10 Albums That Should Have Never Gotten Big

When making their first album, most bands always have a little bit of pressure before they even hit play on the record button. As much as the studio gives you the opportunity to do whatever you want, you also have to avoid sticking to one genre without feeling too one-note for your own good. Hell, at the worst of times, you could end up like Radiohead and have your one hit wonderdom pre stamped on you.

For as much as Radiohead have done to distance themselves from their first record in the past, the stench of Pablo Honey just looks that much worse when you realize the numbers that it raked in. Though nowhere near the likes of Stone Temple Pilots from around the same time, the idea of one of the most adventurous bands of all time just making a grunge record feels wrong, with the song Creep becoming the albatross over their neck for the foreseeable future.

Considering the quantum leap that they took on the Bends though, Radiohead were not willing to rest on their laurels anymore, instead using each album as a new artistic endeavor and making one of the most eclectic discographies in modern rock. While Pablo Honey might not be bad by any stretch of the imagination, this definitely does not sound like the same band who made In Rainbows.