#784 Radiohead's Kid A & the Story of Sex Pistols' Manager Malcolm McLaren

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Following up the guitar masterpiece of OK Computer, Radiohead threw the music world for a loop with Kid A. Twenty years after it's release hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with author Steven Hyden about how the album was made and its lasting impact. They also discuss the life and career of the Sex Pistols and New York Dolls manager Malcolm McLaren.

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Featured Songs:

Radiohead, "Idioteque," Kid A, Parlophone, 2000

Radiohead, "How To Disappear Completely," Kid A, Parlophone, 2000

Radiohead, "Subterranean Homesick Alien," OK Computer, Parlophone, 1997

Travis, "Writing To Reach You," The Man Who, Independiente, 1999

Autechre, "Rae," LP5, Warp, 1999

Radiohead, "Fake Plastic Trees," The Bends, Parlophone, 1995

Radiohead, "Everything In Its Right Place," Kid A, Parlophone, 2000

Radiohead, "Kid A (Live)," Unreleased, N/A, 2001

Radiohead, "Kid A," Kid A, Parlophone, 2000

Radiohead, "Treefingers," Kid A, Parlophone, 2000

Radiohead, "The National Anthem (Live)," Unreleased, N/A, 2001

Radiohead, "15 Step," In Rainbows, Parlophone, 2007

Radiohead, "The National Anthem," Kid A, Parlophone, 2000

Sex Pistols, "Anarchy In the U.K.," Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, Virgin, 1977

Sex Pistols, "God Save the Queen," Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, Virgin, 1977

Sex Pistols, "Pretty Vacant," Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, Virgin, 1977

Bow Wow Wow, "I Want Candy," The Last of the Mohicans, RCA, 1982

Malcolm McLaren, "Buffalo Gals," Duck Rock, Virgin, 1983

Sault, "Hard Life," Untitled (Black Is), Forever Living Originals, 2020

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0:00.0	You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we'll talk about music, marketing impresario, Malcolm McClaren.
0:07.0	But first we're going to join author Stephen Haydn to do a classic album dissection of Radio Heads, Kid A.
0:17.0	You are listening to sound opinions. I'm Greg Kott with Jim Deeregatus and we are with
0:25.0	Stephen Heiden, the author of his latest book, This Isn't Happening, Radio Heads Kid A.
0:30.2	Welcome to the show, Stephen. Hey, thanks for having me guys.
0:33.8	A return guest is sound opinions, Jim.
0:35.4	Welcome back to the show.
0:37.0	Yes, I'm like a friend of the pod now.
0:39.5	There you go, man.
0:40.5	I think so.
0:41.5	Especially if you join our Patreon. Yeah. Done. Music critics have to support
0:46.4	each other in these days. That is correct. You're doing a good job of supporting
0:51.0	the music scene and the and radio head in particular with this new book
0:54.5	Stephen 20 years on it's still a somewhat controversial record in radiohead's
0:59.1	discography I've talked to people who either love or hate this album there seems to be no
1:03.9	middle ground. I think a number of things distinguish this record for music
1:08.9	fans in general radiohead fans in particular. I think it is one of the most radical fourth albums in
1:15.4	rock history in terms of what it does in regard to what its predecessor did.
1:19.8	You're coming off an album in OK computer that is considered a masterpiece, a guitar rock,
1:28.2	majestic, you know, everything that can be said with guitar music is being said with this record in
1:33.8	1997. And three years later they come out with kid A which you write very persuasively about, explain, if you can, the transition from
1:58.8	this majestic guitar record to Kid A, which had very few guitars on it per se.
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