Monica LaBelle

Some say Radiohead's Kid A (2000) forecasted our turbulent times. Sure, I buy that. But so did OK Computer, and it did it first. When it came out in 1997, it was one of the first mass-produced pieces of art and entertainment to express a dystopian take on the innovations and roles that typified Western middle class white aspirations of the mid 20th Century. Simultaneously, it predicted today's fractured and unsatisfying internet culture. Never has a cartoonish microwave sound evoked so much self-loathing as in "Fitter, Happier," whose lyrics are basically a roll call of today's online ads. Or take "Fake Plastic Trees," whose words might as well be about social media's enabling of aspirational beauty and its consequences for Planet Earth. Not to mention "Paranoid Android," whose lyrics will sound familiar to anyone who listens to the rantings of a heartless despot: "When I am king, you will be first against the wall/With your opinion which is of no consequence at all." Brilliant.

If you loved them from the beginning, this whole set will go down smooth like buttah.