Kid A

Simply one of the best. A top 30 for me. Maybe I’ll get the vinyl.

Album that grew on me after hearing most of it live. If I could choose an album from Radiohead’s catalogue, this one wouldn’t have been a top choice until recently. The first track of the album perfectly summarizes the experience it promises the audience; everything in its right place.

Extremely cohesive album, everything fits and flows together so well. Very futuristic sounding but it doesn't sound annoying. Another very colorful album that sounds very interesting and keeps you coming back for more.

Amazing album... Motion Picture Soundtrack never gets any less haunting and beautiful. HTDC is always a fav, as well as Idioteque. In Limbo is good as well, and I also love the ending "Untitled" track a lot---perfect ambient ending to the album. BUT I hate Morning Bell, I can't stand the way Thom sounds on that track. That's my only qualm with the album.

So good I listened to it two times in a row. God damn, man. Would I listen again: Obviously Deserves to be on this list: Yep 5

music is love

Everything in it's right place here. An absolute masterpiece.

i mean its a classic like i dont usually associate myself with these types of albums but its truly beautiful

Alright. I love this album, but full disclosure: if this was my first listen i would have given it a 3, tops. This was a cd I bought because of the glowing reviews...back when cds were $20. So, having invested all this money, what was I going to do? Not listen to it? I remember when it finally clicked. I was on a Greyhound bus, half asleep, listening on my discman. And then suddenly I was awake, thinking "oh, I like Kid A now." This is a somewhat common experience for me. Somehow, half-asleep me is more receptive to music. Are there other albums I'd rather listen to? Yes, of course. This record is depressive as hell. It's not even my favorite Radiohead record. But it's also really really good, and fives don't cost anything baby. I gave "Appetite for Destruction" a five, and I listen to "Kid A" more than I listen to that one. "Kid A" is the exact opposite album of "Appetite for Destruction," so much so that I'm pretty sure I'm the first person in history to mention the two records in the same sentence. But one cannot exist without the other. Yin and yang, etc. Five stars! Edit: please note that months after this review I downgraded my "Appetite for Destruction " score to a four. "Kid A" remains safely a five. Please see my "Jagged Little Pill" review for (slightly) more details.

An amazing album, experimental sound overall, different. I felt like I was in a cyberpunk world.

I get that people think Thom Yorke sounds kinda whiney, but all the other aspects of the songs on this album overshadow that aspect to me and make it a great listen.

Love them

Belle découverte. J’ai hésité avec un 4 mais la perception se bonifie au fur et à mesure des écoutes

19/20 Je connaissais Radiohead de nom, mais je n'avais jamais pris le temps d'écouter ce qu'ils faisaient. Une grave erreur dont j'aurais pourtant pu me prémunir en faisant le lien entre Thom Yorke et Radiohead. En tout cas, une excellente découverte, avec de très belles sonorités. L'album est a la fois pris d'une très belle unité, sans pour autant que les différentes musiques de ressemblent. On est loin du rock classique qu'on pourrait imaginer, ça donne presque l'impression de tendre vers l'électro Et de manière tout a fait étonnante, c'est un album qui malgré 26 ans, n'a pas pris une ride. Ce fut un délice à écouter, et ça me donne envie de découvrir les autres albums du groupe.

A singular masterpiece. Outside of Dark Side of the Moon it’s hard to think of bigger rock album that’s as firmly weird and eschews traditional rock elements throughout like Kid A does. It’s the moment Radiohead left the guitars mostly on the ground and launched into outer space to communicate with other, more advanced lifeforms. Kid A still sounds like the future, quite a feat for an album that is over a quarter century old now. It starts out with one of the all time great opening notes: as soon as that 5-note intro plays on Everything In Its Right Place you just know this is something different, as if those notes are some kind of code. I’m not sure where it ranks on my album list for Radiohead, but I know it’s top-tier along with OK Computer, The Bends, and In Rainbows. If it’s not my favorite among these, there’s probably an objective argument that Kid A is Radiohead’s most unique and forward looking artistic statement.

Amazing textures, super super interesting sounds, and very experimental, which makes the album feel very distant and cold while also “easy” and almost catchy to listen to? How is that possible? The National Anthem is such an awesome song. And so are How to Disappear Completely, Idioteque, and Motion Picture Soundtrack.

Kid A is one of my favourite albums by radiohead, which initself is one of my favourite bands. So theres no surprises about where I'm rating this. The cohesion and placement of each song, Everything is in its right place you might say, the album really came together (almost like a jigsaw falling into place) so satisfyingly. Aside from the awful puns, this albums such a satisfying listen, i can't think of a track i'd rate less than a 7/10 on here. Its experimental and the ambience it creates is magical, especially with the equipment they had at the time to produce this. Some of the best tracks are:How to disapear completely, treefingers, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Kid A. Amazing listen.

I know I'm gonna be the minority here, but screw it: I love this album. Always did. As I've said in other reviews, I can't put my fellow reviewers into my head at age 15 and make those memories/associations for them, but musically I think it holds up beautifully. Yes, they took a left turn and demanded a lot from their fans after the radio friendly guitar-driven rock "OK Computer", etc etc we all know the story, but I think this album STILL sounds like the future. To make a paranoid, claustrophobic synth and sample-driven pastiche like this in 2000 is one thing, but to have it age as gracefully as it has into 2026 shows its true brilliance. Bias admitted, this is one of my favorite bands, and I think "Everything in its Right Place" is one of my favorite Radiohead songs and best album openers. If you lay down, get some good speakers/headphones, and listen to this album, you will open your eyes when its over wondering what the hell you just listened to, in the best way. It's like a guided meditation or reading a really dense book, not for multi-tasking or listening out of context. Also - the first time you hear "The National Anthem"....come on. Mind blower

Peaks w no valley

I was just listening to this yesterday unprompted. From the moment ‘Everything In Its Right Place’ kicks off, this album takes you on a ride. Crazy to think they got from The Bends to here with one album in between. I’ll always respect Radiohead for seemingly constantly evolving.

‘Kid A’ remains one of the most audacious and rewarding albums of the 21st century, and the magnum opus of the Radiohead canon. I can see why people were bewildered when it first arrived: it was such a departure for Radiohead, even though, in many ways, it wasn’t. Upon release, it confounded fans and critics alike, feeling like a radical shift from the guitar-driven alt-rock of ‘OK Computer’, yet unmistakably Radiohead at its core. Its blend of electronics, ambient textures, and subtle rock instrumentation creates a soundscape that is at once alien and deeply human. The album rewards repeated listening. Hidden motifs, glitchy rhythms, and the interplay between Thom Yorke’s voice and the band’s arrangements (many of which were shaped by Jonny Greenwood’s textures) gradually reveal themselves, and the more you listen, the more the album grows in depth and nuance. Tracks like ‘Everything In Its Right Place’, ‘How to Disappear Completely’, and the title track ‘Kid A’ carry a timeless melancholy, while others such as ‘The National Anthem’ and ‘In Limbo’ explore tension, unease, and experimental layers of sound. ‘Treefingers’ offers a moment of serene, ambient reflection, whilst ‘Optimistic’ provides a more straightforward rock structure, balancing the album’s more demanding moments. More than twenty years on, ‘Kid A’ has not only stood the test of time but also influenced a generation of artists, proving that bold departures can become enduring masterpieces. It remains strange, compelling, and endlessly absorbing, a record that invites patience and curiosity, but continues to feel startlingly fresh decades later.

Yup

Solid ambient soundscapes

Broccoli dipped in honey

Radiohead is always the vibe

those who know me know how I feel about my Radiohead 🤓

Ugh I love Radiohead and this is my favorite album of theirs. “Everything In It’s Right Place” is an all time favorite song in general. Other highlights for me are “How to Disappear Completely”, “Optimistic”, and “Untitled”. Truly a masterpiece as far as I’m concerned. A billion trillion stars.

Hi. I only knew one thing about Radiohead and that was "Creep". Banger, but completely gave me the wrong idea of the vibe of their more extended works, so I never looked into it. Now to this album. This gave me STRONG "this directly influenced Everything Everything" notes and I LOVE Everything Everything. Absolutely top tier from the go. Weird, unique, artful, compelling. OK ok I get it now. @EE don't worry you guys are still my number one 😘

Album No. 0150 on my list. "Kid A" is the 2nd Radiohead album on my list. I had not listened to it in a while, but I knew that Radiohead would become the first artist on my list with two 5 stars albums, because this has been a favorite of mine for a long time and certainly deserves its status as one of the most important albums of the 21st century. "Kid A" is an incredibly good album. It represents a strong stylistic shift from its predecessor "OK Computer" (which is probably my favorite album of all time). Where Radiohead transcended the boundaries of rock music with "OK Computer" (and put a nail in the coffin of Britpop, for better and for worse), on Kid A, they left genre boundaries altogether. This is an electronic music album, but also a Jazz album, and nevertheless a rock album as well. "Kid A" is avant-garde in the best sense of the word, but it's still incredibly catchy, (relatively) accessible and intense. As with all Radiohead albums (at least since "OK Computer"), this is also incredibly well produced and sounds really good. Kid A contains one of Radiohead's most famous songs ("Everything In It's Right Place", a electro-prog-rock hymn), the possibly saddest song of all time ("How To Disappear Completely"), one of the greatest bass lines ever made ("The National Anthem"), and so much more cool stuff. These songs are dark, they are personal, they are political, they are powerful, they're progressive, and they're even a little fun sometime. I'm not sure whether "Kid A" is my favorite album of this century, but it's certainly in the top 3, and it certainly is one of the most important music albums ever made. I get why it may have divided fans at the time and did pose a challenge to the band during the recording process. But after more than 25 years, one can see that "Kid A" is a milestone in the bands' career, saving Radiohead from becoming "just" another rock band without much innovation (what improvement to their rock music could they have made after "OK Computer"). They would probably have been dead-set of disbanding at some point. Instead, Kid A helped them cement their image as one of the most important, most innovative, most iconic bands of all time, one that transcends genres and creates something new with each of their albums. It's probably not least to this album that the band is still going strong today. I will add "Everything In It's Right Place", "The National Anthem", "How To Disappear Completely", "Optmistic", "Idiotique", and "Morning Bell" to my playlist. Could have added the whole album as well, each song is unique and good in its own way. I'm glad I've had the opportunity to listen to this again. Such good stuff, already looking forward to "Amnesiac", which is kinda an extension of this album. 5/5 stars - of course!

Hard to understate how big of a departure this one felt like at the time as Radiohead continued their musical journey. A brilliant and bold work, ditching the radio-friendly singles entirely and delivering a beautiful haunting music scape that never ceases to draw me in.

Damn I guess I’m just a Radiohead fan now because I loved this album. So atmospheric and a total vibe. Listened to this one a few times today, I couldn’t get enough!

One of the most hypnotic albums ever. I can remember hearing it in the 90s, exactly where I was and the scenery in my view. And I've listened to it countless times since. It's still unlike any album i know (except for maybe a Bowie or two), defying classification.

I like this album a lot. But I also am biased due to knowing a lot more about its influence than have listened to it. Is it a 5 for me? Maybe it’s a 4.5 but I think it deserves 5.

Radiohead are one of my favourite bands and seeing them live was a bucket list moment for me so you know where this is going. TBH I do prefer Amnesiac and In Rainbiws though. This is one for putting on the headphones, lying back and letting the music wash over you. It’s no wonder.that Jonny Greenwood has become an acclaimed film soundtrack composer

Another great album from Radiohead. Has many great songs.

Such a great album. Didn't expect anything from it, but it hit my mood very well. Will relisten it 100%.

Yeah..... maybe the radiohead guys r onto something

Surprise surprise, I’m a white dude in my 30’s and I love Radiohead.

space vibes

Already a huge fan. 10/10 revolutionary record and perhaps the greatest curveball in pop music history. Fav tracks: Everything in its right place (opening notes are one of my favorite synth sounds ever), Ideoteque, Motion Picture Soundtrack (absolutely mental organ arrangement that could go toe to toe with the all-time great classical composers), How to Disappear Completely (amazing strings and truly devastating piece of escapism). Least fav: In Limbo/Morning Bell get a little too surreal for me at times but are perfect when in the right mood for an atmospheric listen.

Love this album

Peak

áspero, gutural e extremamente condoído. melhor ainda se vc ouvir chapado

Great album - from start to finish.

This might just be the essential Radiohead album.

I used to not get Radiohead but I'm starting to really enjoy this stuff. Cool how they went full electronic on this one pretty much. Idioteque is a great track. Guess I'm a Radioheadhead now.

radiohead always ❤️

Kid A feels like music made for deep thoughts, songs that were written to be understood rather than simply listened to. The entire album sounds like a long dream that lingers in your mind, each moment being defined by the various shifts in tone through the tracks.

Ach radiohead, ach lisa...c

this album is 10/10 no words one of my favourites

Exceptional album, but not quite as good as OK COMPUTER imo

Peak

Firstly, I was just listening to this yesterday. This is my definitive winter album, so when a record snow storm rolled in, it was inevitable I listened. It’s transportive, haunting, alien, futuristic, and depressing as hell. Kid A isn’t my definitive favorite of theirs, but it’s close. This album showed that Radiohead was a one of a kind band capable of pushing music forward.

Ya lo escuche lo amo

Without listening to it — don’t need to, know it by heart — this is a five star album. Musically, it’s pretty great. And like most Radiohead albums, each song is a distinctive artistic experience full of interesting creative decisions and experiments. It’s not their best work musically, however, but maybe the most compelling? (My phone autocorrected “complete” to “compelling” and I think that the latter is the better word.) Radiohead uniquely seems like they crackle with this supernatural precognitive energy that goes beyond a progression sound but also weirdly predicts the future. OK Computer didn’t overly talk about the isolation and loneliness that technology would bring us — it had you actually experience it, like it pulled you away from reality. Chuck Klosterman wrote that Kid A predicted 9/11, in the sense that the album emotes the experiences immediately before and after that day. If you agree, and I kinda do, how the fuck did Radiohead do that? How do you listen to them and not feel like you’re in another dimension or staring at aliens?

literally feel like I’m transcending the second this album starts with everything in its right place. So much of what’s on here gives me actual chills. The amount of cool synths in this is awesome. Something about this album feels so existential, like I would play this if I knew the world was gonna explode or I was in a spaceship about to crash or something. This isn’t necessarily a pleasant listening experience, especially with weird stuff like the title track thrown in there, but it all builds on the atmosphere of the album perfectly anyways. Even some of the more ambient tracks, like treefingers, feel perfectly executed. Fav songs: everything in its right place, how to disappear completely, morning bell

- you kidding me????

Radio head is always top tier

I had already listened to this album, but decided to relisten to better ascertain a written opinion on it, and I will say it was a delightful relisten. Kid A is a sharp right turn in Radiohead's sound from their previous OK Computer, and is executed flawlessly, containing a blend of electronic ambient noises, as well as more harsh sounding parts. Not many artists can swap genres like that that quickly, but Radiohead manages to accomplish that and then some. It should also be noted that I own this album physically, so my praise for it was spoken well before this relisten. This album gets a 10/10 from me.

better than ok computer i'll stand by it until i die

Hard to not be biased as they are my favourite band, but this was a huge moment for me as a musician to be exposed to this album. Will always be one of my favourites

Gelukkig heb ik dit live meegemaakt

Radiohead is literally peak but men who listen to them are devil… Literally already had every song on my playlists but now took off “kid a” Favourite songs: -Motion Picture Soundtrack -How to disappear completely -optimistic -in limbo ♬ Least fav: -Kid a (Still very good but just doesn’t live up to the others) 9/10 I LOVE RADIOHEAD

This is a brilliant album that I hated when it came out. I wanted more karma police. I was wrong. They were right. Seeing it live made it make sense.

One of the greatest albums of all-time. How to disappear completely may be the greatest song about depression ever written.

This was the first Radiohead album I “got” and it’s been a firm favourite ever since. It’s still a thrilling release by a band who were just getting into their stride with bold steps. I came to Kid A from 15 years of listening pretty exclusively to hip hop, house, techno, drum n bass and latterly exploring more avant garde electronics, and rock really didn’t figure much in my reckoning. A good friend recommended this to me not long after its release, commenting on the influence a lot of the music I loved had had on it. However, I think it’s too reductive to describe Kid A as Thom Yorke trying to be Autechre; unlike the indie dance merchants of the early 90s whose protestations that there’d always been a dance element to their music, here you can hear the influence of numerous strands of electronic music being woven in, rather than being mindlessly aped. To me, Kid A is of a similar spirit to Björk’s stellar releases of the 90s, and to the Happy Mondays and the Falls’ channeling of Can’s funky psychedelic spirit.

Come on…

Don’t want to get murdered so have to give it a 5. Overall a pretty good album. Only a couple of songs I disliked but the rest were good. Would say a solid 8/10

its like the fourth best Radiohead album. So its still 5 stars just not as good as some of the others 5 Stars Light 9 out of 10

Listened to this one quite a few times but it certainly won't hurt to listen again. Everything In Its Right Place is such an amazing opener. That alien keyboard tone really sets the scene for just how much they had moved away from Ok Computer. Kid A is without any doubt the best ringtone written of all time(and also just a really solid track) I LOVE The National Anthem. An amazing yet simple bassline, and when the brass section comes in its unbeatable chaotic. They played this one live when I saw them - something I'll never forget. The transition from the chaos of The National Anthem into How To Disappear Completely is so well done. This is one of the songs I'll put on when I don't want to think or feel and the album really parallels my own emotional highs and lows with this shift. I'm not usually one for lyrics but this one in particular really does speak to me. It's hard to put into words how this song makes me feel. My brain turns off when the strings come in at the end. I think as a standalone track Treefingers makes no sense but within the album as a whole it creates such an atmosphere after How To Disappear. The times when I've listened to this album in an existential mood sometimes it feels like this is an opportunity to think and process how I feel. Other times it's like my mind is empty and it means I don't have to think. Optimistic is undeniably a banger, love the shift to that guitar riff. I don't think Yorke meant it in a positive light but I usually just pretend this is a happier song cause at a surface level it makes me happy. In Limbo is a lovely return to the atmosphere that makes up this album as a whole. I like the lyrics in this one quite a lot as well. The drum machine in Idioteque is the best thing ever. So so so good. Another one they played live that was just quite simply amazing. I keep yapping about how good the atmosphere is in these songs but it really is true. In quite a few of these many of the individual parts aren't particularly standout but together they make something really quite special. I really quite like how the electronic? (from the modular synth maybe?) sound carries on into the start of Morning Bell. Motion Picture Soundtrack is beautiful. I want this one played at my funeral (which hopefully won't be for a little while). Best one in the album for feeling depressed. I think untitled works a little like Treefingers for decompressing after such songs. Really yapped a bit for this review but I do love this album. Insane to think that such a masterpiece is very arguably not even Radiohead's best work. a very strong 5/5

Po raz pierwszy mam do czynienia z tym albumem i jest przewspaniały. Lubię takie, które zaczynają i kończą się w całości, i jeszcze mają kropkę na końcu. I to nie muzyczka w tło, a raczej życie pod muzyczkę. Zakładasz na uszy i cię nie ma, a jak już ktoś zmusi ci do wyjścia z muzyczki, to wciąż mówi pod muzyczkę. I wtedy nawet najgłupsza prośba jest nieistotna, bo jesteś main character.

ja jestem radioheadhead ale czego tu nie lubić? może jedynie początku morning bell, thom piszczy releeeeease me i ja myślę czasem no właśnie, release me, od tej piosenki lol, bo jest zbyt natarczywa nagle i mnie wybija z rytmu, ale od round and round and round and round and roooooooound jestem z powrotem. płynie i ja płynę razem z nim -- pozostając w temacie albumów, które jako całość stanowią więcej, niż suma swoich części. mógłby być dwa razy dłuższy -- mógłby i trzy -- i by mi się nie znudził. (hipoteza potwierdzona in vivo: amnesiac zawiera utwory z tych samych sesji, które się nie zmieściły na kid a i jest jeszcze lepszy.) jest kilka utworów tutaj, jak zresztą na każdej ich płycie, których mogę słuchać zapętlonych w nieskończoność. jedyny powód, dlaczego nie zabrałbym jej na samotną wyspę, to że to nie jest moje ulubione radiohead. może nawet nie jest w top 5. i tak dam mu wszystkie gwiazdki. i’m lost at sea don’t bother me

Mam jeden problem a raczej myśl i jest nią to, że w sumie to ja słucham za mało Radiohead. Bo utwory na wyrywki jasne ale tak żeby sobie posiedzieć nad całym albumem to rzadko wpadające w nigdy. Flow niesamowity. Thom Yorke sing to me.

Everything in its right place: this song sounds really good. It's worth it. I feel like this song reminds me of everything being ok, yet something is off. This song is almost like a white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland almost. Kid A: This song is also good and robotic. To me, this song is like a world with too much AI and it's depressing almost but in the end a piece of human comes out. The National Anthem: America is falling apart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How to Disappear Completely: Depressing sounding. It reminds me of wanting to just cry and be alone Tree fingers: You are just observing nature. You are nature now!! Optimistic: Its good Review: I really like this music. I want to listen to more Radiohead. Its just really good and it has this relatable sad feeling to it. Please listen to this please. It feels robotic and otherworldly

Everything in Its Right Place is a masterpiece of a song.

One of the best albums ever recorded. A stone cold masterpiece

Was so stoked when I saw this as my first album to listen to. "Everything In Its Right Place" is one of my fav songs of all time, and I knew I loved some of the other songs in the album but I can't say I've ever listened to it in its entirety before. Fantastic album, love it, love any excuse to listen to it. Yay!

i really enjoyed this it was so unique and felt so experimental but also coherent and all the instruments were very fun

Perfect

Not my fave radiohead, but it's such an awesome album still.

the album of doom and despair i freaking love radiohead

This is my first Radiohead album of the project. It's very electronic-tinged, possibly with krautrock elements. Vocals and lyricism mostly takes a backseat here to electronic ambient soundscapes and experimental rock songs, as happened on Tago Mago 30 years earlier. In fact, Yorke usually applies distortion to his voice on many songs. However, unlike Tago Mago, this album is all about atmosphere. This isn't an album that hits you hard with lyrical wit or flashy virtuosity; it's an album that takes you on an aural journey through numerous soundscapes. It's not the life-changing masterpiece many reviews say it is, but it's still a damn good album. And a damn good album is still worth five stars.

It’s been acclaimed to the moon and back but man, what a fucking record. It’s atmospheric and immediate and just strange enough. Perfect cold weather music. Makes me feel alone and understood at the same time.

Everything in its right place.

This is a tough album for me to evaluate because I have such personal attachments to it. Kid A was released when I was 13 and, at the time, It was the strangest, most experimental thing I had ever heard. I bought the CD at a mall when I visited my grandparents and I associate this album with listening on my discman on the train in subzero temperatures traveling back to Rochester. I became obsessed with this album and poured over the CD artwork. Only 2 other kids in my high school liked Radiohead and they were both older and cooler than me. Since then, I've come to appreciate much more unusual music so there is now a bit of a "mainstream version of the underground" veneer to this album, sort of like watching Garden State or Eternal Sunshine and thinking you've tapped into something really obscure. Nevertheless, my soft spot for this album remains. It is icy and scary and tender and heartfelt all at the same time. What's remarkable is not how "experimental" this album is, but rather how it remains pop music in spite of all the strangeness. Critics are correct to point out that there were many artists who had already achieved a similar aesthetic, only weirder, better, and earlier than Radiohead. But, for better or worse, Kid A bridged a gap between the popular and these electronic experimentalists in an oddly accessible way. Maybe if I were a college student or sneaking out to raves I would have been into Aphex Twin, but I was a middle schooler who listened to modern rock radio so it was much easier for me to find stranger music via the Karma Police band. I have mixed feelings about Radiohead these days, but if they've made anything I can enjoy it's this album. Even if there's a slight cringe to my enjoyment, Kid A opened many doors for me as a musician.

Barely close second behind OK Computer Everything in its right place and idoteque are both 10s 4.5

One of my favorite records. Doomer earworms The sound of futuristic ennui At least he reminds us, "the best you can is good enough." Surely need the reminder in 2026.

Incredible. Music defying. Top 10 of all time.

An all-timer. Incredible album that's great for getting into the creative or restful mindset. It changes every time I listen to it. A unique, original sound.

5/5

Super Dope

heartbreaking, electronic, etherial, psychological, satisfying... Track Highlights: Everything in its Right Place, How to Disappear Completely, Treefingers, Optimistic

One of the best albums of the decade, no discussion.

love it

still classic

If I had found this album in 2017, it would have been foundational to my personality

Absolutely love this album. Coming to this after The Bends and OK Computer I wasn't sure about it the first time I heard it, but it has grown on me every time I've listened. Idoteque and The National Anthem are favorites, but all are good and make up a coherent album that flows beautifully. The drumming and bass playing are so tight and perfect. Singing is subdued for Yorke, fits perfectly. Album number 6, and my first 5 star

Meistaraverk.

When it was released this was an all time favorite album for me. I still love parts of it, but Radiohead doesn't hold my favor anymore.

Already got

1000000000000/10

It helps that I’ve listened so many times. But in my mind, this is a masterpiece. So crazy that they did this right after OK Computer.

Album: Kid A Artist: Radiohead Rating: 98.1/100 Track Notes: Everything in Its Right Place: Hypnotic but kind of clubby. I like this as an album opening track. Kid A: Haunting lullaby feel. So far I am drawn in by this album, when I expected experimental trash. Gets more experimental and electronic around 1:50, but still like it. The National Anthem: Fun bass line. Reminds me of Idles on the Caught Stealing album. How to Disappear Completely: Delightfully haunting. First song with notable vocals. "I'm not here / This isn't happening / I'm not here / I'm not here." Such an iconic and relatable line about anxiety. Treefingers: Light melodic sounds that lift the mood from "How to Disappear Completely," good palate cleanser. Optimistic: Most traditional song. Like a heavier Oasis sound. I like it. In Limbo: The guitar playing is very melodic. Crystal clear vocals. Idioteque: Lot of industrial sounds, "Ice age coming". Instrumentally not my favorite, but I love the lyrics and chorus. Morning Bell: Love the vocals on "release me." Motion Picture Soundtrack: Like the organ sound. Untitled Hidden Track: It's an untitled track.

I've always considered this a big turning point in popular music. So much so, that I once classified everything after the release of this album as "Modern Rock" or "Modern Alternative". I've since discarded that system, but stand by the idea. This still sounds like music from the future to me, over 25 years after it was released.

Fire

It feels like another Radiohead album I'm supposed to like... And I mostly do, but sometimes I'd rather listen to The Bends, you know? Finally got that out the way, I remember being somewhat repulsed by this upon release, it was too weird, it was too different. It's only now I realise that it was me, it was always me, I wasn't weird enough to appreciate it at the time, now I can safely say I'm very weird and this tickles a brain itch like few things on this list have done so far.

Creative and good

Amazing! Hasn’t ever been my favorite Radiohead album but still musical genius.

This is part of one of my favorite albums (I like listening to the combined Kid A Mnesia album), what're the odds that it would be the first one we listen to! If you have the chance, they made a virtual sort of museum walkthrough that meshes visual and audio elements in interesting ways that I can't recommend checking out enough!

This was a great album. Atmospheric and emotional. As a band they keep growing on me

objective 5

Third assigned Radiohead album is the best by a long shot. When they are at this best they sound like they are tirelessly searching…for something. And I get go with them. Oak Computer and Kid A were their zenith, and it still works damn well on me.

I remember falling to sleep listening to this when I was about 18. I woke up in some sort of daze during The National Anthem. It completely blew my mind. But then I had to admit to my Radiohead pushing friend, that maybe they were a better band than Nofx. That was tough.

MASTERPIECE!

Short and punchy. Does what it wants and then leaves.

The future is beeps and boops.

Great album, every song is a banger

The dawning of the millennium needed a sound track, a prophet and a message. 10/10, all time for me. Perhaps it was my listening to this at 15, maybe that 9/11 happened just before this was released.

Already loved this album (and most of Radiohead's albums). 👍Everything In Its Right Place, How to Disappear Completely, Optimistic, Idioteque, Morning Bell

Awesome! I used to listen to this album as a kid, the first song was my alarm for a while.

даа крутые дядьки конечно, нечего сказать. только ужасные дудки в the national anthem не понравились, а так все круто очень

Feels like cinematic soundtrack rather than an artist album. Big enjoy

Imagine putting out one of the greatest records ever (OK Computer) and then dropping this. Talk about reinvention. This album completely changed the game. It may not be OKC but it’s perfect in its own right. The highs and lows of this album are extraordinary. From dance tracks to techy ballads truly everything’s in its right place…

This is the year Radiohead starting clicking for me, so versatile and every song is full of different flavors and textures. They make every album experience feel very complete.

(100/100)

I still remember having to pull over and stop the car when I heard A NATIONAL ANTHEM for the first time on the radio. It's still that good. Perfect record.

Was listening to this only yesterday coincidentally. Absolutely love it...imagininative difficukt (in a good way) and intriguing.

Я, конечно, слушала его сто раз, но среди этого репчика, соула и фанка, который у меня тут идет по списку, эта пластинка - что роза в ведре навоза. Услада

Reinvention.

I love that they dropped this after OK Computer, at the peak of their popularity. What chutzpah! This really is a great record, though it's not one I can pop on all that often. The paranoia and claustrophobia do get a bit much. But there are moments of sheer beauty on here. And The National Anthem is Morphine meets Mingus (or maybe even Sun Ra). The run of The Bends through Kid A is pretty hard to top. (P.S. Thanks to this one coming so closely on the heels of In Rainbows and thanks to y'alls good reviews of that one, I figured I needed to go back and re-evaluate that one. I have updated my review.)

One of the greatest openers of any album. Everything in its Right Place completely sets the stage for the next 50 minutes in which I feel in harmony with sound and energy vibrations I can't explain. I just love this music.

Radiohead are my all-time favourite band, and with a Copenhagen show on the horizon this feels like perfect timing to revisit Kid A. I've threatened my wife-to-be and our two dogs for years that I'd give a TED Talk on this album. Now's my chance. Kid A sits in my top three records of all time, just behind OK Computer and The Dark Side of the Moon, but in many ways it's the one that means the most to me. It wasn't the first Radiohead album I ever owned (that was Pablo Honey, bought as a kid because it was cheaper than the “Creep” single). It wasn't even the first Radiohead release to arrive while I was actively collecting music (that honour goes out to OK Computer). But Kid A was the first Radiohead album that landed at a time when I was a complete fanatic. I can't overemphasise the hype for this album. There were bootlegs flying around the Radiohead chat forums, there were the amazing animated "blips" that Stanley Donwood created, marketed through a website (one of the first websites that felt more like an art installation), and I was even at a launch party for the album in a local club named Cuba, which was bizarrely co-owned by Huey Morgan of the Fun Lovin' Criminals. The hype was there because this was the follow-up to the greatest album of our time, of all time, OK Computer. And it became the biggest left turn in modern music. For a lot of listeners, it was a shock: abandoning their guitars and diving into electronica. But, it never felt like a challenge to me. I already liked electronic music, but more than that, it felt like a natural progression. OK Computer had pushed guitars to their absolute limits, so the only place left was to go beyond. And even then, guitars never vanished entirely. "Optimistic", "Morning Bell" and "In Limbo" are still pushing the boundaries of guitars, and even the ambient weightlessness of "Treefingers" is built entirely from guitar samples run through the Ondes Martenot. Kid A pulls influence from everywhere. Charles Mingus, Aphex Twin, CAN, Talking Heads' "Remain in Light". But Radiohead filter those influences into something that doesn't feel like rock, electronica, jazz or ambient. It's its own beast. I'm convinced Kid A is a concept album. A protagonist, let's say Yorke for shorthand, feels disconnected from the world, experiencing it at a distance, like Kid A, the first human clone: conscious, confused, overwhelmed, and unprepared. The title song is an alien lullaby with half-human vocals filtered through the Ondes, with Phil taking over the programmed drums halfway through. It's as jarring as it is beautiful, and one of Radiohead's most underrated masterpieces. "The National Anthem" feels like that Yorke's first contact with reality: the pounding bassline as a heartbeat, the brass section spiralling into overwhelming sensory overload, the world happening far too fast. The emotional climax of the entire album arrives in “How to Disappear Completely,” one of my all-time favourite songs. Yorke has spoken about the out-of-body experience that inspired it, imagining his head floating down the Liffey during a Dublin gig, and I feel a strange national pride that one of Radiohead's most transcendent moments is tied to this country. That rising Ondes Martenot part, two notes of absolute clarity, is one of the most emotionally affecting passages in any Radiohead song. The strings are gorgeous, offering a moment of acceptance before the world (and string section) collapses again around him. No song has ever captured overwhelm and anxiety better than this. "I'm not here. This isn't happening". "Treefingers" feels like a complete emotional shutdown. After the painful dissociation of "How to Disappear", this is total withdrawal. Floaty, ambient, numb and peaceful. Then "Optimistic" brings Yorke back to earth with a momentary sense of clarity and perspective, though sarcasm and exhaustion soon creep in. "In Limbo" has him literally lost at sea: dark, brooding chords, that uneasy stop-start riff, the repeated plea of "don't bother me". It's yet another one of Radiohead's most criminally underrated tracks and its descent into madness at the end is pure perfection. "Idioteque" is the album's lurch into panic: climate disaster ("ice age coming"), political cynicism ("let me hear both sides"), technology overload ("mobiles chirping"), and the bleak hopelessness of protest ("we're not scaremongering, this is really happening"). For an entire generation of guitar kids, this was the gateway to electronica. It was impossible to ignore. "Morning Bell" plays like someone going through a divorce, but completely emotionally detached, suggesting they "cut the kids in half” as part of their settlement. But it's actually more about being divorced from reality itself. "Motion Picture Soundtrack" brings the album to a crescendo of an ending. That organ is gorgeous. Yorke seems to decide to leave the overwhelm of the world behind altogether with the line "I will see you in the next life". But, perhaps it's also Yorke deciding to go back to a moment of peace, accepting the world, as we get an ending of ambiguity with the ambient, weightless synth-string coda bringing us back for a moment, post-credits, to the calmness of "Treefingers". Every member of the band reinvents themselves here. Jonny Greenwood goes from one of the most innovative guitarists of all time, to one of the most innovative musical minds, full stop, bringing KAOSS pads, modular synths, the Ondes Martenot, sampling, and more to the mix. Kid A isn't a left turn. It's the sound of a band battling with the expectations of the entire world, the ensuing writer's block, and a disconnection from reality due to the surreal nature of public attention and relentless touring. And somehow creating one of the best albums of all time in the process. A true masterpiece of anxiety, overwhelm and disconnection. 100 stars.

Pretty much perfect, no notes

1001 Albums Vol. 0010: Kid A ============================================================ Introduction: Right before I rated my previous album, I legitimately stopped and thought something along the lines of "I'm probably going to get OK Computer next." Well, I didn't get it, but I sure as hell got one of the greatest albums ever made. Not quite as good, but by the same artist that I thought I would get. How? I seriously don't even know what to say to this streak of albums I've gotten anymore. In fact, I'm not going to. It's genuinely amazing how many 10/10 albums I've gotten back-to-back. I'll leave it at that. I really doubt that anyone will need an introduction to this album, but I'll still give one nonetheless. Kid A is a studio album released in 2000 by one of the greatest bands of all time. The band in question being Radiohead. Up until 2000, Radiohead had been known for their works relating to alternative rock; however, this album took a complete left turn. This album kept a few aspects of rock, yet it incorporated more elements of electronic, ambient, and so on. Like I said, this was a dramatic shift from what Radiohead was known for up until this point. Obviously, a major shift in sound caused controversy among fans and critics alike. Some loved the album while some thought it was too ambitious and redundant. Many of these criticisms came from the new sound Radiohead decided to take on. The entire situation could honestly be compared to when Bob Dylan decided to change his focus from pure folk to electronic music. The album initially received poor reviews, yet it has gone on to not only be called a masterpiece, but one of the greatest albums of all time in the years since its release. I'm going to be honest, I've already heard this album in its entirely, and I kinda agree with that statement. Do I believe Radiohead released a something that is somehow even better just a few years before this? Yes, I do. Nevertheless, I'm a fan of both 90's and modern Radiohead. I'm already pretty positive about the score I'm going to give this album, yet I'll re-listen to it in its entirety nonetheless. With that said, let's get into one of the greatest albums on this site: Kid A by Radiohead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track 1: Everything In Its Right Place Score: 11/10 Track 2: Kid A Score: 10/10 Track 3: The National Anthem Score: 11/10 Track 4: How to Disappear Completely Score: 11/10 Track 5: Treefingers Score: 10/10 Track 6: Optimistic Score: 10/10 Track 7: In Limbo Score: 11/10 Track 8: Idioteque Score: 11/10 Track 9: Morning Bell Score: 10/10 Track 10: Motion Picture Soundtrack Score: 11/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conclusion: Well, there's another one of the greatest albums of all time done. I really don't know what to say about this album that hasn't been said already. Everything about it is simply perfect. It just flows with so much creativity from the first second all the way to the end. There is not a single moment I would call bad or even just alright off of this album. It's genuinely perfect. Musically, this album manages to be one of the most innovative, dramatic, depressing, beautiful, and alienating things I have ever heard. I mean, I seriously couldn't describe this album's music better other than it sounds like it comes straight from the future. That's a crazy thing to say about an album released twenty-five years ago. One quarter of a century ago and I still envision this to be the soundtrack of the future. This, in part, comes from the amazing production off of each song. I mean, there isn't a single moment off of this album where I would say the production sounds aged. If Radiohead wanted to do something with a song, they would get their producer to do it with no questions asked. I would go so far as to say that some of the best production and musical choices I have ever heard come off of this album. The synths and overlapping voices in the first track, the hauntingly beautiful minutes of How To Disappear Completely, the aggressive beat on Idioteque, and so many more that would take too long to list. Speaking of which, How To Disappear Completely is officially my new number one song I've heard off this site. Jimi Hendrix wasn't even on top for a week. With that said, there isn't really anything else that I can say about this album's music. It's simply perfect. Another perfect aspect of this album is its lyrics. Now, I will admit, I can see why one could possibly dislike Radiohead's lyrics. They are admittedly extremely vague and seem almost senseless and too metaphorical at times, yet this only adds to the replay value of the album in my opinion. It may take a lot of listens, but a theme that makes just enough sense may come together throughout each song. On the topic of meanings, this album does seem to be a concept album. It doesn't seem to have a narrative to follow, yet it seems to be set in the future in some way. There are so many themes off of this album that speak of alienation, destruction, depression, and so on that seem to hint at an extremely dark future. For example, Idioteque, while up to interpretation, is a song that seems to be about humanity's downfall at their own hands. An example of depression is Morning Bell, a song that is widely interpreted to talk about divorce. As a side note, Morning Bell is apparently about an experience Thom Yorke had with a ghost in a house he used to live in. I personally don't see it, yet I digress. Point is, lyrics and meaning are extremely well-thought and well-written. I'd say that they're perfect. Now, Thom's voice is freaking sublime as well. I really don't feel like I have to go into detail about it, because who hasn't heard Thom Yorke sing before? All I'll say is that it's one of the most distinct and interesting voices I have ever heard. I mean that in a good way. It's perfect and perfectly matches with the unique and creative vibe every song gives off. With all that said, Kid A is yet another perfect album. I just can't stop getting them. I would go so far as to call it one of my favorite releases off all time. Everything I just described should perfectly summarize my feelings about this album. It's perfect. It's beyond perfect. It's only been five albums, yet another one of my favorite releases of all time, Disintegration, has been overthrown. Kid A is my new absolute uncontested favorite from this site. I seriously can barely think of anything that is better than this album, so I expect it to rule supreme for awhile. I'll just have to wait and see. ============================================================ Kid A Score: 11/10 Song Average: 10.6/10

the goat

This was a game changer when it came out, but then everyone wanted to be Radiohead. I'd still take this for what it is, turning Radiohead into a legendary band instead of just a great British Rock band.

You can't truly appreciate Kid A unless you have a masters degree - it's just too elevated. First time I listened after getting my online MBA from DeVry, I was like "WOW! Now I get this" 5/5 stars would recommend

One of the goats.

A very enjoyable concept album as is almost the case with all of the music delivered by Radiohead. Mystical, challenging and quite enjoyable.

Still fresh

The first time I heard this album, I just didn’t get it. Some parts sounded cacaphonic and extremely disorienting. Other parts went on for too long and overstayed its welcome. It is now currently my favorite Radiohead album. To me, it’s more cohesive than OK Computer and has higher highs than In Rainbows. Radiohead’s decision to just completely change their sound and how they work entirely is still unmatched. I haven’t heard anything with such a drastic difference going from the OK Computer era to Kid A/Amnesiac. So much beauty and drama throughout the album itself. The horns in The National Anthem and the strings in How to Disappear Completely still haunt me everytime. The run from Optimistic to Morning Bell is great. The ending with Motion Picture Soundtrack feels elevating and majestic. A true display of the innovation and technicality of the band.

One of the rare experimental albums that you can listen to all the way through

I think this record is just really unique and cool. Sounds incredible. Pretty specific vibe, requires the right set and setting.

top radiohead no notes.

One of my favorite albums.

The defining record of the millenium so far.

Brilliant album. Not listened to in a wee while and was great to listen to again. 10/10.

Kid A gets five stars from me. Except for Pablo Honey, I would rather listen to any Radiohead album over nine out of ten albums on the thousand and one list. As I was listening to Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left, I was wondering if anyone ever said "'How to Disappear Completely' would not exist without Nick Drake." I would not say that, but the echoes appear to be there. "The National Anthem" and "Optimistic" are top tier Radiohead songs for me. However, virtually every other song is strong in its own right.

Labai ambient. Daugmaž visos dainos geros, palieka ispūdį.

I'm happy to listen but really, I can just award a "5" right now. I've heard and lived this album so many times. I'm maybe in the minority, but I'm a bigger Amnesiac fan, but Kid A is still a straight up 5. 1st album I rated before I listed.

We are slowly but surely getting to their best album. Kid A remains a true gem for the community of human beings. 10/10

This album is my wife.

Heard in 2021. Radio head was a great band

ett av de bästa albumen någonsin, alla låtar och delar helt klockrena.

I mean, det är kanske ett av de bästa albumen som släppts under hela 2000-talet. Fenomenalt, emotionellt, groovigt, ledsamt. Det är ett magnifikt album där titelspåret är det enda mediokra men fuck it, albumet känns fel utan det. Jag har fortfarande tårar i ögonen efter att albumet är klart Det här albumet förtjänar att vara här. "The greatest left turn in music history"

Love the stuff

Favourite Radiohead album, easy 5

9/10 Favorites: Everything In Its Right Place How to Disappear Completely

Cold, haunting and beautiful. Dissociated, introverted and able to induce transcendental feelings. Central Park in autumn.

Maybe not as good as their other ones that I’ve got, but I just can’t resist some Radiohead, I just love it. 5 stars

Its dark my 4pm and has been. Raining for days. Perfect Kid A weather. One of my favourite albums from probably my favourite band. 1 month before I’m off to see them in Copenhagen.

Thanks, Generator. I hadn’t listened to this in a whole day.

This, for me, is the peak of all Radiohead albums. I remember when it came out, it took me a while to get into, but when it clicked, it really clicked. Favorite track is hard to pinpoint, but I love the beautiful cacophony of "National Anthem."

While I like two Radiohead albums better than this, it’s a massive change from the previous album and I love a band that doesn’t rest on its laurels. The opening of this album is wonderful. The very first noted let you know what is coming.

Flow

É um excelente álbum, mas acordei bem humorado e vai me fuder o mojo.. Dia seguinte: até não fudeu. 5/5

Took me a while to get this album, but when it clicked it was beautiful and had me sobbing

Just as good as when it was released.

Incredible album from start to finish. My favorites on this one always change, but it's hard not to listen to anything but the whole album. Highlights: currently "Optimistic" and "Idioteque"

so sad and so good

thom please come back

Mineycrafta First we Kid, then we A

Damn good album, the vibe of it is great. I’m between a 4 and 5, j think if push it up because I go back to listen as it intrigues me. I always feel I find something new

This was the nice kind of weird and out there!

Maybe I’m rounding up with this one, it’s probably in my top 4 Radiohead albums and I feel like I need to offset some of the inevitable low scores given to this. Kid A is definitely an album for the headphones and probably one that takes many listens to truly appreciate, and despite it having recently turned 25 years old, I can confidently say I’m still finding new things, and that’s what makes it so remarkable, or indeed, what makes Radiohead so remarkable.

10/10

I also grew up with this album. I'm not always in the mood for Radiohead but I do love their sound and I still listen to their albums regularly.

I tend to think sometimes that my "Radiohead phase" is behind me. I mean for several years they were my north star, my center of gravity. They were the music of my soul. So I'm coming at this with more familiarity than almost any other album on this list. But still, it's been years since I regularly listened to them. I've enjoyed Yorke and Greenwood's The Smile project here and there, and my band plays a few tunes from The Bends, but otherwise I don't dip into the Radiohead pool much anymore. So when I revisited this album in full, I didn't expect it to hit so hard and sink in so deeply. I truly don't think this album is possible to overrate. I mean what else is like it? Albums get compared to it all the time but really only whenever their artist takes a big creative swing, not so much in the actual quality of the music. Because Kid A is both a big creative swing AND a perfect album of perfect songs. I'm struck by how much of my personal taste after "the Radiohead phase" sprang directly from this album. Part of why it surprises me is that I usually fall back on OK Computer (my usual favorite) or In Rainbows if I'm going to listen to Radiohead. Maybe that's because listening to Kid A too much is like staring at the sun too much. Okay, I'm starting to sound pretentious now. This album is one of the best to come out in my lifetime. Must-listen #235.

I've spent my whole life not listening to Radiohead. Why? It's not only beautiful, complex, interesting and engaging music, it's also right in my wheelhouse genre-wise. Dynamic, relaxing, iconic with incredible energetic crescendos. At the very least this process has reminded me that Radiohead exist, that OK Computer is actually just the surface and that I'm a fool for not doing more of them. And that's a win in itself. Even better than In Rainbows, looking forward to the next one

9/10 Favourite: The National Anthem Least Favourite: None

Perfect album 10/10

Simultaneously claustrophobic and vast, expansive, cavernous. I don’t think any album has nailed that feeling quite so well as Kid A. In tracks like “The National Anthem”, I feel like the band, the music, and myself, are all stuck in a box only 10 feet high and 10 feet wide, but then moments like “How To Disappear Completely” have me soaring like a bird, casting my eyes down to wise open valleys and rivers (The Liffey?). This album really is an unconventional listen, and you have to brace yourself a little before hitting play, but it always takes you off into it’s world if you give it half the chance. “Kid A”, for example, feels so alien and unfamiliar, and so compelling of that fact. I will be fascinated to hear how some of the tracks are converted into a live setting this November on their 2025 European Tour.

A stunning album and possibly Radiohead’s best. From the very first five notes of Everything In Its Right Place, the mood and tone is set. It locks you into the atmospheric, ambient, emotional experience that is Kid A. This isn’t an album for a sunny day. It evokes feelings of despair, confusion and hopelessness in a measured package of electronic experimentation. A departure from Radiohead’s previous sound, sure - but one that allowed the band to explore their more artistic side like never before. I’ve always said the title track, Kid A, makes me feel a very specific way. Like I’m an alien that’s just woken up on Earth. It’s got that kind of early morning grogginess, but on an existential level. Fascinating. The National Anthem is a Radiohead classic with an awesome repeating bass line. How To Disappear Completely makes you want to float around the room while crying. Treefingers, Motion Picture Soundtrack, and Untitled paint wonderful ambient soundscapes. Optimistic and Morning Bell are brilliant too - the former of which being the only track that really sounds like it could fit on OK Computer or any records the band put out before this. Top tier album. Sometimes I have an itch that only Kid A will scratch. Radiohead London 2025, see you there!

Stone Cold Masterpiece. I don't listen to this nearly enough. Once you hear it, you cannot get it out of your head. Brilliant album.

One of their best. Do I still need to listen today even though I listen to this all the time?

Perfect Album. No notes. The National Anthem and Motion Picture Soundtrack are favorites.

I didn't really appreciate this album when it came out, thinking it was too weird and not as accessible as "OK Computer." Now, hearing it all these years later, it is an amazing achievement and one of the best headphone albums of all time. The sonic layers and creativity are incredible. There are a lot more hooks and melidicism than I originally thought. These guys were absolutely on and the production from Nigel Godrich is immaculate. An album so ahead of its time that it sounded beamed in from the 25th century. The song "How to Disappear Completely" is sonic and lyrical perfection. And "Optimistic" and "National Anthem" are as rocking as they ever got. I wish I had listened closer when it first came out.

Like a lot of people, I didnt really "get" Kid A when I first heard it. Then around 19 or 20 I started struggling with anxiety and it hit so much harder. This is in a lot of ways, just a soundtrack to mental illness. The National Anthem is panic disorder, How To Disappear is someone experiencing depersonalization, Motion Picture Soundtrack is deep depression. There's a stark and cold beauty to all of these songs; treefingers sounds like an Eno invention, and so many, like Idioteque, have this hypnotic quality. For me The National Anthem is the best here and one of the band's best songs. Everything from the off kilter brass to that driving riff, and the agoraphobic lyrics, just screams disunity and the fabric of any collective reality coming apart at the seams. Fucking relatable and prescient at the turn of the century

Modern, innovative and breathtakingly beautiful. Probably one of their best albums and definitely one of the 2010's best alternative albums.

radiohead 🫶🫶🫶 trop beau

loved it

Väldigt unik!

It’s a toss up between this and In Rainbows for Radiohead’s best album. I think Rainbows takes it but it’s close.

Really good overall feeling to the album and very cohesive, every song was great.

10/10 klasyczek

10/10

he woke up sucking on a lemon

95

Always meant to do a deep dive on Radiohead but never did, glad they are showing up on this. I’m not sure what prejudices i had against this one from when it was released but I really thought I’d hate this. Instead it’s a real highlight of the year. A bit sigur Ros a bit silent hill (I’m sure Kid A influenced them both). 4.5 rounded up

My heart skipped a beat when this showed up. Radiohead is my favorite band of all time -- I think their musicianship is just entirely unmatched -- and having listened to their entire, winding discography (and loving basically all of it), Kid A is still one that stands apart and above most. I would give my left nut to go back to Y2K and listen to the first few seconds of this album for the very first time. I imagine already being a fan: loving the alt-rock niche that they had perfected, loving Thom's strange but enticing lyrics, and loving most of all their willingness to push the boundaries. Ok Computer was an indie rock slam dunk. New Radiohead release? Awesome, I can't wait for more. But no. It's something completely, entirely new. It's electronic, it's dark, it's hypnotic, it's confusing, and yet it makes perfect sense. "Everything In Its Right Place" is, without question in my mind, the greatest opening track on any album, ever. "The National Anthem" is scathingly political in a quietly terrifying way. "How to Disappear Completely" may be the most depressing song I can ever remember hearing, because of Radiohead's ability to give sound to that which has long thought been too dark. "Treefingers" is pure hypnosis, "Optimistic" is the most terrifyingly pessimistic song on the album, and the praise goes on and on. It takes a lot of courage for a band to decide that their success is not enough, perhaps not even earned -- that there is more artistry to be discovered if they start from scratch, and dig deeper. So much courage in fact, that I can't even think of another band off the top of my head who did it. But Radiohead did. And they nailed it first try.

One of the greatest albums ever made.

Too 10 Album

depressing, paranoid and anxious. kid a is existentialism in album form; music for when you wake up sour, ‘sucking a lemon’. an angsty meditation on digital/technological isolation. so beautifully textured and multifaceted, it defies any attempt to categorise it. the little word-focused analyser in me always struggles with radiohead’s disparate lyrics and frequent lack of cohesive song meaning, but the sonic experience of the album is so unbroken, fluid and pervasive, it’s one where i sort of just resign to the experience instead. love love love. 5/5

Ohne Worte… :)

Kid A is a masterpiece

Legendary album!

Genius at work

Biased review since I lived through this record release back in 2000. It was a magical experience on first listen. Challenging and unexpected and awesome.

A little slow in the beginning, but definitely picks up in the second half.

Yes 100 times yes this is so incredibly good especially for depressed people <3

middle of the pack in terms of radiohead albums for me. still a 5 ayyy

The best

I really don't know what to say about Radiohead that hasn't been said a thousand times before. I love their music, it's so different and creative and thought provoking. Nothing is cheap with Radiohead, i still discover new things after years of listening.

I was listening to this while I generated it so that's something uhh how to disappear completely is one of the best songs ever made idk optimistic is also an interesting song here cuz it feels a lot more like classic radiohead than the edm stuff here idioteque sounds like the music youtube plays before a premiere so I don't know why I love it as much as I do radiohead is just really good guys I don't know what to tell you

Not sure what else there is to say about this album that hasn't already been said. It's one of the best albums of all time. Full stop.

10

LOOOOOOVE this album

Yep

🔁xAll Weekend

Trist men smukt

Totally blew me away. I sort of feared that this album would be too 'ambient' as I'd heard from other people who had listened to this but now I've finally got around to hearing it I can truly say this surpassed all my expectations. A truly perfect album

OK Computer was the best album id ever heard when it was released 3 years before this. Then they released this as a follow up. To say I was disappointed was an understatement. Gone were the guitars and in came a wall of ambient sound. Nearly 30 years on my kids swear this is the best Radiohead album. Having re listened now it’s not, OK Computer is still king but this IS exceptional. Listened 3 times in a row and heard something different every time. Class. Can’t believe I’ve deprived myself for 25 years

Good timing - have been listening to this album a ton lately. One of the top 5 radiohead albums, and is really a dark, moody, and introspective piece of art. Definitely another 5 star album in the books.

wonderful

My favourite Radiohead album. Always loved the story of this apparently being made bad on purpose for them to get out of a record deal (has any band ever done thet legitimately?) because I’ve always thought it was brilliant. Moody and pushing far more into electronic synth soundscapes than their prior work, it’s aged wonderfully compared to my relisten of OK Computer for this list.

Kid A+

incroyable

A classic

Difficult to put into words the feelings I have listening to this album. Some mixture of nostalgia, joy, sadness, fear.. I dont know. I get chills. I get goosebumps. Sometimes its really uncomfortable. Eerie. Like its all just a little bit too real. That Radiohead feeling. Sometimes there are waves of pleasure. Music as a drug. No other band could evoke so many different emotions over the course of 47 minutes in my opinion. The songs mean a lot to me but even if i'd never heard this album before I would know i was listening to something profound. I dont like to come across as pretentious or pompous but its hard not to use superlatives when describing this music. Its a legitimate masterpiece. Favourite track - Idioteque. 9.5/10

9/10 Would be 10/10 if it wasn't for that awful free jazz destroying the end of "The National Anthem."

2000s indie rock and electronica. Irritatingly chaotic and noisy in parts. But also stunning. Atmospheric tracks. An incredibly varied experience. Going from floaty to jarring. Music to disassociate to.

One of the most interesting left turns in the 2000s

5/5

Radiohead is always a winner

Learned to teach, drove around the DMV the summer of 2001, listened to this CD: saw the future. For me, it might be the perfect album.

I know this by heart. Masterpiece.

I can see this being a divisive one for a lot of folks, but I don't care... I love it.

Duh

AMAZING ALBUM. RADIOHEAD TOP 3 for me.

Some of Tom's best compositions here capturing a range of melancholic and devastating atmospheric melodies. This is an incredible influential experimental album that cemented Radiohead as an indie icon. This is the soundtrack to disassociation, I find myself lost in the instrumental and synth heavy tracks. This album to me captures the dichotomy of being alone, it can be a pleasant calm as with tree fingers but just as much it can be haunting; Tom's layered and reverberating lyrics reflect this.

Epic album. Some really interesting ideas musically.

Nydelig plate som har tålt tidens tann.

Classic. Favorite track: In Limbo

Complex, unique, worth repeating. Several aspects of interpretation which gain even more bonus points. Plays on different timings & rhythms, offer another perspective even yet. Lyrics with topics of the senses, like taste, add a layer of poeticness. The true, raw vocals remain unique even if I personally feel they're a bit grainy.

Beautiful

This is probably the worst Radiohead album that I'd still rate a 5.

I've heard that this album is often overrated by people who hadn't listened to the innovative and experimental electronic music that was coming out in the 90s and considered this album to be the first of its kind. This album isn't the first to combine electronic and progressive rock but it might be the best. This is one of those albums that make me feel like I'm floating but in typical radiohead fashion it's chilling and raw. I love the album cover, the deconstructed abstract and jagged mountains in the dark red background reminds me of a twisted version of the island of misfit toys. It's so imposing and threatening. It captures the essence of this album, it's a scary place and you feel the aura surround you as you enter. The electronic components throw you off and make the world feel artificial, like it's glitching out and collapsing around you. This world is scary eldritch horror but it's also brittle, susceptible to collapse and fragmentation. If this is the matrix and the terrifying soundscape were to shatter into shards and dust what would be left behind? Is the terror of this world preferable to the unknown that lays behind it? The Radiohead legacy is one of asking these kinds of complex unknowable questions.

This is a tough one and it's a perfect example of needing multiple listens. It's still a great album, and it has some of my favorite Radiohead songs on it (Everything In Its Right Place, Optimistic) but the whole thing is a really slow burn. I remember the first time I heard it I was really quite mad because it's such a huge departure from Ok Computer, the previous album. Over time I grew to really appreciate it for what it is though, and came to the somewhat obvious conclusion that it's still the same band, just moving on to new things, and if they had just made another rock album it might not have been nearly as good. There are very few traditional rock songs on here, especially considering when it came out. "The National Anthem" is close, but even that dissolves in to an cacophonous noise track by the end and "How To Disappear Completely" I think featured in some movie or a TV show and kind've went off from there. This isn't a rock album at all, and the whole band stretches what it means to be (at the time) an instrumental ensemble in pop/rock music throughout. There's a load of synthesized and wacky instruments in here; I remember reading about a theremin specifically and you can hear it in multiple places. As an album it goes all over the place but never in a jarring way. There are a lot of non-lyrical (and some lyrical, but largely abstract and sometimes to the point of absurdity) emotions throughout the whole thing. Uplifting, depressing, angry, content, thoughtful, etc. It's one thing Radiohead have constantly done well throughout their entire career and this album is no different. I love the simple soundscape closer track as a finisher to the album as it brings it all home with just a simple ethereal chord set and leaves you satisfied, weirdly preparing for the next album (Amnesiac) which would go even further in to experimental yet accessible music. This is like a 4.75, but I'll round up because I do still really like it.

I hated Radiohead but it changed when I started composing music myself. Then I suddenly started digging Radiohead. Still, listening to it cautiously, one album at a time. Loved this album

Has always been the only Radiohead album that I truly enjoy. This is such a cool, boundary-pushing record that managed to change the way we see rock/alternative music.

The album continues to be a great listen. Hearing it again brought memories back. Radiohead’s ability to bring in new sounds is what makes this a classic!

Creo que Radiohead marcaron una dirección a finales del siglo XX que era coherente y y vanguardista. Probablemente ni ellos mismos fueron capaces de saber continuarla y sus discos se volvieron bastante insoportables. Kid A el más avanzado de esa trilogía de The bends, OK computer y Kid A. Está en el limite de muchas cosas, del rock, del ambient, de la electrónica... Es un equilibrio complicado que les sale en esta ocasión, pero creo que nunca más. Con todo, este disco es un diez por haber hecho diana y suponer claramente el cambio de siglo musical.

Bekannt und sehr schön.

One of the best albums ever recorded. Truly groundbreaking music. As good today as it was when it was released nearly 25 years ago.

#678. Well, i mean, obviously. 5/5: as you'd expect

Just had Amnesiac about a week ago. Seeing another Radiohead album pop up is a very welcome start to my day - especially this one. I'm all in.

Incredible album. So good

Radiohead starts at Kid A, for me

what the fuck was that

not really understand it. still, feel like modern.

Masterpiece.

Ha! From Wiki: "Departing from their earlier sound, Radiohead incorporated influences from electronic music, krautrock, jazz and 20th-century classical music, with a wider range of instruments and effects. The singer, Thom Yorke, wrote impersonal and abstract lyrics, cutting up phrases and assembling them at random." Well let me tell you, those words held no fear for me - as a Bowie devotee, that all sounded splendid! Sure enough, I really enjoyed it. It might have got a tiny bit w*nky here and there, and I'm not sure I'd want to get stuck in the kitchen with Thom at a party. But Radiohead are cool, and know how to weave magic spells that draw you in, unlike some introspective bands where you feel like you're not at the party. I loved The Bends and OK Computer, and I loved this too. I doubt it would sound any good on a road trip, but listening in my headphones, it was just great.

🗻

This record really challenges song structure conventions. I’ve loved it from the first listen, and this was a great excuse to give it another listen.

5 star

:-)

A masterpiece that trades guitars for glitchy beats, haunting synths, and atmospheric textures without losing emotional depth. Its daring experimentation and otherworldly beauty reshaped me as a young adult. I learned of my grandmother’s passing while listening to this album, and this album helped get me through that time.

I think I still prefer Amnesiac, even though this is the 'better' album.

4.5 to 5.0 / 5.0 Listening to this as a 13 year old blew open some doors on how I thought about music. I didn't know songs could be this weird & artsy, yet I still found it all great somehow. My nostalgia is just mine alone, the novelty isn't as extreme now that I'm more versed in music history but here, I'm alive, everything all of the time.

any Radiohead record is legendary, this one as well. everything in the right place is one of the best song ever written. And album cover ? so great and unique

A sonic journey. Worthy of a 5, but isn’t my favoritr radiohead

This album changed everything for me. One of my all time favorites.

While In Rainbows is my favorite Radiohead record, Kid A is definitely their most important album and a close second for me. It dramatically widened the aperture of my musical radar, sparking a life-long love of indie electronica. This is also one of those records I have to listen to front-to-back. The descending fender rhodes line that opens the album is still a transcendent listening experiencing, especially as it merges with Thom's voice samples and vocal performance.

I’d suggest it’s this album and the gamble it represented - the artistic u-turn at the peak of their commercial powers - that ultimately secured Radiohead’s enduring status as critical darlings and global megastars for the next quarter of a century and counting. But I didn’t properly discover the band until about 2005, so why do I like it so much? I think it’s something to do with atmosphere, and world-building; I find most Radiohead albums, but especially this one, feel like journeying through another, fully-realised dimension for 45 minutes. You get tracks as exquisitely twisted as The National Anthem and as hauntingly beautiful as HTDC back to back, but somehow they feel like perfectly natural steps through this paranoid parallel world - the sounds all seem to belong to the same realm, and not listening to the whole album in sequence feels strange. It probably meant more to me as an impressionable teen but I’m still very fond of it.

Great band, great album

Potentially one of the biggest rug-pulls in music history. I still think the segue into Motion Picture Soundtrack is a little sharp, but … pretty faultless.

Now I lowkey want to disappear completely… not my favorite Radiohead album but anything under 5 stars would be a lie

Could probably write a paragraph about every single song on this album but I won't. My personal favourite RH album, the ambience is incredible, it's bleak and cold, muted and embracing, subtle and discrete. It doesn't try to say anything because it doesn't need to, it just exists, never quite breaking into the release you'd expect from an album so tense. The sound is dynamic, the range of early electronic instruments, modular synthesis, orchestral passages, pedalboard playing and DAW riddled vocals keep the album interesting, and the reserve on certain songs versus the maximalism on others is masterfully executed. The basslines all over this album too, National Anthem obviously with its post-punk groove, but the wonderful wandering on How To Disappear, and the chorus climb on Optimistic are all fantastic. I love the lyrical content too, often repeated phrases in a collage style help keep with the albums cold and almost inhuman mood, however the refrain of "I'm not here, this isn't happening" from How To Disappear is probably one of my favourite lines ever. At times weirdly danceable, trance inducing, oppressive, depressive, this album strikes a tone and its one I personally love. Not gonna bother listing favourites bc I think every song on this album belongs here.

An album greater than the sum of its parts. HTDC is the masterpiece; National Anthem is a brilliant fusion of genres; Idioteque; EIIRP; Morning Bell are good tracks in their own right. The audacity to release this album after The Bends and OK Computer is madness. Easy 5*.

One of the most compelling albums of the list, Radiohead are always a joy listening to.

Somewhere, some theory guy is out there explaining to his girlfriend, who didn't ask, how EIIRP is in a major key.

Any Radiohead record ranking is simply incorrect without Kid A in, at minimum, the top 3, and any conversation on the greatest left turns in musical history will be egregiously incomplete without Kid A’s immediate mention.

Very vibey and esoteric. Enjoyed it a lot. Especially the sax on National Anthem.

4.7

Got to be a 5 but almost too familiar on this listen? Not as replayable as IR or the Bends. Maybe I'm a guitar man at heart

Absolutely love this

The kind of nobhead shite I can get behind.

Everything in its right place

I could go on and on about this. I have been finding new details folded into it’s rich mix of jazz, avant garde electronica and general cosmic wonders since it first came out (a whopping £16 from Woolies for me). Hitting play - ready for indie guitar rock like The Bends - and instead being hit with this beautifully textured alien classical / club music was the most sudden musical turning point of my life (probably loads of lives). Kid A opened the gates to the electronic underground while standing tall inside it.

I hear from fans etc that Radiohead were not always in sync with what they produced. They didnt like some of their own music. In my mind for this album it is so deep and paradoxical it can't have occured outside of a genuine creative bubble (I would assume and hope). "The National Anthem" had chemical brother vibes for me just more rock and atmospheric. Well just better! Its just builds and builds to a frantic end. Never graiting mind as the song takes you on a journey. This album is like a music jet wash. It blasts the clinkers from the edges left by lesser bands. It awakens the senses from its doom scrolling zombie land. Has the effect of an orchestra more so than a traditional band. His voice literally replacing the wind section its that stunning at times with its range. I dont know why but I get church vibes when I listen to their music. Like I am celebrating a wedding, then a death or whatever. Its got such visceral dimmension (I had to google the definition of visceral to ensure its what I meant :) ). After idioteque seemed to tail off slightly. Morning Bell almost feels like an exit from the dark into some form of light. Much softer tone and some kind of redemption / solice in what came before. Personally find it a little weaker as in idioteque the vocals are sublime off beat / tone noise and used to perfection but in the morning Bell / motion picture is seems slightly more "normal" and less captivating, though at times his high pitch hold is still epic. Didnt want to end with negatives but it just doesnt end as strong for me. An amazing album and like a fine wine needs some time to air. I need to come back to this. I find its alot to take in and I appreciate that as yet not a commited Radiohead fan so clearly still on a journey with them. Can't believe I never listened to this album in full. Its funny as I dont dislike their mainstream stuff in fact I think much of it was great but they didnt make me want to immerse in them for reasons I cannot explain.

Kid A marks the departure of Radiohead from their 90's grunge and alternative rock into a more avant-garde sound and from a great band into something truly special. It feels moody, complex, sometimes chaotic, often beautiful. It pulls on multiple musical influences from jazz in "The National Anthem" to electronica in "Idioteque" which are all held together by Radiohead's intricate rhythms and Thom Yorke's ethereal vocals cutting across the whole album. Despite it's diversity, it flows as a complete album. It's like Radiohead managed to create a perfect microcosm of my musical taste and I'm sure I'll be listening to it for many years to come.

One of Radiohead’s best, easy 5 stars

Having grown up on metal and punk, I've never been a huge fan of electronic music. I didn't care for Radiohead in the early days either. Just thought they were a little too generic. OK Computer won me over though with its wall of guitar sounds, off kilter time changes, and beautiful production. An amazing record. So when I heard the next album was going to be more of an electronic affair, I was not optimistic about Kid A. But I bought the CD when it was released anyway and I'll be damned if it didn't turn out to possibly be my favorite Radiohead album. Honestly I think there is too much made of the electronic elements on this record. There is still plenty of live instrumentation here, which was confirmed when I saw them live at Red Rocks in 2001. I think Kid A is a perfect blend of Radiohead's earlier guitar oriented indie rock with the electronic experimentation they would lean more into later in their career. Kid A is a masterpiece and I'm really pleased to see it pop up after a lackluster week of album selections from this app. I was almost ready to throw in the towel on this challenge. 5/5 #127

My favorite of the Radioheads and just a favorite in general. It captures such a uniquely alien and beautiful sound that I never get tired of hearing

Goated album, one of the best opening songs ever.

Tidenes beste album!

I dunno what to say about this album that isn't already been said, but here it goes... In October 2000, 9 months into the new millennium, a band that became one of the biggest in the world changed their sound so drastically and out of nowhere, it someway somehow changed the sound of music forever. From being one of, if not, the first albums to be promoted using the Internet to the feeling of alienation and the fear of the digital age and the future it can and will bring being heard lyrically and instrumentally, the change in Radiohead's sound that was once seen as a mistake to few when it first came out, is now seen by the same few and many others as one of the greatest ideas and moments in music history. Oh to hear this album when it first released...

I already know this album is 5 stars, but I associate it with a really bad time in my life and actually can’t listen to it if I’m feeling even a little bit emotionally fragile.

Classic

An extremely easy 5/5, along with much of their catalogue. I've come around to the view that this is probably only the *fourth* best Radiohead album (OK Computer, Amnesiac, In Rainbows) but at its very highest ("How to Disappear Completely"; "Idiotique") it is absolutely untouchable, IMHO.