Kid A is a damn good album, it’s just in a whole different genre.
Even if you think OK Computer was better - certainly a defensible argument - in no sense is that were Radiohead “fell off.” Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief were exactly what people wanted after Kid A. (Whatever they wanted right after OK Computer, tough shit, that band died on tour.)
In Rainbows was definitely a little off. There’s a lot going right. It’s all very tonally consistent, even compared to Thief. But there’s the plain seeds of whatever the fuck went wrong for King Of Limbs. Thom. How’d you fuck up “Morning, Mister Magpie?” It was beautiful on the MGLMOAT sessions.
These are great. In this vein I add:
Pearl Jam - Yield
(and forgive me but)
Radiohead - OK Computer
Kid A is a damn good album, it’s just in a whole different genre.
Even if you think OK Computer was better - certainly a defensible argument - in no sense is that were Radiohead “fell off.” Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief were exactly what people wanted after Kid A. (Whatever they wanted right after OK Computer, tough shit, that band died on tour.)
In Rainbows was definitely a little off. There’s a lot going right. It’s all very tonally consistent, even compared to Thief. But there’s the plain seeds of whatever the fuck went wrong for King Of Limbs. Thom. How’d you fuck up “Morning, Mister Magpie?” It was beautiful on the MGLMOAT sessions.
That’s fair. It’s hard to argue that they fell off at all.
Kid A was class when it came out