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Old 11.06.2006, 09:41 AM   #1
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I imagine that only timorous ears will feel like saying that it is.Poll on the way for this most overrated of semi-adventurous records.
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Old 11.06.2006, 09:46 AM   #2
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I think it is.

At least I don't know what "timorous" means.
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Old 11.06.2006, 09:47 AM   #3
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Meaning of timorous (adjective)
lacking courage; timid
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Old 11.06.2006, 10:01 AM   #4
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Kid A is bogus
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Old 11.06.2006, 10:05 AM   #5
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haha.I meant to vote no but i voted yes instead.Yorken has cast a spell on me.
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Old 11.06.2006, 10:28 AM   #6
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i dont know about innovative, but i did enjoy the album
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Old 11.06.2006, 11:55 AM   #7
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Its a good album, but not as innovative as many are lead to believe. The only reason it is considered innovative is that a mainstream artist like Radiohead made it, but other artists had been doing electronic experimentations a long time before. Check out: Paul Lansky, Parmigiani, Edgar Varese, among others.
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Old 11.06.2006, 12:12 PM   #8
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Its a good album, but not as innovative as many are lead to believe. The only reason it is considered innovative is that a mainstream artist like Radiohead made it, but other artists had been doing electronic experimentations a long time before. Check out: Paul Lansky, Parmigiani, Edgar Varese, among others.

Yes, that's how I meant it when I voted 'yes'. For sure there was a number of artists that were producing far more experimental electronic stuff long time before Kid A, but considering Radiohead as a mainstream band, releasing a record like that was quite a corageous step.
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Old 11.06.2006, 12:12 PM   #9
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It wasn't even that 'expiremental'. It was good but not innovative at all really.
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Old 11.06.2006, 12:22 PM   #10
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Innovative is the wrong word. It was remarkably brave. The experiment was in taking an album like that to a mass market and seeing if it sold. A valuable exercise in itself.
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Old 11.06.2006, 12:28 PM   #11
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As i said in another thread : i really like Kid-a, but there's no way it's an "innovative" or "groundbreaking" album if you consider it from a wide perspective. It's surely "innovative" for radiohead because it marked a significant change in their sound and writing method, considering they were hailed like a "guitar band" or wathever they were labeled, you know what i mean, don't you?
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Old 11.06.2006, 12:34 PM   #12
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It is a very innovative album. Definitely an innovation in sucking pseudo-intellectual mainstreamers cocks!
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Innovative is the wrong word. It was remarkably brave. The experiment was in taking an album like that to a mass market and seeing if it sold. A valuable exercise in itself.

yep. I really enjoy it myself, probably my favorite radiohead album. But I know it wasn't exactly anything new as it was what everyone else said.
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Old 11.06.2006, 01:26 PM   #14
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in radioheads history it is deff an innovative album. in general - i dont think so.
radiohead is waaaaaay too much overrated.
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Old 11.06.2006, 01:32 PM   #15
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Innovative is the wrong word. It was remarkably brave. The experiment was in taking an album like that to a mass market and seeing if it sold. A valuable exercise in itself.

You took the words right out of my mouth.
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Old 11.06.2006, 02:02 PM   #16
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Innovative is the wrong word. It was remarkably brave. The experiment was in taking an album like that to a mass market and seeing if it sold. A valuable exercise in itself.
But also a rather useless one for the time the record came out.Take,for example,the continuous drone that Yorke spat out about his love of Authecre and the Warp label artists(as if they were the only people making forward thinking music at the time):if such 'love' was so persistent and genuine,why does the album sound like a lame approximation of music that is 'other'?Such tactics weren't certainly a new thing in the british rock panorama at the time Kid A came out and had been cooked and re-heated many a time before by more talented and genuinely adventurous people(the most obvious example being Bowie's berlin trilogy volte-face).
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Old 11.06.2006, 03:56 PM   #17
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people get too wrapped up about if its innovative or that original. take it for what it is. great music. dont tell me the first time you listened to it you shot it down for not being innovative enough, thats fucking retarded
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Old 11.06.2006, 04:02 PM   #18
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It's a good pop album. Within a certain context, it, and they, is/are quite innovative. A guitar band making a consistently good album? That's quite innovative. For anyone with a cursory awareness of... well, just about the entire history of rock/ 'other' music, it's not terribly innovative.
But promotional rhetoric is a different language to the one most people speak.

I saw an advert for Damien Rice's new album the other day. They said, "the most influential musician of his generation". Bullshit, obviously, but within the promo-speak lexicon that's a fair assessment.

Genuinely innovative albums though? I can think of a few, but they are incredibly few and far between. In the last ten years I would say the only genuinely innovative music I've heard has been from Taku Sugimoto, and I can't stand that.

For my money, the likes of Haino/ NNCK/ Otomo Yoshihide/ Philip Jeck aren't necessarily innovative, but they are incredibly good.
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Old 11.06.2006, 04:03 PM   #19
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