i feel like u look at certain parts of the album cover depending on the song, like you listen to the first two songs and ur focused on the night sky and when you listen to the national anthem you’re focused on the flames and fire. and when you listen to idioteque and morning bell you’re focused on the jagged snowy mountains
Kid A. It’s like some weird haunted house that you never really want to go in, but whenever you do decide to enter it, it’s oddly fascinating and not really scary after all.
This might be the most fitting cover for an album ever, it just... fits. Its ethereal, icy, lonely, haunting, surrreal, digital and gives lots of feelings.
Okay, *hard* disagree on How To Disappear Completely on breaking the flow of the album. If anything, this song was placed *perfectly* after The National Anthem. If the latter represents absolute chaos and anxiety, then the former is the "coming down" of said intensified emotions, as if reflecting on the events of The National Anthem. Contrast lyrics like "everyone is so near, everyone has got fear, it's holding on", where you feel constant pressure from outside, to "I'm not here, this isn't happening", wishing to escape this mentally oppressive environment. It's the perfect juxtaposition of the two emotional extremes. And yes, even the instrumentation is rather consistent. The National Anthem is mostly driven by the rhythm section if bass and drums, and How To Disappear Completely brings the acoustic guitar to the forefront. And both feature similar-sounding ambient/unsettling background instrumentation, bringing the seemingly different tracks under one roof. That being said, hard *agree* on Treefingers - this track *is* placed perfectly after HTDC. It feels like a brief moment of peace after the emotional turmoil of the previous two tracks. It's a lot like A Warm Place by Nine Inch Nails, and the context is very similar, reaching the same kind of exceptional result. Fun fact: Treefingers was actually played on guitar! It was just greatly slowed down, giving it the necessary space. I apologise if I sound pretentious, I just really love the album. In fact, it's my favourite album of all time (alongside Sky Valley by Kyuss)!
It took me like 10 listens until I noticed the callback to The National Anthem on HTDC with the little bits of brass section echoing in the background. I love the glimmers of creepiness all throughout that song, makes it feel like part of the same storyline as TNA
how to disappear completely is perfect, but NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THE BASS. ITS LITERALLY PERFECT. ITS HARD TO HEAR BUT WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT I GOT CHILLS.
Glad someone appreciates Colin as much as I do. He lays down such a rock hard foundation for their composing. Radiohead isn’t Radiohead without that fat bass
But yeah seriously I wouldn't have this username if it weren't one of my favorites on the album. It's such a specific sound and vibe, it's so cool and ethereal.
at first i really hated Kid A (the song), but i’ve rly grown to appreciate how awesome it is it’s so relaxing but feels so cold and barren at the same time😌 sounds like a wintery alien lullaby i love it
@@jneigh727 personally I think the weirdass vocals are what make the song. It adds a strange feeling of something alien and sinister that is tainting what is otherwise a pretty peaceful, almost nursery-rhyme like song
I saw Radiohead in Warrington on the same day they released the album. Bought the album, listened to it in the car, watched it live! And I wasn't ready.
@@jameshoward-white2288 ah right, though i met someone by chance from warrington for a second :( So was warrington a destination point for music stuff back in the day, or something?
This was one of the first albums i ever listened to and to this day feels fresh. It's dark, yet bright, cold yet hot, disorienting yet beautiful, black and white... Aaaaand i'm just describing the album cover
To me, this album always felt like a white-alien-room as if this came from another realm, like a dream that makes you flow through your own memories, this was the first Radiohead album I heard when I was younger and It's still my favorite.
I have such a strange relationship with this album. OK Computer came out when I was 15 and profoundly affected me. I have never anticipated an album more than I did this one. And when I got it day 1, my disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined. Aside from Optimistic, I just didn’t get it. I wasn’t huge into electronic at that point and this was just hard for me. I wish I could say I’m some kind of music genius and I recognize all the best at the time, but I’m not. Eventually it grew on me like a lamprey. Now it’s my #3 Radiohead album. I love it immensely, but it’s also got these very powerful contrasting feelings/memories attached to it.
Most of us had the same type of issues with it when it came out it is one of those things where you really had to be there I gave them one more chance at the time with Amnesiac and then I kind of stopped listening to them for years. The shock those two albums caused me was pretty messed up ( now I love both records ).
@@nesfan8 In Rainbows is #2. Out of all their albums, it’s the most listenable regardless of mood. It doesn’t matter how I’m feeling. If it gets put on, I want to listen all the way through. Even though it’s # 2, if I had to pick a desert island disc, it’d go before OKC.
If OK Computer is like looking at an absolute perfection through a glass screen, then Kid A is like having gone beyond the screen and into that world, and feeling both as a stranger in an alien reality and yet totally immersed in it, knowing not where the self ends and the world in which it exists begins, and for all that immersion, the environment is less tangible, the thoughts more abstract and the feelings more ambivalent. The first three tracks are for me like a triptych describing the emerging consciousness, like the journey from sleep to awakening, the ascent to the surface of the water, or birth. Everything in it's right place is still being in a state of dreaming, Kid A is that half-world state between sleep and wakefulness and the relentless ostinato of The National Anthem is the abrupt jolting awake of the morning alarm clock.
Tree Fingers has to be one of my most liked songs ever made. It makes me think of a solar system, with light flickers of explosions in the stars, I really wish I could find more stuff like it. This whole album gives me a feeling of being in a completely different world and the thoughts going through your head while trying to process everything. I also the Tree Fingers and all the other songs are placed in a perfect order. I just like that that song is a little out of place because it makes you appreciate it more in context with the other songs.
I wanna bring up a point with Treefingers, and it's the fact that people are _way_ too hard on interludes these days. I feel like there's a lost art to appreciating the placement of interludes on an album, because they always get the lowest scores in any album, and they're not seen as their own valuable pieces of work instead of just an incomplete throwaway like most people would say they are. Fitter Happier and Treefingers are both great examples of important interludes and they help an album way more than people realise. Because without them, the flow of any album would be considerably worse.
Treefingers is my 2nd favourite track off of Kid A, on my first listen I didn't even know its an interlude, I thought it was just a song. It's just so beautiful man.
Everything at the end of time , everything in its right place, Kid a IS just crazy and disturbingly beautiful, Treefingers sounds literally like everything at the end of time. Allso Brad what from radiohead do you not know?
@@xx-ug9hn I got the reissue where its 1 12 inch LP. I agree with the 10 inch format, I saw it at a record shop a few weeks ago and thought it wasn't real, never saw an album done like that.
How to Disappear Completely is the best Radiohead song. C'mon dude, the song flows in the best way possible in the album, it's dark, bright, you feel in a world of devastation and loliness and you feel safe. Its perfect.
This song came from a conversation Thom had with Michael Stipe from REM about dealing with fame. He told Thom to sometimes just pretend that none of it was really happening. Just learn to disappear completely.
the contrast between treefingers and optimistic is what makes optimistic sound so compelling and epic, which also makes the perfct transition to in limbo more satisfying
I love the phenomenon everyone continues to point out between the seemingly perfect album art. Like genuinely, for me, I cannot fully comprehend what is happening in it at a glance, but the longer I stare at it, the more it begins to illuminate and meld the art of Kid A; to the atmosphere it creates around itself.
I think he perfectly explained why I love Treefingers. It's the quiet aftermath after the big dramatic climax of How to Dissapear completely. It's also just a gorgeous ambient piece on its own.
I wish I could go back and listen to their catalog for the first time again. You should watch the two basement sessions it helped so many people get Radiohead.
I listened to this album for the first time yesterday and was blown away. It's magical. I tried listening to Radiohead before and I thought it wasn't really for be, but now I'm glad i gave Kid A a chance
when i try to introduce this album to people who havent listen this yet it turns very very difficult cause its not only the music itself is the whole music, social, political, century change, technology etc context... so i think the lucky ones who could listen to this master piece in the 2000 were really fortunates to have this blowing away music experience in our lives
Brad I have to thank you for that intro. By putting the "Everywhere at End of Time" melody into a more chill, fun context, you've lessened the intense dread I'll feel when it's 2 am and I suddenly hear that trumpet playing distantly in my mind. This is a genuine issue I've had since your reaction to it. That melody gets stuck in my head at the worst times and I start thinking about death and decay and freak myself out bad. Says a lot about the power of good music when it immerses you in its ethos just by it being stuck in your head.
This review is absolutely spot on so far, completely agree with the whole Treefingers explanation. One request for another review: Aphex Twin / Selected Ambient works 85-92. Please.
Always felt like the album covers of their albums Ok Computer and onward always perfectly encapsulated the theme and mood of the album as a whole. The bends is one of my favorites but when I first got it the cover didn’t really capture the setting of the gorgeous songs on there.
If you love how Radiohead can set a vibe within an album, you'd love Pink Floyd. Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, or Animals. I think you would like Animals the best. Also a Pink Floyd reaction series would probably perform well on UA-cam!
Treefingers is all guitar baby! synth not required. Ed used to record these little loops on his pedals before rehearsals etc. Then Thom took them and arranged them into a song ;)
hey brad, really enjoying this series! ur passion for these albums and songs makes me smile so hard, been a fan of ur vids for a while now - keep doin what ur doin! cant wait to see u go through the rest of their albums :)))
How to disappear completely is well placed for me. After the first 3 songs, we’re emotionally disoriented, and then HTDC comes in and is simultaneously the most unreal, surreal, and real track. I’m both well grounded while at the same time slowly dissolving into the ether. Treefingers is just then the void.
I've seen a lot of people talk about the album art for Kid A without mentioning Stanley Donwood himself, check his work out very ethereal and some can be found at his website Slowly downward
I love how happy he is when Kid A (the track) comes on. It’s so pretty that it reduces me to tears most of the time which happens for quite a few tracks on this album tbh.
What I love about this album is that it can make you feel so many things, and in different ways, many times I feel trapped inside the music on this, sometimes I feel scared by the ambiguous sounds and atmospheres and other times I feel relaxed. and captivated by the emotions it evokes. Although for me the best thing about this album is its ability to transport you to other spaces, when I listen to the first song I can see how the voices and sounds rotate like lights around me and get tangled and looped. When I listen to kid a I can feel myself floating in bed as I travel across the cover listening to the irregular rhythms of the bass and drums. When I listen to the national anthem I can feel the flames and fires generated by the brass band made up of alien creatures in the second section of the song and the chills it gives me. When I hear how to dissappear completely I can see the dark skies and how the strings break reality into thousands of fragments and reassemble once more. Listening to treefingers I am transported to outer space, observing the immense and incomprehensible sizes of the planets right in front of me. Optimistic and In limbo have always been a united experience for me, they represent the ambiguous side of the album, the side of the album that makes you feel like your mind has been freed from memories and you're just wandering on seas of ice. Idiotque and Morning Bell extend these emotions but do so in a much darker and more pessimistic way, much like the ice voids that glitch and disappear and appear on the cover. Motion picture soundtrack is probably the most human song on the album, when I listen to it I can see the protagonist playing the organ and saying goodbye to life at the end of the song, which untitled solves, as if it were the angels' response to his song. sorry for the long comment haha
how to disappear is the point on the album where the songwriter first becomes aware of how shitty reality is. the first 3 songs were describing what the alien world is like, and then song 4 is where the emotional response to the world comes out
That intro I’m wheezing Also thank you for uploading this, one of my favorite videos just got privated for no reason so I needed something to cheer me up
You said the opening of Kid A sounds like you're about to be taken away somewhere, and the song goes on to reference the Pied Piper. They just nail it every time...
i love how this guy is getting down to this song.. i also think this song "kid a" is just beautiful and it doesn't matter how you interpret it ... its going to take you somwhere
@@prismix0870 except for pablo honey, although the debut of most bands is always rough around the edges and I don't think pablo honey is too bad so it's not like it's a failure or anything.
@@droptherapy2085 fair enough, and i may have overstated. i dont think the king of limbs is amazing either. however, undeniably, ok computer, in rainbows, and imo the bends are some of the best music to ever exist
That album cover just perfectly portrayed the vibe of this album, especially Idioteque and Everything In Its Right Place
i feel like u look at certain parts of the album cover depending on the song, like you listen to the first two songs and ur focused on the night sky and when you listen to the national anthem you’re focused on the flames and fire. and when you listen to idioteque and morning bell you’re focused on the jagged snowy mountains
@@owenf2835 you are absolutely right
Angular, uncanny, dark, glitchy...oddly beautiful.
how to disappear completely too
At the back of the album there’s a “back cover” which most albums have, but the back of it perfectly portrays ‘kid a’ and ‘treefingers’
Kid A. It’s like some weird haunted house that you never really want to go in, but whenever you do decide to enter it, it’s oddly fascinating and not really scary after all.
exactly that !
Except I want to go in it all the damn time
I get that feeling but replace the haunted house with an icy large cave
Perfect description
Damn
This might be the most fitting cover for an album ever, it just... fits. Its ethereal, icy, lonely, haunting, surrreal, digital and gives lots of feelings.
Definitely! I always loved Kid A cover because of it, I look to this picture and it feels completely right
@@davimag2071 everything is in its right place
Okay, *hard* disagree on How To Disappear Completely on breaking the flow of the album. If anything, this song was placed *perfectly* after The National Anthem. If the latter represents absolute chaos and anxiety, then the former is the "coming down" of said intensified emotions, as if reflecting on the events of The National Anthem. Contrast lyrics like "everyone is so near, everyone has got fear, it's holding on", where you feel constant pressure from outside, to "I'm not here, this isn't happening", wishing to escape this mentally oppressive environment. It's the perfect juxtaposition of the two emotional extremes.
And yes, even the instrumentation is rather consistent. The National Anthem is mostly driven by the rhythm section if bass and drums, and How To Disappear Completely brings the acoustic guitar to the forefront. And both feature similar-sounding ambient/unsettling background instrumentation, bringing the seemingly different tracks under one roof.
That being said, hard *agree* on Treefingers - this track *is* placed perfectly after HTDC. It feels like a brief moment of peace after the emotional turmoil of the previous two tracks. It's a lot like A Warm Place by Nine Inch Nails, and the context is very similar, reaching the same kind of exceptional result.
Fun fact: Treefingers was actually played on guitar! It was just greatly slowed down, giving it the necessary space.
I apologise if I sound pretentious, I just really love the album. In fact, it's my favourite album of all time (alongside Sky Valley by Kyuss)!
100%
In a way to achieve a similar contrast to the juxtaposition of Climbing Up the Walls & No Surprises
Sky Valley is awesome
To be honest I say the national anthem breaks the flow
It took me like 10 listens until I noticed the callback to The National Anthem on HTDC with the little bits of brass section echoing in the background. I love the glimmers of creepiness all throughout that song, makes it feel like part of the same storyline as TNA
how to disappear completely is perfect, but NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THE BASS. ITS LITERALLY PERFECT. ITS HARD TO HEAR BUT WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT I GOT CHILLS.
Glad someone appreciates Colin as much as I do. He lays down such a rock hard foundation for their composing. Radiohead isn’t Radiohead without that fat bass
Thom's favourite song he ever made, apparently.
its absolutely hypnotic. SUCH A GOOD SOOONG
"the sound of sorrow being shout out into nothingness"
That's the perfect way to describe How to Disappear completely.
That first 'Everyone' in National Anthem.
i actually always loved treefingers, it's so relaxing and evocative
I try.
But yeah seriously I wouldn't have this username if it weren't one of my favorites on the album. It's such a specific sound and vibe, it's so cool and ethereal.
the first time a song had given me that asmr feel, that pure feeling of relaxation
It's such an beautiful song, it's such an aphex twin ambient inspired.
@@alex11v3 yes! Exactly
The national anthem has such a badass baseline
Thom wrote this when he was like 10 😂
@@chrisww2308 holy hell, that kid was going places
@@chrisww2308yeah he was 16 i think
Brad's vid quality bar has been raised. i'd be expecting high quality vids like this one from now onwards nothing less
looool
haha
May i ask smth
How doesnt he get a strike if hes using licensed music
I dont get it, can someone pls explain me?
@@mishanya9495 review content is considered transformative, which is allowed under fair use
@@blast4028 actually he just splits the music into parts so it doesn’t get striked
1:04 Everything In Its Right Place
5:13 Kid A
9:26 The National Anthem
13:49 How to Disappear Completely
18:26 Treefingers
at first i really hated Kid A (the song), but i’ve rly grown to appreciate how awesome it is it’s so relaxing but feels so cold and barren at the same time😌 sounds like a wintery alien lullaby i love it
@@jneigh727 There's a live version from 2004 (I think) in which Thom used his clear voice
@@jneigh727 personally I think the weirdass vocals are what make the song. It adds a strange feeling of something alien and sinister that is tainting what is otherwise a pretty peaceful, almost nursery-rhyme like song
I have a really weird relationship with that song. I have always loved it, but whenever I hear it I feel frightened and strangely comforted.
@@skttrbrain2513 It reminds me too much of the computer generated Tomodachi Life noises.
It didn’t click the first few times but it grew to be one of the most Intriguing songs on the album imo.
Kid A has been molded into my DNA ever since I first heard that warm synth and that EVERYTHIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
I saw Radiohead in Warrington on the same day they released the album.
Bought the album, listened to it in the car, watched it live!
And I wasn't ready.
Me either it took like 13 years to get this record.
wait.... other people live in warringon what!
@@dan-pw9ji no, Northampton. Had to drive a long way to get there.
@@jameshoward-white2288 ah right, though i met someone by chance from warrington for a second :( So was warrington a destination point for music stuff back in the day, or something?
@@dan-pw9ji Radiohead did write a famous tour.
They set up tents, they didn't use venues
i relate to brad going insane while enjoying radiohead a lot
This was one of the first albums i ever listened to and to this day feels fresh. It's dark, yet bright, cold yet hot, disorienting yet beautiful, black and white... Aaaaand i'm just describing the album cover
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@@sagarbhalerao96 Hard agree brother
To me, this album always felt like a white-alien-room as if this came from another realm, like a dream that makes you flow through your own memories, this was the first Radiohead album I heard when I was younger and It's still my favorite.
DiCrescenzo, is that you?
i have the same exact opinion. holy shit.....
When I first heard it under headphones I felt like I was inside a 3D brain lighting up slowly with thoughts and sounds. Really amazing.
this whole album feels like a liminal space in the 2000s and having the interludes of EATEOT accentuates that feeling
1:49 - effects of Weed
6:38 - effects of cocaine
10:23 - effects of Ecstacy
15:08 - LSD
Ecstasy be hitting hard
Dont ever buy no gastation from the gastation
I have such a strange relationship with this album. OK Computer came out when I was 15 and profoundly affected me. I have never anticipated an album more than I did this one. And when I got it day 1, my disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined. Aside from Optimistic, I just didn’t get it. I wasn’t huge into electronic at that point and this was just hard for me. I wish I could say I’m some kind of music genius and I recognize all the best at the time, but I’m not. Eventually it grew on me like a lamprey. Now it’s my #3 Radiohead album. I love it immensely, but it’s also got these very powerful contrasting feelings/memories attached to it.
Most of us had the same type of issues with it when it came out it is one of those things where you really had to be there I gave them one more chance at the time with Amnesiac and then I kind of stopped listening to them for years. The shock those two albums caused me was pretty messed up ( now I love both records ).
Wait whats your second favorite then ? In Rainbows or Bends ?
@@nesfan8 In Rainbows is #2. Out of all their albums, it’s the most listenable regardless of mood. It doesn’t matter how I’m feeling. If it gets put on, I want to listen all the way through. Even though it’s # 2, if I had to pick a desert island disc, it’d go before OKC.
The first time I heard paranoid android I thought it sounded awful. I have no idea how.
If OK Computer is like looking at an absolute perfection through a glass screen, then Kid A is like having gone beyond the screen and into that world, and feeling both as a stranger in an alien reality and yet totally immersed in it, knowing not where the self ends and the world in which it exists begins, and for all that immersion, the environment is less tangible, the thoughts more abstract and the feelings more ambivalent.
The first three tracks are for me like a triptych describing the emerging consciousness, like the journey from sleep to awakening, the ascent to the surface of the water, or birth. Everything in it's right place is still being in a state of dreaming, Kid A is that half-world state between sleep and wakefulness and the relentless ostinato of The National Anthem is the abrupt jolting awake of the morning alarm clock.
nice way to put it man.
tripdeeznuts lol ( i completely agree with you)
Tree Fingers has to be one of my most liked songs ever made. It makes me think of a solar system, with light flickers of explosions in the stars, I really wish I could find more stuff like it. This whole album gives me a feeling of being in a completely different world and the thoughts going through your head while trying to process everything. I also the Tree Fingers and all the other songs are placed in a perfect order. I just like that that song is a little out of place because it makes you appreciate it more in context with the other songs.
I'd recommend Aphex twin for similar stuff, they have a song called #3 that's similar
I cried when I heard this album, I could give everything to hear it for the first time again. It's beautiful
This is my favourite album ever but I don't remember feeling anything the first time I heard it, it took me a while to get it
brad is the kind of guy to be named kid b
I wanna bring up a point with Treefingers, and it's the fact that people are _way_ too hard on interludes these days. I feel like there's a lost art to appreciating the placement of interludes on an album, because they always get the lowest scores in any album, and they're not seen as their own valuable pieces of work instead of just an incomplete throwaway like most people would say they are. Fitter Happier and Treefingers are both great examples of important interludes and they help an album way more than people realise. Because without them, the flow of any album would be considerably worse.
Most people think of albums as a collection of singles instead of one work of art made of several acts.
Treefingers is my 2nd favourite track off of Kid A, on my first listen I didn't even know its an interlude, I thought it was just a song. It's just so beautiful man.
Everything at the end of time , everything in its right place, Kid a IS just crazy and disturbingly beautiful, Treefingers sounds literally like everything at the end of time. Allso Brad what from radiohead do you not know?
Pretty sure just Amnesiac and TKOL. From a comment he made in one of the previous videos.
I just got kid A on vinyl a few weeks ago, and listening to it on a turntable vs digitally just makes an amazing album 100x better.
I always hated 2 x 10” vinyl format, it looks wierd on my shelf 🤣 is it still packaged like that?
@@xx-ug9hn I got the reissue where its 1 12 inch LP. I agree with the 10 inch format, I saw it at a record shop a few weeks ago and thought it wasn't real, never saw an album done like that.
Brad’s uploaded? Everything is in it’s Right Place :)
HAHAHAHAHA
EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE
How to Disappear Completely is the best Radiohead song. C'mon dude, the song flows in the best way possible in the album, it's dark, bright, you feel in a world of devastation and loliness and you feel safe. Its perfect.
it helps me with so much
@@natalies7360 Me too
@@alex11v3 listening to it rn cause of this comment
This song came from a conversation Thom had with Michael Stipe from REM about dealing with fame. He told Thom to sometimes just pretend that none of it was really happening. Just learn to disappear completely.
@@oldskool4572 The song also came from Thom Yorke nightmares in Dublin
Loved the video Brad! You make 20 minutes feel like 5, and your personality shines through the whole thing. Keep up the great work 🙌
The album deserves nothing less tbh 🌸
@@BradTasteInMusicOfficial one of my faves too :)
the contrast between treefingers and optimistic is what makes optimistic sound so compelling and epic, which also makes the perfct transition to in limbo more satisfying
I love the phenomenon everyone continues to point out between the seemingly perfect album art. Like genuinely, for me, I cannot fully comprehend what is happening in it at a glance, but the longer I stare at it, the more it begins to illuminate and meld the art of Kid A; to the atmosphere it creates around itself.
This album was made in a very creative way as well. I love how well put together and weird it is.
Amazing job with the background environments and color gradients! KID A is a masterpiece and your channel ruuules, well done!
i like how he puts images in the background and does effects that try to show the places the songs are taking him
This album has so much atmosphere compared to the rest of Radiohead’s discography and that’s why it’s my favorite easily
I think he perfectly explained why I love Treefingers. It's the quiet aftermath after the big dramatic climax of How to Dissapear completely. It's also just a gorgeous ambient piece on its own.
Just listened to it for the first time right now
10/10 very very good
I wish I could go back and listen to their catalog for the first time again. You should watch the two basement sessions it helped so many people get Radiohead.
I listened to this album for the first time yesterday and was blown away. It's magical. I tried listening to Radiohead before and I thought it wasn't really for be, but now I'm glad i gave Kid A a chance
when i try to introduce this album to people who havent listen this yet it turns very very difficult cause its not only the music itself is the whole music, social, political, century change, technology etc context... so i think the lucky ones who could listen to this master piece in the 2000 were really fortunates to have this blowing away music experience in our lives
How to disappear completely is the best song of all time for me. I’ve listened to it everyday for years now. It’s just perfect to me
Watching brad have a big smile on his face while listening the song kid a was one of the most wholesome things I’ve seen all day
fuck yeah, checked the channel at just the right time.
I commented this on the last album, but thank Nigel Godrich for the ethereal, surreal, cold, and intimate sound of this album.
Stank face? on
Scarily accurate visual representations of the vibe of the song in the background? present
Yep, it's Brad Taste in music time
The first time I heard Everything In It's Right Place I couldn't believe my ears. The atmosphere is so tense and powerful
Treefingers is amazing and essential to this album. Like any song on it.
Brad I have to thank you for that intro.
By putting the "Everywhere at End of Time" melody into a more chill, fun context, you've lessened the intense dread I'll feel when it's 2 am and I suddenly hear that trumpet playing distantly in my mind.
This is a genuine issue I've had since your reaction to it. That melody gets stuck in my head at the worst times and I start thinking about death and decay and freak myself out bad.
Says a lot about the power of good music when it immerses you in its ethos just by it being stuck in your head.
Big up Kid As influences Aphex Twin and Autechre
Kid B(radley)
Kid D(onda)
This review is absolutely spot on so far, completely agree with the whole Treefingers explanation. One request for another review: Aphex Twin / Selected Ambient works 85-92. Please.
This album is beyond amazing. It's so fucking good.
Took me about 10 years to understand how amazing this album is
Always felt like the album covers of their albums Ok Computer and onward always perfectly encapsulated the theme and mood of the album as a whole.
The bends is one of my favorites but when I first got it the cover didn’t really capture the setting of the gorgeous songs on there.
If you love how Radiohead can set a vibe within an album, you'd love Pink Floyd. Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, or Animals. I think you would like Animals the best. Also a Pink Floyd reaction series would probably perform well on UA-cam!
Totally agree, there’s not enough reaction content/coverage on the masterpieces of PF.
Treefingers is all guitar baby! synth not required. Ed used to record these little loops on his pedals before rehearsals etc. Then Thom took them and arranged them into a song ;)
Ambient guitar is my favorite kind of ambient
How To Disappear Completely breaks my heart every time I listen to it
kid a feels like waking up early on a winter morning and walking on the streets with no one around
"you're living in a fantasy world, you're living in a fantasy world"! I always get a deep feeling when hearing those lyrics.
hey brad, really enjoying this series! ur passion for these albums and songs makes me smile so hard, been a fan of ur vids for a while now - keep doin what ur doin! cant wait to see u go through the rest of their albums :)))
sammee the amount of happiness i get from his reactions is unreal hes amazing
Man, the song Kid A is incredible, one that's grown on me the more I've listened to it to now be one of my top few songs on the album
The intro, I can’t
No, i think you can
I know, I’m dying lmao
we all thought it was a shitpost, but the madman was being serious
You forgor the intro
i been waiting for this hell yeah Brad
How to disappear completely is well placed for me. After the first 3 songs, we’re emotionally disoriented, and then HTDC comes in and is simultaneously the most unreal, surreal, and real track. I’m both well grounded while at the same time slowly dissolving into the ether. Treefingers is just then the void.
Finally some love for treefingers
I love watching your enthusiasm for Radiohead. Smiley ball. Masta-piece.
IMO Kid A doesnt sound outdated at all, that's why it holds up so well. It feels completely timeless.
I've seen a lot of people talk about the album art for Kid A without mentioning Stanley Donwood himself, check his work out very ethereal and some can be found at his website Slowly downward
I love how happy he is when Kid A (the track) comes on. It’s so pretty that it reduces me to tears most of the time which happens for quite a few tracks on this album tbh.
oh shit is the cyber thom yorke album
What I love about this album is that it can make you feel so many things, and in different ways, many times I feel trapped inside the music on this, sometimes I feel scared by the ambiguous sounds and atmospheres and other times I feel relaxed. and captivated by the emotions it evokes.
Although for me the best thing about this album is its ability to transport you to other spaces, when I listen to the first song I can see how the voices and sounds rotate like lights around me and get tangled and looped. When I listen to kid a I can feel myself floating in bed as I travel across the cover listening to the irregular rhythms of the bass and drums. When I listen to the national anthem I can feel the flames and fires generated by the brass band made up of alien creatures in the second section of the song and the chills it gives me.
When I hear how to dissappear completely I can see the dark skies and how the strings break reality into thousands of fragments and reassemble once more. Listening to treefingers I am transported to outer space, observing the immense and incomprehensible sizes of the planets right in front of me.
Optimistic and In limbo have always been a united experience for me, they represent the ambiguous side of the album, the side of the album that makes you feel like your mind has been freed from memories and you're just wandering on seas of ice.
Idiotque and Morning Bell extend these emotions but do so in a much darker and more pessimistic way, much like the ice voids that glitch and disappear and appear on the cover.
Motion picture soundtrack is probably the most human song on the album, when I listen to it I can see the protagonist playing the organ and saying goodbye to life at the end of the song, which untitled solves, as if it were the angels' response to his song.
sorry for the long comment haha
Sir what is this. Idk what it is. but you. have. got. it. The quality of this vid is just insane. Good job bradley
I was in the stream, didnt expect it to come out so fast. Nice :)
how to disappear is the point on the album where the songwriter first becomes aware of how shitty reality is. the first 3 songs were describing what the alien world is like, and then song 4 is where the emotional response to the world comes out
My favourite Radiohead album. It still sounds very alien and fresh to me.
Thanks, Brad.
10/10 intro animation brad 👏👏
you're so LUCID here. kid a translates every feeling ever.
The national anthem goes so frickin hard holy moly
The National Anthem is phenomenal. Imo my favorite one from this album.
How to Disappear Completely never fails to make me cry
"YOU sound outdated, go back to the grave motherfuc-" was an absolutely amazing edit
That intro I’m wheezing
Also thank you for uploading this, one of my favorite videos just got privated for no reason so I needed something to cheer me up
You said the opening of Kid A sounds like you're about to be taken away somewhere, and the song goes on to reference the Pied Piper. They just nail it every time...
The eiirp laugh track gag is too good
Treefingers is the mental and emotional whiteout after the dissociation of How To Disappear Completely
this album literally changed my life!
picturing kid a as the soundtrack to the first human clones life in the far future makes a lot of sense the more i think about it
Kid A was my favourite album of all time the first time I heard it
POV you're introducing your favorite italian food critic to Radiohead
I know this is like my 3284238746th comment but this just felt right
Lmao
That moment where part 2 is going to begin with the album single.
i love how this guy is getting down to this song.. i also think this song "kid a" is just beautiful and it doesn't matter how you interpret it ... its going to take you somwhere
My personal favorite is Amnesiac. The closest Radiohead has come to a masterpiece in my opinion, great album.
pretty much every radiohead album is a masterpiece in some way
@@prismix0870 except for pablo honey, although the debut of most bands is always rough around the edges and I don't think pablo honey is too bad so it's not like it's a failure or anything.
@@droptherapy2085 fair enough, and i may have overstated. i dont think the king of limbs is amazing either. however, undeniably, ok computer, in rainbows, and imo the bends are some of the best music to ever exist
@@prismix0870 It is amazing from the basement.
Kid a is a perfect song. It's so opposite of not just what previous fans expected, but of what general music fans like. Yet is still fire imo
Everybody’s gangsta until the trumpets come on in the national anthem
How to disappear completely it's one of my all time favorites . Probably top 3.
The outro of The National Anthem is major Pink Floyd vibes.
Always love to see Treefingers get the praise it deserves.
I have an ambient playlist that I put on when I want to have beautiful weird dreams. Treefingers is on that playlist multiple times.
I bet you have aphex twin selected works 2 on that playlist am I right?
i’m getting “everything in its right place” tattooed
Can't wait for you to react to Amnesiac; my third favourite Radiohead album :))