Thom Yorke, the frontman and main songwriter of Radiohead, is behind many of the band’s biggest hits. But in an unexpected new confession, Yorke admitted that he has some regret about creating Radiohead’s 1995 hit single “High and Dry.”
In conversation with Harry Styles for Rolling Stone, the two musical artists talked about their processes for making songs. Yorke discussed how he now thinks of music-making as a complicated production, with his voice just one instrument, rather than the traditional idea of sitting down to write a song.
In response, Styles questioned when that changed for Yorke, noting that “High and Dry” from the album The Bends feels a lot like the straightforward singer-songwriter style of music focused around vocals and subdued instrumentals. He asked, “Is that something you noticed, when that changed for you?”
Yorke acknowledged that Styles was right: “High and Dry” is truly “a guy with an acoustic guitar. Singing his song.” But he had a blunt and surprising response to the question, declaring, “That particular one I wish I hadn’t [grimaces], but there’s nothing wrong with that.”
As for his own musical taste, Yorke added, “I don’t listen to a lot of singer-songwriters. I listen to a lot of mad old folk music, or I listen to film music, or I listen to electronic music. The banging away on the guitar thing is sometimes when it really speaks to me, but not a lot.”
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Yorke’s stance on “High and Dry” might shock some music fans given how popular the song was and still is. It peaked at No. 17 on the U.K. Official Singles chart, while it charted high in many other countries as well. It was also arguably the single that helped Radiohead move away from the image of a one-hit wonder after 1992’s “Creep.”
But the Radiohead singer seems to transition from musical styles and songs he’s written quickly, saying in the same interview that he “literally begged” the band’s manager not to schedule a tour after the release of OK Computer because he was already desperate to “move on” from the songs by the time the album came out.
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