# Will the real RADIOHEAD please stand up? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-radiohead-please-stand-up/217108 "2003-12-05T06:10:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-radiohead-please-stand-up/217108/21 "2003-12-06T13:20:03Z")
_Kid A_ is a brilliant album. It is easily equal to _OK Computer_, yet incomparable because it is so different. How can you listen to the lost beauty of “How To Disappear Completely” without feeling something? The awkward, claustrophobic winding of “In Limbo”? The frenetic paranoia of “Idioteque?” This is a perfect album, one of the greatest of all time. Sure, it’s different, it does things that you may not expect, but it would have been terribly disappointing if Radiohead had followed “OK Computer” up with another album of guitar rock. I get the feeling you might like Coldplay. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-radiohead-please-stand-up/217108/22 "2003-12-06T15:04:47Z")
Personally, I love KID A. Although it took awhile to get used to. Sidebar: Motion Picture Soundtrack, off Kid A, **is** the song you hear when you go to heaven. Even if you’re an athiest like me. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-radiohead-please-stand-up/217108/23 "2003-12-06T17:25:23Z")
Keep listening… Kid A will grow on you, and I do believe it will eventually be thought of as Radiohead’s masterpiece. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-radiohead-please-stand-up/217108.md?page=1)