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  • Posted: 12/27/2018 21:00
  • Post subject: Album of the day (#2935): Kid A by Radiohead
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Today's album of the day

Kid A by Radiohead (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2000.
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Overall rank: 6
Average rating: 89/100 (from 3479 votes).



Tracks:
1. Everything In Its Right Place
2. Kid A
3. The National Anthem
4. How To Disappear Completely
5. Treefingers
6. Optimistic
7. In Limbo
8. Idioteque
9. Morning Bell
10. Motion Picture Soundtrack

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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  • Posted: 12/27/2018 21:11
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I discovered Radiohead thanks to this site and loved The Bends and OK Computer. Then came Kid A. It has so much praise in this website so I was surprised when I didn't like it at first listen. But I thought, OK, some albums don't get in on the first listen, let's try a second, a third... no way in. Sorry. Enjoy it those who do. I am not one of them.
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  • Posted: 12/27/2018 21:27
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radiohead fans in 2000: man i hope my favourite band radiohead in the year of our lord 2000 keeps making that rock music i love so much
radiohead, dropping their new album: kid ayy lmao
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  • Posted: 12/27/2018 21:36
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not my favorite talk talk album. the influence mark hollis gets from radiohead is kinda eerie on this one, sounding particularly like a moon shaped pool and, at times, a rush of blood to the head. not their best work, but it is still one of the greatest album releases of the last five years.
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  • Posted: 12/27/2018 21:41
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A truly great album, although I remember being underwhelmed at the time it came out. It grew on me through its strange ability to get me to sleep after listening to the first three tracks, which meant that I ended up listening to it religiously everyday during my final year at uni.

This record had a big influence in broadening my tastes to include music outside the standard rock/pop canon... Especially ambient and electronic music. Other releases at roughly the same time by Sigur Ros (see avatar) and Godspeed helped to push in equivalently interesting new (to me) directions, and I haven't looked back. That said, I don't listen to this that much these days, preferring some of Radiohead's more recent releases.
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  • Posted: 12/27/2018 21:43
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I have no words. #6 on my list! I do love OK Computer by a baby-tooth now. Kid A didn't click with me at first, second, third nor fourth listen. But someday I liked it, then I loved it, and then I worshipped it and my life felt kinda changed. Pitchfork is right with this one.
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  • Posted: 12/28/2018 12:16
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i kinda want everyone that loves this album to listen to aphex twin / autechre / boards of canada since radiohead were influenced by the IDM innovators from warp records and they dont get as much love as they should (in contrast , autechre dont have a single record in the top 20 of a year)
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I love IDM and I'd still say that the use of the Kaoss Pad on Everything In It's Right Place to get that duplicated, extremely time distorted vocal effect to play off of all the organic vocal, synth and drum in the song and somehow be the star component in a pop song is an amazing accomplishment and deserves all the praise.

and honestly I do think the IDM influence is a little overstated, like The National Anthem, How To Disappear Completely, Optimistic, In Limbo, Morning Bell, and Motion Picture Soundtrack don't really have anything to do with IDM and that's more than half the album. And that's including something like Treefingers on the IDM side even though it's ambient.

That being said, here's two IDM tracks that everyone who likes the title track should hear


Link



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  • Posted: 12/28/2018 18:04
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It's Kid A. There's nothing to say about it. I love it, even if it's only my third favorite Radiohead record--behind OK Computer and In Rainbows.

Track picks
2. Kid A
4. How To Disappear Completely
6. Optimistic
8. Idioteque
10. Motion Picture Soundtrack
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  • Posted: 12/28/2018 18:19
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Probably my favorite Radiohead, although take that for what it's worth since I'm really not a Radioheadhead.
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