My brother was one of those people who didn’t fully go with Radiohead on these divergences. I borrowed Amnesiac first (which probably explains why I’m partial to that version of “Morning Bell”, a nearly sacrilegious stance among diehard Radiohead fans), and then embarked into Kid A territory. It wasn’t until the summer after my first year of college that I traversed into the “weird” albums, Kid A and Amnesiac. I listened to The Bends and OK Computer first, as well as his bootlegs of the import EP, ‘Itch’. My oldest brother was (and is) a huge fan and he was attempting to get me into the band by letting me borrow his albums. I first started listening to Radiohead in the wake of Amnesiac‘s release. This is about my personal perception of the album, how I first came to it, how I first experienced it, and my reactions to it now. If you want a lengthy discussion of its place in musical history, I’m sure that exists. If you want the history on the album, look it up on Wikipedia. Truth be told, Kid A is my 3rd favorite Radiohead album, after OKC and Amnesiac, but it’s all merely a matter of degrees on a scale of fanatical obsession, so the difference is rather nominal. It’s been a little more than 10 years since the release of Kid A, the follow up to Radiohead’s groundbreaking OK Computer, which is still my favorite Radiohead album. Sure, it’s an arbitrary period of time that stands out only because we evolved relying on a base ten numeric system, but it’s still a good place for us to take stock and look back. Radiohead’s Kid A manages to be all of them in one mesmerizing album.ġ0 years is an interesting vantage point.
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