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| Length = 43:55 | Label = Parlophone | Producer = | Last album = ''Kid A'' (2000) | This album = ''Amnesiac'' (2001) | Next album = ''I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings'' (2001) | Misc = }} ''Amnesiac'' is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was produced by Nigel Godrich and released on 5 June 2001 through Parlophone. Recorded in the same sessions as previous album ''Kid A'' (2000), ''Amnesiac'' incorporates similar influences of electronic music, classical music, jazz and krautrock. Its lyrics and artwork explore themes of memory and reincarnation influenced by ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology. Bassist Colin Greenwood described ''Amnesiac'' as having "more traditional Radiohead-type songs together with more experimental, non-lyrical based instrumental-type stuff as well." Singer Thom Yorke described it as "another take on ''Kid A'', a form of explanation." ''Amnesiac'' produced three singles: "Pyramid Song", "I Might Be Wrong" and "Knives Out". It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200, and had sold over 900,000 copies worldwide by October 2008. Though many critics considered it inferior to its sister album ''Kid A'', ''Amnesiac'' received positive reviews, and in 2012 ''Rolling Stone'' ranked the album number 320 in their updated version of ''The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time''. ==Recording== Almost all of ''Amnesiac'' was recorded during the same sessions as its predecessor, ''Kid A'', released eight months earlier in October 2000. The sessions took place in Paris, Copenhagen, and Radiohead's hometown Oxford from early 1999 to mid-2000. Unlike Radiohead's previous "anthemic" rock albums, the sessions saw influences from electronic music, classical music, jazz and krautrock, using synthesisers, drum machines, ondes Martenot (an early electronic instrument), strings and brass.〔 Drummer Phil Selway said the ''Kid A ''and ''Amnesiac ''sessions had "two frames of mind ... a tension between our old approach of all being in a room playing together and the other extreme of manufacturing music in the studio. I think ''Amnesiac'' comes out stronger in the band-arrangement way." The sessions produced more than twenty finished tracks. Radiohead considered releasing them as a series of EPs or a double album, but struggled to find a track listing that satisfied them. Guitarist Ed O'Brien felt the material was too dense for a double album, and that listeners might skip tracks. Singer Thom Yorke said Radiohead split the work into two albums because "they cancel each other out as overall finished things. They come from two different places, I think ... In some weird way I think ''Amnesiac'' gives another take on ''Kid A'', a form of explanation."〔 The band stressed that they saw ''Amnesiac'' not as a collection of B-sides or "leftovers" from ''Kid A'' but an album in its own right. Only one track, "Life in a Glasshouse", was recorded after ''Kid A'' was released. In late 2000, multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood wrote to jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton to ask the Humphrey Lyttelton Band to play on the song, explaining that Radiohead were "a bit stuck". Greenwood told ''MOJO'': "We realised that we couldn't play jazz. You know, we've always been a band of great ambition with limited playing abilities." Lyttelton agreed to help after his daughter showed him Radiohead's 1997 album ''OK Computer''.〔 In October 2000, Radiohead began a world tour in support of ''Kid A'', playing songs later released on ''Amnesiac.'' In June 2001, they began the ''Amnesiac'' tour, incorporating their first North American tour in three years. Recordings from both tours are included on the live EP ''I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings'', released in November 2001. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amnesiac (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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