Radiohead 'Don't Like Dance Music'- Paul Oakenfold Claims

Paul Oakenfold has branded Radiohead as purist, moaning 'anoraks', following the band's refusal to allow him to include a remix he'd created

of an old Radiohead track, Street Spirit, on his latest Perfecto compilation. "We were going to use it on 'Travelling', but the band

Radiohead, as far as I'm concerned, don't like dance music, so they wouldn't allow us to do it," Oakenfold said this week. "They would have

got the publishing money obviously because it's their song. It will now never be released." The original track appears on Radiohead's 1995 album The Bends and is a Led Zeppelin-style, acoustic guitar ballad, dominated by Thome Yorke's trademark mournful vocals.


"I like the challenge of taking a track and making it work in a different way," Oakenfold continued. "It's always the purists who don't like it. They're always moaning, the purists, you can never keep the anoraks (nerds) happy."


A relatively happy Thome Yorke, meanwhile, appeared in Select magazine this week, declaring "I don't want to be in a rock band any more,' and added that new experimental album Kid A was partially inspired by his own passion for clubbing. "When we finished it, I remembered how I always wanted to do a dance tune, something you hear when you go to a club," he said. "I used to go to a club when I was at university that played hip hop, James Brown and stuff. The speakers were really bad and blown up. I remembered that, because I always used to think 'Wouldn't it be amazing to try and get that feeling, but have all the things that freak you out, the most worrying images you could have, and rattle them off in the middle of a rhythm-'"

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