KID A

This album is a Phenomenon to say the least.The nearly unanimous acclaim of Radiohead hardcore followers and newcomers to this album still surprises, and Radiohead deserves that and more for being the most inspired band in the world. All thanks to a marketing campaign that I liked to see it working for OKC. OK Computer was definitely the Sargeant's Pepper of the end of the XX century and Kid A is the Yellow Submarine (the original soundtrack version, with George Martin's score).Some says the electronic experimentation in this work was grounbreaking, but it really fells short compared with the electronic approach U2 did in Acthung Baby and Pop. Minimalistic is the word that defines Kid A and was like a two bladed knife and a risk the boys took with great success. Probably what happened with this album is that it was released in the perfect time and the perferct place in a moment when rock listeners were enough mind opened and embraced it so that became an important part of the soundtrack of their lives and marked an entire generation. As I said I'm glad for it's success but truth be told Kid A lacks the emotion of The Bends or the songwriting, production and perfection of OKC. And it's hard to take sides for Kid A or Amnesiac while they were intended to be a double album, both parts of a whole, and in the end it really worked like that. All double albums reached its climax in the second part and Amnesiac does it fantastically. Amnesiac shares the same experimentations of Kid A but is far more "progresive", melodic and atmospheric than KA, as I said due to the natural progression of a 2 part concept album and I advice everyone to listen both albums that way and realize that Amnesiac is a masterpiece in it's own right and maybe I get to like Kid A a little bit more than I and a huge minority actually does.