Kid A
by Radiohead
  • Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Oct 3, 2000
User Score
8.9

Universal acclaim- based on 1244 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,134 out of 1244
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 1244
  3. Negative: 90 out of 1244

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  1. Uhhuhhim
    May 30, 2005
    10
    Resonance - A magazine that might've been amazing if the writers had only bothered to write some actual reviews.
  2. AlexN
    Jan 19, 2006
    10
    Best. Album. Ever.
  3. BillK.
    Jun 20, 2005
    10
    I feel sorry for you if your brain isn't able to comprehend the beauty of this record.
  4. JamesM
    Jan 2, 2006
    10
    Radiohead's best, surpassing OK Computer and The Bends by miles.
  5. NamaarB
    Jun 20, 2009
    10
    Easily, one of the best albums of the last 25 years, hell EVER? Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead... this album is nearly flawless... One thing I must say though... Treefingers seems to get a lot of filler talk thrown at it... NOPE! great song.
  6. JordanS
    Jun 29, 2009
    10
    Words fail me. A pioneering, post-genre masterpiece. Easily the best album of the 21st century. Period.
  7. IgorC.
    Sep 2, 2002
    10
    one of the best alternative album. very experimental.
  8. ChrisH
    Jul 6, 2003
    10
    undeniably beautiful, and after 50 listens, it seems even better
  9. pierram
    Jun 14, 2004
    10
    One of the most intricately beutiful and shocking albums your ever likely to hear. Its better then just music, it makes music seem silly and childish, the masterpeice of the best band who have ever recorded a sound
  10. RameezA
    Jul 29, 2004
    10
    Very nice album, one of the reviews summed it up perfectly: you have to listen to it all the way through, and you will find something beautiful. For those of you complaining about no actual songs, what would you call number 1, 6, 8, 4, 9, and 10. All have melodies (although ten almost has no beat, but still is my favorite song). As for the remark Kiwi made about no one listening to the Very nice album, one of the reviews summed it up perfectly: you have to listen to it all the way through, and you will find something beautiful. For those of you complaining about no actual songs, what would you call number 1, 6, 8, 4, 9, and 10. All have melodies (although ten almost has no beat, but still is my favorite song). As for the remark Kiwi made about no one listening to the album I'm sure is very accurate, since I'm sure she's talked to all of the millions of Radiohead fans. … Expand
  11. KellyW
    Apr 30, 2005
    10
    Radiohead's best album to date and my favorite album ever.
  12. PaulW
    Jun 7, 2005
    10
    Great Album from a truly great band
  13. TimS
    Jul 4, 2005
    10
    It's 2am and you're laying in bed alone. You surrounded by complete darkness: no street lights, no moonlight. You press play on your CD player and the first notes of 'Everything In The Right Place' begins. It's ethereal; it's beguiling; it's frightening. An album of contradictions: it perfectly captures the mood of the turn of the century. You can not do It's 2am and you're laying in bed alone. You surrounded by complete darkness: no street lights, no moonlight. You press play on your CD player and the first notes of 'Everything In The Right Place' begins. It's ethereal; it's beguiling; it's frightening. An album of contradictions: it perfectly captures the mood of the turn of the century. You can not do without it.… Expand
  14. DylanP
    Jul 8, 2005
    10
    Like many people have mentioned, it takes multiple listens to fully appreciate the brilliance of this album. In my opinion it's Radioheads best and most daring album to date.
  15. BrianL
    Jan 9, 2006
    10
    Extroardinary. Impossibly beautiful and immensely moving. Reminds me less of rock music then the world's greatest composers: J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven--oh yea--Miles Davis and Charles Mingus as well. One of the greatest albums ever made.
  16. CB
    Jul 10, 2007
    10
    No album is more important to me than this one. 7 years in and 100s if not 1000s of listens to later, it still blows me away. A true masterpiece.
  17. HC
    Feb 23, 2008
    10
    It's just so intense.
  18. Elliott
    Apr 6, 2004
    10
    A masterpiece among masterpieces. This one is for the time capsule. Truly one of the best albums every crafted. The Pitchfork review is beautiful, and dead-on.
  19. MHarris
    Oct 16, 2005
    10
    This album is more than just music. It is a visceral experience.
  20. LilianP
    Dec 30, 2005
    10
    you'd have to like free jazz and modern classical music to like what radiohead did with rock music. it's music not for a commercial audience, but for real lovers of music.
  21. MattJ
    Oct 7, 2005
    10
    Some people didn't get this album simply because they weren't ready for it. This album is absolutely timeless; it did the same thing for music as stravinsky did with the rite of spring, or miles davis with bitches brew. This album is THAT significant. It's a great headphones album while lying in bed, check it out in a very comfortable, alone, place. =D
  22. RobertK
    Apr 23, 2005
    10
    great, non-commercial album
  23. SpeedyD
    Jul 20, 2005
    10
    Kid A is one of the best albums of year 2000. My friend MCZ says: "This is best album of history." - I don´t think so, but it´s very good... magic.
  24. byrond
    Jan 28, 2006
    10
    Uhm. Do I even have to say anything at this point? If you don't like this record, you either A) Don't like music. B) Don't understand artists or C) Loved the last Puddle of Mudd Cd. Buy it. Love it. Have sex to it. Drive to it. Show it to everyone you know. And if they don't like it? Stop talking to them. Even if they are your father. He's just not cool enough.
  25. Broken
    Oct 28, 2006
    10
    Kid A is an absolute masterpiece of infinite depth and complexity. There are some really quite incredible albums out there, but i would have to say that this is probably the best. I know people who have written hundreds of pages of A4 on the analysis of this album and still failed to break the ice. Of course, to enjoy and appreciate it's beauty you have to remain open-minded. It is Kid A is an absolute masterpiece of infinite depth and complexity. There are some really quite incredible albums out there, but i would have to say that this is probably the best. I know people who have written hundreds of pages of A4 on the analysis of this album and still failed to break the ice. Of course, to enjoy and appreciate it's beauty you have to remain open-minded. It is not something you are bound to like upon the first hearing. As with all rewarding experiences, it takes time - but patience is a virtue.… Expand
  26. ChrisF-T
    Feb 22, 2006
    10
    If these ratings were done again today, Kid A would be in the metacritic all time top 10, guarantee it. The most vital album of our generation :D
  27. PatN
    Feb 7, 2006
    10
    I had no choice but to like this album ; It took me on a ride. I couldnt form my feelings about it into words if I wanted to it just feels perfect from beginning to end. Its bewitching. With this album and Amnesiac, we were treated to a rare thing - something completely true and a real work of art that came out of popular music.
  28. RickP
    Mar 18, 2006
    10
    Excellent tracks throughout. As ever with Radiohead albums, a CD you can put on and listen to over and over and over again and love it every time. Idioteque is one of their best ever.
  29. MattS
    Apr 7, 2006
    10
    As a whole, "Kid A" is the best electronic rock album I've ever heard. However, "Packt like sardines in a crushd tin box," the opening track from "Amnisiac," is Radiohead's best song.
  30. EkC
    Aug 27, 2006
    10
    Everything radiohead does is unbelievable (besides pablo honey)... i think the band peaked at ok computer, but this album is still unbelievable.
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#29 Best Album of 2000
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#2 Most Discussed Album of 2000
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#2 Most Shared Album of 2000

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. Pitchfork
    100
    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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  2. Spin
    90
    Radiohead 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]
  3. Ink Blot Magazine
    80
    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.
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