Best Ever Albums

Re: Kid A vs ( )

junodog4 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:19:24 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 07/13/2012 02:19

Borve Baunehoj wrote:

Kid A. Easy.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

unclerico — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:50:05 GMT

Author: unclerico

Posted: 07/12/2012 22:50

nice thread, both albums are beyond nearly everyone's scope

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:42:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2012 10:42

Jhereko wrote:

Sounds like you're trying to pass off how you personally feel about things as matter of fact. Please don't do that.

I think everything I write is my personal feeling. Nobody has to think it's a matter of fact. In fact there's no absolute factual truth in subjects like music, in which everyone's statements are based on aesthetic values, like any other subject which has propositions based on values rather than facts.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:01:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2012 10:01

Sounds like you're trying to pass off how you personally feel about things as matter of fact. Please don't do that.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:43:30 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2012 09:43

I think everyone knows what is pretentious and what is not! When sth (lyrics, technique, concept, polyrythm, atonality, dissonance, silence, a weird instrument, electronic playfulness and etc.) is there, but no-one can make out why it's there other than just to amuse by its freshness and avant-garde manner and therefore to please critics, then it's pretentious!!
I don't think that Radiohead or Kid A is completely pretentious; I myself have been pretentious for so many times. But it's relative; Radiohead recorded OK Computer and everyone considered it a classic after a year or two. Then Radiohead, an Oxfordshire band, became an internationally acclaimed band which just tried hard to live up to expectations and they came by Kid A and Amnesiac. I think somehow these albums were Radiohead+Critics' Expectations. For a moment there, they lost themselves, but they found their originality with In Rainbows.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:10:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2012 05:10

Necharsian wrote:

Can someone explain to me what "pretentious music" is? I've never understood the concept.

I second this. Never understood it either.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Necharsian — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:48:32 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 06/29/2012 04:48

Can someone explain to me what "pretentious music" is? I've never understood the concept.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:22:13 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/28/2012 14:22

Hayden wrote:

As much as I love Sigur Ros, ( ) is probably my least favourite of theirs.

Kid A, despite all the hate here, is an EXTREMELY good album.

And if anyone says 'Radiohead is to pretentious to vote for', you're voting against an album that you can't even google :lol:

I don't vote against Kid A (four really great songs there), I just prefer () and vote for it, not against anything. I think about music as the full half of glass. And I don't think "Radiohead is too pretentious to vote for", I just said that about Kid A. I think songs after How to Disappear Completely are pretentious and absurdly electronically overwrought ones. This, IMO, is just obvious and present; but you can ignore it if you don't care about it. Originality is useful when it comes deep from within. Otherwise it's just to convince critics.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

OK Microwave — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:21:12 GMT

Author: OK Microwave

Posted: 06/28/2012 14:21

I really love both, but went with Kid A.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Mother Nature's Son — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:08:07 GMT

Author: Mother Nature's Son

Posted: 06/28/2012 14:08

Hayden wrote:

And if anyone says 'Radiohead is to pretentious to vote for', you're voting against an album that you can't even google :lol:

Didn't know that! Fun fact 😄

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Hayden — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:40:36 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 06/28/2012 13:40

As much as I love Sigur Ros, ( ) is probably my least favourite of theirs.

Kid A, despite all the hate here, is an EXTREMELY good album.

And if anyone says 'Radiohead is to pretentious to vote for', you're voting against an album that you can't even google 🤣

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:26:06 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/28/2012 13:26

() is the sound of our generation; Kid A just becomes more and more pretentious after the fourth track, but indeed it's a great album.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:05:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/28/2012 02:05

I prefer Kid A but I love both (both are in my top 50) so I'm throwing a vote ( )'s way because I'm confused by how easily some have disregarded it.

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Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:50:12 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/27/2012 10:50

Well ( ) is ranked 255 overall, so plenty think its interesting. Personally, I have yet to find a single dull moment. ...but I'll keep searching.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

dp39 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:37:40 GMT

Author: dp39

Posted: 06/26/2012 14:37

I'll be very surprised if anyone picks (). It was just a bore-fest and I couldn't even keep it on my itunes. Kid A blows this out of the water

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:22:26 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/26/2012 14:22

Borve Baunehoj wrote:

Kid A. Easy.

I'm gonna give a reason, though. I may not be too big on Kid A, but () is one of the dullest and least interesting albums I've ever heard.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

paladisiac — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:46:04 GMT

Author: paladisiac

Posted: 06/26/2012 13:46

Borve Baunehoj wrote:

Kid A. Easy.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Xavygravy — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:47:02 GMT

Author: Xavygravy

Posted: 06/26/2012 12:47

Borve Baunehoj wrote:

Kid A. Easy.

Re: Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:21:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/26/2012 12:21

Kid A. Easy.

Kid A vs ( )

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:08:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/26/2012 09:08

Did one before with Ys and ITAOTS (http://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3788).

I'm bored, so I thought I'd give another one a try. Pick the better album, or the least bad, however you want to look at it. Type your reason why if you feel like it.

VS