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This Isn't Happening - Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century (Paperback)
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This Isn't Happening - Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century (Paperback)
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THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING,
CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of
an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in
Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the
best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting
them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But
Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they
set out to create the future. For more than a year, they battled
writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt.
In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a
complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was
the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed
by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the
culture. What they created was Kid A. Upon its release in 2000,
Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it an instant
classic; others, such as the UK music magazine Melody Maker, deemed
it "tubby, ostentatious, self-congratulatory... whiny old rubbish."
But two decades later, Kid A sounds like nothing less than an
overture for the chaos and confusion of the twenty-first century.
Acclaimed rock critic Steven Hyden digs deep into the songs,
history, legacy, and mystique of Kid A, outlining the album's
pervasive influence and impact on culture in time for its twentieth
anniversary in 2020. Deploying a mix of criticism, journalism, and
personal memoir, Hyden skillfully revisits this enigmatic, alluring
LP and investigates the many ways in which Kid A shaped and
foreshadowed our world.
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