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Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0724352775316
Format: Limited Edition
Label: Capitol Records
Manufacturer: Capitol Records
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Tracks: 10
Publisher: Capitol Records
Release Date: September 02, 2008
Sales Rank: 5874
Studio: Capitol Records
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Album Description:
180 Gram/Audiophile pressing
Two 10' discs in gatefold jacket
Printed sleeves
Amazon.com's Best of 2000:
How is it that Kid A's opening track, laden with an electronic vocal stuttering 'bleh, bluh-bleh bleh bluh' is the most fascinating statement made in rock & roll this year? Because somehow, even when Radiohead blathers and blips nonsense, it's profound. The band's future-perfect musical grammar may be hard to decipher, and the melody is even more subliminal, but the journey traveled with Radiohead reveals them to be not only rock music's greatest adventurers in 2000, but teachers as well.--Beth Massa
Amazon.com:
With every record, Radiohead jump off higher and higher cliffs, daring fans to take the plunge in their artistic feats of derring-do. The journey from that scratchy bit of raw guitar angst in 'Creep' (from 1993's Pablo Honey) to any song on Kid A amounts to a high-wire act that few, if any, bands in popular music have ever attempted. It's hard to believe both records come from the same planet, much less the same band. Likewise, the grandiose, Pink Floyd-esque thematic scope of 1997's extraordinary OK Computer is nowhere to be found here. Quiet, contemplative, and less confrontational, it opens with a lack of bombast, as 'Everything in Its Right Place' builds tension with ghostly voiceovers, a dry pulse, and a shadowy organ motif. That tension appears over and over on Kid A. On 'How to Disappear Completely,' the unsettled, atonal keyboard waxing in the background offsets the plaintive Thom Yorke vocal, and on 'Idioteque,' detached, inorganic rhythms make the melody's despondent aimlessness that much more nerve-racking. Throughout, Radiohead fearlessly explore dissonance and structure, melding twisted, Brian Eno-meets-Aphex Twin sonic landscapes with utter discontent in the world around them. They may sometimes overreach, letting artsy ambition prevent them from giving us the arena rock-god goodies. But their commitment to restless creativity also yields pleasures that don't fade but instead become more resonant upon repeated listenings. If OK Computer was rock's most relevant expression of millennial angst, Kid A is the opposite; it's the 21st century's first record that sounds like the future, barely caring what that Y2K fuss was all about and much more worried about what the hell we're all supposed to do now. --Matthew Cooke
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Rating:  - buy it for the album cover alone
This is the best album cover ever in rock and roll history as far as I'm concerned,the music inside is just gravy.Nothing could top OK Computer, so Radiohead didn't even try - they very wisely went in a completely different direction into almost another genre altogether.OK Computer is basically a straight up rock record but Kid A is pretty much electronic music.The first song, "Everything in it's Right Place" is one of the best in Radiohead's live set - it sounds much better live is what ... Read More
Rating: - Music starts with Kid A
It's almost tragic, in a way, the first time you hear an album as magnificent, visceral, and life-changing as Kid A; tragic because you just know you're never going to get the same feelings from an album ever again.
I was a casual Radiohead fan in ninth grade when I decided to pick up Kid A. I was first drawn to the more immediately catchy tracks on the album (The National Anthem, Optimistic, etc.), but ultimately I didn't grow to love it as much as I do until I went to college, where my ... Read More
Rating:  - The decade of minimalism begins...
To examine Kid A's influence (and it is influential), let's look at "The National Anthem." This song starts with a simple bass line, not even a bass line so much as a very basic bass rhythm. This rhythm is then played unswervingly for the rest of the song. No other melodic elements are ever added. Where a rock band might gradually raise the tension with a developing guitar solo, where a club-oriented dance band might build up many different layers to crescendo, Radiohead adds a whole bunch of blaring ... Read More
Rating: - Monumental
This may be the best album I've ever heard. The first five notes are simply the most arresting announcement of a sea change for a band that I know. When this was released, it was instantly the most important popular (admittedly, a dubious title) album on the planet. That it only lasts about 60 minutes (when it easily could have been crammed to the brink with the outtakes that later comprised the comparatively weaker and less mysterious [read: Kid A could not have been equaled or surpassed] Amnesiac) is ... Read More
Rating: - Radiohead KID A
I just saw Radiohead live for the 1st time last night in Bristow, VA. They were absolutely incredible live!!! If you're looking for one of they're best, then you can't go wrong with the album KID A. From start to finish it just leaves you wanting & yearning for more! If I were stranded on a desert island(no not on LOST)I would take this one with me with plenty of batteries....er maybe Saywer could help me out with that?
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