Kid A (studio album) by Radiohead

Kid A by Radiohead
Year: 2000
Overall rank: 9th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
89/100 (from 4,447 votes)
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Award Top 10 albums of the 2000s (2nd)
Award Top 10 albums of all time (9th)
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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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89/100 (from 4,447 votes)
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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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From 08/07/2025 21:33
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.
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From 08/05/2025 19:10
more crap from radiohead
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70/100
From 05/10/2025 22:57
it's good but i hate how some people act like it's the most experimental thing in the world
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90/100
From 04/27/2025 08:38
Shortlisted for album of the year at the Grammys in 2001. The winner was Two Against nature by Steely Dan
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From 02/19/2025 05:54
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.
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From 10/20/2024 15:17
incredible
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From 09/08/2024 15:51
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.
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From 07/20/2024 08:13
Radiohead has guitar player named Greenwood and he's bored. When he got bored, he tried to bore everything, and he failed.
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From 06/05/2024 13:46
This sounds like it was written by an alien
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From 05/15/2024 15:34
Kid A explores experimental and electronic music, creating an atmosphere that is both haunting and captivating.
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