Amnesiac (Special Collector's Edition)

Radiohead's critically acclaimed Amnesiac re-released in an expanded Special Collector's Edition! This special package includes the whole, original album plus a second CD of rarities, including demos, sessions and live recordings. Also comes with a DVD featuring a variety of promotional music videos, TV and concert performances, plus a set of postcards!

"Faced with a deliberately difficult deviation into 'experimentation,' Radiohead and its record label promoted Kid A as just that - a brave experiment, and that the next album, which was just around the corner, really, would be the 'real' record, the one to satiate fans looking for the next OK Computer, or at least guitars. At the time, people bought the myth, especially since live favorites like 'Knives Out' and 'You and Whose Army?' were nowhere to be seen on Kid A. That, however, ignores a salient point - Amnesiac, as the album came to be known, consists of recordings made during the Kid A sessions, so it essentially sounds the same. Since Radiohead designed Kid A as a self-consciously epochal, genre-shattering record, the songs that didn't make the cut were a little simpler, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Amnesiac plays like a streamlined version of Kid A, complete with blatant electronica moves and production that sacrifices songs for atmosphere. This, inevitably, will disappoint the legions awaiting another guitar-based record (that is, after all, what they were explicitly promised), but what were they expecting? Where Kid A had shock on its side, along with an admirably dogged desire to not be conventional, Amnesiac often plays as a hodgepodge. True, it's a hodgepodge with amazing moments: the hypnotic sway of 'Pyramid Song' and 'You and Whose Army?,' the swirling 'I Might Be Wrong,' 'Knives Out,' and the spectacular closer 'Life in a Glasshouse,' complete with a drunkenly swooning brass band." - All Music Guide