10 Even More Perfect 1990s Rock Albums With No Bad Songs

8. OK Computer - Radiohead

In all honesty, it's tough to choose between Pablo Honey, The Bends, and OK Computer when looking to decide the greatest Radiohead album of the '90s.

The Bends has already been featured on our 10 Perfect 1990s Rock Albums With No Bad Songs list, which means that OK Computer gets the nod this time out. That's no slight on Pablo Honey, but more an indicator of just how phenomenal a record Radiohead's 1997 album is.

While Pablo Honey and The Bends were both great indie rock albums, OK Computer saw the band in a more experimental direction than had been seen previously.

Songs like Karma Police and No Surprises provided standard indie belters, but it's the haunting uniqueness of tracks like Fitter Happier and Exit Music (For a Film) that made this album standout from its two predecessors. Then there's the sheer audacity of a track like Paranoid Android, which rattles away for nearly six-and-a-half minutes and feels like three totally different songs in one; all in the best possible way!

Never one to be a shrinking violet, the pulsating energy of Electioneering allowed lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood to take centre-stage in the most bombastic, brilliant of ways - and that song remains one of Radiohead's heaviest, dirtiest tracks of their nine-album career.

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