Hey, thanks for reading my stuff. By the way, I take critical comments very badly as I am very emoti...
Hey, thanks for reading my stuff. By the way, I take critical comments very badly as I am very emotional and sensative and you dont want to make me upset, do you???
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Maybe i've missed something here. Have I been in a coma for the last ten years and missed major parts of rock music development? Is it me? Or is it just Radiohead skipping three or four albums of experimentation and heading straight into Kid A? OK Computer was without doubt sensational. A REAL step forward from previous albums and into the big time, but Kid A relegates them back to a stage of wondering whether or not they will get it right. It seems that they have tried a little too hard to take a step forward.
I'm not going to go through every song as not one is deserving of a thorough analysis.
If you haven't heard the album yet and you are wondering what I am talking about, here's how you can recreate this album in your own home.
Get an electric guitar, plug it in and place it right next to the speaker alongside with any other electrical equipment that are plugged in eg microwave, mobile phone and will help distort the guitar. Now you need to get your freind to tap a ruler against a table in a constant rhythm. Find a baby girl and get her to start crying and whining at certain intervals with the occasional loud scream, then returning to whine. About three minutes and thirty two seconds into this, stop. There you have it, a track from Kid A.
But maybe it's just me. Normally when a bands style differs from what you are used to hearing, it's over a course of two or three albums. But this is immediate and maybe it's my ignorance that says that that isn't normal. And maybe it's my ignorance that isnt allowing me to say that this is a great band. Muse have seemed to take off where most of us thought Radiohead were going to take off to and it shows through Kid A that Radiohead didn't get carried away with the success of OK Computer, if anything, put off by it. OK Computer seemed to have a purpose. You looked at Radiohead and you saw Fear Factory as a harder version. Now you look at Radiohead and you see nothing. If they have purposefully cast themselves out as unique, they have done that perfectly.
Kid A. Creative? Yes. Original? Yes. Listenable? No. Where can you listen to this album? At a party? On the train to work? What was the point of this? Kid A fails to identify with music of today and has made an album that pre-dates itself by decades. Maybe in ten years time we will look back at Kid A and say 'Wow, that was ahead of its time, what a masterpiece!' but for now it should be relegated to bargain bins and elevator lifts.
If you do buy Kid A, please take this advice. Keep the reciept.
(Also to all that have left comments, I'm not much of an review writer as you can tell, but i'm trying damn hard to satisfy! Keep your comments coming and let me know if you have seen any decent changes. My writing heart lies elsewhere and i'm just trying my hand this sort of thing but am determined to get one right for myself, and for you, the all important reader. Cheers for your comments!!)
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Personally I find Radiohead to be over rated so there wasn't much chance of this ever finding its way into my house! If you add more to this, for example the track titles and why you don't specifically like each one then I'll happily take another look for you *grins*. Rach x (keep up the good work mate)
a-true-ben 11.04.2003 15:18
Sorry for the rating. It's not a case of whether I agree with you; but you need to describe how the sound's changed etc as well as give your opinion (you do that bit well). Besides, would you listen to OK Computer at a party anyway?
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Radiohead may well be the most courageous band in Britain. Their second album, The Bends, ... more
was a success both critically and commercially, and they followed it up with an album of epic prog-rock, OK Computer, that would have destined a lesser band to co...
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Radiohead may well be the most courageous band in Britain. Their second album, The Bends, ... more
was a success both critically and commercially, and they followed it up with an album of epic prog-rock, OK Computer, that would have destined a lesser band to co...
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