Thom Yorke on MusiquePlus

Thom Yorke goes through records he picked for MusiquePlus. Björk is the only pop artist inspiring him at the moment, Michael Stipe aside, because she has been doing it so long and keeps getting better. She made a children's album at 12, and at that age he would have liked nothing better than to be handed a tape recorder. She said hello to him at a TV show the week before, being civil, and he said nothing back. Debut is the album he turns up loud at home to put up shelves.

He was given Miles Davis's Bitches Brew two years ago, played it once and gave up, then heard it again very stoned in an airport. Now, on headphones, with three drum kits and two Fender Rhodes going, it is the most inspiring record he owns. Davis's Kind of Blue left him cold.

At school he was a total new romantic and a fan of the band Japan, off guitars altogether, until “Begin the Begin” on R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant brought him back to electric guitars, which Peter Buck found very funny. R.E.M. can still make strong records ten years in, he thinks, because they have no fundamental belief that they are wonderful. 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 for its cover, by 3D of Massive Attack.