Editing Pablo Honey (section)

== Recording ==
[[File:Former_Chipping_Norton_Recording_Studios.jpg|thumb|The former [[Chipping Norton Recording Studios]], Oxfordshire, where Radiohead recorded ''Pablo Honey'']]
Radiohead recorded ''Pablo Honey'' at [[Chipping Norton Studios]] in [[Chipping Norton]], Oxfordshire.<ref name="Runtagh-2018">{{Cite magazine|last=Runtagh|first=Jordan|date=22 February 2018|title=Radiohead's ''Pablo Honey'': 10 things you didn't know|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/radioheads-pablo-honey-10-things-you-didnt-know-201729/|access-date=21 October 2021|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|language=en-US}}</ref> They first attempted to record two songs that EMI was considering for Radiohead's debut single, "Inside My Head" and "Lurgee".<ref name="Irvin-1997">{{cite journal |last1=Irvin |first1=Jim |author-link=Jim Irvin |last2=Hoskyns |first2=Barney |date=July 1997 |title=We have lift-off! |journal=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |issue=45}}</ref> They made little progress; Kolderie described Radiohead as "desperately inexperienced", and neither they nor the producers liked the choice of songs. Kolderie said "Inside My Head" was "not very melodic" and lacked the power of Radiohead's other songs.<ref name="Irvin-1997" /> Hufford described the results as "overblown bombastic rock".<ref name="Irvin-1997" />

During rehearsals, Radiohead unexpectedly played another song, "[[Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep]]". They considered it a "throwaway" track, but it impressed the producers.{{sfn|Randall|2011|p=60}} At Kolderie's suggestion, they recorded a take, after which everyone in the studio burst into applause.<ref name="Irvin-1997" /> EMI were persuaded to make "Creep" Radiohead's debut single. According to Kolderie, "everyone [at EMI] who heard Creep just started going insane" and he and Slade were hired to produce the album.<ref name="Irvin-1997" /> Radiohead took elements of "Creep" from the 1972 song "[[The Air That I Breathe]]". After [[Universal Music Publishing Group|Rondor Music]] took legal action, the songwriters, [[Albert Hammond]] and [[Mike Hazelwood (singer)|Mike Hazelwood]], were given shared royalties and songwriting credits.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 January 2018 |title=Lana Del Rey sued by Radiohead for allegedly copying 'Creep' |language=en-GB |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/lana-del-rey-sued-radiohead-allegedly-copying-creep/ |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 July 2019 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/lana-del-rey-sued-radiohead-allegedly-copying-creep/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hyun Kim |first=Michelle |date=7 January 2018 |title=Lana Del Rey says Radiohead suing her for copying 'Creep' |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-sue-lana-del-rey-for-allegedly-copying-creep/ |access-date=6 November 2022 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

''Pablo Honey'' was recorded in three weeks. Kolderie described it as a struggle, and said: "It was their first record and they wanted to be [[the Beatles]], and the mix had to have no [[Reverb effect|reverb]], and they had all the ideas they'd ever come up with in 20 years of listening to records."<ref name="Irvin-1997" /> Kolderie noted the band's studio inexperience and difficulty in finishing tracks, but said he enjoyed the work due to the small group and joking atmosphere.{{sfn|Randall|2011|p=62}} He said ''Pablo Honey'' was "not cheap", and estimated that it had cost more than £100,000 to record.{{sfn|Randall|2011|p=62}}

For the introduction to "Anyone Can Play Guitar", Kolderie had everyone in the studio, including the cook, create sounds on guitar. "The idea was to live up to the title: anyone can play guitar," he said.<ref name="Runtagh-2018" /> The guitarist [[Jonny Greenwood]] used a paintbrush for his part.<ref name="Runtagh-2018" /> Radiohead did not like the version of "Lurgee" they recorded with Kolderie and Slade, and used an earlier version, recorded with Hufford at Courtyard, for the album.{{sfn|Randall|2011|p=60}} Yorke, Greenwood and O'Brien overdubbed the same guitar parts multiple times to create a distorted "wall of sound".<ref name="Wylie-1997">{{Cite journal |last=Wylie |first=Harry |date=November 1997 |title=Radiohead |journal=[[Total Guitar]] |publisher=[[Future plc]] |issue=37}}</ref>

The album title comes from a [[prank call]] sketch by the American comedy act the [[The Jerky Boys|Jerky Boys]] in which the caller poses as the victim's mother and says: "Pablo, honey? Please come to Florida." Yorke said it was appropriate as the band were "mothers' boys".<ref name="Runtagh-2018" /> A [[Sampling (music)|sample]] of the sketch appears during the guitar solo on "How Do You?"<ref name="Runtagh-2018" />