10 Weirdest Rock Songs That Became Hits

In a sane world, most of us probably wouldn't have been talking about Radiohead anytime past 1993. As soon as they hit it big with Creep, they had sealed the deal of being yet another one hit wonder riding the wave of grunge all the way to the bank. Thom Yorke had a lot more in store though, and their magnum opus gave us a medley of songs for the price of one.

Since the music world has always been a 'get to the chorus' crowd, it's hard to even pinpoint where a chorus is in Paranoid Android. Being inspired by the Beatles' Happiness is a Warm Gun, this entire song feels like you're being taken on a journey across 6 minutes, going from the glitchy sounds of the verses to having everything explode in the mid section when Jonny Greenwood's guitar comes screaming in.

And just when you're at the highest you can possibly go you get...choral singing, with Thom Yorke playing acoustic guitar underneath like their singing some sort of funeral wake. Before you even have time to recover from the whiplash, the intensity comes back in, with the acoustic guitar playing the same riff from the breakdown as the rest of the band drown it out in the process. In between you have weird time signature changes over 6 minutes, which dominated the charts and turned Radiohead into one of the biggest bands in music almost overnight. Compared to the more avant garde songs that just creep you out over a few minutes, this is the kind of song that's almost too off kilter to even ignore.