Kid A

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.

Perfect.

Doesn't need an introduction, Radiohead is always a 5 stars.

5 out of 5

REKIGIJA

I am already learning from this project that I am definitely a Radiohead fan, while I didn’t like this one quite as much as in rainbows, I was absolutely fascinated by the way the different sounds blended together in ways that I didn’t expect or think would work, but then it all melded together in such an interesting way creating a sonic symphony of beats.

Not my favourite Radiohead album, but still contains some of the best songs of all time for me. An essential listen, even if its just to have an opinion about it

Alternating between rock out bangers and hauntingly beautiful ballads and tone poems. Could take out half the songs and still be a 5 for me.

It's Radiohead.

I don't know how to explain why I liked this so much ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

yom thorke

i hadn't listened to the album in full before. thanks, 1001 albums

my favourite album oat.

Alright, let's talk about Radiohead's Kid A. This album? Absolutely brilliant. I'm talking 5 stars all the way. This record was the one that truly pulled me into the Radiohead universe, and what a band they are. Thom Yorke is nothing short of a genius; the sounds and ideas he brings to the table are just incredible. Kid A is a masterpiece. It's the kind of album that makes you rethink what music can be. If you haven't given it a deep listen, do yourself a favor. It's a game-changer.

This was one of the most anticipated albums ever following the phenomenal success of OK Computer. I know this because I was one of those counting down the days and buying Kid A on release day. What a disappointment it turned out to be. Radiohead certainly tested their fans here. Nothing at all like their previous releases. No singalongs at all and to me it sounded like one disjointed continuous racket. Things didn’t really improve either after seeing the album performed live but with one notable exception. Everything In Its Right Place was exceptional live and a memorable moment I still relish today. Like a good wine Kid A has matured and grown on me over the years. It has taken me over 20 years but I now view it very differently from when it was released. Even today putting it on to listen I heard new sounds and threads which I was previously unaware of. Each listen brings something new which I am sure Radiohead wanted to achieve. After Amnesiac which is just a continuation of Kid A, subsequent Radiohead releases reverted to more tuneful offerings. So Kid A is really a one off. I like to call it Radiohead’s Topographic Oceans which if you know that album sums up the concept of Kid A. 5/5 4/7/25

Album art: 4

I love everything about this album. That sentence wasn't an exaggeration by any means. I believe it to be on par with "OK Computer". "The National Anthem" is my favourite from "Kid A". There is no way I'm giving it a rating below the maximum score. 5 stars for "Kid A".

Even better than I remembered it being. 5/5 Immaculate vibes.

A long time since listening to this, giving it an active listening was a pleasure. It remind me to Sigur ros and Mazy star, this one is dope.

Twenty seconds into the first song and I might have to get into Radiohead why tf is he talking about lemons so much At idioteque and I fear this is peak. Dear heavens. Reminds me of babbdi, though I’m probably biased. Very neat album art. I wish to listen to it again sometime. Very atmospheric. Quite fond. Just might be moved up to my favourite album of all time. But maybe that’s just recency bias. I literally finished it seconds ago. But still. Relistened. Added a couple songs to less general playlists. Abysmally good album. Good god. I’m starting to reckon it might be my favourite album of all time. Maybe another once over. I should listen to Amnesiac too. I can only hope it is also very sick. And very sad. The sadness is important. Joh cena, the little keyboard thing in Everything in Its Right Place absolutely gets me going. Nothing like Muse. I’ve listened to a lot of Muse. They’re my second favourite band. Nothing alike. Aside from being melodramatic (only in showbiz for Muse really) British rock. Both are good though.

Rien n'est egale a ca. Merveille

Très belle pièce.

I'd really like to help you man, I'd really like to help you man.

Classique du millénaire! Premiere fois que je l’écoute pour vrais je dois dire. C’est excellent. Meilleur que Hail to the Thief je dois dire.

Best Song: Optimistic I've listened to this album a handful of times. Great album and probably my favorite from Radiohead. Mellow with some great rock accents. Melodies, lyrics, production, all great!

One of the many remarkable things about Kid A is that it went platinum in multiple countries. Radiohead’s ‘we’re sick of being successful, let’s get experimental’ album was still an honest-to-God hit back in the days when people had to part with their hard-earned cash for a CD. So, although I can understand why someone wouldn’t like Radiohead in general and Kid A in particular (full disclosure: I'm a fan of both), I‘m less sure how anyone could argue that it doesn’t deserve a place on this list.

I feel like this might be one of my favourite things - not even having to study it at uni could kill it :) Definitely the sum of its parts though, it flows really nicely together

As someone whose musical taste growing up had been largely determined by video games and Capital FM, I am so happy I'm discovering Radiohead now. Both this album and its "sibling" Amnesiac are among my favourite albums on this list. I can see why most prefer this album between the two, it covers a wider emotional range, moving from uneasy to upbeat to uneasy again like lapping waves, wheareas Amnesiac is more "sedate", but as a result I see the two like opposing sides of coin. Experimental Radiohead is, in my opinion, the best Radiohead. I only wish I discovered this sooner.

More class from Radiohead.

10/10 no notes. How to disappear completely has been my mantra for decades.

This has always been my favourite Radiohead album and I'm happy for an excuse to listen to it today! I fully understand that the shift from Ok Computer to a much more ambient, atmospheric, and experimental sound isn't going to be for everyone, but I absolutely love it! Favourite tracks: Everything in it's Right Place, The National Anthem, Idioteque

OH MY GOD

I’m disappointed reading other reviews of this album. I’m a huge Radiohead fan but I understand why people wouldn’t like them. However, I feel like anyone should be able to recognize the genius of this album. It was such an important, impactful and brave album for it’s time.

Goated shit…best Radiohead

A classic

Gear: Abyss DIANA MR Artwork: 🗻🔥🧊 Production: 🎧😘🤌 Music: 💯🗝️♥️ Rating: 🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️/5

When those first few notes of Everything in its Right Place played, I knew I was in for quite the treat. Difficult to choose which of Kid A or OK Computer I would take to a desert island with me. Both are amongst the best albums I've heard (and in both cases, I went in thinking that there was no way Radiohead could live up to the almost mad hype that surrounds them). Thankfully, I don't live on a desert island and don't plan on moving to one where I'd have to choose between these two. I can listen to both 5* albums for the rest of my days. That fills me with joy. In a move reminimisent of bygone days, I actually went out to a media store (FNAC, Paris) just to buy this album. Had to try a few places before finding Kid A without Amnesiac. A great feeling when I finally found it and went home to listen to. Like going to the cinema to see the classics, this was fitting for such an album. Helped me savor this album for what it is (without new music playing immediately on its ending, as with popular streaming services...)

The second-best Radiohead album.

Hmm, so the funny thing about this is I think that Radiohead is overdiscussed, overrated, and at least a little funny to jeer at, but you can see my score for this as plain as day. Overrated is relative, there are two Radiohead albums that I think are effectively perfect (the other is Ok Computer), but there seem to be a *lot* of people out there on the internet trying to convince me there more. Also, I will say that while I absolutely love Kid A and Ok Computer, I can't say that I *quite* love them equally. I think the last thing I'll say on this is that, in a nutshell, if you have more than one Radiohead album on your top 20 of all time, you should *probably* listen to more music. Anyways, that's enough of antagonizing people over the internet today, let's discuss the album. Firstly, you've heard the narrative "greatest album ever" "greatest left turn in music history", and so on and so forth. In short, a lot of people *really* like this album, and I am one of them. Kid A just does such a fantastic job of building a world and immersing you in it. Radiohead's further incorporation of electronics into Ok Computer's sound mutates this album into something really fascinating. The tone here is eerie and cold and apocalyptic, and it suits the themes here of irreversible environmental annihilation, anxiety attacks, and other such ideas. This album really sounds like its cover art, and it nails the tone immediately. If Everything In Its Right Place sounds like the surface of the moon, then the following title track could be sung by its denizens. The National Anthem then opens up the sound palette a little without sacrificing any immersion. This song is anchored by an incredible bassline, then slowly devoured by the brass section. How To Disappear Completely is an all-timer, a rare and bitterly sad moment of raw humanity on this project. And it never really lets up. Other highlights include the absolutely beautiful Motion Picture Soundtrack, and Idioteque, which may be the album's absolute best song. Idioteque combines a jittery, disorienting, evolving loop with Thom's vocals which ride on a razor's edge between being subdued and manic. The result is genuinely scary in a kind of way, if you are of a certain mind about it. Anyways, there isn't much on here that I can really consider a low point. A couple tracks are a little lower key, but they suit their purpose. I'm gonna say something controversial, these Radiohead guys may just be pretty good at making music.

A classic. Unique & very listenable

I mean. It’s Kid A

My favourite album of all time.

bomb

Very hard to put into words the importance of this album to me. Probably the most influential album in opening my eyes to other genres than indie/alt rock. After absolutely replaying the shit out of all Radiohead albums in my teens this is the one which still feels the most fresh to come back to. It is texturally perfect and every song feels a necessary part of the whole. Special mention to ‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’ which is still the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard.

Its my second favorite album by Radiohead. I still contend that Ok Computer is the more complete album, but this one has so many great tracks. Everything in its right place, idioteque, optimistic. On second thought it might be tied with Ok computer. It is really a special piece of music. They have an ability to capture something more than the material. It’s like they transcend into something spiritual with their music. I often listen to them when I’m lost in my life. I walk around at night and listen and allow my unconscious mind to connect the dots of this world I live in. I’m very grateful to have Radiohead to help me along in my journey.

Mein zweites Radioheadalbum auf der Liste und das sechste Album, das ich schon kannte. Es ist nicht mein Lieblingsalbum der Band, aber es hat mich heute so gepackt, dass ich es mir drei oder vier Mal hintereinader angehört habe. Die Songs an sich sind gut, aber wie sie sich zu dem Album zusammenfügen ist einfach unglaublich, vor allem, wenn man Kopfhörer anhat und in der Stimmung dafür ist. Das Cover ist auch 1a.

YEAH RADIOHEAD! (Laughs uncontrollably) (Begin to suck an imaginary piece of dried lemon) I’ve listened to Everything in its right place, optimistic and how to disappear completely before. They are all superb songs. The electronic flavour is beautiful. The drum is knocking my temples and kicking my brain. And the beeps and boops really turned me on and send me floating. “Motion Picture Soundtrack” is one of the most beautiful piece of music that human has ever created. this is now my second favourite radiohead album Solid 5/5

Absolutely BRILLIANT album. I remember years ago when I first heard it I didn’t really like it but I grew to appreciate it over time. OK Computer will always be my favourite Radiohead album but this is a very close second. Top Track - Either Idoteque or How To Disappear Completely

Not the ideal time to be considering Radiohead, alas. From Pablo Honey on, but especially on Kid A and OKC there is ample material expressing alienation. Socially, environmentally, personally. Lyrically, Yorke could be vague enough that he is speaking in koans, sometimes leaving the music to provide context, other times so specific that just about anyone anywhere at any moment could easily find relatable this guy so openly discontented with his station, job, society, etc. Plus, the rest of the guys could come off as gracious, shy, but mostly kind and supportive (especially of their frontman). If you, too, were faced with a kind of general unease and anxiety about life in the late 20th/early 21st century, well, here was a support group. And if not explicitly, implicitly associating your band identity with progressive causes and anti-capitalist figures and thinking, this gave fans another sense that these Oxfordshire lads were on your side. This is important stuff! You are responsible for fucking around with peoples’ emotions! It’s both a privilege and a burden to take this role on in peoples’ lives. Very few artists are fortunate enough to capture a zeitgeist and tower above their field, even if only for a handful of years. Casting that responsibility aside because...well, no one really knows (and Yorke and compatriots Nick Cave and Dylan would say they don’t owe you reasons), it retroactively hollows out and undoes all of the work you did. It’s a damn shame.

Somehow, I find 𝘒𝘪𝘥 𝘈 even better than 𝘖𝘒 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 — and I can’t fully explain why. Where 𝘖𝘒 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 looks outward, anxious and analytical, 𝘒𝘪𝘥 𝘈 turns inward, cloaked in abstraction. It’s more introverted, more distant, yet strangely more emotional. The sparse use of guitars makes room for eerie textures, built from electronic keys, glitchy beats, and especially the haunting tones of the Ondes Martenot. This isn’t an album that asks to be understood — it wants to be felt. A cold, alien fog you slowly learn to breathe in. Less protest, more dream. Less voice, more presence. And for reasons that bypass logic, it stays with you even longer.

10/10 Perfection. Soundscape masterclass by a band operating at a level few if any ever replicate.

Soon after the album's release we started calling our soon-to-arrive firstborn "Kid A" out of wit, convenience, or pure laziness. Not hyperbole to say this album changed the way I listen to music and/or altered my perception of it. The rapid transformation - and acceleration - of this band was and is almost unprecedented. I liked the Bends fine-enough, then loved OK Computer, but wasn't prepared for this - who was? As a guitar player, a nearly all-computerized sterile cold synthy studio-constructed album as a followup doesn't compute <pun definitely intended> to be a favourite but hell if this isn't a top 20 all time album for me. It also doesn't work fully unless you listen to the album as a whole - I've had songs pop up in playlists and it doesn't have the same effect. Headphones on, chills from the first creepy notes until the chilling end. 10/10 5 perfect stars.

Nothing to write other than this is an incredible work and maybe the most important record of the 00s. I listen to it on a regular basis.

I didn't think I would have to justify my OK Computer rating so soon. How to explain the half a star of head room I left to afford Kid A and In Rainbows full marks? At first, I borrowed OK Computer from Peter Barronwell. I knew the singles, but it still amounted to a process of persuasion. The world was telling me that Radiohead was cool and I needn't to be convinced that they were more than that. With Kid A, there was a lot of expectation - studio blogs reprinted in music mags; live bootlegs slowly downloaded on dial-up - and it met that expectation. With In Rainbows, there was no expectation, only surprise, but it followed through on that surprise. I was already on the side of Radiohead for those records and each one reified that decision. More abstractly, OK Computer ends with the exhortation to 'slow down.' Thom Yorke calls you or someone like you an idiot. A warning against a possible accident. Kid A and In Rainbows are not so death adverse. Motion Picture Soundtrack, though maudlin promises a technicolour 'next life,' while Videotape images that, at the pearly gates, one might look back at and enjoy the best memories of your life. The movies may feed us on little white lies, but the movies of memory are true. That's life. People criticise Yorke as being whiny, but the possibility of an afterlife presented as the endpoint of both records seems pretty positive to me. I mention this because I think it would be easy too mistake the expectation for hype and dismiss Kid A, as some did, as overreaching, as "effect over content" (Mark Beaumont), as Thom Yorke escaping up his own hole. I'm just happy he escaped. The pressure after OK Computer was great. The black hole of its success and its morose themes could have been too much - every 90s alt-rock star had to deal with it, some did so better than others. But Kid A sees them shrugging off the implications of that success, shrugging off the identity of a band (is anyone else but Thom on the title track?), and I think, in that last line, shrugging off the miserablism of the 90s. There will be millennial problems going forward, but Thom Yorke has found ways out. It may not be a perfect record - Treefingers. Morning Bell goes round and round. The National Anthem is a bit stiff until the horns comes in. - but the effect is greater than the content. The effect is a feeling that there is a way out of the rockist, angst of the 90s, a sense of possible liberation from rigid roles and genres. Not every track may do this successfully. Other bands may pull off particular of the tricks better. But the album itself is Radiohead's best trick, reinvention into something that was less recognisable as a band but more themselves. 5 It’s hard to know what to say about Kid A because there is so much to say. OK Computer came up only a few weeks ago and I did a whole personal spill about it. It’s too soon for another one. It will have to do to say that the long run-up to the release of this album was the most excited I have ever been for the release of any artist’s album. I was very young and my unreasonable expectations were such that only one of the best albums ever made could have satisfied them. Well done Radiohead. 5/5

I feel like I was the only one (of my peers) who liked this when it came out. Hasn’t aged a day, great from start to finish, and a strong contender for their best album. Listen in a dark and cosy room when it’s wet, cold, and miserable outside for maximum effect.

Always good to hear this one.

The production and arrangements on Kid A are The production and arrangements on Kid A are unbeatable. The tracks ‘Kid A’ and ‘Treefingers’ put choice of instrumentation, detail and textures above everything else. This approach punishes passive listening but rewards active listening ten fold. This is true of the whole album. Even when Radiohead are kicking you in the teeth with ‘The National Anthem’, if you listen with the kind of focus required for the two aforementioned tracks, an incredible amount of additional beauty is revealed behind the focal points. Following OK Computer, which saw them master their craft, with Kid A is especially impressive because it sees them instantly master an entirely new craft. It’s the same band, yet entirely different.

A fantastic album that blew my mind and was my favourite Radiohead for some time, second to In Rainbows now but not by much.

Superior to everyone and everything.

Just amazing

Masterpiece

Brilliant. I still remember buying this at midnight the day it came out.

One of my favorite radiohead albums, and favorite albums of all time by that metric. it's cold, jagged and calculated. You may not get it at first but once you're hooked you won't be able to stop listening.

Each album in the late era Radiohead takes us to a completely new soundscape. Kid A is just brilliant in this regard. Favorite track: everything in its right place other picks: kid a, national anthem, how to disappear completely, idioteque

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.