Editing Radiohead (section)

=== Influences ===
Among Radiohead's earliest influences were [[Queen (band)|Queen]],<ref name="influenceone">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd8SBdqDd9k&t=1397s | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/Dd8SBdqDd9k| archive-date=28 October 2021 |title=WTF with Marc Maron [Thom Yorke audio interview] |publisher=youtube |date=25 May 2013 |access-date=1 October 2015 |quote=I love Queen, they are great when I was really small [...] and then as I hit as a teenager, the band that really changed my life was R.E.M. and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and Bob Dylan}}{{cbignore}}<br />{{cite web |first=Jeff |last=Klingman |url=https://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2013/07/22/10-bullet-points-from-the-thom-yorke-interview-on-wtf-with-marc-maron |title=10 Bullet Points from the Thom Yorke Interview on WTF with Marc Maron |publisher=TheLmagazine.com |date=22 July 2013|access-date=23 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726113959/http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2013/07/22/10-bullet-points-from-the-thom-yorke-interview-on-wtf-with-marc-maron|archive-date=26 July 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Bob Dylan]],<ref name="influenceone" /> [[Pink Floyd]], [[Elvis Costello]], [[post-punk]] acts such as [[Joy Division]],<ref name="influenceone" /> [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]]<ref name="influenceone" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/EOBBandOfficial/posts/767582517144200 |title=Ed O'Brien about John McGeoch |website=Ed O'Brien Official website |date=18 September 2020|access-date=2 October 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201211204513/https://www.facebook.com/EOBBandOfficial/posts/767582517144200|archive-date=11 December 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Magazine (band)|Magazine]], and significantly 1980s [[alternative rock]] bands such as [[R.E.M.]],<ref name="influenceone" /> [[U2]], the [[Pixies (band)|Pixies]], [[the Smiths]] and [[Sonic Youth]].{{refn|name="influence-sonic-youth"|<ref name="guitar-world" /><ref name="ROSS" /><ref name="REYNOLDS" />}} Jonny Greenwood named the Magazine guitarist [[John McGeoch]] his biggest guitar influence.<ref>{{cite web |last=Greenwood |first=Jonny |date=11 February 2009 |title=I've been blown about for years |url=http://radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=455 |access-date=10 February 2022 |website=Dead Air Space |publisher=Radiohead.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321164928/http://radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=455 |archive-date=21 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> By the mid-1990s, Radiohead were adopting recording methods from [[hip hop music|hip hop]], inspired by the [[sample (music)|sampling]] work of [[DJ Shadow]],<ref name="guitar-world" /> and became interested in using computers to generate sounds.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gillespie |first=Ian |date=17 August 1997 |title=It all got very surreal |newspaper=[[London Free Press]] |url=http://www.greenplastic.com/coldstorage/articles/londonfreepress.html |url-status=usurped |access-date=21 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012229/http://www.greenplastic.com/coldstorage/articles/londonfreepress.html |archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref> Radiohead cited 60s and 70s jazz artists such as [[Miles Davis]], [[Charles Mingus]] and [[Alice Coltrane]] as influences.<ref name="Varga">{{Cite web |last=Varga |first=George |date=25 April 2019 |title=Radiohead's Jazz Frequencies |url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/radioheads-jazz-frequencies/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826142100/https://jazztimes.com/archives/radioheads-jazz-frequencies/ |archive-date=26 August 2019 |access-date=13 May 2020 |website=[[Jazz Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref> According to Jonny Greenwood, "We bring in our favourite jazz albums, and say: we want to do this. And we enjoy the sound of our failing!"<ref name="Varga" /> He likened their jazz influence to 1950s English bands imitating American blues records.<ref name="Varga" /> Other influences include the soundtracks of [[Ennio Morricone]], 1960s rock groups such as [[the Beatles]] and [[the Beach Boys]], and [[Phil Spector]]'s "[[Wall of Sound|wall of sound]]" production.<ref name="guitar-world" /><ref name="LAUNCH" />

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The [[electronic music]] of ''Kid A'' was inspired by Yorke's admiration for artists signed to the record label [[Warp Records]], such as [[Aphex Twin]] and [[Autechre]].<ref name="ZORIC" /> In 2013, Yorke named Aphex Twin as his biggest influence.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 January 2013 |title=Uni of Yorke Class 1: FlyLo, the Gaslamp Killer & FaltyDL |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/15435/1/uni-of-yorke-class-1-flylo-the-gaslamp-killer-faltydl |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=[[Dazed]] |language=en}}</ref> ''Kid A'' also samples early [[computer music]].<ref name="SMITH" /> 1970s [[krautrock]] bands such as [[Can (band)|Can]] and [[Neu!]] were other major influences during this period.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Lauren |last=Zoric |title=Fitter, Happier, More Productive |date=1 October 2000 |journal=[[Juice (magazine)|Juice]]}}</ref> Jonny Greenwood's interest in [[20th-century classical music]] also had a role, citing the influence of the composers [[Krzysztof Penderecki]] and [[Olivier Messiaen]].<ref name="LAUNCH" /> Since the recording of ''Kid A'', Greenwood has played the [[ondes Martenot]], an early electronic instrument popularised by Messiaen.<ref name="ROSS" /> While recording ''In Rainbows'', Radiohead mentioned rock, electronic, hip hop and experimental musicians as influences, including [[Björk]], [[M.I.A. (artist)|M.I.A]], [[Liars (band)|Liars]], [[Modeselektor]] and [[Spank Rock]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Radiohead's Secret Influences, from Fleetwood Mac to Thomas Pynchon |date=24 January 2008 |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18060334/radioheads_secret_influences_from_fleetwood_mac_to_thomas_pynchon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612012329/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18060334/radioheads_secret_influences_from_fleetwood_mac_to_thomas_pynchon|archive-date=12 June 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=7 February 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |first=Nick |last=Kent |title=Ghost in the Machine |date=1 August 2006 |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |pages=74–82}}</ref> In 2011, Yorke denied that Radiohead had set out to make "experimental music", saying they were "constantly absorbing music" and that a variety of musicians are always influencing them.<ref>{{cite web |date=6 October 2011 |title=Radiohead: Everything In Its Right Place |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141093025/radiohead-everything-in-its-right-place |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108021946/http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141093025/radiohead-everything-in-its-right-place |archive-date=8 November 2011 |access-date=26 October 2011 |publisher=[[NPR]]}}</ref>