Significant longplayers from yesteryear

5 June 2026

RADIOHEAD followed their electro experimental album Kid A
a year later with the equally synth exploring full-length, their 5th,
named AMNESIAC on 4 June 2001, today 25 years ago.

As with Kid A, Amnesiac incorporates influences from electronic
music, 20th-century classical music, jazz and krautrock.

The LP debuted at #1 in the UK and #2 in the US.
By October, it had sold, over 900,000 copies,
worldwide.

Rolling Stone: “Between arena tours and Number One albums, Radiohead want to get away from it all. Not a week in Goa or a summer in Provence but a more complete escape: oblivion. The songs on Amnesiac contemplate suicide, divorce, paranoia and mysterious disappearances, and the music follows them into the ether.”

Turn Up The Volume: Many thought that Thom Yorke and co would commit commercial suicide with this album and its twin brother Kid A (released a year before). I have no idea how many copies it sold. What I do know is that 25 years after it troubled many Radiohead fans, Amnesiac still sounds nothing less than amazing.

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