Kid A

Perfection, no notes

i will see you in the next life

Brilliant. Astonishing. I really cannot comprehend how you can sit around, jerk off your little guitars and then just go and create something like this. The vocals are fitting, the ambient tracks are fitting, everything works towards making this trippy atmosphere. Everything in its right place I want to fuck this album

I LOVE RADIOHEAD! So ofcourse totally matches the picking vibe. I do get a bit sleepy from some of the songs but that is also partly because of the bad quality sleep I had last night. Oh en btw the album cover is also fantastic.

Radiohead is always a 5

Just so beautiful.

A life changing album when I first listened to it and remains incredible

Six stars. Sheesh. This album was revolutionary at its time and today still sounds like it’s from another universe.

I've never listened to this album in its entirety, and the variety & overall quality was surprising. Really enjoyed my listen.

This was my first introduction to Radiohead (besides creep) and this group has become one of my favourites since then. I remember being extremely intrigued by the album and was really disturbed by the title track (I got goosebumps and wanted to play that track repeatedly after that to get the same feeling of eeriness, isolation, fear and disturbance which this song created) but for the most part found it unlistenable up to that point. I quit the album, wanting to get back to it again in the future and explored Radiohead’s incredible discography. Upon returning to this album time and time again I resonated with it more and more. I once felt that Treefingers felt kind of out of place and that overall this album didn’t feel extremely cohesive and inconsistent at some points. And although I still think that this is an album you have to listen to completely (so it’s more than the sum of its parts, in comparison to in Rainbows in my opinion), the feelings, emotions, atmosphere and thoughts this album provokes are completely unique to it. I think this is absolutely incredible, I really love this album.

peak

10/10

dreamy and out of this world, and yet still so precise and focused. an absolute masterpiece

First Listen: Aug 22 2023 aw hell yeah. a good radiohead album i love to see it

the first time i listened to this album i listened to it right next to in rainbows and i kept calling them "kid rainbows"

One of my favorite albums of all time that came to me at a moment of incredible growth as a young lad. Radiohead will constantly remind me of the best friend I lost in 2006, and it will never change. This album was Radiohead’s reprieve from the “norm” and marked a new path for them going forward. Mine too. I miss you, Gerard.

Spectacular album! I’ve heard this one before but I didn’t really appreciate as much the first time around, this time though I really thought it was fantastic. There is a lot of things here anyone can interpret in their own way but I interpret this album as someone’s worst dreams coming true, if you listen to the lyrics with that concept in your head it makes a lot of sense, trust me. The album has a dreamy sort of sound to it and it puts you in a specific mood that only a few albums can do right. I have zero problems with this album so I won’t be saying anything negative, that’s all. Favorite Tracks:The Nation Anthem, How To Disappear Completely, Idioteque, Morning Bell, and Motion Picture Soundtrack.

Legendary. Not much else to say on it, followed up one of their best with a visionary electronic album and killed it. Aphex Twin influence all over this record make it a winner in my book. Best Tracks: Everything in Its Right Place, Treefingers, Idioteque

Great album, seriously Innovative.

92/100. A fantastic and emotional listen. From start to finish, the album continually impresses with its bold creativity, atmosphere, and depth. It’s the kind of record that pulls you into its world completely, and honestly, I’m a little disappointed I didn’t experience it sooner.

Steven Hyden made me realize this album is outstanding and a massive leap forward sonically at the time

Not enough stars to rate how high this one goes for me.

Holy shit, now this whole album is iconic. The previous days have been collections of songs by artists. This album is an album of songs that play into each other, recurring themes and high-to-low energy transitions. Thom Yorke really made waves that appeared in other artists. I'm giving it 5 stars because it truly is one of the greatest of its kind.

good

YES! More nostalgia here. I love the opening track. This one really ventures into the electronic space and continues the separation from their early selves. I really like the atmospheric space on this album, especially on tracks 4 and 5. There's a sadness throughout the album that I feel, and that sadness warrants a 5.

One of the best musical left turns of all time. Favourite Songs: YES Least Favourite Songs: NO

As an album it's close to perfect - every track is in its place. Some songs don't hold up on their own necessarily (looking at you Treefingers) but are excellent to set the mood. I think taking this album away from the Radiohead oeuvre and looking at it on its own only makes it better.

On July 21st, 2014, I scrobbled Idioteque 4 times between the hours of 2:20 & 4:13 a.m.. I have a memory of hanging out with my friends nick and sameen and listening to the song on repeat over and over with sameen skipping over anytime the breakdown began. No other recollection of the night and those scrobbles might not even be the same night but that is a fond memory for me.

Ice age coming, ice age coming… tell your familyyyy… march 15th two thousand and twoooooo

Innovative album, drawing on minimalist electronic genres and peppered with remnants of rock to create an emotionally detached masterpiece, brimming with unease.

I’m embarrassed that this album disappointed me when I bought it in the early 2000s because it wasn’t enough like OK Computer. It’s delicate and powerful, and reveals more details in each listen.

I’ve listened to this album many times before. Upon first listen it brought a lot of confusion and to be honest I still don’t understand some songs. But I don’t think I need to understand. There’s a beauty in confusion slowly turning into appreciation into love. After ever listen something clicks a little more. How To Disappear Completely was the song that made me deep dive into Radiohead. I cried the first time I heard it and never felt so moved by a piece of music before. I got way into Radiohead, and then way into music in general. I started learning guitar and listening to more and more music I’d never fully appreciated before. So really this album is the reason I’m even doing this challenge at all.

Yeah, no shit

i love how each song has its own vibe and i already love radiohead so this is just perfect. gosh i've never listened to this album from start to finish before and this is just a whole other experience makes me appreciate this album a lot more than i already did. for sure one of if not radioheads best album.

OH! I used to think it was bad. 5 stars

After a series of not-so-memorable albums, this is a treat. I already wrote the story here, but younger me lost track with Radiohead starting here. I couldn't get the direction they were taking. Older me re-discovered them some time ago with this record (giving a second chance to albums/bands is something I sometimes do) and was surprised by what I heard, far from the memory I had. I love every bit of this album now, how they mix genres, try new paths, broke their identity to start anew.

9.3/10

“More drones than the Obama administration”: guy who had to sit through a single four-minute ambient track this was my favourite album of all time at age 15 and it still holds up

I can’t believe I listened to this in 2000 and thought it was just ok. 😆 It is phenomenal. So many layers. I am in love, in 2025.

What an album to drop at the turn of the 21st century. Still holds up completely 25 years later. This is one of the best of the best, no notes.

This is the hardest this one ever hit for me. Especially keyed into Thom Yorke’s vocal delivery and melodies on this listen. Somehow both so vulnerable and at arms length.

Thanks to this challenge, I learned that my dog really liked Radiohead. 4.5 stars.

its fucking kid a

Very atmospheric

my name is john pork and im gay

I absolutely remember hearing this album for the first time. It blew me away from the first listen. While there are a few filler/slow songs that are tough listens, there are 5 PHENOMENAL songs throughout the album. Highlights for me are Optimistic and National Anthem.

very fckig good

Dope as heck. It’s distilled horror movie, but like the better horror movies where you don’t exactly know what the evil is. 9.5/10

I was working on a joke review for this album about how I’m too beautiful to understand radiohead then How To Disappear Completely came on and I had to lay on the floor and listen to it 3 times

Beautiful soundscapes

I'm not in my Radiohead phase anymore, though I still love their discog. This one reminded me how good they were, really a special album. Takes serious balls to release something like this right after OK Computer, and to do it so well too.

A classic

One of my all time favorites

I was late to Radiohead. Hail to the Thief is when they finally caught my attention. I worked back from there and had the entire catalog within a month or so. It did not occur to me at the time that this had been some big leap as it seems like a good through point from Ok onward. That being said it is immense and a great listen to this day. Love the horns!

I love this album! may faves are everything in its right place, kid a, national anthem, and how to disappear completely

Love it

Different from my normal style and i will listen again

A šta više mogu reć. Što vrime više ime ovaj album je sve istinijiti i važniji. Pet ko kuća❤️

First radiohead for this project, but was the second album of their's I listened to. I do like them, but have come to the conclusion that every radiohead song sounds better when Thom Yorke isn't the one singing it. Ok, idk if this means I'm a sad virgin, but damn is this album good. I get why people don't like it but if we all liked the same thing life would be boring.

Love Radiohead, this album was such a game changer for music, really opened up people to more experimental sounds.

Masterpiece, great start

Nice first pick, obviously an awesome album.

Es ist ein Meisterwerk. Schon der Anfang des Albums, wenn "Everything in it's Right Place" zum ersten Mal erklingt, ist absolut überwältigend. Vielseitig, komplex, spannend, ausgewogen und doch Grenzen überschreitend. Es ist, als würde man eine andere Welt betreten, und das macht Kid A so fantastisch. Seit ich Kid Amnesiac gespielt habe, habe ich das Album mit anderen Augen gesehen, es ist einfach ein absolutes Meisterwerk.

❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day 2025. My favorite Radiohead album and IMO the band’s masterpiece. Whole record conveys such a sense of foreboding and dread, but somehow it’s not a bummer. Feeling overwhelmed by the many existential nightmares that plague our hypercapitalist, post-9/11, pre-gobal environmental collapse modern experience? Play How To Disappear Completely on repeat, disassociate, and keep telling yourself “I’m not here. This isn’t happening.”

masterpiece

Nesten perfekt

Oooooohhhhh eeeeee aaaaäǎeee

Not their best but really great.

Chillingly beautiful.

Fabulous album - inventive and bold.

Radiohead really knows how to transport me to another world and this one I closed my eyes the whole way through, but I cannot tell if it was in fear or wanting to imagine things based on the lyrics. Favorite Track: Idioteque

The atmosphere of this album is cold as the mountains in the cover, but the music is really nearing perfection. When I first listened to it, I did not understand it, it took me time to appreciate it.

I may be completely biased because Radiohead is my favorite band, but I think a 5 is justified. This band puts out a masterpiece, then undergoes a transformation and we get this. It's not for everybody, but it's certainly for me.

beautiful

one of the very few objective 10/10 for me .

Easy 5*. On the same level as OK Comp and In Rainbows for me. Only gripe is the back half of The National Anthem is a bit much. Other than that it’s all greatness. 4.5/5

Love this opening to this album.

I like that Radiohead continued in a progressive direction after OK Computer. This is an important album for the band and for popular music at the turn of the millennium. It’s a little uneven with several songs obviously standing out among the others, but you have to take the album as a whole and not track by track.

My personal favorite Radiohead record. "How To Disappear Completely" is probably my favorite Radiohead song ever. Kid A will go down as one of the best records of the 00s era.

Best album so far

It would be glib to say that everything was in its right place. But also, accurate. Radiohead's genre shift ended up in hindsight to be not as jarring as it first appeared, since a lot of the elements in Kid A were also in OK Computer. The main difference was the emphasis, with synths and loops doing more of the heavy lifting. Honestly, you could compare it with what U2 did with 'Actung Baby' a decade earlier, though even that isn't a very strong comparison given that Ed O'Brien was already making his guitar do ambient sounds, and Johnny Greenwood went for fuzz instead of reverb and delay. Maybe I should just say that Radiohead remained as Radiohead-y as ever, except the songs in this specific batch hit me harder than the previous ones and I think that the synths were a brilliant addition to their sonic palette. So it's my favourite album of theirs. Tangent: "Faster, Johnny" Fave: How To Disappear Completely Least Fave: Untitled (ok, this is cheating a little, but in my defence, it's hard to pick) Strong Bad Demerit Count: 2

No-one does despondency quite like les têtes de radio

Another banger ilof an album.

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I think I manifested this album. The night before this generated, I spent a couple of hours just watching live Radiohead performances. I love them, but I usually just listen to the music. I don't watch a lot of videos in general. But I was just chuffed to see this as my album for the day after watching Everything In Its Right Place live. When that song starts, it shuts off my brain and everything is perfect in the world for just a few minutes. It's medicinal, I swear. Kid A is brilliant from start to finish. I don't even know how to explain it beyond that; it's so unlike anything else. It's a captivating world to get lost in, which is what makes an album great to me.

One of my favorites.

This album finally clicked for me. Except for Kid A. Don't know what that one's about. Fav Songs: The National Anthem, How to Disappear Completely

Too good for a -1 for murder

For the longest time I never gave Radiohead a fair chance. I had always assumed Radiohead was too angst, too sad for my taste. (Of course, the few songs I happened to hear I invariably love, as well as some of the members’ later projects) But this is the first album on my list that made me say “oh shoot, why hadn’t I heard this earlier?” 10/10, I’m hooked

I love this album. I think it was revolutionary when it came out and holds up now. National anthem and optimistic have a special place in my heart

Go deep and savor the journey.

nearly perfect album

I owned this album back in the day. It's a classic. That's really all there is to say.

how did I get 2 Radiohead albums next to eachother

I remember buying this album the day it came out and listened non-stop. There was a clear departure from The Bends and Ok Computer that felt like ushering in a new era of music. The National Anthem bass line - swoon! Motion Picture Soundtrack is a perfect final song. Idioteque is by far a favorite song of mine "We're not scare-mongering, this is really happening" gets me every time and became even more poignant during the aftermath of Sept 11 when we were all grappling with what the fuck was happening.

dopest album around.

While not as great as the highs of OK Computer or In Rainbows, Kid A is yet another great Radiohead album.

Okay, this one gets the 5. 5/5

Awesome

Everything in its right place has to have the most beautiful chord progressions of all time.

It isn't even my favorite Radiohead album but it is leaps and bounds better than many great bands' greatest albums

HOLY SHIT DIT IS GOED. Maar ik denk wel dat je low-key een beetje artistiek moet zijn voor dit, maar gelukkig ben ik dat dus 5 sterren

I rarely listen because it is so draining but it is amazing every time. Tough to think of anything new to say. Everything about this one (music, artwork, etc) comes together. 8th perfect rating so far Rating: 5.0

already listened

Already one of my all-time favorites

Bedoudoudodudouuuy

Yoooo I didn't expect to love this

Come back to this one frequently

A complete change from previous Radiohead albums. I bought this at the time and was shocked at how different it was. Now solidly one of my favourite albums of all time. It’s easy to mock this album. Haters are going to hate.

Radiohead are my favourite band!

mooi album maar een paar nummers worden wel erg chaotisch, 8/10

You can never play this during the day The national anthem slaps unequivocally

Kid A is an album that still feels like stepping into unfamiliar weather. The first time it plays, it can feel distant, even hostile, but that distance is exactly the point. It abandons comfort, structure, and expectation, replacing them with fractured rhythms, disembodied voices, and a sense of quiet unease that seeps into everything. Rather than pulling you in with hooks, it asks you to sit with uncertainty, to listen differently, and to accept that not everything is going to resolve neatly. What makes Kid A extraordinary is how emotionally loaded it feels despite its apparent coldness. Beneath the electronics and abstraction is a deep sense of anxiety, isolation, and disconnection that feels painfully human. Thom Yorke’s vocals often sound less like singing and more like signals cutting through static, fragile and overwhelmed. Tracks drift, collapse, and reform, creating a mood rather than a narrative, and that mood feels eerily accurate to modern life, even decades on. It is an album that understands dread without dramatizing it. By the time it ends, Kid A does not feel like something you have listened to so much as something you have experienced. It lingers in your head as texture and emotion rather than melody, leaving behind a strange calm mixed with unease. This is a record that trusts its audience completely, refusing to explain itself or soften its edges. It changed what a major band could do without compromise, and more importantly, it still feels vital, relevant, and unsettling.

Love this album. Radiohead made one of the best albums with this, along with Ok, Computer.

I listened to this after the thing happened 1 month ago, and I still marvel at the sheer existential dread present in a record made in 2000. Surveillance, political chaos, a crushing desire to leave, war, dehumanisation, natural apocalypse encroaching technology, it's terrifying how topical this and Ok Computer are, the former almost feeling like a warning for the incoming millenia. None of these themes are new, these were genuine concerns back then, but it's what scares me now, and combined with some breathtaking inventiveness and dazzling soundscapes, its one of my favourite albums ever, period.

Oh I've been waiting for Radiohead. I love Kid A. Fascinating that they completely reinvented themselves for this. Such a great album, and it's probably only my third favorite by them.

perfect

One of my favorite albums, I’ve listened to it many times, great electronic work and some very sad songs

I’ve loved this album since it came out. I used to listen to it every night on my Discman to fall asleep. I love the otherworldly vibes.

kind of undeniable, cool textural stuff along with some nice hooks

Amazing

Ahead of its time and out of this world, Kid A is alien music for the masses. To the surprise of fans and critics alike, Radiohead completely abandoned the sounds of their previous highly acclaimed album OK Computer in favor of experimental electronica and ambient soundscapes. To say that they succeeded in this venture is putting it lightly. Opener Everything In Its Right Place sets the stage with immediately distinct synthesizer chords in 10/4 time, with off-kilter digitally manipulated vocals setting the mood. The way the song builds in intensity without ever straying too far from where it started is masterful. Everything is indeed in its right place. Similar in its rising structure, The National Anthem starts with a groovy repetitive bassline and slowly descends into free-jazz inspired chaos. Though no singles were released for this album, Optimistic is the closest thing to a radio hit to be heard here with its more conventional structure and catchy chorus. Even still, it retains a subtle otherworldly aura, fitting in with the surrounding tracks. Album highlight Idioteque is a dance track that seemingly only Radiohead could come up with, featuring Thom Yorke's paranoid vocals over a pulsating distorted snare beat. Ambient experiments like the title track and Treefingers give off ethereal vibes while adding to the wide range of genres represented on the record. All in all, Kid A is an unforgettable experience and one of the great left-tuns in music history. It proves itself to not only be a highly influential record of the 2000's, but one of the most groundbreaking and finely crafted albums of all time. Highlights: -Everything In Its Right Place -The National Anthem -Optimistic -Idioteque -Morning Bell Lowlights: -Treefingers

It was amazing being a Radiohead fan when this was released. It's hard to appreciate how much of a curveball it was, with so many people believing it was a joke or some rejection of the fans by the band. Gradually people warmed to it, and like a unique scent it became a perfect memory jar for the years that followed. It still feels fresh and contemporary 25 yrs later, and listening to it again after quite some time was a real nostalgic trip. It conjured so many distinct times, vibes, conversations, people I've known. A really special album.

My unofficial, official favourite album of all time, and I don't really know what to say about it. The hidden booklet was pretty cool. The Kid A blips and all of the other associated artworks are some of my all-time favourite pieces of visual art. Cuttooth, one of the early songs from the Kid A sessions, is the best song I've ever heard. Okay, okay. It's the most subversive, most textured album I've ever listened to. There's always a new melody or instrument that I'm able to isolate and pick apart whenever I put on this album. Listening along to the lyrics is one of the most unique experiences I've had with an album, where the words only really carry meaning and emotion when looked at in isolation. The title track is my favourite song off this album, which is a somewhat controversial one if I recall correctly. The muffled vocals are one of Thom's most unique vocal performances, it's one of the more stylistically diverse offerings from the album and the lyrics are beautiful and tragic in an abstract and nondescript way, which serves as perfect summation of the album as a whole. As far as truly ambiguous and interpretive lyrics go, you can't beat How to Disappear Completely. I've always looked at the song more positively than most, where the desire for Thom to disassociate is curtailed by the instrumental becoming more burdened and intense as it goes along, beautifully illustrating that no one is truly alone or beyond help.

Already love :)

2000.

i think I've been listening to too much radiohead but i don't complain honestly banger after banger, dreamy and at the same time uncanny

Gostei muito!

yeah it’s pretty awesome

A personal favorite. Really great as an album experience, and lots of great individual songs. Motion picture soundtrack and itioteque by themselves would get this album a 5

An 2000, le bug était passé, le monde ne s'était pas effondré, mais une angoisse sourde, digitale et millénariste flottait dans l'air. Sur la planète rock, une seule question brûlait toutes les lèvres : que va faire Radiohead ? Après la claque sismique de "OK Computer" en 1997, le groupe d'Oxford était devenu, sans discussion possible, le plus grand groupe du monde. Les sauveurs du rock, les nouveaux messies capables de pondre des hymnes pour stades tout en disséquant la paranoïa de notre modernité. La planète entière attendait "OK Computer 2", la suite logique, l'album qui allait enfoncer le clou et asseoir leur domination pour la décennie à venir. On se préparait tous à ce qui allait être, à n'en pas douter, l'album de l'année. Et puis, le jour de la sortie, une pochette étrange, des montagnes glacées, un artwork cryptique. On a glissé le CD dans la platine et on a appuyé sur "Play". La première piste. "Everything In Its Right Place". Une nappe de clavier électrique, la voix de Thom Yorke découpée, triturée, passée à la moulinette d'un ordinateur, méconnaissable. Pas de guitare, pas de batterie, pas de refrain. Rien, juste une atmosphère, un malaise sublime. Putain c'était quoi, cette merde ? Ce n'était pas une merde, c'était un suicide, le suicide commercial le plus audacieux, le plus arrogant et le plus magnifique de l'histoire de la musique populaire. Avec "Kid A", Radiohead n'a pas sorti la suite de "OK Computer". Ils ont assassiné le groupe qu'ils étaient devenus, ils ont pris leur statut de "plus grand groupe de rock du monde", l'ont regardé droit dans les yeux, et lui ont tiré une balle en pleine tête. "Kid A" est un acte de sabotage en règle, fini les guitares lyriques, finis les refrains fédérateurs car le groupe, épuisé par la pression, a tout mis à la poubelle pour se réinventer de zéro. Ils ont passé des mois à écouter en boucle les artistes du label Warp, le temple de la musique électronique expérimentale : Aphex Twin, Autechre... Et ils ont décidé que leur avenir était là. Le résultat est un album clinique, froid, décharné. Un disque qui a abandonné la chaleur du rock pour la précision glaciale de l'électronique. La structure des chansons traditionnelles a explosé, c'est une musique de textures, de rythmes syncopés, de sons étranges. Sur "The National Anthem", on a une ligne de basse monstrueuse qui tourne en boucle, sur laquelle vient se greffer un chaos de cuivres free-jazz. "Idioteque" est une panique-dance, un hymne pour fin du monde construit sur des beats électroniques saccadés et des samples énigmatiques. Et au milieu de ce champ de ruines sonores, il y a des moments de beauté pure, mais une beauté spectrale, malade. "How to Disappear Completely" est une ballade flottante, le son d'un homme qui se regarde se noyer, avec ces cordes dissonantes qui vous filent la chair de poule. C'est introspectif, minimaliste, et ça demande un effort. Et le plus fou dans cette histoire de suicide commercial ? Le disque a été numéro 1 aux États-Unis. Le monde entier a fini par succomber à cet objet musical non identifié. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, "Kid A" sonne toujours aussi radicalement moderne. Il a donné la permission à toute une génération de groupes de rock de tout envoyer balader, d'expérimenter, de ne plus avoir peur de leur public. C'est un disque qui a vieilli infiniment mieux que beaucoup de ses contemporains plus "faciles". C'est une oeuvre exigeante, un monolithe noir qui vous regarde de haut. Mais c'est précisément ce qui en fait un chef-d'oeuvre. Il ne vous donne pas ce que vous voulez, il vous donne ce que vous n'auriez jamais osé imaginer. Un 5 sur 5, c'est presque une note trop basse pour un disque qui a eu le courage de tuer son propre mythe pour en créer un, encore plus grand.

More, more, please more!

Probably one of my favourite albums of all time. It is not restricted by a genre and has many twists and turns.

One of the best albums on this list. 5Million/5

Fantasic!

One of the best. By one of the best. They're one of my all time favourite bands.

Absolutely incredible all the way through. The music manages to be unsettling or uncomfortable at times, while still being pleasant to listen to (for me). It's not everybody's cup of tea and some of the tracks are kind of out there, and I don't think I'd ever recommend this to someone whose music taste I'm not familiar with. That being said, How to Disappear Completely is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

I only skim-listened to this after ripping it from whomever’s hard drive back in the day. Settled on OK Computer as my Radiohead album of choice and that was that. Kind of glad that that’s how things worked out because listening to this has been like seeing a Van Gogh painting for the first time. Imagine not being aware that Starry Night existed? So many more layers than OK Computer. Just an incredible listening experience.

One of my all time favourites

It's taken me a while to truly appreciate Radiohead, and the musical shift to go from their guitar-led angst to this album of classics, rooted in electronica and polyrhythms, is a ballsy and very well executed artistic statement.

Didn't think i'd be giving this a 5 as it just doesn't have the dramatic moments of the albums that followed it, but it got so many spins when i was a youth and didn't disappoint on relistening now. Particularly the opening and second half, but it's such a coherent and complete album with an incredible palette of sounds and outstanding vocal performance.

Wow... Albumfest may be forcing me to realise Radiohead isn't as bland as I always thought. The first track is masterful, and the rest of it is so well crafted in that vibe. Who writes music like this? The best question an album can make you ask. Just sublime nonsense

I love this album so much. You have no idea.

Fuck you Shen

fuck yeah. hell fucking yes. already love this album going into it, always nice to get a chance to revisit it. saw someone on tiktok say they thought no one really liked radiohead, and that people only listened to them bc they were pretentious, and i genuinely cannot imagine living in a world where my idea of art and my taste is so narrow and based on aesthetics. this shit ROCKS.

I am so sorry to be a cliché but unfortunately every fucking bit as good as everyone says it is and more. Bury me with this record. I've loved it since I first heard it when I was 11. I will love it until the day I die. My favorite record from this so far.

Not enougth stars for this album, after the soaring heights of Ok Computer there was a question and this was the answer. It did things that we didnt know a band could do. The mix of croaking electronica and broken guitars distorts and slips through an almost stream of conciousness. The middle part of Radioheads holy trinty it makes music something new and wonderful.

Such a great album. I love it. Enough said.

I try to be objective with the albums I already know but this album first arrived at a pivotal point in my life when I was 20 years old. Its affect on my life was profound so it’s basically impossible to separate myself from the feeling of hearing it for the first time. It’s both organic and futuristic; it’s avant-garde post-rock with accessible hooks. There are bombastic horns, gentle synth pads, glitchy vocal fx, and Phil Selway’s brilliant drumming throughout. The sound fx are never too much and the dreamy sound scape pieces never go on for too long. Just superb production and arranging. This album basically announced the 21st century and will stand as an all-time classic.

Haunting synths drift in, like fog rolling over fields. The music floats between beauty and alienation, something both familiar and strange. It feels like Brian Eno met Joy Division in a dreamscape, giving warmth and distance all at once. The beats don’t lead; they pulse like a heartbeat that’s almost slowed down. You get lost, but it’s calm, like an embrace from a ghost.

Yeah, this is their best album, and it's not even close as well

one of my fav records ever, its so athmospheric, and even tho its sad, there are some bops there. also the piano on the first track is iconic

I’M NOT HERE I’M NOT HEEEEEEEEEERE

For the longest time, I actually avoided listening to KID A. Not that it was necessarily difficult for me to avoid or anything like that, but I didn't wanna listen to it, for one simple reason: I wasn't sure if it would live up to the hype. After all, this thing has been praised to the moon and back several times over. I'd heard so many times, over and over again, that it was the greatest album of the 2000's — of the entire decade, if not the millenium. Rolling Stone included it at 67 on their 2012 500 list, and it was the last album on there released past 1999. Heck, on their later list focusing on just the 2000's, it was number one with a bullet. It inspired that one guy over on Pitchfork to write that... Whatever the hell about watching stillborn babies playing in the afterlife on IMAX. These are just the examples that're important to me, and I could go on with more, but you get my point. KID A is a big, big deal. I mean, it lost Album Of The Year to a Steely Dan album barely anyone remembers, but still. It's perhaps the single most famous left turn in music history, let alone alternative rock. And, like, it's hard to hear all of that and not have expectations to the heavens and beyond. Like, this album must really be something if it'd garnered **this level** of universal acclaim. What exactly **is** this thing's secret sauce? And that's where we come to the reason why I didn't wanna listen to this thing for so long: what if I couldn't find it? Or what if I did and I didn't like what it was? Or even if I did, and I didn't like it as much as the hype led me to believe I should? In any situation, I figure because of the expectations I had I would've been much harder on the album than if I hadn't had any. And I just... Didn't want that, y'know? I didn't wanna be let down by an album I'd heard so many good things about — or, worse, become someone willing to crow about how it's "overrated." Generally, I'd rather avoid being like that. And it's not like I could just throw away all of my expectations and listen to the album simply for its own merits. Frankly, it's impossible to go into anything without preconceptions, no matter how big or small they are, or how conscious you are of them... And having ones like I had... Jeez, it simply wouldn't be fair to the album. So, I avoided it. Better to just not find out at all how I'd react, I figured. And again, it's not like it's hard to. Ignorance was bliss for me for the longest time. Eventually, though, I did check it out. I can't recall exactly when, but I know I've listened to it a few more times since then. Even as recently as earlier this year, during the same work night where I listened to the other album that lost Album Of The Year to Steely Dan, THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP. And I can't tell you what I thought of the album back when I first heard it; it's been too long and I simply can't remember. But as for how I'm feeling about it now, here, in 2024... If there's any reason I wouldn't go so far as to call this "the greatest album of the 2000's," it's because I'm not sure if I have enough experience with that decade to make that call. Besides, there are albums that resonate way more personally with me than this does — Weird Al's STRAIGHT OUTTA LYNWOOD, for instance, to use a really personal example. Heck, for my tastes, THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP might've even been my pick for Album Of The Year. But that doesn't stop KID A from making an incredibly convincing argument in its favor. For one, KID A sounds like it could've been made now. Even as painfully aware as I am that this album is from October 2000, there's not a single note I'm hearing in here that ties it specifically to the 2000's. It could have come out, exactly as it is, last week, and even though it might not have had the same impact, the music still would sound as good as ever. And that's all while still being recognizably Radiohead. Before I put on this album, I listened to two cuts from OK COMPUTER ("Paranoid Android" and "No Surprises"), and, sure, yeah, there's big differences between the two of them, but I wouldn't mistake either of them for another band's music. Which, yeah, it's probably largely Thom Yorke's voice. I don't think you hear much of it anywhere else, generally, save for his solo material or stuff he features or guests on. But it still anchors the music to this band and it keeps it unique to them. And even without it, I don't think I could hear another band making exactly this kind of stuff. And to talk about the stuff itself — the music — directly... Me being me, I think I'd probably listen to OK COMPUTER more for its alt.-rock-ness. And for what's on here, of course I gravitate the most towards the Eno-y "beautiful ambient" stuff as my favorites. As a whole, however — gawd, lemme use the word "unique" if I haven't before, and also throw "interesting" as well. Or "intriguing," if that's a stronger word. They're such fascinating soundscapes, without ever being too harsh. I'd say maybe the "most" moment for that is the horns on "The National Anthem", and they're really not even that bad. I wouldn't call any of this "commercial" since it clearly wasn't their goal — you wouldn't switch styles like this after something as big as OK COMPUTER if you wanted commercial potential — but the word "accessible" still comes to mind. Nothing here would necessarily alienate me if I was a fan of OK COMPUTER in the 90's and I then came into this. And even if I did think the style switch-up was strange at first, I'd like to think I'd still quickly click into what it's doing. It's amazingly good stuff, regardless of whatever expectations and preconceptions I might have had. I can totally hear why it's as highly praised as it is. Sure, of course, though, my tastes and conceptions might keep me from being rapturous about it on that scale — and certainly not to that point of that Pitchfork guy — but I think I'd be a fool to not still sing its praises. To reference the way-too-short I wrote for OK COMPUTER: "KID A? More like 'KID A-OK with me.'"

Kid A is like (Pablo) honey: it always manages to stay fresh, no matter how much time inbetween you've tried it. Solid 5 Stars.

I’m at a 5. I’ve sort of just sat here in silence trying to really digest the album, and I think my current inability to put my feelings into truly coherent thought speak more to the quality of the album and its emotional impact more than my words could. This is the third time we’ve gotten a Radiohead album, and it’s the 3rd time it’s lived up to the acclaim, and this time, I think it went above and beyond – OK Computer was great, In Rainbows was fantastic, and I knew this album would probably get another big adjective to mark its quality, but I really can’t think of one right now. The only thing that even remotely comes to mind is “overwhelming,” and I guess that applies best to both my brain and this album as a whole. It really is overwhelming, in the best way possible – the closest analog I have to any of the albums we’ve gotten so far is David Bowie’s “Low,” but that’s only in terms of production and stylization. There is something in the general emotion evoked by Thom Yorke and the rest of the band here that takes this album over the top, but it’s something that I seriously just don’t have the words for. I’ve never been left this… stunted by an album. I recognize its grandeur, I recognize its emotional pull, I recognize the incredible instrumentation and production here, I recognize its ability to use a minimalism in words to try to convey feeling as effectively as possible – every core tenet of praise I have about the album is there, but I just can’t figure out how to say it. All I know is that I thought it was beautiful. There’s not a skip here, save for maybe Treefingers, but this album is a front to back journey – close your eyes, find a focus, and just let it take over. At some point, that zen state will kick in, and there will be nothing like it. It’s a fast, fast 47 minutes, but it sticks for a long time afterward. It’s a highly recommended 5.

Ein klasse. Ein Meilenstein der Pop Geschichte

Solid. Was waiting for this one!

Rating: 10/10 Masterpiece, one of the greatest albums of all time. Simultaneously beautiful and desolate, this album captures living in the electronic-dominated world of the 21st century. This was so ahead of its time it's almost unfathomable, a true classic. Favorite songs: pretty much all of them. Least favorite song: Treefingers.

Radiohead have a few guaranteed five star albums, and here's the first one. They are one of a small handful of bands where each album is unique and surprising in some way. Of course it's pretentious as anything, but at least they can back this up with an amazing result almost every time.

One of my favorite albums! GOAT!

As a Radiohead nerd, I'm majorly biased. This is an incredible album that's aged much better than what came before.

Abstract, complex but engaging the whole way. What a great album. First time you listen to the album you don’t really know where it is taking you, but what a ride!

Four of these stars are for Idioteque, which is up there with Blue Monday when it comes to drum machine magic. Admire this album more than I love it as it lacks a genuine emotional connection for me (I think mainly due to the lack of sense of fun/humour). Still bloody amazing production and imagination though. Especially when you think how shit and slow computers were in 1999/2000. Very patient guys.

Radioheads finest

Still listen to this album frequent enough…probably stands testament to what I think of it. Awesome.

1001 Radiohead Side Projects you need to listen to before you die (thanks Oz!) Weird that it comes up with two Radiohead albums IN A ROW. What ARE the odds?! Surprisingly large, way bigger than winning the lottery. Which is kind of how I felt with this one. . Discovering Kid A at a later age, this was and has been a beautiful ride. Totally gorgeous and annoyingly predictable, I have jumped on the Thom Yorke bandwagon. Every song so well crafted. The Wish you Were here of Radiohead. Thank you.

Easiest 5 so far. A masterpiece of an album. Probably my favourite thing that they've done.

Is it more British rock? Sure. Do I care? No. I love Radiohead. OK Computer is still one of the best albums I've listened to for this project. Now I get to listen to Kid A! I'm just happy that I got Kid A before Amnesiac since listening to those two in reverse order would just be weird to me. So, how does Kid A compare to OK Computer? Well, I'll start by saying this: these are very different albums. Kid A marked a significant shift in Radiohead's sound. This was the point where Radiohead had really become something very different from what they originally were. This is perhaps most obvious in the song "Idioteque," which honestly feels like a different band. But you know what? I think that worked out well for them. Radiohead has arguably become even more successful than would've been before because they've explored their sound so much. But of course, the biggest pay off was that they made a phenomenal album. Kid A is truly something special. I genuinely don't know whether I like it or OK Computer more. The sound is just mesmerizing. I adore it. I actually think Thom Yorke's singing works better in this style than it did in the earlier sound. It feels more fitting. There are some amazing songs on this album. "Everything In Its Right Place" is such a perfect opener for this. It really hits home how different and unique this album is. The aforementioned "Idioteque" is another one of my favorites. It was kind of the point where my rating for this album was locked in. And of course, I would be remissed if I didn't bring up "How to Disappear Completely." Thom Yorke said that this was the most beautiful piece of music Radiohead ever wrote. I haven't heard every piece of music that Radiohead has made, but I definitely believe this claim of his. It truly is one of the best songs I've ever herd. I don't know what to say. This album would easily be many other artists best albums. And yet somehow, this is just one candidate for the best Radiohead album. Now that I've heard two Radiohead album, I think I can confidently call myself a fan. This is a band that really knows how to make amazing albums, and Kid A is among the best of them. 5/5.

One of the best (if not THE best) Radiohead albums, and one of the best of all time. Beautiful. Cinematic. Moving. A true journey start to finish. Have and will continue to frequently come back to it.

Epic

I like it. Good so far.

When Radiohead really started getting weird. It makes no damn sense! Compels me though...

good album full of interesting songs

I like OK Computer by Radiohead but that’s all I really know from them. I’m excited for this! TRACK NOTES 1. Everything In Its Right Place > obsessed with the beginning 3. The National Anthem > I think I’m gonna enjoy this album a lot. This is reminding me of a lot of Art Pop music I really like (Kate Bush/Björk). I love the horns. 5. Treefingers > This kind of ambient shit is fucking amazing. This album sounds ahead of its time. 8. Idioteque > It’s giving Crystal Castles. I can see myself putting this song on an industrial or creepy music type playlist 10. Motion Picture Soundtrack > Oof I wish this song was longer!!! I like slow ethereal songs 11. Untitled > I like how it continues on from the previous track. It’s a vibe. It could have been an intro to a song as well. I dig this project. Enjoyment score: 9/10

classic

Is Radiohead m'n favo band?

Are you Kidding-A-me. Great album. Great band. Need not say more than thi

So good

The first Radiohead album that I really fell in love with. Still a near-perfect album to this day.

One of the best. I love this album since 2001. 5/5

Oh man....Radiohead has got me through some shit times. How can I not give any Radiohead album 5 stars If I know all the songs by heart? Their music has got me even in my lowest points. I can't explain the love I have to How To Disappear Completely.

A classic for me and loved passjng down the appreciation to my kids.

Forgot how great this album was. Never forget when my brother turned me on to it.

Best!

banger

Favorite Tracks: Everything In Its Right Place Every other song on the record

I was 18 when this landed. I loved the bends with every fibre of my teenage body, ok computer was a bit out there but still brilliant to me, but i was just starting uni and my music taste moved toward drinking cheap alcopops while dancing to landfill indie and drum and bass. Kid A came out and sounded like it had come from the moon. It couldnt have been further from what i wanted and i abandoned radiohead. The years passed and my tastes moved on a bit and In Rainbows drew me back in. Having regained a foothold i went back through what i had missed and found Kid A/Amnesiac and began to appreciate what a ground breaking collection of songs they were. Very few bands are good or brave enough to abandon a popular sound to jump ahead of everyone by a decade and then wait for them to catch up, but these guys did and i think it may be their greatest achievement. The introduction of electronica, ambient, orchestral, drone onto rock makes for a masterpiece of sonic glory. This album sounds as good now as ever and the triple album covering this album and the Amnesiac sessions is a staggering achievement of a band who travelled back from the future to light the way for everyone. So much of this list is music that sounds good at the time but maybe hasn't aged well. This is the only entry which takes everyone else by the hand and shows them what the future needs to sound like and improves with age. Ladies and Gentlemen, please stand for the national anthem

9.5/10

Wow. “Biggest left turn in music history”. Love the Aphex Twin and Kraftwerk influences.

gushing fanfic of Warp giants from a person who doesn't know what a "mode" or "envelope filter" is ends up accidentally transforming into a mind-blowing post-rock trip, a Polaroid of an abstract never-was present. there exists a world where Kid A never comes out because the band breaks up right before it releases and the tracks get eaten by a hard drive or something. maybe in that world, Radiohead are still widely respected and their big rock statement of OK Computer is still wavering at #2. that world doesn't make me happy. i like the world i'm in where a band with an okay discography suddenly discovers Autechre and in an attempt to emulate them ends up striking gold. it isn't stillbirth on IMAX. it isn't a Pink Floyd ripoff. it's some other third thing. i think that should be its main genre. "Some Other Third Thing". it fits.

4.9 1x catch up 9/15

Absolutely brilliant album that I know already. Radiohead at their finest.

The genres on here are so busted. Kid A isn't in an Electronic category?? Well, more for the Indie stack I guess. Kid A is bonkers. It's a universe. It's a dream. It's forever.

Probably my favourite Radiohead album

I’ve always been framed by Radiohead. This is the first time I ever sat down and listened to the album straight through and read the lyrics while it was playing. I can’t say I really understand it. Most of the lyrics seem pretty obtuse to me. But the music is pretty amazing. These guys are clearly excellent instrumentalist. And the production is outstanding I think.

Groupe et album connu. J'avais entendu cet album quand il est sorti, sans forcément y faire trop attention à l'époque. Everything In Its Right Place m'avais cependant bien marqué, avec son introduction très reconnaissable, ce son de synthé particulier et sa structure non standard. Et puis je suis passé à autre chose. Récemment j'ai été amené à jouer Creep en groupe, une facette très rock de Radiohead que je ne connaissais pas. J'ai eu envie de ré-écouter le groupe et j'ai commencé par ... Kid A. Et là c'était une vrai révélation ! J'ai adoré redécouvrir l'album. J'en connaissais plus que dans mes souvenir, comme par exemple National Anthem avec son riff de basse inoubliable, et surtout In Limbo avec les arpèges guitare 'bancal' de part la signature rythmique évolutive. Les autres morceaux sont vraiment intéressants, et toujours surprenants. On ne sait jamais à quoi s'attendre (structure jamais standard, morceau rythmé ou planant, sonorités, instrumental ...), c'est pour moi une exceptionnelle qualité. D'ailleurs je l'ai écouté deux fois de suite ce matin. Il mérite largement la note maximale. =>5/5

Not their best, but still great. Yet another 4.5.

4.5

Perfect album. Excellent opener, super groundbreaking and influential. One of the greatest albums ever. 5 stars.

What is there to say about this album that hasn’t already been said? Really great but I like OK Computer and The Bends a little more. 4.5 stars (rounding up to 5 here) 9.2 out of 10

Radiohead is really good at making a vibe that is incredibly hard to define. Listening to the album itself it all feels like generic instrumental noise, but somehow when I was done with the album I wanted to loop it right back again.

Astonishing album, full of depths. Maybe the best album of the millennium.

Y'all already know what I'm rating this. One of the best albums from one of my favourite bands. They only way I could dick ride this harder was if it was OK Computer. It's got lush, deep, beautiful production that never even remotely comes close to sounding over produced. It's about as perfect an album can get to sounding its got hidden beauty that you only discover on a second, third or 15th listen. 10/10 Fav tracks- perfect album

One of the best albums on this list. 5Million/5

A masterpiece. One of the greatest band redefinitions ever.

Kid A is Radiohead's fourth album, and has come to be regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. It was not as well-received at its release, as this is a challenging departure from their previous work. After their remarkably successful third album, OK Computer, Kid A was very highly anticipated, and that may have led to some of the push-back. The music did not, and does not, appeal to all. This is far from the guitar-based alt-rock band of their first two albums, and of an experimental sense that has defined the bands' later work. These track are textured, rhythmic soundscapes, that are far more abstract than most popular music. The lyrics follow the pattern - more of a rhythmic, looped element than providing any narrative. Kid A is the album that made Radiohead into their own genre, and among the most influential bands in the world.

I fell in love with rock Radiohead after hearing OK Computer in full about a year ago. The Bends is my favorite Radiohead album and I think In Rainbows is nearly perfect. I've never really understood electronic Radiohead. It's taken me a long time and multiple attempts to get into this album. I have a few songs on I liked but never liked it as a full experience, but it's starting to click on this listen. That being said, How to Disappear Completely is still the clear standout. It's a beautiful, beautiful song and I think it's Radiohead's magnum opus.

Another case of I’ve listened before but never on a proper full size sound system. An album that was meh came to life with the full size setup. Very good record need to listen to it a few more times this way to truly get all I can from it.

talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it.

5/5 Kid A begins with the cold, dark, massive Everything In Its Right Place. Such a unique, special kind of song. Then the title track is so comforting and elegant, beautifully built up, with the soft piano and synths akin only to prime C418. The National Anthem starts strong, with that iconic bassline, and a particularly creepy atmosphere. The density of instruments in the middle section sounds great. How to Disappear Completely is simply gentle and beautiful, then the outro is just brilliant. Treefingers has an otherworldly feeling, as it drifts slowly to Optimistic. This one is, as much as I love the simplicity and ambiguity of earlier tracks, lyrically fantastic and has a great groove. In Limbo is less interesting than a lot of other songs but it has a certain charm. Idioteque is something different though. The beat slaps and the song keeps moving and changing for better. Then Morning Bell is melodically and instrumentally one of the strongest moments on the album. I love the chord changes on the keyboard, it just sounds so good. Before you know it, the organ kicks in to mark the end of the journey. Motion Picture Soundtrack is so full and huge, and is a great closer with its massive arrangement. Untitled is a fun little bonus, bringing a more uplifting feeling to the whole thing. All in all, this album is amazingly varied and feels truly unique. Everything In Its Right Place 5/5 (FAV) Kid A 5/5 The National Anthem 5/5 How to Disappear Completely 5/5 Treefingers 3.5/5 (LEAST FAV) Optimistic 5/5 In Limbo 4/5 Idioteque 5/5 Morning Bell 5/5 Motion Picture Soundtrack 5/5 Untitled 4.5/5

It's hard to describe how this sounded when it first came out. It's lost none of its appeal and aura since then. Everything In Its Right Place sets the tone with the first few notes and stuttering vocal samples. The title track has a subtle groove and music box motif, recalling Boards of Canada. It's never quite straightforward rock, but there's riffs to be had in tracks like National Anthem and Optimistic, then full on ambient in Treefingers, and the sweeping epic sadness of How To Disappear Completely. The climax is surely Idioteque: mesmerizing vocal melodies and synths over broken up, glitchy beats. But there's something here for almost everyone. Play this to the aliens when they contact us.

Amazing album, forgot how many great songs there are on this one.

What the fuck😭

Look, I was 15 when this album came out. Kid A took ten million elder millennials by the throat and made us an order of magnitude more annoying. I am not socially or biologically capable of giving it less than five stars.

A phenomenal album. A mind-bending break and pivot from the masters of their craft. Established their rock credentials only to left turn and blow your mind.

Used to be my favourite Radiohead, not so sure anymore but this album is still incredible. Brilliant atmosphere above all, unsettling and sad from the moment it starts all the way through. Fav songs: - Everything In It's Right Place - How to Disappear Completely - Treefingers - In Limbo - Idioteque

5/5. Kid A is an album that is hard to describe but such an important album that I don't believe it inspired any future albums, it feels too unique to even attempt a similar style again. The mixing of genres of electronic, jazz, ambient, rock, dance, etc. create an album of excellence. I love the album but understand the hesitation to get into it. Once you break down that barrier though, it's a great listening experience. Best Song: Everything In It's Right Place, Idioteque, Optimistic

mediocre. Beep boop beep boop. 2nd best Radiohead album. Sucking lemons.

One of my all time favorites. The opening notes are straight brain massage with the right headphones or speakers. Most of the album is so atmospheric, and I've heard it so many times, that it takes real effort at this point for me to really listen to it in the moment. On this playthrough, it strikes me how wild it is that Idioteque was written in 2000 back in the innocent adolescence of the internet. And Motion Picture Soundtrack is just gorgeous. This album is probably (definitely) overwrought and too try-hard, but honestly so am I, and so I love it for those qualities. It's no longer my favorite from Radiohead, but it's the reason I gave them a closer listen than I gave to OK Computer as a teenager. 5/5.

have listened to this one a bunch of times over the years. when it came out i was 21 or 22 years old and my family (my parents) was falling apart and i could relate to the divorce stuff in the lyrics and the songs idioteque and how to dissapear completely got to me for sure

in a radioHEAD so yeah masterpiece. could do without treefingers and untitled tho

Really good Radiohead album. It's experimental and a step away from their previous albums. It's overall a nice auditory listening experience. I think the album should be listened to as a whole as it doesn't really have any strong singles.

This is the first time I've listened to Radiohead by itself. I'm a new fan today. I love the heavy usage of synths and the atypical song structures. A lot of the music I like listening to today I can definitely heard echoes of this album and/or their style in general. Everything In Its Right Place I've either heard before, or it's been sampled before in music I have listened to, so it was very familiar to me, yet at the same time, different and new. Kid A was ok, I liked the odd usage of synths and the oddly haunting vocals via talkbox. Just wasn't as rhythmically interesting however. The National Anthem was nice. I liked the constant bright bass running through the song. The usage of some orchestral/band instruments for some of parts of the song was quite nice too, gave a really good contrast to the synths and guitars. I assume the story the song is telling is someone who is standing for the National Anthem in a crowd at a game or something, that's the vibe I was getting at least. There's this underlying tension and distortion throughout the song though, which kind of garners this feeling of "something is not right". Could be that people don't have confidence in the country their living in, the anthem they sing holds them together, but barely. I love the collage of instruments chosen for How to Disappear Completely. It was slow to start though so I started to lose interest. The usage of strings and synths for a little bit of sparkle towards the mid of the song brought me back though. I can see why so many people have listened to it, the lyrics are relatable to some I'm sure, aside from just how pretty the recording is, definitely emotionally evocative. I love the mellow synths of Treefingers. The song is very peaceful. Optimistic was alright. Liked the synth work. It really only caught my attention at the end when it started to transition to In Limbo. In Limbo's use of triplets was nice along with the usage of sax. Idioteque's harsher drums and cymbals reminds me of synthwork from others such as Aphex Twin and Squarepusher. It was nice to hear them pull from that style. I like the chord prog they chose for Morning Bell, gives it a bit of a sinister tone contrasted with a slight happier segment. It's kinda funny just how haunting they've described waking up in the morning and getting ready to go about the day, describing the hectic parts of it. Motion Picture Soundtrack was simple, yet emotionally strong. The change in instruments on the second half of the song really gave the song force too. It's a nice description of how we really expect things to be like they are in the movies, and how short of those expectations real life really is. Untitled was really pretty. A good way to close out the album. 5

I love this album. Such a surreal futuristic depressing soundscape full of dystopian, confusing and scary elements. Lyrics that make no sense and music that shouldn't make sense, but does. Listening to a band reinvent themselves in a single album is mesmerizing. My two favorite tracks are: How to disappear completely which conjures up images of Thom York gesturing the listener to follow him into the depths of depression, irrelevance and ultimately peace. He sounds so tortured. Everything in its right place is sublime and possibly the most accurately named track of any artist! Love it

Everything in its right place is a song that has got me through some dark times especially a few years ago when it was on repeat for a solid few months - I love the layering of sounds, uncomfortable timing and dreamscape creepiness. One of my favourite pieces of music of all time. Its pretty incredible how the band moved away from the sound that had made them so popular to really explore new, different and challenging music in Kid A. I love the atmosphere of this album and the experimentation of Radiohead I think it's probably a 4.75 as a full album, but as a gesture of good will towards the band I'll bump it up to a 5

Easily one of the greatest intros of all time! Such a strong beautiful album with a perfect playtime!

Distractingly, Kid B never returned from his hike in the forest and was lost to us forever.

Staat geen matig nummer op het album, en een groot aantal geweldige nummers. Er zijn hooguit nummers die minder vooruitstrevend zijn. Everything in its right place mogen ze op m’n begrafenis spelen. Idioteque is ook perfect.

One of my all-time favorites.

Already listened

I honestly thought I had already gotten this album lol. I even mentioned it when I reviewed hail to the thief so that review looks pretty dumb now. Anyway, this album is awesome and is rightly hailed as one of if not the best genre switch ever. Seamless transition from punk/alt rock to electronica without even losing any songwriting prowess. Kid a is the only song I don’t really like from this album.

Excellent

An absolute electronic masterpiece. When this first album came out, I didn’t care for it and wished it has more traditional rock sounds and it’s grown on me over the years to be one of my all time favorites.

Yep it slaps

shining genius

Banger. Mega fed at stene til. Fedt at det er mere elektrisk

Zuerst etwas schwierig aber beim hören im Auto tritt die hervorragende Abmischung zu Tage und macht aus gut wunderbar.

❤️ This is a top five album for me. It's one I come back to again and again, and it's had different meanings and places for me in different seasons of life. Easy 5 stars.

One of the best ever albums by one of the best ever bands. Not much more can be said. 5/5

one of my favorite albums ever

Oh fuck yeah. Immediate 5 stars for the sole inclusion of “How to Disappear Completely” which holds a special place in my heart. This album is a lil droning and intense but that’s ok. It’s lowkey giving ambient music at times?? Especially “Treefingers”… but in a good way. “Optimistic” is good, too.

Very different to OK Computer, and (contrary to some people's beliefs) that's fine. In fact, it makes this album a heck of a lot cooler, and gives a fat middle finger to managers and producers that solely encourage formula-following. Sure, guitar-soundscape-art-rock pays the bills, but have you checked out these cool synths and voice filters? Everything In Its Right Place is aptly named for its heavy reliance on C and F chord resolutions, making use of several smoothly overlapping synths. Trippy vocal editing. Very little going on, instrumentally, yet the signature "soundscapiness" of Radiohead is still very much present. Smooth transition into the title track. In fact, it seems like nearly every pair of tracks has a transition worth complimenting. The National Anthem is an energetic high, coming out with a positively crazed brass section and loud, deadpan, repeating, catchy(!) bassline. The vocal can be described in the same way here. It's classic Thom Yorke, and yet he's without emotion... and yet he's expressing so much. Encapsulates this album nicely, I think. How To Disappear Completely is just magnificent and gorgeous and great in every way. Even that off-kilter high note at the beginning that's a semitone off the chord fits in with the lyrical theme of unbelonging, of wanting to disappear. (Disappear completely, even.) Optimistic is the most OK Computer-esque on the album, with a solid guitar riff and a fairly typical rock melody accompanying some surprisingly thoughtful lyrics. Incredible transition to In Limbo, which itself is a trippy, psychedelic experience based mostly on its dizzying guitar riff. Idioteque's electronic drums are immediately memorable and, arguably, singlehandedly introduce an entire genre to the world of pop(/rock?) music. Then we have Morning Bell, which has a lonely yet restless feel with its quick 5/4 time signature, followed by the beautiful Motion Picture Soundtrack to end the album by tugging on your heartstrings. Yeah – a darn good tracklist if I've ever seen one. I should also give another shoutout to the mind-blowingly good production on this album. Lots of surround-sound stuff going on, rivalling OK Computer as some of the best sound artistry in recent music history. 5/5 Key tracks: All of them. This is a whole-album experience.

gonna fully have to commit to the white ppl stereotype here and say this is a borderline perfect album to me. definitely my favorite radiohead record. hard to pick fav tracks but idioteque and how to disappear completely might take it

Goated

Everything is in it's right place on this album. everything in it's right place, national anthem, optimistic, in limbo, motion picture soundtrack

It's okay.

I couldn't give this album less than 5 stars, it was huge for me in my highschool/college (and still today) years so I have too many memories tied to it to come at it objectively. Even so, its a monumental record, and definitely important from a music history/culture stand point. Radiohead were that big, and have had that big of an influence on so many of their records, and this was a huge left turn that reverberated through culture. The music is phenomenal and detailed, and heart-wrenching at times.

great album own this one

I remember the first time I heard this I was so confused. It hardly qualified as music, at any I knew at the time. It was haunting, emotional, thematically overhead my head. It was nothing like I had head before. Was that a baritone sax on a song about mental psychosis? I immediately listened to it at least five more times, and countless more over the years. It still is haunting, emotional, and confusing, and one of two go-to Radiohead albums. National Anthem and How to Disappear both ended up on my annual soundtrack that year, and the latter has been used in numerous playlists. I know the 9/11 theory is bunk, but I do have to say that it makes perfect sense. A classic of our times!

I did re-listen to this one recently for this exercise. I want to say something amazing for an amazing album but I'm speechless after another listen to this masterpiece. This is one of the albums that deserves a 5+ rating imo. The first track is arguably the best opening track on any album. This album is a cinematic experience. Also, listening to the track Kid A, I have no doubt that this album is a concept album about the first cloned baby. I'm not sure what all the debate is about. It's about a futuristic society where everything is a bit weird and off. Anyway, masterpiece!

Radiohead's attempt to escape themselves and become a more "cult" band after the success of OK Computer just made them even bigger. More glitchy rock and icy fjords of hooks just show how truly great this band are. No matter how much they try to isolate themselves and become just as cold as the digital mountains on the cover, the humanity is always there. And always will be. Best Tracks: Everything in its Right Place; The National Anthem; Motion Picture Soundtrack

A fave from high school, it had been some time since I'd listened to it start to finish. Holds up today just as well.

Deep, experimental, heavy, dark, revolutionary. Kid A+

I really don't know why I've been avoiding radiohead for years, this slaps

I had never even seen a shooting star before… Anyway, sick album, bleeps all the right bloops

10/10. What an incredible album!!!

Nearly flawless masterpiece. 9/10

Just downgraded The Bends from 5 to 4. However, Kid A is still as good as it was 24 years ago. Yorke's voice works much better when they go a little more experimental.

A bit less accessible than Amnesiac, I suppose, but very good nevertheless. Idioteque is still one of my favourite Radiohead tracks.

ice age coming ice age coming

As a person named Tom I think I have a deeper understanding of Thom Yorke's music than most people, sorry that's just the way it is. I like this - also, my friend would kill me if I didn't give this a 5.

It was very good. 👍

Radiohead going experimental because they didn’t like their own rock sound anymore and not disappointing at all, this whole album is just an experience with beautiful songs.

A truly timeless masterpiece.

I loved this album when it came out and I still love it. Not at all what I expected after The Bends and OK Computer, but still fantastic, lots of synthesizers, but not in a 80's way, but more orchestrated.

Absolute easy 5, maybe my fav Radiohead album.

Quite different from their earlier albums, this was not an easy listen when I first heard it at release in 2000, and this is still not what I think of when I think of Radiohead. After repeated listens over the years though I appreciate this not as \"an album by Radiohead\", but an excellent album in it's own right. I hear Aphex Twin and hints of Sgt Pepper in some sections. \"How to Disappear Completely\" was probably one of the more approachable songs when I first heard the album and I clung to it like a rock because it perfectly reflected my feelings at the time: alienated and out of place. That time has (somewhat) passed, but it's still a beautiful track.

Rating this album seems to be a hit or miss, either 5 or 1. While I sympathize with the 5, I cannot understand the 1. Sure, it is a bold step away from anything expected and made for traditionalists. But even if one doesn't like it, or outright hate it because it for sure is deliberately not matching expectations: this is composed music of depth and grandeur, not only incidental noise or horrid production. The execution is flawless, the music is complex and demanding. If you appreciate this kind of boldness, it is one for five stars, if you grudgingly hate Radiohead for what they did with you here, give it a three for its importance. Everyone who claims: anyhow did never like them should not be taken serious, as this is completely different and incomparable to the Radiohead from before...

sucks

Still as enveloping as when I first heard it in high school? College?

Amazing and ethereal

"Kid A" is the fourth studio album by English rock band Radiohead. Lead singer and songwriter Thom Yorke wanted a departure from rock music due to the stressful experiences from their previous album "OK Computer." For this album, the band drew influences from electronic music, ambient music, krautrock, jazz and 20th-century classical music. Different instruments were used including modular synthesizers, ondes Martenot, brass and strings. They also incorporated samples and loops. Commercially, the album hit #1 in the UK and US and was their breakthrough album in the US. Initially, the album had mixed reviews but is now considered one of the best albums of the 2000's. "Everything in its Right Place" was the one of the first songs Yorke ever wrote. Ambient synthesizer keys. The vocals were processed in Pro Tool. The lyrics describe Yorke's depression and stress promoting "OK Computer." Deep repetitive bass notes, weird outer space noises and drums begin "The National Anthem." For this song, the vocals are processed through a ring modular. The organized brass section chaos was inspired by Charles Mingus' "Town Hall Concert." The music does a great job creating the songs' intent of describing people trapped in a traffic jam. I remember listening over and over on my headphones to "How to Completely Disappear." It's start out an acoustic ballad with a guitar. Yorke singing "I'm not here, this isn't happening" which was a quote R.E.M.'s Michale Stipe said to repeat when dealing with fame and stress. The song bounces from paranoid electronica to the lush orchestral strings. It's my favorite song on the album. Although the album did not have any released singles, "Optimistic" has been the most played song on the radio, at least in my neck of the woods. It has an ominous opening but is pretty much the most straight-forward rock song on the album with bass, drums and guitar. It's about dealing with the pressures of fame. A hypnotic drumbeat created by synthesizer modules pervades "Idioteque." Samples of 70's computer music compositions from Paul Lensky and Arthur Krieger are also incorporated. I think is describing a post-apocalyptic doom and the current society. And, another album highlight. I have to admit it took me some time and more than a few listens to really get into and like "Kid A." Now, I am definitely team "Kid A" and do think it is one of the best albums of 2000's. It's ambient and atmospheric. To me, the lyrics can be both abstract and direct. Each songs seems to be of itself with different instruments, vocal distortion and all of the noise effects. Yet, the album connects and flows together. This is an album that everyone needs to hear but I do know there is and will be a wide range of opinions.

Best Radiohead album? I think so.

There was actually once a time that I was on board with the "Kid A > OK Computer" trend, and while I've snapped out of following that chronically online music trend that makes people feel unique, I still consider this to be a close second favourite Radiohead album. I think it lacks the theatrics that OK Computer has, but this is still definitely their moodiest, most atmospheric album by far.

It has been exactly 119 days since I reviewed the last Radiohead album. Don’t worry, I haven’t been counting the days, I just looked it up real quick. And conveniently enough, that last album was Amnesiac. Basically the little brother to Kid A. They have very similar sounds in many ways. Except to me, these albums are leagues apart. Kid A is my second favorite Radiohead album, behind the big one I’ll eventually get to talk about. But honestly, it might be the album from them I come back to the most. I have probably listened to this all the way through from start to finish more than a dozen times in the last six months. But at one point, I didn’t really get this album. It took me a long time to appreciate this for what it is, and understand why it plays such a vital piece in their history. Plus, if you don’t like this, chances are the rest of their music after this point won’t be very enjoyable to you either. The main thesis of this album, to me at least, feels like separation. The desire to separate oneself from what is and isn’t was the fuel for this album’s creation. The band was tired of being hailed as rock’s saviors. They needed to break away from the reputation they created. So they chose to push their music as far away from OK Computer, The Bends, and what made them successful, as they possibly could. And that feeling that something isn’t right is immediately present on the first song. I’ll put it on record right now. That is my favorite album opener of all time. It still leaves me a little breathless, and I struggle to believe human beings created something so intensely cold and powerful. Every single song on this album is pure genius. Even the title track, which remains the one black sheep for me, is still incredible. There is not one moment of this album I am not in love with. And on a certain kind of day, this could be my favorite album from the band. This is the album that took the band from rock music’s next big thing to a group of some of the most forward thinking songwriters ever. Although I’ll be completely honest, this album is often regarded as “the greatest left turn in music history”. And maybe in the moment it was. But now, looking back on the band’s history, this isn’t as experimental and out there as people make it out to be. There is still plenty of traditional art rock style music that the band was already becoming familiar with. How to Disappear Completely is a song that has given me hope in some of the most beautiful moments of my life, and also broken me down to my most vulnerable and defeated. A song created from the oppressive feelings of hopelessness that Thom faced during the Ok Computer tour. The main lyrical theme was inspired from what Michael Stipe, the singer of R.E.M., told him to do. He said, “Pull the shutters down and keep saying, ‘I’m not here, this is not happening’”. Kid A is a record that has become engrained in who I am over the last year or so. It’s one of the most human expressions of loneliness and depression I’ve ever heard, but also feels robotic and completely devoid of genuine humanity. To put it simply, just another masterpiece from one of the greatest bands to ever write music. Rating: 10/10!

Man back to back Radiohead? Another classic and true revolution for the band. Their video game museum for this and amnesiac is worth trying out. This is cinematic, varied and so much weirder than a lot of their other records.

One of my absolute favorite albums of all time. From start to finish the atmospheric, icy, and at times near despondent journey ‘Kid A’ takes you on is like no other. Every single song just commands you in some way and it’s breathtaking. Truly a game changer and one of my few 10/10’s.

If any band knows how to re-invent themselves then this is it. They were already kings of indie rock and could have ploughed the same fields forever, but chose to jump into sounds design, loops, samples, strange instrumentation and introspective music. The sonic exploration here is wonderful, and it sounds fantastic turned up loud.

Nice to revisit this album voluntarily, after being force-fed Radiohead for a decade. A complete atmospheric journey.

Hypnotisch

Amazing experimental sensational , includes one my favorite songs. meow meow meow

An ambitious album that challenged everyone who was expecting a "Yes, Master" to the magnificent "OK Computer". Abandoning guitar-driven anthems and experimenting with electronic sounds, loops and instruments, they made an unique mark in the history of music. Sometimes I feel it was what U2 tried to do with Pop, but done right. It was not an adaptation of Radiohead songs to fit an electronic mood, these were Radiohead songs, and they were electronic. I have came across Kid 17, an fan experiment who recorded Kid A on top of Kid A with a difference of 17 seconds: Kid 17 = Kid A (0:17) + Kid A. The result, beyond psychedelic.

Endnu et sygt lækkert album!! Det er projekt gør mig også til en Radiohead fan

Umuligt at overvurdere hvor stor en indflydelse den her plade har haft på min musiksmag! Verden åbnede fuldstændig op for lille Rasmus i 1g da han hørte det for første gang! (Lidt ligesom den gjorde da han hørte In Rainbows i 9. klasse, men mere da han hørte Kid A)

An incredible album from beginning to end. It's different from the other Radiohead albums we've had, and I love what they did.

Kid A 6/5

I struggled with this one when it came out. It may have taken years to return to it and understand its brilliance. But brilliant it is.

Awesome

Radiohead meets Aphex Twin meets Brian Eno. De ultimate indie rock band ging in 'Kid A' mee met de post-rock stroom van de late jaren 90. De ambient (ik probeer het woord de laatste weken te vermijden, maar deze review is incompleet zonder) soundscape is onmiskenbaar, en een elektronische minimal techno baslijn houdt het album bij elkaar. Deze plaat ligt in de catalogus van de Britse band stilistisch het dichtst bij het hart van Thom Yorke, die in zijn solo carrière veelvoudig een zelfde benadering zocht en samenwerkte met grote namen in de UK electronic scene (UNKLE, Burial). Toegegeven, dit karakter van 'Kid A', waarin veelal geëxperimenteerd werd met ambient en andere post-rock elementen, hield het album een beetje op afstand van mij. Een aantal losse songs waren me bekend, maar door de immense productiviteit van de band had ik altijd wel voldoende aan de platen die hun indie rock roots wat meer najaagden. Én ik dacht altijd dat de titelsong symptoom was aan het zweverige geneuzel dat de rest van het album zou tekenen. Niks is minder waar, een aandachtige luisterbeurt doet mijn (voor)gevoel 180 graden draaien. Op wat enkele momenten na is de balans tussen rock, ambient en IDM echt onberispelijk. En waar het schuifje iets te veel de ambient-kant opslaat, en de songs verdrinken in lagen aan slaperige synths en niet te plaatsen vocalen, zijn ze mijn aandacht eventjes kwijt (de hersenbloeding van Thom Yorke in 'Kid A' en het overbodige 'Treefingers'). Maar die momenten zijn spaarzaam, en worden overschaduwd door tal van songs waar het experiment wél met vlag en wimpel is geslaagd. De perfecte balans tussen IDM en ambient in 'Everything In Its Right Place', de perfecte balans tussen post-punk en free jazz in 'The National Anthem', de perfecte balans tussen ambient en folk in 'How to Disappear Completely', de perfecte balans tussen techno en post-rock in 'Idioteque'. Ga zo maar door. Radiohead beheerst het allemaal, en wil die veelzijdigheid ook zeker tentoonstellen. Maar dat doet het zonder pretentieus te zijn, en het te overdoen, wat op sommige andere albums van hun wel in de weg gaat zitten. De momenten die de plaat voor mij echt maken zijn de extatische opbouw in 'The National Anthem', met daarna de sereniteit van het wonderschone 'How To Disappear Completely. En later het hypnotiserende 'Idioteque', met dat eigenaardige ritme dat compleet 'off' lijkt maar je toch moeiteloos meesleept, die smoothly transformeert in 'Morning Bell'. Fantastisch gemixt, en tekenend voor het gogme van de band. En daarnaast een shoutout naar Philip Selway, de drummert die vanwege de electronische insteek wat minder ruimte kreeg dan anders, maar als hij wat meer z'n gang mocht gaan was het heerlijk om naar te luisteren. Heel erg jazzy. 9/10 Highlights: The National Anthem How to Disappear Completely Optimistic Idioteque

lemon in mouth. disappearing completely.

Pretty good actually.

I like Moon Shaped Pool a little more, but this is definitely a Radiohead highlight.

So good.

awesome stuff. a relisten for me, but a great time and some seriously moving electronic rock. favorite tracks; idioteque, optimistic, how to disappear completely

10/10

The most Radiohead of Radiohead albums

Eu ouvi o álbum andando de bicicleta num domingo ensolarado e fresco de outono, depois de uma noite mal dormida e uma manhã de ressaca leve, foi uma grande experiência de contemplação da calmaria e do movimento da cidade. Ele traz uma calma inexplicável através da sobreposição de sons eletrônicos longos e contínuos, e fazem você entrar num estado de introspecção típico de meditação.

This is one of my all-time favorite albums; I have listened to it hundreds and hundreds of times. There were no singles and it's hard to even think about it as individual songs. Unusually, the lyrics hold very little meaning to me. It is a meditative soundscape that viscerally stirs my soul. It makes me think of late nights when the rest of the world is sleeping.

Fuck yeah love this album