The Radiohead albums in order run to seventeen on my map, and only nine of them are Radiohead records. The rest are Thom Yorke solo albums, Atoms for Peace and the Smile, all charted as stations from Pablo Honey in 1993 through to Tall Tales in 2025, with every credited musician running as their own line.
Most of the maps I draw record people arriving and leaving. Radiohead is the one where nobody does, and the interest is not in the churn but in the three moments the pattern breaks.
I built it from the credits, album by album, at my desk in East Sussex, and the thing I did not expect was how much of the story is told in single-track credits. There are 67 credited lines on the finished sheet.
The Radiohead Albums in Order, Band Records and Side Projects Together
The nine Radiohead studio albums are Pablo Honey (1993), The Bends (1995), OK Computer (1997), Kid A (2000), Amnesiac (2001), Hail to the Thief (2003), In Rainbows (2007), The King of Limbs (2011) and A Moon Shaped Pool (2016).
Eight more stations sit between and after them. Thom Yorke's The Eraser (2006), Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (2014), Anima (2019) and Tall Tales with Mark Pritchard (2025), Atoms for Peace's Amok (2013), and the Smile's A Light for Attracting Attention (2022), Wall of Eyes (2024) and Cutouts (2024).
Seventeen stations, thirty-two years, and one route through all of it.
Nine Albums, Twenty-Three Years, and Not One Line-Up Change
Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, and Philip Selway are credited on all nine Radiohead studio albums from Pablo Honey in 1993 to A Moon Shaped Pool in 2016. Twenty-three years, nine records, no replacements.
That is rare. On my map of the Fall, thirty-one albums pull in a line-up that changes almost every station, and the result looks like a shredded timetable. Radiohead's five run dead straight and parallel down the middle of the sheet, which is why the guest credits on either side of them stand out so hard.
Ed O'Brien Is the Only Member Who Never Crosses Over
Follow those five lines out past the band albums, and something quietly interesting happens. Three of the four non-Yorke members appear on a Thom Yorke solo record exactly once, and each time it is for a single, specific thing on a single track.
Jonny Greenwood is credited with piano chords on the title track of The Eraser in 2006, and he goes on to run through all three Smile albums as well. Colin Greenwood turns up on Tomorrow's Modern Boxes in 2014 for beat programming on "Guess Again!". Philip Selway appears on Anima in 2019 for sped-up drums on "Impossible Knots".
Ed O'Brien never does. Across the whole map, his line begins at Pablo Honey, runs through all nine band albums, and stops. He is the only one of the five who never appears outside Radiohead, and on the finished print that is visible from the other side of a room.
Credited for Exactly One Thing
Radiohead's credit sheets are unusually precise about who did what and where. Rather than a vague "additional musician" line, you get the track and the job, which made this the most satisfying set of stations I have drawn.
| Musician | Album | The credit, in full |
|---|---|---|
| Henry Binns | Kid A (2000) | Rhythm sampling on "The National Anthem" |
| Jonny Greenwood | The Eraser (2006) | Piano chords on "The Eraser" |
| Noel Langley and Yazz Ahmed | The King of Limbs (2011) | Flugelhorn on "Bloom" and "Codex" |
| Joey Waronker | Amok (2013), Anima (2019) | Drums at the end of "The Axe", on both records |
| Colin Greenwood | Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (2014) | Beat programming on "Guess Again!" |
| Clive Deamer | A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) | Additional drums on "Ful Stop" |
| Philip Selway | Anima (2019) | Sped-up drums on "Impossible Knots" |
If you are buying for the sort of fan who has opinions about the drum sound on "Ful Stop", this is the table they will find first and the reason the print holds their attention past the initial look.
Why Nigel Godrich Has No Line on a Radiohead Album
Godrich has produced every Radiohead album from OK Computer onwards and is fairly described as the sixth member. He does not have a line on any of them, and that is deliberate.
My rule across every map is that a producer only earns a musician line where they are also credited playing or arranging something. On the Radiohead records, Godrich is credited with production, so he is named at the station rather than drawn as a line.
He does get a line, twice. On The Eraser and on Atoms for Peace's Amok in 2013, he is credited with arrangement and extra instrumentation alongside the production, which is exactly the threshold the rule is there to catch. The man most associated with the band's sound runs a line only on the records that are not theirs.
Kid A Opens the Doors, and Amnesiac Brings in a Jazz Band
For three albums, the map is five lines and almost nothing else. Then Kid A arrives in 2000, and the station is suddenly crowded.
A brass and reed section comes in: Andy Bush on trumpet, Andy Hamilton and Mark Lockheart on tenor saxophones, Martin Hathaway on alto, Steve Hamilton on alto, Stan Harrison on baritone, Liam Kerkman on trombone and Mike Kearsey on bass trombone, with the Orchestra of St John's on strings and John Lubbock conducting.
Amnesiac goes somewhere stranger the following year. The Humphrey Lyttelton Band appear on track eleven, with Lyttelton himself on trumpet and leading, Jimmy Hastings on clarinet, Pete Strange on trombone, Paul Bridge on double bass and Adrian Macintosh on drums. A traditional jazz band, on a Radiohead record, in 2001.
The same widening happens again at the far end of the map. From A Light for Attracting Attention in 2022, Tom Skinner runs alongside Yorke and Jonny Greenwood across all three Smile albums, and that first record brings in Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde on saxophones, Byron Wallen on trumpet, Theon Cross on tuba, Chelsea Carmichael on flute, Nathaniel Cross on trombone and the London Contemporary Orchestra under Hugh Brunt.
A Gift for Radiohead Fans, Sized for How They Read It
This is a dense map, so size matters more than it does with most maps. A2 at 420 x 594mm works if it is going somewhere it will be seen in passing, a hallway or the wall above a desk, and the shape of the thing reads clearly from a few paces.
A1 at 594 x 841mm is the one to buy if the person is going to stand in front of it and read the Kid A station properly. Every credit in the table above is legible at that size, which is the whole point for anyone who came to the band through the credits rather than the singles. Two US inch sizes are offered as well, 24 x 18 in and 36 x 24 in.
Prints start at £42 unframed, or ready to hang in a black wood frame, each a Giclée on 230gsm textured matte fine art paper, archival and acid-free. For someone who came in through OK Computer and never quite left, the A1 is the one that goes on the wall rather than into a drawer.
Questions I Get About the Radiohead Map
Does it cover the side projects or just the band?
Both. Seventeen albums in total: the nine Radiohead records, Thom Yorke's four solo albums, Atoms for Peace's Amok and all three by the Smile, running to Tall Tales with Mark Pritchard in 2025.
How many albums have Radiohead made?
Nine studio albums as Radiohead, between 1993 and 2016. The other eight stations on this map are solo and side-project records by members of the band.
Is Flea really on it?
Yes, once. He plays on Amok in 2013 as part of Atoms for Peace, which gives him a single-station line and one of the shortest on the map.
Has the Radiohead line-up ever changed?
Not once. The same five names are credited on all nine band albums between 1993 and 2016, which is rarer than most people assume.
What is not on this map?
Live albums, compilations, EPs and singles. The maps cover studio records only, so Tall Tales in 2025 is the last station rather than the most recent release of any kind. Track-level roles are not shown either: each line tells you which albums a musician appears on, and only my Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup album map goes down to individual tracks.
Getting Hold of the Print, and What Sits Next to It
The Radiohead Discography Map Art Print comes in A2 and A1, unframed or in a black wood frame, from £42.
For fans whose listening runs to other bands who kept pushing at the edges of a rock record, the Muse Discography Map, the Cure Discography Map and the Manic Street Preachers Map are the closest neighbours in the range.
Everything else sits in the Music Wall Art Prints collection. If you are buying for somebody whose favourite band you are not certain of, there is an art print gift card.
