>Guitarist Ed O'Brien had hoped Radiohead's fourth album would comprise "snappy", melodic guitar songs, but Yorke stated: "There was no chance of the album sounding like that. >according to the Observer, one critic called the album "a commercial suicide note" > Mojo wrote that "upon first listen, Kid A is just awful ... Too often it sounds like the fragments that they began the writing process with – a loop, a riff, a mumbled line of text, have been set in concrete and had other, lesser ideas piled on top."
The thing about music journalists over 28 is that they are already past it and don't ever realize it.
Jonathan Price
Is Ed Mike Love?
Charles Sullivan
What exactly are you asking?
Hudson Thompson
No, because he's not a piece of shit and didn't sabotage the record out of spite. He eventually came around to Thom's vision for the record and put all of his effort into making it good.
Camden Stewart
kek
Aaron Williams
Because people expected a rock record. They wanted a rock record.
Christopher Robinson
Kid A/Amnesiac = Thom In Rainbows = Ed Moon Shaped Pool = Johnny Pablo Honey = Colin
Lucas Williams
what about phil
Xavier Gray
Poor, poor Colin.
But in all seriousness I would disagree with you and say that Colin's bass playing and Phil's drumming were the most important parts of The King of Limbs, so I'd give him that one.
Samuel Harris
What about Phil? Also, it's Jonny. An easy way to remember is "Thom stole Jonny's H"
Nathaniel Wood
Because those critics were idiots.
Can't blame them too much though. I was very uncertain about Kid A when it came out- except Ideoteque and How to Disappear Completely, those were obviously great from the first listen.
Jace Johnson
>Moon Shaped Pool = Johnny
AND IT SHOWS
Brayden Martin
But who really was in the bunker?
Landon Cox
>How did Kid A survive? p4k.
Bentley Fisher
That's why you should follow Marcel on Marcel's Music Journal
All I know is Michael Stipe was hiding underneath it.
William Anderson
Phil is the King of Limbs as they had to get an extra drummer just to get all that drumming on stage.
Ryder Wood
who cares, women and children first
Nicholas Walker
>I had never even seen a shooting star before. 25 years of rotations, passes through comets' paths, and travel, and to my memory I had never witnessed burning debris scratch across the night sky. Radiohead were hunched over their instruments. Thom Yorke slowly beat on a grand piano, singing, eyes closed, into his microphone like he was trying to kiss around a big nose. Colin Greenwood tapped patiently on a double bass, waiting for his cue. White pearls of arena light swam over their faces. A lazy disco light spilled artificial constellations inside the aluminum cove of the makeshift stage. The metal skeleton of the stage ate one end of Florence's Piazza Santa Croce, on the steps of the Santa Croce Cathedral. Michelangelo's bones and cobblestone laid beneath. I stared entranced, soaking in Radiohead's new material, chiseling each sound into the best functioning parts of my brain which would be the only sound system for the material for months.
Hunter King
Nah, man, Colin is TKOL.
Caleb Jackson
>tfw saw them live on the Kid A tour and didn't experience anything transcendent Was fun, though.
Joseph Moore
Idioteque used to give me headaches.
Lucas Collins
for real
Jack Rogers
Did I mention that the author, Brent DiCrescenzo, also gave 0.0 to Sonic Youth's NYC Ghosts and Flowers?
Top-notch criticism. Hats off to Pitchfork for keeping it objective, critical, and to the point.
Parker Reed
Rock critics expected rock music. Not to mention Kid A is not as accessible as people here say: it takes some time to get the album. Also it is a totally unique sound: at least in my experience. I've never heard anything that sounds similar before
