Radiohead on MusiquePlus

Thom Yorke goes through records he loves for MusiquePlus in 1995.

Björk is the only pop artist he finds inspiring, with Michael Stipe, and he envies her making an album at 12. Debut is the record he would turn up loud at home to put up shelves. She said hello to him at a TV show the week before, only being civil, and he said nothing. Jonny Greenwood gave him Bitches Brew two years earlier; it left him cold until he played it again, very stoned, in an airport, and now he hears the three drum kits and two Fender Rhodes in it and calls it the most inspiring record he owns. Kind of Blue he did not really like.

At school he was a new romantic and a fanatic for the band Japan, off guitars altogether, until R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant brought him back, which Peter Buck found funny. If he ever met David Byrne he would pin him down and ask how Remain in Light was made. He bought DJ Krush's first album on Mo' Wax because 3D of Massive Attack did the cover.