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I hate that amazon hounds you until you review your purchase. How hard is a CD transaction.
Packt like sardines in a crushed tin box (4/5)2. Also, "Hunting Bears" feels like a throwaway, experimental to a pretentious extreme. I'll dispense with my gripes first. Knives Out (4/5)7. Dollars & Cents (4/5)9. And while AMNESIAC is not a bad record, it's not a great one either. So where to next.
Recommended for any and all fans of experimental sounds, and, for that matter, Radiohead.Cohesion (4.5/5)Concept (4/5)Consequence (4/5)Consistency (3/5)Tracks:1. Pyramid Song (5/5)3. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors (5/5)4. Amnesiac/Morning Bell (2.5/5)8. Lastly, the production on some tracks is a bit too muffled, although I suppose this was somewhat intentional, given the extreme claustrophobia that forms the thematic center of this record. I Might Be Wrong (4/5)6. Hunting Bears (2/5)10.
So now that I've got that out of my system, let's talk about what's good and even great.
More of the same with a few twists.
"Amnesiac/Morning Bell" is unnecessary.
Good: the straightforward "Knives Out", the darkly hilarious "Packt", the twisted Dixieland jazz on "Life in a Glass House." Great: the lucid dreamscapes of "Pyramid Song" (a definite career highlight), the hardcore electronica of "Pulk", the avant-psalm "Like Spinning Plates." Although AMNESIAC isn't Radiohead's best album by any means, it nonetheless makes for a fantastic experience every once in a while.
Life in a Glass House (4/5)
Like Spinning Plates (5/5)11.
RadioheadAmnesiac; 2001Capitol RecordsMy Rating: 61/100Radiohead's own ZOOROPA.Here we have Radiohead's own ZOOROPA, wherein the band has already changed the game and convinced millions that they will, in fact, love the left turn that the band has taken.
The b-sides associated with the album prove that the band had plenty more tricks up its sleeve, and "Fog" or even the as-yet-unreleased "Follow Me Around," might have fit nicely in its place.
You and Whose Army (3.5/5)5.
This album was made for the die-hard fans of Radiohead. very creative, original and well-made.
It absolutely stands alone from Kid A but is respectfully symbiotic to it. It would also be difficult to recruit more musically diverse and critical fans that may dismiss Radiohead as a Brit-grunge rock band that just released Kid A as a one-time indulgence, soon to return to regurgitating familiar formulas. When I bought Kid A in the winter of 2000, I was curious as to where this band would choose to go afterward; Radiohead has shown more maturity and creative bravery with every release, and it would be difficult for a band to keep a fanbase that expects regurgitation of familiar formulas. Though I am not a fan of anything Radiohead did afterward, Amnesiac is really a great and logical transition between Kid A and where they went with Hail to the Thief. Amnesiac's limited Red Library Book edition is a treat. Larger prints of the fantastic artwork, with more pages not to be found elsewhere make this worth spending the extra money if you like unique and collectable packages as I do. Amnesiac was a very wise choice - rather than releasing an EP and a series of single/B-sides, they chose to let these songs breathe on a release that, though recorded in the same sessions as Kid A and "related" to those songs, stands very much on it's own artistic merit.
then move onto hail to the thief (aka best radiohead ever)., and then if you're still breathing go for kid a and amnesiac. if you do love radiohead its quite a wonderful experience.its also really unfair that amnesiac has been given the ever illustrious title "kid b". start with ok computer or in rainbows. but. its the same sessions as kid a, but i think it can stand alone as a separate album. one of the reasons being that, in my opinion, its up to the standard of normal radiohead music, which, again in my opinon, is an excellent album as a whole as well as songs that can stand by themselves just as well as in the album.so if you've never heard the name radiohead before in your life, please dont buy THIS album. and even if you are a fan, you have to be totally detached from the rest of the world when you listen to this album. you have to love radiohead or else the album makes no sense.
because its just as good or better as kid a. i'd suggest the bends, ok computer, and/or in rainbows. i mean, if you're not already into radiohead, forget it. because everyone else will call you crazy and you'll realize that outside of being a fan, all your friends are right and this album is total garbage. true, its not that different.
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