Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)
Mr. Basketball
Its full title comes from fan archives, since the 1990 tape it is on calls it only “Mr B”.
1990
the shindig tape
It is the third song on the tape the band made on a four-track recorder in the summer of 1990, while they were calling themselves Shindig, listed there only as “Mr B”, which fan archives take to be this song, and it was never released. The tape went round online in January 2006, and four places further down it is “The Greatest Shindig of the World”, which became “Maquiladora”.
sources2
- The site's own catalogue note, based on fan archives.
- “Two demo tapes from before Radiohead turn up online”, treefingers.com news, 3 January 2006 (from Spin and NME), for the tape and its running order.