20. Radiohead, "Kid A"
Do I like this album, a mostly somnabmbulant collection of whooshing sounds and ominous synth tones over which Thom Yorke keens repeated phrases that seem deeply meaningful but are actually nonsense? No. Is it nevertheless one of the greatest albums of all time, a work of visionary genius, well ahead of its time, a document of a band at the zenith of its creative powers? Also no. Let's face it, after OK Computer and all of its (deserved, for the most part) praise and honors, Radiohead could have recorded almost anything and it would have been hailed as a Towering Work of Genius. Except for, probably, cool songs that people like and can sing along to with hooks and catchy choruses, yuck . So they all got very Radioheady and introspective. Thom " moved down to Cornwall , went out to the cliffs and drew in a sketchbook, day in, day out. I was allowed to play the piano and that was it, because that was all we had in the house." Of course. They fucked around for mo