This is their best, most interesting, and singular work - unique in sound and scope...

This is their best, most interesting, and singular work - unique in sound and scope. Also one of the best albums of the 2000s

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it's also their only good album

All these words yet you said nothing

OK I'll give you some specific reasons - I think it's the only time that Yorke's morose lyricism isn't too overbearing and doesn't feel cheesy or like parody - probably because a lot of it is pared down to its most simplified and basic.

The sonic worlds it draws from are very disparate but seem to fit together perfectly (from House, Glitch, New Orleans Jazz, Trip Hop, Krautrock) etc. It shouldn't all fit as well as it does but I think the Lo-Fi elements of the production help make it feel as if these songs were found in some dusty basement somewhere after being left to gather dust (which I think was the aim).

It's definitely dark and sinister, but also contains some of their most euphoric and uplifting moments, and some sparkling and inventive arrangements (the second half of You and Whose Army? and Pyramid Song, that synth line in Packt, the hypnotic grooving of Dollars & Cents, the horns in Glasshouse, reminiscent of Armstrong's St James Infirmary).

Basically, it's fantastic and there's no other album like it

I don't think tracks 5-10 is good sequencing. I like most of that stuff a lot on its own, but it ends up this mid-pace morass, followed by actually lowering the pace. Stuff like Hunting Bears is unfairly shit on or the simple reason that the track order doesn't flatter it.

On my version the album goes

1. Packt
2. Pyramid
3. PulkPull
4. YAWA
5. Might be Wrong
6. Bears
7. Orgy
8.$ and Cents
9. Cuttooth
10. Spinning Paltes
11. Glasshouse
12. Worrywort

You lose some good tracks, but you get much more meaningful variety in tone.

Eh, pace isn't everything - I think Amnesiac actually benefits from it the way it sort of slowly unravels. I don't think you can end on anything other than Glasshouse either - it's a perfect closer. I really like Worrywort but I think it's very jarring. Also if I was gonna change Hunting Bears' place, I'd put it before I Might Be Wrong (it sorta has the potential to transition perfectly into it)

Stop using so many fucking adjectives

OK Computer and Kid A are better, and anyone who thinks those aren't their best records is contrarian as fuck.
Amnesiac is a comfortable third place though.

There really aren't that many there

Wrong

Also one of the best albums ever made