How many albums does radiohead have

The other albums on this list I can listen to from beginning to end without skipping a single song; The King of Limbs, however, is the only exception I do like Morning Mr. Magpie and Little by Little, though.

This album is just too long to be considered great, in my opinion. Amnesiac was originally supposed to be released as a double album with Kid A, but the band decided to release both albums separately. I love both of these albums, but for different reasons. But even with those two being weaker than the rest, Amnesiac is still a wonderful album.

When The King of Limbs came out, I decided to give Radiohead another chance after being disappointed with them for nearly a decade. At first, not knowing any lyrics to their songs hindered my experience. But eventually, I stopped looking them up and just listened. The Bends was the first album that I fell in love with by Radiohead. That being said, this is an entertaining album to listen to from front to back. In my opinion, it sounds less like an album and more like a compilation of songs.

The Bends wears you out, in the best ways possible. The frightful "Burn the Witch," with its chugging strings and howled chorus, is a mob-rule tale as mesmeric and direct as a schoolyard sing-along; "Ful Stop" is a beehive of panicky guitar swirls and Colin Greenwood's submarined bass work; and the tinkling piano and of "Decks Dark" is so lulling, you might not realize that it contains some of Yorke's most shuddersome lyrics yet. Part distress signal, part dressing-down, Moon is a fantastic-sounding, strife-affirming document of 21st-century unease, and the sound of a decades-running band still at peak power.

Hence this epochal about-face—the seething, synth-riddled equivalent of a band shoving all of its instruments into a car-crusher, rebuilding each by hand, and divining as many new sounds from them as possible: "The National Anthem" is a jazz-kraut hybrid with a core-deep groove, while the pulsing electric mayhem of "Idioteque" is pure apocalyptic block party.

Listen to Radiohead in chronological order on Spotify or Tidal. Don't fancy tackling Radiohead's entire catalogue in one go? These ten tracks will introduce you to the band's nine albums. My Iron Lung A first taste of The Bends, a decidedly more accomplished, mature and complete second album. Not stylistically dissimilar from what came before, but a more spacious and careful set of arrangements.

No Surprises The first track recorded for OK Computer , and the version used is the very first take. The group's trademark dissonance is evident in the pitch-black lyrics set against a cradling lullaby. Kid A The album Kid A was hugely experimental and heavily reliant on electronics, and was not promoted by any singles. Its title track here is about as far from the mainstream as the group could imaginably veer. There, There The lead single from the album Hail To The Thief , in many ways signaling Radiohead's return to a more familiar, guitar-led sound — or at least weaving it in more generously to the sound developed on their previous two records.

Reckoner Some spacious arrangements and light-fingered production benefited a collection of songs that had debuted on a tour leading up to the release of Radiohead's seventh album, In Rainbows. None more typified the approach than Reckoner , easily a standout track with its gliding melody and communal percussion. True Love Waits First performed way back in , True Love Waits was an unreleased live favourite for more than two decades before a studio recording finally appeared on A Moon Shaped Pool — at the fourth time of asking.

The story of Radiohead really goes back as far as , when the group first began rehearsing at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire. Thom Yorke and bassist Colin Greenwood were friends in the same school year, guitarist Ed O'Brien and dummer Philip Selway were in the year above and Jonny Greenwood — Colin's brother — was two years below. Initially named On A Friday, after the afternoon on which they'd rehearse, their performances and demo albums were enough to attract the ear of Parlophone Records in , and on 5 May the following year the band released their first EP under their new, Talking Heads-inspired moniker.

The lead track from the Drill EP , Prove Yourself , did receive some national radio play, but its strong CD release meant most people wouldn't hear its contents until three of the four songs were included on Radiohead's debut album. Far more enduringly popular was the band's second release, Creep , though Radiohead's biggest-selling single only made its way to No78 in the UK charts after an initial release in September — not entirely aided by minimal radio play due to its depressing nature.

In fact, Radiohead would have to release the single Anyone Can Play Guitar , debut album Pablo Honey and non-album single Pop Is Dead — all in — before a rerelease of Creep in September finally became the group's first top 10 entry when it reached No7. That in turn helped with sales of Pablo Honey , which peaked at No22 — and but for the release in some territories of Stop Whispering as a single in October, and the Japan-only Itch EP in June , it was rapidly onto the next chapter as far as the band was concerned.

There was definitely something other about My Iron Lung when it was issued as a first taste of Radiohead's second album in September Fans would have to wait another five months before more music was released, though.

Becoming the band's highest-charting release when it peaked at No4, The Bends is also significant for being the first Radiohead album to feature cover art created by Stanley Donwood.

As with Nigel Godrich — who's first production credit with the band would come two years later — Donwood's work has been present on every one of the band's releases since. Not only did that last score the band their first top five single — only four more have followed since — but it included Talk Show Host as one of its B-sides. Sparse and darkly minimal, in hindsight it was perhaps the most explicit indication of what was about to come. Produced by Nigel Godrich, it shifted the band's positioning from slightly obscure, relatively complex five-piece guitar music to a more daring and inventive sound rife with creativity while still melodious enough to conquer a world stage.

Indeed, Radiohead were no longer mainly a UK-based success. A few days later came the release of Paranoid Android as the record's lead single — which achieved the band's highest chart position to date when it reached No3 — and then in August Karma Police , which as one of its B-sides contained Meeting In The Aisle , Radiohead's first-ever instrumental offering.

This was also the period during which Yorke's voice was beginning to be heard on other artists' material — firstly on a collaboration with Sparklehorse for EMI's Come Again compilation that celebrated the label's biggest releases. Yorke was in fact also approached to write the score for David Fincher's adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel Fight Club , but declined to recover from promoting and touring OK Computer.

The madness and wonder of that period is well encapsulated in the documentary film Meeting People Is Easy — released on 30 November , losing out to Jimi Hendrix for the Best Music Film Grammy — a toll it would take more than a year to pay.