kid a ? ?

[6 v 6]

has anyone heard it yet ? ? and what do ya think about it ?

oh yeah, and are you a radiohead fan?

It seems to be getting mixed reviews.

late

[Next To Nothing]

its terrible! in my opinion. . . where's the Rock??

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[H_townband]

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"Next To Nothing" <cpr...@blkbox.com> wrote:
> its terrible! in my opinion. . . where's the Rock??
>

A-fuckin'-Men.

You have to wait until track 4 before there's even a guitar.

It is kind of growing on me though .... but I want just one "Pananoid
Android" type song. They're supposed to releasing another CD in
February.... maybe that one will be a little more rock oriented.

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Before you buy.

[Apower14]

This is the review I wrote for my paper, its my long 2 cents

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Kid A is not a Radiohead album. It might not be an album at all. The warning
signs were all there in last year's Meeting People is Easy, the Grant Gee
directed documentary of their OK Computer tour. It depicts a band unable to
handle the praise from critics worldwide and their ensuing angst. After taking
two years off to record at least three album's worth of material, Radiohead has
timidly returned with a frighteningly self-indulgent idea. So daunted by OK
Computer's praise they made an album that didn't need them at all. It's not
post-rock, post-electronic, post-millennial, or even post-apocalyptic but far
more pretentious. They are now post-Radiohead.

The most engaging part of Radiohead has always been Yorke's ability to go from
a whisper to a roar and make both soar with emotion. Since it has received
such critical praise, the first step in becoming post-Radiohead was obviously
to ruin the purity of Yorke's singing. Kid A starts with "Everything in its
Right Place" which features Yorke's vocals used as a sample. It isn't till the
fourth track, "How to Disappear Completely", that you are really able to
recognize Yorke's infamous wobble. Throughout the rest of the album Yorke's
vocals are electronically distorted so that what he is saying or any emotion
that he might be saying it with is completely lost in a haze of electronic
cacophony.

The next step to developing this post-Radiohead sound was to take a band with
three guitar players and replace almost all the guitar parts with synthesizer
and electronic gadgetry. Kid A sounds like DJ Spooky, DJ Shadow or DJ Krush
with all the spirit and soul of hip-hop removed which leaves five white indie
guitar geeks pushing buttons and turning knobs in the studio.

Now that they have dismantled their instrumentation, the next place to go is to
the actual songs. A likely source of Thom Yorke's exploration of his
inner-robot may be his collaboration on DJ Shadow's UNKLE project. The main
difference between "Rabbit in your Headlights" and Kid A is that at the heart
of all of DJ Shadow's twists and turntables were still well structured pop
songs. Rather than write proper songs with logical movements and structure,
the songs on Kid A (with a few exceptions, notably "Idioteque" which is pretty
much a straight electronica number) are directionless, confusing and static.
"Treefingers" is almost four minutes of random ethereal noise that doesn't seem
to build towards anything but instead just rolls over in circles and then just
stops without any sense of conclusion.

The over zealous press has already jumped on the Kid A bandwagon. CMJ called it
"an unquestionable masterpiece", Billboard said it was "without question, the
first truly groundbreaking album of the 21st century", and even Time magazine
got in on the love fest by calling them "the best young band in the world."
With all this praise for being post-Radiohead, they might just have to stop
being a band all together or only release covers of John Cage's 4'33".

www.dork.com/power/index.htm - all about me and my fabulous taste and otherwise
dull life.

[Gazpacho]

you guys are all nuts. Kid A is an incredible, dense, and gutsy album. Not
recommended for weenies who liked The Bends or Pablo Honey. Its in the vein
of Mogwai, Tortoise, the Aphex Twin, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Boards of
Canada, Sigur Ros. Great stuff.

[Jeffrey Thames]

I don't believe this. Practically everyone loved OK Computer but me. Now
practically everybody hates Kid A but me. It's one of my top ten albums for
the year thus far, but The Bends remains their finest (approximate) hour.

Cheers,

Jeff

[Mark A. Landrum]

okeh thanks for that! and the third john cage reference in 2 dayz an i dont
know who he is. the other being on the new tv shew Deadline. Fake piana
player playing what "sounds like jon cage" (whispered oliver platt)
"soundslike john cage doesn't it?"

wandering again...
ml

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[Catchbreez]

i think that its brilliant all that can be said. may lack songsongs...still
blows me away
national anthem is the best avante garde jazz from a rock band i have ever
heard.

[H_townband]

THE BENDS is one of the best records ever released... up there
with Sgt. Pepper and Pet Sounds. It incorporated the straight
forward "grunge"-type rock from Pablo and had some of the more
experimental stuff as seen on OK Computer.... and it was brilliant.

OK Computer was fine (but I feel, high over-praised) ... and Kid A
doesn't seem like a Radiohead CD. I guess putting bands in a set
style and expecting them to stay that way, is probably not very
enlightened.... so I guess I'm not enlightened.

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[Catchbreez]

>I guess putting bands in a set
>style and expecting them to stay that way, is probably not very
>enlightened.... so I guess I'm not enlightened.
>

why stay the same...exapand

[Xeghys]

John Cage was a contemporary composer until he died a few years back. He is
most famous for 4:33 which is simply a pianist sitting at the piano for 4
minutes and 33 seconds. the music of that piece is all the ambient noise:
coughs from the audience, AC, etc.; making music for prepared piano (putting
various objects like screws, wood, rubber, etc at crucial points in between
strings) and other works of indeternimancy. One work of his that I heard about
(I don't remember the title) consisted of a bunch of people adjusting volume
and tuning nobs on radios at fixed points.
Can anyone tell I was a music major?
I don't particularly care for John Cage's music.

[H_townband]

There's a fine line between genious and crap....

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[Xeghys]

>There's a fine line between genious and crap....

my thoughts exactly

[cmatth...@gmail.com]

On Friday, October 13, 2000 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Xeghys wrote:
> >There's a fine line between genious and crap....
>
> my thoughts exactly

LOL this is awesome