This Isn't Happening by Steven Hyden

Author:Steven Hyden [HYDEN, STEVEN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2020-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

A question that every Radiohead fan asks at some point is “Should Kid A and Amnesiac have come out as a single album?” A super LP that includes all of the best songs from both records—what would that look like, exactly?

Most of the time, the question goes unanswered. What right do we have to question our heroes? If they felt that the mountain of music they created through 1999 and early 2000 had to be released on Kid A and Amnesiac, then it was clearly the correct decision.

But let’s say, purely for the sake of conversation, that you are an A&R executive working for Parlophone in the spring of 2000. One day, Thom and Jonny walk into your office with a stack of tapes. We’ve had it, they say. We can’t figure out what in the hell to put on the next record. (Perhaps they would say “bleedin’ record,” because they’re British and this might be one of those stereotypes that proves to be true.) At any rate, they need you to help them turn this music into a brilliant, digestible fourteen-track record.

I’m not one to leave Thom and Jonny in the lurch. Therefore, I have made my own version of Kid Amnesiac. And I have to say: I think I A&Red the hell out of this. It’s not only the best Radiohead album, I think this would have been the best album of the aughts. Which is a pretty big deal, given that Kid A is already the best album of the aughts—at the very least, I don’t think that I made the album worse.

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