Taking Sides - Amnesiac vs. Kid A

That’s like the best part of the song wtf!

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.

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 place
2. kid a
3. national anthem

but then
4. transatlantic drawl

which i feel carries on the chaotic energy from natl anthem b4 settling it down v quickly for

5. pyramid song
6. pulk/pull revolving doors

which have to stay together bc they both slap and also because they are stitched together.

then the acoustic-y stuff
7. optimistic
8. in limbo
9. cuttooth

before the more electronic/ambient stuff again
10. worrywort
11. packt like sardines in a crushd tin box
12. idioteque
13. like spinning plates
14. treefingers

clocks in at just over an hour.

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.

the relative looseness of a song like fog really works as a bit of a release in comparison to the other songs.

actually listening to those songs with the other album tracks, they sound like they are from different sessions entirely.

Mark - Sean -- I love Wish You Were Here!

moka i like your kid a/b/c sequences! any one of the three looks great; i may cue one up for later

this one, especially

KID C

1. Hunting Bears
2. I might be wrong
3. Optimistic
4. Knives Out
5. How to Disappear Completely
6. You and Whose Army
7. Trans-atlantic drawl
8. Morning Bell Amnesiac
9. Cuttooth
10. Fog

i have done numerous attempts at re-sequencing KidA/Amnesiac for lord knows how many years and i've always ended up in that immediate realization that i would never change anything about the opening 4 songs of Kid A, which, then based on my love of the songs on the latter half of the album, has left me not changing anything on it.

try the best you can, the best you can is re-sequence Amnesiac with that eras b-sides.

I'm not bothering anymore. Got to take it as is.