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Universal acclaim- based on 1244 Ratings
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Positive: 1,134 out of 1244
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Mixed: 20 out of 1244
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Negative: 90 out of 1244
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Aug 6, 2023
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Nov 2, 2021Shockingly pretentious and self-indulgent. That’s all this album has been, all it is, and all it ever will be, just like all of Radiohead’s other albums.
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Nov 6, 2012
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ChrisR.Oct 6, 2007Ha ha! Just kidding! 10/10 If you don't get Radiohead you don't get music.
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J.ShakJul 28, 2006This is the worst album I've ever heard. Saying that it was play school music would be an insult to play school.
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kieferhJun 22, 2006sorry savage toast(queer name...where did you get it?) i have to disagree with you, because this album is like a bake potatoe with no butter or sour creem....lacking spice and orginality
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lewistMay 12, 2006this album is fucking awful.
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billbobMar 29, 2006i lost all faith in radiohead after ok computer. the bends was ok, and pablo honey was great. how this mess happend is wut i demand 2 no!
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BrianMcCMar 5, 2006
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adolsFeb 5, 2006horrible shit
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[Anonymous]Oct 9, 2005this is some bullshit. radiohead is a pretentious, overrated band, and thom yorke is a class A douche.
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KiwiJJan 21, 2004
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HamishINov 4, 2003This album bites! I really liked Radiohead until they released this utter piece of crap which should be cast way to the compost heap from whence it came. I chucked the CD into the bin after listening to it. They are trying to be somewhat experimental but come off sounding like a bunch of no-talent, tone deaf fools. The sad thing is, I KNOW they can do better, much, much better.
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DanAug 31, 2002
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Awards & Rankings
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Comparing this to other albums is like comparing an aquarium to blue construction paper.... It's the sound of a band, and its leader, losing faith in themselves, destroying themselves, and subsequently rebuilding a perfect entity. In other words, Radiohead hated being Radiohead, but ended up with the most ideal, natural Radiohead record yet.
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SpinRadiohead have completely immersed themselves in the studio-as-instrument--signal processing, radical stereo separation, and other antinaturalistic techniques. Even the precious Guitars--saturated with effects and gaseous with sustain--resemble natural phenomena rather than power chords or lead lines. Essentially, this is a post-rock record.... Kid A is not only Radiohead's bravest album but its best one as well. [Oct 2000, p.172]
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For an album that apparently grew out of the band trying to get away from melody, there's a lot of it here. They can't help themselves. They try to do a song with a robotic dance beat, load it up with bleak phrases like "laughing till my head comes off" and "take the money and run" and "this is really happening," call it "Idioteque" for chrissake, and what stands out are not the beat and not the phrases or the apparent concept of dance music being silly when horrible things are happening in the world, but the seven or eight different heartwrenching vocal lines and the amazing way they intertwine.