10 Bands That Mixed Different Music Genres
4. Radiohead
If you were there when Radiohead first broke onto the scene in the early '90s, they may as well have been dead on arrival. Although Creep may have been a fine enough song to get them noticed by MTV, hearing the grunge-tinged sounds of their debut left many fans skeptical of what they were really getting at. When they found their voice though, Radiohead were content to never step in the same genre for too long.
Though the sounds of the Bends were closer to the sounds of Britpop at the time, the game seemed to change with OK Computer, feeling like an event with different prog leaning songs like Paranoid Android as well as tracks that felt like they could command a stadium like Lucky or Exit Music (For a Film.) Just when everything started to shift though, Kid A came out and blew everything out of proportion, as the band went into the art rock and electronic pool and never looked back.
From that record on, there's never really been a genre they couldn't tackle in some capacity, from the jazz sounds at the end of a song like Life in a Glasshouse to reminding their fans that they could still rock when they wanted to on certain songs off of In Rainbows. While they are now free from their label and allowed to do whatever they want, any new Radiohead release that might be on the horizon is always bound to be something more than just traditional rock.