Album Rating: 4.0

Calm yourself child (2)

Album Rating: 5.0

it still wouldn't be the best Radiohead album

Album Rating: 5.0

ok boomers

Album Rating: 5.0

To be fair as one to put on and simply listen to this is their best.

Album Rating: 5.0

True, this or 'The Bends'

Album Rating: 4.5

Agreed

Album Rating: 5.0

'Kid A' and 'Ok Computer' are a bit of a chore sometimes but definitely their top 2

Album Rating: 4.5

Most influential and meticulously crafted for sure.

A bit of a chore as well agreed, don't really listen to them much anymore.

Album Rating: 4.0

Agreed on their top 2 being Kid A and OKC, but I’ve never found OKC to be a chore.

Album Rating: 5.0

Ok Computer is only a chore because it's been in my life 22 years now



Sometimes I have to talk myself into listening to it for the 300 and something'th time these days

Album Rating: 4.0

I feel that man. I rarely listen to it now. But, being objective, it took years for it to become a chore to sit through in that regard.

Album Rating: 5.0

For some reason I get the chore thing with OKC—like, I dunno, do I ever want to listen to “karma police”? No—but not Kid A. I dun even know if I want to say that makes it better than OK Computer but it just feels bottomless to me. even though it seems impossible, it’s as if the shock never wears off



And it’s not even my favorite Radiohead because this is hehe, although it was my first...i feel like downloading this for free was one of the first music-on-the-Internet experiences I ever did have

Still love 'OK Computer' with all my heart, but 'Kid A' is definitely.... "richer", if that makes sense. Almost two decades later and I'm still finding new things each time I listen to it.
OKC and Kid A definitely top two, though, with 'In Rainbows' as the most likely third. Though more and more, I find myself reaching for AMSP. So who knows.
(And then there are those random days where I'm in the mood to listen to nothing but 'Amnesiac' and contemplate if it's truly one of their best albums....but then that feeling usually passes.)

Album Rating: 5.0

I always use richer as an adjective for music.

I’d say Kid A is a more detached, stark and overall a more characterless experience compared to OKC.

Still absolute quality though.

Album Rating: 4.5

Kid A has an absurd amount of depth, I can definitely see describing it as 'bottomless' - it feels fresh to this day. I probably played OKC to death in my youth, because I very rarely get the urge to throw it on now. I guess it didn't help that many of the tracks were everywhere, which added to that tiresome 'overplayed' feeling.

Kid A is like a hundred dollar meal at a fancy Michelin star restaurant with ingredients you can't pronounce and things you can barely identify, but it's one of the most complex and delicious things you've tasted, unlike anything to ever pass your lips. The kind of meal you occasionally dream about eating again one day and can never accurately describe to others how it tasted.

OK Computer is like mom's home cooked meatloaf - sure you can get meatloaf from a lot of different places, but not a single one of them comes close to mom's meatloaf. There's some secret ingredient that elevates it above every other meatloaf out there, and all other meatloafs pale in comparison. On the surface it's a simple dish, but something about that particular meatloaf is exquisite, comforting, and untouchable.

Two different strata of greatness, each one just scratches a different itch. Sometimes you crave that grandiose, unaffordable meal. Other times you just want mom's home cooking.

Kid A is pretty impressive and great as a holistic work but far from the best alt/electronic combo and song by song not on the same level as Amnesiac's highlights, so in that sense it kinda works as a pretentious gourmet experience but not without a share of ambivalence
On the other hand OK fits neatly into the meatloaf analogy but only on condition that your mum is queen of the universe which of course she is, as if there was any doubt
This, in that case, is the meal your longtime best friend cooks at their after you've split your seperate ways for uni/college and reunite the other end. Unexpectedly the most delicious thing ever without being extravagant, and makes you realise they've grown up in the meantime in ways you never expected (whereas you, perhaps, have not and should now reassess your critiera for nourishing meals amongst other things ;])

In Rainbows is like a gourmet dessert. Can be had at either a fancy restaurant or homemade in the kitchen - dessert is dessert and dessert is fucking delicious. But it's not an adequate meal replacement because it's missing some key vitamins and minerals and macronutrients and whatnot. But I'll never ever say no to dessert, obviously.

No way, All I Need and Videotape are way too savoury for dessert picks and the Radiohead experience has always had a slightly unhealthy/anemic edge to it (on which level this album might actually be their least emaciated)

Album Rating: 5.0

Videotape is the after dinner mint