YES! 

 stunix wrote: 
Um... music? Any, y'know, music in there?

 lemmoth wrote: 
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Since ... Ha HA Ha hahha AH ... the Beatles. BAAHAHAHAHAAhaha. Oh god, you almost had me thinking you're serious.  Stone bwa ha ha  Dylan HA HA HA Zeppelin Ha HAHA. Stop it! You're too funny!!!!

Any RH song = one catchy (maybe!) groove, noodled into tedium, topped off with the painful rectal itch that is Thom Yorke's voice. What genius!

Kid A is probably one of Radiohead's most underrated albums. I'm an "OK Computer nadir" fan — for a long time I resolutely believed they peaked with OK Computer as the summation of their musical prowess and creative writing, with nothing subsequently released exceeding that output (it's still my bestest and most favouritest Radiohead album). I bought the album on release, took a listen and put it in the CD rack for several months as it was just too much of a breakaway from the sound of an album I've listened to several hundred times, if not more.

However, the more often I sit down with RH's more recent discography and contemplate it through listening, the more I come to enjoy their more abstract, electroacoustic stuff. It's good that they diverged from their previous work before they became permanently shackled to it.

(Like me) the band's become more introspective and subtle with their approach as they've got older.

I Bought Kid A at release (got the version with the booklet underneath the tray); I was more than a little nonplussed at first listen. Where did the guitars go? However this album slowly reveals itself to you. Perhaps I had to just give it time after first opening to let it breathe (like a fine red, no?) — today it hits the spot.

Some tracks are a little more indecipherable but reading into the lyrics helps a lot; the off-kilter time signatures and abrupt switches of instrumentation and FX can jar you out of the kind of trance induced by previous records like OKC... But it's a thoroughly good album which stretches the mind on first plays and rewards on subsequent ones.

IMHO whilst Kid A is, overall, bettered by Amnesiac - the achingly beautiful time signature and chordal progressions of Pyramid Song have brought stronger men than me to tears - Kid A was an inspired debut of their 'new' sound and has some remarkable tracks on it, in particular Everything In Its Right Place. It deserves a second (and third, and fourth...) listen if you've closed your opinion to it. Give it some air, eventually it will reward you.

 MassivRuss wrote: 
Read this great article which proposes that Radiohead may be the most important band since the Beatles.
http://twths.org/who-is-the-most-important-band/

An excerpt "

After nearly two decades they remain the most relevant band alive because of the remarkably innovative body of work they have created.   It’s the way they make music.  The way they deliver their music.  The way they change their music.  In Rainbows, their 2009 gem of an album was released 20+ years into their existence yet it’s one of the most hip record of the past 5 years with just the right amount of glue to make it stick for years to come.  No other band on the list of contenders can do that – not after 20 years in existence.  Other bands deserve strong consideration on the topic:  the Rolling Stones, Nirvana, U2, R.E.M., Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin.  But let’s stick with Radiohead.  They are the most influential band since the Beatles with a reputation that is cemented near the top.  Their musical styling influences nearly every reputable sect of the music-listening public.

often played on radiohell...    

 stunix wrote: 
Marry me

This is inspired, flawlessly executed, and achingly original. 

The dog hates this.

Every time this is played I check to see if negative rating numbers are available yet.....

the whole album is fantastic, its got a real flavour of angst, pain & dissolusionment, then resolve, settled comfort & hope, then back to anger, disgust, and lastly a cliff hanging.
always in my player and welcomed whenever it comes on.

Did I not just hear this last night? Or yesterday afternoon? A bit more spaced out between listens, please. This CAN get monotonous.

Yeah, try telling that to the stage hands!!!

 lshinkawa wrote: 
And it just so happened again today...?!  ;-)    And, yes it works quite well!

God I want so bad to love this band like everyone else does but I just can not get into it.  I've appoached it with a very open mind and listened to much of their music but it all seems dark and monotonous to me.  I just don't get it.

Switching to PSD for a while.  Can't take the monotonous droning at this point in the day.

Peter Gabriel's Mercy Street followed by this: nicely done.

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Gives me an anxiety attack

 peter_james_bond wrote: 

  PJ Bond, do you by any chance have a standup act???  Your comments never cease to crack me up.

 ckcotton wrote: 
Absolutely true!

This album and song have INCREDIBLE fidelity.... listen to it on a proper stereo and it will blow you away....

unfortunately the RP feed can't compare....... 

Best listened to on the return commute in the car at full blast.

2nd Radiohead that i've heard today.  Thank you RP. 

This is outstanding so I appropriately gave it a 9.