10 Things You Didn’t Know About Kid A:
1. “Pyramid Song” (which showed up on Amnesiac) was the last track to be cut from Kid A.
2. In 2000, Thom said the “best week” of his life was when Radiohead went to New York to perform on Saturday Night Live while Kid A was #1 on the US charts.
3. Thom considered changing Radiohead’s name for Kid A.
4. Thom, not Colin Greenwood, plays fuzz-bass on “The National Anthem.” (The riff was written when he was 16.)
5. Before Kid A was officially released, the album streamed in full on Capitol’s website.
6. It was rumored that Kid A would be titled No Logo, after Naomi Klein’s book of the same name.
7. Thom broke his foot during the recording of “The National Anthem.”
8. Jonny wrote the melody of the song “Kid A,” not Thom.
9. Thom got his ass beat in Oxford during the recording of Kid A and had this to say about it: ”I got beaten up in the middle of Oxford last week by someone who recognized me and saw me as an easy target.”
10. After the Kid A recording sessions, Thom smashed a copy of the album to pieces as therapy.
Marvin Lin is the editor-in-chief of Tiny Mix Tapes. His 33 1/3 book on Kid A comes out in December, and it can be pre-ordered at Continuum or Amazon.
Comments (7)
Why dosen’t anybody know about Kid 17!!!!!! Anyone at all out there? Hello! Single most amazing radiohead thing ever!
As long as the 33 1/3 book on Kid A isn’t dreadful like the one on OK Computer, I’ll read it.
Kid 17 is amazing!!!! (For those who don’t know what Kid 17 is: If you listen to 2 copies of Kid A with a 17 seconds gap between them, you obtain the incredible “Kid 17″ version of the album.
Yeah, there is no way Kid 17 was in any way intentional by the band. It’d be kind of silly to include it on this list.
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