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Kid A [2CD DVD]

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Artist: Radiohead
Label: EMI
Category: Music

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2600

Format: Collector's Edition, Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5.3 x 0.7

EAN: 5099969710827
ASIN: B002BF96JS

Release Date: August 31, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Everything In Its Right Place
•	Kid A
•	The National Anthem
•	How To Disappear Completely
•	Treefingers
•	Optimistic
•	In Limbo
•	Idioteque
•	Morning Bell
•	Motion Picture Soundtrack

Disc 2

•	Everything In Its Right Place
•	How To Disappear Completely
•	Idioteque
•	The National Anthem
•	Optimistic (Lamacq Live In Concert)
•	Morning Bell (Live At Canal+ Studios, Paris)
•	The National Anthem (Live At Canal+ Studios, Paris)
•	How To Disappear Completely (Live At Canal+ Studios, Paris)
•	In Limbo (Live At Canal+ Studios, Paris)
•	Idioteque (Live At Canal+ Studios, Paris)
•	Everything In Its Right Place (Live At Canal+ Studios, Paris)
•	Motion Picture Soundtrack (Live At Canal+ Studios, Paris)
•	True Love Waits (Live In Oslo)

Disc 3

•	The National Anthem (Live On Later With Jools Holland) [DVD]
•	Morning Bell (Live On Later With Jools Holland) [DVD]
•	Idioteque (Live On Later With Jools Holland) [DVD]

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
Radiohead may well be the most courageous band in Britain. Their second album, iThe Bends/i, was a success both critically and commercially, and they followed it up with an album of epic prog-rock, iOK Computer/i, that would have destined a lesser band to commercial failure and, eventually, obscurity. Instead, it was almost universally hailed as one of the finest albums ever recorded. So it should come as no great surprise that their fourth album, Kid A, is even more experimental, owing a debt to the studio-born soundscapes of Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and even later Talk Talk. iKid A/i is an album that would not sound out of place on the Warp Records roster, as keyboards, sequencers and electronic effects take the place of guitars on most tracks (particularly unusual for a band that boasts three guitarists). In fact, this is an album that succeeds without rock's bombast, from the looping keyboards of album opener "Everything In Its Right Place" to the bouncing, bass-led "The National Anthem" to the album's hauntingly atmospheric highlight, "Idioteque". Meanwhile, more traditional Radiohead tracks like "How To Disappear Completely" and "Optimistic" offer a natural bridge between the electronic noodlings of iKid A/i and the (slightly) more mainstream-sounding iOK Computer/i. Radiohead may well be the most innovative popular band since the Beatles; as such, iKid A/i represents the most successful evolution of a major British act since iSgt Pepper's/i. i--Robert Burrow/i

Customer Reviews:
4 out of 5 stars

Milking the cow until the teat falls off! September 5, 2009
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
10 out of 17 found this review helpful

The final selection of Radiohead reissues are about as much use, and as complete as, a fart in a bucket. br / br /"Kid A" and "Amnesiac" are largely the two sides of the same coin. Written and recorded at the same time, the two albums are the twins of the same musical pregnancy, seperated and left to live their own lives. "Kid A" is a brave new direction that sees Radiohead abandon the guitar-led tremelos in favour of a welding of the rhythsm and sounds of Warp and match them with Yorke's unusual vocals, a melding of man and machine where the man slightly has the edge. br / br /"Kid A" was a bold step, in so much as Radiohead abandoned, albeit briefly, singles. Songs such as "Idioteque" are brave new steps on vinyl for Radiohead, abandoning the formula that could have generated them with easy money for no musical innovation. Radiohead took the brave path, and tried something new. They could've fallen flat on their face. That they didn't - and didn't sound like a mid-life crisis reinvention circa the Great Grunge Wars of 1991 where Bon Jovi became 'dirty' - is a testament to ability and talent. br / br /The two albums really are part of the same whole and should be seen only as companion pieces, not seperate entities. One could argue that each should have different selections and running orders, that the records are in a way, slightly schizophrenic, split personalities that would've benefit from seperation into two distinct stories, and you would be right. But they are in themselves, both, valid artistic statements with no shortage of integrity or vision. br / br /What is truly baffling is the bonus tracks are, once again, shattered into pieces and fragmented out. The concert that appends "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" is a complete, and passionate one hour from French television after the release of the second album. Nonetheless, the concert is broken into two parts, and the songs divided into their parent albums. Instead of a Radiohead concert, you get a random assortment of songs lacking any cohesion. And since it was broadcast on French Television, you might expect the television broadcast on the DVD that accompanies them.... Well, you'd be wrong. I might be wrong. But I'm not. If you want an hour of vibrant Radiohead recorded live, it's spread across the two CD's. The callous and heathen mutilation of the material is lacking in even a moments thought. br / br /Not only that, but the bonus tracks are frankly, very incomplete. Alternate versions of songs on compilation releases are absent despite being EMI having free will to incomplete them. Whilst EMI have clearly spent time and money licensing radio broadcasts and sessions, they've left anything interesting off the list. Can's "The Thief" was broadcast from Warrington : other songs from the same show appears here, but not the cover versions that haven't yet been released. Why? And not only this, but the bonus songs are presented without a moments thought as to how they may sound when listened to as a complete experience. br / br /The three song DVD that comes with "Kid A" is pointless. There's more there available. Use that space. How these can be regarded as bonus editions when they are assembled with no artistry, no coherency, and no consideration is fairly incomprehensible. Sure, it's a fairly hefty bonus package and assembled with some decency, but it is, by any standard, an incomplete package assembled with no thought for what could provide a truly outstanding release. Why be great, when you can be good? Must try harder br /

3 out of 5 stars

As above... October 11, 2009
Conrad W. Zimmer (London, U.K.)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I do hope that at some point in the future the whole Later.... special will be bought out..... it is the best televisual experience of Radiohead's Parlophone days.

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