'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."
Ed: "It's not a Bohemain Rhapsody for the Nineties - it's just a handy reference point. It's like Creep was meant to sound like Scott Walker... it just didn't come out that way. But Paranoid Android is the song we play to people when they want to know what the album is like, cos it should make them think, "What the Fuck's going to happen on the rest of the album?"
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."
Ed: "It's not a Bohemain Rhapsody for the Nineties - it's just a handy reference point. It's like Creep was meant to sound like Scott Walker... it just didn't come out that way. But Paranoid Android is the song we play to people when they want to know what the album is like, cos it should make them think, "What the Fuck's going to happen on the rest of the album?"
Ray: "And, there's not been a greatest hits yet, will there be?
Ed: "No.
Ray: "Can you envision...
Thom: "Only when the band is over, that's the only time that a greatest hits... "When we need the money"
Ed: "When we need the money. No, when the band is over, 'cos otherwise it's terrible, I can't stand Greatest hits outfit. You know like Queen, Queen did their greatest hits, and the first one is impeccable, isn't it? It's absolutely genius. And then the rest was all rubbish after that! Well it was, kind of, wasn't it?
Ed: "No.
Ray: "Can you envision...
Thom: "Only when the band is over, that's the only time that a greatest hits... "When we need the money"
Ed: "When we need the money. No, when the band is over, 'cos otherwise it's terrible, I can't stand Greatest hits outfit. You know like Queen, Queen did their greatest hits, and the first one is impeccable, isn't it? It's absolutely genius. And then the rest was all rubbish after that! Well it was, kind of, wasn't it?
Colin: Do we care about these comparisons? Erm. Not really. It's all very amusing, we've been compared in the past in England to uh, U2...
Thom: [mocking] U2.
Colin: or Queen...
Thom: [mocking] Queen.
DJ: Queen?
Thom: Pshyeah!
Colin: These bands that, you know, which is great...
DJ: As long as you don't get compared to Kylie Minogue, you're all right.
Thom and Colin: [in unison] Uhhhhhhh...
Thom: [mocking] U2.
Colin: or Queen...
Thom: [mocking] Queen.
DJ: Queen?
Thom: Pshyeah!
Colin: These bands that, you know, which is great...
DJ: As long as you don't get compared to Kylie Minogue, you're all right.
Thom and Colin: [in unison] Uhhhhhhh...
"RADIOHEAD ARE THE NEW QUEEN AND 'PARANOID ANDROID' IS THE 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY' FOR THE '90S."
Thom: "Yes please! I'd love that! Wow! Great! I can't wait to do 'Another One Bites The Dust'!"
Phil: "That's inevitable, if you put out a six-and-a-half minute song that goes through all those phases. Queen is another group we've all admired. If you take Freddie Mercury's voice, we have a similar thing with Thom, that unique quality."
Colin: "Roger Taylor came to see us play in Southampton once. We were all really tired and we felt guilty because we hardly talked to him."
Jonny: "I had to write essays about Queen for my music exams when I was 14, which put me off a bit. It was terrible: Queen, Genesis and Paul Simon. That was all you were allowed to like:'
Thom: "Yes please! I'd love that! Wow! Great! I can't wait to do 'Another One Bites The Dust'!"
Phil: "That's inevitable, if you put out a six-and-a-half minute song that goes through all those phases. Queen is another group we've all admired. If you take Freddie Mercury's voice, we have a similar thing with Thom, that unique quality."
Colin: "Roger Taylor came to see us play in Southampton once. We were all really tired and we felt guilty because we hardly talked to him."
Jonny: "I had to write essays about Queen for my music exams when I was 14, which put me off a bit. It was terrible: Queen, Genesis and Paul Simon. That was all you were allowed to like:'
Thom: "Well, my first musical memory was, erm... a friend of mine buying Queen's Greatest Hits. Well that was sort of... yeah. And I kind of decided that week that I wanted to be Brian May, so I went to school with my guitar and sort of sat down with my guitar teacher and said I wanted to be Brian May, and I was like eight, I think."
What was your staple musical diet, Thom?
"At ten years old, it was Queen," he confesses.
I won't breathe a word of this to anyone, I swear.
"No, you can tell the readers, I don't mind. Really."
Are you still a fan?
"Eh, wall, yeah, sort of. To an extent. You can't help admiring their... professionalism, or whatever it was. I got these amazing Freddie Mercury stories from someone who worked with him when ha was alive, and apparently he wouldn't talk to anyone, he never did interviews; and yet when he appeared on stage he was totally, totally focused, and completely rabid - but obviously he was the total opposite of that, totally sensitive and really, really shy. I just thought he was always really bewitching, because of that, he was like two different people.
"But then, I was a huge Brian May fan, as well. (Laughs) I just thought, I want that guitar. In fact, I met him, and I said 'you know, you're the reason I used to spend months and months on end in my garage trying to build a fucking guitar'. I didn't have any proper tools, I just had a fuckin' hacksaw, and brass thingies to smooth the edges...."
"At ten years old, it was Queen," he confesses.
I won't breathe a word of this to anyone, I swear.
"No, you can tell the readers, I don't mind. Really."
Are you still a fan?
"Eh, wall, yeah, sort of. To an extent. You can't help admiring their... professionalism, or whatever it was. I got these amazing Freddie Mercury stories from someone who worked with him when ha was alive, and apparently he wouldn't talk to anyone, he never did interviews; and yet when he appeared on stage he was totally, totally focused, and completely rabid - but obviously he was the total opposite of that, totally sensitive and really, really shy. I just thought he was always really bewitching, because of that, he was like two different people.
"But then, I was a huge Brian May fan, as well. (Laughs) I just thought, I want that guitar. In fact, I met him, and I said 'you know, you're the reason I used to spend months and months on end in my garage trying to build a fucking guitar'. I didn't have any proper tools, I just had a fuckin' hacksaw, and brass thingies to smooth the edges...."