Hachette This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century

Well written about the how a band reinvented itself and redefined music at the turn of the century. Must read if you’re a fan of how music could be made.

All information related to Radiohead is great. All comparisons to other bands is laughable. I mean, comparison to linkin park?General discussion about the state of the planet then and now is generally good.

Completamente disfrutable; Lectura básica y complemento para conocer más sobre ese especial periodo de la banda hasta el día de hoy; más aún hacerlo para reeescuchar toda la discografía del grupo y sus proyectos en solitario, incluyendo sus EPs.

Si eres fan de RH es un libro imperdible de que debes tener en tu acervo.

October. Autumn. Kid A. College dorm. If those four things make you feel some kind of way, or make warm feelings bubble in your guttyworks, this is very much your book. I read this book in one day, couldn't put it down. It took me back there to that place John Prine calls "the valley of the unconcerned." I hung on the words the way I hung on a LimeWire download of Treefingers at 1% via Ethernet cable. We were those kind of kids who had a college radio show with the All Radiohead Special on release day, complete with demo versions of Motion Picture Soundtrack from Napster; who intensely watched the stream of Kid A on MTV (a single fixed camera on a black and white turntable, on a loop) in a dark dorm room; who sent those free, glossy postcards with the Kid A Bear on them to ourselves from the Radiohead website just to hang them in our spaces; who ordered the weird cardboard kid's book with CD by "Stanley and Tchock" no matter how high priced. I thrashed early and often to The National Anthem in a room where no one could see me, like a wild self-exorcism. To re-live that very, very specific slice of lived history was a gift right now in the middle of an ice age coming. So thank you, Steven Hyden!

Great take in indie rock from early 21st century and anxiety / trauma...But...Kinda bro-y take on Radiohead. Uses the words "best" a lot in reference to many topics, like it's the olympics. Misses truths about Radiohead ie.. their industriousness, humility and Thom's outright vulnerability (this is mentioned once). THEY WORKED SO HARD FOR THOSE SONGS. Especially Thom's OK computer writing run. The book also misses what REM taught Thom about anxiety and being such a public figure.Uses the term "free-jazz" very liberally. Even if something was improvised when recording, everything was very deliberately composed afterwards using that material. There are never any "free" moments in Kid A. Compare this to Ornette Coleman and other post bop artists and you can see it.