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Kid A
Model: 277532B
SKU: 4009968
UPC: 724352775323
Track Listing: 1. Everything in Its Right Place, 2. Kid A, 3. National Anthem, The, 4. How to Disappear Completely, 5. Treefingers, 6. Optimistic, 7. In Limbo, 8. Idioteque, 9. Morning Bell, 10. Motion Picture Soundtrack
Average Customer Rating:
4.8
out of 5
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Customer Reviews for Kid A
Review 1 for Kid A
Best album of the decade.
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Noringtone
from Orgeon,OR
on 01/01/2011
What's great about it: Everything.
What's not so great: Might take some time to grow on you.
I usually listen to Hip-Hop and R&B but even i can't doubt this is the best album of the decade. The musics very amazing. They turn sad into pretty. ANYBODY that listens to any kind of music should buy this album. It's like it touches your soul when you listen to it. Must have this album. Got it for christmas.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 2 for Kid A
A Musical Masterpiece
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: wyodico
from Fayetteville, AR
on 06/01/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Music
5.0
Lyrics
5.0
Cover Art/Extras
4.0
What's great about it: One of the best albums ever made.
This album is a contender for the most important in my life. Radiohead is probably my favorite band of all time (the only other band that could possibly hold that position is The Beatles) and I definitely think they are the greatest band of my generation. This would not be the case for me without Kid A.
I had listened to Radiohead well before I discovered Kid A and, by the time I had, the album had been out for several years. A couple of my friends had both been fans of Radiohead and "OK Computer" in particular when we were younger, so I had definitely been exposed to them. I even really liked songs like "Paranoid Android" and "Karma Police," but I just never really got into Radiohead as a band. What the three of us didn't know then was that we weren't really listening and we had no idea how big a part of our lives Radiohead would become.
Then, my senior year of high school, I was on trip to New York with the Drama Department of our school. The morning we were supposed to leave I got up early to go visit Strawberry Fields and The Imagine Plaque in Central Park with one of the Drama teachers. After we talked about music and whatnot for a while, he suggested a book to me by a journalist named Chuck Klosterman. I bought a copy of Killing Yourself to Live in the airport bookstore and started reading it on the flight home. There is a part in the novel where Klosterman labels Kid A as the unofficial and unintentional soundtrack to 9/11 and even details down to the second where certain moments in the album correspond with the events of that historic day.
The whole passage was incredibly interesting to me and I decided to go buy "Kid A" from Barnes and Noble on my lunch hour during that summer when I was working with my dad. I remember sitting in my green Ford Focus Station Wagon as the first few bars of "Everything in Its Right Place" crawled out of my speakers and just being instantly hooked. I had never heard music like this before. I was all at once perplexed and intrigued by songs like "Everything in Its Right Place" and "Idioteque." I rocked out to "Optimistic" and "The National Anthem" and I never failed to be moved by "How to Disappear Completely" and "Motion Picture Soundtrack." While Kid A doesn't necessarily have any discernible story to it, it does seem to have a bit of a concept to it. All of the songs go extremely well together and several of them flow one into the other with no gap between tracks. There a very distinct tone, unique to the songs on this album, that runs throughout the course of it.
Paranoia and chaos have always been themes in Radiohead's music, but never more so than on "Kid A." The entire album has an air of tragedy about it and there is a sense that something is wrong. Several times throughout the track, "How to Disappear Completely," Thom Yorke repeats the phrase, "I'm not here. This isn't happening." The tone of the song suggests that Yorke is trying to convince himself that this is true when it is actually not the case. Then a few tracks later, in "Idioteque," Yorke sounds almost as if he's having a nervous breakdown as he screams, "This is really happening, HAPPENING!" This same tone is also present in "Amnesiac," the follow-up to album that even shares the track "Morning Bell" with "Kid A." Thom Yorke has even described these two albums as twins separated at birth.
I don't think "Kid A" left the CD player in my car that entire summer. I listened to it continuously and I never got tired of it. Pretty soon, I was trying to get my hands on all the Radiohead I could find and began to work my way through it. Without "Kid A," I might not have ever discovered Radiohead and my view on music would be incredibly different.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 3 for Kid A
Radiohead create their own genre/planet on "Kid A"
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: chad2julius
from Seattle, WA
on 02/19/2008
What's great about it: One of the Best Albums Ever
Comparing this to other albums is like comparing an aquarium to blue construction paper. "Kid A" is truly in a galaxy of it's own; it's another world with no limitations, rules, or boundaries.
The moment you start the record with "Everything In It's Right Place", those first synth notes roll over you like a mammoth wave of clouds and you are completely submerged into a new world. "Everything" then flows perfectly into the dreamlike title track. "The National Anthem" follows and bludgeons you upside the head like a sledgehammer with it's heavy bass line, horns, and saxophone fusing into some weird hybrid world. The calm "How to Disappear Completely" becomes one with the ambient "TreeFingers", which by itself it a preposterous track, but in the context of the album as a whole, it fits and makes perfect sense; and it's the calm before the climactic storm of "Optimistic". "In Limbo" feels like a nightmarish purgatory, with the final minute of the song sending you spiraling down the rabbit hole. Next is the apocalyptic "Idioteque", which uses electronica, drum machines, and eerie chords to create one of the more impressive Radiohead songs to date. "Idioteque" morphs perfectly into the gloomy "Morning Bell". But the very last track is where "Kid A" seals the deal; "Motion Picture Soundtrack" is staggeringly gorgeous, with Tom Yorke ending it with the words "I think you're crazy" and "I'll see you in the next life".
Well...."Kid A", in one word, is a: Masterpiece.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 4 for Kid A
Radiohead changes their sound
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: radiohead1
from New York
on 11/19/2007
What's great about it: Some very creative tracks
What's not so great: there are a few songs on this that were not memorable
This is one of Radiohead's strokes of genius. This album relies heavily on electronica bleeps and clicks than guitar. This album is very experimental and the best thing to compare it to is bands like Portishead, Squarepusher, and Blonde Readhead.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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