The first version of this song you listened to actually came out after this one, but the one on Amnesiac is supposedly the "original" version. Kid A and Amnesiac are sort of sister albums. They came out only a year apart and were actually recorded during the same studio sessions!
Erol I’m formally casting a vote for to do album reactions, perhaps starting with OK Computer through A Moon Shaped Pool. Before you listen to too many ad hoc tracks.
Great idea reacting to both versions! Another great double reaction would be Like Spinning Plates. The album version is trippy electronica with vocals sung backwards and then reversed. Anyway, eventually it was played live but as a stripped down piano version which is incredibly emotional, I highly recommend! It had an official release by the way so perfect sound.
Really love both versions. Of course this version has so many cool parts and love the glitched guitars. The other version is just slow and beautiful and to me more sad.
Cool to see you do both Morning Bells back to back today. They often revisit songs with completely different takes on them. Like they could have gone either direction, so they just do both. One song that's not been mentioned much that would give you a lot to chew upon is Bloom. They did an alternate version for the BBC's Planet Earth: Blue Planet with Hans Zimmer. The original is so evocative of water, both lyrically and musically... Then they used it in a documentary about the ocean. I really think you'll love that one. ,✌️
People have covered it I guess, but: both are 'album versions' - this one first on Kid A, the other one a year later on Amnesiac (those two albums are kind of twins, with Amnesiac being stuff written/recorded in the same sessions but which didn't make it onto Kid A for one reason or another.) And while I'm here -- let me reiterate my request for Elliott Smith!
At a certain point, tracks from this album have to be heard in sequence in one sitting for the real, full effect. I've never heard an album as cohesive as this one. This album has to be considered as a journey from start to finish with every transition between tracks vital to the feel of the album. Nothing has ever achieved the feeling that this album does of being more than just five guys in a room playing instruments. It feels like being on an alien planet or traveling to another dimension, it's just totally transportive. Sounds over the top but it really does that like no other album for me!
By the way really enjoying your reactions - to me we should all have the joy and wonder of children when we listen to music and you definitely have that
Your comment regarding unusual sounds is interesting as the creation of Kid A is when they became very experimental with sound. Ed O'Brian (one of the guitarists) had a difficult time finding his place on the album as they drastically limited the amount of guitar on it. However, he is now an amazing soundscape artist and would highly recommend checking out how he uses his signature Fender Strat which is fitted with a sustain pickup that can create some fantastic sounds, alongside his eye watering pedalboard setup. I would recommend listening to their albums chronologically so you can hear how their use of sound developed over time. All the best!
just do all of kid a. just do it already. it is the best thing ever done by anyone ever of all time and space. . . so just listen to the whole album already. . . just stop messing around and listen to the alltime greatest radiohead album in one video . . . i am talking about kid a!. after everything in its right place you will need to take a time out, but please do not stop there. the entire album is perfect. . . personally it got me through college, it kept me alive through organic chemistry.
It’s funny that people told you the other version was the wrong one, There is no wrong version, They’re both good. By the way, if you doing a relisten with both versions, also check out the “From the basement” version. With many of the albums they do a amazing live in the studio intimate sessions afterwards that give a differernt perspective of the songs so you can see what they’re playing. For more content, you could even watch the full album sessions after you get through reacting to all the songs on an album.
I can't even explain how much I hated Kid A the first few times I heard it. This sounds so different from all their previous work it was a real shock to us more rock fans it took me years to wrap my brain around. I actually put Radiohead aside for a number of years after the sister album came out but something kept me coming back to it and then it finally clicked. It took a lot of courage for them to change their sound at a time when they were being hailed as the band that was going to save rock and roll and being compared to the Beatles and Pink Floyd. One thing I will say though is that it's great live and you wouldn't think it would because of the massive soundscapes on the record but it translates so well.
Imagine if coldplay weren't boring and had a singer not a vocalist. Thought you were going to bust into something like Toto when you played the staccato part.
