Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)
Everybody Lies Through Their Teeth
In the band's first interview, in December 1991, Thom Yorke picked it out as a song about Oxford.
1991
on a friday
A demo from around 1991 by On a Friday, as Radiohead were called until 1992, kept by the fans who held on to the tapes, and 1:24 long on the copy this site posted in 2003. Ronan Munro interviewed the band for Curfew, the Oxford music paper, in December 1991, the first interview they gave, and Thom Yorke told him Oxford was “very important to my writing”. He named this and “Jerusalem” as songs about the city.
the video
A recording of a song they never released.· AllRadioheadwatch on youtube →
sources3
- The site's own catalogue note, based on fan archives.
- Ronan Munro, interview with On a Friday, Curfew, December 1991, reprinted in EP Magazine, August 1995, for Yorke naming the song.
- treefingers.com, the 2003 lyric page for “Everybody Lies Through Their Teeth”, for the running time and the subject.