{"id":705579,"date":"2026-05-31T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705579\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:56:09","slug":"i-dont-listen-to-indie-music-any-more-ed-obriens-honest-playlist-radiohead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705579\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t listen to indie music any more\u2019: Ed O\u2019Brien\u2019s honest playlist | Radiohead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first single I bought
Ally\u2019s Tartan Army, the 1978 Scottish World Cup song, because England hadn\u2019t qualified. I loved that Scottish team \u2013 Alan Rough, Martin Buchan, Gordon McQueen, Kenny Dalglish \u2013 and the 10-year-old me got completely swept up in World Cup fever.<\/p>\n

The first song I fell in love with
When I was 17, I fell in love with a girl called Mary, who was this huge Smiths fan. I bought Hatful of Hollow so I could serenade her with William, It Was Really Nothing. I don\u2019t think she adored me quite as much as she adored the Smiths.<\/p>\n

The song I do at karaoke
I was celebrating my 29th birthday in Japan while doing promo for OK Computer. The head of Toshiba EMI, Mr Inagawa took us to a karaoke bar. By 1am, we were wearing prosthetic animal heads, and Mr Inagawa was in floods of tears as Thom sung My Way. I love karaoke when people are so inebriated, they\u2019re like: \u201cI fucking love you, let\u2019s do Copacabana for the third time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song I inexplicably know every lyric to
Fastlove by George Michael, who I really appreciate as a genius of\u00a0pop. And, holy moly, his voice, which might sound odd coming from\u00a0some guy from Radiohead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The best song to play at a party
I was at a Halloween party in LA, all a bit cool and timid, when the DJ spun Daft Punk Is Playing at My House by LCD Soundsystem, and I\u00a0thought: \u201cFucking hell, here we go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The best to song have sex to
It\u2019s either music or sex for me. I\u2019m much rather the sounds of nature: the river, the wind, each other.<\/p>\n

The song I can no longer listen to
I don\u2019t listen to indie music any more. I\u2019ve had my fill of it. I\u2019m done with guitar music in a way. I\u2019m certainly glad I never have to listen to How Do You? by Radiohead any more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song I secretly like, but tell everyone I hate
I\u2019ll be out with friends, hear a tune, and drift off because I\u2019ve started analysing it. I heard The Captain of Her Heart by Double recently, something that I might once have dismissed as dubious, but now think: \u201cThis is a\u00a0fucking good tune.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song that changed my life
Walking on the Moon by the Police made me want to pick up a guitar. The sound of Andy Summers\u2019 guitar makes it sound like it was recorded on the moon.<\/p>\n

The song that gets me up in the morning
Bach\u2019s Mass in B minor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song that makes me\u00a0cry
My new song Blue Morpho. When the kids were little, we lived in Brazil on a farm on the edge of the rainforest. It\u2019s amazing how music can capture emotion. Any time I think of their childhood, I start crying.<\/p>\n

The song I\u2019d like played at my funeral
I sang in Gabriel Faur\u00e9\u2019s\u00a0Requiem in\u00a0a\u00a0choir as a kid. The\u00a0final\u00a0movement, In\u00a0Paradisum, is one of\u00a0the most beautiful, seemingly simple pieces of music. So I\u2019ll have that, please.<\/p>\n

Blue Morpho is out now. Ed O\u2019Brien plays live in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first single I boughtAlly\u2019s Tartan Army, the 1978 Scottish World Cup song, because England hadn\u2019t qualified. I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-705579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}