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Amnesiac by Radiohead

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2001
3.41
Rating
29674
Votes
1
6%
2
15%
3
29%
4
30%
5
19%
Distribution
Genres: Rock Styles: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Experimental

Reviews (page 6 of 14)

Не Creep конечно, но в целом не плохо для 2001

é a banda mais superestimada do mundo, não tem jeito.....

Atmospheric. Had a nice nap to pair it up!

dont like it. 1

Gratuitous overindulgent wankstain. The 21st Century's answer to Pink Floyd when nobody asked the question.

Im confused why this is on the list?

i love Radiohead

My hottest Radiohead take: I'd take this album over The Bends any day of the week, no hesitation. As a band I think these guys just work best for me when it sounds like Thom Yorke is wailing out from some cyberspace torment nexus they've trapped him inside. It's about the atmosphere...

I do not like Radiohead. Stop making me listen to Radiohead.

Close to their best but not quite 4.5/5

I got this album before taking a week off for Thanksgiving. When I opened this website on Monday morning, I forgot whether I had listened to it or not. I popped it on to check and enjoyed it so much that I listened to the whole thing again. I feel like that is the perfect summary of my relationship with Radiohead.

they are great

Radiohead's obviously quite a monochromatic band (that's kind of the point), but I prefer the records where there are brief splashes of color that invigorate that sound. Not enough of that here, despite some really good tracks

Feels mostly like kid A leftovers. Still really solid but a bit inconsistent. Pyramid song is one of their best songs

Perfect example of a really good album that doesn’t deserve to be on this list. Radiohead do not need more than 3 albums; no one does (apart from the Beatles maybe)

The Mystery of Why Radiohead Are So Popular (Part V)

Doesn’t quite breakthrough at any point for me. A B- side album.

Good??? Depressing??? Masterful??? Boring??? Who could say???

No idea what all those 1star reviews are talking about…

Radiohead is not for me.

Good for lo-fi, chiller vibes while I'm trying to accomplish tedious tasks, but this isn't really something I can see myself vibing to or putting on repeat in the future. Feels like the songs are hurt by how whispery/murmury the vocals feel too in addition to the random wailing. An alright album at best but not the most memorable I've ever heard. Couple points for Life In a Glasshouse being some sweet jazzy jazz.

This album is fine, but if I’m being honest, I’ve always preferred Kid A. There’s a reason most of these tracks didn’t make it onto that record—they’re looser, more fragmented, and while none of them are outright bad, they don’t feel like top-tier material either. Amnesiac has always been framed as a companion to Kid A, but the comparison ends up working against it. It’s like when your favorite movie finally gets a sequel: all the familiar ingredients are there, yet the spark—the heart—is missing. That, in a nutshell, is Amnesiac.

I didn't think it could get any worse for a radiohead album, but then this popped up. Garbage. Just garbage this album.

It feels pretty whole (to be updated when i have time)

yuck not radiohead's finest work

I've listened to maybe 10-20 Radiohead songs and nothing from this album. It's pretty good. It will be interesting to compare this album with others. 3/5 —————————————— Liked: — Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors — You And Whose Army? — Life In a Glasshouse

Bland and forgettable compared to some of their brilliant earlier albums. Credit to them for trying different musical styles on the album but ultimately doesn’t produce a great or even memorable record

Radio HEAD??? WHERE?????

All time great

Great album First listen was crazy Few misses but very good

Solid record. Hunting Bears the highlight.

Not a radishes fan, he sounds whiny the whole way througj

Not a huge fan of Radiohead when this album came out, they are just a bit too electronic and mellow for my taste. Thom Yorke's voice also used to annoy me. I don't mind their first two albums but their later stuff has always just been bad too me. I think now that I'm two decades removed from Radiohead and not being forced to listen to them all the time, I can appreciate it a bit more. I still would never choose to put it on but I can see the artistry in the album. I think they deserve all the accolades but that doesn't mean I like them. After about halfway through this album it became almost unbearable for me.

I don't love the shift to electronica. This does not hold up to The Bends. You And Whose Army? is the most melancholy song calling someone out I've ever heard. I also like it the best of the songs so far. Radiohead is like what Coldplay would sound like if they were sad and experimental. I love the line in Lego Movie 2 when 1980-Something Space Guy Benny says he finally gets Radiohead in Everything's Not Awesome. I Might Be Wrong has a Link Wray feel about the guitar riff. I wonder if these guys watched Lost Highway and this song came out of it. Knives Out feels more like "classic" Radiohead. So far, every song from You And What Army forward is more like the Radiohead I love. They're losing me again, rewins noise or moth flapping near a microphone noise in Like Spinning Plates is annoying. Ok, Like Spinning Plates is a jam. Too many space noises on this album. Life in a Glasshouse works somehow, it's like Radiohead's take on a jazz funeral.

A collection of odd little nuggets. Most of them are both off-putting and incessantly hummable.

It’s Radiohead there’s not much to say, I like the electronic bits. A strong 3/5

A dark, experimental electronic album with a touch of rock and jazz. I really liked this album and will be adding it to the collection

God the wailing is annoying

4.5! Still docking half a star for “Morning Bell / Amnesiac”

Probably least favorite out of all radiohead releases

I really liked "I Might Be Wrong" - the first thing on the album that really grabbed me. Never been a huge Radiohead guy and I don't really know why, it just hasn't grabbed me. I had OK Computer a few weeks ago and liked it a lot! So maybe I am learning. I think this album was pretty weird, I am surprised Radiohead is as mainstream as they are. It was also pretty boring - nothing really jumped out to me and I don't care for the vocals on this record really. Over a whole album it's just not for me. I am doing a “neutral” 3 stars because I’m still learning my rating system here. 2 stars seems too harsh.

Still don't get it with radiohead

I love their first 3 albums, with The Bends being one of my favourite albums of all time! Some of their stuff can be at best challenging at worse almost inpenetrable. This is nearer the challenging and therefore more enjoyable end of their spectrum.

This is like the stoner parts of Pink Floyd minus the good music. 2 stars or D-.

Not one of Radiohead’s best moments. A couple of good tracks though.

Traaaaaaashhhhhh bro

Amnesiac is a strange one. When it followed so closely on the heels of Kid A, I was ecstatic. More Radiohead! And so quickly! But being released so soon after that major release, Amnesiac felt slight in comparison. Partially, that has to be attributed to its less cohesive nature. It also doesn't help that it includes a handful of sound experiments that would normally not even be released as b-sides, and a new version of an old song from Kid A. [Speaking of - I'm pretty sure "Morning Bell | Amnesiac" is my least favorite Radiohead song of all time. It is an instant skip from me.] Anyways. There are some amazing songs here- "Pyramid Song" is hauntingly beautiful; "You and Whose Army?" is a fun exercise in dynamics; "I Might Be Wrong" is funkily hypnotic. I really enjoy everything here (excepting the aforementioned rendition of "Morning Bell"). But I can't shake the feeling that this isn't a "real" album, on par with any of Radiohead's major releases before or since. For that it can only receive - FOUR STARS

I'm a Radiohead guy but this was pretty boring. All the songs are very samey, I get that its their style but ~50 minutes of just "ooooh aaaaaaah saaaaaaddd" over a reversed guitar track didn't do it for me. Was going to give it a 2 originally but Life in a Glasshouse was really really cool. Love the sax. Favorite Track: Life in a Glasshouse

An excellent continuation from Kid A, fully layered sounds and syncopation.

I love them for their weirdness, their fearless will to experiment, but I don’t always enjoy the results.

half the songs are good the other half is more noise than music

Pretty good, pretty weird

Love this album!

I love the more experimental side of Radiohead. This album evokes so many emotions. I feel sorry for people in their reviews thinking sadness is not an appropriate emotion when listening to music

Not into it

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начали хорошо, а после середины улетели куда-то в экспериментальные звучки и немного затерялись... поставила бы 3.5, но такого варианта к сожалению нет. не обижайтесь, радиохэд, у вас есть альбомы сильно лучше.

Yeah, maybe this was the leftovers from "Kid A" instead of a perfect split, but I still love "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box," "You and Whose Army?" and "I Might Be Wrong."

Not my favourite Radiohead album, but the layers of sound and musicality come through with every listen

Not their strongest; would probably warrant a 3.5 as I'd enjoy it in some moods, but only really enjoyed a couple of tracks

Fantastic, obviously. But feels more like Kid A outtakes

I don't really get why this would be critically acclaimed. I can only imagine what it was like to be a Radiohead fan from the beginning and to run out and get this. Shocked and disappointed would be just the beginning. This sucks.

I really love Radiohead. This special kind of nostalgia hits hard, especially now, as I played it on a morning walk in the park with my dog in the middle of November. I see this one gets a bit of hate and I can probably understand why, it’s definitely not for everyone’s taste. Still I believe there are some objective bangers on it, I Might Be wrong and knives out stand out in particular. 4/5

Great album if you like moaning. Favs: Pyramid Song- I like how the piano part sounds super disjointed until the drums come in and make it make sense. Strings sound Beatlesy. One of their best songs. I Might Be Wrong- Sexy bass. Life In a Glasshouse- I’m a sucker for funeral jazz. Least Favs: Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors- Instrumental is very cool but Thom sounds like a depressed Crazy Frog.

This album makes me feel like I am RobPatt Batman and the world is my Gotham.

I had to listen through this twice because of how quickly the 43 minutes go. "Morning Bell/Amnesiac" is the stand out for me, but really this whole album just makes me sad. It's raining today too, I'm haunted by the greyness, I feel like the little dude on the album. Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors - is such a trippy atmosphere. I definitely get the vibe that this is the B sides to Kid A. I do enjoy Kid A more, but both leave me feeling equally grey... Or feel like I should be sitting in the middle of a padded room, looking at the pulsing nature of the waves... idk LOL 6.5/10.

This is what I mean when I say Radiohead fucking sucks. Best Song: Knives Out Rating: 2.0/10 Stars: 1

Radiohead was so popular. Maybe they still are. I find most people I know like them but are tired of them. Same for this album. I like it until I get tired of it. I’ll rate it higher for its adventurousness.

Ah stark reminder that Radiohead at times are utter pish. Sounds like Thom woke up and drank his own koolaid… again!

Da e nåken gode sanga her, men går bra om eg ikkje har dei på repeat liksom

Sorry Radiohead. This 1 was ment for the Public Image album under you. Sometimes, that’s how the cookie crumbles.

There are better Radiohead albums out there than this, but it’s not as bad as the last one they gave us.

I’m not a Radiohead fan but this album is very very good

It’s a pretty interesting album, of course Injust knwe radiohead from creep. But this other stuff from them its something I enjoy more. I also love the fact that it let me on a lot of nore music that I will hear more and more of.

Probably Radiohead’s most challenging album when it was released. Stripped back production on most tracks compared to their prior releases. I would say Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors is more experimental and challenging than anything on Kid A. The album has a cold, dark, mellow vibe overall. In some ways it feels more like a collection of polished demos than a cohesive album. As many songs as I like a lot here, mostly the middle section of the album, there’s as many that are meh or I really don’t care for. An interesting, worthwhile listen overall but I wouldn’t consider it an essential album. I consider it in Radiohead’s 2nd tier under The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows in Tier 1.

A middling Radiohead album is still better than most of the dross this site recommends.

feels like a collage of textures.

This album is so delightfully weird, I can’t explain it. I honestly think that is my favorite of theirs, along with the moon shaped pool, I can’t explain it, but I love it. Five stars.

After two “best albums” in a row, it's hard not to see it as anything other than just a collection of B-Sides. Particularly given the a clearly inferior, lazy re-tread of Morning Bell (not to mention the lyrics for Amnesiac songs appearing hidden inside the jewel case for Kid A). Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors and the backmasked Like Spinning Plates aren't the most accessible tracks either. But the highs are still so high here, and revisiting this was a blast. Pyramid Song, You and Whose Army, I Might Be Wrong are some of their best work of this era and easily go toe-to-toe or even surpass much of the material found on Kid A (heresy!) Packt Like Sardines, Knives Out, Dollars & Cents and Life in a Glasshouse are solid as well. I don't think it quite acquits itself from being painted with the 'non-essential Radiohead' brush, but any other band would kill to have an album of this calibre in their discography.

It goes without saying that I'm a music nerd, but I am especially interested in song structure and music theory wizardy. For that reason I have always wanted to like Radiohead more than I do. The problem is, they are a fucking BUMMER. This album for some reason is a little less grimy than others, very cohesive too. Another that would be well suited as a soundtrack/score. Technically very impressive. WAY better than most of what was being released in 2001. I think I'll save my 5/5 for OK Computer. Highlights on this one are You and Whose Army and I Might Be Wrong. Like Spinning Plates really got my music nerd juices flowing back in the day. They recoreded it in reverse?!

When Radiohead is good, they are great. I enjoy many Radiohead songs. Even on this album, 'I might be wrong' is pretty cool. But when they're bad, they are one of my least favorite bands of all time. So much morose tuneless wailing. So much winking smugness. Most of this album is just half-hearted electronic bullshit masquerading beneath a veneer of unearned grandiosity. Playing a song backwards isn't cool. It's dumb and it sounds like shit.

Really not sure if I “get” this album yet and ive got more questions than answers. All of that said, it was a solid listen and a good & big step for me into Radiohead beyond The Bends. Very entrancing stuff. To start, Pyramid Song’s rhythm is so tastefully janky. I cant describe why it doesn’t bother me despite sticking out so much I love how ambitious this is compared to Kid A. Songs like Hunting Bears and Like Spinning Plates are wayyyy out there and just as fucking cool IMO as hits like How To Disappear Completely on Kid A were Side note: im always amazed when I read about bands that manage to pump out so much material that they have to delay songs to a future album or simply throw them out all together. It feels cheap to record two albums at once, but the quality here is crazy high

I sometimes love Radiohead and sometimes don't vibe with it. This album ruled. I thought it was fascinating to listen to - a challenging listen in a great way. Going to listen to this a hundred times and see what shakes out. Great find.

Radiohead has been pretty stable in my top bands since high school - solidified by the luck of seeing them on the In Rainbows tour in 2008 (and then never getting the chance to see them again). I listen to alot less of them now, but will dip back in in spurts. Of the early albums, Amnesiac is probably the one I've listened to the least, but man is it great. I love how stripped down everything is - usually just a couple of instruments and vocals at the forefront. Unexpected chord progressions, lyrically dense, but still catchy. Pyramid Song is gorgeous, and Life in a Glasshouse is one of the best from their catalog. That trumpet. I do find it hard to argue with the general criticism that Radiohead is too self-serious and joyless as a band, part of the reason I don't find myself returning to listen as often now. But I'm still drawn to how they've been able to innovate while still sounding like an approachable rock band, especially in these earlier years.

This is definitely not Radiohead’s best work. I feel like I’ve heard of a solid amount of their albums and I haven’t heard of this one. Given its proximity to big albums like OK Computer and Kid A, you’d think I would have. Listening to this album, I can see why. It’s just not very memorable. It goes on and on and it kinda sucks.

This is not an album someone having dark thoughts should listen to. Soooo depressing. I like a few of RadioHeads songs and none are on this album. I do not get the hype.

Very interesting clang-y percussion pattern to set things off in typical Radiohead fashion Really like the rhythm of Packt - Thom's warbly vocals are really cool Lots of really cool sound design shit going on Pretty lyrically repetitive - fine for an intro but I'd like to see a bit more variety Really cool piano and different time signature to switch things up Thom giving a really good vocal performance on this one Nice little jazzy drum breakdown - goes from really simplistic to quite a bit going on with strings in the background and stronger lyrically in my opinion - still simple but more powerful Really cool sampled beat pattern - love the alternating filters Thom sounds like an android due to the processing Simplistic but makes for a sonically interesting interlude overall Like the softer switch-up to contrast Revolving Doors Gives off an almost 40s jazz vibe Nice breakdown and another good Thom performance Drums combined with that slamming piano really carries the breakdown Noticing a pattern of lyrical simplicity on this - not necessarily a negative thing though Really switching the vibe up to almost blues-adjacent guitar and a nice little bit-crushed beat - grooviest track so far Cool reverb on vocals Nice subtle groove progression - almost a bit like a dance track Outro is sick - phasery effects sound fucking awesome against Thom's warbling Easily best track so far Vibe change again - slow indie rock groove Nostalgic yet eerie Love it when Thom sustains notes - probably his best vocals on the album Pretty cold and grotesque lyrics to match the instrumental Really simple instrumental again but it works pretty well with this one Spooky ass lyrics again Instrumental is pure sex with Thom's falsetto Somewhere between a horror movie soundtrack and angelsong Most unique track so far Properly cinematic - lots of reverb, delay Another damn good surprisingly hard breakdown - just pure chaos Maybe would've put this against a softer track after Amnesiac for a contrast but whatever Really nice percussive work Cool instrumental but also kind of dull - there's not really a lot going on to benefit the album's flow Love that reversed percussion loop Really cool intro on this one - could've been a separate track instead of Hunting Bears Very cinematic and rich sound again but it's slightly bland compared to some of the other sound experimentation Jazzy instrumentation is fucking sick Sounds funky and ominous simultaneously Crazy good breakdown on this Builds the project to a nice crescendo - 2nd best track

Experimental but still accessible. It’s weird and claustrophobic and Radiohead start to disappear up their own orifice here, but ‘Amnesiac’ is still engaging and interesting. It was meant to be the second part of a double album with ‘Kid A’, but releasing it separately ultimately helped both records. ‘Kid A’ stands stronger on its own, and ‘Amnesiac’ becomes its own distinct entity, taking on a life of its own that might’ve been lost as part of a combined release. I like this album, but I can definitely see why many wouldn’t.

Not the best album of theirs, but definietly still top tier. Most underrated band ever. Completely unforgettable

Despite enjoying The Bends, OK Computer and Kid A when they came out, I somehow missed Amnesiac until this project made me listen to it. I'm not sure why that happened. Maybe I heard "Pyramid Song", didn't really like it, and forgot to check out the rest of the album. 24 years on, I still don't care for "Pyramid Song," but I have chalked this up to a Me Thing. The album properly starts for me with "You And Whose Army?" and I enjoy every song from that point to varying degrees, with the exception of the instrumental "Hunting Bears." There is a cohesion here, and I suspect I enjoy listening to these songs in contrast with each other more than I would listening to them piecemeal. Anyway, I'm happy I got around to this album. There's a whole lot more to say about this period of Radiohead's career, but I'll circle back when the project gets to Kid A.

This is a good album but has as few bits that don't hit as strong. With a few edits this could be a 5.

There are a good number of tracks I enjoy on here but let’s call a spade a spade. We could’ve left Kid A B-sides off this list (3.5/5)

Already had "I Might Be Wrong" and "Hunting Bears" on a couple playlists, but didn't know the rest of this album very well. Is it my favorite Radiohead album? No, but it's still very good. "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" "Pyramid Song" and "You and Whose Army?" were other faves.

Very down beat, it was ok.

Not my jam

So impossible to separate this from Kid A, which is a top 5 all time album for me. Still a lot of good stuff here and such a unique record that really sets a mood it's definitely grown on me over the years. I'm wondering what the legacy and reception of this record is if it's just released straight up as a double album with Kid A, but I think it would more just tarnish Kid A's reputation than bolster this one. The jazzy soloing in life in a glasshouse is sick as fuck and pyramid song and pulk/pull and you and whose army are underrated. But definitely not Radioheads best and it does drag a bit.

Heel vet

Boy did I forget how much I like this project at times. Believe it or not I actually like Amnesiac a good bit, I think it still suffers from the biggest problem Kid A also has. That problem being this album wants you to feel things at the cost of the tracks coming together a bit clunky. I won't lie I get why people don't like Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors but it is far from Radiohead's worst song. Also call this Kid A B-sides all you want but we all know that this was supposed to be a double album so that means they are in fact not B-sides but a whole other experience. I find this album to be a really good driving album, everything feels so vast like watching a mountain slowly fade into the distance when driving on the highway. There was a point in time where I thought this album was better than Kid A but now I know that opinion is just wrong. It's a solid listen but is nothing compared to it's much more appreciated and loved twin.

Part two of Kid A, at times its leftovers, at others its genuine extension. In either case, Amnesiac isn't very exciting: even w/ its signaling of forgetful and bewildered states of mind, I'd have liked more energy, at least more in-your-face lethargy if a slothful approach is indeed what they're going for. I wouldn't call this a caricature of the Radiohead sound, but only a handful of the tracks poignantly command the band's signature resonance: 'You And Whose Army,' 'Knives Out,' 'Morning Bell/Amnesiac.' Lyrically, Yorke relies too heavily not only on the obscure but the trite: 'There are doors that let you in / And out / But never open'; 'While you make pretty speeches / You feed me to the lions / A delicate balance.' Ya can't tell me that’s not...soft.

Dreary atonal wankery

Never listened to this album before because I heard it was Kid A leftovers. I can hear why this is the case (Morning Bell is literally on here again, love that song so I can't hate). A lot of boops and beeps. I'm not a huge Kid A fan so that doesn't help, but Pyramid Song alone bumps this to 3 stars for me.

Often times an extremely artistic and beautiful album, interjected with possibly the single weirdest songs I’ve ever heard which make for a bizarre and often unpleasant listening experience.

Radiohead is one of my fav bands, but this is not their best album. I have not listened to this album in a while, and it surprised me. Pyramid Song is a fucking work of art. There is nothing like music made by them.

Amnesiac is the first Radiohead album I’ve had to listen to for this challenge and, while it’s not the first album of theirs I’ve heard, it might be the one I’ve been exposed to the least. Not to say I’m massively knowledgeable about the band’s discography, but most of their albums have at least one song I’ve heard or are brought up enough in wider music discourse that I at least recognize its name/artwork – that was not the case here, so I went into Amnesiac virtually blind. After listening through it, do I feel like I’ve been missing out all this time? Honestly, not really. I’ll always appreciate Thom Yorke’s drive to make thought-provoking, experimental music, but this particular batch just didn’t have a lot of tracks that landed for me. What happened the majority of the time was that a song would open up with a cool idea that would make me turn my head a little a go “oooooh,” but then it would get looped to the point of annoyance and/or not progress in an interesting way. Only a few cuts on Amnesiac left enough of an impression on me to make me want to revisit them, so I wouldn’t say the album is a MUST listen – I feel confident that there are much better Radiohead LPs coming later on! Highlights: Pyramid Song, You and Whose Army, Life in a Glasshouse

Classic album in a great 3 album cycle .

Mai mult de fundal

It's Radiohead. It's weird. I always loved the Pyramid Song. I don't know that I'd ever care to get more than surface level on Radiohead, so this was fine in the background.

This is the first time I feel like I kind of get Radiohead. They’ve never really worked for me but I appreciated the melancholy of this. Some of it (like Pulk/Pull) really didn’t work for me, but a lot did

Did not enjoy it. Comes across as pretty pretentious to me

I listened to this through my headphones after a few drinks and it was an amazing experience. So many beautiful elements of production coming together to make such cool sounds. I guess in terms of the songs themselves, they are good but nothing stood out too much and there's nothing really earworming this morning.

Ніколи не міг позбутися відчуття, що це бісайди до Kid A, хоч тут і дуже високого рівня матеріал є

Один з улюблених альбомів рх, а pyramid song - одна з улюблених пісень.

об'єктивно це 4 (3.8 за моєю ж оцінкою), а не 5. але з цим альбомом я не хочу бути до кінця об'єктивною, бо з нього і почалась моя любов до радіохед. сумний, темний альбом, який ніби спиває про боротьбу та надію, але атмосферу створює абсолютно безнадійну, і десь так воно в реальності і відчувається.

Finally some Radiohead!!!! 😎 this isn’t my favourite album by Radiohead but damn it still slaps. Something about Thoms voice and the strange but addictive instrumentation constantly shines through the Radiohead discography and is not missing here. This was my first time really doing a deep dive into Amnesiac and I was really missing out. The experimental and spacey sounds of this album along with the dramatic vocals are extremely well done. Hunting bears was an interesting addition to Amnesiac and kinda put me in a trance. Definitely a lot of keepers in this album.

When I first bought Radiohead's "Amnesiac", upon its initial release, it was largely a disappointment. My view has mellowed over the intervening years, but it remains a mixed bag. For me, the album is anchored by three stand-out tracks: "Pyramid Song," "You and Whose Army?," and "I Might Be Wrong." The remainder of the material ranges from decent but somewhat dull to outright poor. Three stars. No. Title 1 "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" (2/5) 2 "Pyramid Song" (5/5) 3 "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" (2/5) 4 "You and Whose Army?" (5/5) 5 "I Might Be Wrong" (4/5) 6 "Knives Out" (3/5) 7 "Morning Bell/Amnesiac" (3/5) 8 "Dollars and Cents" (3/5) 9 "Hunting Bears" (3/5) 10 "Like Spinning Plates" (3/5) 11 "Life in a Glasshouse" (3/5) Total - 36 Average - 3.27 141/1001 72/141 albums reviewed were new to me.

Growing up my parents owned 2 Radiohead CDs, this and OK Computer. It wasn't until I was in highschool that I discovered Radiohead was more than Paranoid Android and Pyramid Song. I'm eating a bag of nachos and trying to keep the cheese dust off the keyboard. I owe Radiohead that much.

Accidentally lost my place on the album and couldn't work out which song was playing. They are all the same

An important step in their transition into their Weird Shit Phase. I get it and appreciate more than I did at the time. Some incredible arrangements and structures here, inside some admittedly hard to deal with noise and vocals. You're rewarded with some all-timers in Pyramid Song, I Might Be Wrong, Knives Out. Life in a Glass House is goofy but I like it. You can also see Jonny Greenwood's path into film scores.

Why's this guy so sad?

It's definitely something different

Duck Radiohead

Radiohead, I love you. Realistically, this is probably the weakest RH album of the ones that have been included on this list. Even still, it's a 4. They're just that good, man. How extraordinary is it that a group of extras from the Kid A sessions, wisely deemed inappropriate for that album, could be smacked together in a release of their own and STILL be a certified platinum masterpiece? Fuck me man, these guys were incredible. And no, it's not perfect: it does feel less cohesive, there are a couple duds, and the energy never quite builds like you'd want it to. But it's intelligent, haunting, depressing, and downright good music. Thom Yorke, have my babies. Fave tracks: - Packd Like Sardines In a Crushd Tin Box - Pyramid Song - Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors - You And Whose Army? - I Might Be Wrong - Dollars and Cents - Life In a Glasshouse

Objectively it’s good but it lacks fun factor for me

I'm excited to listen to this album but also slightly fearful of the mood it might put me in today. Pyramid Song!!! (I keep reading it as Pyramid Head but that is because I have spooky season brain rot currently) Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors is weird as hell. Super experimental sounding. Morning Bell/Amnesiac is good. Hunting Bears has a western vibe to it that I really love. Overall dug it a lot. Not my favorite radiohead album i dont think though

Kudos for the inventiveness of this album. Not my jam, though.

"Hoping my friends also see the peak in this." I have been slowly introducing subliminal statements in favor of one day going out to see Radiohead with my friends. A band as afraid of stagnancy as many hundreds more are afraid of change, this album is part of that artistic obsession and boy is it a trip. Jazz, electro, rock, wonky time signatures are all in some way present in this melancholic album that speaks about death, depression, and the cycle of suffering. (This album also got sampled by one of my favorite 2023 albums `Let's start here` by Lil Yachty) I think Radiohead sometimes catches some flak for their tendency to occasionally push out music that could be seen as pretentious. However, they approach it with a level of honesty that someone high off their own ass fumes could simply not emulate. I love this band and I am glad that one of their more underrated albums got chosen. They ran so that bands like Coldplay could walk (Love them both). Certified heat.

Feeling 3.5ish, def see how this laid the foundation for their later work

I think I sit on a 3.5 for this one, I do enjoy Radiohead but this particular album doesn't seem to hit as hard as their more revered projects. This is another situation where I think I'm going to get the book to see where there headspace was at when suggesting this album in particular. I'm not the Radiohead SAVANT but when the options are The Bends, Kid A, In Rainbows, and OK Computer it's strange they went with this pick instead of those others. In regards to the album itself, its easy to listen to and has the Radiohead charm I enjoy. But no track really jumped out to me as one I'd deliberately put on and jam to. Perhaps the reason this one came up was because, similar to the Foo Fighters album, it's the project less people are familiar with?

I’m going to preface this review by stating that “Life in a Glasshouse” may be one of the most me-coded songs I’ve ever heard. Quite frankly this is one of the best pieces of music I have ever had the privilege of listening to. The brass section was doing things in 2001 alongside this sadboy ass music we haven’t heard SINCE 2001. What the fuck. HOWEVER, I think the rest of the album is alright. Nothing particularly stood out to me in a strong direction one way or another. I’m going to give this a strong 3.5. Leave your strongest creep cover in the comments.

YES YES YES YES YES!!!!! so excited that 1001 gen made me come back to this. a record full of uniquely cinematic, thrilling, and haunting soundscapes. yet, it’s one of radiohead’s most accessible works. listening to it will make you feel like you’re that one brilliant misunderstood investigator from your mum’s favourite tv series shakily digging through case files in the middle of the night on your 17th cigarette in doom-bound attempts to escape childhood trauma and the sheer mess of your private life. simply sensational.

I know I’m supposed to love Radiohead, but often they’re just perfectly fine to me. 6/10

My first instance of listening to a second album by a band during this exercise, I quite liked it

Ja naja, Radiohead. Passt schon.

Noodly and a bit adrift but not at all unpleasant.

I'm not sure why this is on the list (according to the index I've been using it isn't, but that must be outdated.) It's a bunch of atmospheric B-sides that surely appeal to the diehards, but I didn't need to hear them.

of all the radiohead albums I think this is the one you need to hear the least before you die. kid a but less good

Slightly missed the mark for me, a mid tier Radiohead album at most. The sister album Kid A was a much more coherent version of this one.

Highlight Song/s: You And Whose Army, Knives Out, Morning Bell/Amnesiac, Life in a Glasshouse I name-dropped Life in a Glasshouse in reference to good closers when I got Heroes by Bowie yesterday. It's as if I summoned this album, I'm not superstitious but that's really weird. Out of all albums! Amnesiac, Amnesiac. I love how strange these songs are on the album. Beep-boop electronic noises, jazz, and a return of the guitar-based rock music. Most of those are used in conjunction with each other. Has a nice haunting quality as well on most of the songs, though that is the case with most Radiohead songs. Amnesiac is so much more than Kid B, sometimes people can get so blinded because it did the crime of being recorded roughly at the same time as Kid A but being released less than a year later. So people saw (and still see,) the album as a leftovers/b-sides album. If that happens to be true, Pyramid Song, You And Whose Army and Life in a Glasshouse are some bloody good leftover tracks, you can't deny that IF that is the case. The Amnesiac Award Show: Winner track: Life in a Glasshouse Most beep-boop sounds: Packt Like Sardines Favourite to win: Pyramid Song Most underrated song: Pulk/Pull Best singing: You And Whose Army

Look man I think that the "good" Radiohead albums are overrated, you bet I don't care about this crap. 4/10

radiohead again. still ok but boring

MY FAV RADIOHEAD ALBUM YAY.... I adore the odd, anxious and cold feeling from this album dearly. My favorite song would either be packt like sardines or Life in a glasshouse.

I like Radiohead a lot but I don't think this album needs to be on this list.

This album sucks. Hate radiohead

Lol already love it, have it on CD

its Radiohead so...

I like Radiohead in small doses. I wasn’t really in the mood for this album, however, there were a few songs I was already familiar with that I enjoyed. Added to Library: Packt Like Sardines Pyramid Song I Might Be Wrong

More Radiohead. As the list progresses, we now get multiple repeat offenders per week. Radiohead has been ok for the most part but I’m certainly not “giving thanks” upon seeing Thommy Yorke and the lads nudge their electronic instruments into frame. Considering that I haven’t even heard OF this record, I’m not anticipating a classic. I’m sure that news has shaken the earth in a far-flung nation somewhere. Or maybe that was just a regular earthquake. Listen, we don’t have time to discuss. There are lives at stake. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box - Zany song title that is accompanied by a track that is actually pretty fun. More shock. See? I too am a reasonable man. Please do not go near my case, it contains armadillo innards. Do NOT ask why. Pyramid Song - This song tried to get me to listen to two other songs and to get those songs to listen to two other songs. I tried to get Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff to listen to Giant Steps by John Coltrane but now I’m just financially destitute. Damn you, Pyramid song. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors - POV MFW I pull the pulk door TMI TBH FYP #respect #pulkhead This is actually another pretty cool song. You and Whose Army? - The imaginary army I invented as a toddler (just now) that is comprised of armoured walruses with swords for tusks. That’s my army. Who is in your army? Emaciated music nerds? The reanimated corpse of skrillex? Try me pal. I Might Be Wrong - You were on this one. Geez this is dull. Knives Out - Due to the ample girth of my fingers, I often use “O’s” and “I’s” interchangeably or add superfluous instances of either letter. This is, of course, not intentional, but alas, happens regularly. I say all this to say that adding an O to English words with an I already in them makes them sound like you have an English accent. Morning Bell/Amnesiac - This is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. Dollars and Cents - Pounds and pence didn’t test as well in the good ol’ USA. I say “good ol’” satirically. No “good ol’” place has the top Cause of Death for children as guns. It usually just has fresh baked goods and a friendly shopkeep. That’s a good ol’ place. I like the jazz underneath this track. Enjoyable. Hunting Bears - Twink anthem to the tune of the opening riff from MTV stunt show, Jackass. Like Spinning Plates - It’s pretty ‘ard, innit? Life in a Glasshouse - It gets real hot and the sun burns my vintage Haystack Calhoun 8x10’s. Fuck the glasshouse. Ruining my good shit. Priceless hoss heirlooms. Best song on the record though. I love avant-garde stuff, but this just feels a a little dull. Lifeless. Ultimately it feels safe as far as pushing the boundaries. We’ve heard plenty of albums from around this time that do the quiet synth atmospheres and this mostly just buzzes next to those droning slogs, occasionally raising its hand meekly with a stab of jazz instrumentation or a decent track, only to retreat back into the doldrums of mediocre indie electronica. I like some of this and I hate some of this, but the rest of it was like painting your walls blue. Unconventional? Sure. Groundbreaking? Not in the slightest. I don’t hate this record, but I wanted to be challenged a bit more, or at least provided the fascinating fusions of Life in a Glasshouse. I guess I can just go listen to Neutral Milk Hotel for that. 2.5-3 HIGHLIGHTS: Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box, Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors, Life in a Glasshouse

Насправді, я хоч не любитель,але є такі пісні,зо чіпляють,альбом справді великий,2 з 5,далі музика така,поганенька

Another day, another Radiohead record

Good study music

I legitimately tried. 4 songs I made all the way through and still didn't like them skipped through the rest of the songs half way through at best.

Radiohead is my guilty pleasure band and I do have to quote the melon in saying that this feels like a Kid A B-Sides album. Some very good material on here though, but it just doesn’t have that red thread

I don’t think I had the correct drugs available at 7am. Sounds like an artifact from a time capsule, left by a cult.

Resto de música do kid a

The album where Radiohead gave up enunciating

Pretty alright

I think it is very easy to argue that this is not Radiohead's best work, and I personally would say that Amnesiac isn't even within their best 5 albums. However, I also think that if any other band(such as the flagships of the dying britpop craze) had produced this, it would've been remembered as their magnum opus. I am extremely biased with Radiohead, but they are undeniably masters of their craft, and this album is no exception. Pyramid Song is undeniably beautiful. You And Whose Army? / I Might Be Wrong / Knives Out is an absolutely outstanding 3 track run perhaps only rivalled by some on Ok Computer. Understated tracks like Dollars and Cents are still outstanding. I can't say much to Hunting Bears as it is a transitional piece, however it certainly works well as part of the album as a whole. And of course Life In a Glasshouse is just amazing - Yorke's whine with the horns cannot be rivaled. For an album which is essentially just the leftovers from Kid A(an absolute masterpiece), this is utterly brilliant.

43 minutes of my life I will never get back. Hate to share publicly that this was an enjoyable listen. The tone of this album was fun and I won’t turn it off if it comes on.

Not my fave album of theirs, but still solid. I do always love "Knives Out" when I encounter it.

Great album!

This album contains some of Radiohead's best songs but i can't shake the Kid-A B-sides vibe it gives. Still a great album though!

Not up there with The Bends and OK Computer but still Radiohead which makes it worth a listen from time to time.

Not my favorite Radiohead album, but still pretty great.

Кровяка в глаза

great music

Scanning over all the negative reviews is quite funny. Hate someone cuz they suck not cuz they’re popular or critics really like them. I don’t know if any Radiohead album is less than 5 stars. Prior to today’s listen I thought that this one is their weakest album but after another re-listen damn this is good. If this is indeed their weakest album then damn they are the greatest band ever.

Not quite as good as Kid A but still amazing

A bit hit and miss for me

Bits have aged poorly, but most of it sounds so fresh still.

A masterpiece with electronic and rock themes, which is amazingly made up of what almost counts as the B-sides from Kid-A. Recorded during the same sessions, these songs didn't have the same radio play as prior albums, which hurt the album's popularity. But the creativity and musicianship is top-notch. Radiohead choosing to branch out from 90's alt-rock and experimenting like there do here is why they rank as a top band of all time.

Not my favourite of there’s but good for fall

Alternating between fever dream and the revolution, 70/30 split.

much more instrumental/lofi than i was expecting, given my only exposure to them before was Creep

i like this. less likely to go back to than their others

This is perfectly fine but I am driven insane by the fact that I simply do not get the Radiohead hype. What am I missing?!?!

Not my favorite Radiohead record

Not their best effort

Certainly not the strongest material from Radiohead. Recorded in the same sessions as Kid A, this album is considered to be its predecessor B side's. The songs on this record go for the same aesthetics and expereimention with electronic music as the other one, but they aren't as fulfilling in terms of ideas or emotions. Still, this album, like any other Radiohead record, is incredibly well textured and also one of the moddiest albums I had heard from them. It contains a very dense, eerie and sad atmosphere which made this a very unique experience, even for Radiohead. So while this may be the weakest project from them in the list, I can say that I enjoyed it a lot.

all the songs sounded the same depressing

I'm a simple man. I get Radiohead; I give one star.

Not radioheads greatest album glasshouses and I might be wrong probably my stand out songs.

Wow a Radiohead album I don't hate. It made me realise it's that singing style he does where he sounds in pain and smug at the same time that rips my knitting. There was less of that on here.

Te vaag en experimenteel voor mij

Much better than I thought it was when released.

I remember being so excited for this album, coming off the heels of the greatest album of all time, Ok Computer. I bought this CD and what I thought was a companion book, the book was $80 I believe. I got in my car, popped in the CD and unwrapped the book only to find out that it was just a limited edition CD. Frig me. Then I get hit with music completely different than Ok computer. Double frig me. In the end, even though Radiohead albums get weirder from here, this is still a top notch album, from start to finish. It was a bold move to get experimental at the height of their career but it worked. Choice cut: Hunting Bears

I should have given OK Computer a 4

This album has both some of the best songs I've heard by Radioheard and some of the worst. The tail end of this album especially is a massive fall off from the start.

This was much better than Kid A, and helped with work focus due to the low fi beats. As reminded me of Jack's school friend Harry's music

A bit biased as a big RH fan, but overall outstanding album especially given that its B-sides from Kid A sessions.

I actually like this better than Kid A, but Radiohead is still more interested in amusing themselves than in entertaining the audience. This awkward middle part of Radiohead's discography is my least favourite part of their work.

Chato pra caralho

its radiohead...

Not sure why this isn’t Kid A I’m reviewing. This album isn’t bad but it sounds exactly like what it is, the leftovers from an all around better album. 3/ 5

I love a few of these songs, but this is not one of my favorite Radiohead albums.

This album perfectly encapsulated how I feel about post-Ok Computer Radiohead. Totally forgettable and at times, annoying.

= the Beatles The best Radiohead album yet

I’ve got a complicated relationship with Radiohead currently based on their politics, but a stone cold classic is a stone cold classic.

Great album but better ones from Radiohead are to come.

5/10 - some good initial songs and then it starts to draw itself out and becomes whiny

An album you can admire more than love

I’ve been avoiding this album for years because I had a bad first impression of it back in the day. Surprisingly brilliant. Maybe I just had to grow up a bit to appreciate it

Oddly enough, this might be the album that broke me on Radiohead. It was genuinely pleasant to listen to, as it was largely in the background while I did work. That said, I might actually put this on again.

Not my favorite Radiohead album, but one of the easiest 5 stars so far.

Marvellously inventive band. An album not to be missed

A rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouching towards the digital hellscape to be born. Where once its fractured, pixelated humanity felt prescient, now it just feels trenchant. "Life in a Glasshouse" feels like a jazz funeral for the future we were promised.

I love Radiohead and this album, although not my favourite by them, it still top notch. It's the soundscapes, the creativity in the details, or sometimes the melody. I get why it may not "click" with some people but it definitely does with me.

Musically really nice all the songs are interesting and never boring lots of exploration of blues and old timey jazz. But over all to mush of a downer to listen to in long spurts

Radiohead, a band I could listen to over and over again. I haven't heard this album before but I really did enjoy listening to it. Knives Out was my favorite track and I am glad that I got to experience that song. I never get tired of Radioheads music so this is an automatic 4 for me. It's not my favorite Radiohead album by far but it really was memorable and captivating.

No había escuchado este disco de Radiohead. Es de una época en que me despegué de su música. No sé si ni siquiera he oído alguno de sus temas en la radio. Pues muy aburrido, nada que destacar al menos hoy en día.

I didn't really give this album a fair go but it's just not my vibe, nothing stuck out.

I really wanted to like this. But I didn't. Maybe another listen would reveal musical depths I'm missing.

I always preferred Amnesiac to Kid A, but still a pretty-listening glance at the tracklist didn’t fill me with optimism as I couldn’t spot a single one i knew. That quickly changed with listening as tracks such as Packt like sardines in a crushed tin box, Pyramid song and You and Whose Army are all classics. I’ve alway leaned more to the early guitar driven output of Radiohead but increasingly find the bleepier approach of mid career Radiohead to be immensely satisfying.

I’m not even going to dignify this with a review.

This surprised me. Not really the album: it's Radiohead of a certain era and it sounds like what I'd imagine Radiohead of a certain era would sound like. My reaction to it was the surprise. When we previously had In Rainbows on the generator, I liked the vast majority of the music but found Thom's mumbled vocals absolutely infuriating. But on Amnesiac, I'm weirdly sort of fine with it - I even relistened to a bit of In Rainbows to check I wasn't just having a bad day when I heard it, but nope still not a fan. "I'm a reasonable man, get off my case" is a very funny line to have as a repeated phrase/chorus, so bonus points for that. It immediately loses those points for the terrible spelling in the name of the same track. Pyramid Song I like a lot. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors is just too indistinguishabily weird for me, but I'm back to enjoying it by You And Whose Army and I like I Might Be Wrong even more due to the guitars. I got a chunk if the way into Morning Bell/Amnesiac before realising they seemed to be playing a kids xylophone and rather than be annoyed by it, I found it really endearing. It was at that point I decided I actively liked this record. I have no idea if I would ever sit down and listen to this again (I absolutely have no idea what the right mood for playing this is) but I can't deny I mostly really enjoyed the experience. I think this would be a 3.5, but I'm rounding up. It's a (confusingly surprised): 4/5

Medium-good Radiohead album. Very medium-good. UPDATE: project partner xilef couldn’t get the edit function to work so he sent me his review to add here: It's uh very like computery and autotuned in some songs and I like that but it's also like normal and that's what makes it good. I also really liked in the first song the drums. It's a good mixture of electronic and rock. And also the tiniest bit of pop. xilef's rating: 4 stars

Favourite Track: Life in a glass house, I might be wrong Album cover: based on a drawing Stanley Danwood's (who created all the artwork for Radiohead's albums) daughter drew of a crying classmate. Danwood made a minotaur version of the figure. He was obsessed with the minotaur myth.

Like a bevy of modern art, there’s merit here but it largely fails to connect with me. There are some intriguing soundscapes and motifs but they fail to build in to something bigger, even as it does strengthen in the second half. Unsurprisingly, the more traditional song/lyric combos were the strengths for me. Can’t appreciate the lyrics if you can’t understand them…however even when they are discernible they’re often repetitive past the point of effectiveness. Listened to: VT to NYC train. Favorite tracks: I Might Be Wrong, Knives Out, Hunting Bears, Life in a Glasshouse

Did not get on with this, was giving me a headache, felt very experimental

Fine. I don’t really care for radiohead.

I'm usually one to rag on Radiohead, but this time.....yeah it's no different. I wish I had amnesia and could forget this album. Only thing it'd be good for is being put to sleep. Granted, it's not unlistenable, so I can't give it one star.

I like Pyramid Song. The rest was like a big fuck you to my ears.

No extra points for pretentiousness, unfortunately, and I just can't with this man's voice. Lots and lots of this album sound like local studio jams that show flashes of brilliance, but nothing inherently cohesive or enjoyable.

would prob be more enjoyable if I was high. A bit out there

A truly beautiful and unique album, but a very difficult listen, partly because of the disturbed darkness of the sonics and the subject matter, but mostly because it thrusts me back mentally to the days of its release, one of the darkest times in my life, when I listened to it obsessively and it brought me no solace. This was my first full listen in probably 20 years, and I kind of doubt there will be another. Some things are best left behind.

How the mighty fall!

Good album

Listen, I get it alright, Radiohead is a good band and they are influential. But this just ain't for me man.

Jamás me dio por escuchar un disco entero de Radiohead, así que esta es la primera vez. También esperaba que me propusieran “Ok Computer”, “Kid A” o “In Rainbows”, pero ha sido este. No podemos negar la audacia del grupo al proponer un estilo alejado de tendencias y de los estándares del rock de la época. Un universo neo psicodélico, onírico en compases poco comunes que reclama un hueco propio en el panorama del rock. Hueco merecido y, por lo que respecta a este álbum, ¿qué decir de esa delicatessen llamada “Pyramid Song” y de “You and Whose Army?” más que son dos joyas?

Not a fan of this album at all

It is an interesting album, but it’s just largely not that enjoyable on the whole. The musicianship is obviously top level, though there are not many songs that grab my attention. Highlights - I Might Be Wrong, Knives Out, Pulk/Pull ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Хорршо

Kone musaa hidasta pointitonta.

ничего не поняла но первую песню теперь узнаю. проект познания радиохед продолжится… позже

★4.0 前作KID Aのアバンギャルドな電子音楽はなりを潜め、 現代JAZZの要素を取り入れたことで聴きやすくなったアルバム。 残念ながら、特に印象に残る楽曲は少なかったが、 駄作かと言われるとそんなことはなく、節々にレディオヘッドらしさの残る楽曲が収録されていた。

I know I've clowned on a lot of britpop in here so far, so in the spirit of objectivity, I'll do my best to shed the rose-coloured glasses. I categorically reject the wanky instrumental bullshit that comes with this genre, as I do the self-indulgent wailing mumble vocals. Thom Yorke perpetually sounds like he woke up sucking on lemons. That said, the execution of style delivered on this album, and the production value that presents it, remains unparalleled. It occurred to me during the back half of this album that I've heard a bunch of its tropes elsewhere on this list. I think the difference I owe to this album belongs to the underlying commitment and belief in the production. This album succeeds at channeling humanity where others have failed. The nuance of the performance, the organic nature of its dynamics, I find a breath-like contour within it. So much else in this realm sounds and feels dead. Ultimately, in a vacuum (read: without Kid A), this album is good. The "Kid Amnesiac" release would edge closer to 5 stars, but wouldn't get there without losing the self-gratifying pretense inherent to britpop. So a solid 4 in my book.

I started this album thinking I’m not going to just give it 5 stars because it’s Radiohead. But by the time pyramid doing had finished that was out the window. Would probably be a 4/5 on the Radiohead album scale

One of the best bands in the world with a collection of some of their best songs (and a couple of less good ones) Deducting one star just because it’s not quite the cohesive masterpiece of OK Computer, Kid A or In Rainbows. Still incredible.

A few of my favorites on this album.

For me top depressive

Their music is a bit more musically complex, avant garde and interesting than a lot of other rock. Unfortunately for me, Thom Yorke's voice is an annoying distraction.

Kind of odd stuff. Not bad but just not great.

Dystopian. Weird. Doesn't sound like all the other music ever made. There are misses (Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors?!) and there are some that standout: Packt Like Sardines In a Crushd Tin Box, Knives Out, I Might Be Wrong, Life in a Glasshouse. "Let's go down the waterfall Think about the good times and never look back"

A fair amount of diversity, but I've never been enthralled with this band and this album didn't change that.

Love several of their albums, but not this one...kind of an incoherent mess.

one of my absolute favorites, although Amnesiac isn't my top choice for Radiohead - on this album I think Pakt like Sardines down to I might be Wrong work great, the rest blends together, wistful and softly wailing. I still think they are brilliant whatever they do

I love this album. His voice is ethereal and somewhat eerie.

Like Topographic Oceans era Yes - it's the tones man, not the tunes. A lot of neat sounds pumping through a set of headphones. Three stars for I Might Be Wrong. The rest - less impactful. At times - genius level distraction. But distraction nonetheless.

I enjoyed it, but in the most melancholy way you can enjoy something. I’ve always loved yorkes use of minimalism, and this is no exception, if in fact one of the best examples.

I refer to my previous comments about Kid A. This album came out of the same recording sessions so shares the same DNA. Namely more electronic than guitars. This could easily have become a double Kid A album. Weirdness and beauty coexist on the album. Like Kid A I was not sure originally about the album but has become a grower. Is purely for Radiohead aficionados. 5/5 7/9/25

Close to a 4, but it's a very solid 3. Some great tunes but then a couple clunkers that bring it down.

First Radiohead album experience and it was...fine? I had convinced myself, from bits and pieces of songs I had heard, that Radiohead is not a band I would like and this album didn't do anything to change that belief.

How about an album of B sides from an experimental ambient album? How about no.

This is honestly about the time I don’t care as much but Radiohead. The vocals are all incomprehensible moaning. The music is trying so hard to be Unique with weird time signatures. They are obviously good musicians but they start to lack any interesting melodies.

So dreary....

I’m forever a Radiohead fan, possibly too much, although their music hit its highs in my teens and 20s so had a huge impact. Amnesiac was a let down for me when it came out - the grand cinematic swirls of Kid A suddenly got a lot darker, murkier. It seemed a lot for Radiohead to throw out right after a masterpiece, and it’s definitely not their greatest work. In fact, it took hearing the “I Might Be Wrong” live EP to appreciate the songs more, as all of these songs needed a boost of energy. There’s still some devastating songs here and some brilliant turns - the band was still musically incredible. But this was the band working its way to another phase and that means it has its blemishes here and there.

amazing bits & pieces. i might be wrong / knives out / life in a glasshouse elevate a weaker supporting cast!

Nice followup to Kid A but it's pretty clear this is actually Kid B

Ohhh they are geniuses I get it now. More a casual fan, I love fpt and emff, but this album rules

I'm just not a fan of Radiohead. And usually it's mostly because I don't like Thom Yorke's singing. But with this album, the music is just so formless. Like what exactly is this? Don't get me wrong, I like plenty of experimental music, but it feels like there's no entry point to get into these songs. They just sort of start, then there's some meandering, and eventually it ends. There's frequently not much of a groove, there's no hooks, nothing to grab onto. It's almost like each song is a prelude for a song which doesn't exist. I don't see any reason to listen to this again.

First one - giving straight up 3 stars as a benchmark to the rest. This is about me, not Radiohead

Not bad, but not a huge fan either

For someone really only familiar with Radiohead via their radio played singles, this album came as a surprise. It's a lot more electronic than I would have expected, and ends on a nice jazzy note. That said, I found it a bit too slow paced.

Trying to understand the time signature and find the downbeat in Pyramid Song hurt my brain. I loved it. What a weird, weird album. I’ve never heard this before and typically I’ve never been a big fan of Radiohead. But I freaking loved this album. Maybe they’re finally clicking for me. Maybe I only like a few of their albums. Whatever the case, this album was amazing.

it's good folks

I had no idea Radiohead made such hideous music. This feels like a social experiment. 1/5

it's slightly annoying me that at the moment my top artist on this website is Radiohead because i gave 5 stars to two of their albums so far (and i haven't even got to OK Computer yet). idk why it just feels really basic lol, like "who's your top artist on the 1001 albums generator website" "Radiohead" - idk it just bothers me, i thought i was cooler than that (i didn't think i was cooler than that). anyway, for some reason i'm really familiar with every Radiohead album APART from Amnesiac which i always just skipped over for no reason. i think there are some Obvious Bangers here but also a lot of stuff that is just OK.

If Salvador Dali paintings had a soundtrack, this would be it. The best way I can describe many of these songs is “warped.” There is a strange sound to many of these tracks, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, that’s kind of the power of Radiohead, they create such interesting tracks. This isn’t an amazing, 5-star album for me, but it is very good. Highlights include Pyramid Song, I Might Be Wrong, Dollars & Cents. Even some instrumentals like Hunting Bears I liked (this reminded me of The Right Side of My Mind by Queensryche). An excellent, unique record.

am i insane for liking this more than ok computer? radiohead is so fire when the doing weird electronic shit and not britpop bullshit

Could not finish. Truly awful

zeurderige zang

I think I would like this without the vocals

Pleasant background listening while working. No major hits, just nice flow

Enjoyed this album more than I expected.. sonically there’s a lot of industrial vibes but not too abrasive to distract melodic nature of the songs. Think Gorillaz mixed with NIN

First time playing this for about 25 years. Beatles, prog, electronica, Aphex Twin, OK Computer era Radiohead...all mixed in the pot.

Love Radiohead but this is not my favorite by them. A little too out there with the experimental sounds, especially the processed vocals on Thom.

I can appreciate the artistry gone into this album but i think the vision is lost on me. although, special mention to life in a glasshouse, enjoyed that one.

This is like if you went 1-5 in a baseball game but you hit one bloop single and struck out four times

Total snoozefest

oh my god snooooze

This one was a little slow to be honest. Good music sound and the vocals and lyrics you would expect. But lacked a bit of energy and standout tracks.

A decent album with some industrial touches.

When I first started *Amnesiac*, I thought it was pretty much one of those albums that separates the real fans from the bandwagon fans. This is truly an album only an uber-Radiohead fan can love. But after reading the history of it I honestly believe that this is more of an album of what was left of the *Kid A* sessions. It feels like they released the more accessible material on that album, and left the more experimental tracks on this one. There are a few nuggets so the accessible line, like my favorite track "Dollars and Cents", as well as "I Might be Wrong" and "Knives Out" which I also liked. Most of this album, though, reminds me of what people say when they call them too bloopy. I did not dislike all of the experimental tracks on the album. One that really stood out to me was "Hunting Bears" with the guitar playing around the white noise swish. Still, all in all I think I found more material that I either didn't appreciate or didn't like.... but it has its moments (6.8) ★★★

"Pyramid Song" is my favourite Radiohead song, but I am not overly keen on the rest of this. 3.5 stars

My hot take, which surely no one agrees with, is this album is better than *The Bends*. I think this album represents Radiohead at the peak of their powers, when they were just wildly experimenting with their sound and still managing to craft some of the best music ever. I don't love everything here, but there's a ton of great highlights including "Pyramid Song", "You and Whose Army", "I Might Be Wrong", "Knives Out", the alternate version of *Kid A*'s "Morning Bell", and one of my absolute favorite Radiohead songs, "Life in a Glasshouse". 5 stars.