Radiohead: Every Album Ranked Worst To Best

Perhaps the band's most polarising album, Hail to the Thief is Radiohead's longest album, and their most frustratingly inconsistent record by a country mile.

So how does it rank above the three previous albums? Well, because although it's a mess both tonally and musically, featuring equal parts inspired classics and dire filler tracks, its highlights are just about enough to keep it from sinking any lower in the rankings.

Between the anthemic political track 2 + 2 = 5 and the surreal, almost dreamlike Where I End and You Begin, the album has so many great songs amongst the filler that listening to it all the way through makes you forget about the bad moments.

Aside from the elevating standouts, the two biggest selling points of the record come from the band themselves: Thom Yorke's raging, politics-heavy lyricism is enthralling, and Phil Selway's drumming is almost subhuman at its riotous best.

Some duds here and there aren't enough to entirely derail Hail to the Thief, even if it could have done with some finetuning in post-production.