Binding: Hardcover
Description: In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward - thinking in rock a rarefied status granting them the time money and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead they set out to create the future. For more than a year they battled writer's block inter - band disagreements and crippling self - doubt. In the end however they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar - based rock sound it was the sound of a new era and embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A. At the time Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it an instant classic; others including the U. K. music magazine Melody Maker deemed it "tubby ostentatious self - congratulatory whiny old rubbish." But two decades later Kid A sounds like nothing less than an overture for the chaos and confusion of the 21st century. Acclaimed rock critic Steven Hyden digs deep into the songs history legacy and mystique of Kid A outlining the album's pervasive influence and impact on culture in time for its 20th anniversary in 2020. Deploying a mix of criticism journalism and personal memoir Hyden skillfully revisits this enigmatic alluring LP and investigates the many ways in which Kid A shaped and foreshadowed our world.
Title: This Isn't Happening Radiohead's Kid A And The Beginning Of The 21st Century
Author(s): Hyden Steven
Publisher: Hachette Books
Barcode: 9780306845680
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 9/29/2020
Category: Social & Cultural History