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Kid A is the fourth full-length studio album by UK experimental rock act Radiohead. I was very fond of their previous album Ok Computer (1997) when it was released and I remember waiting for the release of Kid A with lots of expectations. Back then I was really disappointed and dismissed the a...
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I’m cheating a bit on this one because the Knives Out single looms ever larger in retrospect — a fork in the road Radiohead failed to take. Songs such as “Fog” (my favorite Radiohead song, easy), “Worrywort” and “Cuttooth” were recorded in a fresh session after the long haul that led to Kid A a...
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I was never a Kid A guy. It never spoke to me in quite the way OK Computer or even Amnesiac did — it always felt like a relatively morbid collection that never quite congealed. The beauty of recorded music is that it gets to age with you; listening to Kid A now, it’s abundantly clear that the band ha...
Published Thu, Sep 17
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Yes, this is a progressive album. Ok, this is not like 70s, but is a kind of a new era of progressive rock, like Muse maybe. A very dark album, my god, they did the great computer and then this album appeared. This change is what make Radiohead a proggy band, and I really don't care what the people sa...
Published Mon, Jul 27
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Radiohead has proven several times to be one of the best bands to emerge on the pop scene in the last 20 years or so.Inside their incredible discography,Kid A stands as a precious highlight,light years away from what was heard in The Bends or Ok Computer,and subsequently Amnesiac.
Published Mon, Jul 27
Grizzly Bear way beyond bare minimum 
source: Georgia Straight
Canada On touring with Radiohead last summer: “When I saw them playing eight or nine years ago on the Kid A tour, sitting way out in the lawn somewhere, never would I have thought that I'd be getting to share the stage with them. To see them every night was a ...
Published Thu, May 21
Vienna Teng strikes songwriting balance between the personal and ... 
source: Maryville Daily Times
TN I'm a relative latecomer to bands like Radiohead -- I got into them around the time of (2000's) 'Kid A' -- and they drew me away from strictly folk songwriting. "I learned that you could use lyrics that seem more nonsensical to create more of a mood ...
Published Thu, May 7
Here's Who Should Sue Coldplay … 
source: MTV Newsroom
3) Radiohead. When “Yellow” first came out, the Internet was abuzz with chatter about how Coldplay was Radiohead Jr., and Coldplay's X&Y was definitely an attempt to ride the Kid A highway … 4) Brian Eno. As if paying constant homage to U2 weren't ... Review: Coldplay Calgary Herald
Published Tue, May 5
Battle of the Bands: Radiohead vs. U2 
source: IGN
CA Radiohead's Pablo Honey debut cemented the group's place in the Brit Pop movement. Beginning with OK Computer and filtering more dramatically through Kid A and Amnesiac, the band shifted from a straight-up postmodern Brit Pop style to a sound that ...
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