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offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-06-04 18:29 [#00727317]
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Ok, so with HTTT so close, I've been listening to Radiohead
more... Kid A really is fantastic... I love it... it has
such a great history for me, when I listen to it I feel like
when I first bought it... and I mean, sure it's not as
cutting edge as Autechre or Aphex Twin, but it's the mixture
here that is great I think... you have the electronic stuff
mixed with rock, and even a bit of jazz...

So yeah, this thread is to talk of your love of this
album... fav tracks, interesting stories, whatever!!

My favorite tracks are Kid A, National Anthem, How to
Dissappear..., Treefingers (really love it!), and Idioteque


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-06-04 18:32 [#00727323]
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and really, even if you dispise this album, you really have
to admire Radiohead for their balls... they were one of the
biggest bands around I'd say after Ok Computer, and then
they go and release Kid A which totally came from left
field...


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2003-06-04 18:32 [#00727324]
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I like to listen to it in the car sometimes, haven't heard
it for a bit but I loved it when it came out, I didn't like
the jazz one though it was a bit to trad for me..


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-06-04 18:34 [#00727327]
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national anthem? Are you kidding, this track sounds so
crazy... I can see what you're saying though I think...
although when the horns come in towards the end and it goes
all crazy, it floors me!


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-06-04 18:38 [#00727330]
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thats what ruined it for me. i think that track is dreadful.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-06-04 18:39 [#00727332]
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hmmm... well that's always been one of my favorites...
speaking of the jazzy type stuff though, the one on
Amnesiac, Life in a Glasshouse, doesn't do much for me at
all... it's ok, but I think the horns sound awful, as well
as his singing...


 

offline forck_02lynix from brooklyn on 2003-06-04 18:41 [#00727334]
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it's a great album, i agree...

:story: i wrote one of my ep's (song album), the whole
thing, while listening to kid a. the ep doesn't sound like
radiohead, and the lyrics aren't at all associated with
theirs, but it was based structurally around kid a. i still
enjoy listening to that ep, as well as kid a, quite
frequently. :end/story:


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-06-04 18:46 [#00727336]
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I still remember buying this album... it was my first
semester in university, and the day I bought it my parents
were going out of town for a week... my sister went to the
store and picked it up for me, and I had the whole house to
myself to listen to it all week... I still remember the
feelings... it's nuts how vivid this is to me... I remember
it was raining, and the music just seemed to fit the weather
and my mood... some painful things were happening in my
life, and this album just seemed to fit... anyways, I also
remember playing it for friends later that night, and they
said it was awful... hehe... :)


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-06-04 18:46 [#00727338]
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it makes me tingle


 

offline forck_02lynix from brooklyn on 2003-06-04 18:48 [#00727342]
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i was late to work by 1 hour because i went to go pick it up
after school when it came out. it was raining that day too!
fortunately my job didn't fire me! i quit a month later.


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-06-04 18:56 [#00727350]
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so it's a happy ending


 

offline zaphod from the metaverse on 2003-06-04 19:21 [#00727368]
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i've been doing the exact same thing with kid a lately. i
love rediscovering great music.
i went for a hike the other day and listened to treefingers
while walking in the woods. went perfectly.


 

offline mimi on 2003-06-04 23:52 [#00727573]
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national anthem's terrible however......there is nothing
going on...the bassline is boring as fuck...the singing is
ridiculous...wa wa wa...wa wa wa wa WA wa....wa wa wa wa WA
WA-A........


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2003-06-04 23:55 [#00727579]
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i like it.

the only truly ROCKING song on the album, unless you count
optimistic, which you shouldnt.


 

offline alnuit on 2003-06-05 00:01 [#00727582]
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National Anthem is probably the highlight of the first part
of the album for me. I just love the buzzing bassline and
the crazy noise at the end of the track...freaking
brilliant. Coltrane would have approved.

The latter part of the album is owned by the
Idioteque/Morning Bell combo.

The songs on the album that don't really do it for me are
'How To Disappear Completely' and 'Treefingers'. I mean,
yeah fine, but Brian Eno did it better 25 years ago. That
was quite pointless IMO....but even then, you've GOT to
admire the guts of a rock band that so consistently pushes
the envelope of what their audience expects them to be...and
confounds them everytime. Quite like Ae in that regard.



 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2003-06-05 00:02 [#00727584]
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the only track i dont particularly care for on kid a is
treefingers, but its ok... its not horrible. a nice attempt
on their part.


 

offline Murray from Southend, Essex (United Kingdom) on 2003-06-05 01:29 [#00727631]
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Radiohead's albums all have perfect endings:

The Bends: Street Spirit

Ok Computer: The Tourist

Kid A: Motion picture soundtrack

Amnesiac: Living in a glass house

Motion Picture Soundtrack is, by far, one of the most
beautiful Radiohead tracks they have ever realesed. (Note: i
haven't properly listened to Pablo Honey)


 

offline static from tempe (United States) on 2003-06-05 02:46 [#00727663]
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yes: i listen to kid a at least once a week...it's like a
once a week heroin fix (Miles' kind of blue does the same
thing for me)...kind of blue and kid a were conjoined twins
who were seperated at birth, but one was born thirty years
before the other


 

offline Cfern from Sacto (United States) on 2003-06-05 02:54 [#00727668]
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kid a totally changed my outlook on life when it came
out.... for me personally it a was sort of a line in the
sand in many different ways...


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2003-06-05 07:32 [#00727848]
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mm.. never really got that into kid a.

much prefer kid 606 .: can't wait for his gig this sunday!
:)


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-06-05 08:46 [#00727966]
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i love it to


 

offline Peloton from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-06-05 08:50 [#00727978]
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Kid A is my favourite Radiohead album. They did an excellent
version of Kid A at Sherperd's Bush the other week. Great
show all round.


 

offline uzim on 2003-06-14 12:43 [#00740461]
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i downloaded it yesterday. or the day before yesterday, i
don't remember.

not awesome, but some very nice parts : )
i especially like Everything In Its Right Place, Optimistic,
those are great!... Treefingers is very nice too... and the
weird Idioteque. : )
some of it is just nice and nothing more though - but all in
all, a pleasant listen...
the only track i don't like is Motion Picture Soundtrack
(sounds a bit artificially emotionized / overeffected to me,
though not as much as I Will on HTTT)


 

offline Skeptopotamus from Home (United Kingdom) on 2003-06-14 12:51 [#00740473]
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I personally think Amnesiac is a better album. Perhaps i'm
alone in thinking that a Kid Amnesiac double album would
have rocked the world to it's core.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-06-14 12:54 [#00740477]
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it IS a double album, they just didn't want to release it at
the same time. it's all from the same sessions.


 

offline Skeptopotamus from Home (United Kingdom) on 2003-06-14 12:57 [#00740480]
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I mean, unleashing both albums as a double at the same
time...


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-06-14 12:58 [#00740481]
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Kid A is a Cd that my bastarrd fuck cunt twat shit shite
wankerr buggerr fuckerr tit Cd playerr won't play prroperrly


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-06-14 13:00 [#00740486]
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i side w/ RH, they thought that would be asking a lot..
imagine if you didn't like their new "experimental"
direction, you just wasted $20 on two "crappy albums". plus
they made a point to keep each album concise, making it a
double disc would've been the opposite of their intention.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-06-14 13:01 [#00740488]
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i would NOT have liked them togetherr.


 

offline Oddioblender from Fort Worth, TX (United States) on 2003-06-14 21:32 [#00740921]
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I really feel that Kid A is underrated. I mean, sure, it's
quite the departure from the sounds of the Bends and OK
Computer, but I find myself getting the melodies stuck in my
head quite often. I listened to it today, as a matter of
fact.

You have to love the trumpets on National Anthem... so
groovy.

And the string arrangements on How To Disappear Completely
are beautiful... and let's not forget that great synth on
Idioteque.

By the way Funkmaster, thanks for visiting my site. Come
back soon, you hear me? :-P


 

offline Skink from A cesspool in eden on 2003-06-14 23:57 [#00740963]
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I like the actual track kid a, very aphexy but it's still a
nice take on the style, i love the keyboard sound.

I was doing loads of downers when i bought it so the whole
album makes me feel warm and fuzzy.


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-06-15 00:01 [#00740965]
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nice track

aphex said in an interview that he gets 40% of the royalties
(joking of course)


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-06-15 00:03 [#00740967]
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the synth from idioteque was taken from a paul lansky track

i think.

it's called mild und leise


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2003-06-15 00:18 [#00740968]
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yeah i like pretty much every track. its tasty


 

offline mimi on 2003-06-15 00:22 [#00740970]
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kid A has its tunes (idioteque is good, i liked morning
bell..), but it just seems overall to be pretty clumsy to
me. it just sounds too "rock meets electronica" for me. it
doesn't really mesh the two seamlessly, which i really
thought amnesiac did a great job of. which is particularly
strange, considering they were recorded at the same time.
it just seemed like they spent more time on melodies and
less on adding electronic embellishments. anyhow, after i
heard autechre, my standards for electronic music were
increased drastically.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-06-15 04:31 [#00741069]
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i liked the way radiohead fan's did nothing but shun Kid A
when it came out and now they arre all saying it is theirr
fav album.


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2003-06-15 04:34 [#00741071]
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It's an experience.


 


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