thank y'all for all your wonderful comments and support on this video! if you have any desire to watch this video in its uncut hour long entirety its posted on my Patreon which I linked in the description! just wanted to share in case! but thank you for the pain this album has brought unto me its truly been horrible... in the best way...
Radiohead definitely have influences, though what they do is very much their own thing ! A few Bands & Albums that may give you an idea from where Radiohead have drawn influences from -- Joy Division - Closer My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Slowdive - Souvlaki Polygon Window (Aphex Twin) - Surfing On Sine Wave Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies The Cure - Disintegration The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman To name just a few [for now]. Oh... and if you're gonna check out My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, then you should also check out -- Ride - Nowhere .
Your initial "wh- wha- this isn'--" reaction is precisely the reaction this album got when it came out in 2000. Everyone was expecting more of OK Computer, but they had been off listening to Aphex Twin and Bjork for three years
In regards to Untitled, the streaming releases have sort of messed things up as it was actually a hidden track after 1 minute of silence during Motion Picture Soundtrack. Initally it's theorised that this is a hopeful glimpse of "the next life"
@@jordanbeck6957Exactly, that album makes ME cry and I’m a frozen block of ice. Especially “True Love Waits” when you realize it was written about his ex wife at the beginning of their relationship as a love song, but years later when they recorded the song she was dying and they made the music more emotional and it completely changed the meaning of the lyrics “just don’t leave”. 😭
One of the most important albums ever made. It's worth baring in mind that this was their next album after Ok Computer, which was the album that pushed them to being a world famous and respected rock band. Then suddenly Kid A comes out and opens the way it does, with all its dark electronic weirdness. Just a crazy and brave left turn to take right after achieving massive success in one genre, just to completely go against that. A lot of fans at the time were not happy about it at all, but years later it's considered one of their best albums. The impact this album had on the industry and the way it influenced other bands is massive. I feel like that sums up what makes Radiohead so good in a way. Just an outright refusal to do what you expect.
Every song goes in a totally unexpected direction from how it starts. And every new album goes in a totally unexpected direction from their last album.
You questioned what it might be like to see Radiohead live, well this is a quote from an interview with the band; Colin Greenwood: There’s one show from that tour that comes to mind. We were in the middle of an encore of “No Surprises” and Thom went into the audience. Thom drifts into the middle of this crowd of 10,000 or so people, and he just starts burrowing into the ground. Like, really tunneling. And as the song goes on he’s getting deeper, and people are following him down there. Eventually, the whole audience had followed him down into that bottomless hole, and we were all alone onstage. Three days later, Thom emerged alone from the tunnel cradling a dove, nobody else with him. Actually, no one from that audience was ever seen again. That was an amazing show.
The greatest left turn album ever. Radiohead doesn’t make the same album twice! The “sucking on a lemon” line just makes me think he meant that the world or certain circumstances have turned him sour/turned off or disconnected from things. 🤷♂️
The sound in idioteque that you loved was a sample of one of the first computer composed pieces of music by Paul Lansky called Mild in leise and was written in 1972. It is four tones.
Yup - I gotcha there. They pushed the boundaries on Amnesiac and then retreated on subsequent albums. Couple of great songs on In Rainbows and Pool but yeah + Amnesiac - best album I reckon. BTW - you can tell fucking idiots from decent people by their reaction to Radiohead songs - it's failsafe xxxx
There's a version of Motion Picture Soundtrack on YT that's played at a young gentleman's funeral by the members of his brass band. It's simply the most fitting tribute to the soul that I can envisage.
For me it's Everything In It's Right Place. There's just a sort of Zen to the main riff that fuzzes out the rest of the world and refocuses me to the inside.
Everything in its Right Place has got to be the best opener for an album ever. It immediately transports you into the strange world they're invoking, the tension amped to the max and Thom's modulated but heartfelt voice is just... chef's kiss.
I agree but I suggest a track change… Create a playlist with these songs and thank me later. 1. Bloom 2. Lotus Flower 3. The Daily Mail 4. Little by Little 5. Staircase 6. Feral 7. The Butcher 8. Morning Mr. Magpie 9. Supercollider 10. Codex 11. Separator
@@gustoaudio8711 I like Give Up the Ghost but I had to cut it because I couldn’t fit it in anywhere without screwing up the flow. This is why Radiohead have some of the best b-sides. Many of these songs are b-sides that were cut from TKoL which I put back but I ended up having to make a cut of my own unfortunately.
People didn't expect Kid A after OK Computer, but the clues were there as early as The Bends: that Radiohead was going to transform into something quite different from where they started out. A lot of Radiohead fans freaked out and didn't know what to think when this came out of nowhere in 2000. Most I think have since come around, and embraced the new direction, and now appreciate how much Radiohead evolves with each album they put out. But what it really comes down to is Thom didn't want to be a rock star, and Johnny was never going to _just_ be a guitarist. They're both crazy talented musicians in general (not to discount the very significant contributions from the other three members of the band), and their goal is just to make great music, regardless of the neat little boxes of music genres that labels try to force bands into. After OK Computer, they had proven themselves enough that they could really just do whatever they wanted, and they've been doing exactly that ever since. They were already massively influential, but with Kid A they pretty much changed the whole world of music, and they've managed to keep pushing the boundaries and breaking new ground album after album.
I remember hearing this on day one, and my first thought was that Thom Yorke was clearly hanging out w Bjork at the time. It feels so intimate and honest and raw. It changed everything for the band from then on.
Also, if you have access to a PS5, there is a free cideo game that uses artwork and music from Kid A and its sister album Amnesiac to create a virtual museum experience.
Their collaboration around that time, "I've Seen It All," for her Dancer in the Dark soundtrack album, is a heartbreaker. There's a gut-punch of a film, too. My favorite movie that I'll never watch again.
Whenever I hear motion picture soundtrack being played I think of this cover by a brass band at a young lads funeral. In the breaks of the song all you can hear is sobbing, possibly one of the saddest videos on youtube. Insta waterfalls
I was 15 when this album dropped. A sophomore metalhead-cybergoth-shoegaze-hardcore punk kid. Very familiar with their previous work. I was fuckin BLOWN AWAY.
So, the last two songs have a unique thing to them. Motion Picture Soundtrack is basically a suicide note, and the last lines are "I will see you in the next life." On the original release, there was a long silence after it ends, and "Untitled" was a hidden track on the CD (it didn't have a track, it was part of MPS). It's basically the sound of the narrator from MPS being reborn. If you played the album on a loop, you would then be reincarnated right into Everything in It's Right Place. Streaming services ruined that.
Would defo recommend "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Absolutely mind bending album where each song is 20 minutes long and messes with your emotions.
I don’t know if you’re gonna want to hear this, but you will probably never get over How To Disappear… doesn’t matter how many times I’ve heard it over how many years - hits me just the same. It destroys.
@@DanielAlves-ch9lb yeah, very much. I love Radiohead like no other artist/group but if you think their work is wholly original, you'd be wrong. They are very good at taking loads of points of reference and combining them in a new way
I thought it was a perfect segue from OK Computer. You could even still hear bits of The Bends and Pablo Honey in their sound, still. And yeah, there were already all the bands you could hear on Liquid TV - Future Sound of London, The ORB, Orbital. IMO Kid A was the ache and ennui of The Cure crossed with Aphex Twin
Don't sleep on Amnesiac, it goes hand in hand with Kid A as they were recorded all in the same sessions. I personally think there are songs on Amnesiac that I like more than everything on Kid A but its not a popular opinion.
Thank you for your reaction. I bought this album day one when it came out and your video makes me remember how I felt when I heard Kid A for the first time. It was so emotional too. Thanks again.
I just want to say quick that i have really bad ptsd and for some reason i was super able to empathize with you over this album. I’ve loved it for quite some time but the ptsd kind of cuts off a lot of access to feelings and gets buried in this protective shell. I also make music. Or used to. I was pretty awesome. It literally was almost a therapy-esque breakthrough for me to watch this. I connect with super genuine people and can’t stand anyone who isn’t. It released quite a bit of my heart to see someone feel great music right. As a musician myself… who stopped… you may have recharged me to do it again. Thank you for being so real and vulnerable. This album is heaven.
wow wow wow. this means more to me than I could ever explain. to be able to have inspired you to maybe start up music again is something I never thought I would do! you are so awesome and I am so excited for you to pursue it again. thank YOU for being so real & vulnerable. you've inspired me to keep on exploring the world of music as much as I can!!! so thank You!!!
Idioteque will forever be one of radioheads most underrated songs and one of the best written songs ever. It's so cold and horrifying, those forever beating drums and the droning feel so urgent. Thoms vocals are horrifying, like he's screaming for help but lost all hope at the same time. This song will forever capture the true horror enormity of an apocalypse. "women and children first." "ice age coming, ice age coming." those lyrics will forever be drilled into my head. This song truly feels like THE Kid A song, and feels like the perfect song to describe this album.
I'm a xennial and Radiohead was central to my life and social group from when I was in junior high through my late 20s. It brings me so much joy to watch gen Z experience Radiohead's music for the first time. If only you could have experienced them live on their Kid A tour. I was changed from that experience.
Many of the lyrics only have meaning in the abstract. It was written using something called the cut up technique where Thom would write lyrics cut them into strips and put them back together in novel ways. This lends to the fractured cold emotional atmosphere of the album. Also on National anthem and other songs they run Thoms voice through a vintage instrument Johnny uses called the ondes Martenot which is played throughout the album. The idea is after OK Computer Thom was very sick of his own voice and wanted to alter it. Honestly I could go on all day about this album but I'll leave it there
Enjoying your heartfelt reactions and passion for music. A recommendation for listening....R.E.M.'s "Automatic For The People." (Radiohead are big, BIG fans of R.E.M. and they mentored Radiohead, even inviting them to open for them in concert in 1995. The song "How To Disappear Completely" was based on advice R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe gave to Thom Yorke in regards to how to deal with fame.
ok thats it YOU GOTTA LISTEN TO HAPPY MUSIC ONLY STARTING NOW. Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay is a really cool pop album that came out weeks ago, highly recommend for a fun listen!
i love your reactions 💯.. i had lucky to hear radiohead since pablo honey and see how they evol over the years, kid a was such a mind blowing experience at the time and it keeps feeling the same 24 years later.
KTG, you are a fucking gift! I really, really enjoy your reactions to Radiohead. You have a damn good vocabulary and I appreciate that. I know you wish you could use more of it but you feel encumbered with the feelings the songs give you ha ha. Is there any way to watch reactions to the entire songs?!?! I’d subscribe to that in a heartbeat. Thank you for being so cool and open and real! Cheers (ps- The National Anthem on SNL is rad and Idioteque live from Glastonbury is as well!)
Yeah Treefingers is amazing, it's cool to see that acknowledged. And it's made from guitars with effects which is even more impressive. Radiohead went yeah here you go, have an ambient track too and it's one of the best ambient tracks ever. Totally immerses you in the world of this album. That track got me into ambient music and still one of my favorites
What an album!! I got gifted the album at 11 years of age by my neighbour, and I've been listening to it ever since!! Definitely that one album that got me into Radiohead :))
You really need to reach to amnesiac as soon as possible. Kid A and Amnesiac were essentially released as companion pieces. They are very much in dialog with one another.
Story time: There was so much anticipation for this album. The Bends was awesome, and OK Computer was soooo good... my friends and I were huge fans and worried that they would not be able to make lightning strike in the same place again. The day that Kid A came out, I had to drive 500 km with two friends of mine. We got into the car and my friend pulled out the Kid A CD that he had bought earlier in the day, and as we got onto the highway we hit play and the three of us listened to it for the first time. Words cannot describe the feeling I got when those first five notes dropped -- it was perfection. They hit it out of the park.
also you should definitely check out godspeed you! black emperor if you haven't already, they have some lengthy songs but they're oh so worth it 😭💞 I'd start with their album "lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven"
They used a Korg Kaoss Pad on the opening vocals. It had a loop feature that would let you capture a clip of sound and then run your finger across a pad to make it go faster, slower, stutter, and in reverse.
MASSIVE props to Nigel Godrich. All those little details you notice are credited to his insane production chops. Highly recommend listening to Talkie Walkie by Air, also produced by Nigel. All the warm electronic feels in a serene package.
Your reaction to Treefingers was interesting! Most people seem to react to it as kind of an emotional pallet cleanser after the previous two songs, but it seems like for you it was doubling down on the catharsis.
Love your reactions to Radiohead, I appreciate how genuine you are and how you don't even try to hold back what you're feeling. (Or you don't seem to at least) I've been feeling those feelings about them for 20+ years now. One note about something you said during Kid A, I think the "rats and children following" is a reference to the Pied Piper fairy tail. So its not something he just made up for the song. If you enjoy Radiohead's albums you should react to The Smile as well. Radiohead is on a hiatus and The Smile is something some of the members are doing in the meantime. It definitely still feels like Radiohead even if it's not Radiohead in name.
Wrong. His ex wife died on december 2016. The album was out on May 2016. Yes, lots of grief for the end of their relation and her being sick, but you said wrong facts.
Motion Picture Soundtrack and How to Disappear Completely are by far my favorites off this album. And on top of that they are some of the best songs I've ever heard 😊
I was in a crowd when they played How To Disappear Completely and it was super emotional because they dedicated the song to all the disappeared people during the 70's in Argentina (we were under a dictatorship lead by General Videla) . Not to mention it was the first time they came to Argentina in 2009 the show was mind blowing, best concert I've ever been in my life.
Here are some recommendations to help with the intensity of Radiohead, which has a lot of emotional extremes to their music. I guess I could just post you one of my many playlists, and you could farm that for ideas, but I like to keep some stuff to myself. Since some songs are personal to me. I will recommend one artist that I rarely tell anyone else of, but I'll be doing that reluctantly, since I'm a massive fan of Caroline Polachek. Portishead - Trip-Hop Men I Trust - One of my current favorite groups Hazel English Caroline Polachek - Words don't do her justice. Phenomenal Chairlift Smashing Pumpkins Julia Jacklin Jonathan Bree - I have the same singing voice as him. Which I think is neat. Drab Majesty Röyksopp Kowloon Boy Harsher - You'll have to listen to them to understand their style Band of Horses Molchat Doma French 79 Dry Cleaning - an English group with a unique singing style Still Corners BeachHouse - Very emotional, but very good Cannons Snail Mail - Fantastic! Nothing else to say José González Fleet Foxes Angel Olsen Car Seat Headrest Thundercat Phoebe Bridgers This Will Destroy You - Post Rock, you would call them Ambient. Their name is accurate. Phantogram Tennis - Wife sings, Husband plays Chromatics Alvvays Japanese Breakfast Meg Myers - Really loved her older music Dayglow Lord Huron Future Islands Crumb Amyl and The Sniffers - Australian punk rock Big Thief
BTW you should seek out Radiohead’s live performance of Idioteque on Saturday Night Live in the early 2000s. You used to be able to find it on TH-cam but I’m not sure anymore. But it can be found via Google. They came out with a fire and a fury and burned that studio down with that performance. I still get chills thinking about it. Radiohead live is in a league of their own and that performance is iconic.
i think you should listen to amsp last. there’s a possibility that it could be their last album and it’s radiohead at its most mature (also imo their saddest album lol 😭) i recommend listening to hail to the thief and the bends and the king of limbs and amnesiac first and THEN ending it all with amsp
Another fabulous reaction! I love your very open and honest reactions to songs. An idea for another album reaction for you: A different band to Radiohead, predating them by over 15 years, but very influential...Talking Heads: 'Remain In Light' Ahead of its time, complex rhythms and beats, but I am sure you will like it and get a lot out of it. One of my favourite complete albums (alongside the 4 Pink Floyd classics DSOTM, WYWH, Animals and The Wall). Also, how about a series of reactions to the Pink Floyd movie version of The Wall, from start to finish? I know a lot of fans would love to see you react to this!! Cheers from South Australia
After OK Computer, this album was so far removed from anything I had ever heard. I remember listening to it on repeat as I drove 5 hours after work on Fridays to a beautiful woman who would become my wife. What a beautiful album!
I don't like how the streaming services make Untitled into its own track On the CD it plays after like a minute of silence after the end of Motion Picture Soundtrack, it's kind of hidden as part of that song
i found your channel through Radiohead, one of my favorite bands of all time i'd say Nude and Lucky are my favorites. You should do a nine inch nails project sometime or anything from the 90s would be epic
thank y'all for all your wonderful comments and support on this video! if you have any desire to watch this video in its uncut hour long entirety its posted on my Patreon which I linked in the description! just wanted to share in case! but thank you for the pain this album has brought unto me its truly been horrible... in the best way...
Radiohead definitely have influences, though what they do is very much their own thing !
A few Bands & Albums that may give you an idea from where Radiohead have drawn influences from --
Joy Division - Closer
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Polygon Window (Aphex Twin) - Surfing On Sine Wave
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
The Cure - Disintegration
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
To name just a few [for now].
Oh... and if you're gonna check out My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, then you should also check out --
Ride - Nowhere
.
Genuinely How To Disappear Completely and Motion Picture Soundtrack might actually be 2 of the best songs ever made
indeed
HTDC is Thom's favourite.
Given the emotional impact of both...the word best is a grossly a inadequate classification.
i prefer idioteque
The National Anthem is up there too
This album just THROWS you in the universe of dreadful technology, darkness, ambience... and gives you a glimpse of light at the end.
Suicidal light
Yeah. I regret buying this when it was released at one of the hardest points in my life.
I know music is subjective but I’m struggling really hard to understand where you are seeing light at the end of this album
I always thought about the last song in a positive way. The line "i will see you in the next life" means acceptance to me
@@user-qi5ht3qg6mI kinda see the hidden track (called Untitled on most streaming services) as a glimmer of hope after Motion Picture Soundtrack
'Motion Picture Soundtrack' was originally written the same day as 'Creep'.
That's insane!
Love this album but we gotta start suggesting some more happy albums or she’s gonna go insane.
we need Bonito Generation
@@mocapcow2933 YES!
Your initial "wh- wha- this isn'--" reaction is precisely the reaction this album got when it came out in 2000. Everyone was expecting more of OK Computer, but they had been off listening to Aphex Twin and Bjork for three years
In regards to Untitled, the streaming releases have sort of messed things up as it was actually a hidden track after 1 minute of silence during Motion Picture Soundtrack. Initally it's theorised that this is a hopeful glimpse of "the next life"
A Moon Shaped Pool Next! (Or The Bends)
I don't know if she'll survive AMSP 😭
@@jordanbeck6957 Lol, better listen In rainbows first
@@matheusramos1383 she already listened in rainbows
@@jordanbeck6957Exactly, that album makes ME cry and I’m a frozen block of ice.
Especially “True Love Waits” when you realize it was written about his ex wife at the beginning of their relationship as a love song, but years later when they recorded the song she was dying and they made the music more emotional and it completely changed the meaning of the lyrics “just don’t leave”. 😭
Yes. The Bends for sure.
One of the most important albums ever made. It's worth baring in mind that this was their next album after Ok Computer, which was the album that pushed them to being a world famous and respected rock band. Then suddenly Kid A comes out and opens the way it does, with all its dark electronic weirdness. Just a crazy and brave left turn to take right after achieving massive success in one genre, just to completely go against that. A lot of fans at the time were not happy about it at all, but years later it's considered one of their best albums. The impact this album had on the industry and the way it influenced other bands is massive.
I feel like that sums up what makes Radiohead so good in a way. Just an outright refusal to do what you expect.
Every song goes in a totally unexpected direction from how it starts. And every new album goes in a totally unexpected direction from their last album.
Watching you listen to Radiohead returns me to the feelings I got the first time I heard Radiohead. What a crazy gift. Thank you. ♥
this means so much to me thank you :')
You questioned what it might be like to see Radiohead live, well this is a quote from an interview with the band;
Colin Greenwood: There’s one show from that tour that comes to mind. We were in the middle of an encore of “No Surprises” and Thom went into the audience. Thom drifts into the middle of this crowd of 10,000 or so people, and he just starts burrowing into the ground. Like, really tunneling. And as the song goes on he’s getting deeper, and people are following him down there. Eventually, the whole audience had followed him down into that bottomless hole, and we were all alone onstage. Three days later, Thom emerged alone from the tunnel cradling a dove, nobody else with him. Actually, no one from that audience was ever seen again. That was an amazing show.
The greatest left turn album ever. Radiohead doesn’t make the same album twice!
The “sucking on a lemon” line just makes me think he meant that the world or certain circumstances have turned him sour/turned off or disconnected from things. 🤷♂️
It's just an English saying for waking up in a bad mood. Same as getting out of the wrong side of the bed.
The sound in idioteque that you loved was a sample of one of the first computer composed pieces of music by Paul Lansky called Mild in leise and was written in 1972. It is four tones.
Amnesiac is my personal favourite.
lovely video :)
Yup - I gotcha there. They pushed the boundaries on Amnesiac and then retreated on subsequent albums. Couple of great songs on In Rainbows and Pool but yeah + Amnesiac - best album I reckon. BTW - you can tell fucking idiots from decent people by their reaction to Radiohead songs - it's failsafe xxxx
There's a version of Motion Picture Soundtrack on YT that's played at a young gentleman's funeral by the members of his brass band. It's simply the most fitting tribute to the soul that I can envisage.
"This should be the new national anthem," is exactly what I've been saying for over 20 years.
KID A is my favorite album. Not only by Radiohead but in general. "The Greatest Left Turn in Music History".
FINALLY SOMEONE SHARES MY FEELINGS FOR MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK!!! BEST SONG!!!
every time i’m having a panic attack i stick on how to disappear and it’s honestly sorts me right out - magic music i swear
For me it's Everything In It's Right Place. There's just a sort of Zen to the main riff that fuzzes out the rest of the world and refocuses me to the inside.
Everything in its Right Place has got to be the best opener for an album ever. It immediately transports you into the strange world they're invoking, the tension amped to the max and Thom's modulated but heartfelt voice is just... chef's kiss.
to everyone saying "the bends", i raise you the king of limbs! underrated album, arguably in their top three best of all time
No one is arguing for it to be in the top 3😭
@@nothingtosee3251 I AM. TKOL is and underrated gem
I agree but I suggest a track change… Create a playlist with these songs and thank me later.
1. Bloom
2. Lotus Flower
3. The Daily Mail
4. Little by Little
5. Staircase
6. Feral
7. The Butcher
8. Morning Mr. Magpie
9. Supercollider
10. Codex
11. Separator
@@GoogleVideoManexactly this… to make it the more substantial fleshed out album it should have been (but not missing Give Up the Ghost…)
@@gustoaudio8711 I like Give Up the Ghost but I had to cut it because I couldn’t fit it in anywhere without screwing up the flow. This is why Radiohead have some of the best b-sides. Many of these songs are b-sides that were cut from TKoL which I put back but I ended up having to make a cut of my own unfortunately.
People didn't expect Kid A after OK Computer, but the clues were there as early as The Bends: that Radiohead was going to transform into something quite different from where they started out. A lot of Radiohead fans freaked out and didn't know what to think when this came out of nowhere in 2000. Most I think have since come around, and embraced the new direction, and now appreciate how much Radiohead evolves with each album they put out. But what it really comes down to is Thom didn't want to be a rock star, and Johnny was never going to _just_ be a guitarist. They're both crazy talented musicians in general (not to discount the very significant contributions from the other three members of the band), and their goal is just to make great music, regardless of the neat little boxes of music genres that labels try to force bands into. After OK Computer, they had proven themselves enough that they could really just do whatever they wanted, and they've been doing exactly that ever since. They were already massively influential, but with Kid A they pretty much changed the whole world of music, and they've managed to keep pushing the boundaries and breaking new ground album after album.
I remember hearing this on day one, and my first thought was that Thom Yorke was clearly hanging out w Bjork at the time. It feels so intimate and honest and raw. It changed everything for the band from then on.
Also, if you have access to a PS5, there is a free cideo game that uses artwork and music from Kid A and its sister album Amnesiac to create a virtual museum experience.
Sounds to me like you're ready to dive into the sister album Amnesiac. Its the other half of Kid A's coin.
Their collaboration around that time, "I've Seen It All," for her Dancer in the Dark soundtrack album, is a heartbreaker. There's a gut-punch of a film, too. My favorite movie that I'll never watch again.
How To Disappear Completely. Stunning.
Welp, this album is part of your life now.
Whenever I hear motion picture soundtrack being played I think of this cover by a brass band at a young lads funeral. In the breaks of the song all you can hear is sobbing, possibly one of the saddest videos on youtube. Insta waterfalls
I was 15 when this album dropped. A sophomore metalhead-cybergoth-shoegaze-hardcore punk kid. Very familiar with their previous work. I was fuckin BLOWN AWAY.
So, the last two songs have a unique thing to them. Motion Picture Soundtrack is basically a suicide note, and the last lines are "I will see you in the next life." On the original release, there was a long silence after it ends, and "Untitled" was a hidden track on the CD (it didn't have a track, it was part of MPS). It's basically the sound of the narrator from MPS being reborn. If you played the album on a loop, you would then be reincarnated right into Everything in It's Right Place. Streaming services ruined that.
you should listen to nick drake- pink moon
LISTEN TO THE WHOLE ALBUM
@@swimdog thats what i was going for haha, the album for sure
There’s nothing better than Kid A
OK computer and in rainbows objectively, but personally I love kid a sm.
Would defo recommend "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Absolutely mind bending album where each song is 20 minutes long and messes with your emotions.
I LOVE YOUR REACTIONS SO MUCHH
I don’t know if you’re gonna want to hear this, but you will probably never get over How To Disappear… doesn’t matter how many times I’ve heard it over how many years - hits me just the same. It destroys.
Just to clarify: Nothing like Kid A existed before its release. Nothing.
Apart from apex twin, and Charlie Mingus and Scott walker
Bjork's homogenic also has some very Kid A moments
@@DanielAlves-ch9lb yeah, very much. I love Radiohead like no other artist/group but if you think their work is wholly original, you'd be wrong. They are very good at taking loads of points of reference and combining them in a new way
Thats not exactly accurate. You can hear the influences in Kid A.
I thought it was a perfect segue from OK Computer. You could even still hear bits of The Bends and Pablo Honey in their sound, still.
And yeah, there were already all the bands you could hear on Liquid TV - Future Sound of London, The ORB, Orbital. IMO Kid A was the ache and ennui of The Cure crossed with Aphex Twin
"Everything in its Right Place" and "National Anthem" are my favorite tracks. I love the horns and the bari sax on "National Anthem".
Don't sleep on Amnesiac, it goes hand in hand with Kid A as they were recorded all in the same sessions. I personally think there are songs on Amnesiac that I like more than everything on Kid A but its not a popular opinion.
Amnesiac is the better "songs" album. Kid A the better album. Both great.
I can't wait till you get to Amnesiac, with Pyramid Song. I swear that song is a portal to an alternative universe
The video enhances it...& that's rare.
@@ph8077 Absolutely! Chilling.
Thank you for your reaction. I bought this album day one when it came out and your video makes me remember how I felt when I heard Kid A for the first time. It was so emotional too. Thanks again.
I just want to say quick that i have really bad ptsd and for some reason i was super able to empathize with you over this album. I’ve loved it for quite some time but the ptsd kind of cuts off a lot of access to feelings and gets buried in this protective shell.
I also make music. Or used to. I was pretty awesome. It literally was almost a therapy-esque breakthrough for me to watch this.
I connect with super genuine people and can’t stand anyone who isn’t. It released quite a bit of my heart to see someone feel great music right. As a musician myself… who stopped… you may have recharged me to do it again. Thank you for being so real and vulnerable.
This album is heaven.
wow wow wow. this means more to me than I could ever explain. to be able to have inspired you to maybe start up music again is something I never thought I would do! you are so awesome and I am so excited for you to pursue it again. thank YOU for being so real & vulnerable. you've inspired me to keep on exploring the world of music as much as I can!!! so thank You!!!
Love your reactions. You are great. Keep 'em coming 🙂
THE BENDS!!
Yeah!
👍
I agree
and then Amnesiac, AND THEN HAIL TO THE THIEF AND THEN A MOON SHAPED POOL
Plus the B-Sides, like maquiladora, killer cars, etc
Idioteque will forever be one of radioheads most underrated songs and one of the best written songs ever. It's so cold and horrifying, those forever beating drums and the droning feel so urgent. Thoms vocals are horrifying, like he's screaming for help but lost all hope at the same time. This song will forever capture the true horror enormity of an apocalypse. "women and children first." "ice age coming, ice age coming." those lyrics will forever be drilled into my head. This song truly feels like THE Kid A song, and feels like the perfect song to describe this album.
Radiohead's best album IMO
Glad you liked Kid A. What balls to drop OK Computer and then left turn and still succeed with mind blowing results.
"I'm literally entering another universe right, now and I'm sober"
I once listened to Kid A on mushrooms. I WAS in another universe. Lol.
17:53 Kate, I feel like it's time for you to look into Aphex Twin. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and just go!
Yep yep
So true, what a fucking album!!
Selected Ambient Works VOL 2 comes out next month in a 30th year anniversary edition with extra tracks.
Idioteque can't be real
I'm a xennial and Radiohead was central to my life and social group from when I was in junior high through my late 20s.
It brings me so much joy to watch gen Z experience Radiohead's music for the first time.
If only you could have experienced them live on their Kid A tour. I was changed from that experience.
Many of the lyrics only have meaning in the abstract. It was written using something called the cut up technique where Thom would write lyrics cut them into strips and put them back together in novel ways. This lends to the fractured cold emotional atmosphere of the album. Also on National anthem and other songs they run Thoms voice through a vintage instrument Johnny uses called the ondes Martenot which is played throughout the album. The idea is after OK Computer Thom was very sick of his own voice and wanted to alter it. Honestly I could go on all day about this album but I'll leave it there
That 'oohhh...' at the start of Everything was fkn hilarious. The genuine dread and slight concern lol
The collaboration between Brian Eno and Harold Budd, for one. Just throwing seeds.
Enjoying your heartfelt reactions and passion for music. A recommendation for listening....R.E.M.'s "Automatic For The People." (Radiohead are big, BIG fans of R.E.M. and they mentored Radiohead, even inviting them to open for them in concert in 1995. The song "How To Disappear Completely" was based on advice R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe gave to Thom Yorke in regards to how to deal with fame.
ok thats it YOU GOTTA LISTEN TO HAPPY MUSIC ONLY STARTING NOW. Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay is a really cool pop album that came out weeks ago, highly recommend for a fun listen!
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Yeah! She should listen to Sparklehorse, such a fun name!
Yeah that album is super fun!
That Magdalena Bay album is album of the decade so far imo
i love your reactions 💯.. i had lucky to hear radiohead since pablo honey and see how they evol over the years, kid a was such a mind blowing experience at the time and it keeps feeling the same 24 years later.
No one creates soundscapes like Radiohead
Those opening notes…I was 20 years old and forever changed.
KTG, you are a fucking gift! I really, really enjoy your reactions to Radiohead. You have a damn good vocabulary and I appreciate that. I know you wish you could use more of it but you feel encumbered with the feelings the songs give you ha ha. Is there any way to watch reactions to the entire songs?!?! I’d subscribe to that in a heartbeat. Thank you for being so cool and open and real! Cheers (ps- The National Anthem on SNL is rad and Idioteque live from Glastonbury is as well!)
When he opens the filter up on the Prophet 6 at the end of Everything In Its Right Place, it always gets me.
Yeah Treefingers is amazing, it's cool to see that acknowledged. And it's made from guitars with effects which is even more impressive. Radiohead went yeah here you go, have an ambient track too and it's one of the best ambient tracks ever. Totally immerses you in the world of this album. That track got me into ambient music and still one of my favorites
What an album!! I got gifted the album at 11 years of age by my neighbour, and I've been listening to it ever since!! Definitely that one album that got me into Radiohead :))
You really need to reach to amnesiac as soon as possible. Kid A and Amnesiac were essentially released as companion pieces. They are very much in dialog with one another.
You're my favourite reactor to any music. You're great, Kate.
Story time: There was so much anticipation for this album. The Bends was awesome, and OK Computer was soooo good... my friends and I were huge fans and worried that they would not be able to make lightning strike in the same place again. The day that Kid A came out, I had to drive 500 km with two friends of mine. We got into the car and my friend pulled out the Kid A CD that he had bought earlier in the day, and as we got onto the highway we hit play and the three of us listened to it for the first time. Words cannot describe the feeling I got when those first five notes dropped -- it was perfection. They hit it out of the park.
first vid i watched and i already love your energy, i will def have to check your other reactions aswell!
also you should definitely check out godspeed you! black emperor if you haven't already, they have some lengthy songs but they're oh so worth it 😭💞 I'd start with their album "lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven"
You gave us everything I always am looking for and forward to in every music reaction. Thank you so much!😊
They used a Korg Kaoss Pad on the opening vocals. It had a loop feature that would let you capture a clip of sound and then run your finger across a pad to make it go faster, slower, stutter, and in reverse.
Getting to "Motion Picture Soundtrack" and saying "It can't get any worse" was like a horror movie character saying "I think we lost him"
Wow lmfao
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES LISTEN TO THE 1ST 2 Sigur Rós ALBUMS!!⚠
I FORBID IT.
MASSIVE props to Nigel Godrich. All those little details you notice are credited to his insane production chops. Highly recommend listening to Talkie Walkie by Air, also produced by Nigel. All the warm electronic feels in a serene package.
God, your reactions are the most humane thing every time❤
Your reaction to Treefingers was interesting! Most people seem to react to it as kind of an emotional pallet cleanser after the previous two songs, but it seems like for you it was doubling down on the catharsis.
Love your reactions to Radiohead, I appreciate how genuine you are and how you don't even try to hold back what you're feeling. (Or you don't seem to at least)
I've been feeling those feelings about them for 20+ years now.
One note about something you said during Kid A, I think the "rats and children following" is a reference to the Pied Piper fairy tail. So its not something he just made up for the song.
If you enjoy Radiohead's albums you should react to The Smile as well. Radiohead is on a hiatus and The Smile is something some of the members are doing in the meantime. It definitely still feels like Radiohead even if it's not Radiohead in name.
kid A, a masterpiece, unforgettable sounds
Please react to Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins. One of my all time favorites.
A moon shaped pool… album about his wife who died of cancer after they divorced react NOW 😡
his wife died after the album released, so it wasn't about that at all.
ex-wife* my mistake
Wrong. His ex wife died on december 2016. The album was out on May 2016. Yes, lots of grief for the end of their relation and her being sick, but you said wrong facts.
@@panchopenumbra you just repeated what I said. December is after may. She died seven months after amsp was released.
@@panchopenumbra I suppose her sickness may had affected it, but thom yorke wrote true love waits in 1995
Motion Picture Soundtrack and How to Disappear Completely are by far my favorites off this album. And on top of that they are some of the best songs I've ever heard 😊
I was in a crowd when they played How To Disappear Completely and it was super emotional because they dedicated the song to all the disappeared people during the 70's in Argentina
(we were under a dictatorship lead by General Videla) . Not to mention it was the first time they came to Argentina in 2009 the show was mind blowing, best concert I've ever been in my life.
The definition of an album that flows. Gotta be listened to beginning to end, in one sitting. Marvellous.
Here are some recommendations to help with the intensity of Radiohead, which has a lot of emotional extremes to their music.
I guess I could just post you one of my many playlists, and you could farm that for ideas, but I like to keep some stuff to myself. Since some songs are personal to me. I will recommend one artist that I rarely tell anyone else of, but I'll be doing that reluctantly, since I'm a massive fan of Caroline Polachek.
Portishead - Trip-Hop
Men I Trust - One of my current favorite groups
Hazel English
Caroline Polachek - Words don't do her justice. Phenomenal
Chairlift
Smashing Pumpkins
Julia Jacklin
Jonathan Bree - I have the same singing voice as him. Which I think is neat.
Drab Majesty
Röyksopp
Kowloon
Boy Harsher - You'll have to listen to them to understand their style
Band of Horses
Molchat Doma
French 79
Dry Cleaning - an English group with a unique singing style
Still Corners
BeachHouse - Very emotional, but very good
Cannons
Snail Mail - Fantastic! Nothing else to say
José González
Fleet Foxes
Angel Olsen
Car Seat Headrest
Thundercat
Phoebe Bridgers
This Will Destroy You - Post Rock, you would call them Ambient. Their name is accurate.
Phantogram
Tennis - Wife sings, Husband plays
Chromatics
Alvvays
Japanese Breakfast
Meg Myers - Really loved her older music
Dayglow
Lord Huron
Future Islands
Crumb
Amyl and The Sniffers - Australian punk rock
Big Thief
After watching your Radiohead reaction vids, the silence throughout How to disappear completely & Motion picture soundtrack spoke volumes! 😂❤
Had the same feeling listening to How To Disappear the first time. Hauntingly sad but beautiful.
Everything in its right place is such an unsettling song.
Oh my god A moon shaped pool is going to change your life !
BTW you should seek out Radiohead’s live performance of Idioteque on Saturday Night Live in the early 2000s. You used to be able to find it on TH-cam but I’m not sure anymore. But it can be found via Google. They came out with a fire and a fury and burned that studio down with that performance. I still get chills thinking about it. Radiohead live is in a league of their own and that performance is iconic.
i think you should listen to amsp last.
there’s a possibility that it could be their last album and it’s radiohead at its most mature (also imo their saddest album lol 😭)
i recommend listening to hail to the thief and the bends and the king of limbs and amnesiac first and THEN ending it all with amsp
I envy anyone getting to hear Radiohead for the first time. Especially How To Disappear Completely.
we need a 'a moon shaped pool' reaction🙏
If you dont come away from this album with profound melancholy, then you didn't listen to it right.
I also hate the robot voice on the title track cause it reminds me of that 'I Feel Fantastic' video💀
I now understand why Treefingers followed HTDC. Nothing could have followed that performance. We all needed a fucking break, and we got it.
I saw HTDC live in 2018.
You hit the jackpot Kate!
You might wanna check out the artists/bands that inspired their later works, cos they're great in their own right!
We're seeing Thom in concert about a month from now, in Auckland.
Radiohead is catharsis
Another fabulous reaction! I love your very open and honest reactions to songs. An idea for another album reaction for you: A different band to Radiohead, predating them by over 15 years, but very influential...Talking Heads: 'Remain In Light' Ahead of its time, complex rhythms and beats, but I am sure you will like it and get a lot out of it. One of my favourite complete albums (alongside the 4 Pink Floyd classics DSOTM, WYWH, Animals and The Wall). Also, how about a series of reactions to the Pink Floyd movie version of The Wall, from start to finish? I know a lot of fans would love to see you react to this!! Cheers from South Australia
Yuhh I like the channel looking forward to more
After OK Computer, this album was so far removed from anything I had ever heard. I remember listening to it on repeat as I drove 5 hours after work on Fridays to a beautiful woman who would become my wife. What a beautiful album!
I don't like how the streaming services make Untitled into its own track
On the CD it plays after like a minute of silence after the end of Motion Picture Soundtrack, it's kind of hidden as part of that song
2000s radiohead sounds like every A24 movie ever
Oneohtrix has done a few a24 films I think, definitely inspired by music like this!
I love all Radiohead fans. I wish everyone in the world was a fan, so I could love everyone.
i found your channel through Radiohead, one of my favorite bands of all time i'd say Nude and Lucky are my favorites. You should do a nine inch nails project sometime or anything from the 90s would be epic