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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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Apr 29, 2013
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Nov 17, 2014Oh, you all liked the musical style on OK Computer? Oh, you name it as one of the best albums of all time? We're as good as the Beatles? Here try this. A complete curveball, nay, the pitcher turned around and threw the ball to the center fielder. The crowd went wild, and rightfully so.
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Jun 18, 2013Not a masterpiece on the first listen, but if you are a true Radiohead fan, this album will grow on you and most people realize that this album is a rock masterpiece, and probably one of the best electronic albums ever.
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Feb 23, 2014If there is one album I would dexcribe as magic, it is Radioheads masterpiece "Kid A".
I remember being sick and I listened to this album, the music on Kid A cured me! I wasnt sick anymore!
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Dec 7, 2013
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Oct 6, 2013
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Oct 29, 2013It really is the best, most evocative and most profoundly moving Radiohead album. OK Computer, now we'll use you to do something marvellous and homogenous. Quieter and more concrete than its predecessor, it shows influences from triphop, krautrock and the likes of Aphex Twin and Björk.
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May 10, 2016The controversy of this album was so large at the time due to Radiohead completely changing their sound to create an album far before its time. Artists such as Kanye West, Bjork and Kid Cudi still use this album as reference to their work. Download: Idioteque, Everything in its Right Place, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Morning Bell.
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Aug 24, 2016
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Mar 30, 2018While I do give this album a 10, that doesn't mean it's perfect, it's very close though. The experimental sounds definitely hits 95% of the time then and now, and I will always listen to this carefully crafted album and let Radiohead express whatever music they want to create, they deserve it at this point.
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Apr 9, 2014This is by far the best album of the 2000s. Simply awesome; the beautiful beginning, Everything In Its Right Place: it's epic. And what about Idioteque? Easily on the best songs ever.
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May 6, 2015This is by far the darkest album I have ever listened to. And it is spectacular. I don't care what others say--this album shouldn't be considered "hipster"; it should just be listened to by anyone who takes the time to find really good music.
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Aug 23, 2014
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Mar 13, 2015It's rather a credit to an artist when their greatest competition for album of the decade... is another of their albums. Kid A is sonically and lyrically flawless.
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Dec 24, 2017It's 1998, you've just finished your world tour on the back of the release of one of, if not the best album of the 1990's. A decent band may look to replicate it. A good band may look to emulate it. But a great band improves on it.
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May 16, 2015
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Aug 20, 2017
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May 26, 2016Just a beautiful sounding album. It flows so well like a calm river. Every song feel like one in a good way. It's just one of the best albums in a past 30 years or so.
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Jan 24, 2020Unlike anything Ive heard before from another band. It's a magical musical ride driven by atmosphere, feels and fantasy. A classic.
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May 8, 2016
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Apr 15, 2021An album so breathtaking in its beauty. It's one of those albums that sounds exactly like its accompanying artwork, in that I feel like I'm flying through the mountains when listening to it. The album also perhaps defines the human experience better than any other album.
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Jun 22, 2016
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Aug 17, 2016this is a living masterpiece greatest album of all time. Rafiohead is the best band of the last 20 years. Kid A and OKC are legendary. 2018 next album?
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Sep 4, 2016Kid A is such a spooky album it gave me a nightmare of Thom Yorke shoving pineapples down my throat while screaming 'This is really happening!' When I woke up I was at my desk with this playing on Spotify. Also I was covered in pineapple juice, which still haunts me to this day. At least I hope it was pineapple juice. 10/10
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Jun 8, 2017
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Aug 29, 2019
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Jan 23, 2017The style of this album grew on me after several listens and became the style of Radiohead I enjoy most and looked forward to hearing in their future albums.
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Aug 16, 2017
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Mar 25, 2018
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Nov 18, 2018
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May 8, 2019Incredible album. Radiohead completely reinvented themselves, and made an album, in my opinion, better than OK Computer. Idioteque is my favorite Radiohead song.
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Feb 19, 2019This is Radiohead's "White Album". Very experimental but better than the rest.
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Feb 6, 2020This album is a 10.0. I’d say it occupies 25% of my music listening. The other 75% by Anima, In Rainbows, and Doolittle lol.
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Sep 15, 2019
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Aug 7, 2021What a masterpiece. This album is just perfect.
Best songs: Motion Picture Soundtrack, How to Disappear Completely, Everything in Its Right Place, Idioteque
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May 23, 2020
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Aug 2, 2020
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Feb 1, 2023
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Apr 25, 2022
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May 13, 2022when this album got reviewed again it got better numbers and i think that will keep being the trend for such a good album
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May 18, 2022This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jul 8, 2022When everything works out perfectly and the stars align, an album like this comes to be.
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Sep 9, 2022The artists liked by critics who dislike this album can never make an album half as good as Kid A in his/her lifetime!
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Aug 26, 2022I wasn't so sure about this album after the first two songs. But as the album progressed I came to like it a more. It's incredibly artistic and it sounds amazing.I do kind of wish that there was a more vocal performance from Tom Yorke on this album. But from what was provided, it was very delightful.
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Nov 4, 2022Wtf is this, This album makes me feel something but I still don't know what. But I know one thing, this is a f***ing masterpiece
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Feb 25, 2023My favorite Radiohead album so far. It just itched my brain in the right way.
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Jun 12, 2023This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jul 19, 2023Review só pra lembrar a nota que eu dei pro album:
album mt bom, agora só escrever pra passar dos 75 caracteres.
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.