its scorching guitar and acerbic lyrics. It was borrowed from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction series, which features a character named Marvin, the Paranoid Android. Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyĭespite how well it sums up the Radiohead aesthetic, the title "Paranoid Android" did not originate with Radiohead. But the sputtering-garbage-disposal outro of "Karma Police"-an effect Ed O'Brien achieved by overloading a digital delay processor-sounds suspiciously similar to the ending of "Souvlaki Space Station," released four years prior.ĥ. Was Radiohead listening to shoegaze icons Slowdive in 1997? Who knows. The song "Souvlaki Space Station" by Slowdive "We liked how he was cutting up beats quite minutely." You can hear this influence on the beat-heavy "Airbag," which samples and splices up a recording of Phil Selway's drumming.Ĥ.
was a big influence on OK Computer," Jonny Greenwood told SPINin 1999. It's not a stretch to say Radiohead was paying attention. was released during the fall of 1996, when Radiohead was recording OK Computer in a historic mansion owned by Jane Seymour. Party on, Thom.ĭJ Shadow's trip hop masterpiece Endtroducing. It was reportedly inspired by another iconic track with an unusual, multi-part song structure: Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (which is much more fun at karaoke). "Paranoid Android" contains four distinct sections, sudden changes, yowling guitar interjections and surreal lyrics.
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