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| Artist: Radiohead
Label: Parlophone
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  397 reviews
Sales Rank: 2346
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731452959027
EAN: 0724352959020
ASIN: B000025558
Release Date: October 2, 2000
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 Still class.. July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One 1-star review of this album starts "If The Bends was the first album you bought and you loved it, DO NOT BUY THIS ALBUM!" (I may be paraphrasing).
Well, The Bends was the first Radiohead album I bought (Pablo being a little before my time), but Kid A is a wonderful 40-odd minutes of music.
Some ridiculous claims get made about this album - e.g. 'those who pretend to get this album are only being pretentious etc'. There is nothing to get. Yes, it may take a few listens to really start to communicate, but when it does, wow.
From the now staple live act piano loop of Everything in it's right place, through the epic crescendo of How to dissapear completely, to the bombastic bass and shouting of Idioteque and the finale of streaming harp strings, KID A is Radiohead demonstrating a genre defying midas touch.
Wireless/Wired April 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found out on the wireless this week that Thom Yorke and the Greenwoods have a huge Autechre fixation which helps explain the fractured pulses and dense atmosphere that permeate this fascinating piece of art. This is life-affirming stuff and, it has to be said, a lot better than anything by dear, dear Autechre.
If you don't like this, you're ill. April 2, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Far too much is made of this being an "experimental" album, a "radical departure" or a pointless, perverse exercise in being "willfully obscure". It's really nothing of the kind. It's actually the perfectly logical, inevitable follow up to 'OK Computer'. For one, just like its predecessor, it's disciplined and restrained to an extent none of their albums before or since have really managed to be. No sound here is unwelcome, incongruent or out of place, which is to say there's nothing really "experimental" about it at all. It's well known that Radiohead agonise for months, years sometimes, over the structure, texture and arrangements of their songs, and nowhere has it been more effective than on the most impatiently anticipated album of their career, when they could have churned out some overblown, stadium-rock rubbish six months after "OK Computer" and become the next U2 (and one U2 is more than enough, thanks). It also flows perfectly from one track to the next and makes beautiful sense as a complete whole. 'OK Computer' holds a very special place in my heart, just because it came out when I was 15 and showed me for the first time how good and wonderful music - and life - could be, so it's far beyond me to make any kind of comparison. All I can say is if you think Kid A is "weird", you really must have an incredibly dull music collection. And life.
When Dylan went electric... March 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
..there was a bit of a kerfuffle. And so it seems there was a bit of a fuss over this album. It isn't filled with indie guitar anthems, but generally quieter songs, using the studio as an instrument alongside their normal tools. Musically you can compare it with Underworld's, Bjork's and their own more laid back moments, but its recognisably Radiohead. It's a difficult sort of album for a guitar band to attempt and I think they've done well. I like it a lot. Listen to it while I'm working or reading, and I'll find it suddenly grabs my interest and takes me off somewhere else.
Their very best February 20, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Kid A is quite simply the most innovative album from a popular british band in the last 20 years. The paranoid beats of 'Idioteque', the unstoppable bassline of 'The National Anthem' and the repetitive glitchy layers of 'Everything In Its Right Place' make it sonically remarkable. That in itself doesn't make it a great album, it is Radiohead's great songwriting that does this. The conventional songwriting may have gone but Thom Yorke's ability to pen an astonishingly beautiful melody is very much there, demonstrated nowhere better than in 'How To Disappear Completely'. This, coupled with the magnificent arrangement and range of sound, makes Kid A impossibly good to listen to with huge head-phones in a darkened room.
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