Amnesiac

I really like Radiohead’s other albums, particularly OK Computer and In Rainbows. However, I feel like this record is comparatively disappointing. The instrumentals are not as interesting as in its older brother Kid A. Some parts feel more so experimental than made to be good. Thom does not really go that far in his vocals, especially compared to other albums. However, when songs hit, they do heavily. Pyramid song is a masterpiece. Mid 3.

Very experimental, ambient at times, or even blends into jazzy prog-rock. Lots of emotional depth to it, really enjoyed the record when I feared I wouldn't.

Hard to be objective on this. Vivid memories of the first listen of Packt Like Sardines, and pretty much everything on this album was a hook for me from then on.

would have given Amnesiac a zero if possible

Whole bunch of nothing. Liked the earlier Radiohead album I got more.

There truly is no band like Radiohead. While I haven’t seen them live, I did catch Thom Yorke solo—and it felt less like a concert and more like stepping into a living sound experiment, equal parts performance and consciousness-bending art. His work stretches into raw, tense, sometimes uncomfortable spaces, but always with an honesty and intensity that cuts deep. This album isn’t one I return to often, yet listening through it twice this time I was struck by its haunting layers. It’s the kind of record that unsettles as much as it moves you—an album that challenges even as it resonates.

When my kid brother got into Radiohead with the release of "Creep" in high school, I recall thinking they were just another grunge-adjacent alternative rock act with a memorable single. Fast forward 30+ years and Radiohead continue to be one of the most forward-thinking and relevant artists of a generation, and I continue to look back on my bad takes with a small measure of embarrassment. I remember getting this on vinyl hot on the heels of Kid A coming out the year I graduated university. My college girlfriend was literally and figuratively horny for Kid A, so my impetus was obvious. This record continues to support my theory that when a band starts using strings in their compositions, it demonstrates that they are getting pretty serious about shit. This is another record that sounds haunted. This theme keeps popping up in the 1001 recommendations, but I'm here for it. I haven't always loved everything Radiohead has done, but when I like something they put out, I don't just like it, it becomes an anthem. This is one of those listening experiences that takes you on a trip. There are some serious highlights here. I don't know how one would improve upon the utterly haunting "Pyramid Song," (unless 20 years later you either, [a] slow it down 800%, or [b] have a men's chorus do a cover of it that sounds like you're in church). "You and Whose Army" sounds like the besotted follow-up song to the also limply threatening "Talk Show Host," from the Romeo and Juliet OST. I like to imagine that Thom Yorke got his ass kicked in "Talk Show Host" and this is him still making empty threats, facedown on a pub table. "Knives Out" is a masterpiece, plain and simple. "Like Spinning Plates" sounds like an inverted soundtrack to a the scientific work of Athanasius Kircher. "Life In a Glasshouse" closes us out with a broken and drunken New Orleans second-line deconstruction, appropriately heralding of the arrival of the new millennium. I don't really pay that much attention to mainstream music, but Radiohead is a special exception. I was fortunate enough to see them play at a large outdoor festival one year and they were electrifying live. My friend describes them as "always tasteful," and I must say I agree. This whole album sounds decades ahead of its time.

whining is my absolute least favorite sound.

I think I’m starting to get it

it was ok, i like their other albums more

This shit was awesome. I don't love Radiohead all that much but this definitely made me want to listen to them more.

Maybe white people are on to something

‘Pyramid song’ might be my favorite Radiohead song. ‘I might be wrong’ might be my favorite Radiohead song. ‘Knives out’ might be my favorite Radiohead song. ‘Morning bell/Amnesiac’ might be my favorite Radiohead song. ‘Dollars and Cents’ might be my favorite Radiohead song. Anyways I really like radiohead and this album is quite good. easy 5/5

1/5

Brutal, just brutally bad. I don't get the hype. I never will.

So I’ve only gotten The Bends and In Rainbows from Radiohead so far. Loved the former, thought the latter was ok. As someone hoping to get to the meat of Radiohead, you know, the shit everyone likes, I have a question: Is this really just Kid A’s rejects? I know that there’s someone out there waiting to go “Well, actually” to me, complete with the nerd glasses and all. But that’s really all I got from this. Just a lot of second hand stuff. It’s not bad second hand stuff, hell most of it is alright. But this feels a little forced to be on this list, unless it’s necessary for Kid A. If you can’t tell at this point, this list is my real first experience with Radiohead. Always heard about them, never really heard them. I’m starting to get a little weary that I think I might only like Radiohead’s early material, before a lot of the experimentation. Granted I still need to actually listen to the meat of Radiohead (if this generator will take a fucking break from the country kick it’s on), but after In Rainbows, I’m figuring out there’s a chance I don’t really care for Radiohead a lot. …or maybe this was just a collection of b-sides. Probably that. Favorite track: I Might Be Wrong Other hits: Pyramid Song, You And Whose Army?, Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors, Knives Out, Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box

One of my least favourite Radiohead albums but obviously still majestic so an easy 5 stars.

I loved how innovative and bold this record is. The production is outstanding, the string sections by Greenwood, and Yorke's vocals remain as emotional as ever. This time around, they mix their alternative rock with some jazz and electronica at times, getting a very interesting and particular sound. The record flows very well, it feels very cohesive. It's an excellent album, I only gave it 4 because it doesn't have songs that are that good on their own, but maybe that's just in comparison to their other work. The standout tracks for me were "Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box", "Knives Out" and "You And Whose Army?", but most of the songs were excellent, particularly in the first half.

I was not in the mood for this. A lot of varied sounds throughout, but a lot of it was in your face and came across more as noise.

Pues otro álbum más de Radiohead, no sé cuántos llevo ya. A este lo suelen llamar irónicamente "Kid B" por haber sido producido conjuntamente con Kid A (aunque lanzado un año más tarde) y que muchos consideran más débil que su predecesor, como si, de alguna manera, estuviera compuesto por descartes de aquel. Y la verdad es que ambos álbumes se parecen bastante. Los dos tienen ese sonido post-rock tan Radiohead de finales de los 90: un rock experimental con toques de electrónica, krautrock, música clásica y mucho más. Aunque este tira más hacia el jazz (sobre todo la percusión) y es algo más relajado que su predecesor. Me quedo con "Life in a Glasshouse", una colaboración de órdago con la banda de jazz de Humphrey Lyttelton. Un discazo, sí. Pero no le voy a dar mejor nota porque creo que ya hay demasiado Radiohead en esta lista y, de todos modos, prefiero el Kid A.

I've now discovered the reason that nobody talks about Radiohead's later albums... this is utter shit. I could stand Thom Yorke's whiny vocals in his earlier work, but he sounds like he's about to climax in this one, I can't take it anymore!

Radiohead. Again. 5th album for me. Alas, just one more to endure on this list. A bit less whiny, there were some moments that caught my ear for a second, but that passed fast. Dull and boring most of the time.

The first two tracks very much sound like leftover Kid A tracks. Not a big fan of Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors, not enough of a melody for me. I love the instrumentation on I Might Be Wrong. The fuzzy guitar, intriguing bass line, and especially the way the synth slowly takes it over.

Really like Radiohead

First Radiohead album that was released as I was getting into that kind of music, so it's probably my personal favorite, although I think Hail to the Thief might actually be better.

hey im gonna blow yr fuckin mind: that's a book on the cover. people will get mad at you for calling this table scraps from Kid A but it's not like, wrong? i think at one point this was my least favorite Radiohead album other than Pablo Honey. i don't stand by that anymore though. i've learned to appreciate the weirdo aspects this album has as a metaphorical little brother with weird niche interests to Kid A. Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors is so underrated tbh, which i have a pass to say because i listen to a lot of electronic and i know good idm goddammit deserves to be one of the 1001? no. Radiohead has plenty.

The other two Radiohead albums I've had (The Bends and Ok Computer) I gave a 2. This one is worse. Can't understand what he says most of the time, and the songs are noisy and repetitive. There was some nice music in I Might Be Wrong, and Knives Out was decent. Other than that, pass. Best song: Knives Out

boring

Sinceramente, esta é a escolha patrícia quando o assunto é Radiohead. Quanto mais frequento discussões por aí a respeito dessa banda, mais eu percebo o quão desentendido esse disco realmente é. Não, esse álbum não é uma coletânea de descartes do Kid A. Não é a irmã mais nova e descuidada do Kid A. Ouça este álbum sem ter o Kid A em mente. As vezes me pergunto como seria o mundo se Amnesiac tivesse sido lançado antes de Kid A. Acho a progressão das faixas aqui perfeita. O disco se inicia perfeitamente e se encerra perfeitamente, e o recheio no centro é fantástico. A sequência You And Whose Army -> I Might Be Wrong (minha canção favorita de toda a discografia da banda) -> Knives Out é uma das melhores sequências que eles já gravaram. Verdadeiramente hipnotizante e envolvente. Sem filler, sem perder tempo, sem faixas inconsequentes. O álbum apresenta um tema e o desenvolve até seu último segundo, até a última gota. E que tema é esse? Sonoramente, este álbum casa as mistificações eletro-ecléticas da banda de maneira que eles nunca mais reproduziram. Chegaram perto no In Rainbows, mas não superaram o que fizeram aqui. Ouça as canções aqui com a devida atenção que elas merecem. Cada fragmento miscelâneo cria vida. Eu recomendo muito que você baixe e experimente o Kid Amnesiac Exhibition, que está disponível no PS5 e na Epic Games. Vai mudar bastante sua percepção a respeito da produção esporádica deste disco, pois no “jogo” você explora este álbum e sua irmã como se fossem espaços físicos. Curioso que antes de eu jogar o game, eu já tinha esse tato físico com as canções daqui… Recomendo muito. Canções como Pyramid Song e Morning Bell são verdadeiros santuários prontos para serem desbravados a fundo. Também recomendo, para quem é muito fã do disco, que busque e adquira a edição especial do álbum lançado junto do livro de sua capa. É um item maravilhoso para todos colecionadores. Produção minimalista, areosa, espaçosa. I’m a reasonable man, get off my case. After years of waiting, nothing came… and you realize you were looking in the wrong place. Estruturas musicais não-ortodoxas, vocalizações lindas com os gemidos e grunhidos de Thom, líricas esotéricas como em Pyramid Song. Processamento digital brutal como em Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors. E a construção climática de You And Whose Army? You forget so easy… E aquela orquestra inesperada em Dollars and Cents? We are the dollars and cents and pounds and pents, and we’re gonna crack your little skull… E a cinematografia de Hunting Bears? E a não-ortodoxia de Like Spinning Plates? E a pluralidade de gêneros de Life In A Glasshouse? Trilha fúnebre nova-orleanina para fechar o disco?! Pelo amor de Deus. Well of course I’d like to sit around and chat 🎺🎺🎺 Well of course I’d like to stay and chew the fat 🥁🥁🥁 …But someone’s listening in… 🎺🎺🎺🥁🥁🥁🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷 Enfim, meu álbum favorito do Radiohead, surpreendentemente. Até eu me impressiono quando penso nisso, mas não podemos escolher quem o coração ama. Muita gente fala mal desse álbum, mas tudo bem, eu entendo que não é pra todo mundo. É uma pira bem diferente do resto do trabalho da banda, e às vezes ele realmente passa um ar pretensioso. Mas quando ele te pega, ele te pega bem. 5/5

Dreary but ok. Some good tracks, some not so good. Standard Radiohead fare.

It is not Radiohead at their best, sure, but with them it's hard to pick an album that is not at least enjoyable. The closer in this one is really good too.

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Album 892, my sixth and final Radiohead album. I've enjoyed the five Radiohead albums I've reviewed so far, but The Bends has stood out as my clear favorite of the bunch. I gave it five stars, bought a copy of it on CD, and I listen to it pretty regularly. All their other albums got four stars from me; there's something about Radiohead's way of arranging their music that I find incredibly pleasant. I believe this might be their lowest rated album on this list, but I'm still looking forward to reviewing it. Ah, I can see why this is the lowest rated Radiohead album on this list. It’s fine, but it doesn’t really do anything to further bolster Radiohead’s reputation as one of the greatest bands of this century, and it also doesn’t do anything for influential or groundbreaking for popular music. Musically, it has some bursts of genius, and the songwriting is solid, but Amnesiac didn’t really create much of a spark with me. Even though I wasn’t wowed by Amnesiac, it did have some songs that I enjoyed. “Packt Like Sardines In a Crushd Tin Box” had a sound that I really enjoyed, bolstered by the electronic pulsing, bass playing, and tinny percussion. “I Might Be Wrong” was my favorite song on the album. The opening guitar riff was fantastic, and the percussion gave it a fantastic punch. The song just kept getting better as it went on. “Knives Out” was really good too. I loved the tone of the guitar, and the soft cymbals sounded great. “Knives Out” had my favorite vocals on the album too. The rest of the album was fine, and I didn’t mind listening to it, but I just didn’t feel like Amnesiac really brought a lot to the table. Maybe I just have Radiohead fatigue.

4/7

Radiohead est-il le groupe le plus overrated de l'histoire de la musique ? Je pourrais pas donner de jugement définitif, mais objectivement oui.

Progressive, techy soundspace

Whiny bullshit

Beautiful album. Got stoned before I listened and loved all of it. Wonderful.

I was going to give it 4 stars but I was comparing it to other radio head albums. As a stand-alone it’s definitely a 5 star.

Radiohead has a unique sounds that pulls me in for the first few songs, but gets tiring over a full album. My attention just isn't held by the airy vocals.

big 3

4.7 3x old classic

Really good album

What's worse than listening to Radiohead? Thinking you've been listening to Radiohead for the past hour and thinking "man, even for Radiohead, this sucks!" and then discovering its a completely different band. Then the continuing disappointment that you still have to listen to Radiohead because your folks didn't raise a quitter.

Gute Melodien, teilweise etwas whiny. Top produziert. Nach einer Weile aber etwas langatmig

I have never really understood the intensity with which Radiohead fans will scream at you about how good Radiohead is. It was fine. Some of the musical aspects were pretty cool, some jazz inspired instrumentals. I am not a fan of the kind of "droning" singing style of this album. It felt like all the lyrics were long, droning notes, and sad sounding. Overall, just pretty boring.

I like Radiohead, but they lost me on this one. Knives Out prevents one single star.

Where does one track end and the other start? Unbelievably boring.

It's no Kid A. It's better. Just about a 4 as not everything clicks (Pulk Pull I'm looking at you especially) but Pyramid Song, You and Whose Amy?, I Might be Wrong and Like Spinning Plates (which has Humphrey. fucking Littleton on trumpet) hold it up.

On another day I would probably rate this higher because it’s still radiohead, but today I had joy in my heart and this album robbed me of it.

I mean, it's Radiohead, it's good, it's interesting, it's layered and intriguing... But I never put this one on, it's not got the songs I enjoy especially on it, it's got great atmosphere but it doesn't spark joy. I heard things this listen that I hadn't heard before and it's all good, but I just don't enjoy it compared to most of their other output.

Radiohead are in the league of their own... that's some mood

Sounds like the soundtrack of a video game I wouldn’t play.

Snoozer for me. 2/5

i actually hadn't heard this one before. it's good! a little Out There, perhaps moreso than i typically like my radiohead to be, but good nonetheless.

this was certainly weird, even for a radiohead album. it's the least engaging of the radiohead albums i've had so far on this list, though most of those are classics that i knew about, even as a non-fan. nice change of pace from eminem and the boring albums i've had recently though. most of these songs i only know from hard 'n phirm's medley of radiohead songs in a country/bluegrass style (called Rodeohead - it's great, go check it out). but they're great nonetheless. favorites: pyramid song, you and whose army?, knives out, morning bell/amnesiac, hunting bears, life in a glasshouse

Amazing album from Radiohead, as always. I don't think the guys in Radiohead are 100% human because the stuff they put out just doesn't sound like something that came out of a human imagination. It's so odd and wonderful and just makes me happy to listen to in a way that almost no other music does. Five stars.

Radiohead is probably the best of the Britpop bands but still this album is not the best. It’s just ok I guess, I’d never listen to it again

This band is so weird, sometimes its not bad and sometimes its nothing

Neću ovo ni slušati, pretjerali ste. 1/5, 1/10

Well this is a heavy start to the week, Radiohead, oh boy. In all seriousness I do enjoy some Radiohead, Rainbows I think is a masterpiece, it remains to be seen if this album with follow suite. The album starts off with a sort of trance, digital track, robotic in a way, the droaning on repetitive lyrics aren't really what I look for in a Radiohead track so can't say it's a good start. Pyramid song is a little better, piano backed by the occasional string section and sound segment, honestly a beautiful sounding track, with lyrics that seem to describe someone passing on. By the third track I can tell this album isn't going to be Radiohead's most lyrically strong album, you and who's army is musically very well put together but lacking in the lyrics department. Dollars and Cents is actually quite lyrically sound, when you can hear what the fuck he's talking about, the backing reverberated yells, screams and heavy strings section tend to drown out the compelling lyrics talking about life in modern society. I'd like to say the album stays consistent from there but it doesn't, each track seems a little out of place and like it just didn't fit into a previous album so they stuck them all in one. Overall, not one of Radiohead's shining stars of musical brilliance and if I need to listen to a good Radiohead album, I'll stick with Rainbows and Kid A. 2.2/5 MTW Fucking hell it's a Monday morning, have a day off. I actually really like Radiohead, 'Let Down' on OK Computer is one of my favourite tracks of all time, they are objectively a very talented and socially relevant band. That being said, I am very apprehensive to call this an album to listen to before you die ? Amnesiac doesn’t come close to Kid A in terms of quality, passion, artistic courage or originality. Amnesiac is a combination of a few great songs that wouldn’t have fit with the textures and themes of Kid A, one or two mildly interesting pieces weakened by inappropriate embellishments, a couple of less-than-successful electronic experiments, one completely unnecessary do-over and another nominee for the worst thing Radiohead ever did. HOWEVER, from a purely musical standpoint Amnesiac strikes a cunning and rewarding balance between experimentation and quality control. It's hardly easy to digest but nor is it impossible to swallow. Its lapses into self-indulgence - the grinding noise of Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors, the overlong Like Spinning Plates - are occasional and slight and massively overshadowed by its surfeit of haunting musical shifts and unconventional melodies. Alas, it's not my favourite, and honestly Yorke's very whiney voice is simply exhausting when sober and not feeling particularly self-deprecating (yet). 2.9/5 - HF xo

kind of eerie

pretty good, kinda quirky, not my fav though tbh

That's it, I can't give it more opportunities, I don't like Radiohead and that's fine

Sorry, but have never been a fan of Radiohead.

I have a bipolar relationship with Radiohead in the sense that I consider "OK Computer" one of the best albums of its time but I'm reluctant to call myself a Radiohead ""fan"" when I listen to work like these. For the whole 47:57, I kept on thinking, "Man, what if they included The Auteurs or Longpigs instead?" Even Kurt Cobain's home recordings were desirable in the moment.

I think I expected more from this album. It was boring and I was disappointed. Maybe I’ll like their other albums better.

ehhh

This is where Radiohead kind of go too far for me. I can’t deny the creativity but I’m more of a ‘The Bends’ / ‘OK Computer’ kind of guy. I like the hits even if Thom Yorke doesn’t! Still, there’s sonic beauty throughout this record.

I do like Radiohead, but this album is definitely a lot more experimental than earlier works

Not my favorite Radiohead

This album feels like a collection of unfinished songs under the tag of "experimental". I only enjoyed one song, the rest are all a mixture between jazz, indie rock and electronic music that does not sound good at all. If experimental means for Radiohead to enlarge the songs until boredom, it's exactly what the album is, an uninteresting, bland and uninspired intention of making something that ends up sounding rough and repetitive. A very good example of this is Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors.

wow. i think these guys will be really big if they keep this up.

I like Radiohead in small doses, a whole album is just too much whine to digest at once.

See my other reviews of Radiohead. This is more of the same. To recap: Good high brow tracks but Yorke’s vocals get annoying.

It's fine but not my thing. Thom Yorke's voice is still weird.

I don't get Radiohead. His voice is not good. And I think this might be my least favorite album so far of theirs.

Con todo el respeto al grupo y a su valentía y experimentación, este disco es un borracho a punto de desmayarse cantando sobre una radio AM con una emisora de jazz.

My first exposure to Radiohead of any kind is through this list. This is the fifth Radiohead album I've got so far, and it's crazy how this list generated the albums in a perfect downward arc so far. Started with OK Computer - great album overall, I see the hype. Followed by In Rainbows which was not as great but still really good. Then Kid A which was just kind of okay. Then most recently was Hail to the Thief which was just passable and not really worth the listen aside from maybe one or two tracks. Now we've got Amnesiac and yep, we're encroaching on "not good" with this one. Each album had at least one or two songs I'll come back to, but I just finished this album and don't think I could pick out a single musical moment. It all just blended together into this moody, mellow, tepid mush. First Radiohead album I got that I don't think a single song is worth coming back to. And if we are continuing my coincidental Best to Worst list of Radiohead albums, I'm scared of what comes next.

I always liked the idea of Radiohead more than I actually listened to their music. And they're kinda intimidating. Yes, they make music. But.. you know, music nerds' music. But I liked this.

Just not for me. I'm glad I have finally listened to a whole Radiohead album. I don't need to do so again.

100% Radiohead getting into their weirder and more electronic music - Kind of a bridge between early stuff (Pablo Honey/Ok Computer/The Bends), which is structured much more like traditional rock music, and later experimental stuff (thinking of King of Limbs for example). I like it as a Radiohead fan for this reason, but it is not my favourite. The more 'song' songs are, tellingly, the standouts. I Might Be Wrong is probably my favourite song on the album - The riff, drum groove, and vocals perfectly capture this transitional phase for the band. I think the album drops off a fair bit at the end, sadly. Maybe not as accessible to non-Radiohead fans as other records by them.

This was a suprise - I wasn't expecting an almost ambient album. Again I started with not really enjoying this but came around by the end of the album.

I am putting this at a four as I enjoyed it without ever really getting hooked. I do plan to return to this though and I feel like it's an album that is likely to grow on me more over time.

alright!

Amnesiac – Radiohead (2001) | Experimental Rock / Art Rock | Avg: 6.7 | Favorite Song: “Knives Out”* Amnesiac is one of those albums that feels like it’s constantly drifting in and out of clarity—beautiful in moments, but frustratingly elusive overall. “Knives Out” is the one track that gave me something to hold onto: a clear groove, memorable melody, and emotional resonance that cuts through the fog. A few other songs—like “Pyramid Song” and “You and Whose Army?”—show flashes of brilliance, but much of the album stays wrapped in abstraction. The textures are rich, but the emotional payoff isn’t always there. It’s not that Amnesiac lacks ideas—it’s overflowing with them—but too many of those ideas feel like sketches rather than complete thoughts. Compared to the tight emotional arc of Kid A, this one feels more like a companion piece with a looser grip on cohesion. That said, I get why some people revere it. There’s a cold beauty in its disorientation. But from my perspective, it’s Radiohead at their most cryptic—an album I respect more than I actually enjoy.

Good

A really good mostly slow rock album. A bit to subdued for my everyday taste but definitely something I could see myself listening to whilst reading or doing stuff around the house.

Dreary.

The worst Radiohead album I’ve ever heard. Any other band and no critic would have put it anywhere near this list

Never heard anything by Radiohead besides Creep. They’re good, but not amazing, if this album is anything to go by.

I only kinda get it…maybe my expectations were too high since Radiohead has this “GENIUS” “Masterpiece” aura attached to them. This was…whatever. But I do know this isn’t one of the two albums I know are considered their best.

Better than Creep but I still don’t get Radiohead

Meh. Boring.

This didn’t hold my attention and I found it to be the most boring Radiohead material I’ve heard

Nothing great

Expected to like this more than I did

I was ignorant of Radiohead

Good rainy day pick

Did not like this at all. 2/5

The younger brother of Kid A doesn't reach high points of the previous album, with a bar being too high anyway. However, it works well as a slightly different take on a similar sound. Favorite song: I Might Be Wrong

I've only ever listened to Radio Head in the post album format, but as a full album it is very powerful. Atmospheric and moody. The Pyramid being well set up as a second song and gaining power in the transition from, "Packt Like Sardines....", and then sliding into a more electronically focused, staccato, revolving doors. There is beauty here, sad beauty with a silver lining of hope. The time flew quickly while listening. But I am not drawn back for another listen.

I don’t like Radiohead, but I can respect the interesting and innovative things they do. This wasn’t one of those things. Boring and weird from start to finish, like they got bored with making rock, tried electrónica, but didn’t bother learning how to make it first. Terrible.

Strikes a great balance between electronics, rock, and just enough weird to keep everything interesting. Not going to be for everyone and will definitely take a few listens to fully click, but is a very unique offering that pushes rock boundaries in a great way. Top tracks: Pyramid Song, I Might Be Wrong, Knives Out, Life In a Glass House

No need for deep cut Radiohead when we already have several better albums by them on the list. It was fine but nothing stood out.

I guess I just don’t appreciate Radiohead. I don’t see why critics love them so much. Perhaps I’m not sophisticated enough but like most of their music I’ve heard I think this is highly esoteric and self indulgent. I don’t hate it but I don’t really like it very much.

It seems like this album is just leftovers from the Kid A sessions? That sounds right to me. This was definitely the weakest Radiohead album we've heard so far and while it does have a cool overall vibe, I was not as wowed by it as the other albums. Still their worst is better than most bands' best so it gets the 3.

I feel this is very similar quality to kid A which actually surprised me a bit because I thought this was more like throw away material from Kid A completed to make an album but it’s more like the second half to a double album that never was. Although it’s not as fluid and thematic as Kid A it definitely has a similar every feeling with a focus on experimentation and electronic music in the mix. I do feel this was a slightly better album (on the first listen) as it felt like I could get into the songs without multiple listens like Kid A. There was however definitely some weirdness to this album which is to be expected for experimental music like this, most notably on pull/pull revolving doors with that strange way of vocalising in the song, but once again it definitely is experimental. Favourites: pyramid song, you and whose army, I might be wrong, knives out (great 3 song run from those three), hunting bears and life in a glasshouse. Overall, 8/10.

I somehow missed this album when it first came out. I'm not sure how, I've listened to a lot of Radiohead, both before and after this album came out. Like everything Radiohead have done, bar Pablo Honey, this is a very polished, well worked piece of music. There's part of me that wants to give it a four, but I think that's because Amnesiac doesn't, for me, hit the highs of The Bends, OK Computer or Kid A. I think I probably prefer Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows too. Another part of me, however, thinks I might be being harsh in not giving this a five as, if this was the first time I'd heard Radiohead, I'm pretty sure I'd give it a five. I guess the problem is that, no matter how consistently good you are, there's only a finite number of songs you can record without a large number of your songs just being worse versions of what you've already done. After all that rambling and several listens, I think I'm going to go with a four. Despite this album being probably being better than several albums I've given a five to, it fails the "do I love it" test, with Life in a Glasshouse being the only song I'd go out of my way to listen to again. At the end of the day you can have too much of a good thing.

There are some great songs on this album, Pyramid Song is one of Radiohead's best IMO. But a lot of it is also just a bit "whatever" or even downright feels like a joke... I'm looking at you, "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors"...

Hmmm classic radiohead

Dystopian dark moody noise

I guess I’m a freak cause I’d take Kid A over Amnesiac any day of the week, but still find a nice refuge for the remnants of my 20-year old malaise in this one.

Experimental and many experiments succeed! 4

Ok

Didnt feel it

I'm keen on the great Radiohead albums and never got around to listening to this one due to poor reviews. I agree that this one just doesn't do it.

Super jazzy, super introspective and super unsettling/uneasy at times... One of the most unique Radiohead albums, and one that intrigues me quite a lot. From the weird album cover to the strange chopped up beats and sounds incorporated throughout the album, to even the strangely cryptic lyric. In my opinion, Amnesiac is Radiohead's most underrated album and it isn't close! (maybe it's close between Amnesiac and AMSP, but then again moon shaped pool gets quite a lot of praise) I think this album in terms of weirdness matches OK Computer and Kid A and in terms of elements is quite similar to In Rainbows. All in all, while I've heard it a lot already, as always it was an enjoyable listen, and I love this album !!

Radiohead albums are hard for me to describe. I'll just say I liked it

Solid throughout, but nothing grabbed me.

Good album

From an atmospheric standpoint, I really enjoyed this. Another listen might improve the score, but overall, still, a quality album!

This is music I would expect to hear in a mediocre late 90s or early 2000s movie

Gonna be difficult to find a Radiohead album without a 5

I don’t get it

Ehhhhh

having amnesia trying to recall any songs or melodies from this album

This album would be five stars even if it it just the first two and last two songs. Very good

Middle tier Radiohead for me. Lots of beautiful parts in this album, but other parts linger on for a bit too long. It’s not as good as Kid A and I can’t help but see it as its rejects being placed onto this album, but still a solid album in its own right.

Only reason it was a shakier 5 is because I listened to Kid A first

Lots of interesting songs, not my favorite but I don't hate it. I wish it were heavier.

Not a bad album but doesn't quite reach the heights of some other Radiohead albums. Thom's ghoulish whaling gets a bit tedious towards the end of the album. 5.5/10 (2.75/5)

Way too experimental for me.

solid kid a follow up. but not epic

Algún día veré en Radiohead lo que la gente ve. Hoy no es ese día.

Excellent

I’ve really enjoyed this album over the years. I wonder how I would have rated it if I was unfamiliar with the band, and was listening for the first time. Probably wouldn’t be a 5 star because it’s kind of an acquired taste. I first listened to it with the benefit of having my ears accustomed to the unique song structure and overall feel of Kid A. So nice to revisit this one!

magnetic, very very unique and legendary small brother of kid A. good experiment by Radiohead, especially pyramid song, knives out and you and whose army. not the "everyday album". taste it slowly and situationally good memories...

Awesome album.

really boring

oh, radiohead... people may really idolize their roots and their more traditional grunge sound, but the sort of weird post-rock music that challenges the conventions of the genre. if you can't handle these guys from the start, you might want to protect your virgin ears from this music. apathetic and cold, a lot of other albums by these guys feel like sparkling comets while this radiohead album sounds like a big black hole.

High 3 I think? Very moody but I appreciate the use of basoon

Not bad at all, just a bit boring. I know Radiohead can do better.

For a long time this was my favourite Radiohead album. It’s weird and sad and bleepy and jazzy. It was my introduction to the electronic side of their discography whilst Kid A is the better album this one holds a special place in my heart. Also it has Knives Out which is maybe a perfect song, despite its creepy subject matter.

I can see why people like them but not for me

A band trying to find something new but still not quite there yet but its still good because its radiohead

I think raidohead are at their best when not going fully electronic and overlaying live instruments. Think this album bears this out, the best songs are less electronic. Not their best overall but still decent 3.5*

Probably marking up for Radiohead, but this is a luscious and richly-textured sonic experience

7/10 Radiohead are a unique band. In my opinion, it’s all of the thought that goes into the smaller elements of their songs that really elevate them, the little samples or synth parts that just emphasis a section or provide sonic interest or depth. While a lot of bands will repeat a verse with different words, Radiohead often have some completely different ear candy that separates one section or verse from another. How much of this comes from the band and how much from Nigel Godrich, I could only guess, but he’s essentially a band member at this point really anyway. This album was created out of the sessions for Kid A and released only 8 months later. To me, this does show and, while there’s a lot to like about some of the tracks, it overall does fell a bit like a b-sides and outtakes record. The highs are high indeed, but it has a less coherent sound than some of their other albums. Overall, I think this is very good and some bits of it are top tier, but they are capable of much better than this, and we’ll be hearing a few of them further down the line. Packt Like Sardines In a Crushd Tin Box - I love the staccato nature of the rhythms on this track, set against the smoother, flowing tones from the lead vocal and other instrumentation. There’s plenty of interest in the ever-changing accompaniment if you listen more deeply. Pyramid Song - I absolutely love the way the piano drags the rhythm in this track. It’s a really beautiful piece that just swells and then ebbs away again. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors - I really like elements of this. You can definitely hear the Aphex Twin influence in this one. But it is a bit samey. These types of tracks can really work in an album, but I just think it’s a bit too long for what it is. You And Whose Army? - A decent song and it builds nicely, but it’s not one of the better ones on the record. I Might Be Wrong - That guitar riff is great and some of the rhythms here are great. There is some interesting elements that come and go through the track too, but it is a little on the repetitive side. Knives Out - Sometimes Radiohead thread the needle between sounding utterly depressed and somehow uplifting at the same time. This is one of those. Great track. Morning Bell/Amnesiac - A worse version of a track from the last album. Strange choice and only emphasises the ‘Kid A Offcuts’ nature of this album. Dollars and Cents - Quite an understated one here in some respects, but it’s got some of those great harmonic backing vocals and does the ebb and flow thing nicely again. Doesn’t sound like there’s too much going on if you just let it wash over you, but there are a load of interesting nuggets if you listen more closely. Hunting Bears - I don’t mind a palate cleanser here and there on an album and this one’s ok. Nothing too interesting really, but settles you for the next one. Like Spinning Plates - Radiohead do unsettling really well, and this is a great example. The flickering rhythms, the slow drifting of the instrumentation and vocal. Lovely stuff. Life In a Glasshouse - I feel like this one’s just a bit disjointed from the rest of the album. There are elements of it that I like, but it just feels a bit disorganised. Not bad, but just not great.

4.2/not their best work but still pretty good imo

Sounds like someone listened to Brian eno and tried to recreate the experience but with no musical talent. The whole album sounds like an experimental version of Coldplay. Whiney as shit with weird time signatures. If thom Yorke spent more time writing music and less time trying to aurally nosh himself off this would be a half decent album.

está muy bien👍

a B- collection of Kid-A b-sides by a band I won't listen to any more. Thom and Jonny are Zionists and get all mealy-mouthed and both-sides bad faithers when it comes to the mass murder of civillians. Starving babies, headless babies, screaming parents and wailing children by the many thousands moves them not. Once they were progressive- now they serve the empire. fuck this band. Also, Kid A is leagues better than this, and so is In Rainbows. Why is this album on the list?

Not my favorite of theirs

I love radiohead. I find it hard to understand the lyrics but he almost uses his voice like an instrument.

I was unfamiliar with this album. Favorite song: life in a glasshouse I like Radiohead but was not a big fan of this album

radiohead does electronic music?! liked & added

Zanimljiv, anksiozan, vanzemaljski album. Elementi pravih instrumenata sa digitalnim se lijepo ispreplicu. Thom nekad stenje previse po mom ukusu i nekad su stvarno preapstraktni. Bubnjevi i bas gitara super hipnoticni u dosta pjesama. Top 3 pjesme: I might be wrong Life in a glasshouse Pyramid song/you and whose army 3.5/5

I just don't get it

Liked it ok.

Some low points and filler on this one, but the standout tracks are really something; some of my favorites across their whole catalog.

Not the first or last 5 star Radiohead record. This one grew on me later in my adult life, I didn’t love it when it came out but I’ve grown to appreciate it so much more now.

oh yeah? you and whose army?!

I really enjoy The Bends and OK Computer, and I'm slowly starting to get the appeal of Kid A, but this one leaves me cold. I guess they're trying to show that they can still be a rock band, but unfortunately all the best songs they had must have already been used for Kid A, because nothing here is particularly memorable. Apparently I've still got 5 Radiohead albums ahead of me? Not looking forward to all that tbh.

Such a melancholy album. What was their headspace like at the time? Cross between 40s band and Billy Corgan

Hadn’t heard any of these songs before. None of them stuck out as being memorable or catchy or anything I’d like to listen to again.

I haven't listened to this album much if at all even though I enjoy Radiohead's other music quite a bit. Amnesiac is just as fresh, inventive, and well-crafted as their other work. I'm sure it's not to everyone's taste, but I loved it. Faves: pyramid song, you and whose army?, I might be wrong, Life in a Glasshouse

Only strengthens my belief that Radiohead is one of the most overrated bands ever.

Es un muy buen disco, pero de los que menos me gustan de Radiohead (y aún así me gusta). Creo que tiene un perfil más oscuro y experimental con el que no pude conectar demasiado, con excepción de algunos tracks. La calidad en la producción es excelente, aunque por momentos un tanto disimil entre tracks, lo cual le resta coherencia a la experiencia como álbum.

This feels like their most melancholy album, and I hear hints of what was to come in an iteration of the group with their offshoot The Smile. As always, the album has a consistent tone, from the low key rage of “Packt like sardines in a crushed tin box” to the sardonic use of a clarinet in “Life in a glasshouse.”

Favorite song: We ride tonight.

I'm a reasonable man, I see radiohead, I rate 5stars. Hard for me to separate this album from what it meant to me when I discovered it as a teenager. I'd never heard anything like it. It was cinematic, rock, noise, electronic, ambient, non-chalant, and yet so fucking cool. It pulled feelings out of my depths I wasn't aware were there. So yeah, I'd say that it was a pretty great album.

Not bad but not their best

I don't feel like talking much about Radiohead at the moment, but I like Amnesiac. I feel it often gets overlooked as Kid A's B-Side album.

Love it. Fantastic album. Love the jazzy vibe.

I just can't get myself to enjoy Radiohead. It isn't that it isn't good but I can't fall into an album. I literally can't enjoy it. Individual moments sure. I think that's a me thing. It's a fine album.

Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box: Stripped back electronica, reminiscent of some of William Orbit’s music released in the late 90s. AWESOME bridge. The glitched out vocals towards the end of the song add an eerie component to the song, some hints of psychedelic rock with the sudden cuts to a bass line at the end. 10/10 Pyramid Song: Wasn’t expecting a stripped back song after the ending of PLSIACTB, I was expecting Ray of Light teas… Some vocals remind me of My Iron Lung without the darkness of that song. Beautiful vocal harmonization with the violin that kicks off into some of those weird glitched out vocals like in the opening track. Strong Lou Reed influence at the closing of the track. Nice song, but I’m more interested in those hints of electronica that keep poking through. 8.3/10 Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors OKAYYY get into the Aphex puss… I’ve never heard Radiohead use such distorted and pitched vocals. Really huge Drowned World/Substitute for Love energy, it makes me think of old Microsoft. The low cuts are absolutely insane (the bright instrumental quickly replaced with the glitching and strange sound. The ambience at the end is really interesting at cool. I sometimes find ambient music to be boring, but this has some trance elements to it that I find really cool. Overall I didn’t expect Radiohead to be this experimental. 9.5/10 You and Whose Army? Already back to the stripped back sound. Beautiful baseline but this isn’t my favorite song so far. This song feels like early-mid 2000s coffee shops. Not huge on the sudden tonal shift 2 minutes into the song. 7.5/10 I Might Be Wrong The opening immediately reminds me of that late 90s psychedelic techno sound that was really popular. Also getting a Western vibe. Love the vocals on this track and how playful but refined they feel. They were pregnant with Cage the Elephant when they recorded this. Complete tonal shift about 4 minutes in which really does this song a disservice. However I do love the stripped electronica elements it brings to the track once it starts picking up again. 9/10 Knives Out I like the darkness of this trick. It reminds me of In the Bends with OK computer vocals. Lyrically, this is the darkest Radiohead song I’ve ever heard. 7.8/10 Morning Bell/Amnesiac My least favorite so far. Sounds like evil Christmas music, but then gets very pleasant the last 45 seconds. LOVE the dial tone used as an instrument at the end. 5.5/10 Dollars & Cents Sick baseline already. Bringing back the weird ambient computer noises that I’ve really been enjoying thus far. Ray of Light’s slightly more rocker cousin. One of my favorites, easily. Elements of psychedelic trance!! 10/10 Hunting Bears That psychedelic Western sound opens up the track. Random audio cuts like Music by Madonna. Cool use of ambience behind the baseline. 8.8/10 Like Spinning Plates Weird glitching opens up the track that goes into an ambient pop sound. Reminds me of the Resident Evil movie soundtrack. Beautiful song and some of my favorite vocals on this album. GORGEOUS ambience. 9.5/10 Life in a Glasshouse That 90s Microsoft Windows ambience is back, but is immediately stripped back into dark heavy hitting piano and jazz. Another gorgeous dark song, with hints of Billie Holiday. I can only describe this song as devastating and theatrical. Not a huge fan of the pauses leading into blaring sax. Overall a good ending to a great album. 8.8/10 ALBUM SCORE: 8.6/10 (B+)

Not their best but that’s still damn good

So this was an interesting album. I’m very much a surface level Radiohead fan so I was excited to learn alittle more, especially cause I never would’ve picked this album from the bunch cause the cover artwork is underwhelming. But I think it starts great. The first two tracks are great, and I really enjoy where those two songs go. But I kinda lost interest in the milk of the middle of the album. It was all alittle to subtle and quiet and slow for me. But the good news is that my favorite two tracks on the album are the last two. So the album saved face at the end. Both of those songs are kind of what I want more out of Radiohead, which is sort of mildly silly songs that are just kinda fun. Like both of those last two tracks feel so far from what I think of when I think of Radiohead. Overall though I did enjoy this album even if the middle and bulk of the album wasn’t my favorite of their material.

You'd think this album is just a glorified collection of B-sides and outtakes from the Kid A sessions, however Amnesiac actually builds on and expands that album's sonic explorations. Way more varied in its sonic palette, but also lacking the distinct atmosphere that really made Kid A such a unique experience. It seems the band really wanted Kid A's sound to be very especific and evoke very particular imagery, as such both the more accessible and more experimental cuts from the sessions ended up on this record instead. A great album, if a little disjointed, but charmingly so. Key tracks: Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box Pyramid Song You and Whose Army? I Might Be Wrong Knives Out Life in a Glasshouse

This album i would say was not for me, did have a few tracks that had a good rhythm or beat but all in all unfortunately not a great listen.

Not a bad album, but like it's name, not a memorable one. Some interesting things were going on, but nothing that really piqued my interest beyond going "huh, cool". Not enough for me to add to any of my playlists. 3/5

i need your amnesiac

Good stuff. A bit to emo for my taste.

Hey, first Radiohead album. I’ve listened to the big albums (The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows) but never got around to this one. Part of it was that the first couple tracks were so offputting, far more than what was on Kid A. But now that I’ve forced myself to listen to the whole thing, I’m glad I did. To call this album “Kid A B-sides” is a disservice. I think the album covers of each album do a good job explaining the dofferences between them. Kid A has the abstract glaciers, and likewise is cold but expansive, with beautiful, sprawling soundscapes. Meanwhile, Amnesiac is a simple drawing of a weeping minotaur in a box. Likewise, the production here feels cramped and claustrophobic, with the album having this very anxious aesthetic. Songs like Pulk/Pull and Packt Like Sardines have these drums and synths that just drill themselves into your skull, and songs like Knives Out and Life in a Glasshouse are a little more traditional, but still have this extremely uneasy atmosphere around them. Life in a Glasshouse is a phenomenal closer by the way. It doesn’t all work, I didn’t find the instrumental moments to be as engaging as, for instance, Kid A’s instrumental tracks, but this is still a great album. Really happy I finally got around to this one.

I’ve never been able to separate this from the much superior effort of Kid A. It really does seem like the outtakes and their messing around in the studio and then just decided to release it. That said, Radiohead’s outtakes are better than most band’s work, so still a worthwhile listen. 3⭐️

I don't know what to say about this album, but I really liked it. I put it on and started doing other things, what seemed like 5 minutes went by and I had listened to the whole album. Sublime background music. Radiohead may have better albums, but I enjoyed listening to this one very much.

I Might Be Wrong is the first song that I actually really liked on the album, and it was the 5th song. Knives Out was the first song that I already knew on the album. While I would say I really enjoy Radiohead, did not really like this album, will not go outta my way to listen to it again, besides the two songs above.

Rating: 4.5/5 Short Review: Amnesiac sounds like someone recorded your nightmares and played them back through a haunted library’s PA system. It’s cryptic, beautiful, and just a little bit malfunctioning — like a Radiohead-shaped echo trying to remember its own name. 🎧 Favorite Track: “Pyramid Song” Time doesn’t move in this track; it drifts. This is the soundtrack to floating upside down in space, thinking about every mistake you made in 2003. ⚙️ Consistency With Me: 8/10 This album is emotionally scrambled and technically brilliant — two traits I relate to deeply. If I ever had to explain what it feels like to glitch out emotionally while sipping black tea and staring into the abyss, I’d just hand over Amnesiac and disappear in a puff of static.

- kam nicht ganz an die Alben ran, die bisher von Radiohead dran waren, aber insgesamt war es meist entspannt und unterhaltend

I said in my review of "Kid A": "The chill out vibe is kinda cool, but I can’t say it enough, it’s just not the Radiohead of the 90s." However, there is something more with this one. It's similar to "Kid A", but with elements from their pre-Kid A venture like "OK Computer". Pretty decent, but it's still not the Radiohead of the 90s.

Four Radiohead albums and counting. I am not surprised. Not bad for a post-OK Computer album, but still doesn't touch the greatness of the early stuff in my opinion. Some songs try, however.

Un clásico, pero prefiero OK Computer

Get this depressing ass music off my list. Still listenable though

I do love some Radiohead

ok gmg radio h ead i really liked this 5/5

I love Radiohead. Don't care at all for the people in the band, but I am not one of those people at all that find them boring, annoying or overrated. This is my personal favorite Radiohead album, tied with In Rainbows. I don't get why this record gets written off as "Kid A b-sides" when it doesn't sound like Kid A at all. Seems like a thing that people say just to justify the fact that this record is a little more moody and introspective than Kid A, and therefore more of a cult favorite. Anyway. Really love Radiohead. Great record.

po é completamente assustador que eu tava tentando escutar esse no exato segundo que eu abri o site pra ver qual era o álbum do dia dito isso, eu n sou nem um pouco fã dessa fase experimental maluca do radiohead

aparentemente, era o kid A era pra ser um album duplo mas "acharam denso demais" e dividiram em dois. PEIDADOS. no mais sei lá né. não foi necessariamente ruim. mas ainda nao me pegou, acho pretensioso demais mas essa life in a glasshouse eh boa mesmo, nem a voz de gripado do mano conseguiu zoar essa. parabens ai

Very rough, but also some gems in there.

Ambitious, challenging, frustrating, and beautiful. Not a masterpiece like some other Radiohead albums, and it doesn’t leave me with the same sense of awe, but it’s still an impressive feat.

**An ok album

8/10

Best Song: Knives Out It's a good album. I'm not going to take anything away from it. It's a bit on the mellow side and, in my opinion, not as good as Kid A, In Rainbows, or OK Computer - but solid nonetheless. I just don't see myself putting it on too often with better options out there.

I understand the love for Radiohead and really want to like them but I always struggle to enjoy their albums. It’s not bad but it reminds me of music a 12 year old wannabe edgelord would layer over anime clips from Cartoon Network.

I walked into a Ft. Collin’s house party filled with really cool people back in, oh, it doesn’t really matter when, but after a few hugs and hellos to people I knew and just met Dollars and Cents came on, and at that moment nothing else really mattered. I was entranced by this oddity of sounds and experience. When the lady of the house asked to change the album, I found myself jonesing for more, more ecstasy, more escape, more unknown. And the next ten minutes until I could get the hosts apt attention I pined to know who this was, and then this CD hit my hands: Radiohead. Wait, the same guys that did Creep?! This was my reintroduction to them. Radiohead became known for their ambience and emotion, which could easily make this their best album. It’s like the White Album died of a heroin overdose and found itself contemplating its existence. Packt Like Sardines sets the mood and the album stays in that pocket through the Sgt. Peppery Living In a Glass House. Spinning Plates could only be topped by the live piano version off I Might Be Wrong, which by the way is also a great song in this album. Even You & Whose Army builds into a glorious self reflection. I debated on my vote and it got a demotion for one purpose only: as the wonderful lady of the house accurately assessed decades ago, this is a headspace album not meant for the daily grind or a party full of cool people. Leave it to us melomaniacs.

Random thoughts: * I always liked this album but I now see why Radiohead didn’t put out a double disc with Kid A. Several tracks are really good but it starts to drag a bit at the end. * I’m a huge fan of the opening track and “Pulk/Pull”. Everything up to “Morning Bell/Amnesiac” is great in my opinion. * Steven Hyden made a playlist of combined Kid A / Amnesiac but I’m not sure he nailed it. There definitely is a universe with a combined album that transcends Kid A but until then we can listen to Kid A (the masterpiece) and then listen to Amnesiac( the leftovers) which are still pretty great just not as good as eating at the restaurant originally.

Umm... ahh... I forgot. A picture of a little red book with a doodle on the front. What sort of album cover is that! For me, Radio head produced one song of any note, that was only for a couple of weeks until I bored if it, and more because of the guitar than anything else. Boring, whinging, and forgettable.

IT's Radiohead, so it;s mellow, boring, and each song is nearly indistiguishable from the others. Not a fan.

Packt like Sardines is a chill opener, though I'm not sure what song would be appropriate to lead into Pyramid Song. Pyramid Song is Amnesiac's How to Disappear Completely. One of my favorite songs. I love everything about this song - that such a monster song is built on the piano chords that carry on throughout the track (I think I've read the time signature is interesting but I am not sufficiently educated to speak to that - update: GPT 4o tells me it is actually 4/4 but with unusual phrasing). I love the sparse, stuttering drums that come in with swelling strings and vocals. The build up and release. The pacing of the song. That we are treated to another build up and release before the song finishes. It must have been challenging to choose a song for the other side of Pyramid Song. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors is a deeply satisfying choice. The gateway drug to bring your hip hop head friend over to Radiohead. I feel that this song and Life in a Glass House could have gone devastatingly poorly. Maybe in a different universe. In this one Pulk/Pull slams. glitchy beats, overwhelming pounding base complimented by slower electronic sounds of some sort? The vocal - somewhat in the vain of Fitter Happier? but younger/more human sounding - flows well with the track, especially the mysterious sounding lyrics ("and there are trapdoors, that you can't come back from"). Re the younger sounding vocal, seems fitting given that a children's encyclopedia was responsible for much of the lyrical content (hat tip to SK: https://citizeninsane.eu/music/amnesiac/pulkpull.html). You and Whose Army comes up next and is another of my favorite Radiohead songs. It feels like it has a sense of humor. First opening with a yawn after Pulk/Pull. Then asking in the most subdued voice "you and whose army?". The song is subtle and powerful. Another builder. I believe it's recorded on guitar but I've played it on piano and like how it sounds. In particular when Thom belts out "Holy Roman Empire." (The Pyramid Song piano chords are fun to play with strings layered on top). Good music moves. I know because when I write music it often does not move. I like the transition mid-song from "you and whose army" to "you forget so easy". The drums come in and they start playing big piano chords (or so I imagine). The "we ride tonight, ghost horses" is the perfect climax to this song. I Might Be Wrong follows. Super rhythmic, a gritty guitar riff and beats. This song sounds...how can we say...intimate? Sensual. There is at least one double entendre or two that to me supports this. I'm trying to think of another Radiohead song like this. This song is also really live (as seen on I might be wrong Live recordings and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rulyu_FhRU). This live version is acoustic - I love the moment around 3:08 where the breakdown starts and they start plucking slower and Thom does the ouu ahhhh thing. He looks at Jonny and smiles like "man, this is a really great song and I really enjoy playing with you." It's the kind of thing that makes you want to make music. Nice to see them happy. God knows they aren't known for it. Knives Out is a pretty song. I could see some arguing for more variety than what the vocal part and arpeggio (?) provide. I like to groove with it. It's interesting to me that of all songs to redo they did Morning bell. I don't know the story behind it. I always thought this version starts kind of rough, but there is a pretty release in tension that I appreciate. Dollars and Cents creates a a cool vibe with a deep repeating baseline and strings that accompany Thom vocals. Nice moments are created when Thom's singing becomes more intense, the drums build (good job Phil), strings and then you are left with the baseline to carry you on. Would it be tacky to call Hunting Bears a palette cleanser? It brings us back to a clean slate for the haunting Like Spinning Plates. This one also has a well known live recording (I might be wrong live recordings). I really enjoy it as a piano piece. I had a girlfriend in school who could read music and I asked her to show me which "buttons" to press to play it. I've always treasured being able to play it, though, as I write this I realize I may have forgot. Not too hard to pick up though I think. Enjoying the piano version had me doubting the recorded version but as I come back to it, I find it as chilling and haunted as I need. Plus Thom's voice doesn't crack on Cloud Cuckoo like in the live version (though it's also fun when his voice cracks). I love the "our bodies floating down the muddy river" closing lyric. They probably could have ended the album with Like Spinning Plates. As noted, Life in a Glass House could have gone terribly wrong. Since I am ignorant of music, I will borrow from Wiki: ""Life in a Glasshouse" features the Humphrey Lyttelton Band playing in the style of a New Orleans jazz funeral". It's like, hey master trumpet guy, we are a super edgy band. will you and your friends go nuts on horns and stuff...like national anthem or whatever, but also it's gotta be jazz funeraley." Yet it is a beautiful song. The trumpet shredding isn't too much for me. The Lyttelton band arrangement sounds lovely and sings together with Thom. Another perfect climax "well of course I'd like to chew the fat only only onlyx100 there's someone listening in). I remember waiting 30 minutes to get Pyramid Song's bytes on a desktop computer back in the day. I think this review proves to me it was worth it. Twenty something years later and I've been listening to the album all week. An old flame rekindled.

Spooky Adventurous Lost in Space Blood changes direction

I’m skeptical of anyone who calls this album a masterpiece, but so too am I skeptical of anyone who decries it as pointless whining. It sits very powerfully in between (although leaning masterpiece) and perfectly epitomizes what I love about Radiohead—fleeting pockets of brilliance, tucked in the folds of a much larger and more distressing sound. Uncomfortable that may be, is it not the truest reflection of our daily toils and rarer triumphs?

beautiful, haunting.

Not as good as OK Computer. I did enjoy some tracks like You and Whose Army? and Knives Out.

I like to think of Nirvana as the musical equivalent of a body horror movie. One of those exploitation films with too much blood to the point where it’s gone past realism and to the point of ridiculous. A chainsaw in plunged into a woman’s torso and 75 gallons of blood comes shooting out drenching the walls and leaving a puddle an inch deep around a school gymnasium. Doll steak. Test meat. I travel through a tube and end up in your infection. Extend the metaphor: Radiohead’s a whole different kind of terror. A Kubrickian nightmare. Paranoid androids. A Clockwork Orange kicking your ribs in. Who’s gonna stop them, you and your cronies? A Space Odyssey, taking home movies for the folks back home of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirit, drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets. And therein we have the connection. Like Kubrick, Radiohead’s music isn’t actually about homesick aliens or dystopian ice ages, or wealthy New York sex cults, or black-eyed angels. It’s about how humanity fails us, and the human capacity to overcome those failures and persist. Think of Radiohead that way and you start to see it everywhere “we” (the faceless, the anonymous crowd) “are hungry for a lynching.” “Stay in the shadows, cheer at the gallows”. “I” (the individual) “used to think there was no future left at all,” Thom mumbles over the hypnotic riff of “I Might Be Wrong.” Every few songs we stop and remind ourselves, “Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself.” Amnesiac is the pinnacle of this. The end of the second act of the movie. HAL has decided to kill us. Living in times we can’t stand it. Take the money and run. Women and children first. We’re singing in the rain, my droogies. The wolf’s at the door and, of course I’d like to stay and chew the fat, but we ride tonight. Ghost horses.

It's my birthday, so I hoped the album generator would toss me a banger for the occasion. Nope, it picked a band I don't like, and this album was not an exception. Radiohead is an overrated band, Thom Yorke's vocals irritate me, and overall the album felt steeped in pretension. Ending with a New Orleans-style funeral march was WTF. Ah well, on to the next one tomorrow!

I got a Radiohead album just a few days prior to this. While I still wasn't a tremendous fan of this one (as I also wasn't with the first one I listened to), I did feel like this album gave me more insight at the type of band Radiohead is. I felt like this was a pretty good package for them, and the musicianship was, of course, great. This would've been a little bit better for me had the two Pulk songs not been in there. Otherwise, this got me just a tad more interested in Radiohead. It wasn't bad.

The previous album, Kid A was nearly released as a double album. This is the result of the band reworking some material originally defined for that release, but it’s much more than an outtakes record. There’s a much more diverse sound, drawing on jazz, both modern cool and trad, avant garde classical music and absolute abstraction, even down to the lyrics which often have a William Burroughs cut up feel to them. There’s a cluster of songs in the middle of the album which come close-ish to conventional guitar-centric rock. Knives Out wouldn’t be out of place on OK Computer. Don’t panic, hipsters, abnormal service is resumed as the album closes. Whatever else you want to say about Radiohead, they don’t lack artistic courage.

A few good classic radiohead songs, a few I don't care for, and a few kid a leftovers

3 out of 5. Never heard of this album before. Some good little melodies and can hear the Boards of Canada influence but nothing grabbed me.

I love Radiohead, and this is one of my favourite albums ever. It’s a shame that Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood continue to destroy their own legacies.

Trippy with nostalgia hits.

Not a big fan of the electric sound and pretty darn melancholy.

I liked it, feel like some of it would be nice music to have while studying, maybe because i cant understand some of the words lol

Very Deftones, but nothing really stood out

I can't really be unbiased here. I love radiohead and think pretty much every album is a five. That said, it had been a few years since I listened, and my memory was of several great tracks but an album that was perhaps a little disjointed. Listening back now, it's better than I remembered. The great tracks - Pyramid Song, I might be wrong, you and whose army - are incredible, but even the weird electronic tracks stand up. Pull/pulk needs to be played on a good system - the bass is all enveloping and the beat properly kicks. Every track is worth a listen. I can totally see that this will not be to most people's tastes, but I love everything here. One note - if you can't get your head around "Like Spinning Plates", listen to the live piano version on "I might be wrong". Hearing an acoustic version unlocks the beauty of the original.

Cover: 5 Can easily fall asleep to this. They're all ok. Nothing stands out to me, not on first listen.

Better than Coldplay

There's some Radiohead that hits for me and some that doesn't. This album is a mixture of both.

Pretty good Radiohead album, same ole depressing "we live in a society" sounds but with horns at points. 3 FYI I am a Radiohead fan, just more of a Ok Computer/ The Bends guy.

Oof, not something I'd want to listen to again. Very mellow and slow and harsh on the ears

This is a great album.

Actually not that bad at all and I quite enjoyed listening. I didn’t think I liked Radiohead, but there you go. Half decent.

Not for me dog

Interesting experimenting here, but not the Radiohead I enjoyed earlier on

Some songs are better then others, but overall a nice album!

Holy... why didn't I listen to this one sooner?

I was not feeling depressed before. Now I am.

scho ultra weird, aber sehr geil!

Radiohead is for me a difficult band. On the one side you have wonderful, great, magnificent songs like Creep and Karma Police. But on the other side albums like this one, which is ok but far away from the heights of the songs mentioned. I really like Knives Out and Life In a Glasshouse. But the rest did not impress me.

Too weird to listen to on its own but he perfect amount of weird to listen to while working on art projects. 🎨

It just trudges along. You know trudging? To trudge.

Amnesiac is really a bit like the ugly stepsister of Kid A, isnt't it? Look, I really like Radiohead, but sometime people are too fast to applaud everything they do. Maybe because its Art... But this doesn't quite live up to Radiohead's reputation. Recorded at the same time as Kid A, this album contains many tracks that were left on the cutting room floor of the former one. We might even directly compare these two by virtue of looking at the respective versions of Morning Bell. The Kid A version was sublime, the one on this album deserves to be forgotten (cue obvious pun on this album's title). There might be one or two good tracks on here - I myself am partial to Pyramid Song and You and Whose Army? But that is not enough, and after Kid A, this is quite a letdown. 2/5

"Oh brother. If Amnesiac made the list, prepare for like 4 more of these." And that is coming from a Radiohead fan friend of mine. I had never listened to this one in my attempts to figure out what it is people lose their sense of self over Radiohead over maybe because it really isn't one constantly talked about. Even as someone who is not a fan of Radiohead overall I can see why. There's even less here than the other albums had. The search continues.

# Album Name: Amnesiac # Artist: Radiohead # Rating: 4/5 # Comments: This will be a love/hate album for many listeners. Personally, i always loved radioheads earlier stuff - Kid A and Amnesiac were the beginning of their transformation. Regardless, this is still a good listen. Better than a lot of albums on this list. # Top Tunes: Sardines / Pyr song / you and whose army / i might be wrong / knives out / MB # Would I listen to it again? Yes

people keep telling me Radiohead is one of the best to ever do it and this was not the place to start

A decent follow up to Kid A. Not as gopd though

Most of this album was a struggle to get through. Very depressing, slow, repetitive and minimalist. There are a few enjoyable tracks though. Knives Out was my favourite on first listen, but maybe just because it reminds of the much better Paranoid Android.

sat through another ~40 minutes of this band again, only confirming that this just ain't it for me. Don't care for the music, don't care for the digital bits, or electronic shit, or whatever you want to call it. It sounds incredibly whiney. Glad I listened to it just to confirm I have listened to plenty of radiohead and they just suck ass imo

Don’t tell my daughter, but I just can’t get into Radiohead. Although we don’t have any of these songs liked on Spotify, so maybe this album is mid. It’s not bad, fine as background music, but honestly I get a little tired of the vocals.

Fuck off Thom. Even the half way decent guitar riff on “I might be wrong” gets wasted with his mopey singing. How does a song like “Hunting bears” seem to last for hours when it’s only a two minute song? The whole album felt like it was taking an eternity to finish. The dirge like, lifeless ripoff New Orleans style jazz of “Life in a glass house” was a fitting ending to an absolute shite album. Won’t be back and that’s 2 Radiohead albums I’ll never hear again. How in gods name is this band so f’n popular?

Pretty OK. But, I have forgotten what most of it sounded like already.

Standout Songs: Pyramid Song Knives Out Life in a Glasshouse

Very samey, track 1 to the last track could have be the same song not my favourite radiohead album

I like the few Radiohead songs I've heard before, but never listened to their full albums really, besides Pablo Honey. But this album is really varied and interesting. A bit experimental, but sound is really unique and varied. Falls off in the second half.

Great band I struggle to follow them on all of the journeys this isn’t a favorite

Yes. This is Radiohead.

Beautiful album very deep and experimental. As a kid I did not like it but cause it was too instrumental and slow but revisiting it was great. Its a profound deep meditetion voyage.

I don’t know if I like Radiohead or I’m supposed to like Radiohead. I definitely like Radiohead’s earlier music but this album has some good songs.

Wow, way much better than expected!

Yawn. The way that some people feel about emo vocals is how I feel about Thom Yorke’s vocals. Nails on a chalkboard.

Some of Radiohead's best!

Not bad, not good.

I don't know if I can do a second day of Radiohead in a row. Ok so I made it to the next day without listening to it because I really didn't want to. I decided to just give it a little listen because the point is that i listen to it all, and I found it considerably better than the Kid A. This one has a lot more going on, and I somewhat enjoyed knives out. I still generally didn't enjoy whatever artistic intention he had with the dissonance/avant-garde style and god did I get annoyed with hearing his voice. 7/10

????? This is supposedly 1 of the GOATs. Radiohead; inventive, experimental, fearless and adventurous , richly textured modern face of rock. Well if this is it, I am well and truly underwhelmed. After years of hearing the above statements of greatest ever, but never actually listening to 1 of their albums ( I don’t enjoy his somewhat to my ears whinny vocals on the songs I had heard) I have always kind of held the hope that I was saving a great experience and when I actually sat and eventually listened would get to explore their great catalogue and buy physical copies, but as of today, I think that they are somewhat overrated. Supposedly the lesser of a trilogy, guessing going to hear those, so will get more opportunity to hear this supposed greatness. Not a lot of actual songs jumping out, seems more like the pretentious musings of the “we are great musicians and experimenters”. People say this would be a magnum opus of other bands, really? I will stick with others simpler, lesser works then, cough cough, Emperors new clothes. On second listen didn’t get anymore enjoyable, just noodling in the studio put to tape, and fuck it went from 2 to 1 Star, This is currently my most anticipated with least return album so far.

Much less varied in tone and musical style than "Bends". It fell flat.

Some bands have no albums on this list. Radiohead on the other hand can record Thom Yorke sing a line over the sound of a flushing toilet and it will be included on the next version of the list with no thought given. This album is objectively bad, maybe not as bad as In Rainbows but I can't take his voice and the music on this album is not very interesting. I know that it is crazy to say I can't take his voice when I just gave 2112 5 stars yesterday but at least that music is entertaining.

I have this

Love this. Love them

This is one of those groups I've always wanted to like more than I actually do. I love that they experiment with incorporating so many different elements into their music, , but the results often seem more incoherent than innovative to me.

Was aight, some real good moments but overall just aight

One of my favorites. Hauntingly beautiful.

It’s tough to follow up the two most revolutionary albums in popular music in a (my) lifetime but Amnesiac holds its own with a bunch of amazing compositions that feel humbler than those of Kid A but are no less dynamic and inventive.

“Amnesiac” has a reputation for featuring some of Radiohead’s most experimental electronica, which is true. There are plenty of glitchy, programmed drum beats and ghostly samples. The opening track “Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box” sets the tone right away for some sort of dystopian dance party. And “Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors” is all distorted drums and ambient chaos. But paradoxically, this album also features some of the only songs in the band’s catalog where they actually swing. “Pyramid Song” has a hypnotic, jazzy beat. The drums on “Knives Out” are light and loose. And the closer “Life in a Glasshouse” is a stunning, drunken lounge number. It’s a fusion of rock, jazz and electronica that only Radiohead could make. It’s got a vibe all its own. One of those albums that gets better every time I hear it.

I probably know this Radiohead album the least out of all of theirs, so it's been nice to go through it and feel like I'm getting a new release by the band. I always think of Radiohead as being pretty adventurous while still maintaining a sound that is very uniquely theirs, and this album continues that. The first track I'm given a great drum sound to start, and then as soon as you get comfortable the beat switches. The same happens for the second song, where a beautiful piano part comes in, with some mixed modalities in there, some moments where it sounds like mistakes on the instrument, and then some really thick rubato- where the performer takes some moments to stretch out the tempo. It's certainly adventurous, and really a delight to hear. When that rock and roll riff comes in on "I Might Be Wrong", I said "wow.". It's kind of out of character for them, but it's such a stupidly simple and great riff and it adds so much to the vibe of the record. It's like a Queens of the Stone Age part in the middle of a Radiohead album- so cool! This album doesn't have the big standout "radio" tracks that Radiohead are known for; there's no "Creep", "Karma Police", or "No Surprises" here. In fact, this album doesn't even contain a single song from their top 10 most listened to (as per Spotify). And I actually really like that, I was able to listen to the album in a singular context and get immersed in it without sitting back and enjoying while not knowing the direction I was headed in before getting hit with a song that I've heard thousands of times and am intimately familiar with. It made this album feel like more of an experience.

Not my favourit Radiohead album. But still a great atmospheric recording. Top: "I Might Be Wrong", "Knives Out"

Pretty good album.

Like usual, Radiohead parts are at odds with themselves and songs are layered with a plunky piano and vocals that sound like a cat caught by the testicles.

Some standouts but not something I'd regularly listen to. Very slow and angsty.

Went through a very long phase where Amnesiac was my favorite Radiohead album. Though the more time went on I grew to prefer Kid A and OK Computer, but I still believe Amnesiac has some of their strongest material and my favorite song of theirs, Pyramid Song.

*Amnesiac* is the sound of Radiohead trying hard to not repeat itself in the wake of *OK Computer*. This album turns the band's sound inside-out, empasizing what used to lurk in the background and eschewing many of the elements that made up their mid-to-late 90's sound. The aim of this album seems to be to use the most minimal amount of instrumention as possible and yet be able to convey some sort of emotion or feeling. The vocal melodies are less conventional also, almost as though singer Thom Yorke is using his voice for texture rather than serving as the focal point of the songs. The results, however, are often more admirable than enjoyable. The album as a whole conjures up an atmosphere of mental dislocation, but because the individual *songs* are so skeletal, not many of them have a strong emotional impact when taken on their own. Only the more fleshed-out songs (such as "Pyramid Song", "You And Whose Army?" and "Knives Out") come close to having some distinct emotional punch.

Huh, who thought Radiohead could be decent. ⭐⭐⭐

I understand the criticism of this one. If you don’t like Thom’s voice you will hate it. The songs are strange. For me there is a hook in every song. Pyramid song might be their best song ever. Thom has an incredible range and the album has a unique sound.

I think if this was by any other band I’d slap a one star on this and move on but because it’s radiohead i’m gaslit into thinking I just don’t get it and it’s actually good somehow, so I’ll just give it a benefit of the doubt 2. i don’t enjoy kid a so i was not surprised to not be enthused with this.

Better than some of their stuff as I found a couple of tracks listenable, but overall the usual dirge.

Probably the best Radiohead. I can't fathom how this could be seen as a step down from Kid A.

The weakest of the 5-star Radiohead records, but still an easy corker. It's such an odd album. I'd describe it as "quietly apocalyptic", beginning with the unassuming synth mumble Packt Like Sardines In a Crusht Tin Box and moving in haphazard leaps and bounds until it arrives at the brash, depressed, paranoid semi-jazz number Life In a Glasshouse. And between those two tracks are a strange array of different styles and sound experimentation. It really is the perfect example of a band trying out new sounds and those sounds being weird but surprisingly (maybe accidentally?) good. Pyramid Song is a juggernaut track. It incorporates a 4/4 rhythm that sounds like 5/4 with intermittent pauses between bars. (So already you have a classic to share with your non-musical friends to confuse them.) Add to that the excellent keyboard chord progression and you have one of the most fun songs to play on piano – not just of Radiohead, but ever. It's an exotic, eerie piece of art, in the key of F# but using a ton of non-F# chords to create a Phrygian-mode sound. Fitting for Egypt, I guess. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors is justifiably memed about on the Radiohead subreddit. You And Whose Army? is another chord- and melody-heavy track with two separate parts. The second section explodes out of nowhere from the muted, underwatery first section. There are so many oddity tracks after this point. The murmured vocal over a heavily charged guitar riff in I Might Be Wrong. The biting lyrics of Knives Out. The dreary, dreamy Morning Bell/Amnesiac, which is essentially an alternative take of the namesake track on Kid A. The fighting major/minors and Thom Yorke's obvious dislike of his own vocal in all tracks, but very noticeably in Dollars and Cents. The slightly ominous guitar instrumental Hunting Bears. The incomprehensible post-psychedelia dub Like Spinning Plates. They're all such weird numbers, and separately they'd be lower than 5 stars. But these songs, as a collective, hold a special place in my heart. 5/5 Key tracks: Packt Like Sardines In a Crusht Tin Box, Pyramid Song, You And Whose Army?, Life In a Glasshouse

I liked some of the more high energy instrumentals. But overall this isn't for me.

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Did you live through the time in the early 2000s when, if you set your cell phone close to a computer speaker, it'd create a buzzing through the speaker? Imagine if someone took that annoying-ass sound and turned it into a concept album, but then, on the last track, all of a sudden there were wind instruments.

Not as awful as Kid A That shit was so pompous in the most masterbatory way. Right off the bat, this is better, almost tolerable (well, in the front half at least). That said, it's still over-the-top whiney pretension, and I'd never want to hear it again if given the choice.

Radiohead makes me want to grab a length of rope and find a sturdy beam.

It was good but just not the mood I was in.

I can tell this is a great album that I should sit with and break down but it doesn't sound good enough to do that

I still couldn’t name a single Radiohead song, but I like their sound.

Good. Radiohead good, which is to say, they do it all very well, but it doesn’t move me

I’m not a fan of Radiohead but this was fine. I liked the closer and a couple songs but I mostly didn’t feel very strongly positively or negatively, just kinda meh.

Melancholia done well. I would rate it 5 stars if it didn't take me to places I don't want to go. A fitting album for those numb, depressed moments.

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