Kid A (studio album) by Radiohead
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Kid A is ranked 3rd best out of 25 albums by Radiohead on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Radiohead is OK Computer which is ranked number 1 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 66,359.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 88 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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65/100 ![]() | 24 hours ago | suzukikai | ![]() | 76/100 |
30/100 ![]() | 4 days ago | Herdandhokies | ![]() | 56/100 |
90/100 ![]() | 09/03/2025 20:17 | araidernomore | ![]() | 76/100 |
95/100 ![]() | 08/31/2025 01:57 | stareaterogni0n | ![]() | 73/100 |
65/100 ![]() | 08/25/2025 00:30 | Random | ![]() | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 89.2/100, a mean average of 87.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.
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Kid A is the echo of a future that has already reached us, a masterpiece that, with its cold, minimalist textures, compelled us to embrace the unknown. It is the silent cry after the analog storm, where the guitars became digital breezes and the voice a distorted lament floating in the ether.
The album takes us into a labyrinth of beauty and desolation, a dreamlike soundscape where the broken piano of "Everything in Its Right Place" welcomes us to a strange and icy peace. It whispers terrifying truths to us in a language of digital ghosts in "Kid A" and gives us the most heartbreaking elegy in "How to Disappear Completely." It is a piece of art that, in its coldness, is incredibly human, and with each listen, reveals a new corner of its immense and disturbing world.
more crap from radiohead

it's good but i hate how some people act like it's the most experimental thing in the world
Shortlisted for album of the year at the Grammys in 2001. The winner was Two Against nature by Steely Dan
There is a short section at the end of "Idioteque", which was unlistenable. The rest of the album-around 45 minutes-is superb. I liked "O.K.Computer", the much admired 1997 work, but I liked this more. The musicianship is supreme and the songs, without exception, are magically but composed and performed. When I come to choose my 50 favourite albums of all time, it will be very difficult to decide what to select and what to dismiss but this album will definitely be there. An absolute must in any decent record collection. I would give it a 4,80, as perfection is what we aim for, rather than what we achieve. A very very fine album.
incredible
Even speaking as a major Radiohead fan, I think Kid A is an easy contender for one of the most overrated albums of all time. My humble opinions: The Bends is still their masterpiece, while The King of Limbs and In Rainbows are probably the albums that strike the band's most exquisite balance between satisfying songcraft and noisy experimentation. Kid A is their version of The Emperor's New Clothes. It's been lauded with every accolade imaginable (the Pitchfork review is legendary for its raving, drooling hyperbole) but at the end of the day, it's weird for the sake of weird, only rarely stirring, and sometimes even boring.
Radiohead has guitar player named Greenwood and he's bored. When he got bored, he tried to bore everything, and he failed.
This sounds like it was written by an alien
Kid A explores experimental and electronic music, creating an atmosphere that is both haunting and captivating.
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