Thread: Kid-A, Greatest Album of All Time (there I said it).

I hadn't listened to it in awhile, but it made it's way into my CD player again today. I was completely floored. So beautiful.

My first experience with album came via MP3s months before the album was released. I was already an enormous Radiohead fan. They were probably in my top 3 bands at the time. At first I had a hard time getting into the album, it seemed a little weird to me. But it played while I worked. Then I played it again, and again, and again. Before I knew it there was a song or two that really grabbed me and by the end of the week it was almost like pure mania each time I listened to the album. I was so excited. Music hadn't effected me so positively before. Most of my friends weren't too impressed with it. Most Radiohead fans dismiss it for the older works of OK Computer and The Bends, but I think with Kid A they took the largest of their musical steps to date.

Cheers to Kid A.

BTW Kid A is supposed to be a reference/name of the first cloned human child.

This is why I should check this part of the forum more often....

Kid A flat out rules. The entire album is crazy. There are five or six songs on that album that achieve classic status, in my oppinion.

I think the real strength of the album is how the songs come off live. Idiotique is off the hook in a live setting. As are songs like The National Anthem, Morning Bell etc.

DM - I can totally relate to the 'pure mania' statement. I have gotten this way with almost all of Radiohead's albums. The only one that has not had me in that state has been the Bends.

National anthem is what plays in my mind most of the time, especially skiing. It's like what goes on when you get off the lift, and start going, it ramps up, and then goes into a pulse of energy, constant.

Dun-dun-dun-
dund dun dunnn naaa

Never seen them live, but have been told it's an experience.

I love the artwork stuff.



As I was typing it came to me that, I am in fact a tard. I never made the correlation to Canuk's avitar and the band, little slow here folks, little slow.

Just remembered something, anyone actually see the Bodysong DVD?

It's only in uk format, damn thing.

I've got the font that has all the tchokys in it. I've also got the font "radiohead" is written in for both the Kid A and Amnesiac albums. I'm a total dork. I even made my own Tchoky shirts once. Meats has the sickest Radiohead poster of all time. He needs to transcribe the words on here sometime. "We are not fear mongering".

Caddy, did you notice basom's avatar. Serious tchokys.

caddy, I haven't seen bodysong, but I do have the music. So far I'm just ok with it. I also have the music from Splitsides (The radiohead/sigur ros joint project - a ballet score). Again just OK.

Thom's voice is missed in both works.

Originally posted by drugged_monkey
I hadn't listened to it in awhile, but it made it's way into my CD player again today. I was completely floored. So beautiful.

My first experience with album came via MP3s months before the album was released. I was already an enormous Radiohead fan. They were probably in my top 3 bands at the time. At first I had a hard time getting into the album, it seemed a little weird to me. But it played while I worked. Then I played it again, and again, and again. Before I knew it there was a song or two that really grabbed me and by the end of the week it was almost like pure mania each time I listened to the album. I was so excited. Music hadn't effected me so positively before. Most of my friends weren't too impressed with it. Most Radiohead fans dismiss it for the older works of OK Computer and The Bends, but I think with Kid A they took the largest of their musical steps to date.

Cheers to Kid A.

BTW Kid A is supposed to be a reference/name of the first cloned human child.

soley based on your fanatical devotion to radiohead i started to download some of their music. now that i've heard it i feel like i've been missing out on something. their music is incredible

thanks.

I haven't got into any of the Splitsides, have to work on that. Basom's made me laugh my ass off the first time I saw it, cool shit. That's one of the reason's I went with mine, loks along the lines of that stuff.

The font shit's funny, could be fun for working on stuff though. I was trying to download ring tones this morning.

Cool that you just turned Radiohead on to this tuff, good music. Lots of work out there.

Bummed my personal computer is in storage that has a bunch of live recordings etc, on it, no alligators in sewers, or fog for me for awhile. Oh well, hope to see them sometime.

DM did you end up going to Coachella?

Some of the stuff in www.followmearound.com are cool, hidden stuff etc. The link for Kid A isn't working but here's an example of some stuff from Airbag,
Submitted by: Max K.
EP: Airbag
Notes: Airbag EP Number. Here's an interesting article:

"Just like Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny," Radiohead's new album, the EP Airbag/How Am I Driving?, is probably driving phone operators batty. The number 1426148550 (dialed from the States as 011-44-1-426-148-550) is given on the EP cover (and by Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, who jokes in concert that it is the number to call to report bad drivers). Well, it's actually a working number, and the voice on the other end, which simply says, "Hello?," sounds exactly like Yorke's. (Even his publicist thinks so). Fans can even leave a message, but we're not quite sure yet who will get the message. Maybe the band plans to use the confused callers' messages on a future recording?"


Also there's a pretty cool essay in there "Paranoid Android: A Narrative Interpretation"

Kid-A rules. LOVE it. However, unfortunately, I don't have it. A friend at work let me listen to their copy, and I immediately wanted one of my own. But when I did listen to it, I listened to it for three days straight. Is that scary, or what. They were going to burn me a copy of their CD, but moved back to WI and it was too late. I think I'll go to the store and actually buy it, it's that good.

Originally posted by powslut
soley based on your fanatical devotion to radiohead i started to download some of their music. now that i've heard it i feel like i've been missing out on something. their music is incredible

thanks.

I've got PMs from a few other people who've said similar. It's really incredible stuff.

BTW, Radiohead is a helll of a band to follow. They're extremely prolific and always have something new to be found on the web. If ou have tracked down all the goods and want more...check out these bands and albums:

Sigur ros: Agaetis Byrjun, ()
Bjork: Vespertine
Flaming Lips: Yoshimi battles the pink robots
Mum: Finally we are no one

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77

DM did you end up going to Coachella?

Nah. I really wanted to go, but I'd just had a very bad month financially. It would've cost about $1000 for the Mrs and I to go and we backed out. There was also a chance Radiohead wouldn't play. They'd cancelled their previous show in Australia due to Thom having a throat ailment. It wasn't worth the risk.

I love hearing the history behind the songs.

How I made my millions:

"ed was talking about how i made my millions, and it turns out that thom made it at home with his minidisc recorder and his old, battered piano. the noise in the background that sounds like someone washing up is actually his girlfriend doing the washing up! ed said thom brought the song in, and it absolutely blew them all away."

An amazing song. So cool a man can sit down at a piano on one evening recording a thought or feeling and have it become something so amazing. The song just feels really genuine and honest. Gotta love his girlfriend doing the dishes in the background (while he sings about her).

Divegirl -

I could probably burn you a copy of Kid A if you like. Of course, it would be for evaluation purposes only, and at some point in time I am sure you would purchase a copy of your own. PM me if interested (I will actually do it this time, and I might even include a U2 bootleg or two...)

Originally posted by divegirl
Kid-A rules. LOVE it. However, unfortunately, I don't have it. A friend at work let me listen to their copy, and I immediately wanted one of my own. But when I did listen to it, I listened to it for three days straight. Is that scary, or what. They were going to burn me a copy of their CD, but moved back to WI and it was too late. I think I'll go to the store and actually buy it, it's that good.

Originally posted by Canuk
Divegirl -

I could probably burn you a copy of Kid A if you like. Of course, it would be for evaluation purposes only, and at some point in time I am sure you would purchase a copy of your own. PM me if interested (I will actually do it this time, and I might even include a U2 bootleg or two...)

I already have one coming, but thank you so much!

I'm such a slacker. I'll get that bootleg I owe YOU out soon, I promise. I have it right here at my desk. Boooo to me. It's worth the wait, though!!

While were on it, I will put DM to a test.

Have you got anything from when they were called On a Friday?

Couldn't find it online, but found a songlist.
Act One: On a Friday
1. What is That You Say?
2. Stop Whispering
3. Give It Up
4. I Can't
5. Nothing Touches Me
6. Thinking About You
7. Phillipa Chicken
8. You


Did they make an album? I can only find a link that mentions a demo tape?
http://radiohead1.tripod.com/disc/demo/

I know for sure I've got:

Phillipa Chicken
Nothing Touches Me
and
Been Thinking About You (actually a good song)

I may have others I'll have to check.

Most every obscure radiohead anything I find generally is found when I start at this site: www.ateaseweb.com

The kids there eventually find everything Radiohead. Radiohead also has a bunch of tracks registered for copyright that no one has ever heard. It's amazing the crap these kids find out and how they get it. Through these kids I had Hail to The Thief a full year early (in live format while they tested the tracks during shows in Spain and Portugal). Serious nuts over there.

See what you mean about everything, the selection of stuff under unrealsed is pretty amazing. I have a garbly copy of a live recording of Rhinestone Cowboy on my other comp, somewhere.

Thanks for the link.

The poster is pretty sweet. It’s set up like a warning to the public, here it goes.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
We are not scare mongering, this is really happing.
RADIOHEAD


Under a big top
Trickle down compressor
Unsurpassed Novelties
Giant cogs turn
The ice age is coming
Rubber bullets
Last remaining
Polar Bears
a genuine
FREAK SHOW
150,000 Volts of Electricity!
Mobiles chirping
Crack Appearing beneath the Veneer
Abattoir noises
Weak reception
Our name is Legion
Carrots and sticks
Packt up like sardines in a crush tin Box

Shellshock, Paralysis, Sleeping walking, any child who is Backwards in study, and Bad Habits or any kind Permanently removed, Etc.
For a Due Appreciation of the above incomprehensible musical combination, much and a little more is depending on the imagination of the audience.

FEAR STALKS THE LAND!!
I am awake at 4 Am to the terrifying undeniable truth that there is nothing I can do to stop the monster.

Originally posted by Meat's of Evil

FEAR STALKS THE LAND!!
I am awake at 4 Am to the terrifying undeniable truth that there is nothing I can do to stop the monster.

That is just bad ass!!



Caddy, I have just about everything listed on that site. Over the course of a couple months I had the lists printed out and eventually tracked down and checked off all but a select few. To be honest there's a reason why a lot of the obscure stuff is obscure.

On Hail to the thief, listen to Wolf at the door. The song is about when Thom was insane. It’s amazing.

Damn it. I just put Kid A in and now i'm going to be stuck here watching the computer screen. In limbo is sick. I love that song.

Said poster is on e-bay right now, for a short while.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...819740779&rd=1

I'm probably in the minority, but I prefer Amnesiac to Kid A. The only song on Kid A that really grabs me is Optimistic. I think OK Computer is still their best album, though.

kid A was such a jump in what they had put out before it. I was a mediocre Radiohead fan, until I heard Kid A. Then it was all over. Typically I am more of a Rock fan.

Two of my close friends who are big Radiohead fans and I would joke. "I swear Kid A is devils music, once I put it on, I can't stop listening to it." So true, it would get into my cd player in my car and i would be listening to the album all the way through almost 2 times a day, (50 minute commute one way) for a week on end.

Originally posted by drugged_monkey


Sigur ros: Agaetis Byrjun, ()
Bjork: Vespertine
Flaming Lips: Yoshimi battles the pink robots
Mum: Finally we are no one

you know, there actually are some good bands and good albums that were released before 2002.

now, before you get in a huff, make sure you have enough oven mitts on hand in case anything gets spilled.

kid a's great, it may be radiohead's best album, but it's fucking far fromthe greatest album of all time.

I've got plenty of old stuff and enjoy it as well. It seems like a lot of people that have wanted new music options want to find something good that's new that they may have missed. The longer something's been around the easier it is to find, just by virtue of how much longer it has been around. Duh.

That's cool that you have a different favorite album. Kid-A just happens to be mine. I won't pretend to think I know what you should like more than something else. Music is personal (as has been established).