10 Rock Albums That Were Ruined By One Song

For all of the more maligned albums in Radiohead's discography, Amnesiac tends to be overlooked a little too much. As much as people like to chalk it up to just being the leftovers from the Kid A sessions, songs like Pyramid Song and Life in a Glasshouse are good artistic leaps forward that prepared us for what the next phase of Radiohead's career could be. If there's anything that could be considered a leftover though, it would have to be Hunting Bears.

That isn't just because it's an instrumental either. Despite not having the core instrument of Thom Yorke's falsetto, Kid A had songs like Treefingers, with the production being so dense that you actually felt a chill in the air when you listened to it in your headphones. When you listen to this song though, it's more or less just 2 minutes of guitars, with either Ed O'Brien or Jonny Greenwood just playing the same riff over and over again to build some sort of ambience before going into the next track.

Considering the effect on the guitar, the whole thing practically sounds like the rehearsal tapes for a song like I Might Be Wrong, as the rest of the band just starts warming up their fingers without knowing that tape was rolling. You can call some of the throwaway tracks from an album like Pablo Honey inessential or unnecessary, but those songs at least had some sort of hook to grab onto.