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Radiohead – Kid A, 25 Years Later｜Vinyl Monday SEASON 5

Abigail Devoe | November 1, 2025



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Welcome to season 5 of Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. This week we’re celebrating Radiohead’s Kid A, released 25 years ago this week. Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!

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Timestamps:

intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 0:54
Kid A – 4:05
track listing/release – 12:51
my thoughts – 20:48
thanks for watching! – 41:40

Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…) Artist: http://audionautix.com/
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Written by Abigail Devoe

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  2. @robcoz98

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    I share my birthday with Kid A's official release although I was born two years prior (1998). Upon first listen, I couldn't make it through the title track. Something about it put me off for ages, this coming from someone who got into The Bends and OK Computer fine. In hindsight now, I find this absolutely hilarious as that's what the album somewhat intended.

    However a few years ago, I finally challenged myself to brute force the album in preparation for a podcast I listen to that was going through Radiohead's discography and it took a few gos but I eventually got it and never looked back.

  6. @GerryONeil-o2s

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Minor correction: The keyboard used on "Everything In Its Right Place" is not a Fender Rhodes, but rather a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5. The notes sustain much longer than Fender Rhodes tines, and you can hear the Prophet 5's filter cutoff being played with throughout the song. When I saw Radiohead in 2016, Thom used a Sequential Prophet '08, grandchild of the mighty Prophet 5, for the song.

  8. @Nick-who-loves-cilantro

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    This was a big album for me. When I first heard it (in high school) I had mostly just listened to regular classic rock, with nothing farther out than the Beatles' psychedelic stuff. Kid A was like nothing I had ever heard. Learning about the artists Radiohead cited as influences on the album introduced me to a new world (to me) of experimental and electronic music.

    Still, it doesn't have Pyramid Song.

  10. @cerealsauce420

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Something funny i noticed on the album cover is that the negative space on both sides of the I in 'KID' looks like a rewind button symbol. No way was that intentional but still cool with the context of the band's goal with the album creatively

  11. @billadams4924

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Your chicken costume isn't so bad Abigail. I don't remember this, but my first halloween costume was the Pink Panther — and I'm told that I asked for that costume. This was before my little brother ws born, so I was under 4; that's all I know for sure. Did I turn out weird? No doubt. Has that proven to be useful/effective? Hell yeah.

    Anyway, I remember when Kid A came out — I can safely say that I actively didn't care about it. OK Computer was the first Radiohead album that I gave a chance (I actively disliked Pablo Honey and the singles on The Bends were the cuts that I heard from that album but was not in the right place for) and the amount of ground that it gained was minimal. It took years and a whole lot of personal growth for me to start listening to Radiohead. I'm there now and appreciate this video, but both Kid A and Amnesiac occupy a unique space for me; they're not really a classic albums because it arrived on my radar too recently, but they're obviously not new albums either.

  13. @rEdf196

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    I have an original 10 inch double vinyl of Kid A I acquired in 2001 still in mint condition. After a recent Discogs search of Kid A I was quite surprized at its current high value.

  15. @kayosiiii

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    I find it fascinating that the 25th anniversary of kid A is lining up so closely with the 50th anniversary of wish you were here, two albums from bands from a very similar part of the world, both singular and both in a similar place in their careers,it makes me wonder who could release an album this year to complete a trilogy

  18. @Steve_Zilla

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Thank you, Abbie. Kid A and Amnesiac are amazing! Radiohead from 1995 until 2008 were the best.
    Unfortunately, I caught them in concert in 2012 after they gave up, but I still celebrate them

  19. @slartyfretwerk3905

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    I'm a bit of a newbie to your channel – been checking through the back catalogue and looks like I've got loads of great stuff to enjoy and learn from.
    I'm pretty open with my music tastes, so long as it's got a point… As for Radiohead, it's nearly impossible to have a favourite. All depends on what's going on in your life at the time…. Right now – and the related videos are part of the art – it'll be You Follow Me around or I Promise.
    I'd love to see some in depth analysis of…. maybe the Jesus and Mary Chain, or Porcupine Tree, I think they have a similar introspective style. But no matter what you decide to do, it's gonna be good.

  23. @official_lilty

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Coming to this episode for on the 25th anniversary. I still remember the free jazz section on The National Anthem completely melting my mind on first listen.

    Happy 25th to an absolute game changer of an album! 💙🤍🖤

  24. @seijunsejuki

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Radiohead are my favorite still active band, but I've never liked the Thom Yorke's voice. I know I'm completely alone in this, but I just cannot understand why people keep going on and on about what a great singer he is. To me he's in the category of a Neil Young (maybe a little better): a serviceable frontman to be sure, but that's about it.

  27. @MammaApa

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    I find it a bit funny that music press at the time made such a HUGE deal out of them going from guitars to largely electronic with Kid A, where anyone I've ever spoken to in real life about it were more like huh, this one is different. Flaming Lips did a similar shift the year before with The Soft Bulletin so it's not like it was unheard of.

  30. @crimsonkate8241

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Aside from being thoroughly disappointed that you referred to "Ok Computer" as the "Sgt Peppers" of the 90's instead of the "Dark Side" lol. That was another great review of a great album I used to listen to a lot. The analysis of "How to Disappear" in particular was so spot on it instantly reminded me of what I used to feel when I was listening almost 2 decades ago. Definitely one of the best music reviewers on YT!

  33. @prilljazzatlanta5070

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    I didnt like this album when it first came out, I’ll admit. But it stayed stuck in my subconscious and I remember one night summer of 2002 deciding to put it on again and it went on to be my favorite album of the decade besides being tied with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

  35. @matt00794

    November 1, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    kid a was the first radiohead album I bought. it is so interesting and imaginative and one of the best album covers ever. in rainbows and ok computer I think are ones I go back to more often but every times I hear everything in it's right place I call the song a masterpiece and the whole album.

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