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May 04, 2007
A tournament preview: the rest (pt. 2) - Kid A
In our quest to help you while away your Friday (while savoring that Warriors victory), we're gearing up for the Radiohead tournament by asking MS.com editors to create a "Oscar winner "-type prediction for songs found in each album. We continue with Kid A, Amnesiac, and
Kid A

Everything In Its Right Place (1)
Idioteque (2)
Optimistic (4)
The National Anthem (5)
Morning Bell (5)
Motion Picture Soundtrack (10)
How To Disappear Completely (14)
Keith O’Brien
What song will last the longest: Idioteque
Will it win the tournament: No
What song should last the longest: Morning Bell
Dark Horse: Morning Bell
Overrated: The National Anthem
Most unfair seed: Morning Bell
Comments: Now that we've gotten further away from the earlier albums, Kid A may serve as a more radical departure for Radiohead, then Kid A, but each album has brought the group to a different place. What best separates the two is this album is Wes-Anderson-esque in how much attention and care is paid to the ancillary sounds. Each time you listen to National Anthem (with its horn wails and its improv), you get something new.
Album Ranking: 3
Jeff Klingman
Longest: Idioteque
Will win: No
Should: Idioteque
Dark Horse: National Anthem
Overrated: Optimistic
Unfair seed: how to disappear
Rank: 1
Randall Monty
What song will last the longest: Idioteque
Will it win the tournament: No
What song should last the longest: Idioteque
Dark Horse: Optimistic
Overrated: Morning Bell
Most unfair seed: Motion Picture Sdtk.
Comments: Kid A seems more like an event than an album.
Album Ranking: 3
Amnesiac

Knives Out (4)
Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box (6)
I Might Be Wrong (8)
Pyramid Song (10)
You And Whose Army? (11)
Dollars & Cents (12)
Like Spinning Plates (13)
Life In A Glass House (14)
Keith O’Brien
What song will last the longest: Knives Out
Will it win the tournament: No
What song should last the longest: Packt Like Sardines In a Crushd Box
Dark Horse: Like Spinning Plates
Overrated: Pyramid Song
Most unfair seed: Like Spinning Plates
Comments: Not a lot of super stars on this album, but I suspect it does better than most would suspect. Knives Out is a fantastic song, and Packt is one of Radiohead's songs that effortlessly combines traditional and electronic music.
Album Ranking: 4
Jeff Klingman
Longest: Knives Out
will win: no
Should: you and whose army?
Dark Horse: dollars and cents
Overrated: knives out
Unfair seed: you and whose army?
Rank: 4
Randall Monty
Amnesiac
What song will last the longest: Knives Out
Will it win the tournament: No
What song should last the longest: You and Whose Army
Dark Horse: Like Spinning Plates
Overrated: Knives Out
Most unfair seed: Like Spinning Plates
Comments: This is my least favorite RH album. (Comence spear-chucking.)
Album Ranking: 7
Hail to the Thief

2+2=5 (The Lukewarm) (2)
There There (The Boney King Of Nowhere) (3)
Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner) (8)
Where I End And You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In) (9)
A Punch Up At A Wedding (No No No No No No No No) (11)
Sit Down, Stand Up (Snakes & Ladders) (12)
Wolf At The Door (It Girl. Rag Doll) (13)
Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased) (14)
Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves) (16)
Keith O’Brien
What song will last the longest: 2+2=5
Will it win the tournament: No
What song should last the longest: 2+2=5
Dark Horse: Myxomatosis
Overrated: There There
Most unfair seed: Go To Sleep
Comments I don't think many people gave this album a lot of credit. This was the first Radiohead album to enter the holistic music criticism age, and I think that a lot of Radiohead deniers had gotten into positions of power in the music industry. I mean that not as criticism; maybe more as a return to rationality. Unchecked Radiohead fanboy sentiment was due to get a blowback. It's still a better album than Pablo Honey. Over time, it might surpass Amnesiac.
Album Ranking: 5
Jeff Klingman
What song will last the longest: There There
Will it win the tournament: No
What song should last the longest: Myxamatosis
Dark Horse: A Wolf at the Door
Overrated: There There
Most unfair seed: A Wolf at the Door
Album Ranking: 5
Randall Monty
What song will last the longest: 2+2=5
Will it win the tournament: No
What song should last the longest: There, There
Dark Horse: Myxomatosis
Overrated: Sit Down, Stand Up
Most unfair seed: A Punch Up At A Wedding
Comments: Not exaclty a "return to the rock" as it was billed, but still very solid.
Album Ranking: 5
Posted by Keith O'Brien at May 4, 2007 10:18 AM
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