Re: Kid A

Date: 12 Jun 2003 08:28:43 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.music.radiohead
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>Ugh...if I hear one more "if you only listen to it more, then you'll
>like it/understand it/want to make hot passionate love to it", I'm going
>to scream.
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>I've listened to the album quite a bit, and it's quite insulting to me
>when you say if you only listened to it more, you'll like it. No, I
>won't. I appreciate and respect the direction they took when they put
>out Kid A, especially what's it brought about through Amnesiac and Hail
>to the Thief, but as a whole, I really don't like it very much.
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>I find it a disparate album that works against itself, more a collection
>of "art pieces" than an album. Some of it works -- "How to Disappear
>Completely" is a great song -- some of it I find to be complete and
>utter trash -- "Kid A", the track itself, is an interesting failure, and
>to tell you the truth, "Everything in its Right Place" I find boring.
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>That's my opinion, and you can certainly disagree with, if you didn't
>I'd think something screwy were going on. Just don't tell me to listen
>to Kid A more and suddenly the scales will be lifted from my eyes.
The last half is way better than the first. I don't understand how anyone can
say that Optimistic isn't Radiohead in absolute top form. I believe Optimistic
is like the only song of the last three albums to actually put a crack in the
wall. The rest of the music is just like stuff I say is "fucking amazing" or
whatever. But a song like Optimistic actually shuts me up. i find it hard to
talk about this song. I don't know exactly what it means to me. Radiohead have
a tri-fecta of absolutely perfect songs. A few songs that i consider to be the
Kernel of Truth of Radiohead. Airbag/Paranoid Android/Optimistic. Everything
else is merely fucking amazing.
-Ross