10 Amazing Follow Ups To Masterpiece Albums

From the start of Pablo Honey, no one could have predicted that Radiohead were going to end up as one of leaders of rock at the end of the '90s. Having been cast as one hit wonders just a few years before for their one off grunge single Creep, the sounds of The Bends and OK Computer set them up in a completely different world, taking the cliches of rock and roll and twisting them into something suitable for the digital age. Just when they seemed to be carrying the torch for rock, the next decade saw them going beyond rock altogether.

Coming off of the afterglow of OK Computer, Kid A is about as cut and dry a line in the sand could be from an artistic perspective. After the more guitar driven sounds of their last few records, Everything in Its Right Place kicks things off with different glitchy synthesizers, serving as a bit of a welcome mat to the cold world that this album exists in. Going through every single song on the track listing, you can feel the band toying with the idea of how to properly make songs, like the National Anthem being carried by a bassline and scattered horn section and Thom Yorke delivering some of his most frantic vocal passages over a sample on Idioteque.

Whereas the last few records saw Radiohead filtering all of their creative ideas through the lens of rock and roll, Kid A seems to be going through a much different environment. OK Computer may have given us a look at what dystopia could look like, but this is the real aftermath of those apocalyptic nightmares, taking us through the remnants of what society used to look like.