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Review Summary: Barely music. Many claim that Radiohead’s Kid A changed their life, or their perspective on music. It did something for me as well. After going back to the album through the years, in the dire hope of finding gold, I didn’t find much. I appreciate the album as I appreciate ugly art in a museum. Sure, this may hold an important moment in time considering how many artists have not produced albums similar to Kid A, but that’s the extent of its power. I also appreciate the concept of this album. This electronic meets rock meets ambient hodge podge swamp water music at the very least, shows ambition. There’s creativity on full display, but a lot of what’s produced is not digestible. Some is, but the parts that are not are quite difficult to listen to, and even overtly grating. Horns out of nowhere, blaring synths for seemingly no reason, the songs are not put together well. Take Idioteque for example, which is idiotic (get it?), suddenly noisy, and then the next second reverts back to boring ass garage band beats.
In my original review I said a scandalous line about how Tom can’t sing. I’ll confess that was an exaggeration, though considering how bad he sounds in this album my point still stands. He sings much too quietly, much too nasally, barely on tune, and he doesn’t sound good. Possibly great moments are ruined the second he sings with his dying cat in a distant tunnel voice. I do not like it, I’m surprised anyone does.
Something something, album sucks balls.
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Album Rating: 2.0
Pizzamachine was here
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
Thom isn’t much of a singer
die
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No, I want his vocals to die
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confusingly atrocious songs like ‘The National Anthem’
Arghl
| | | Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
hook, line and sinker? hehe -- i'm intrigued to read this though ;]
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
i disagree with almost of all of it but its your opinoin. The national anthem is one of my favorite songs ever
| | | Album Rating: 2.0
Yeah
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Btw pizz I pos'd cause this is not in any way a bad review but I fear you'll be getting a lot of flac for this anyway
| | | Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
i get a little confused as you keep going back and forth between stating your opinion and being
'factual', but not bad. reminds me a lot of ferociouslettuce's review ;}
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
intro paragraph is really dumb
Bjork-esque vocal style that Thom Yorke boringly copies, Kid A is a Bjork album wannabe
um, could you elaborate? that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. i'll give you that kid a and some bjork albums (most of all Vespertine, although that album came a year after this one) have some similar qualities but asserting that this album is a bjork rip-off is an utterly absurd claim with almost no conceivable backing (and you provided no backing other than your claim that thom is copying bjork's voice which is lol)
Thom wanders through the electronic forest, sounding completely lost.
i would argue that this contributes positively to the album but whatever floats your boat i guess
he ruins it with his horribly nasally, whiny, opposite-of-pitch-perfect vocal performance.
you're an obsessive bjork fan but you're complaining about nasally vocals here? i don't understand you. and the vocals in that song are never once off-key, might wanna get your ears checked boy
where he does his atypical muttering, making the lyrics indecipherable
except the lyrics are quite decipherable
If only Thom had put any effort at all into his singing, he could have made the music slightly less difficult to listen to.
i laughed hard
Therefore we hear songs like ‘In Limbo’, ‘Morning Bell’, and ‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’, which are aimless, boring, forgettable filler tracks.
if you're seriously gonna call motion picture soundtrack aimless filler then fuck it i'm done here
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
the only part of this review that really bothered me though was
Radiohead certainly tried to sell the album as something completely original
which is an outright false statement. maybe radiohead fans yes but the band themselves insists that this is just a rock album
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This is better than the other negative review but still subpar.
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@ psy: chill yo ass bruh
@ luci: my review is god-tier let’s be honest
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
This is better than the other negative review but still subpar.
i agree, sorry andy it was still an interesting experiment
| | | Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
don't worry about it. there's a reason i put out that thing under an alt. plus he has the added benefit of actually feeling the way he does about the album
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crap band, rubbish album
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Crap 💩
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@pizza
oh, you did elaborate, my b. however i'm not sure where you're finding sci-fi sounds or creepiness in 90s bjork albums (especially not to the degree present in kid a). so your statement that kid a is a bjork plagiarism at best is still very silly
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This reminds me so much of my Jane Doe review
except for the part where I didn't get negged into oblivion
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
i just pos'd out of respect and pity
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