 "A+." | 2009-11-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A27UWBI2R985CM |
| It's almost incomprehensible that "Kid A" came from the same guys that gave us "Creep" and "High and Dry"; Kid A's avant-garde electronica is so far removed from their earlier recordings that to say it sounds like a completly different band would be an oversimplification. There is simply nothing else like this record in the rock canon, and the mere fact that these guys can experiment so freely, apparently with carte blanche from Capitol, gives me renewed hope that we will not be assimilated by the Clear Channel juggernaut currently assimilating radio stations worldwide. |
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 "It's Radiohead. What more needs to be said?" | 2009-10-05 |
| - Reviewed By bergman864 |
Another great album from a fantastic band. Radiohead stormed on the scene with their highly impressive debut Pablo Honey and continued with classics The Bends and OK Computer. Now comes this animal. Another classic in the veins of the first two.
Kid A begins nicely where OK Computer left off. Not to say that this is a continuation of that album. This is something entirely different. Everything In Its Right Place does feel like it could've fit on OK Computer, but, after giving this entire album a listen, it more properly fits on this one. It gives way to the title track. The experimentation on this alone is worth a listen.
Reminding me of some of the techniques used on OK Computer, this is another standout track with a great melody that draws you in. Even if you can't understand what Thom's saying, the melody will have you hooked. Followed by The National Anthem and How to Disappear Completely, the CD starts on a high note.
The next song, an instrumental Treefingers, is a nice break, but I'm not too fond of it. The rest of the tracks are good as well, with a few I really like (In Limbo and Idioteque) and a few I don't (Motion Picture Soundtrack). In reality, there's not a bad song on the CD.
I give this my highest recommedation.
Must Buy. |
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| "a new world" | 2009-08-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: AVKRTWFUOJX5W |
| This album breaks all the music listening habits and opens a door for a new world. simply revolutionary.. |
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| "An incredible and unique sonic journey" | 2009-08-05 |
| - Reviewed By blackbeardo |
Radiohead
Kid A; 2000
EMI/Capitol Records
My Rating: 10/10
KID A is the most controversial album in Radiohead's catalog. After the tremendous commercial and critical success of OK COMPUTER, the band might have easily crafted a cybertronic Brit-Rock re-tread. Instead, they chose to completely turn their songwriting and production process inside out, retreating into the studio for over a year and completely re-learning the art of rock and roll. Lots of people found OK COMPUTER difficult compared to the melodic Brit-rock of THE BENDS, but with this one, the band completely says goodbye to the past and announces to the world, "We are not resting on our laurels." From the opening cascade of electric piano on track 1, KID A sounds numinous, cold, and chronic, perpetually avoiding the pop-music hook but all the while re-inventing it. The album cover features a digitally rendered mountainous landscape, which suggests that the band intended to make a grand and foreboding album. Well, all I know is that this album is a tough climb at first, but once you've struggled to the top, it all starts to make sense. An incredible and unique sonic journey.
TRACKS:
1. Everything In Its Right Place (5/5)
2. Kid A (5/5)
3. The National Anthem (5/5)
4. How to Disappear Completely (5/5)
5. Treefingers (5/5)
6. Optimistic (4/5)
7. In Limbo/Lost at Sea (3.5/5)
8. Idioteque (5/5)
9. Morning Bell (5/5)
10. Motion Picture Soundtrack (4.5/5) |
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| "RADIOHEAD - A Musician's Band" | 2009-07-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2AZVPUNTZBWU6 |
| When I first heard Radiohead I immediately thought of Pink Floyd, and there is some Floyd in there. But as music is, I think of Radiohead as an evolving Pink Floyd. I just love Kid A. This CD shows the world what great musicians they are - the percussion, the chords, the keyboards. Radiohead is very much a fusion band, fused with so many kinds of bands and music. Thom's vocals are great. His vocals are used as an instrument through most of the CD along with great percussion. I hear Miles Davis in this album and many other influences. There could never be a Radiohead without Thom Yorke but then there could never be a Radiohead without the great musicians that make up this band. They are constantly on a journey and Kid A did not dissappoint me. How to Disappear Completely is one of my favorite Radiohead tunes. Other great tunes on this cd are, Everything in its Right Place, Optimistic, Morning Bell, Motion Picture Soundtrack. If you are just starting to get into Radiohead, I would not start with this CD. I would start with OK Computer, then the Bends, then In Rainbows and by then Kid A should sound just great to you. This CD requires that you adjust your head and ears a little bit(in the open position) before going all the way in.:) |
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| "Radiohead's KID A says, "To hell with the music business"" | 2009-06-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2PXL83OIAQW2D |
How on earth anyone could ever imagine that a band like Radiohead would come with an album like this? It's so creepy, dark... really dark and so careless about pleasing anyone or anything for that matter! Thom Yorke said right after the album was realesed that this one was "a commercial suicide" and man was he so right! The songs here are not radio friendly at all!!! "Everything in its the right place" starts the album with Thom Yorke singing "I woke up sucking a lemon" WTH?!?! not to mention the fact that the melody is so weird and beautiful at the same time. Then, "KID A" goes on and this is the one where you think "Radiohead has just lost its mind" This is such a difficult song to listen to that the media would just rather call it "pure garbage and noise" but, if you really pay attention, Yorke and Greenwood's real intentions here are to challenge us to understand how the whole wide world is going downhill. "The national anthem" might be the song that any fan can find "listenable" but then, as a terminal patient at the hospital just when you think everything is going ok then again, it gets an epilepsia's attack after the catchy bass line with all the trumphets and stuff. On the other hand, "How to dissapear completely" is one of the most beautiful Radiohead's songs to date... can't talk about it, you have to listen to it. Then, "Treefingers" seems to be an intermission for all the paranoia to come. "Optimistic-In limbo" are just two great abstract tunes that Radiohead attached here. and "Idioteque" becomes the uncomfortable factor to all the politicians all over the world. Here Radiohead goes electronic and they just hit the bull's eye with pinpoint accuracy. The two last tracks "Morning bell" and "Motion picture soundtrack" are just the greatest way to close the album.
This album was the first sight to what it was about to come in the following years with an intelligent Radiohead saying to the music industry how tired they were of it. The album went to number 1 on billboard right after its realese and funnily enough Thom Yorke declares that Radiohead and charts don't get along. Awesome record that amazes anyone who thought they knew Radiohead. |
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