Where the hell is the KIDAmnesiac 20th celebration box? I neeeeeeed those studio outtakes.
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100%, I love this tune. I lose myself within 20 seconds of it starting.
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i second that emotion!!
maybe cuz of the pandemic though its harder to manufacture things and its a task they arent confident in?
you ever do the KidA infinite LOOP sync up to E.T. a la Pink Floyd with the Wizard of OZ??
Probably. Or maybe waiting for Amnesiacās anniversary.
NO! What is the cue point?
you gotta stack em in itunes or your player of choice i forget how many multiples
so it just looks like KidA, KidA, KidA ā¦etc. etc. in your playlist and then you hit start right when you see the spinning Universal Planet logo in the opening of the film
theres also āKid Draculaā where you stack Kid A and them Amnesiac back to back and play that to the black and white Dracula movie Nosferatu and that syncs pretty eerily as well
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Yeah their best album, ideoteque, everything in its right place, morning bell, the national anthem all great tracks
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I could never pick a best albumā¦ Theyāre such complete works on their own.
I largely ignored them until Kid A came out in my college years. I was obsessed with Music for Airports and On Land (ambient 4) at the time, and then Kid A just slipped right into that lane, and I couldnāt get enough. Immediately picked up OK Computer (used), and flat didnāt like it. Sold it back to the store.
Iād relay this story to a friend of mine a few years later, and he full-stopped whatever we were doing, went home, brought OK Computer back to my place, and we listened beginning to end. (For the kids, this was back when you had to physically have an album to listen to it)ā¦ It blew my mind. No idea what I didnāt like a few years earlier. A few decades later, having seen them 5 times, AFP once, yeahā¦ canāt name a favorite. Iāll listen to any of it starting with The Bends.
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Is this for real ?? 20 years ???
It feels like yesterday.
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This is eerie. To preface: the short story Iām about to tell is 100% true. I woke up yesterday morning with an idea to make a new tune. The inspiration for this tune was basically the intro part of this song (Idioteque) with the drum part and the meandering melody. Now, mind you, Iām not even a big Radiohead fan. In order to not forget the idea, I quickly wrote some notes in the Notes app on my phone. I wrote: āIDM beat like not portishead, maybe like that Radiohead songā and one other note was āhumming vocal melodyā (I guess I really just want to copy Idiotequeā¦)
At any rate, I was drawn to this old thread today, and since I had only read a few early posts, fast-forwarded to the recent posts and saw this about Idioteque. What a trip. Perhaps itās my destiny to cover this song now. haha. I just pulled the song up on youtube and got the chills from all this serendipity.
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@chapelierfou Yeah itās crazy the 20th just kind of slipped by without a big fanfareā¦
Anyone listen to that Minidisc Hacked dump? Is it worth diving into? Maybe itāll tide me over until whatever they doā¦
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Depends. Iām a pretty hardcore fan, and didnāt find anything particularly interesting there, the quality is shit, and it just feels wrong. But I prefer their post Kid A output by far, and wasnāt really around when OKC was first released, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
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There are various guides such as this:
And, a hardcore fan created Google doc of everything on there with time stamps etc:
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Not close at all, but I once gave the digitone a little Idioteque try 
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First time I heard this tune (and the rest of the album) was at a Radiohead show 2 months before the album was released. They played 3 shows in Israel, which they used as a dress rehearsal for the upcoming Kid A tour. Going to a gig youāve been dreaming of and not knowing half the tunes can be disappointing, but as I watched all 3 shows, by the third show it wasā¦yeah. Most memorable moment is the sample on Everything In Its Right Place bouncing from left to right on the PA as the song dies down.
OK Computer is still the better album though:) (at least for this aging Indie kid)
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Cool thanks. Iāll check out the White Cassette first and if proves worthwhile, go the full hog.
Kid A is the better album. But I think Amnesiac has the better songs. But quite brilliant.
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Kid A is my favorite album. Off all time probably. There is something special about the mood and the space it puts me inā¦
But In Rainbows might be their best overall album imo. Hard to choose off course, I love all their albums except Pablo Honey. But In Rainbows is just very consistent and reduced to the best. Everything feels placed just right on it
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Itās incredibly tough to pick between OK Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows. Kind of depends on what mood youāre in with what you think is better at any point of time.
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I have the same feeling about all of the albums you mentioned. In Rainbows I think was the most mature album from RH so far, very consistent and definitely cohesive.
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