I completely remember the first time I listened to this album. It was just when it came out and I was browsing records in FNAC when I saw the new Radiohead album was available on one of their listening stations. I liked "Ok Computer" so I decided to give it a go and I was very pleasently surprise when I started hearing this first track. It caught me off guard, but I really enjoyed it and it only got better as I kept listening to the album. I remember thinking at myself "these guys went crazy and I'm loving it". By the end of it I had no choice but to immediately buy the album and to this day it's still one of the albuns I've listened to the most.
It is cool that you are going into this album with that basic background (it is pretty much accurate). The best advice is to just delight in the soundscapes and instruments and details as the melody and the rest wash over, or beneath, or fall apart altpgether but in the most glorious of ways. I am one of those fans you described! The prior album 'OK Computer' I got in 1997 when it came out, and within 2 listens had become and remains 25+ years later my favorite piece of music for my life prior and since All I wanted on our Green Earth was MORE MORE of that when this release was coming about (hope you decide to take the time and react to more Radiohead and "OK Computer" in particular to see what - despite the differences - clearly birthed THIS album). Yes, 'How To Dissapear' was an undeniable treasure, that stuck with me instantly musically and emotionally at the highest level, but I struggled to get into the rest (mainly due to my preconceptions - I consider 'KidA' to be a master-work now - I love it front to back (always best listened to as a whole). To me, "Kid A" is like an album that fell out of some galaxy somewhere for 500 Million Years, and landed on Earth right on an active volcaneo, was buried in lava, encased, then dug up 20.000 years later to be listened to. Many songs took multiple listens to really break through my brain until I fell into them, but each person is different. I wasn't opening m ears, mind and musical spirit to it. Plenty of fans and new listeners 'got it' right away. Within 1 year, some critics and polls had "OK Computer"(1997) as the best album of the 90's and one of the best of all time. So was a big move on "Kid A" they not only didn't play it safe, they went all in for a re-invented method for them for creating music - given they'd just had this first true grand breakthough, critics and new fans smothering them, they definitely went all out on a big limb, having found success and an incredible, unique, sound as a 3 guitar attack, bass and drums, alt/rock 5 member band since they began - despite that they dropped all their instruments for most of this album (not the case on 3 or 4 tracks) or had to get very creative in how to get new sounds out of them. They listened to a ton of Jazz, mainly Miles Davis, and Electonica such as DJ Shadow. They got into digital software synth programming, added new electronic sampling and unusual instruments and it opened up and out into the final record: explorative - -unique for all times (It will still sound new and unique in 50 years, as it did in 2000 as it would have in 1950); it never stops getting interesting, as I know I am still hearing new sounds every time I hear it 24 years later; a total, singular left turn in music history ("Kid A" is also now ranked on the same polls as the prior album, for those who need some time to get comfotable with it or need to hear some other Radiohead to relate to, this may seem like a stretch, while I don't believe so, music is always personal taste, no right or wrong). They wrote their next album at the same time as this, so it has simililarities but still sounds different, while remaining quite experiemntal. Then then they began marrying this sound back into something more organic in 2003, then achieved possibly their greatest album '"In Rainbows'"in 2007, so "Kid A" is a huge and successful phase for the band and they never left many of the elements behind, they continued through all 9 albums (5 of 9 made it onto the Rolling Stone Top 500 List - not that this means everything as those polls are never perfect but still, no small accomplishment). We await the 10th - they are still officially together and all playing or composing doing their own things at this moment - and if another album happens my guess ia it'll probably be the last. But what is a world without surpises, good and bad, contrary to the plea in the song from "OK Computer" you were humming before your reaction started 'No Surprises.' Sry for the insanely long comment - After Radiohead my favorite artist are Stevi Ray Vaughan and Pink Floyd. Not a combination you find very often I'd guess, or who knows. So I've enjoyed the many reactions you have done for both and am pleasantly surprised and quite happy to see you have come upon my favorite of them all. No matter how much I like a reaction, I promise that is the longest comment I will write in my life! Thanks. Peace/
Their album "OK Computer" is a good balance of instrumental and electronic. Not to mention many experts believe it is the greatest rock album ever made...
you may know him already but the artist Yppah makes really good jammy, sometimes shoe-gazy music that I think everyone would like. the albums EightyOne and Tiny Pause are my favorites
RADIOHEAD is the modern day Pink Floyd the way they experiment with different sounds. LOVE ❤️ Them😅 Jone you won't be disappointed especially with headphones 😊
I like this album. i buy ok computer in 1997 because i like the 2 videoclip on tv and i became a fan of this band after that. Yeah Kid A surely some fan not expect this kind of change. I know some people became a fan because Kid A and some be a fan and dislike it. The Rolling Stone make a 100 best album of the 2000's decade and this Album got the first place. i appreciate the change the band make. After this album Amnesiac have electronic sounding a little bit too and after that that go a little be more traditionnal sounding with guitar
Kid A is a treasure. To me, it isn't the masterpiece that OK Computer is, but still an absolute treasure. National Anthem is my personal favorite off this album. It is ok to say Thom was sad, Radiohead fans love a sad Thom. Sad Thom gives us amazing music.
I am a bit of a Radiohead nut and I was definitely expecting their usual guitar based experimental sound. You're right, this song, very electronic. The guitars sort of reappear on songs like Optimistic and the base dominated National Anthem. As with many Radiohead songs, they make more sense and come more alive, live. Probably Ideoteque stands out, out for me but I definitely had to give this album way more listens than those before (same with Amnesiac). I think they re-found their guitar sound on the next HTTT album. It would be Like Spinning Plates but on Kid A it is IMO virtually unlistenable, compared to the version on the live I Might Be Wrong album.
I was so upset I actually boycotted them for years but now I applaud them for having been hailed as the saviors of rock and roll and turned around and made this which cost them some fans at first.
Why can't I be responsible like you and not write a 20 minute comment man? I'm not for this twitter era. I've never used it. Generally I've been doing better - I just have enjoyed this reactor's Pink Floyd and SRV reactions, its a surprise - and always risky to open up with "Kid A" as we've discussed - I dampen my truth of playing Amnesiac and liking it more - a year later basically - but still it was no OKC, not even the epic B-Side. "Pyramid Song," "I Might Be Wrong," "Knives Out," and "Dollars and Cents" I liked all of those (Whereas I loved and no denying "How To Dissapear Completely" - also liked "Everything In...." - but just hated and had to skip more than any of them "National Anthem" and "Idioteche" - which once I went back and the sounds from front to back all transcended on me, especially "The Naitonal Anthem" I could not beleve myself. Admittedly, it was more hap-hazard on Amnesiac - "Hunting Bears" is still my least favorite A or B side they've done, '"Pulk Pull" requires my best efforts, but it is made up by just how astronomically amazing I ended up loving "Spinning Plates" and "Life in a Glasshouse" - 2 songs I would NEVER have thought I'd like even once my mind was unlocked to this sound from this period. They took longer to hit but I'm sure glad I hung in there. But after a couple months I was done with playing Amnesiac really, that was 2001, nothing but blues or jazz guitarists specifically, until 2008. And that is courtesy of 'Kid A.' But it is such a gloriously complete product and manages to wrabgle chaos into structure, and those structures happento be Apex level Radiohead songs - maybe not the title track for me - though it has come around a lot for me. Hope all is well. I am trying to get a reaction up for the live (no other version is there) "Staircase" always a personal favorite of mine and an entire direction I'd jind of hoped they'd go down. But it is a first for me so now I am swimmong the stream. Just need my own channel - "Drew Reacts to the Horiible Music of the last 20 years,"
@@dreww1609 I always enjoy your commentary and I wish I could say I loved Kid A and Amnesiac right from the get go but as much as I like prog rock I just didn't consider either of those records proggy. Now I think both albums are/were progressive as hell but at the time I just wasn't as musically mature and wasn't ready to give them the attention they required in fact the only song I liked from Amnesiac right away was the opener PLSIACTB I just wasn't ready. When you first listen to something sometimes is the most important aspect.
Radiohead albums are different each time so you’ll always have a different listening experience. Unlike Muse or Red Hot Chilli Peppers or U2, etc etc who just release the same stuff different tune every album. Some people react in order of discography and when you do that you get a sense of how they evolved but you’ve dived into the deep end with kidA 😊
Mushroomhead came out with 2 new songs. One is called “Fall in Line” and the other is called “Prepackaged”. Then the band As I Lay Dying has also 2 new songs. The first one is “Burden” and the other one is “The Cave We Fear to Enter.” Plus check out some of these songs out by Imminence. Some songs like “Continuum”, “Chasing Shadows”, “Alleviate”, “Heaven Shall Burn”, “The Sickness”, “Paralyzed”, “Heaven in Hiding”, and “Ghost”. These bands are amazing. I’m sure you did some of these bands or maybe even all of them. Any of them that you didn’t do. Could you please check the ones you haven’t done yet. I apologize. Could you please check the ones you haven’t done yet. Thanks ❤️🤘🏼❤️! Derrick
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I completely remember the first time I listened to this album. It was just when it came out and I was browsing records in FNAC when I saw the new Radiohead album was available on one of their listening stations. I liked "Ok Computer" so I decided to give it a go and I was very pleasently surprise when I started hearing this first track. It caught me off guard, but I really enjoyed it and it only got better as I kept listening to the album. I remember thinking at myself "these guys went crazy and I'm loving it". By the end of it I had no choice but to immediately buy the album and to this day it's still one of the albuns I've listened to the most.
nice job. and yes, i can totally imagine. it took me 20 years to revisit this record and realize how great it was.
It is cool that you are going into this album with that basic background (it is pretty much accurate). The best advice is to just delight in the soundscapes and instruments and details as the melody and the rest wash over, or beneath, or fall apart altpgether but in the most glorious of ways. I am one of those fans you described! The prior album 'OK Computer' I got in 1997 when it came out, and within 2 listens had become and remains 25+ years later my favorite piece of music for my life prior and since All I wanted on our Green Earth was MORE MORE of that when this release was coming about (hope you decide to take the time and react to more Radiohead and "OK Computer" in particular to see what - despite the differences - clearly birthed THIS album). Yes, 'How To Dissapear' was an undeniable treasure, that stuck with me instantly musically and emotionally at the highest level, but I struggled to get into the rest (mainly due to my preconceptions - I consider 'KidA' to be a master-work now - I love it front to back (always best listened to as a whole). To me, "Kid A" is like an album that fell out of some galaxy somewhere for 500 Million Years, and landed on Earth right on an active volcaneo, was buried in lava, encased, then dug up 20.000 years later to be listened to. Many songs took multiple listens to really break through my brain until I fell into them, but each person is different. I wasn't opening m ears, mind and musical spirit to it. Plenty of fans and new listeners 'got it' right away. Within 1 year, some critics and polls had "OK Computer"(1997) as the best album of the 90's and one of the best of all time. So was a big move on "Kid A" they not only didn't play it safe, they went all in for a re-invented method for them for creating music - given they'd just had this first true grand breakthough, critics and new fans smothering them, they definitely went all out on a big limb, having found success and an incredible, unique, sound as a 3 guitar attack, bass and drums, alt/rock 5 member band since they began - despite that they dropped all their instruments for most of this album (not the case on 3 or 4 tracks) or had to get very creative in how to get new sounds out of them. They listened to a ton of Jazz, mainly Miles Davis, and Electonica such as DJ Shadow. They got into digital software synth programming, added new electronic sampling and unusual instruments and it opened up and out into the final record: explorative - -unique for all times (It will still sound new and unique in 50 years, as it did in 2000 as it would have in 1950); it never stops getting interesting, as I know I am still hearing new sounds every time I hear it 24 years later; a total, singular left turn in music history ("Kid A" is also now ranked on the same polls as the prior album, for those who need some time to get comfotable with it or need to hear some other Radiohead to relate to, this may seem like a stretch, while I don't believe so, music is always personal taste, no right or wrong). They wrote their next album at the same time as this, so it has simililarities but still sounds different, while remaining quite experiemntal. Then then they began marrying this sound back into something more organic in 2003, then achieved possibly their greatest album '"In Rainbows'"in 2007, so "Kid A" is a huge and successful phase for the band and they never left many of the elements behind, they continued through all 9 albums (5 of 9 made it onto the Rolling Stone Top 500 List - not that this means everything as those polls are never perfect but still, no small accomplishment). We await the 10th - they are still officially together and all playing or composing doing their own things at this moment - and if another album happens my guess ia it'll probably be the last. But what is a world without surpises, good and bad, contrary to the plea in the song from "OK Computer" you were humming before your reaction started 'No Surprises.' Sry for the insanely long comment - After Radiohead my favorite artist are Stevi Ray Vaughan and Pink Floyd. Not a combination you find very often I'd guess, or who knows. So I've enjoyed the many reactions you have done for both and am pleasantly surprised and quite happy to see you have come upon my favorite of them all. No matter how much I like a reaction, I promise that is the longest comment I will write in my life! Thanks. Peace/
You should definitely listen to In Rainbows ! (espacially weird fishes/arpeggi and all i need)
Wait till you hear the next track.... 👌
Their album "OK Computer" is a good balance of instrumental and electronic. Not to mention many experts believe it is the greatest rock album ever made...
I can’t wait for you to get to The National Anthem. My favorite!!!!!
you may know him already but the artist Yppah makes really good jammy, sometimes shoe-gazy music that I think everyone would like. the albums EightyOne and Tiny Pause are my favorites
RADIOHEAD is the modern day Pink Floyd the way they experiment with different sounds. LOVE ❤️ Them😅 Jone you won't be disappointed especially with headphones 😊
I like this album. i buy ok computer in 1997 because i like the 2 videoclip on tv and i became a fan of this band after that. Yeah Kid A surely some fan not expect this kind of change. I know some people became a fan because Kid A and some be a fan and dislike it. The Rolling Stone make a 100 best album of the 2000's decade and this Album got the first place. i appreciate the change the band make. After this album Amnesiac have electronic sounding a little bit too and after that that go a little be more traditionnal sounding with guitar
Kid A is a treasure. To me, it isn't the masterpiece that OK Computer is, but still an absolute treasure. National Anthem is my personal favorite off this album. It is ok to say Thom was sad, Radiohead fans love a sad Thom. Sad Thom gives us amazing music.
I am a bit of a Radiohead nut and I was definitely expecting their usual guitar based experimental sound. You're right, this song, very electronic. The guitars sort of reappear on songs like Optimistic and the base dominated National Anthem. As with many Radiohead songs, they make more sense and come more alive, live. Probably Ideoteque stands out, out for me but I definitely had to give this album way more listens than those before (same with Amnesiac). I think they re-found their guitar sound on the next HTTT album. It would be Like Spinning Plates but on Kid A it is IMO virtually unlistenable, compared to the version on the live I Might Be Wrong album.
I was so upset I actually boycotted them for years but now I applaud them for having been hailed as the saviors of rock and roll and turned around and made this which cost them some fans at first.
Why can't I be responsible like you and not write a 20 minute comment man? I'm not for this twitter era. I've never used it. Generally I've been doing better - I just have enjoyed this reactor's Pink Floyd and SRV reactions, its a surprise - and always risky to open up with "Kid A" as we've discussed - I dampen my truth of playing Amnesiac and liking it more - a year later basically - but still it was no OKC, not even the epic B-Side. "Pyramid Song," "I Might Be Wrong," "Knives Out," and "Dollars and Cents" I liked all of those (Whereas I loved and no denying "How To Dissapear Completely" - also liked "Everything In...." - but just hated and had to skip more than any of them "National Anthem" and "Idioteche" - which once I went back and the sounds from front to back all transcended on me, especially "The Naitonal Anthem" I could not beleve myself. Admittedly, it was more hap-hazard on Amnesiac - "Hunting Bears" is still my least favorite A or B side they've done, '"Pulk Pull" requires my best efforts, but it is made up by just how astronomically amazing I ended up loving "Spinning Plates" and "Life in a Glasshouse" - 2 songs I would NEVER have thought I'd like even once my mind was unlocked to this sound from this period. They took longer to hit but I'm sure glad I hung in there. But after a couple months I was done with playing Amnesiac really, that was 2001, nothing but blues or jazz guitarists specifically, until 2008. And that is courtesy of 'Kid A.' But it is such a gloriously complete product and manages to wrabgle chaos into structure, and those structures happento be Apex level Radiohead songs - maybe not the title track for me - though it has come around a lot for me. Hope all is well. I am trying to get a reaction up for the live (no other version is there) "Staircase" always a personal favorite of mine and an entire direction I'd jind of hoped they'd go down. But it is a first for me so now I am swimmong the stream. Just need my own channel - "Drew Reacts to the Horiible Music of the last 20 years,"
@@dreww1609 I always enjoy your commentary and I wish I could say I loved Kid A and Amnesiac right from the get go but as much as I like prog rock I just didn't consider either of those records proggy. Now I think both albums are/were progressive as hell but at the time I just wasn't as musically mature and wasn't ready to give them the attention they required in fact the only song I liked from Amnesiac right away was the opener PLSIACTB I just wasn't ready. When you first listen to something sometimes is the most important aspect.
Not sure where the P came from but you know the name of the song.
@@dreww1609
Why did you boycott them? They are artists. Who are you?
I don’t think they need you as a fan go listen to Coldplay
You have to see this song played live: ua-cam.com/video/eOIHri4Jr-g/v-deo.html
Radiohead albums are different each time so you’ll always have a different listening experience. Unlike Muse or Red Hot Chilli Peppers or U2, etc etc who just release the same stuff different tune every album. Some people react in order of discography and when you do that you get a sense of how they evolved but you’ve dived into the deep end with kidA 😊
That's not true. Muse changed and now make awful music.
Mushroomhead came out with 2 new songs. One is called “Fall in Line” and the other is called “Prepackaged”. Then the band As I Lay Dying has also 2 new songs. The first one is “Burden” and the other one is “The Cave We Fear to Enter.” Plus check out some of these songs out by Imminence. Some songs like “Continuum”, “Chasing Shadows”, “Alleviate”, “Heaven Shall Burn”, “The Sickness”, “Paralyzed”, “Heaven in Hiding”, and “Ghost”.
These bands are amazing. I’m sure you did some of these bands or maybe even all of them. Any of them that you didn’t do. Could you please check the ones you haven’t done yet. I apologize. Could you please check the ones you haven’t done yet. Thanks ❤️🤘🏼❤️! Derrick
You really need to listen to Radiohead album by album, not song by song.