Radio Head

Radiohead was called "on a Friday" because they rehearsed on Friday's. This is common in the university music world. A jazz combo that rehearses at 2:00 is often billed as the 2:00 combo. But I agree, Radiohead is a better name. I think that Radiohead was being tongue-in-cheek when it said it named itself after the least annoying song in the film. It seems that Radiohead songs are the closest things (lyrically) to Talking Heads songs that you can find today. Their songs are basically poetic musings on the f***ed up state of affairs in modern society. Radiohead has a richer database to probe, granted (with all the corporate takeovers that have made us, more than ever, cogs in the machine). But don't forget, Talking Heads had the Reagan administration, rich fodder for any intellectual canon!!!!!

According to the screenwriter of the Talking Heads film "True Stories", the song was written about the author (or, more specifically, based on a conversation about a "true story" the writer told David Byrne about some extra-sensory experiences years before...) Actor Stephen Tobolowsky met David Byrne and was asked to help write a screenplay treatment for what became the film/album "True Stories". Early on, Stephen mentioned that he had real ESP experiences when he was in college, and he heard voices, like a radio from the other room...David Byrne later wrote a song and played it for Tobolowsky, knowing that he would recognize that it was influenced by the story he had told Byrne.

You can listen to the whole episode on the podcast (http://www.prx.org/pieces/65723-the-tobolowsky-files-ep-44-the-voice-from-anoth)

Arcadia1, what the hell are you saying?

yeah. the song has to be looked at from the standpoint that it was written for the movie. i read on talking-heads.net that david byrne wrote the lines sang by the characters specifically for the movie and that was all. later, he wrote entire songs out of them with the band.

The band Radiohead named themselves after this song because "it was the least annoying song on 'True Stories'."

fafafafa....im listening to psycho killer now :)

so THATS where radiohead got their name! aha. i love radiohead. i guess i should have known that...

Presumably the song is about mind reading, as per the guy in the David Byrne movie True Stories who read minds - this is the song he sings, and DB wrote it for the movie.

radiohead's original name was "on a friday." I'm glad they went with radiohead instead.

Yeah, On A Friday... what the hell where they thinking?

radiohead didnt really get their name from this song even though they may have said it. no matter what radiohead would have that name anyway you know :/ its like radiohead dont even know themselves but i suppose its all just lies for something that will eventually be released or something...fuck knows :/