It’s funny to think now that Radiohead were once considered a one-hit wonder, given how long it’s been since Thom Yorke & co. seemed to have any concerns with having hits at all. Radiohead could be regarded as the ultimate modern example of a group as an “album band”, a reputation that was first forged when they didn’t release any singles from their 2000 fourth record Kid A. It didn’t seem to harm the cause, given it went to Number One in the UK and the US.
But just a few years before, the one-hit wonder tag borne from the worldwide success of their 1992 anthem Creep was still hanging over the Oxford quintet. There had been some indicators that Radiohead were not totally willing to go down the traditional route expected of guitar bands in the 90s, with their 1994 EP My Iron Lung the first signs that they were more inventive and trailblazing than anybody (perhaps themselves included) had yet realised.
