20 Years of Radiohead's 'Kid A'

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Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It's hard to believe in retrospect, but many music critics in the early '90s assumed that bands who became popular after Nirvana could never last. After the success of Radiohead's "Creep," they were roped in with other bands that fizzled out after their one-hit-wonder, with many turning their noses up at the somewhat nerdy alternative rock outfit. Needless to say, those estimations couldn't have been further from the truth.

In many ways, Radiohead's fourth album 'Kid A' was the culmination of the band putting their alternative rock era behind them, moving toward the more esoteric, dream-like sound that we've come to know and love. Two decades after its release, Steven and Ian look back on the iconic album.

In this week's Recommendation Corner, Hyden is singing the praises of Bartees Strange's debut album 'Live Forever' while Cohen is plugging 'Dubnobasswithmyheadman' and 'Second Toughest in the Infants,' the first two albums from British electronica band Underworld.

Pick up Steven's new book 'This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' And The Beginning Of The 21st Century' here and sign up for the Indie Mixtape newsletter here.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:12.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.2	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.9	We review albums, we hash out trends.
0:20.4	In this episode, we'll be looking back
0:21.9	at one of the landmark albums of the 21st Century Radiohead's Kid A. My name is Stephen Hayden,
0:28.0	and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
0:32.5	All right, so, listeners, let's, let's, let's let listeners, let's just take a moment to gas this dude up because I'm like I'm super proud of you for
0:42.8	this book man it's like this is the old kid A is the only thing you're going to read about
0:47.9	for like the next week or so and this man's got the definitive book on the subject.
1:01.9	And let's be real, if Stephen Hayden is not out there producing books, there is no, there's no Ian Cohen podcast.
1:06.0	So, you know, I owe a lot to this man's work ethic.
1:08.9	And, you know, he's just killing it out there.
1:18.8	I think it's just such an inspiration for people who are, you know, like, you know, wondering, like, how do I make it in music writing and, you know, all that.
1:21.0	So big ups to you on that.
1:24.4	Oh, man, it's getting, it's getting dusty. Yeah, now I got to write a book.
1:26.1	Like, I'm going to, like, self-publish, like, a, Now I got to write a book. Like I'm going to like self, I'm going to self
1:29.0	publish like a like a 33 and a third on like promise wings wood wood water. So we have to do an
1:34.8	episode of that. But no who there's no self publishing. There's got to be something like
1:39.7	you the fat check to write that book. I want to read that book. Yeah, but, um, you know,
1:44.2	fun story. Like, you know, I hold my head up super high when I went into diesel bookstore. It's like called diesel, but it's actually the independent bookstore in Delmar, California. And, you know, I'm holding up the book to the, to the cashier. And I'm like, yo, dude, like, I do a podcast with this dude you should check it out
2:01.4	are you a radio head fan and he's like mid 20s and he says to me it's like oh radio head you know
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