The Kid A (2000) album went to an extent that no other Radiohead Album has pushed, and pushed boundaries of eight years since release other bands still have not accomplished, to this day, simulate. Yet they try and try, with an gimmick image too. The Kid A album starts with a perfect introduction, "Everything in it's right place", the song starts with shivers down my spine, continues to a considerable lullaby,” Kid A", then to a wild world of. "The National Anthem", sets you back to place with "How To Disappear Completely", then on a trip through "Optimistic", scrambling your brain with "Idioteque", and setting you back down with "Motion Picture Soundtrack", which Thom Yorke has claimed to be a favorite song of his own. Through out the album, you listen close and it had to be the most crafted master planned album they had done to date. No song sounded alike, much less like any before, and if you listen closely to songs such as "Idioteque" there’s at least five things all playing together at the same time. There's a use of instruments no likely band would use to create music with through out the Kid Album, with such songs like "The National Anthem" using a Ondes Martenot and on "Optimistic" as well. It's an album as perfect as humanly possible. One that can't be replicated. It throws you around with emotion and thought. It just takes a set of different ears to understand.
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All of Kid A's experiments had long been discovered by aphex twin and other electronic artists, so it wasnt all that revolutionary - just like ok computer had a big prog rock and white album influence. Yes, both albums create a little world of their own and are perfectly sequenced. So the only way of deciding the superior album is song for song - and the winner is ok computer. Both albums are dope, and necessary for any music fan, but if you had to own one radiohead album, ok computer is it.
It is such a toss-up because both albums are incredible in their own right, but with that being said: OKC has Let Down (which for me is a huge deal, and it may not be for others). Kid A has classics like Idioteque and Everything in its right place, but it just cant hold up to Radiohead's previous release. Both paved the way for In Rainbows, which very precisely incorporates both influences well. OK Computer>Kid A>InRainbows>Hail To the Thief>King of Limbs>The Bends>Amnesiac>(Pablo Honey).
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