Thom Yorke on MusiquePlus

Thom Yorke talks MusiquePlus through the records he has brought in, and the one inspiring him most at the moment is Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, a present from Jonny Greenwood two years ago that he gave up on after one listen. “I listened to it again really, really stoned in an airport and thought it was amazing,” he says. Since then, on loud headphones, he has found three drum kits and two Fender Rhodes in it, and he has a soft spot for a Cecil Taylor record that sounds like a cat sitting on the piano. Jonny is obsessive about Davis, Thom says, because Davis had a punk attitude to his art.

Björk's Debut is the album he turns up loud at home while putting up shelves, and she and Michael Stipe are the only pop artists he finds inspiring. She said hello to him at a TV show the week before, and he said nothing back. R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant brought the one-time new romantic and fan of the band Japan back to electric guitars, which R.E.M.'s Peter Buck found funny when Thom told him. If he ever met David Byrne he would pin him down and ask how Remain in Light was made.

In a second clip one of the band says they are given a new label every month, from Queen to U2 by way of Nick Drake and Pink Floyd. “As long as they're different every month, we don't really mind.” In the same clip that speaker calls “Lucky” the song he is proudest of, much better than “Creep”. “Lucky” sprang out as they finished the last record and was kicking around as soon as they started touring. He wants the next record judged as an album, not sold off one radio hit like the first. “I'd rather the next record is a celebration of things really,” he says, being bored with “complaint as an art form”.