Editorial Reviews
Kid a
Music Review:
Music Review
Pantillon: Missa Brevis di San Pedro; Noël des Bergers
Penitentiary Blues [Original recording remastered]
Merengue Fever, Vol. 3 [Import]
Magik 4: New Adventure [Import]
Night Life a La Medina [Import]
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
How is it that Kid A's opening track, laden with an electronic vocal stuttering "bleh, bluh-bleh bleh bluh" is the most fascinating statement made in rock & roll this year? Because somehow, even when Radiohead blathers and blips nonsense, it's profound. The band's future-perfect musical grammar may be hard to decipher, and the melody is even more subliminal, but the journey traveled with Radiohead reveals them to be not only rock music's greatest adventurers in 2000, but teachers as well. --Beth Massa --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Amazon.com
With every record, Radiohead jump off higher and higher cliffs, daring fans to take the plunge in their artistic feats of derring-do. The journey from that scratchy bit of raw guitar angst in "Creep" (from 1993's Pablo Honey) to any song on Kid A amounts to a high-wire act that few, if any, bands in popular music have ever attempted. It's hard to believe both records come from the same planet, much less the same band. Likewise, the grandiose, Pink Floyd-esque thematic scope of 1997's... read more --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.