Radiohead's Kid A & The Tale of Sex Pistols' Manager Malcolm McLaren

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🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 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. More than 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. Plus Jim and Greg talk with author Paul Gorman about the subversive life of Malcolm McLaren, the manager of the Sex Pistols.

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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

Dawn Richard, "Bussifame," Second Line, Merge, 2021

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0:00.0	So now ladies and gentlemen it is star time. Are you ready for star time? I'm going to see. You're listening to sound opinions and this week we are telling the story of one of the most subversive figures in musical history,
0:35.2	Malcolm McClaren, the notorious manager for the Sex Pistols.
0:39.6	I'm Jim De Regattis.
0:41.2	And I'm Greg Kot.
0:42.4	But first, a classic album dissection of Radiohead's Kid A with author Stephen Heiden.
0:51.0	You are. happening.
0:53.0	You are listening to sound opinions.
0:56.0	I'm Greg Kott with Jim Deeregatus,
0:58.0	and we are with Stephen Heiden, the author of his latest book,
1:02.0	this isn't happening, Radio kid a welcome to the show
1:04.8	Stephen hey thanks for having me guys a return guest to sound opinions jim welcome back to the
1:10.2	show yes I'm I'm like a friend of the pod now there you go man especially if you join our
1:15.7	patreon music critics have to support each other in these days that correct. You're doing a good job of supporting
1:24.9	the music scene and the and radiohead in particular with this new book Stephen.
1:28.9	20 years on it's still a somewhat controversial record in Radiohead's discography.
1:34.7	I've talked to people who either love or hate this album.
1:37.2	There seems to be no mental ground.
1:39.1	I think a number of things distinguish this record for music fans in general and radio
1:43.8	head fans in particular I think it is one of the most radical fourth albums in
1:49.2	rock history in terms of what it does in regard to what its predecessor did.
1:54.0	You're coming off an album in OK computer that is considered a masterpiece,
2:00.0	a guitar, rock, majestic, you know, everything that can be said with guitar music is being
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