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500 Greatest Albums

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Kid A - Radiohead


Kid A - Radiohead
428/500
Just when they seemed destined to become the next U2, Radiohead made this fractured, twitchy record. Despite esoteric nods to glitchy electronica ("Idioteque") and free jazz (an eight-horn pileup in "The National Anthem"), they morphed those sounds into a surprisingly accessible elegy to tenderness — and had a hit anyway.

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