Do we have any boomers here? Was Kid A really such a big deal back in 2000?

>Was Kid A really such a big deal back in 2000?

Only to the extent that no one understood why Radiohead made The Bends, followed it with OK Computer, and then went into this trash.

OK Computer was stellar start to finish. Kid A was mostly terrible.

That was what everyone thought then and it's still true now.

imagine being this much of a pleb

If you had just seen everyone freak out about them saving rock 2 years prior, you'd understand why it was a big deal. OK Computer success if the reason why Kid A is respected the way it is.

Most people were just like "wow what a cool thing to do, I guess" and then Radiohead left their heads until they heard Creep on the radio. People who were into that stuff really loved it tho, and saw it as a huge sea change that didn't really happen. I think Radiohead's success after Kid A only makes it look nicer in retrospect.

For the record I was 16 in 2000

Kid A is literally a Yea Forums meme
Nobody cared about it until it was shilled into popularity here.

I was in my freshman year of college when Kid A came out.

Yes, it was.

Imagine thinking that anything other than what I described was what happened back then.

Kid A was the beginning of the PItchfork style demographic of fart sniffing "rock fans" who have now resulted in the fact that the entire genre sounds like cucked hipster shit like Vampire Weekend.

thats only true if you're underage fgt

>see a shrink 5 or so years ago
>tell her I like music
>asks my favourite band
>say Radiohead
>she says she loves Radiohead too
>asks my favourite album
>Say Kid A
>she squirms in her seat and treats me like an autistic invalid from that point on

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No it's absolutely true. No one gave a shit about Kid A when it came out. It was a massive commercial failure and everyone was just shocked Radiohead squandered all the goodwill they built with their prior two albums.

It was seen as a blatant attempt by Thom Yorke to escape the limelight because OK Computer gave them way too much fame and attention and he was uncomfortable. So they made that and got what they wanted.

People who were born between 1946 and 1964? Maybe, I honestly don't know
Yes

because bad or because good?

Do you think MatPat’s wife Stephanie likes Radiohead?

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To elaborate, there is a direct line connecting Kid A, Pitchfork, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Vampire Weekend.

It's all part of the era of "cuck rock". It is the era of rock music losing its balls. Stopping being about anger or angst. Starting to suck and be toothless for the sake of being toothless. Breakdown from aggressive self expression into "hipster art".

It had a few good songs in it, but people nowadays on sites like this and Pitchfork celebrate it because it was the start of when everything that went wrong for rock. And they embrace that destruction and failure of the genre.

No Surprises is more whiny than anything on Kid A

>It had a few good songs in it, but people nowadays on sites like this and Pitchfork celebrate it because it was the start of when everything that went wrong for rock. And they embrace that destruction and failure of the genre.
THEY PUT RADIOHEAD ON THE RADIO AND NOW EVERYONE IS A FUCKING FAGGOT

In the indie and alt music critic/fan world yes. To the average normie, not at all.

>massive commercial failure
>Number 1 on the US, Britain
>went platinum on multiple countries
What the hell are you talking about.

i was a full on long haired textbook rock caricature and it just wasnt what i expected

OK Computer was.

pottery

you're delusional you zoomer faggot

it was one of the first albums to take advantage of the internet, there was a lot of pre release hype through radiohead.com blogs and little realplayer 56k 20 second snippets and shit

answer his question though

Shut up boomer. Vampire Weekend is very based and redpilled.

ITT: Zoomers LARPing as Boomers
Don't give your opinion unless you were born before 1983 and actually followed the scene

I got it when I was 13 years old in October when after it had come out (1999)? Everybody "heard about it" or knew somebody cooler than they were that recommended it but you didn't hear it on the radio. Optimistic was the only single (the only song with a chorus clean enough to sing to yourself) and it was in no way "popular". Listening to Kid A on your pre-Apple mp3 player while night skiing or putting it on a lower, bass heavy loop while smoking weed and groping some girl on the sofa was fucking epic.

The people that "got it" all said you had to listen ~5 time before you "got it". That was all true. It was bleeding edge and when they did performances on MTV or the super laggy web video platforms of the time it was clear they did not not give a shit what anybody thought or what anybody wanted to hear.

If you the listen to Amnesiac and the weird B-side stuff that clustered around Okay Computer you can sort of see how they ragequit commercial music and just started to do whatever the fuck they wanted.

I thought Hail to the Thief was lazy dogshit but all of the above means that I don't get a vote. I agree with this summary and conclusion.

Based

It was for me. I was 13 at the time and it left a huuuge impact on me. I do remember the hype for it, because it was the follow up to OK Computer and that was a hit. I also remember the dived between Post-Ok Computer and Pre fans got up and running quite fast. I've listen to all of their albums and KID A is still my fav.

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>Imagine thinking that anything other than what I described was what happened back then.
>Kid A was the beginning of the PItchfork style demographic of fart sniffing "rock fans" who have now resulted in the fact that the entire genre sounds like cucked hipster shit like Vampire Weekend.
kek. this

interesting point of view. can you explain more deeply. thanks

>Stopping being about anger or angst
>Kid A
When he woke up sucking on those lemons it wasn't for alimentary sustenance. Also (and just humor for a moment), I suspect all of those things were not actually in their right places.