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KID A is 12 years old today

sean [Edit] [Delete] 31 replies 10:40 October 2nd, 2012

One day older than DiS.

Idioteque is my favourite track on it, because it has the laughed until my head came off lyric. Probably my favourite track by the band (sounds weirdly like Harrowdown Hill), in fact. I like the session version of it they did for Radio1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaGQGfmdVJU

Did you ever read Tudor, who did the Swans review's re-appraisal http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4136425

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I know it covers Amnesiac as well...

But I often find myself reaching for the I Might Be Wrong Live album for my favourite versions of a few Kid A tracks. Plus the second disc of the ten year release is good too.

teamcooperuk | 2 Oct '12, 13:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
I always liked this version that MTV2 used to play back then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESCnFm8-FU&feature=related

pieces_of_reece | 2 Oct '12, 13:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
Listening to that BBC version of 'Idioteque'

I think this is still my favourite Radiohead track. Getting just a little excited about seeing them on Saturday now...

automatik | 2 Oct '12, 13:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Same!
  
  Definitely gonna be having a bit of a Radiohead binge at some point this week to lead up to it.
  
  mute-branches @automatik | 2 Oct '12, 15:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  automatik this'd this
  - I've actually not listened to a Radiohead album in ages. Maybe a year or more.
    
    I'm going to enjoy the binge.
    
    automatik @mute-branches | 3 Oct '12, 01:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - sort of this
      
      They're so embedded in my memory that I don't listen to the albums in full anywhere near as much as I used to (same with Modest Mouse).
      
      mute-branches @automatik | 3 Oct '12, 21:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
easily my favourite Radiohead album

soapy | 2 Oct '12, 13:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
Teenager A then...

funkycow | 2 Oct '12, 13:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
- sort of.
  
  funkycow @funkycow | 2 Oct '12, 13:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Tween A
    
    robluvsnic @funkycow | 3 Oct '12, 02:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
Radiohead

heartworms | 2 Oct '12, 13:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Hybrid Theory is 12 years old D:

it's practically classic rock

Yesiamaduck | 2 Oct '12, 14:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
- What?
  
  NOW I feel old.
  
  hip_young_gunslinger @Yesiamaduck | 2 Oct '12, 14:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  justanothersheeldz this'd this
the BBC session version of National Anthem is immense too.

though perhaps the I Might Be Wrong live version is even better.

Kid A is fully worthy of all the hype and enigma associated with it. To have given birth to that from the depths of writer's block is a wonderful turn-around of affairs.

kostenurky | 2 Oct '12, 15:21 | X | ^ This | Reply

Silkyskillz11 and Antelope this'd this
post-irony

becomes self-parody becomes...

matthewslaughter | 2 Oct '12, 16:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
;)

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4136425-original-4-out-of-10-review-here#r4466215

MartyFuncowser | 2 Oct '12, 16:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Not a terrible review, up until the last paragraph at least
  
  "This will without doubt be remembered as their worst album"
  
  ouch...
  
  automatik @MartyFuncowser | 3 Oct '12, 01:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - hahahahahaha
    
    The album that confounded the journalists.
    
    I never understood that. It took me 2 or 3 plays where I felt very underwhelmed before suddenly Everything in it's right place lulled me into that world.
    
    Maybe it was easier for me than for other people, as I'd been listening to demo versions of How to Disappear for 12 months beforehand, but still it really isn't that inaccesible a record...
    
    kostenurky @automatik | 3 Oct '12, 02:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - I hadn't really discovered indie music (beyond the Manics) at that point
      
      I still remember playing it on the big hi-fi unit in the living room for the first time, and sitting on the floor in front of the speakers thinking... what the fuck is this? But I knew I liked it.
      
      automatik @kostenurky | 3 Oct '12, 10:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
It is a great album...

...not their best - but their most respectful offering. http://midnightpunk.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/radiohead-kid-a/

midnightpunk | 2 Oct '12, 23:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
I can still remember listening to Kid A the first time like it was only a couple of years ago

which it was. I even started a thread here to announce and commemorate the fact.

Was a fun thread. Arguments, abuse, spam. Everything you could want in a thread.

robluvsnic | 3 Oct '12, 02:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
I had a CD that I downloaded from Napster back then...

Before it was actually released. Picked tracks according to whatever the press said the titles were. Don't know if I had all the correct ones or not. It seems when the actual lp came out, there were some differences, but they guy who I gave my illegal CD to died, so I can't compare the two.

theintl | 3 Oct '12, 07:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking 'aw man, this is no OK Computer'

then I grew up and realised it's clearly their best effort. flawless. 10/10

Silkyskillz11 | 3 Oct '12, 08:32 | X | ^ This | Reply

kostenurky this'd this
I remember hearing it streamed on XFM and recroding it to tape of the radio

and listnening to it in my car on the way to school and being all like, this sin't rock songs but it sounds perfectly like radiohead. there ahd been an NME track by track that had scared me, but as soon as i heard it it won me over.

i bought it on day of release but didn't have a hidden booklet. i was pretty upset when i found this out. it wasn't until the next summer when i noticed there was a copy in Rusty's Records behind the counter that had the booklet. i asked for that specific copy. the chap working there hadn't realised they didn't all come with the booklet, another £10 well spent.

I bought my third copy when i finally found that card board book version at a decent price.

i've since had one of my versions stolen, but thankfully it was the version without the booklet, so i don't really care. I'm going to have to listen to it today. it's the same weather as when i fell in love with it.

pieces_of_reece | 3 Oct '12, 08:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
- re the booklet
  
  I didn't even realise it was there til a couple years ago. what a dick
  
  Silkyskillz11 @pieces_of_reece | 3 Oct '12, 08:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I'm pretty sure it was on the BBC news when i got home from school
    
    something about Tony Blair being unimpressed.
    
    pieces_of_reece @Silkyskillz11 | 3 Oct '12, 09:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
I'd tended to ignore them up until Kid A

I knew they were there obviously, but had the daft mentality of disliking them for no real reason. Creep was one of those songs that never clicked with me. The Bends made them a BIG band, REM bigged them up, and it put me off (yep, snobbery in full effect). OK Computer came out and went super-nova but I was more tied up with Vanishing Point and Ladies & Gentlemen.
Then Kid A came out, I read the reviews, read and heard bad opinions, saying it was experimental and weird. So I went and bought it without hearing a note. Completely loved it and still do.
After that I went and bought OK Computer, then Amnesiac came out.....blah blah.....yeah, I really like them now. Kid A is their best for me. 12 years ago eh, making me 28 when I bought it. Still sounds fresh.

Albert-Swearengen | 3 Oct '12, 08:52 | X | ^ This | Reply

geordiedave1981 this'd this
first time playing it at full blast in my bedroom as a 16 year old

my old man pokes his head round the door during the title track and says 'you've gone weird son, this isn't music, you know that?'

Christophales | 3 Oct '12, 10:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
Kid A I still credit with making me a music obsessive

I used to listen to all kinds of shit then Kid A made me think oh wait music can do this to me? Slightly inevitable that it would be Kid A that did this first out of reputation and having grown up on the bends and ok computer a bit but I wasn't much of a musicy person

Tiresias42 | 3 Oct '12, 23:37 | X | ^ This | Reply

mute-branches this'd this
- most of the music I listen to now
  
  can in some way be traced back to 'Kid A'
  
  mute-branches @Tiresias42 | 3 Oct '12, 23:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
It will be 13 years old next year

thedamnedear | 4 Oct '12, 06:35 | X | ^ This | Reply