Radiohead

Carson Daly grabs Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway at MTV before Radiohead play Live from the 10 Spot that night. As far as they have been told it is just taping a Radiohead show, so they prepare as for any other night. “200 cigarettes and a damn good time.”

Normally all five write the set list after soundcheck, but MTV wanted this one three weeks ago, and Daly takes the blame. The set changes every night and takes about six shows to settle, and they keep every list, so a British tour can open on a different song from the American one. They play almost all of OK Computer, little of Pablo Honey, though one of its songs has just come back, and “Creep” when they feel like it. One of them calls the concept album the worst music of the 70s, ELP and terrible Genesis records, but any great album has a theme running through it, and if that makes OK Computer one, so be it. The plan for a video for every single has fallen by the wayside.