The records

James Doheny goes song by song from Pablo Honey to Kid A and Amnesiac, closing with a discography that takes in the remixes and the tracks released only on singles. Around a hundred photographs run through it. The American edition of the same year was called Radiohead: Back to Save the Universe. Carlton brought it out again in 2012, longer and under a shorter title, Radiohead: The Stories Behind Every Song.

Number 15 in Continuum's 33 1/3 series, by Dai Griffiths, head of music at Oxford Brookes University. He works through the songs one at a time with close musical analysis. Long opening passages deal with the album as a format, from the two sides of vinyl to the single span of a CD, and he also looks at how the band lived with the record's reputation afterwards.

Mark Paytress, a long-serving feature writer and editor at Mojo, takes the records album by album and track by track, from Pablo Honey in 1993 to Hail to the Thief in 2003. A final section covers the compilations, live recordings, films and the members' work outside the band. It is a small paperback with a section of photographs.

Tim Footman, a former editor of Guinness World Records who has written for Mojo and The Guardian, goes through OK Computer track by track. Studio and tour stories sit beside readings of the videos and of the songs' influences, and he sets the record in the music business of 1997. Towards the end he argues it was the last classic rock album before the internet changed how people listened.

Marvin Lin, founder and editor of the webzine Tiny Mix Tapes, wrote number 76 in the 33 1/3 series. He writes about first hearing the record at college, and moves out from the record to Dada, including Tristan Tzara's method for a cut-up poem, and to the band's politics and their use of technology as the record industry changed. Its chapter titles play on the album's, such as “Kid Aesthetics” and “Kid Acclaim”, and it covers the reviews then and since. He draws on interviews with the band.

Steven Hyden, a critic at Uproxx and the author of Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me, mixes criticism, reporting and memoir. He covers the sessions that began in Paris in 1999, the writer's block and arguments that followed, the leak before release and the split reviews, with a history of the band from “Creep” on. Much of it ties the record to the films and the mood of the years after 2000. It was published for the album's twentieth anniversary.

The Radiohead volume of Sonicbond's On Track series is by William Allen, a musician and guitar teacher with a master's in film and television composition. He runs from the band's beginnings at an Oxfordshire school in the mid-1980s to A Moon Shaped Pool, album by album, with each record's singles, B-sides and EPs placed beside it. Every officially released track gets its story and some analysis of melody, words and effects. A print-on-demand edition and an ebook came later.