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...debut, never allowing itself to sound stale, never allowing its music to wither. At first, the group followed trends, echoing the roar of Seattle on its tentative debut album Pablo Honey (1993) and mastering the genre on the more assertive The Bends (1995). On its critically acclaimed third album, OK Computer (1997), Radiohead began to write its own rules, creating rock mini-suites like Paranoid Android and writing lyrics that captured the numbing ambivalence that many people feel about living in a microprocessed age. On Kid A, another Radiohead emerges: if the last album was about technology using up humans...
...surface Kid A, with its strong move towards using electronic sounds rather than guitars, offers a bleak vision for a new world order. The technology created to make us "fitter, happier" and "more productive" in OK Computer can now manipulate human beings at its electronic will. However, interspersed throughout the album are electronic baby babble and lullaby-like fragments-poignant moments that reminds the listener that the Kid A of the album's title, although a triumph of technology, is still a human being-an element of hope that has been lacking in Radiohead's previous releases. The struggle...
...fourth song, "How to Disappear Completely," is a beautiful ballad in the tradition of OK Computer's "Lucky" and The Bends' "Fake Plastic Trees." The minimalist lyrics and instrumentation are in concert with the song's theme of invisibility. However, there is still the rare indulgence; a gorgeous and unexpected melisma on "Strobe Lights" sets the song apart from its predecessors...
...then obliterate it. His comedy depends on lulling you into a comfort zone and then yanking you out of it. And it doesn't hurt that Kate Hudson has Goldie Hawn's sexual energy... My favorite newspaper headline in the past week: "Prince William in Chile, Sleeping in Tent"... Ok, so I really need help with my Ec 10 problem sets. Any freshmen want to help a poor old senior? You provide the graphs, I'll tell you how to beat the housing lottery... I've been asked at least 5000 times this week, "Well, What _Would_ Harry Potter...
Despite all the hoo-hah I hear on campus about the new Radiohead album (well, admittedly something this page is contributing to), it's worth pointing out that OK Computer, their most successful album ever, has only sold 1.7 million copies in the U.S. So I guess it's a certain segment of the population-hipster-wannabe college students?-who are the ones generating all the buzz...