Kid A by Radiohead

Pros: Acutely absurd.
Cons: Very short.

Sometimes, you wake up and you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are. Whatever dream could have distorted your reality this much, even that remains elusive. Outside, even the colors look different. The roads seem different. You wonder ...

Pros: Radiohead's most experimental and fascinating album
Cons: A challenging listen that may take awhile to "get"

"I don't remember much time playing keyboards. It was more an obsession with sound, speakers, the whole artifice of recording. I see it like this: a voice into a microphone onto a tape, onto your CD, through your speakers is all as illusory and fake as ...

Pros: This isn't happening.
Cons: This is really happening.

I have a confession to make. I'm starting to like Radiohead. Oddly enough, it wasn't OK Computer or The Bends that got me hooked, either. Despite the insane amounts of fun I had criticizing their...

Pros: An Adventurous, Challenging Masterpiece from Radiohead.
Cons: None.

After the overwhelming success of the band’s 1997 masterpiece “OK Computer”, Radiohead had already become the world’s best band. Uneasy however, were the individuals that wore that crown as the band began to act miserable due to...

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The other day, I happened to slingshot around the sun, and timewarped back to Oxford, October 15th, 2000. And who did I bump into there, but my young self putting the finishing touches to a review of Kid A. You see, he’d discovered this ...

Pros: The rats and children follow me out of town.
Cons: I swallow till I burst.

Now git dis here. I wuz in muh ma f*ckin crib da other day, listening ta dis here CD by some gang called Radiohead. They can come up wiff some really weird sheeit! But it's all uh bunch o' crap, an' sounds so boring dat it made me wants ta fall asleep. ...

Pros: Despite its shortcomings, Kid A’s still a lot better than the TRL-endorsed tripe out nowadays.
Cons: More often that not, Radiohead comes off pretentious, trying too damn hard to be groundbreaking.

It’s been two years since fans were blessed with a collection of O.K. Computer B-sides in the form of Airbag: How Am I Driving. It’s been three years since the music world was turned on its ear in brilliantly grandioso style...

Pros: interesting at times
Cons: flat

Perhaps I'm totally deficient, but I never feel much emotion while listening to Radiohead - the prime exceptions are a couple songs from their inferior earlier albums "The Bends" and "OK Computer". I gather that "Kid A" and its sequel "Amnesiac" were ...

Pros: This is a, uhm, masterpiece!
Cons: NOne

First of all, it’s awfully good to be writing again. I don’t remember when I last wanted to work less… or when I last had to do more. Falling asleep to the sound of motorcars speeding up the road toward the woods, waking up in the...

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Radiohead's "Kid A" has been reviewed 119 times now, which should immediately get your suspicions aroused. A lot of people decided they should throw their hats in, stamp on them a little bit, then describe, to the best of their abilities, the dirt ...

Pros: Everything.
Cons: Nothing.

Radiohead really has been my "bag" of late. Back in my Kazaa/WinMX days, I filled my mix cds with the random OK Computer track, mostly unaware of the greatness which the actual album held. After I heard a few songs from Amnesiac and Kid ...

Pros: They should have hired some!!
Cons: Get out the No-doz

For Radiohead's sake, I think it best to look upon this album for it's own merits. Give me a second....I am still trying to think of what they are!

Many seem to think that this group is the greatest think going. The promise that they showed...

Pros: you can try the best you can, you can try the best you can
Cons: the best you can is good enough.

(Note: I decided to rewrite this because 1. My opinion on it has drastically changed over time and 2. I have a tendency to ramble and repeat things and 3. I have a tendency to ramble and repeat things. So let's give this another shot...) INDEX OF ...

Pros: All around beautiful music. One of the most creative and captivating "rock records" ever released.
Cons: Those expecting the Nirvana-esque alternative rock of OK Computer will probably be disappointed.

After releasing their monumental OK Computer in 1997, many were fascinated as to how Radiohead would approach their highly anticipated follow-up Kid A. There was much initial speculation that the album would be OK Computer Part II until it was announced ...

Pros: Variety and innovations galore! Dare I say, a masterpiece?
Cons: Some may not be able to look past all the electronic sounds to enjoy this.

To be frank, I am not impressed with much new music these days, especially popular styles. I come from a formally schooled music background, and understand the nuts and bolts of what music is, and how it is pieced together. Grasping the dry "textbook" inf ...