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| Length = 49:57 | Label = | Producer = | Last album = ''Airbag / How Am I Driving?'' (1998) | This album = ''Kid A'' (2000) | Next album = ''Amnesiac'' (2001) }} ''Kid A'' is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released in October 2000 on Parlophone. Burnt out after recording and promoting Radiohead's acclaimed 1997 album ''OK Computer'', songwriter Thom Yorke envisioned a radical change in direction for their next album. Incorporating influences from krautrock, jazz, 20th-century classical music and the electronic music of Warp artists, Radiohead replaced their three-guitar line-up with synthesisers, drum machines, the ondes Martenot, string orchestras and brass instruments. They recorded ''Kid A'' with producer Nigel Godrich in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire, and their hometown Oxford. The sessions produced over 20 finished tracks; Radiohead saved many of them for their subsequent album, ''Amnesiac'', released the following year. Radiohead refused to release singles or music videos to promote ''Kid A''; instead, 30-second animated "blips" were set to its music based on the artwork Stanley Donwood and Yorke designed for the album's packaging. ''Kid A'' debuted at the top of the charts in Britain (where it went platinum in the first week) and, for the first time in Radiohead's history, the United States. Its commercial success has been attributed to its unique marketing campaign, an internet leak and anticipation following ''OK Computer''. ''Kid A ''initially divided critics, surprised by Radiohead's change in direction, but it was named one of the best albums of 2000 by numerous publications. Like its predecessor ''OK Computer'', it won a Grammy for Best Alternative Album and a nomination for Album of the Year. In 2006, ''Time'' named ''Kid A ''one of the 100 best albums of all time, calling it "the weirdest album to ever sell a million copies." At the turn of the decade, ''Rolling Stone'', Pitchfork and the ''Times'' ranked ''Kid A'' the greatest album of the 2000s. In 2012, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked ''Kid A'' number 67 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. == Background == Following the critical and commercial success of their 1997 album ''OK Computer'', the members of Radiohead began to suffer psychological burnout, and songwriter Thom Yorke suffered a mental breakdown.〔 He told ''The Guardian'': "I always used to use music as a way of moving on and dealing with things, and I sort of felt like that the thing that helped me deal with things had been sold to the highest bidder and I was simply doing its bidding. And I couldn't handle that."〔 Troubled by new acts he felt were imitating Radiohead, Yorke believed his music had become part of a constant background noise he described as "fridge buzz", and became openly hostile to the music media.〔 He began to suffer from writer's block, and said: "Every time I picked up a guitar I just got the horrors. I would start writing a song, stop after 16 bars, hide it away in a drawer, look at it again, tear it up, destroy it." He said he had become disillusioned with the "mythology" of rock music, feeling the genre had "run its course".〔 He had been a DJ and part of a techno band at Exeter University,〔 and following ''OK Computer ''began to listen almost exclusively to the electronic music of Warp artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, saying: "It was refreshing because the music was all structures and had no human voices in it. But I felt just as emotional about it as I'd ever felt about guitar music."〔 Drummer Phil Selway said Radiohead worried that the success of ''OK Computer ''had "turned us into a one-trick band." Bassist Colin Greenwood said: "We felt we had to change everything. There were other guitar bands out there trying to do similar things. We had to move on." Guitarist Ed O'Brien had hoped Radiohead's fourth album would comprise "snappy", melodic guitar songs, but Yorke stated: "There was no chance of the album sounding like that. I'd completely had it with melody. I just wanted rhythm. All melodies to me were pure embarrassment."〔 He liked the idea of his voice being used as an instrument rather than having a leading role in the album, and intended to move Radiohead away from traditional songwriting and instead focus on sounds and textures. 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「Kid A」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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