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Kid A by Radiohead

Kid A

Radiohead

2000
3.71
Rating
31078
Votes
1
6%
2
12%
3
22%
4
27%
5
33%
Distribution
Genres: Rock Styles: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Art Rock, IDM, Experimental

Reviews (page 14 of 16)

Andra hälften av plattan bättre än första

After the amazing OK Computer, Radiohead decided to take things into new directions and experiment with a range of styles. As such, some experiments may have been more or less successful than others. This album does have a few low points that drag it down and were frankly hard to listen to such as The National Anthem (how fitting) and Idoteque. Most of the album, however, is very good.

I feel that this is a cliché to say this about Kid A but that album is so important to me. This was my introduction to electronic music, krautrock and experimental music as a whole, genres that means everything to me now. So britpop peaked and while everybody was racing to get to the throne Radiohead just went "f*ck it" and did a 180 by releasing an atmospheric record that wouldn't have a chance to get so much attention if it weren't made by one of the most popular alternative band of its time. As we all know, britpop collapsed soon after and Radiohead went on to have one of the most interesting and fruitful career any band could ever dream of. And it all started with this album in particular. One of the most treasured records of all-time as far as I'm concerned.

In my experience, that's when Radiohead really started to get interesting.

Amen - Masterpiece. I discover this album late in my life but now I cant stop listening to it.

This album could be in the "11 albums generator" list. Seriously, one of the most influential album ever and it's a masterpiece. I would have liked to experience the release of this album at the time to live the big generalized "what the hell"... Then realize a few years later that it is finally a game changer in the history of music.

Amazing this is shit is so good

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I like about half of the songs on this album. Some of the electronic heavy tracks lose me. Radiohead is one of my favorite bands though so it wasn't unbearable

Favorite song: The National Anthem

Pretty good but honestly overrated. And doesn’t feel as satisfying as ok computer (the only other radio head album I’ve listened to before this one).

Great peice of music, doesnt grab me as much as their other work.

That was... interesting.

you can almost hear them struggling to return to the pop greatness of which they’re capable but the miserablist bleep bloop shit drags the whole thing down

Pablo Honey is a good album. OK Computer is a good album. Never understood the love for Kid A.

I like this album, but there are some songs that I skip every time. This is especially true in the back half. But it’s still solid.

Inte helt min melodi, rätt trippy.

нудные британские нытики.... креап мне больше нравился

How To Disappear Completely still makes me cry

7th March 2023 Listened during the day while working from home. Busy day working, Rita rehearsal, every builder under the sun in our house fitting carpets etc. Thom Yorke shuns Radiohead as they were to create Radiohead 2.0. I think if you listen to it about 10 times it would be an absolute great. 3.5 if I could.

My only year at uni studying art history was brought to you by Kid A and Mr Sub

I feel like I need to give this one more time to really understand it. The hype around this album is very unreal and while I can see why for certain spots, there are definitely somethings on here that aren't fully clicking with me yet.

Not the best Radiohead but this one continues to grow on me.

Just sounded like weird soundtrack music

Too broody

1 mars 2023 Le matin Tu déjeuner, ta pris le bus Nice mood

Some very good. Some less so. Never quite made my mind up.

Amazing album

“Noise.” - My girlfriend. I appreciate how this album focuses on atmosphere and feeling. It feels deliberately unfinished yet still maintains the polish I would expect from Radiohead. It gives me Clap Your Hands Say Yeah vibes.

Really enjoy some of the songs on this record, but honestly some others just seem like noise to me. Hoping I get more into this one on future listens.

Everything in it's right place en Idioteque vind ik fantastisch, maar de rest van de nummers op het album vind ik wat minder. Niet het beste Radiohead album. Tussen en 3 en een 4 in ergens.

I made an uneducated statement by saying Radiohead didn't do it for me. I was wrong. Absolutely phenomenal. Been on repeat all day.

124 Albums in. 5 Radiohead albums. This is a time and place album for me and when I hear it, it always takes me back to my last montsh of college. Classload was light and it was the last time in my life with little responsibility. My roommates and I loved this album and listened to it a lot, and really for the sake of listening well. It's one of the most complete, most perfect albums I've ever heard. 1 - bad 2 - average 3 - good 4 - great 5 - outstanding

ta mais pra radioretard mas eu gostei de algumas melodias

It’s tough, the 90s/00s grunge is just not really my thing, and Radiohead is just not for me. I know a lot of people would burn me at the stake for that tho so 3 stars (2.5)

RADIO HEAD IS BAD AND I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW ANYONE LIKES THEM An hour of thom yorke moaning into a microphone. I do think I enjoyed this listen more than I have in the past, there is definitely some cool production throughout but I still unapologetically hate radiohead and am sad there is going to be 5+ more of their albums on this list

p860. 2000. 3 stars. Strays dangerously into ambient prog/rock wankage. Saved by a couple of good tunes and Thom Yorke's voice. Not their best work.

Getragene Klangbilder; dissonant aufgelöst in konsonante; interessante und vielfältige Texte; cooles Album; gefällt;

Classic 5/5

Probably my favorite album of all time. OK Computer started running with song mechanics and then this album went all out with deconstruction. Songs end in jazz chaos, atmospheric electronic, the whole thing keeps you guessing. A masterpiece

Billies best!

ugh, no matter how many people say Radiohead is their favorite band, I just cannot get into it. I like wailing sadness sometimes as long as it evokes some deeper feelings. All I feel is bored.

Reading the Wikipedia page for "Kid A," 23 years after the album's release, is exciting because it's pretty clear how it is to be underground and how things have changed over these two decades. It influenced a lot of things in music, the music industry, and the different manners to deal with the increasing technology. I'm still not very into this electronic phase of the band, but it's impossible not to see how it was essential. On a side note: Is this list created to go along with Beatles and Radiohead discography intercalated with some other stuff, right? (I'm not complaining) :-P

Bland. First few tracks are pretty bad. Don't know why Radiohead get the hype they get. Just made me feel like I'd rather be listening to Muse.

Cmon its kid a whats left to say

The OG Emperor's New Clothes bullshit. Initially sounded better than I remembered, but sure enough the tuneless whining began in earnest. Just dreadful and so derivative, e.g. forgot about the pointless glissando piano on the last track obviously stolen from Mercury Rev. I bet there's another 2 or 3 turds from these fuckers left on this list for me to endure. Ughh...

Es un disco muy profundo, no me pude meter mucho en las letras, pero el solo sonido que hace la banda en este álbum suena algo profundo y a veces triste. Igualmente es un álbum con mucho poder y siento que es muy bueno, a pesar de a veces aburrirme un poco con las instrumentales, que no son malas, pero a veces es demasiado.

I can’t believe it. My favorite album of all time, and it’s the third to come up. ‘Everything In Its Right Place’ is a perfect opener. It sets the mood perfectly. I could not imagine it being anywhere else on the album. Then is the title track, the first thing I associate with the word ‘soundscape’. The instruments feel like they’re bouncing around softly as Thom Yorke’s heavily-edited voice sings about something ‘standing in the shadows in the end of my bed’. It’s simultaneously soothing and sinister. ‘The National Anthem’ is both a jam and absolutely apocalyptic. ‘How To Disappear Completely’ is just… beautiful. The ending is amazing. The strings, which have been playing the whole time out of key, start going haywire, and it seems the sad but peaceful aura has been broken, but then - the strings play in key, and it’s 45 seconds of ethereal beauty. ‘Treefingers’ is a pretty ambient piece to string the previous song to the hard-rocking ‘Optimistic’, which is the song most reminiscent of OK Computer. It combines elements from both albums to make another great song. ‘In Limbo’ is the one I have the least to say about, but it’s still good. What follows is one of my favorite 3-song runs of all time. ‘Idioteque’ is an amazing apocalyptic dance song, much like ‘The National Anthem’ (not the dance part, but the apocalyptic part). ‘Morning Bell’ is a song I don’t know how to describe, but it’s a word for good I haven’t used yet. I don’t know why I’m making this review so long. Anyway, closer ‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’ is one of the most ethereal, tearjerking songs I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. It feels like the end of an era, a final goodbye to an old friend. After that, the hidden track is an almost happy ending, how even after all that, the future is bright. Life will get better. Or that’s just me over analyzing. Probably.

Innovative great body of work

I still don't fully get Radiohead although I'm interested. They are, to my ear, superbly talented and exploratory, and that's why I keep coming back to give them various tries, here and elsewhere. As a band, their music has yet to "click" with me, so I rarely spend much time listening to them for my own enjoyment, but that's just part of the journey. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. One thing for sure, they are so keen on approaching music from many angles, and that I definitely appreciate.

I have my own expectations about Radiohead's sound but so far this is subverting everything I thought I knew. There's a part in The National Anthem that sounds like the guy squeezing toy pigs into tubes and it makes music somehow. This album honestly isn't bad, I just don't think I like Radiohead.

Best surprise to see radiohead as my album for todayy, a side to radiohead i never knew but a great surprise. Reading the background on this album and radioheads transition from rock is very interesting, especially while listening through the album

Sko, þetta er ekki leiðinlegt, en það eru liðin 23 ár og ég er ekki enn almennilega að tengja. Fyrir mér er þetta afturför og ekki meistaraverk. Að því sögðu þá eru National anthem, Optimistic og Morning Bell mjög flott, og rytmapælingar skemmtilegar.

It's Radiohead, it's great. I prefer Ok Computer and The Bends though.

9/10 - great album but just doesn't have the same vibe as their earlier stuff

Psychedelische, sphärische Alternative Klänge

Meh, not so interesting

9/10. no es mi fav de rh pero es dms cohesivo y guenisimo.

Listened three times over and still have no idea what to say or where to start.

When the dice rolls a 5 stars you sit back and enjoy.

In a little while I'll be gone The moment's already passed Yeah, it's gone And I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I like OK computer better as a collection of songs, but I agree that this is probably the more "must-listen" album. Its a fantastic album with great themes and a bunch of top 10 tracks. 5/5

Not as good as OK Computer, In Rainbows or Moon Shaped Pool - but still cracking.

After hearing so many great things about Kid A over the years but never getting around to actually listening to it in full, I was glad to finally get the chance to do so. Now that I've heard it, I can confidently say that I don't really get Radiohead. Some of this is fine, like The National Anthem, How to Disappear Completely, and Idioteque, but this mumbling through atmospheric music just does not do anything for me. Is it offensive to say that I like Radiohead way better when they do songs like Creep, Karma Police, and High & Dry? Probably. But you know what, Creep-haters, deal with it!

This was aight. First couple tracks were very good. I dig the intro on Idioteque as well.

I remember that this was seen as a big departure for the band after the more instrumental albums that came before. But the influences (mo'wax, autechre, aphex twin, german electronica, underworld, etc) are all near and dear to me, and this album only really grows on me more. Future albums still maintained elements of this direction and remain prominent on my rotation.

This one is as hard to review as it is to describe. It moves from Eno-like warm ambience to moody, downtempo pop. About half is forgettable, but the other half is good enough to make it a commendable album.

I can't say anything here that hasn't been said better by other people before. This album is full of subtle sounds, incredibly atmospheric, it needs headphones and a couple dozens of listens to hear it all. It's a marvel if you give it the time

im not here this isn’t happening…. something about listening to how to disappear completely on the plane

Good, not great Weird

Gut und chillig

good, would listen again

Dig this much more now than the first time i heard it in year 2000

I respect artists who try experimental work, even if they don’t always pan out. How To Disappear Completely is without a doubt in my mind the best song on the album. This may sound pretentious, but the song knows what it is. It is a song with a purpose while I feel others on the album are unfinished jam sessions. The general idea and concept, I believe, they have down, but the final product was a little too bare. Overall, though, it is a great album and I enjoyed listening, but it could have been better. 4/5

I have not listened to much Radiohead over the years, so something new… that evoked some nostalgia moments. Quality album!

Love how this band is always reinventing themselves. Nothing is of limits. Unpredictable as an album and a band. Love everything about it. Always staying the same by always changing.

Eep a bit too experimental for my taste

No lo he escuchado entero.

Great to run to

Likely in the top ten records ever made. Some of the best songs ever written are on this album and the album as a whole flows perfectly. This is a masterpiece.

Very cool exploration in a different direction for Radiohead with a good deal more electronic music appearing on this album. Still great attention given to the peaks and valleys that make their performances so compelling.

Fantastic! Terrific!

I just don’t get it. I love The Bends but this is annoying and forgettable. Would probably go 2 stars but knocking it down to 1 for the iconic status.

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Most overrated band in 30 years

This album is pretty good. Some songs are good, and most are decent. I feel like most songs have too many effects on them that make them sound overproduced or something. Favorite song: In Limbo Worst song: Kid A

Nice for something different

Felt like pink Floyd

They definitely have a sound of their own. It is more than good music, it is interesting. I've heard the album a few times now, and still really don't know it well enough. I do know that I like it and enjoy it, but I still need more time to really appreciate it. There are no songs that really stand out to me as superior. But, like I said, I just haven't heard it enough. How to Disappear Completely is probably the one that I appreciated the most. I'll give it 3.5/5 for now, but I know it deserves more.

not the greatest album ever but pretty good

fucking hate it, so overwhelming, sounds like a bunch of noise

it’s definitely a close your eyes, turn off the lights, and just lay down album so it probably didn’t help that i was doing work while listening but regardless i can appreciate what radiohead accomplished with this album. it’s not necessarily something i’ll be listening to every single day of my life for the rest of my life but i can see the appeal and the critical acclaim. my favorite songs off of it are: Everything In Its Right Place, How to Disappear Completely, Idioteque, Morning Bell, Motion Picture Soundtrack, and Untiled (because, although short, it made me open my eyes wide because it felt angelic istg)

Everything in Its Right Place: Som krydderhylla :)) Hva skjer med teksten "Yesterday, I woke up sucking a lemon"?? haha hva i alle dager betyr det?? Kid A: Dystre greier. "The rats and the children follow me out of town". Krigsflyktninger? The National Anthem: Dette må være en av mine favoritter etter HTDC. Høres ut som introen til en spionfilm i starten med en rå bass, men så kommer blåserekka halvveis og tar helt av. Dødsfetttt. Hører 5-6 lag som spiller helt ulikt? Kaos, men på en god måte. Denne havner fort på vaskemusikk-lista How to Disappear Completely: Frysninger. hver. gang. Treefingers: Yoga vibes? Optimistic: Ditt beste er godt nok! In Limbo: En vond drøm. "I'm lost at sea" - meg i sjøforsvaret Idioteque: Ikke helt min greie nei. Igjen er teksten preget av krig- "Women and children first". Mange ulike lag med perkusjon her. Eksperimentelt Morning Bell: Motion Picture Soundtrack: Veldig fin, nesten som en drøm.

Enjoyed the music. It was experimental without being too far out there. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I especially enjoyed How to Disappear Completely and Optimistic. I really disliked the song idioteque

Ah, the albums that Radiohead changed tack. Its an important album but I hardly listen to it so here goes. Its jarring at times but its a powerful experience that was later distilled into brilliance. It's the sound of a band shedding its skin. I'm glad that its wasn't a double as Amnesiac was all recorded at the same time as Kid A. 4

My Radiohead album ranking as of 8 Dec: 1. In Rainbows 2. The Bends 3. Kid A I feel like this is an album I need to sit with more to know how I feel about it which is hard to do when you need to give a rating of it within a day of first listening to it. I'm almost certain I will like this album more the more I listen to and understand it but I am not feeling myself loving it immediately as I did In Rainbows and The Bends. Favourite Songs: The National Anthem

Great experemental album. Radiohead took a step to change their genre

Straight bitch behavior lol. This could almost be considered white noise. Average Radiohead song: Whiiineeee and moaaaannnnn, moaaaninggggggg, sad violinnnnn, whiningggggg, why doesn't this girl like meeeeee, mooaanninnggg, im going to disappeaaaaarrrr, cuz i'm noothinnggggggg, whinnnning, moaninging!

Incredible atmospheric compositions, Yorker’s singing and lyrics are beautiful, great album

overrated

I’m not sure where to start with this one. Is it a good album? Sure, yes, absolutely. See my rating. Is it the game changing, greatest record of all time that a lot of people like to say it is? I don’t think so. There’s an argument to made (and Radiohead fans, in my experience, usually don’t want to hear it) that there were other bands operating in very similar spaces as Kid A long before Radiohead. They just ended up being the right band, at the right time, with the right level of success to make an experimental album like Kid A a hit, especially coming off the success of OK Computer. Again, I think this is a good record. I don’t want to come off as down playing the quality of this release. I’m just not sure it deserves its reputation as a “game changing, no one has ever done anything like this” record. As an example, “Djed”, the 20 minute opener from Tortoise’s 1996 classic album Millions Will Never Die blends many of the same elements (glitchy electronica, jazz, krautrock, ambient and minimalism) and, in my opinion, makes for a more interesting listen than a lot of Kid A. (See also: Stereolab’s Dots and Loops LP from 1998) I’ll skip talking about the Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada influence that you’ll see in other reviews on this page. I have the feeling that if you were in tune to other experimental rock and electronic music in the late 90’s (or prior to hearing Kid A) you probably heard this record and thought, “What’s the big deal? They’re just doing what half the bands I listen to have been doing for years.” If you were coming at it from a more traditional rock perspective, without preexisting knowledge of experimental rock or IDM, I can see this record blowing minds. That said, I’m sure there are people who fall into the former category who also had their minds blown by Kid A and people who see Kid A as their gateway to experimental music. For that, Kid A’s greatest success was in its impact rather than its songs, I think. It proved that experimental rock could be successful in the mainstream.

It asks a bit of the listener, doesn't it? Certainly, it's not their best record, but deeply interesting throughout, if lacking in the killer or truly first-rank track. Opening of record sets the tone, for a band clearly in transition and very much in the mood to experiment.

Incredible front to back. Sonically, a genre-less masterpiece of serious proportion. Favorite Tracks: Motion Picture Soundtrack* Idioteque The National Anthem

Listen, I've seen Radiohead live. I ate an edible, they played "How to Disappear Completely", and it broke me a little. No way I can be objective here. It's a good album. It's "experimental" in the way that word should convey, instead of "this is noise we are passing off as music". It definitely shouldn't be anyone's first foray into Radiohead, but overall it's a gorgeous, detached, depressed album. Favorite tracks: "How to Disappear Completely", "Treefingers", "Everything In Its Right Place", "Motion Picture Soundtrack"

i fucking love radiohead

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i once listened to how to dissapear completely 88 times in a row

I want to like Radiohead. I want to like this album. But frustratingly I do not. At all. I think maybe I would like it with different (or no) vocals. I can't be sure of that, but it doesn't matter, because this is the album we have. That said I have no quarrel with Kid A being on this list.

It’s Radiohead! Top 3 album is still a 5! T3B 1. Idioteque 2. Everything In Its Right Place 3. The National Anthem

I hate this. I hate Radiohead.

It was okay, gloomy but not necessarily my type of sad. Best song was probably the first one, the rest were pretty cool ahead of their time beats.

Basically perfect. One of my five favorite albums.

Album seemed a bit all over the place. No real link between songs

I love this album, but I am sympathetic to the people who really don't get on with this, particularly if they enjoyed earlier Radiohead. I think the whole 'Radiohead disappearing up their own arse' thing is valid, and there's some tracks on here that definitely come off as pretentious. On the whole though I think this is a big, bold and beautiful album. It definitely requires a few listens I think, and it deserves to be listened to as loud as possible. Some of the tracks on here and truly transportive. Songs like 'How to Disappear Completely' just wash right over you in their melancholic majesty, while other tracks like Optimistic and Idioteque really drive on with some real thrust. There's so many dark, broody, interesting tracks in here, and I think it was a really interesting direction for them to take as a band. It definitely paid off.

Great sounding but weird at times. Its no OK Computer but it is still something I can enjoy in small doses.

This is the album where they went off the rails.

It’s not the best Radiohead album but it’s still very good very cold and distant sounding in a way still a 5 though.

One of the best albums ever made! Love the music, love the production. This album is a perfect blend of grunge and electronic music and I believe is responsible for inspiring electronic artists to make more interesting music and evolving the genre considerably. 5/5 love it!

Definitely grew on me over the years. Going from OK Computer to this album felt incredibly jarring, in retrospect it was a cultural reset.

Was not a fan when it first came out. I've come to appreciate it more over time. Still a bit esoteric for me; they have other albums I enjoy more.

I know Radiohead are considered one of the best bands, but I just don't get this album. It sounds so experimental, without having any feeling. Technologically I'm sure it's great, but it has no soul.

Good, but in my opinion not as good as some of the other Radiohead albums I've heard. My fav tracks are Idioteque and the instrumental Treefingers.

I've tried to get into this album a few times, I just really can't.

I really have to be I the right frame of mind to listen to ANY Radiohead, let alone THIS record. Today, fortunately, I must have been in the right frame of mind and the album clicked. This is a rare occurrence so take the rating with that in mind.

It's fine. I never got what the big deal was.

I was surprised by how much I disliked this one. There is some Radiohead I like, OK Computer is fine, Creep is great. But I don't get this album at all.

Utter shite

No me gusta Radiohead. No es para mi. Idioteque se me hizo conocida y Everything in its Right Place fue la que más escuché porque lo intenté escuchar de un jalón como 4 veces. Las letras crípticas supongo intentan describir la amnesia o algún tipo de confusión aunque de la forma que se va desarrollando no estoy seguro si llega disco concepto. La música es compleja, a ratos rica, a ratos saturada y pretensiosa. Entiendo que es experimental pero me resulta aburrido y tedioso. Si a eso le agregamos los gemidos de Yorke, me resulta insufrible. No creo que sean malos ni nada, pero no puedo darle mayor calificación a algo que de plano me cuesta trabajo soportar.

Si lo comercial de Radiohead me cuesta trabajo, su obra más elevada simplemente me es imposible. Le di dos vueltas al disco y fuera de pequeños momentos instrumentales, no me termina de gustar, especialmente cuando canta Thom.

I expected to hate this because I don't think I like those Yorks falsetto vocals. However I ended up enjoying the atmosphere of the album much more than I thought

Agora consigo escutar o disco em toda profundidade que confirma a qualidade inensa.

me enjoy a bit

This is a fantastic album. Radiohead is rightfully a modern legend in rock and electronic music. It is innovative and intense. Out of there most profound albums this one is my least favorite. Somber oversees the glitchy wavering Yorke vocals. It is a tight album and worthy of being at the top of Radioheads best of’s. I like how large and sweeping it is. I like that its unified in tone and color. I want it to rock more. I want it to go in to rainbows and be okay as a computer. It is a gorgeous album, lush and, simultaneously, sparse. Peep game bruv.

This is one of those albums that I could drone on and on about. I love it. It was one of the most mind blowing things I ever heard. The first time I listened to it was on the school bus on a winter morning. It was still pretty dark outside and looking out the window at the snow covered countryside while this album played is forever stuck in my head. Just a simple, wonderful experience. Yeah, this album is just awesome. One of my favorite of all time.

Love this record. Pushes a lot of boundaries, especially at the time. Dark, electronic, experimental AF, ambient at times, rocky at others. Some killer bass riffs too. Can tell instantly that it’s Radiohead but can also hear the electronic influences that has seen them through ever since (Aphex Twin being a key one that was often mentioned in interviews). In Rainbows is still king for me, but without Kid A In Rainbows wouldnt exist

Huge fan. Just amazing. Not every song is perfect but as a whole the album is. Will be listening again.

Hot take as a Radiohead fan but the hype around this album has well eclipsed its musical worth. That’s not to say I hate this album - it still contains several of my fav RH tracks and sees the band continuing the radical experimentation started on OKC on their way through to In Rainbows. Mostly brilliant technically, though the mix of synths and guitars is a bit lopsided and makes the album feel a little bit short of gelling as a sum of its parts. Rather, the issue is that I’m tired of hearing about it. I’m tired of the never-ending Pitchfork/Stereogum/Reddit rehash of how Kid A is such a great album when there’s never any deeper level of discourse about it. I don’t understand why the music community collectively wanks over this specific LP so hard when its predecessor was much more daring and Rainbows was a much more well-realized album as opposed to Thom Yorker’s First Go at a Synthesizer (Plus Some Guitars). This album has become such a sticking point for entry into the band as a whole as well, and it makes me a little sad I see people put off by the circlejerking over this album as it just completely crowds out any wider discourse on the actual music or band itself. Maybe I’m just a salty Amnesiac fan who gets mad that the sister LP to this release gets completely shafted when it’s the much more expressive and organized released, who knows? But in any case, can we please collectively agree to put any further discussion of this album on ice until we have some actually meaningful things to say about it?

“Kid A” always feels like a chilly winter day to me, clear blue sky, bright sunlight, but almost no people out there in the frozen landscape.

I'm throwing out too many 5 stars ratings and this isn't my favourite Radiohead cover so it will receive a harsh 4. Hard to recreate the feeling of listening to this album anywhere else. Like a dystopian rave inside a large can.

Interesting album, the first few songs didn't buy me but then it got much better. Saved tracks: National Anthem, How To Disappear Completely, Optimistic, Idioteque, Untitled, Motion Picture Soundtrack

Fabulous album.

Obvious masterpiece

relaxing

This is very, very good.

Everything: elpiano är ju dunder, kul modus, toppenlåt! Kid A: bra trummor, väldigt 2000tal inte jättebra låt National anthem: bra ljudbild! Bra blås! Bra låt!! How to: Jättemycket ångestlåt! Jobbig att lyssna på, men bra! Treefingers:👍 Optimistic: bra början, tappar lite In limbo: lite mellanmjölk Idioteque:skitbra ju Morning Bell: lite intetsägande? MPS: sjukt att ett orgelljud kan vara så melankoliskt??

Like Radiohead but never listened to Kid A, started well but the sparse quiet electronic thing isn't interesting enough to carry a whole album, pretty disappointing

Just not a Radiohead fan.

I haven't really listened to much Radiohead, was a lot more instrumental than I expected. Thought it was okay, I may enjoy it more with subsequent listens.

Never heard this before. Very clearly Radiohead but also not really like other Radiohead albums I've heard. Very atmospheric. Some was a bit abstract but enjoyed it overall

Radiohead sucks, and whoever built this list apparently thinks the sun shines out of Thom Yorks ass.

The transitional album from the band. Great but not perfect.

Very enjoyable

An easy 5. This is the Radiohead album that properly converted me to being a fan. Before that, I could concede that they had the odd awesome tune or two, but I never really felt like listening to a whole Radiohead album. Fave track - "Idioteque", I guess, but every track has its place, and I love all of them!

Quite nice, has soft psychadelic rock vibes

Felt a little empty on some songs, a little too complicated on others. I liked the vibe they tried to go with, but it really hits best on 2 or 3 songs and the rest are very forgettable.

Cold and rainy run

An album I like but don’t love. I remember in the mid 2000s feeling like I should love this album and was listening to it on repeat. Eventually it sort of clicked for me and I understood what they were trying to do. But The Bends, OK Computer and In Rainbows are still my top Radiohead albums. If you have a PS5, that KIDAMNESIAC app which is basically a virtual art exhibit is essential.

Experimental, definitely not mainstream. Could be improved with a joint or two.

I’ve been postponing this review for quite a while because this is one of my favorite records of all time and didn’t want to write a disservice to it, not that I think anyone is reading now that we are hundreds if not thousands doing this list, but now I have something really pressing from work so let’s procrastinate with this. here we go: The first time I listened to Kid A in full was when a friend of mine let me borrow the record back in 2000 so I could “burn” a copy of it. Man was I in awe. My previous contact with Radiohead was via MTV and I had listened to ok computer only like a year before and was still in awe of it also. To me kid A was something really different from everything I had ever heard before, it was hypnotic and I remember listening for hours and repeating it again and again, every track has its deep meaning and it’s place in the playlist of my life. Of course the first ones to make an impact were HTDC and Idioteque. The first with its melancholy and pain with that beautiful guitar and strings work, the amazing interpretation and the despairing story behind: the idea of searching “how to disappear completely and never be found”. Beautiful. Idioteque: the most comercial track from a singleless album, a stadium anthem from a band that does not like stadiums, I have memories of family trips pasted to this track as I was always with my discman while touring, the future of a genere in one song, I could never get tired of this song, really it was an obsession I guess now that I think about it. What to say about the national anthem? It’s better than all of the national anthems I’ve heard tbh, powerful AF, true jazz if you ask me. Kid A the song? A dream, in limbo? Optimistic? Sound landscapes that will take you somewhere else completely one after the other just like treefinger, same as morning bell with its plea: nobody wants to be a slave, release me, please… Did you know Motion Picture Soundtrack was in the works for many years prior its release? Beautiful and haunting, a suicide letter could not do it better (or worse?), search the demos if you can, my god do the band know how to find THE sound for a track even if it takes them years. Which brings me to other of the things that I love the most of this record: damn does it excel in starting and finishing, those few synth notes with distorted voices that break the silence from out of nowhere in Everything is in its Right Place? That’s how you start a great record god damn! Glorious track, they even started a movie with this song. But what about closing? Well, beautifully vanish the music not before saying your farewell: I will see you in the next life.

Pretty sad album but decent songs. I liked Morning Bell, Idioteque and Motion Picture Soundtrack

Great REM album

Incredible from start to finish.

111223 20:23 4

One of my favorite albums of all time. I remember when it came out while I was in college, and I must have listened to it at least a hundred times that year. From those first few descending notes on the first song, I was hooked. It’s unique, haunting, emotional. How to Disappear Completely is probably the most depressing song ever. It makes you just sit and wallow in it. That sounds horrible, but this album just makes you FEEL things...down to your soul. It makes you sad and pensive, but it makes you feel alive. I love it.

Dope to have on in the background. I bet this would be a cool album to have

While this album is significant in the context of the evolution of Radiohead, I can't help but feel it's a bit underwhelming to be included in this collection of records. The experimentation is interesting but mostly forgettable. Favorites: How to Disappear Completely, Idioteque

listened to again one of the greatest records of all time

I once visited an art museum with a group from a class that I was taking. We stopped in front of this 10'x10' canvas that was painted black: no texture, no variants in shading.....just black. Our guide, as well as many in the group, waxed poetic about this important piece of art and blah blah blah. The truth is that they saw it for what it was but didn't have the guts to say so because they didn't want to appear to others as "not getting it". Anybody who gives this album more than zero stars is just like the group of sheep who don't want to call out a black square as being nothing more than a black square. This album was 45 minutes of hipster wet dream.

lowkey very nice

An old familiar favourite

Fantastic album. Even if my most frequent way of listening to music might be to stream it on Spotify and even to play songs on shuffle, I could not think to do so with this record. It works the best when listened to from beginning to end without any interruptions so that you can get completely lost in it. Because of that, it's hard to single out my favourite songs from the album. If I had to, I think The National Anthem, How To Disappear Completely, Idioteque, and Motion Picture Soundtrack stand out to me the most.

I'm just not a radiohead fan. Oh well. No hate given.

You put the internet into a blender and it came out as a smooth, easily digestible and vernacular liquid. Substitutes sounds for any singing so that there’s less emphasis on lyrics. They may as well had been drawn out of a hat imo. I’m a fan of the first four tracks in particular.

This is an “experience”, A for effort Kid A, I think this little guy is gonna be big! Love the range on this, soaring strings and horns to digital ding dongs to rip roarin rockin roller coaster [©️Universal Studios Orlando Resort] Favorite song is the one about the minion movie

How to Disappear Completely got me contemplating my life decisions, as always. Fave Tracks : Everything in its Right Place, Idioteque, Motion Picture Soundtrack

pretty good. kinda weird i like their other stuff i found b4 this project more like karma police and creep and burn the witch and the one from romeo + juliet but 🤷🏾‍♀️ for the time period i'm sure ppl were freaking OUT abt the chopped n screwed treatment of chunes

Just can't get into it. It's almost like ambient music. Not unpleasant.

Hell yeah

circa 1998: what’s better, The Bends or OK Computer? This is one way of settling a pointless argument.

the best one and only one that should be on the list

Great when you're in the mood for it. Annoying when you're not.

There are some beautif parts between moments of cacophony, I can't listen to it in the background.

Great music.

Classic.

Kid A was my first Radiohead album to be released after I became a fan. I'd got in to them through OK Computer singles, nought the album but found it a bit difficult. Going backwards to The Bends and Pablo Honey helped and very soon a was digesting b-sides, live tracks of unreleased songs and anything else I could get my hands on. The wait for Kid A seemed massive (little did we know what what happen after In Rainbows - 2 albums in 15 years!) and finally we got news Kid A was coming out (with an sister album to be released the following year). The Hype was insane - this was the album that almost broke them following OK Computer and its surprise success that launched them in to worldwide acclaim. They started touring well before the album came out - in a big top no less, avoiding all corporate sponsored venues and playing a hefty chunk of new songs slated for Kid A and its follow up. They seemed stranger than previous material - sometimes they didn't even have all members playing. Release date approached - the whole thing had leaked on the net early but not many had access at this point and downloading 128 kbps MP3s was a time consuming project. I heard the album in chunks on radio 1 - I taped every song and then dubbed on to a different cassette to put them in the right order, so I dread to think what the quality would have been! To me, these seemed strange but an appropriate response to OK Computer. Warm rhodes piano, jazz drums, crazy horn sections - I loved it! It was far from a retread of previous material and was a logical progression, seeing as Thom Yorke had widened his musical horizons with a lot of electronica after becoming tired of guitar music. Many hated it - it didn't rock so it was a fond farewell to that crowd. I thought maybe they didn't actually like Radiohead - they just liked rock. I liked Radiohead and I loved this. Everything in its Right Place is both eerie and soothing. Kid A like a child's story. The National Anthem was hilarious - I requested this be played at an Indie night once, went down so badly but my friends and I laughed as the horns played. How to Disappear is beautiful and classic Radiohead - with tweaks, it could fit on previous albums. Treefingers was out there - 4 minutes of ambience. Was it a song? Was it a palette cleanser? Why was this on the album when we'd heard there were loads of more 'traditional' songs like Knives Out and Pyramid Song left off? The answer is that it was part of the journey. Optimistic was the closest to a Radiohead rock song - but then it had a hip hop/jazz outro and led directly in to In Limbo, an off-kilter song that seemed to mirror the band's confusion during the writing sessions. Then came a clubby banger out of leftfield - Idioteque was again unlike anything from before and it was all the better for it. Thom ranting about ice ages over a beat and synth sample was the song we didn't know we needed. Morning Bell sounded numb and defeated, threatening to break in to emotion but always stepping back before losing control. Then suddenly it 's the end - Motion Picture Soundtrack had been played acoustically a few times and sounded like a beautiful ballad. This version was nothing like that - a church organ, mermaids and harps sound tracked a truncated version and Thom told us he'd see us in the next life. The recent Ok Computer and Kid A anniversary re-releases shed more light on some of these songs with early versions, sketches etc but when Kid A came out, it was in a vacuum. It turned many off, but people with open minds got it straight away and were happy to join Radiohead for what would be a extremely satisfying journey and progression. It's combination of fin de siècle fear and embracing of new technology meant it set a template for the new millennium and enabled the band to continue without repeating past glories. They could do anything now.

This is an amazing album that somehow didn't speak to me the way OK Computer and The Bends did. National Anthem still cooks, though. SO many great songs.

Everything in its right place. Track and a half. How to disappear completely. Oh my dear heaven in jeebus, I need to slit my own wrists. Overall this album is bad. The production value is there. An abundance of talent is evident. But why focus that all, laser-beam tight, on making you miserable? Yeah, no. Couple of very good tracks, but it doesn't make up for being crybaby music.

Undeniably influential and creative. Maybe not always the most engaging listen but the melodic and rhythmic ideas still hold up in the band’s huge stylistic change.

My heart sank. I don’t know what it is about me and Radiohead but I just don’t get the hype, and especially not for this album. I don’t even like the Mark & Lard’s The Shirehorses spoof album “Our Kid Eh” which has very little Radiohead related content. Go figure.

Some really nice songs but too much transitions song in my opinion

A great start! Familiar with this album. Moody, sad all in all a win.

Good Radiohead album but definitely not my favorite. Would do 3.5 if I could

Muzikaal goede nummers, maar die Thom Yorke is af en toe zo'n zeikerd

Team Kid A forever (OK Computer stans can blow me btw). This record is paranoia, isolation and loneliness made into music and I love it. First Listen?: N Fav. Tracks: Everything in Its Right Place, How to Disappear Completely, Optimistic, Idioteque Rating: 5/5

Every band has to find its sound, but not all bands' sounds are as unique as others'. For me, Radiohead has one of the greatest and most unique sounds out there, and this album demonstrates that. Even the not-so-exciting tracks are a cool listen.

Ambient, liked it.

hated it!

got better as it went on. not used to random noise music but it was infinitely better than beck

+ Everything is In the Right Place (3 STARS) -- Trippy + Kid A (1 STARS) -- What the fuck? + The National Anthem (1 STAR) -- What. and I cannot emphasize this enough. The fuck. + How to Disappear Completely (3 STARS) - Thankfully more normal + Treefingers (3 STARS) + Optimistic (4 STARS) + In Limbo (3 STARS) -- Too weird for me + Idiotesque (3 STARS) + Morning Bell (3 STARS) + Motion Picture Soundtrack (3 STARS) OVERALL (3 STARS): Weird as fuck. Not my cup of tea, but okay.

great album

Already listened to this, but heck I’ll do it again.

Siempre se vuelve al primer amor

Heard previously. Mood music. I’ve definitely enjoyed over the years although it’s not a go-to listen.

Surprising. Loved “how to disappear completely” Also “motion picture soundtrack”

Great album. I hadn't listened to a lot of songs by Radiohead other than the popular ones so was surprised

I didn't notice anything I loved.

1/10, 10%

I like Radiohead but this album was quite boring. There were no memorable songs and i just found myself wanting it to end

sublimely weird. i loved it

I loved all of their previous albums, but this is the one where they lost me. Give me songs, not soundscapes.

I remember not being interested in this album when it came...sat down and put on the first track "Everything in It's Right Place" and thought what was wrong with me? AND then, I listened to the rest of the album...I stand by my original sentiment. I love OK Computer, but this...nope.

Best Song: The National Anthem. Explosive, bombastic, with a wide range of instruments that always kept things interesting. Worst Song: Kid A. The heavily vocoded voice sounds more Stephen Hawking than Daft Punk. Overall: For an album that I'd heard so much about before actually hearing, I found it kinda... boring? It has its moments of excitement and uniqueness, and the production is really good overall, but the vocals just drag the whole thing down. They're so often mumbled that I can't even tell if the lyrics are interesting. Maybe I have heard too much of the music that was influenced by this album for it to feel fresh on its own, but I was underwhelmed.

I’ve already heard this from start to finish before when I was a teen. Good tunes.

Where would Zero 7 or Bob Moses be without Radiohead? Outstanding.

Prefs: Everything In Its Right Place, Kid A, The National Anthem, How To Disappear Completely, Optimistic, In Limbo, Idioteque, Morning Bell, Motion Picture Soundtrack Moins pref: Treefingers

Rock progresivo bastante monótono

Quite a solid album. I don't consider myself a Radiohead fan, but this album is great and comes jam-packed with amazing tracks such as "Idioteque", "Optimistic", "Everything In Its Right Place", and "Morning Bell"

Was very good. More enjoyable than I thought it would be but I’m still not totally sold on Radiohead and probably never will be.

F i v e S t a r s

Love Radiohead, I really got into them over lockdown. But I still believe they are a band to enjoy by yourself, anyone sticking Radiohead on at a party should be immediately removed. This is one of those Legendary albums, The example of a band taking an artistic risk, changing its sound ad reinvesting itself. Took me a while and some effort to get into this and I used to always prefer OK Computer, but in recent years I appreciate this album so much more now. I would rank this on a par now with OK Computer, two absolute masterpieces.

Trippy album sounds like background music to fall asleep to

It almost feels unfair that I should be rating this album, because I honestly don't get Radiohead. Kid A was the big one kicking about when I was at university, and so I know it almost through osmosis. Didn't get the appeal then, don't get the appeal now. I fundamentally think I'm hardwired to dislike this band.

Still love the feel of this album, but of the two I was more of an "Amnesiac" guy when it comes to this era of Radiohead. I'm guessing that one will show up on this list sooner or later, too. That said, I remember seeing them on SNL when "Kid A" came out and being much more impressed with how the two songs they played sounded live compared to the album. (And almost nobody sounds good on SNL. It's always so sterile sounding. Why is that??) I even bought the live album Radiohead put out in 2001 and *actually* listened to that repeatedly, which I don't think I had done for a live album since the Ozzy/Randy tribute back in middle school. I think there's some energy that is lost in the studio version of these songs and I noticed this most when "Optimistic" came on and I immediately perked up at the sound of guitars. It's like you can hear the band sigh in relief with a sound that they know they do well and are comfortable with. Or maybe it's just the sound that I am comfortable with. Regardless, it's interesting to think about what the cultural take on this band would be if they had not taken these swings after OK COMPUTER. And given how bored I was with their last two studio albums, I would welcome another wild swing towards any other direction that will keep me awake while listening. Gimme a country rap album, Radiohead. Or go pop punk. Or just punk. Or, hell, just pop. Where's their "Purple Rain?" I don't think it's "OK Computer." I want an entire Radiohead album with nothing but singles. And I will never, ever get it.

Amazing album by Radiohead. I love this one and as time goes on and I continue listening to this one I like it more and more. Still just my 3rd favorite album of theirs too. This one is very unique between the instrumentals and the beats. Yorkes voice is always interesting but the lyrics on this one are a bit different compared to their past albums. Kid A really took Radiohead and put them ahead of everyone else. 9.3/10

Nearly fell asleep on the M25 listening to this

Ethereal sounds. Unexpected and intriguing.

Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon, standing in the shadows at the end of my bed. Everyone is so near, I'm not here. I'd really like to help you man, I'm on your side. We're not scaremongering, this is really happening. I wanted to tell you but you never listen, so I'll keep walking. I will see you in the next life.

Terrible!

This is a really hard review for me to write. I might do it in three. Short Fuck 5 Honest Turned me off Radiohead for ages 3 Current I'm a gear guy. Headphones, amps etc are my thing. This album doesn't show you what your gear can do, it shows you what your gear is doing. It has as many layers as a vanilla slice. The contrabass wind, the epic mids and oh my that voice. I did drop and run from this for a decade or more, but I now hold it close. It matters not what I think, for Kid A is a eruption that will continue for longer than I will think about it. Thoroughly epic. 4

I really want to like this one more than I do, but my musical tatses are just too conventional I'm afraid. That said, this was the most enjoyable listen to Kid A for me yet.

Personal preference. I have never liked Radiohead, so listening to any album again is an exercise in futility.

Radiohead in 2000: "Ice Age coming, Ice Age coming" The year 2002: A movie titled Ice Age comes out. How did they know? 5/5. The music was good as well.

À mon avis, le meilleur du groupe. Cet album est le plus exploratoire, mais il est d’une cohésion et d’une cohérence qu’on ne voit presque jamais. Les album avant sont beaucoup plus rock/pop. Ceux après sont redondant. Celui-ci est magique !!

Chef d’œuvre. Cet album est arrivé là où personne attendait Radiohead. Quel renouveau. Il a inspiré tellement de groupes.

Classic, experimenting with their songs. Really to only weak track in treefingers, but its mainly just a palate cleanser. Everything in its right place, idioteque, etc. 2nd fave RH album. Would by used for $15

The ultimate doomer album. I’m amazed by how ahead of it’s time this album was; it’s as relevant and fresh now as it was 20 years ago.

I have loved this album for years. Gladly take it over OK Computer any day of the week. It still feels fresh every time I listen to it.

Before this project, I've once established a list of my 100 favorite albums of all time. Radiohead's *Kid A* was album number one. This record is so ingrained inside my musical consciousness that it is difficult for me to find words to express my relationship to it now. Which takes the cake, since friends and I have discussed this album for hours on end in the past, trying to use the right words to convey what makes this genius work about alienation in the postmodern world insanely great. Yet in the end, words are useless to explain the goosebumps this music can trigger when addressed to the right lonely soul. You'd have to be there with me, inside my brains, to fully understand. What do you mean, "it's impossible"? Am I not here with you right now? And aren't you with me? Is anybody else out there? This record is a paradox. *Kid A* indeed conveys a sort of emotion that is one-of-a-kind, because this emotion comes from the sheer impossibility to properly feel or express emotions themselves. And this here is not merely an intellectual take on the album. It's first a purely sensory one. Once you understand on a *gut level* that it's what this record is all about, you'll feel those goosebumps too. It may not be the greatest album of all time (some say it is), but it's certainly the greatest *frigid* album of all time. So I am now writing a music review on a phone app. It's about *Kid A*, by Radiohead. I want this review I'm about to write to be sincere and heartfelt. I want it to feel right, even if that review will only be read by people I've nor even met. Who knows, maybe that review will *never* be read anyway. Whatever the case may be, I am here confiding my feelings to a technological device. I don't feel alone, but I am. Or maybe it's the other way around. And all of this is, actually, the very subject of *Kid A*, by Radiohead. The circle is now complete. *The Bends* was the best britpop album ever, made by a band that, for all intents and purposes, were more inspired by American acts than their British peers; then came the elated and melancholic tracks of the groundbreaking *OK Computer*, a truly epic statement that opened all prog rock and electronic gates out there, not only for the band, but for most of their audiences, too. *Kid A* was the next step, but it took you to the future this time. A scary one thematically speaking, but so enticing on the musical level. The mere fact that this record about alienation in the digital world sounds as if it was mostly recorded through electronic instruments whereas 95% of it is actually analog stuff tells a lot about Radiohead's bravura and ambition here. *Kid A* deserves its reputation on all counts. Everything good that has ever been said about it is just right. Maybe you can't feel it, and in that case, I'm sorry for you. But know that it's right, somehow. I'm losing it, I have a review in mind but it doesn't make sense anymore. I'd need to cut some stuff out. I wish all those voices in my head would shut up now. Nobody's gonna send me a "thumbs up" for this one. I am a complete failure. I wish I could disappear... *Kid A* - Radiohead - 2000 Restrained and yet incredibly intense album that saw the British rock band changing gears in quite an unpredictable way, with influence going from Aphex Twin-like electronica ("Kid A") to Charles Mingus-inspired brass extravaganza on a bass-and-drum killer rythm pattern ("The National Anthem"). "Everything In Its Right Place" is just the perfect album opener, in keeping with its title and lyrics. Ballad "How To Disappear Completely" is drawing on Schönberg types of atonal glissandos on strings to tell its yarn of trauma and oblivion as a way to cope with the latter, and it is overwhelming, to say the least. "Optimistic" is the rare rock cut in the tracklisting and it's as good as anything on *OK Computer*. As for "Idiotheque" and "Morning Bell", the first is an abrasive, sardonic and yet incredibly catchy piece of electronica, and the second builds up to a climax that actually never comes, clearly emphasizing the themes of loss and disconnection the whole album points to. "Motion Picture Soundtrack"'s voice-and-orchestra-and-theremin anoints the end of the record like a soothing balm after all the crazy shenanigans before, and it is the stuff dreams are made of. A stunning album by all counts. Favorite tracks: everything, even " Treefingers" and "Limbo", even if I consider them more like interludes. Gosh, what is this crap? Why can't Radiohead just play stuff like "Creep" anymore? Pretentious posers... The A in "Kid A" is A for Adorno. Radiohead just applied the German philosopher's negative metaphysics to their nineties rock formula, and this is what came out of it. They *are* indeed pretentious posers. But being quite a negative sort of person myself, I can't help loving them for having the balls to do this. Oh my god, this album is soooooo cool. Reminds me of that 2000 summer holiday with Mark, Alex and Ruddy. We would smoke joints in the afternoon and drink bottles of wine in the evening, and get lost in those hypnotic sonic landscapes until the wee small hours of the morning. Good times. 5 stars. I'm not here, this isn't happening... 18/07/2022. I'm in the south of France, near Avignon, for two weeks of camping there. There are not enough trees in this campsite to protect us from the sun. Fortunately, this cold, cold record is a breath of fresh air to my soul. 5 stars. For the album that is, not the camping site. Slow apocalypse in the manner of TS Eliot ("not with a bang, but with a whimper"), and it has never sounded any better than here. One for the ages. Or what's left of them. I'm having a panic attack just listening to this thing. Whoever praised this record is just a masochistic nutcase. 1 star. You can try the best you can, you can try the best you can, the best you can ain't good enough. Does that mean I should try harder for this album. Or maybe this review? Un album magnifique, qui a donné lieu à une des plus fameuses batailles d'Hernani de l'histoire du rock. Deux décennies ont passé, et les fans ont gagné. Brilliant. I now understand why Frank Ocean loves Radiohead. Those girlfriends of his should just shut up and let him chill out. I had never listened to a full Radiohead album before. They're a cool electronic act. Oddly enough, I always confused them with another band that had a similar name. What was it again? Talking Heads? Weird that I can't remember. 4 stars. Mais um ótimo disco do Radiohead. produção impecável. Sem tantos hits, mas demonstra bem o caminho musical deles. Braucht man eigentlich nicht viel dazu zu sagen. Über-Album. "Kid A"--the title track--is the best depiction of the ramblings of a depressive IA ever put to tape. Come to think of it, it's the ONLY depiction of the ramblings of a depressive IA ever put to tape. From that early point on the album, after the iconic "Everything In Its right Place", you just know everything after is gonna be fantastic. Surely an essential listen if there is one. Seguramente es que no estoy capacitado para entender esta música. Incluso la canción que se titula optimismo, me da ganas de encerrarme en casa tras la ventana para ver cómo llueve y pensar en el asco que me da todo el mundo. One of the best albums of all times. Enough said. Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time I feel like I'm in the eye of a cyclone listening to this record. Everything is "in its right place" and yet the winds of hell are blowing outside of hypnotic auditory 10 kilometers radius I'm in right now. I can sense them coming. Oh lord, help me. I'm lost at sea Don't bother me I've lost my way I've lost my way The static of our modern lives has never been so beautifully represented than in this album. The cover says it all. Is this a chain of majestuous moutains looming on the horizon, or a pixellated simulacrum of them? Whatever the case may be, here you are, floating towards them? What the hell is this? There must something wrong in my headphones, this just can't be a Radiohead album. It doesn't rock, and the ballads are insipid. 0 stars. Ice Age coming, Ice Age coming Let me hear both sides Let me hear both sides, let me hear both The first time I listened to this recording, I was like, "what?". The second time I had shudders down my spine for the whole time. I And subsequent listens have *never" worn out this album for me. Five stars. We're not scaremongering This is really happening, happening We're not scaremongering This is really happening, happening Yes, I do "think you're crazy", Thom. But madness has never sounded so beautiful and heartfelt. *Kid A* can go to hell. Heck, this is what hell sounds like for me, so I guess said kid never left it anyway. Next! Another message I can't read Another message I can't read Another message I can't read Another message I can't read Can someone in here contact me? I'm afraid the review I have in mind for this record will be too long for this app to memorize it anyway. Ooops, I'm out of battery on my phone right now, could you at least tell me if I can downl Mobiles skwerking, mobiles chirping Take the money and run Take our money and run, take our money When I'm so tired that I can't sleep, this is what all music sounds like to my ears. This album led the way to everything that came after it. Yet nothing that came after it was *this* good. I don't like this. What the hell is wrong with me? Nice background music. Three stars. A stone-cold masterpiece. Well, "stone-freezing" would be more like it. What's this with this strange drone a few silent moments after "Motion Picture Soundtrack"? I think I must have dreamed it before. But was that dream mine of yours? Hello? Are you still reading this? Hello? Same here. But I don't know *when* this last review was posted. Is there someone still alive here in this group? They said the world ended on the radio yesterday. I didn't see any of their heads though. And I'm all alone now. This network is still on. Or so it seems. Can anyone read me? Hello? ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... *This was fun to write. I hope some of you out there had at least a little fun too as you read all my nonsense up here. Good night.* And now the usual closing credits: Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 855 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory: 80 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 36 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 30 As a bonus, here's the review I *really* wanted to post about "The Bends", also by Radiohead. The one I posted here was botched, clearly. I think its revision here might be slightly better: "Radiohead - The Bends "Creep" saved Radiohead. This single came from a half-baked album, *Pablo Honey*, clumsily mixing britpop with some more "American" influences. But "Creep" was a hit and showed Radiohead they had it in them to make a record for the ages. And since the Oxford quintet was not afraid to take a long, hard look at what they had just done with their first LP (a mindset they would mostly keep for their whole career, up until today), they knew what needed to be done. A perfect balance between self-confidence and self-criticism was the key. And it opened a door that led to one of the most brilliant discographies ever put to tape. In the course of this discography, *The Bends* is therefore Radiohead's first masterpiece (there's been five of them by my count, but first times always have their peculiar charm, don't they?), here aptly mixing twisted rockers and heartwrenching ballads. Everything is stellar in it--the songwriting, the lyrics, the vocal performances, the intricate bass-and-guitar arrangements, John Leckie's clean yet no-nonsense production. To say the tracklisting is "dynamic" doesn't even start to explain how songs segue into one another, starting with the gooovy "Planet Telex", followed by the intense title-track with its thick wall of guitars, and then going to all the gems of this record--the melancholic "High And Dry", the devastatingly beautiful "Fake Plastic Trees", the tight and angular "Just", the sinister and sardonic "My Iron Lung" (and its guitar hook spun on you as if it were a cobweb), not to mention the epic and poignant closer "Fade Out", with its elegiac arpeggio and truly *haunted* chorus. Thom Yorke and friends tick all the boxes that need to be ticked when you want to record a legendary album : they know when to get topical, with whiffs of a dystopian atmosphere that will further be explored in *OK Computer* and *Kid A*, and they sweep through a large array of (indie) rock styles, from brit pop to US alt-rock, from grunge to torch songs. And more importantly, they know how to make the whole thing sound cohesive, every vocal intention and guitar lick serving a discourse that transcends style or genres.  So just like OK Computer, there's no filler, no malfunctioning ride in this ominous and melancholic theme park about alienated souls stranded in the middle of late capitalism--each track has something unique going on for it, even the ones not mentionned up there. But this is no surprise (and no alarm, to quote a later song). Just as opener "Planet Telex" states it, Radiohead are never sounding better than when they lament that "everything is broken", only to pick up those disparate pieces and shape them into a single body of work that's unique, moving and relevant. They're THE postmodernist rock band of the late nineties / early aughts. And as such, they deserve to have their seats at the table of the greatest acts ever... "

My attention is starting to wander. How to Disappear Completely is the song that makes your attention disappear. It's also grating enough to keep you listening while you really want to do something else. In Limbo is closer to in hell. No. Just no. I approached this album with trepidation when I read that it was Radiohead goes electronic/ambient. They manage to salvage some intriguing sounds, but hearing Yorke whining over repetitive beats isn't a pleasant experience. The big question. Is the drop in quality from OK Computer to this badly polished turd, the biggest in the history of music? Sometimes, it's what you hear after the album finishes that tells the story. I was barely paying attention when a crunching riff backed by a driving rhythm came on. It's Queens of the Stone Age. It's the chaser that I badly needed.

This is a cool album, darker, more urgent and more electronic than earlier Radiohead material. A good listen!

Radiohead started getting airplay at a point in time when I had a bit of a pop-culture hiccup as far as what new music I was being exposed too. It took me a long time to warm up to Radiohead. There are tracks that I don't like, and tracks that I like very much. Kid A successfully overcomes my reluctance to listen to the band. "Everything in Its Right Place" and "Idioteque" are the tracks that are closest to me marking for a re-listen, but the album as a whole does not have any tracks that turn me away from listening. I could come back to this album to hear what I've missed. Radiohead provides a combination of not-quite-rock / not-quite-indie / not-quite-electronic music that could be background or foreground music, depending on your preference for the moment. I'll probalby come back to this one.

didn't particularly care for the album. I do like other Radio head works and have seen them live

Wow! Love this album. This is the one Thom Yorke had writers block and gained inspiration from Aphex Twin and you can hear Richard D. James' fingerprints all over this. Truly inspired stuff and quite possibly Radiohead's best work. I found it strange that this is the one that broke them in America as it is one of their most experimental albums.

Most of it was two or three notes played over and over with a beat. Lyrics were incoherent. Kind of dreamlike and trippy though, so I'll give it a point for that.

Preferred the last half a lot more than the first tbh

not my style, didn't like it

Love Radiohead. I haven’t listened to this one much before, but I enjoyed it.

4.5/5. Very enjoyable album. This is a cool, experimental mix of rock and electronica. It is interesting to see how the group got to this point, seeing how their previous albums were more rock than electronic.

Say. I like green eggs and ham. I like them Sam I am. Never listened to Radiohead before although I had heard of them. Made for good Friday listening

virgin, radiohead kinda missed wwiththat one lool

I feel like this album was where I started losing interest in what Radiohead were producing. I remember at the time really not understanding what the reasoning was behind their change in direction, whilst my musical tastes were becoming a lot more varied this kind of experimental noise rock/electronica was not as appealing. Definitely not a bad album, having just re listened to it for the first time in years I can see the appeal and respect the bands choices to move forward rather that stay stagnant, but the album just feels disconnected as a whole.

I see a lot of people say this is hard to listen to but this is pure experimental bliss with instrumentation that feels like I’m travelling with eerie sense of calm and tranquility. I absolutely adore the opener is it the main track that encapsulates that feeling for me, A lot of the lyrics seem forced and potentially edgy for edgy purposes, however a lot of them conjure evocative emotions which in essence is what lyrics are supposed to do. I understand now why this is the best album of the 2000s for many, ide give it a 9.5 out of 10 or higher depending on my mood.

Kid A's sound has decomposed and absorbed countless new perfumes, like a carcass in the forest. Radiohead move as close as possible to electronic music, but without endorsing it. (8/10) FT: Everything In Its Right Place, How To Disappear Completely

This is a fantastic album. I didn't really take to it at first, it being such a departure from the previous output, but it doesn't take many playthroughs before it's beauty begins to become apparent. A long-standing favourite.

Boy there's a lot of Radiohead on this list. This one is a good middle ground between their more early pop/rock sound and their later more experimental music. 4 stars.

Better than I thought it was

Cinematic, dark, experimental. A great listening experience.

I have just accepted I do not find Radiohead all that interesting. I've tried to get into them and like the previous album I got on here, it's just boring. A good song here and there but otherwise nothing to phone home about. I did enjoy this more than The Bends.

Lots of different sounds. A couple good songs but not awesome.

5 stars, only cause there’s no option to give 6. I’ll always remember showing up at Target before the store opened, getting in at opening, grabbing the disc, playing it in the parking lot, discovering the secret book tucked underneath the CD holder, and just soaking it all in.

Love this album.

Yeah, like I’ll have anything clever to say about this.

A spooky, atmospheric album that flows so well you have to listen to it in one go really - A couple of tracks can be listened to in isolation but really you want to put it on and listen from start to finish. Not my favourite Radiohead, bit more low key, but definitely something to appreciate.

This was quirky. Some too ambient quirky but also some good quirky. Like Nat Anth and Optimistic, Idioteque.

The album got off to a good start. The first song is elegant, the title track is quirky with its distorted vocals and National Anthem is daring with its Avant-jazz feel. The rest of the album wore me down after a while. The songs lack structure and are a bit dull. I was asking myself why I liked “In Rainbows”, an album that came out seven years later, so much more? To jog my memory, Spotify played “Nude” from that album after “Kid A” ended. The overall production is less muddled but the main difference is the “Nude” is more melodic. I like the reviewer who said that Kid A is "more fun to think and write about than it is to actually listen to".

I'm a bit late to the Radiohead party but after repeated listenings its slowing worming its way into my head. I think OK Computer is more accessible, and Kid A is a shift towards a more experimental sound, but it is equally good if you give it a chance. I like the Mingus influence in The National Anthem and Everything in its right place is a pretty good song to kick off the album.

Absolutely excellent.

I was there when this album came out - I remember the jaw dropping whiplash I got when I heard the follow to the more conventional OK Computer, and it's predecessor, The Bends. It had taken some time to grow on me, but this then become of my favourite ever albums - end to end, it's beautiful and well managed, and honestly a bit of a one of a kind. Rarely does an album contain so few pop cliches, yet still hook you on for it's entirety. It could very much be an instrumental as Thom Yorke's contribution here is mostly warbling and and rambling of a deranged stoner. But it's orchestrated perfectly, and even after all these years, there are lot of gems till to be discovered deep in the mix and musical arrangements. Cannot give it a lower rating than the maximum.

Enjoyed…. Very thought provoking….

Definitely talented but not impressed by this album compared to the others

Classic radiohead, a mix of smashing pumpkins and muse, though I'm sure the inspiration went both ways.

Honestly one of the stronger Radiohead albums we've had. Hard to say if it would be my favorite, but it's great. Love, love, love the opener, such a cool song (and featured in the movie The Accountant, perhaps an unofficial OCD anthem). Still not exactly sold on the idea of Radiohead as some saviors of music, but they're definitely a solid group with some great albums. That's enough for me. Favorite tracks: Everything in its Right Place, Kid A, Optimistic, How to Disappear Completely. Album art: I've seen this one probably the most, it's kind of the signature Radiohead album cover. A paper mountain range? Not sure, but it's iconic. 4.5/5

Radiohead can turn out bangers: There are four or maybe half a dozen exquisite moments on Kid A. "Moment" is unkind, really. I'm thinking of extended passages, but also the parts and interludes which don't quite fit. The band does lots of fascinating things with their instrumentation and composition and scene work, and, while there's nothing wrong with ambient music, much of this album feels like a retreat from music. A transitional point.

3/5 not quite there

the best Radiohead album.

Frequently beautiful, but just too bleak and anaemic for me.

Kid A is one of the most important album of the last 30 years. It was however, not made in a vacuum. Radiohead had long been influenced by electronic artists such as Aphex Twin, and sought to explore what music could be if one looked outside of conventional instrumentation and song structure. The result was this watershed album which managed to show Radiohead at their most electronic and experimental, while remaining deeply human.

How to disappear completely might just be the best song ever, and more than half of the others are in contention for a place in my top 100. I loved this album after the first couple of times I heard it, and have loved it ever since. Maybe my favourite Radiohead album, although there is plenty of competition! Could be 10 out of 5 in my book!

Loved it when it came out, but barely listened because it felt so miserable. Still love it, and it's still miserable, but then so am I, so it's fine.

What does one of the most successful Alt.-Rock bands of the 90s do as the followup to one of the most important and successful alt rock - albums of that decade? - They make an experimental electronic album. And it's awesome. But to appreciate it, listeners needed to do one thing: forget everything they knew about Radiohead up to that point - this is Radiohead reborn. As mentioned, this album is highly experimental, but remains accessible throughout at the same time (something that can't be said about the band's later album The King of Limbs). Every track is different, there is so much to discover here. I don't like every track equally well, but this album as a whole is almost iconic, it warrants 5/5.