Radiohead + Talking Heads = Fun-time playlist
This is a playlist made in response to a friend of mine’s theory that Radiohead and Talking Heads are very similar bands (both get critical respect but have mainstream appeal; both make heavy use of loops; both introduce another sort of music into rock - electronic in Radiohead’s case and world music in Talking Head’s case; and Thom Yorke and David Byrne have taken on similar public personas as cultural arbiters).
To see if the Radiohead/Talking Heads connection held up, I came up with a playlist combining songs from an album of each (“In Rainbows” and “Fear of Music”) into what is designed to sound like a single cohesive album:
1. 15 Step
2. Mind
3. Nude
4. Memories Can’t Wait
5. Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi
6. Heaven
7. Reckoner
8. Air
9. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
10. Drugs
