# kid a **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2000, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-a/27687 "2000-08-01T11:01:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-a/27687/41 "2000-10-11T05:53:33Z")
After rooting around for my “Kid A” title reference source, I have discovered that it was in the Oct. 6 issue of EW’s review of said album.\ \ “\Kid A\ (named after ‘a computer program of children’s voices’ according to the band)”\ \ Of course it wouldn’t be unusual for the boys to spread mis-information…especially to EW. ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-a/27687/42 "2000-10-11T05:54:47Z")
Sorry about the html…forgot about the vB code and all. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-a/27687/43 "2000-10-11T09:26:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ren \* > \*\*I mean **k** abbes, of course. Dunno how I did that, the K and W aren’t even close to each other. Sheesh. > > - **w** en > > \*\* “Shhhhh, be vewy vewy quiet. I’m hunting wabbes…” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-a/27687/44 "2000-10-11T20:21:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > \*\*I was afraid you were going to challenge me, too, for a cite on the “alien crashing into earth” theory. I read an interview from about three years ago where the interviewer asked Thom if that was the point of the album, and Thom said something like “Yes, congratulations, you’re the first one to figure that out.” \*\* The ‘figuring it out’, did that refer to the alien part? I kind of remember an interview like that, but I had thought he was talking about the “last song precedes the first”. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-a/27687/45 "2000-10-11T22:49:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \* > \*\*The ‘figuring it out’, did that refer to the alien part? I kind of remember an interview like that, but I had thought he was talking about the “last song precedes the first”. \*\* Hmm, good question. I don’t remember. It very well could be the latter (The Tourist preceding Airbag) and not the former (the album being about the alien crashing to Earth). The former could very well be my own interpretation of the album, based on knowing the latter. I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-a/27687/46 "2000-10-12T05:38:27Z")
Okay…I now have the following locked in an eternal loop in my head **"ice age coming…ice age coming"** I hope radiohead is happy…perhaps they need a time-out to consider what they’ve done ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-a/27687/47 "2000-10-13T02:18:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monkeylucifer \* > \*\*Okay…I now have the following locked in an eternal loop in my head **"ice age coming…ice age coming"** > \*\* Oh, that’s nothing. When I first heard the album, “This is really happening” induced many errant thoughts in this paranoid humanoid’s head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-a/27687.md?page=2)