Kid A – Radiohead
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Check out Adam’s course for more on Kid A and the harmony of Radiohead: https://osjazz.link/radiohead
You've never heard Kid A like THIS. Jazz musicians Adam Maness and Peter Martin break down Radiohead's 2000 art rock MASTERPIECE track-by-track to uncover what's really happening in the music that makes this album so incredible.
Why do we love Radiohead's Kid A so much? Watch to find out.
PLUS - Jazz musicians play Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place". One shot, one take, no AI. FULL video: https://youtu.be/c5w9BHKe0rc
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About You'll Hear It:
In this popular music series, Adam and Peter break down the greatest albums of all time. Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell, D'Angelo: Jazz is the foundation of the most GENIUS music in recent history. These seasoned jazz pianists bring their deep musical knowledge to every joyful episode to help you hear the hidden qualities that make music AMAZING. You'll never hear music the same way again.
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Chapters Legend:
🎧 Listening to a track 🎹 Music theory breakdown 🎵 Live studio jam
00:00 Radiohead - Kid A
00:58 This is Adam's Super Bowl
03:40 How Do They Get Away with This?!
05:39 🎧 Where Radiohead Started
08:29 🎧 OK Computer: Something's Happening Here
15:17 Yorke's Creative Crisis
18:09 🎧 "Everything In Its Right Place"
22:44 Isolated Stems on "Everything In Its Right Place"
24:53 Why Jazz Musicians Love Radiohead
27:35 The Genius Rhythm in "Everything"
30:00 Did Kid A Predict the Future?
31:04 🎧 "Kid A"
33:28 How Radiohead Cracked the Code
34:07 Bluegrass Cover of "Kid A"
35:27 🎧 "The National Anthem"
40:55 What Peter ACTUALLY Thinks of Kid A
46:19 🎧 "How To Disappear Completely"
52:09 🎧 "Treefingers"
55:10 What Genre Is This?
58:30 🎧 "Optimistic"
1:00:58 🎹 A Lesson in Modal Interchange
1:05:00 🎧 "In Limbo"
1:08:04 🎹 Adam Breaks Out the Keyboard
1:10:44 🎧 "Idioteque"
1:13:22 Isolated Stems on "Idioteque"
1:14:43 🎧 "Morning Bell"
1:16:35 🎹 The Chromatic Mediant in Kid A
1:19:50 🎧 "Motion Picture Soundtrack"
1:22:28 🎧 The Most BRILLIANT Album Ending
1:24:19 Best Moments on Kid A
1:32:21 What to Listen to Next
1:32:42 Better Than Voodoo?
1:33:49 🎵 "Everything In Its Right Place"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | At the peak of his success, Tom York went silent. |
| 0:03.0 | In 1997, his band was on top of the musical mountain with an art-rock masterpiece. |
| 0:09.0 | But all he can think is that guitar music was dead. |
| 0:13.0 | And now the world was waiting for their next album, and he had nothing. |
| 0:17.0 | Every recording session was a failure. They went back again and again. |
| 0:21.6 | The band was split. |
| 0:23.6 | Some wanted to make guitar-based music that made them famous. |
| 0:26.6 | Others thought Radiohead might be done. |
| 0:29.6 | Then Tom York disappears into a country house with a piano, |
| 0:32.6 | and he walks out with a kernel of an idea, |
| 0:35.6 | the start of an album that would define the decade and predict the future. |
| 0:44.3 | This skidding. Everything Everything |
| 0:54.4 | I'm Adam Annes |
| 0:59.7 | And I'm Peter Martin |
| 1:00.5 | And you're listening to the you'll hear a podcast |
| 1:02.2 | Music Explored |
| 1:03.7 | Explored brought today by Open Studio |
| 1:05.4 | Go to open studio jazz.com |
| 1:07.2 | For oh, your jazz lesson needs Peter |
| 1:10.0 | Big Big Day Well, I was going to ask you, |
| 1:13.0 | I thought you might say biggest day. Am I shaking? Right now? I'm shaking a little bit. |
| 1:17.3 | You've been like, you know, electric all day, scurrying around here like a, like an exenial. |
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