Radiohead Kid A
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FadedSun
April 2nd 2016


3199 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I can never finish listening to OK Computer. Oh well.

brandontaylor
April 2nd 2016


1261 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

probably my least fave radiohead album (ive listened to them all except pablo and TKOL) but agreed that the 3 songs you mentioned are near-masterpieces

theNateman
April 2nd 2016


3809 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Fantastic review, wrong opinion.



Jk, this album's not for everyone and this guy makes a good case.

Pos

pizzamachine
April 2nd 2016


28290 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

You rated this perfect haha, great review. ;D

YetAnotherBrick
April 2nd 2016


6693 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

but... but... this album is perfect

pizzamachine
April 2nd 2016


28290 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

I have a lovely ass

Tyler.
April 2nd 2016


19035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/image.php?u=480357&dateline=1459579184

becomesmusical
April 2nd 2016


87 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Adore this album and totally disagree with you, but pos anyway because you voiced your opinions articulately.

BHAR
April 2nd 2016


231 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Strongly disagree with the rating. Pos'd anyway.

altertide0
April 2nd 2016


3026 Comments


yeah Coleman or Coltrane may have recorded more intense free jazz, but name me a track by them that's a bass riff-driven paranoid distorted electronic rock song that only ends with a free jazz-like section. you may as well criticize King Crimson's debut for not being as complex as the classical music it's inspired by. I mean, I appreciate criticizing artists for being unoriginal (the Kraftwerk comparison is fine, Talk Talk comparison is very hyperbolic (can't imagine them doing "In Limbo") but all right as well), but here you're really stretching it.

DoofusWainwright
April 2nd 2016


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I love Talk Talk but they'd have struggled to record something with the same atmosphere as Thom singing 'How to Disappear...' - I mean that's a top 5 Radiohead song. For a start Yorke is a real all time great singer, Hollis is not a particularly strong vocalist.



Also the sput populace at large and this review have a major boner for Amnesiac that I just don't get, messy album compared to this

Cimnele
April 2nd 2016


2527 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

the idea of the second tune sounding like a Kraftwerk offcut is just nonsense, right? Kraftwerk didn't use rhythm like that, always set up the beat metronomically with no synco or and little variation, almost always changed chords on the first beat of each bar, most of the instruments in their tunes being for harmonic, simple composer-y purposes and, although they're reknowned for creating electro and being supposedly technofuturist, their music was always melody-first and uncluttered, probably the cleanest synth music you could imagine from that era... Kid A is an atmospheric tune which follows none of those rules lol



not gonna neg since everyone hears music differently but just about every comparison you make between Radiohead and another band in this write-up makes zero sense to me

TumsFestival
April 2nd 2016


2470 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It's really not that strange that this album went platinum, since it followed up one of the biggest albums ever it was going to sell no matter what. That's why Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menece is one of the highest grossing films of all time hahah



Great review though. Takes some balls to write a review like this on a site like sputnik

AmericanFlagAsh
April 2nd 2016


13689 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"That is not to say that the lack of cohesion is the album’s biggest downfall, but that Radiohead fails to make anything memorable out of the influences that they are clearly pulling from."



I actually lol'd. Only because this makes no sense to me and I think this is one of the most cohesive albums out there.

AmericanFlagAsh
April 2nd 2016


13689 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I read the whole thing. I just don't understand how you view this in the same light as The White Album.

Alondite
April 2nd 2016


436 Comments


This is a good review, but I feel like this is a good album for all the reasons you see it as a bad one. I've always gotten a kind of post-apocalyptic sort of vibe from this (maybe that' what it's actually about, I have no idea), so the cacophony at the end of "The National Anthem" makes sense, thematically, as does the apparent brokenness of the title track It's like it's the broken remnants of an idea cobbled together rather than just being under-developed. I feel it is very developed, but sounds the way it does to convey a specific idea.

Calling it under-developed seems to me like saying that an impressionist painting is underdeveloped because it doesn't paint a clear picture. Or asking why Jane Doe has lyrics at all if they're almost completely unintelligible. They're made the way they are not due to a lack of effort or ability, but for a specific goal/idea, and I feel they should be measured on how well they accomplish that, and the quality of the idea itself (which is largely subjective). I feel like "Kid A" as an album does exactly what it intends to do very well.

Trebor.
Emeritus
April 2nd 2016


60331 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

5 or die



claygurnz
April 2nd 2016


7793 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Nah fam

DoofusWainwright
April 2nd 2016


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Such a 4.5

Aberf
April 2nd 2016


4000 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

such a 3.0



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