if i like radiohead's kid a/amnesiac, what other artists or albums should i seek out?

robert wyatt - rock bottom
bjork - homogenic
sigur ros - agaetis byrjun
talk talk - spirit of eden
boards of canada - geogaddi

Isn't the usual answer here Radiohaed = Can + Brian Eno + Aphex Twin + Autechre + Pink Floyd + U2 + some obscure slavic jazz, etcetera?

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theundergroundhome's objections notwithstanding, I nonetheless suggest some tentative explorations into the universe of glitch music. It's a vast field, and 99% of it is admittedly expendable, but if you go for that orchestra-of-broken-microwaves sound, try Microstoria or Oval or Vladislav Delay. I'm a huge advocate of the To Rococo Rot/I-Sound collaboration, Music is a Hungry Ghost, which tends to be more melodic/ entrancing, in a minimalist Kraftwerk vein, than the aforementioned. Some decent comps to investigate:

- Clicks and Cuts (Vols. 1 & 2) [Mille Plateaux]
- Ocean of Sound [Virgin UK]
- Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory [Staubgold]
- The Only Blip Hop Record You Will Ever Need [Luaka Bop]

It depends on how far afield you want to wander. For some "visually oriented," filmic music that bears no obvious relation to either Radiohead album, you might try the following.

Anouar Brahem
Christian Wallumrod Ensemble
Nikola Kodjabashia
Harold Budd
Terry Riley's "Poppy Nogood" phase
OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
Crammed Global Soundclash 1980-89
The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations

I think Lali Puna are the only act on Morr I feel I should investigate further (one day) otherwise, I have a fairly severe aversion to 'subtle' melodic electronica-lite of the kind they seem to pump out faster than anyone could hope to keep up with it. That kind of thing just doesn't interest me at all these days :|

-- fandango (...), December 3rd, 2005.

Actually, Thom hasn't acknowledged them as an influence. Colin is the one who just *loves* them. And I don't hear the resemblance, frankly. First, Lali Puna's approach to songwriting is quite different from Radiohead's. Also, in terms of production and sound, Lali Puna's sonics are way way way more static and homogenous, they don't change it up enough. LP are not exactly genre-hoppers. They stick to their method.

now yer talkin'.

I have only heard less than ten of their songs... nothing really grabbed me enough in a single song to investigate more straight away, but I kind of imagined over a full length the effect might be somewhat cumulative to a similar 'Kid A'-ish mood (albeit with the conditions you're highlighting, the much plainer sonics & such).

"his reissue comes with an amazing bonus DVD of over 2 hours of rare film footage of many of the musicians in ther own worlds of wonder, interviews, animation and much much more. Witness the theremin queen Clara Rockmore interviewed in the presence of the late great Robert Moog, see the amazing early animation backing Jean-Claude Risset's 'Mutations' - very much in the style of Norman McLaren's Film Board of Canada animated works. Elsewhere check the fun insanity of Paul Lansky's 'Dust Bunny', interviews with Milton Babbitt and Bebe Barron, other artists featured on the DVD include John Cage, Steve Reich, Morton Subotnick, Holger Czukay, Leon Theremin, Iannis Xenakis, Laurie Spiegel, David Behrman, John Chowning, Robert Ashley, Max Matthews, Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Lucier who's '12 minute 'Music for Solo Performer' piece is scarily beautiful performance art."

DROOL!!!!!!!!!

Completely understood. I don't swear by anyone's catalogue in its entirety, but I've found the four or five albums that I really truly connect with, and that's all I need.

Lali Puna are fine... Their first two discs concentrate strongly on Valerie Trebeljahr's abiding Laurie Anderson fixation in an attempt to recreate that classic, analogue-storytelling sound, but Faking the Books strikes me as the successful of the bunch, insofar as it relies more on the Notwist's rocky edges to switch up the dynamics a bit. As Turangalila notes, the first two discs are very much of a piece.

I hadn't heard about the OHM reissue with the DVD, but I can't imagine it meriting a re-purchase (unless they made the inner CD spindles a bit more durable this time - mine had shattered before I even got the shrinkwrap off).

"If You Think Radiohead’s Kid A is Weird, Then You Should Really Hunt This Music Down

After you have listened to at least twenty-two of the following, then perhaps you can begin a discussion, with Kylie or her ghostwriter, about just what makes music weird, and then – after the weirdness – what happens, what changes, what goes on, what’s the point – is it just a pleasure listening to weirdness that is just straightforward pleasure, or is the weirdness making the world, you mind, your mind in the world, a better place thing space capsule container mind room, etc… ?”

There is an order to the following – the order that it comes in, which I thought about short and hard. I was delighted with the order. It worked perfectly…

o Lindsay, Arto – Subtle Body
o Bailey, Derek – Guitar, Drums ‘n’ Bass
o Frith, Fred Guitar Quartet – Ayaya Moses
o Niblock, Phill – Four Full Flutes
o Scott, Raymond – Manhattan Research Inc
o Branca, Glenn – Symphony No 3 (Gloria)
o Palestine, Charlemagne – Strumming Music
o Satoh, Somei – Incarnation II
o Yellow Magic Orchestra – Technodelic
o Fullman, Ellen – Body Music
o Oliveros, Pauline – Suspended Music
o Partch, Harry - Collection Vol 1
o Cowell, Henry – Piano Music
o Zorn, John – Spillane
o Faust – So Far
o Fripp, Robert – That Which Passes
o Pan Sonic – A
o Budd, Harold – Lovely Thunder
o Incredibly Strange Music Vol 1 (Various Artists)
o Cage, John – Indeterminacy
o Rich & Lustmord – Stalker
o Borden, David – Continuing Story of Counterpoint Parts 1-4
o Nikolais, Alwin – Electronic Dance Music
o Johnston, Ben – Music for Piano
o Butler, Ken – Voices of Anxious Objects
o Harrison, Lou – Rhymes with Silver
o Vangelis – L’Apocalypse des Animaux
o Cyberchump – Dreams Groove
o Reed, Lou – Metal Machine Music
o Kruth, John – Cherry Electric
o Subotnick, Milton – Silver Apples of the Moon
o Lustmord – Place Where the Black Stars Hang
o Labradford – E Luxo So
o Hassell, Jon – Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound
o Young, La Monte – Trio for Strings
o Supersilent – Supersilent 4
o Nyman, Michael – Decay Music
o Swswthrght – Essence or Residue
o Ashely, Robert – In Sara Mencken Christ & Beethoven There Were Men & Women
o Carlos, Wendy – Sonic Seasonings
o Residents – Duck Stab
o Sonic Youth – Goodbye 20th Century
o Fennesz – Endless
o Stockhausen, Karlheinz – Kontakte
o Mad Professor – Psychedelic Dub: Dub Me Crazy Part 10
o Varese, Edgard – Arcana/Ameriques/Ionisation
o Parker, Evan – Breaths & Heartbeats
o Fila Brazillia – Maim That Tune
o King Crimson – Larks Tongues in Aspic
o Magma – Live
o Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa
o Holland, Dave Quartet – Conference of the Birds
o Can – Tago Mago
o Art Ensemble of Chicago – Bop Tizum
o Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced?
o Ligeti, Gyorgy – Lux Aetena
o Pablo, Augustus – King Tubby Meets Roots Rockers Uptown
o Sun Ra – Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
o Björk – Selmasongs
o Peach Orchard – In Order to Survive
o Conrad, Tony/La Monte Young/John Cale – Inside the Dream Syndicate Vol 1
o Ribot, Marc – Saints
o Towner, Ralph – Sounds & Shadows
o Sylvian, David/Holgar Czukay – Plight & Premonition
o Cabaret Voltaire – Conversation
o Grateful Dead – Dark Star
o Talk Talk – Laughing Stock
o Throbbing Gristle – In the Shadow of the Sun
o Nurse with Wound – Spiral Insana
o Hassell, Jon/Brian Eno – Fourth World Vol 1: Possible Musics
o Henry Cow – Concerts
o Moss, David – Dense Band
o Eno, Brian – Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
o Pere Ubu – Dub Housing
o Palestine, Charlemagne – Schlingen Blangen
o Scriabin, Alexander – Preparation for the Final Mystery
o Takemitsu, Toru – Quotation of a Dream
o Mouse on Mars – Autoditacker
o Feldman, Morton – Crippled Symphony
o Frith, Fred – Clearing
o Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
o Russell, George – Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved
o Mitchell, Roscoe Sextet – Sound
o Coltrane, John – Meditations
o Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece – 1970-73
o Walker, Scott – Tilt
o Momus – 20 Vodka Jellies
o Mantler, Michael – Beckett/No Answer

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If You Think Radiohead’s Kid A is Weird, Then You Should Really TRY KILLING YRSELF INSTEAD
― jed_ (jed)

I mean if you were 13/15 in 2000 and your musical taste didn’t deviate much from pop and rock I can really see how Kid A would seem incredibly weird. I was 15 and it also seemed weird to me, and I have to note I was into Aphex Twin at that point in my life so that smoothened the first impression a lot. Even some adult critics writing for big publications dismissed it when it first came out because it wasn’t OKC2.

OKC also felt very insular and certainly weird when compared to the rest of the mainstream “alternative” scene of the mid to late 90’s.

Weird or depressive are the two main descriptions I’ve heard from people when they explain why they don’t listen to Radiohead.

My experience exactly, down to my age when Kid A came out.

Also: great revive.

I’d add that Thom Yorke’s voice isn’t merely ‘weird’, it’s ‘whiny’ (I almost want Radiohead to vanish into complete cultural oblivion just so I don’t have to hear this complaint ever again).

Yeah it seems like an adequate time of the season to play this one again. Also this year marks the 20th anniversary for this one, I wish we could get it now instead of waiting until October or whenever they do release it.

At this point in my life, Kid A and King of Limbs are the only two Radiohead albums I still love to revisit every now and then.

After you have listened to at least twenty-two of the following, then perhaps you can begin a discussion, with Kylie or her ghostwriter, about just what makes music weird, and then – after the weirdness – what happens, what changes, what goes on, what’s the point – is it just a pleasure listening to weirdness that is just straightforward pleasure, or is the weirdness making the world, you mind, your mind in the world, a better place thing space capsule container mind room, etc… ?”

i have returned, years later, having listened to at least twenty-two of the following, and i am ready to being the discussion, with Kylie or her ghostwriter

I find weirder all that effort at gatekeeping over a Kylie Minogue song and/or Kid A than the albums on that list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSACZoJt6k

Very sad that Hood never got a mention in this thread