Radiohead - Kid A / Amnesiac Poll

the weak points of Amnesiac are Knives Out (quite a dull song), Morning Bell/Amnesiac, Pulk/Pull (nothing really wrong with it but doesn't work in context) and Hunting Bears

would have much prefer Cuttoth, Fog, Kinetic & Worrywort on it over those, Cuttooth and Fog especially are among their very best. i don't know why they hate the recording of Fog so much

I think they were originally trying to make fog sound like morr electropop a la worrywort. More synth based and melodic... Early demos were more in that style and then they made an even better piano based version.

the weak points of Amnesiac are Knives Out (quite a dull song), Morning Bell/Amnesiac, Pulk/Pull (nothing really wrong with it but doesn't work in context) and Hunting Bears

would have much prefer Cuttoth, Fog, Kinetic & Worrywort on it over those, Cuttooth and Fog especially are among their very best. i don't know why they hate the recording of Fog so much

― ufo

Upthread:

Amnesiac

The Kid A / Amnesiac era has such amazing b-sides. You could argue Amnesiac was a b-side album and in parts it definitely feels like it. This one is in serious need of a rearrangement imho and the b-sides from the era definitely allow it.

There is actually a Stylus 'playing god' article about this album already! - http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/playing_god/radiohead-amnesiac.htm - and I agree with it for the most part. At the time thAT article was published Nude was still unreleased, and he picked a live version of Spinning Plates too. The live version of Spinning Plates would, in fact, been a much better addition than its final form but it feels a little bit like cheating picking up unreleased or live versions when playing god.

I actually love having the final 'playing god' playlist in my itunes and it breaks the mood completely to have a live track in there. Also he left out 'Fog' which is one of the best b-sides of the era next to Worrywort. So from that article I picked the same tracklist with two slight changes; 'fog' instead of 'nude' (which coincidentally share a similar mood so it doesn't ruin the flow) and I decided to remove Spinning Plates completely.

1. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box
2. Pyramid Song
3. You and Whose Army
4. I Might Be Wrong
5. Fog
6. Cutooth
7. Worrywort
8. The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
9. Kinetic
10. Life in a Glasshouse

― Moka, Saturday, February 15, 2014 5:49 PM (2 years ago)

this is how I have it on itunes and it really improves the album:

http://i.imgur.com/WCgJV5N.png

Maybe nowadays I'd add Dollars & Cents or change it for Orgy or Kinetic. I found it very meandering at first but it has grown on me.

Here's my kid amnesiac playlist:

1) everything in its right place
2) kid a
3) national anthem
4) transatlantic drawl
5) pyramid song
6) pulk/pull revolving doors
7) optimistic
8) in limbo
9) cuttooth
10) worrywort
11) packt like sardines in a crusht tin box
12) idioteque
13) like spinning plates
14) treefingers

There were certain sequences of songs I wanted to preserve, and certain tracks segue p well stylistically. I think I'm the only one who favors transatlantic drawl, it seems, but I like its trashiness followed by warbly boards of canada kinda synths

You left out HTDC

See what he did there?

Haw

Love the orchestration of HTDC, but the song doesn't go anywhere for me

There's something about 'Treefingers' that reminds me of the intro to 'Pearl's Girl' by Underworld.

20th Anniversary announcements today!

New / unreleased song on spotify.

Artwork looks super lazy.

a bit more is coming

https://t.co/sMZGB0eE7V
We humbly submit KID A MNESIA to you.
It's a coming of age for Kid A & Amnesiac and it's joined by a new album, Kid Amnesiae, a memory palace of half-remembered, half-forgotten sessions & unreleased material.
All three come out together on November 5th. pic.twitter.com/V5Ms5iRUKl

— Radiohead (@radiohead) September 7, 2021

New/old track is good!

Tacit admission they should have been a double album?

300 page book looks super tasty.

Oh, it does.

I have quickly shifted from "Well, that's a stupid idea" to "Yeah, probably need both the books and the CD of extras".

The sleeve for Amnesiac is good but I really have no fondness for anything I've seen of Donwood's art, it's very bad.

Sprang for the 3CD set; don't need the book.

I've got a lot of time for Donwood - his Holloway book and the London Views prints, in particular. His There Will Be No Quiet book is very good. Actually, he was posting pencil drawings (on Twitter) at some point during the pandemic that were incredible.

i ordered the big book/vinyl thing because I'm a sucker

Not including the original b-sides in that strikes me as misstep.

that's for the 40th anniversary. finally, then it will all be available in one deluxe package

I can't see any difference in track listings between the various formats.

I was glad of that, I was half expecting some dick move, like putting a collage of unreleased music on a cassette.

(I might not be fully paying attention, mind).

I agree with Maresn3st. Never really helped with any of the Radiohead artwork

The only format that has b-sides is the cassette version. It's missing half of them, though.

It's the only one that describes having b-sides but aren't all the actual track listings the same?

it has the 3 LP/CDs of the others on a cassette side each... and then oddly not all of the Amnesiac b-sides although they could've fit them all.

His There Will Be No Quiet book is very good.

Reminded me to pick this up. I'll wait and see on this new stuff!

the photo of the cassette version doesn't include any of the old b-sides

https://store-us.kida-mnesia.com/products/kid-amnesiette-special-edition-cassette-book-kaa

it kind of looks like it, because with the formatting it says

FOG
(AGAIN AGAIN VERSION)

but that's just "Fog (again again version)" the same as on the other formats

Look way down bottom right of the cassette box back, bro

sorry to belabor it, but i don't see any of the old b-sides? i see versions of them, remixes or other versions or whatever, but none of the originals

that's based on clicking the "buy" button on https://kida-mnesia.com/ and zooming in on the tracklists in the photos

Look way down bottom right of the cassette box back, bro

― maf you one two (maffew12),

ooooooooh

well, there's always the 40th anniversary box

The new single is nice. Also the tweet above I think is "Untitled V1" since the runtime matches the iTunes listing. So I guess those are just little blendy bits

LMAO @ that cassette being $90...but I want it :[

only 5000 cassettes so you could definitely hoard a few and resell in a couple of years.

looks like the most collectible piece out of all of these. It's also the one with the most unique artwork. Wish they would have attempted something similar for the vinyl and cd versions.

definitely a shame they didn't include the amnesiac b-sides with how strong those are (other than some on the cassette) but a full disc of outtakes should be nice. the new outtakes disc is around 35 minutes long, and the b-sides are 33 minutes total, so they could have fit them on the cd at least

"if you say the word" is exactly like you'd expect an outtake from these sessions to sound really, the same really distinctive sound but the song just isn't quite as strong as most of the released material. i'd probably take it over a few tracks on amnesiac though

This is what I wanted from the vinyl version:

https://m.imgur.com/a/a3vzPic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNUzGew1EN4

lol this is such a late 90s/early 00s move

wait wut is that fake? xp

it's a fan mock-up yeah

Yeah, sorry I should have specified. I made that mockup based on the cassette design.

Curious to hear what the arrangement of Follow Me Around might sound like.

Still waiting for Kid A on a 12 inch vinyl with half of the record on side A and the other half on side B.