Album Rating: 3.5

"but to me it says it all they've done nothing similar since"

This is a logical fallacy. They've done nothing similar to much of anything on any of their albums. Just because they've done nothing similar doesn't mean it isn't amazing.

Album Rating: 3.5

"11. glasshouse (6/5)"

Thank you.

Album Rating: 3.0

I'm really pleased people love Amnesiac here but everyone I knew who were massive Radiohead fans when it came out all cried foul calling it a 'Kid A B-Sides' rush release - as did many critics.



It just doesn't have much meat on its bones compared to the 3 previous releases with filler B-Side quality stuff (sh*tty short instrumentals? An inferior version of a track from the previous album?) Also a song built around previous riffs (Knives Out/Paranoid Android) and song that sounded like a ridiculous fit for the band (Glasshouse).



I guess people enjoy it like a quick listen mixtape type affair but this is Radiohead who'd released Ok Computer four years earlier...this just doesn't cut it

Album Rating: 5.0

People grew to love it



Also I would so yell to play Glasshouse omg

No Surprises is built upon "riffs" from a song from the Bends and nobody complains. Airbag sounds like Bends' opener.

Yeah critics cried cause they expected another catchy set of songs and received an avant innovative piece of music. Just see how they love the mediocre poppy alt shit of In Rainbows

Album Rating: 3.5

I used to think it was merely good (like, 3.5 material), but the songs individually grew on me really strongly with the exception of Morning Bell/Amnesiac. The album has a strange, alluring charm that makes it continually worth relistening.

Album Rating: 3.5

Glasshouse is easily top 3 radiohead

Album Rating: 4.0

Ugh amnesiac morning bell is so fucking good

Album Rating: 3.0

Kid A is more experimental tbh altertide and most everyone instantly identified that as absolute genius.



I really don't see this as hugely more experimental than Ok Computer which had Fitter/Happier and Climbing Up the Walls.

Album Rating: 3.5

Morning Bell/Amnesiac is ok but had no right to be put on the album, particularly since it is just a far less interesting remake of a perfect song. It should have been a B-side.

Album Rating: 3.0

The fact Radiohead were releasing B-Sides of the quality of Cuttooth or Fog and then clogging Amnesiac up with B-Side level stuff like Packt, Pulk/Pull, Hunting Bears and Morning Bell is frustrating but you've got to respect them for doing what they want.



Radiohead are always a decent listen, even their more average albums I enjoy

Kid A is unusual but not really experimental, most songs have conventional song structures and follow steady electronic beat (Treefingers is almost as conventional as possible in ambient). On Amnesiac you have Pulk, MB/A, Dollars and Plates which are plain weird and even the more song-like pieces are subtle (Packt, Life) and not in your face TRY TO SAAAAAAAYYYYY. It's far less catchy and the best example is you

Album Rating: 3.0

it was much harder for me to get into Kid A than Amnesiac, i liked the second one after one listen tbh. Also what are u even saying, everything little more experimental / Avant-garde = better? Calm down.

I really appreciate innovation in music but it doesn't mean that less listenable = better. Blonde on Blonde and The Good Son are masterpieces and they're very melodic.

Also I just wanted to point out that Kid A is less exp than Amn but I didn't say it's worse (although it is).

Album Rating: 3.5

I agree, Kid A isn't really as experimental as it's made out to be, but everything it does it does essentially perfectly, in its pacing and mood and flow and ideas, whereas Amnesiac is an excellent, variegated mix of experiments, that ultimately doesn't work as quite as well as Kid A because Morning Bell/Amnesiac just should not be there and because the album lacks Kid A's humanity. This lack makes Amnesiac feel, for the most part, unfamiliar, while we can find so much of ourselves in Kid A. Amnesiac is amazing nonetheless, and as an exercise in unfamiliarity (which I believe is the point of the album; an amnesiac has lost memories and feels unfamiliar in his world) it works extremely well, but overall I don't like it quite as much as I do The Bends, Kid A, OK Computer, or In Rainbows.

" because the album lacks Kid A's humanity. "

I totally agree though my conclusions are different. I think Amnesiac is paradoxically more intense and touching because of its inhumane sound. Songs like Pulk, s/t and Like Spinning Plates have the emotion buried deep inside the strange sounds, the voice almost completely inhuman, as if you were in a middle of an accident so terrible that your brain refuses to accept it and that's why everything's distorted and hidden from you.

On Kid A it's IMO somewhat less emotional because it feels like the accident has happened some time ago and you are very sad but at least it's over, it's less traumatic and less intense in this sense. Just my thoughts.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yours is certainly a valid interpretation as well. In the end it all comes down to personal preference. I'm generally not a huge fan of electronic music so Amnesiac is also slightly less appealing to me, as its electronic tracks are more electronic than Kid A is.

still need to hear this. doesn't seem anywhere near as well liked/talked about as other radiohead

It's one of their weaker ones as an album overall, but it also has every side of Radiohead all on one album.

Huh. Guess I never re rated this.