Thom Yorke on MTV

Another upload of the 1995 MTV conversation with Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien around The Bends, running a little further into the second half.

The title track, “The Bends”, existed on a four-track in Yorke's cottage during the Pablo Honey sessions and went unused for reasons neither of them can explain. He wrote it, he says, taking the piss out of the situation before the situation caught up with him.

The longer cut includes a passage about the press. Asked whether certain songs are reactions to being written about, Yorke accepts that they are. Then he points out that being built up and then shot at happens to a couple of dozen bands every year, so it is nothing personal, and whoever is being chased now is having the same experience they had.