I just found the little booklet in the back of Radiohead’s Kid A cd. What the heck is it?
Just to head this off, it is not a 1920s style death ray:dubious:
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Are you sure?
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In the back? I’m not sure what you mean. I just peeled open the back of the case, and there’s just a single sheet of paper. The track listing is on one side, and there’s some work artwork on the other.
There is some crazy booklet hidden inside the back of some cases. You have to break it open. It’s several pages of their stanard art and lots of odd phrases (only of few of which are similar to the album’s lyrics)
Mine ain’t got it. 
The front booklet sure is interesting, though- all the different kinds of paper and weird landscape-looking things. What a weird album.
Yeah. And their best, IMO.
I don’t have a hard copy of the album here with me at college, but I remember that there were lyrics for some of the Kid Amnesiac songs in there (“Kid A,” “Knives Out,” probably one or two of the Amnesiac B-sides) and assorted strange phrases and drawings.
It’s a very cool thing to find on accident, anyhow. Sucks that newer copies of the album (apparently) don’t have it.
British band The Catherine Wheel hid a lyrics booklet behind the CD casing tray for their '95 album, Happy Days. Some CDs had the hidden treat and some didn’t. Mine didn’t, but I did get a lyrics booklet with my Kid A CD.
Gadfly: The best tracks on Kid A are without a doubt outstanding, but I think there are more top-notch songs on Amnesiac… personally, I need a little more rock, or normal instrumentation, in my music. If you combined the best (well, my favorites) from the two, I’d be all over that as well. Something like:
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
Pyramid Song
How to Disappear Completely
Treefingers
Like Spinning Plates
You and Whose Army?
Optimistic
The National Anthem
I Might Be Wrong
Life in a Glasshouse
you have to break it open…it’s there.
Marley You forgot Idioteque and Kid A! :eek: You rogue!
My favorite album is defintely Hail To the Thief. (there there still blows my mind)
Amos Was right about the booklet, but I noticed some of the lyrics in the booklet, were from the album Amnesiac. (‘knives out’ to be more Precise)
I’ve only heard like 3 songs from Amnesiac, BTW
Peach, I broke it already. There is definitely* nothing to see in there. My copy is fairly new (I bought it this winter), so I guess I’m S.O.L.
Speaking of There there, which rules, where the hell is my copy of Hail to the Thief? Here’s the case, but there’s no disc in it. Uggh…
Don’t worry, your not missing much!
But, hell if you are curious I can find the link which has the scanned image of it. (im looking anyways)
http://www.ateaseweb.com/extra/kida-booklet/index.php
…Damn i’m good.
As usual, interesting pastiche of lyrics and stuff. I saw lines from Idioteque, In Limbo, You and Whose Army?, Kid A, Myxomatosis, Life in a Glasshouse, Like Spinning Plates, Knives Out, Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box, Where I End and You Begin, and maybe I Will. Makes it seem like he had the germ idea for some songs way in advance of their release.
I got told about it before the album came out, so as soon as I bought it I cracked the case open and pored over it.
Pretty cool, but since it was spoiled for me, it didn’t have that wow factor.
The Tony Blair caricature is in that one, isn’t it?
I discovered it one day and found it to be intense and disturbing in that special Radiohead way.
Marley I suppose your right about the lyrics booklet.
But keep in mind, Amnesiac’s songs were also written around the same time as the Kid A’s songs. Amnesiac is sort of a Kid A part 2, if you will.
And many of the songs on Hail to the Thief are old songs too! (From like 1999 or 2000 or something.)
Yes, I do realize that- I know the material is all from the same sessions. And I Will had to be that old, since it was reversed to become the backing for Like Spinning Plates. But nothing I’d ever read or heard had indicated to me that Myxomatosis and Where I End and You Begin, for example, were that old. Both songs were debuted live in Portugal in July of last year.