OK…
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It’s definitely my favourite record of theirs and in my all time top 10. Was too young to appreciate it at the time but looking back crazy to think of the turn they took after the success of The Bends and OK Computer
Winder if they would’ve done a 20 year anniversary release if it wasn’t for Covid.
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I’ve probably still got this issue in a box somewhere. I always found it weird how infatuated the reviewer was with Motion Picture Soundtrack after easily dismissing the rest? I loved the album on first listen but MPS seemed a bit over-egged for my first few months of owning it.
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This is amazing. Thanks so much for finding it.
My personal Kid A Story - bought it on CD on day of release. Rushed home. Put it in CD player. Sounded very strange. Went with it for a while because I’d heard how weird it was. It was the latest Robbie Williams album. CD pressing was wrong. Weird in a whole different way.
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Totally.
So, best track?
- Everything in it’s Right Place
- Kid A
- The National Anthem
- How to Disappear Completely
- Treefingers
- Optimistic
- In Limbo
- Idioteque
- Morning Bell
- Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Aside from that, it was such an important record for suburban kids like me who’d not really engaged with that glitchy Warp stuff.
Plenty into ‘dance’ music, but for me was all Underworld & Chems - but hearing this was a revelation.
Not their best record for me. But as someone who loved The Bends & OK Computer it was the most influential by far. Turned the world upside down.
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absolutely. This album opened me up to a load of stuff I was nowhere near hearing at the time. Sent me off in all sorts of directions. And it hasn’t dated, it still sounds fresh today. I place it in the 3 masterpieces I think they’ve done with OKC and In Rainbows.
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I’ll stick my head above the parapet and say that this is my favourite radiohead album, I loved it then and it is still great now. Radiohead were so important to me and this album got me into Autechre, Aphex Twin, Plaid and warp records because they were name checked in reviews and interviews as an influence, although all those acts are better electronic music this bridged the gap into that for me. I think I would have come to experimental music much later without Kid A. I was 20 when it was released and at university so probably the perfect time to hear it.
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Agree with the three masterpieces, yes. Would be IR, OKC, KA for me. Tiny bit saggy in the middle maybe.
But it’s such an influential record for me I can forgive it anything.
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This, 100%
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I like Pablo Honey more than I like Kid A.
There I said it.
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jfc
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She’s a good writer usually but that article is a bit silly.
I probably tell this anecdote every year but I remember listening to Steve Lamacq on the Evening Session and he had Radiohead in for a big feature thing around the release, and he played the title track and I vividly remember standing in my kitchen and just laughing at the radio, thinking “what the FUCK is this”. And Lamacq had clearly had a similar reaction, and he was trying to find some way to understand the record, and he suggested to the band that the album was like a collection of songs from different film soundtracks (wonder how he got that idea) and the band were like “er, cool, not really tho”.
Basically I find it interesting to remember how weird it did sound at the time to a lot of people. It was the first time I’d heard something so gnarly and odd unleashed into the mainstream and allowed to be successful, it got to number 1 in America for goodness sake.
It did take me about six months to get into it, mind, and it’s about 10 years since I last listened to it, but i’ll always think well of it.
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The thing OKC, Kid A and In Rainbows have in common with me are that each one of them completely threw me at first. They all demanded I adjusted my expectations.
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it’s interesting how individually all the songs sound way better live than on the record, but the way they fit together on the record and the atmosphere they create is really great.
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best part of any Radiohead gig is when Jonny pulls out his radio
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It’s funny that the Mercury Prize nominated Amnesiac rather than Kid A (and I say that as someone who really likes Amnesiac) - or maybe they only submitted the former?
Took me about five reads of that first sentence before it made sense. Why can’t they just call it autumn like us sensible brits?
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