Ah, the U.K. and their language use. Don’t get too excited. A report from the BBC, who generally are on top of things obviously says that Radiohead have written the “score” to the film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s “Choke.” It even comes from a direct quote from Palahniuk so it must be correct, yeah?
“Clark Gregg [Choke director]… knew that I’d written Choke while listening to [Radiohead’s 1993 debut album] Pablo Honey, with Creep over and over and over. So Clark got Radiohead to contribute a song; to write a song for the very end of the movie, the final credits. Apparently Radiohead liked the movie so much, they’ve written the score.”
Well wrong. Just cause someone said it doesn’t make it so (don’t always believe what you read). It’s either a language thing or Palahniuk is confused or mistaken, but Radiohead did not compose a bunch of new instrumental music and cues for this film ala the way Jonny Greenwood did for “There Will Be Blood” (which is what a score is). We hate to be sticklers for language, but if we’re not, things get misreported. A score and writing songs are two different things and Radiohead didn’t even pen new songs for the film. “Choke” utilizes “Reckoner” from In Rainbows, in the closing credits (all the songs used in the film can be found here) and the score is actually written by Nathan Larson ex of Shudder To Think.
We just confirmed this btw, with the music supervisors on the film Ken Weinstein and Lyle Hysen and Fox Searchlight. Our original report on the music of “Choke” is still correct. Back to your regularly scheduled programming (Note: PitchforkMedia changed their report hours later).
Meanwhile, the soundtrack is due digitally September 23 and a tracklist will be forthcoming shortly. As we originally reported the film also features songs by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (“Satan Said Dance”), the Fiery Furnaces (“Navy Nurse”), Ben Kweller (“The Rules”), Greg Dulli’s (Afghan Whigs) newest group, the Twilight Singers (“There’s Been An Accident”), Rogue Wave (“Lake Michigan”) and more. Expect to see these songs on the digital-0nly tracklist.
But in other Radiohead “proper score”-related news, some “Choke”-related people, Colin Greenwood and Tyler and Lee of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, have performed on the James Lavino composed soundtrack to the Alex Karpovsky comedy “Woodpecker.” Got that straight? Colin Greenwood didn’t write a score. 😉
