Mojo Magazine Presents: Kidology (A Radiohead Companion)

Is this meant to teach zoomers about what lies behind and beside the millennial Canon?

that Mingus track is great. I'm sure I've heard it in a Thom DJ set

I don't know anything about Ane Brun but I'm listening to her rendition of 'How to Disappear Completely' right now and it's way better than I expected. Makes me miss Thom's voice of old.

Is this meant to teach zoomers about what lies behind and beside the millennial Canon?

― pomenitul, Thursday, October 22, 2020 4:31 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

No way, zoomers don't buy Mojo magazine.

Also, make your own damn Radiohead companion, pom.
Would make for a better comp and a better thread I'm sure.

They called it Kidology cause they couldn't get the rights to throw a Lee Perry track on there or what?

I don’t know the article quoted above but I can guess the relationship on most of these. As far as I can tell all of these are referential to the Kid A / Amnesiac era:

1. Clinic – Monkey on Your Back
Opened for Radiohead on the late 90’s. The band were fans of them.

2. Can – Thief
Thom is a big fan, song was covered in the tour.

3. Charles Mingus – Freedom
Iirc Jonny played this on a webcast. Quoted Mingus as an influence for the albums.

4. James Holden – Delabole
No idea. I’m guessing this is something Thom cited as an influence.

5. Harmonia & Eno – Atmosphere
No idea. Probably a Jonny quote on Treefingers.

6. Ane Brun – How to Disappear Completely
A cover.

7. Sigur Rós – Svefn-g-englar
They opened for Radiohead or they played together at some point in the early 00’s. I don’t think either band is specially influenced by one another.

8. Lali Puna – Everywhere & Allover
Colin was a big fan of the Morr label and Lali Puna.

9. Other Lives – Tamer Animals (Atoms for Peace Remix)
A remix by thom.

10. Kelly Lee Owens – Melt!
She covered Arpeggi.

11. Slint – Washer
No idea.

12. Rick Simpson – Kid A
A cover?

13. Susanne Sundfør – Lilith
No idea

14. Olivier Messiaen – Oraison
Jonny is a big fan and has cited him as the main influence for his solo work and some of Rh’s string arrangements.

15. Luke Abbott – Flux
No idea

Also, make your own damn Radiohead companion, pom.

Hah, thanks, but I guarantee you it'd be tin-eared. Besides, Moka did a good job of explaining the rationale behind most of these picks, which makes this compilation seem a bit less superfluous as a result.

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This poll is sadly missing the Autechre/BoC/Skam/Warp influences that led to Kid A.

Blame this guy, not pom.

I think “Freeman, Hardy & Willis Acid” by Squarepusher and Aphex Twin is the track that Thom raved the most about as the future of music in the Kid A era.

I actually want to direct you to my Spotify playlist comprising the songs each band member played during the 5 webcasts that were released over the span of 1999-2007. It’s filled with amazing songs:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6cheK9aNqRcEeqJYc1ooh4?si=1uri0OlWTFadJ8Uc4Z625g

Copy- pasting from a thread where I posted 5 years ago, I think the “Radiohead Public Library” released a last year actually contains some of these webcasts nowadays, they used to be very hard to find.... anyhoo:

Radiohead have done 5 webcasts so far. With the exception of the fifth one (In Rainbows) all of these are very hard to find complete online. I haven't had any luck finding them but I've been compiling this information since 2002 from many sources and double-checking the playlists as there were several errors in them There's still two songs in there that are incorrect or don't exists and I'm not sure what they could be (South Bronx and Justin Berkon)
Here's a spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/6cheK9aNqRcEeqJYc1ooh4
Note 1: Some songs are not available on Spotify but I calculate at least 88% of the list is there.
Note 2: The setlist for the 4th web cast is still incomplete and it seems like noone on the internet has a recording of it.
webcast 1 Dec. 1, 1999
The Fall - Wrong Place Right Time
The Fall - Birmingham School of Business school
Gescom - change (gescom remix)
Charlie Mingus - Freedom
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
Captain Beefheart - Gimme dat harp boy
Scientist - Cloning process
Betty Davis - If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up
Autechre - Arch Carrier
John Williams - abduction of Barry (close encounters of the third kind)
Syd Barrett - Golden Hair
Mahalia Jackson & Duke Ellington - Come Sunday
Squarepusher & afx - Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Sonic Youth - Tunic
Prince Buster - Al capone
Gabor Szabo - Mizrab
Talking Heads - This must be the place
Can - Pinch
Squarepusher - UFO's over Leytonstone
PJ Harvey - The River
Global Goon - Rockford
Neu! - Hallogallo
Francis Lai - Le passager de la pluie
Oscar Peterson - Brotherhood of man
Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - Batacuda
Johnny Cash - San Quentin Blues
Ravel - String Quartet in F
Messiaen - Turangalila symphony ( Andre Previn)
Ramsey Lewis - Dancing in the street
Dreamdate - Monster Mash.
A1 People - Do It (metamatics mix)
Jill Adamson - Sing a Song of Motor Cars
Can - Halleluhwah
Popol Vuh - Morgengruss II
Radiohead Live set on 1st webcast*
Knives Out (acoustic)
SECOND web cast (Amateur night II) (february 10th 2000)
Marlene Shaw - California Soul
Stetsasonic -All That Jazz
Captain Beefheart - Sun Zoom Spark
Five Ounces Of Soul - Love Got A Piece of Your Mind
Commodores - Machine Gun
P J Harvey - O Stella
PIL - Flowers Of Romance
John Barry - The Danny Scipio Theme
The Beat - Save It For Later
Lou reed - Vicious
Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
Charles Wright - I'm Aware
Ramsey Lewis - Goin' hollywood
Charles Sherell - Yes It's You
Schooly D - Do It Do It
South Bronx - Hip Hop Til You Drop (???)
Charles Sullivan - Genesis
Betty Davis - F.U.N.K.
Ray Charles - Nighttime is the right time
Hall + Oates - Had I Known You Better Then
Kraftwerk - Tour De France
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Felicidade
With These Themes 3 - AvroCar
Neu! - Fur Immer
Bob Marley - Roots, Rock, Dub (single dub mix)
Linda Lyndell - What A Man
The Specials - Ghost Town
Sergio Mendes - After Sunrise
Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun
Virna Lindt - Attention Stockholm
Barrett Strong - Money
Tom Waits - Such A Scream
Marvin Gaye - I heard it through the grapevine
Gerry Mulligan - Morning Of The Carnival
Joe Quarterman and Free Soul - Live Now Brothers
Radiohead Live set on 2nd web cast
Ed's Scary Song
There There
Momentum
THIRD web cast (march 24th 2000)
THOM : Squarepusher - schizm track #2 mix : Christian Vogel - Mosquito 10 : This Is Mike Ink - Polka Trax 4 : Christoph De Babalon - On The Block (Meet Him)
JONNY : Country Preacher - Cannonball Adderly : Telephone Thing - The Fall : The Ink Spots - Java Jive : Talking Heads - Building on fire
THOM : Le Tigre - Hot Topic : Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me : Ad Vanz vs. Gescom - Viral : Andrea Parker - Unconnected : Wevie Stonder - Questionable : Various Artists - 9 (autechre mix 2) : Talking Heads - Cross Eyed and Painless
JONNY : La Fille Du Pere Noel - Jacques Dutronc : St James Infirmary - Louis Armstrong : Lulu Suite - Berg : Pahu Tahiti - Tearapo : Baby Blue - 13th Floor Elevators : Laser Attack - Scientist : Where Is My Mind - Pixies
THOM : Alder & Elius - Digital Toddler : Autechre - 777 : Justin Berkon - The Juice (????) : Autechre - Rae : Can - Don't say no : Wu Tang Clan - reunited (Funkstorung rmx) : Faust - The sad skinhead : Tortoise - to day retrieval (autechre rmx)
JONNY : Down By The River - Neil Young : Faust Tapes - Faust : Limbo - Nina and Frederick : Prayer Metin - -Jimmy Smith : Groovin' with - The Soulful Strings : Mizrab - Gabor Szabo : So Lonely - Tim Buckley
THOM : Squarepusher & AFX - Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid : Gescom - Keynell : Can - Moonshake
Radiohead live set for 3rd web cast * I am a wicked child'
4TH web cast (inside out night) December 18th, 2002
Múm - The Land Between Solar Systems
Ulrich Schnauss - Nobody's home
Squarepusher - My red hot car
Mahalia Jackson - In the upper room
Squarepusher - windscale 2
Speedy J - Something For Your Mind (Funkstorung remix)
Bob Marley - small axe
DJ Shadow & Asia Born - Send Them
squarepusher & afx - Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid
Mum - asleep on a train
Sparklehorse - London
Mclusky - To Hell with Good Intentions
Felix Da Housecat - The Glitz
Felix Da Housecat - Madame Hollywood
Ladytron - Light & Magic
Radiohead live set on 4th webcast:
'Punch Up At A Wedding'
'Good Morning Mr Magpie'
'I Froze Up'
'Walking In A Winter Wonderland'.
Test for web cast 5 November 8 2007
Harrowdown Hill thom remix
Arpeggi thom remix
Massive Attack - teardrop (minilogue remix)
Bauhaus - bela lugosi's dead
Donna Summer - State of Independence
Photek - Book of Changes
Unknown reggae-ish song
OOIOO - Uma (ooeyeoo remix)
web cast 5 (Thumbs_down) November 9, 2007
Thom: Burial: "Near Dark" M.I.A.: "Pull Up the People" Tomas Anderson: "Happy Happy" !!!: "Heart of Hearts" Modeselektor: "Kill Bill Vol. 4"
Ed: Kings of Leon: "My Party" Burial: "Forgive" Asian Dub Foundation: "Modern Apprentice" Jorge Ben: "Take It Easy My Brother Charlie" Les Baxter: "The Ancient Galleon" The First Edition: "Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Condition Was in)" Jorge Ben: "Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)"
Johnny: Iggy Pop: "Nightclubbing'" Squarepusher: "My Red Hot Car" Perrey and Kingsley - “Strangers in the Night”
Colin: Afaf Radi - Hawa Ya Hawa (mixed with 15 step) Bauhaus: "Bela Lugosi's Dead" The The: "Uncertain Smile (Original 7inch Version)"
Phil: Iron and Wine: "Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car" Captain Beefheart: "Sun Zoom Spark" Bonnie Prince Billy: "Lessons From What's Poor" Asian Dub Foundation: "Naxalite" Ray Charles: "It Should've Been Me" Juana Molina: "Micael" Fela Kuti & the Africa 70: "Alu Jon Jonki Jon"
Radiohead live set on 5th web cast
'Bodysnatchers'
'Faust Arp'
'The Headmaster Ritual' (The Smiths)
'Reckoner'
'Ceremony' (New Order)
'Unravel' (Björk)
'I might be wrong'

I should probably update the playlist I’m sure the missing songs are there nowadays.

There's still two songs in there that are incorrect or don't exists and I'm not sure what they could be (South Bronx and Justin Berkon)

South Bronx - Hip Hop Til You Drop (???)

This song was apparently known to a Radiohead member only from this bootleg compilation

Justin Berkon - The Juice (????)

Here I think Thom's handwriting must have just been a bit sloppy on the last two letters

Ah yes forgot to update that one. Someone on reddit commented this back then:

Justin Berkon doesn't exist. I think it could be Justin Berkovi. He has a song called "The Juice" and is a german techno record from 1999 so it makes sense for Thom to play that.
The South Bronx one is tricky... not sure what song or artist it's referencing. Discogs might help. It could be the song South Bronx by Boogie Down Productions.

That bootleg compilation is interesting and might be the answer. I might have to take some time in the weekend to see if the full webcasts are indeed online in the rh public library to search that one.

Ok I see that at least the third webcast “amateur night III” is indeed in there.

My first guess was that the BDP track had been on the popular UK "Hip Hop Don't Stop" compilation series, and it had been badly transcribed; when that didn't pan out, I searched Hip Hop Til You Drop on Discogs, so reddit poster otm :)

Webcast 3, 4 and 5 are indeed available in the Radiohead Public Library and from taking a quick peek it seems that there’s also some songs missing. I think I heard an Aphex Twin track in there (girl boy song I think it was) that is not in the list.

No luck with the first two... I hope they’re hidden somewhere in there so I can actually listen to that “south bronx” song and finally clear what track it actually is.

But both you and that reddit poster arrived to the same conclusion so I guess that’s the one.

So this one:

https://youtu.be/vsrOy32nJdI

Which sounds plausible because it was played after Schooly D which is sort of the same old school vibe.

Which sounds plausible because it was played after Schooly D which is sort of the same old school vibe.

So this one:

https://youtu.be/vsrOy32nJdI

I mean, I linked the "official" upload, but yeah :)

Its a nice compilation. I can listen to it with no great love of Radiohead.
Not sue if I'd heard the original of Freedom by Mingus which is a thing I should have corrected years ago. I had the song covered by a pre Procul Harum Paramounts as @the Mule' on a compilation of their stuff i had in the 90s.
& Thief may be a little obscure or is all the released Can of the era seen as on a similar level of availability or accessibility these days .
I guess Delay 68 has been around for decades.
Have been having this play for the last few days on my 3 changer.

Xpost: lol sorry I hadn’t noticed you had hyperlinked to the video in there, I was on mobile and only saw the discogs link. Getting used to seeing and using myself the sloppier, lazier form of just copying and pasting links instead hiperlinked text.

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