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!!!!!
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!!!!!