Didnt include b sides in mine, as that would make it too complicated, and LONG!. But I like a challenge...
― candyman, Monday, 8 March 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
I can’t even remember how knives out goes, I keep thinking of morning bell for some reason
― brimstead, Monday, 8 March 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
oh right... “catttttt mousssse” that’s a good one yeah
― brimstead, Monday, 8 March 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
So knives outCatch the mouseDon't look downCut the kids in half
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
Revisiting these albums and then thinking about moon shaped pool, you can see how they got from songs like knives out to MSP
― candyman, Monday, 8 March 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
There’s always a part of me that wishes they’d taken the DNA of “kinetic” and mined that vein for an album or three.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 8 March 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
optimistic and i might be wrong are so great.
― candyman, Monday, 8 March 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
Kinetic is imho more successful at nailing an experimental electronic song than songs like pulk/pull, like spinning plates.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 March 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
id like a version of national anthem without the slightly wonky jazz freakout at the end which is cool but doesnt seem totally convincing.
― candyman, Monday, 8 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
That’s like the best part of the song wtf!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 March 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
use some of the b-sides in your resequencings u cowards
it would have been extremely funny if "trans atlantic drawl" had made it onto either album, all that clamoring for guitar heroics and you get them....for about a minute, and then--
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Monday, 8 March 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
most days I'd rather hear "fog" or "worrywort" than "knives out" or "I might be wrong"
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Monday, 8 March 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
Cut tooth is better than its a side, knives out.
― candyman, Monday, 8 March 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
"cuttooth" genuinely my favorite radiohead song? sure
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 8 March 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
― brimstead, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
They out-Coldplay’d Coldplay with “cuttooth”
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
KID A
1. Everything in its right place2. Kid A3. Treefingers4. Idioteque5. Kinetic6. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors7. Worrywort8. Packt Like Sardines9. Like Spinning plates10. Untitled (Genchildren)
KID B
1. The Amazing Sounds of Orgy2. In Limbo3. Dollars & Cents4. Pyramid Song5. Fast-Track6. The National Anthem7. Morning Bell8. Motion Picture Soundtrack9. Life in a Glasshouse10. Extended Life in a Glasshouse Reprise
KID C
1. Hunting Bears2. I might be wrong3. Optimistic4. Knives Out5. How to Disappear Completely6. You and Whose Army7. Trans-atlantic drawl8. Morning Bell Amnesiac9. Cuttooth10. Fog
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 March 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
Divided as KID A ("electronic"), KID B ("jazzy") and KID C (Post-rock)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 March 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
triple album baby
Sequencing could use a second pass but some parts of it work. That said they don't feel as adventurous or exciting to me when split into similar moods/sounds. Kid B would be the one I'd probably like the best out of these.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 March 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
I love worrywort. Such an earworm!
― cajunsunday, Monday, 8 March 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
Idk about separating them like that though it's cool to do as a way to contrast and compare. Maybe people would have preferred it actually. They could have released one electronic and one rock/jazz one on the same day.
― candyman, Monday, 8 March 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
Knives Out always sounded like a poor man's reprise of Karma Police to me.
Chord sequence-wise it's more of a reprise of the opening section of Paranoid Android... I like it though, there's a loose, jagged feel to the playing and it's pretty catchy (I get the chorus stuck in my head every time I see the title of the film Knives Out).
― chap, Monday, 8 March 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
This thread made me revisit 'Ed's Diary' again. http://www.greenplastic.com/coldstorage/articles/edsdiary/ Some very honest lines such as "working on 'up the ladder'. 30 seconds into it & it sounds utter shite. thom stops it" lol.
― cajunsunday, Monday, 8 March 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
Ha, I remember that. EOB always seemed like a super chill dude to me, I guess his pretty-boring-but-nice-sounding solo music more or less confirmed that
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link
that's funny, to me Knives Out sounds like a poor man's reprise of Paranoid Android. Or is that what you meant?― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, March 8, 2021 7:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, March 8, 2021 7:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Huh, yeah I guess you're right there. It's a bit of a mash up of a few if their songs. Even has a little bit of Creep in there "I want you to no..."
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
Here's my shot at a 13-track, 56-minute album pulling from both albums and the Amnesiac b-sides. I would be very happy with this tracklist, though I know I left off a few fan favorites:
1. Pyramid Song2. Kid A3. Everything In Its Right Place4. You And Whose Army?5. The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy6. I Might Be Wrong7. Packt Like Sardines In A Crusht Tin Box8. In Limbo9. Idioteque10. Morning Bell11. Like Spinning Plates12. How To Disappear Completely13. Fog
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
i like the b sides a lot, and in a more directly emotional way than the actual album tracks, which are a lot more worked on, thought about, and treated. theres a spontaneity in songs like fog and worry wort you dont get in the proper albums.
if i was to make it one single 45-50 min album, then id make it like this. side one: packt like sardines, idioteque, everything in its right place, i might be wrong, pyramid song. side two: national anthem, optimistic, kid a, you and whose army, life in a glasshouse, motion picture soundtrack.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 10:20 (three years ago) link
also how good is that bassline on i might be wrong?
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
The EOB diary weirdly doesn't really mention much about the electronic things going on, guessing because he wasn't that involved on those. The song he seems to be more excited about is "Optimistic", I guess because that's the one where he contributed to the most.
We didn't get a KID A 20th Anniversary in 2020. Hope we get a KID A / Amnesiac one. Judging by Ed's diary there's many different takes of each song and lots of early tests of songs that didn't make it in here (Up on the Ladder, Neil Young*9 / Bombers (4 minute warning), Innocent Civilians (sit down stand up), A wolf at the door, gagging order, true love waits...) + probably many more that ed doesn't mention
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
I think these KID A/AMNESIAC might have been the most productive Radiohead sessions, there must be a treasure trove of unreleased material and demos in there.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
i think some word leaked out that they were preparing something... Maybe for the 25th at this point
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
iirc most of the songs of HTTT were actually leftovers from these sessions.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
xpost: amnesiac was released in June 2001 so I'm guessing if they're actually doing a 20th anniversary for both albums we'll hear news before march/april.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
I have probably said this elsewhere on ILM but for my nobody GAF opinion: Kid A is far and away the better album, the best in their catalog, and probably one of the 3 or 4 best rock albums of the 21st century if we're being honest here. And yet, I still listen to Amnesiac 2x as often, especially in winter. It's become my favorite of theirs even though it objectively falls short of at least a few others. It's got the closest thing to the Radiohead atmosphere I want to hear most often 20 years on.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
Cognitive dissonance. Amnesiac is at least as good as Kid A and you know it.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
Amnesiac seems to be tougher, a bit greyer. I'd love a good set of outtakes from this period. It's weird as I've mot really listened to this stuff in a decade but now I think I like it even more. Lockdown has somehow made it seem better too maybe.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
Hey I just made a list of these the other day in reply to a similar question! All these songs that I've listed are ones that were worked on (written, recorded, or experimented with) during the Kid A sessions. A lot of these songs that didn't make it onto Kid A, Amnesiac, the Pyramid Song single, or the Knives Out single later turned into a large portion of Hail to the Thief. If they were to do an OKNOTOK release for Kid A, I'd imaging we'd get a lot of early versions of these songs in addition unreleased ones.Sit Down. Stand UpBackdriftsWhere I End and You BeginWe Suck Young BloodThe GloamingThere ThereI WillA Wolf at the DoorGagging OrderI am a Wicked ChildI am Citizen InsaneFeeling Pulled Apart by Horses (Reckoner)**Up On the Ladder4 Minute WarningTrue Love WaitsLiftSay the Word*Follow Me Around*I Froze Up*Whatever Happens*Ed's Scary Song*"Jonny Scott Walker Song"**** Unreleased** The version of Reckoner/Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses that was around at this time is way different from the version of both songs we ended up getting so I'd consider it still unreleased.*** That's just what Ed called this song. It either had its name changed and was released or it remains on the pile to this day.
Sit Down. Stand UpBackdriftsWhere I End and You BeginWe Suck Young BloodThe GloamingThere ThereI WillA Wolf at the DoorGagging OrderI am a Wicked ChildI am Citizen InsaneFeeling Pulled Apart by Horses (Reckoner)**Up On the Ladder4 Minute WarningTrue Love WaitsLiftSay the Word*Follow Me Around*I Froze Up*Whatever Happens*Ed's Scary Song*"Jonny Scott Walker Song"**** Unreleased
** The version of Reckoner/Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses that was around at this time is way different from the version of both songs we ended up getting so I'd consider it still unreleased.
*** That's just what Ed called this song. It either had its name changed and was released or it remains on the pile to this day.
https://www.reddit.com/r/radiohead/comments/8vg7ig/what_songs_are_unreleased_from_the_kid_aamnesiac/
Found this post on reddit. Not sure about the source but if true 11 tracks from HTTT - 8 if we only go for actual album cuts - were actually started during the Kid A period.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Maybe it's just me but I don't really want to know how the sausage gets made. Kid A as released, Amnesiac as released, etc., is the be-all and end-all as far as I'm concerned. I feel this way about all the music I love.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
I dont want alt takes unless they're exceptionally diff, but I would like unreleased songs.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
the source for that reddit post would mostly be ed's diary & anything that wasn't mentioned in it was played in one of their webcasts from the time.
feeling pulled apart by horses changed significantly but the final version of the song is clearly the thom solo version so i wouldn't count it as an unreleased song. lots of their songs existed in radically different arrangements before their final version
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
xps Very good. Me and my mixtape of highlights from the 17hr OK Computer demo leak are here for it!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
I find the brass kind of poorly attached to the song. It just sounds like a mot entirely succesful/coherent experiment. The live version on the IMBW ep is better for my money.
― candyman, Sunday, 21 March 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
Oops meant to put that first line in quotation marks
i have made a kid amensiac playlist also, altho its meant to be just one beefier album as opposed to a double/triple! its my go-to when i want to listen to radiohead these days. it keeps certain sequences intact.
case in point:1. everything in its right place2. kid a3. national anthem
but then4. transatlantic drawl
which i feel carries on the chaotic energy from natl anthem b4 settling it down v quickly for
5. pyramid song6. pulk/pull revolving doors
which have to stay together bc they both slap and also because they are stitched together.
then the acoustic-y stuff7. optimistic8. in limbo9. cuttooth
before the more electronic/ambient stuff again10. worrywort11. packt like sardines in a crushd tin box12. idioteque13. like spinning plates14. treefingers
clocks in at just over an hour.
― class project pat (m bison), Sunday, 21 March 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
lol. i ended up making two diff playlists. after going back to this, i dont think all the instrumental/more warp-aspiring pieces work that brilliantly, and are better as b-side material or if you really make it a proper double album. so i made a single lp playlist thats: packt like..., idioteque, everything in its..., i might be wrong, fog, kid a, worrywort, you and whose army, life in a glashouse, motion pic soundtrack.
thinking about this material, there is something just really tightly clenched about a lot of it, like it was just too worked on maybe? (really does remind me of dangelos voodoo in that sense). if they do release something this year with outtakes, if they are like the b sides, i think they will be much more enjoyable to listen to.
― candyman, Sunday, 21 March 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
the relative looseness of a song like fog really works as a bit of a release in comparison to the other songs.
― candyman, Sunday, 21 March 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link
actually listening to those songs with the other album tracks, they sound like they are from different sessions entirely.
― candyman, Sunday, 21 March 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
Mark - Sean -- I love Wish You Were Here!
― JimCarrey, Monday, 22 March 2021 02:05 (three years ago) link
moka i like your kid a/b/c sequences! any one of the three looks great; i may cue one up for later
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 March 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link