Not at all

No Surprises is excellent but Climbing up the Walls, Electioneering, Fitter Happier, The Tourist, and Lucky are nowhere near as good as the first side.

Not at all

No Surprises is excellent but Climbing up the Walls, Electioneering, Fitter Happier, The Tourist, and Lucky are nowhere near as good as the first side.

This will sound crazy but I always thought those songs served as a good segue to Kid A.

e.g if you listen to OK Computer and Kid A back to back the last songs on Kid A lead up to Kid A perfectly.

Kid A is so, so much better
maybe because I was introduced to it after reading that Chuck Klosterman thing, and albums sometimes seem so much better when you think of them as concept albums, but Kid A has this beautiful cohesiveness

The 9/11 thing right? Klosterman gives a very personal, specific reason why he wrote about that in "Killing Yourself to Live". It's intriguing, but can be easily argued against, and i'm probably the biggest Klosterman apologist on the entire forum.

At the golden ratio of In Rainbows, which occurs 2 minutes 49 seconds into "Reckoner," the background vocals can be heard singing "In Rainbows." It was the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, who first defined the golden ratio, an aesthetically pleasing proportioning within a piece. A mathematical constant, the golden ratio is calculated as approximately 1.6180339887. In a work of art it appears at 1/1.618, or about 61.8% of a way through. On In Rainbows 2 minutes 49 seconds into "Reckoner" is 61.8% of the way through the album.

That's the most pretentious thing I've ever heard...

Kid A is so, so much better
maybe because I was introduced to it after reading that Chuck Klosterman thing, and albums sometimes seem so much better when you think of them as concept albums, but Kid A has this beautiful cohesiveness

I think Kid A is a much better example of the first half of an album being better than the second half than OK Computer is.

Erm

Optimistic, Idioteque, Morning Bell?