kid a

By Draniac

It seems that the intention of the band with the title cut is to reinvent music itself, much as we are reinventing life through cloning. Thom's vocals, if in fact they are Thom's, are remade through artificial means to produce a very skewed "reproduction". It reminds me of the final stage of rebirth (and death) that the fly takes in David Cronenberg's film, only to plead with Geena Davis to "kill me".
Powerfully sad and beautiful, it will surely be misinterpreted by some as excessive...but it is critical to the tone of the album.
I would pay many dollars for lyrics, although they may not even exist.
By Steven Labonte

When I first heard Kid A this song stuck with me the most. It is captivating and just so damn odd. I think that what's important about it is that what Thom synthezises heavily and what he leaves more clear. "We've got heads on sticks" probably one of the more eerie lines in the song is very sharp in contrast to The first lines. I think that the song really makes its statement with the sounds of the mobiles chirping And all the childlike refreneces and sounds which appear on the song. Also the sound of the crying child at the end of the song. For me it signifies a beginning. Almost like a song someone should play if the world ends January 1, 2001. It is so bold, orginal and futuristic sense. But the voice is erreily apathetic about the dark lines they are saying they are a an outside observer. Is that how the first child may act? Possibly so. But I also think that it is song rich in meaninng and I would like to see more comments about it.
By David

I think Kid A, like My Iron Lung is about the music world, however, i think Kid A is about there side of it. I believe that when he says "We've got heads on sticks" he means that Radiohead has a novel act. I think when he says, "you've got ventriliquists", he means NME or his record company has spin doctors and media people to distort everything and make it "commercial". I think the "standing on the edge of my bed" line refers to paranoia about his popularity and his standing in the shadows directly means he is trying to live up to what the record company people make him out to be. I think he says "lots of children follow me out of town", not "rats and . . . ", and I think if you listen carefully you can distinctly hear the "f" sound in "of", which would imply to me that he is embracing his icon status in a rather depressing way, implying that we, the listeners, are under the spell of these ventriliquists and record company people, just like him. We hear the piper's music, and we follow mindlessly.