Radiohead - Kid A / Amnesiac Poll

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.

I suppose the reissue will somewhat fulfill this.

Moka your version is soooooo good!

xp It is really weird how these short albums have only been double 10" or 12" so far and this is the first time they're going on one slab each (would normally be the opposite for these deluxe things?). What can even explain that? They couldn't do whatever fancy half speed cut before?

Also they're not remastered (OK Computer was) but that's whatever.

Really nice interpretation, Moka.

From the pics, the actual version looks a bit lazy.

Thank you! It’s pretty much a reinterpretation of the cassette version. Don’t understand why they didn’t try to make them match, because I really like the design for the cassette and it’s not the most difficult design to recreate in the vinyl and cd versions. I spend 30 mins at most copying the style and they had at least a full year to really put some extra effort into it.

It’s particularly head-scratching to me considering how well done OKNOTOK was presented and sold. With that one it felt like that was truly the “definitive” OKC version. You got a tape with hours of content, a diary, a hardbook, a sketchbook, 4 new songs and all the b-sides from the era. And the whole original album was remastered. Also a unique album design meant to emulate a blackbox I think?

This one doesn’t feel like a definitive collection of what could have been. Nothing has been remastered (not necessarily a bad thing), you don’t get the b-sides, you don’t get any sort of tape with experiments and demos - and there’s probably hours of those that could have been interesting to hear -, the album cover looks like it was arranged in 10 minutes. If you want books of additional content you have to pay for them…. I mean, yeah I was expecting something way better considering how important this era is in their discography and the amount of content they could have put out.

If you ask my wallet, though, I suck at voting with it.

Many xps to ufo: that makes it feel all the more appropriate! It's like blips 2.0

I've not really thought through the ethics of this but the books are on sale at hive.co.uk (and presumably other places) at discounted prices.

I'm possibly being unfair but I figure that I'd like the local book shop to get a cut, even if this is at expense of Thom.

I suppose if I were being properly decent, I'd order the books direct from the local book shop but hey ... Hive will do.

They're listed on a Canadian bookstore site too, with a November 30 release date. I don't think there's anything limited about the books.

I thought the revive was about the new video:

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

felt that too much to talk about

new video does a good job of approximating what the video would have been like back then