10 Perfect Rock Songs On Terrible Albums

10. Codex - Radiohead

There's a good contingency of Radiohead fans who would happily burn someone like me at the stake for daring to say something bad about the King of Limbs. After years of hindsight though, it's fair to say that the loop based approach to this record was a bit hit and miss, right? No matter how amazing Thom's dance moves were in the video for songs like Lotusflower, we didn't need any memes to understand why Codex was so good.

Out of all the songs on the record, this is the kind of stripped down piano ballad that we've known Radiohead for, almost like it was continuing on the melancholy theme that we had already heard an album ago on Videotape. Thom is also on his A-game here as well, with the performance coming alive when they did their live takes from the Basement shortly after the album was recorded.

The only problem is that this comes right towards the tail end of the record, with songs like Separator and Give Up the Ghost lulling you back into the more hypnotizing mood that we were used to. Since most of this album was about setting up a mood with loops, you can't dispute that Radiohead made the album that they wanted to make. It's just a shame we didn't get more songs with this kind of spark.