Host: Okay, do you consider yourself part of the Grunge movement, or what?

Thom: Well, Grunge movement... if the Grunge movement was a band like Stone Temple Pilots then no. Definitely.

Jonny: No... I didn't really hear anything exciting in Seattle that wasn't being done in Boston two years earlier by the Pixies, or even by Sonic Youth even earlier. So, not really, sorry.

'PARANOID ANDROID'
Ed: "Well, when we wrote it, one of the references was Bohemian Rhapsody But the other was the Pixies."
Jonny: "It's not actually complex enough to be Bohemain Rhapsody - there's only really two different bits there. Plus it's way too tense."

Thom: "We were into pixies and the fall... pixies and the fall, stuff. Jonny: "I remember one moment of trying a rehearsal, when I was about 15, 16, and Thom put on a tape of Pixies Doolittle, and played a song called "Dead", and he was saying, you know... we should sound like this! and that was a real thing.

Thom: "Did I?

Jonny: "Yeah. Great song...

Thom: "I remember seeing them play that live once, in Cardiff, and people coming away from the stage with blood on their faces, weirdest thing I'd ever seen.

“People have been leaping on the technology side of the album a lot, calling it futuristic, which has always baffled us, because it’s all about neon lights and airbags and plane crashes or whatever. It’s not particularly futuristic. I don’t know. Pick a song.”
OK, “Subterranean Homesick Alien” then… but oh dear, it only leads to a long-winded, three-way ramble taking in “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind”, “Star Wars”, the Pixies, Philip K Dick, and the industrial revolution which nobody appears to enjoy at all. Such are the pitfalls of making meaningful rock music.