10 Rock Artists That Tried To Destroy Their Career

No one going into a Radiohead record should really expect to have a great time from cover to cover. Though Thom Yorke's brand of songwriting is definitely great to listen to, these lyrics are on the dark side 24/7, from talking about a relationship falling apart to tracks about the coming apocalypse and the fallout of humanity. It might be great in the headphones, but a lot of people tended to forget that a lot of it was coming from a genuine place in the early days.

While the band were reluctant to even release their first single Creep, the sudden onslaught of fame that came with the band's reinvention on OK Computer was more than Thom could take most of the time, not willing to play the game of being the next rock god for the '90s. There were even accounts that came from the OK Computer tour where Thom would disappear a few hours before showtime just to clear his head of all of the stress, including one occasion where he accidentally took a train back to the venue that had a bunch of Radiohead fans in it.

We wouldn't actually hear that kind of tension until Kid A, where the entire band seemed to go beyond rock altogether and make the kind of music that they felt best represented them and shifting the entire scene on its head. Thom may have shaken off some of the more fairweather fans by making the music he wanted, but there was still a ton of fans that were more than willing to go along for the ride as well.