Why My favourite Bands are my favourites.

Ok. So Anyone who knows me slightly will know that I am obsessed with Radiohead. I have every studio album every b-side album and close to every single live performance (not really) that they have released or has become available over the net. Out of all these albums my favourites are 1)Kid A

2)Ok Computer and

3) in rainbows.

Instead of going through all of them I'm just going to go through why Kid A is my favourite.

Just so you know on itunes every song on this album has 5 stars so im not going to rate it humorously. Soz

SONG NUMBA ONE!1

Everything in its right place.

First thing i can remember about this song was having a short clip of a death bear slowly changing shape into some abstract whatever and the soundtrack was this song. Very energising, like all Album openers should be. I can't say much more because as a reviewer I'm supposed to cover the downsides to song and all I can say about this one is that it fits the album perfectly and I wouldn't change a thing. I guess that since Thom Yorke is a perfectionist you can't go too wrong anyway.

Kid A

Now when i first started listening to this album I wasn't too sure if i liked Kid A. I decided that it was too plain and boring for the time and I didn't like how Thom's voice was edited to sound like he was an AM radio-host who was talking through a 50 year old telephone. After not listening it to for years i heard it again and i was gob-smacked at how beautiful it was. It was like the soundtrack to an eery dream I had. For anyone who keeps skipping this song on their ipod, just wait till it gets to the end. The ending is amazing and it's worth the wait.

National Anthem

Awesome. Yay for 7-brass-instrument pile up.. nuff said.

How to disappear completely

I can't say I've ever been annoyed at this song so much as to skip it or not choose it when i see it. Every time i hear it is like im listening to it for the first time. This song creates a very melancholy atmosphere. I guess that and its lyrics are why this song is the reason most people think that radiohead is a dark/emo band. I don't think this song is too dark at all. I take its lyrics to be a reminder of happier more relaxing places. It does however become abit stressful towards the end where the quartet begins to play completely atonally. It's like suspense and resolution. all the instruments swirl around randomly and somehow link up nicely. awesome song overall. can't complain.

Tree Fingers

this song is... rather boring. It's a nice intermission in the album though. Created using only an electric guitar, several effects pedals and a loop pedal the song creates an ambient sound world. It's very meditative and i wouldn't consider it a song that one would want to listen to regularly.

Still, It's eerily beautiful. I wish i could create something like this. but then again i don't have an intensely expensive studio. Oh well.

Optimistic

Hahaha. for anyone who hasn't heard it, Look up the Hanson Cover of Optimistic. It sounds like Thom yorke back when he was a girl.

Anyway, this song, like national anthem is very energetic. Good crowd pleaser in concerts. It's a shame now though that Thom's voice restricts him from falsettoing as nicely as he used to. This song is suited for a mid-album energiser however I'm a little dissapointed because it could stand to be a bit more bassey. Anyway. NEXT SONG

IN LIMBO

pretty much just an eerily atmospheric extension to optimistic, cant say much. good though

Idioteque

This song used to scare the crap out of me. When i was 10 years old my brother convinced me with this song that i was going to be "killed by an ice-age". He wasn't too nice. He tried to convince me that i could fly if i eat grass too. Anyway. this song was inspired form an hour-long improvisational computer musicy thingy that johnny greenwood came up with. There was a 30-second segment which apparently amazed thom, so they wrote to song from there. See, thats what i like about radiohead. Everyone writes the music not just the singer. yayyyyyy. very enjoyable fairly dancy song. I never miss a chance to blurt out the chorus obnoxiously.

Morning Bell

Yay. Song about divorce. Favourite Lyric: Cut the kids in half.

There's an amnesiac version to this which i prefer because its less based on the drumline. I don't really know what to say. Singing is spot on and it all falls in together very well to make another perfect radiohead song :D.

Motion Picture Soundtrack

now, This is my favourite song of the album and by far the best album finisher in the world. I don't know what it is, but there's a different note in the chord where he first sings that just sparks awesomeness every time i hear it. I don't know why it confuses me so much but i can never pick it out. It's awesome though. When the harp kicks in... can't get more perfect music than that. From then on it's just perfection.

ALSO

wait two minutes or so at the end of the song and you get this technoey orchestral instrumental which is quite cool....

This album is a perfect example of how radiohead manages to put an album together so well. The song choice creates cohesion and overall the perfect album. I haven't noticed anything (other than that tiny lack of bass in optimistic) that really takes away from this album being perfect. It would be totally worth it if this album sells for $50.... or you could just torrent it.