Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ has been named the best album of the past decade by Rolling Stone. The list compiled by more than 100 artists, critics and industry insiders picked the band’s fourth album as their number one.
The album seemed like commercial suicide when it got released in October 2000, but it was the first number one record for Radiohead in the USA. The record also topped Pitchfork’s list of the 00′s. Billboard put the album on number two and NME on number 14.
Rolling Stone: “In texture and structure, Kid A, Radiohead’s fourth album, renounced everything in rock that, to Yorke in particular, reeked of the tired and overfamiliar: clanging arena-force guitars, verse-chorus-bridge song tricks.
With producer Nigel Godrich, Yorke, guitarist Ed O’Brien, drummer Phil Selway, bassist Colin Greenwood and guitarist Jonny Greenwood created an enigma of slippery electronics and elliptical angst, sung by Yorke in an often indecipherable croon. The closest thing to riffing on Kid A was the fuzz-bass lick in “The National Anthem”; the guitars in “Morning Bell” sounded more like seabirds.”
All of the other albums released in the past decade made the list. With Amnesiac (2001) on 25, In Rainbows (2007) on 30 and Hail To The Thief (2003) on 89. On Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Songs of the decade, three tracks made the cut (two from Kid A): Everything In Its Right Place (24), Idioteque (56), Pyramid Song (94). Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ topped the list.
Radiohead news on this day..
- More Radiohead vs. Jay-Z: Hovahead – 2009
- Ed O’Brien & Thom Yorke on Xfm tomorrow – 2008
- Thom Yorke: ‘Videotape, best thing we ever created’ – 2008
- Paranoid Android tops the X list – 2005
- Keep on donating – 2005
- Happy New Year! – 2005
- Montreux concert on Belgian ‘Canvas’ – 2004
- Spin: Radiohead 15th band of all time – 2002
- Radiohead’s Kid A Videos remain unreleased – 2001
