Talk:Kid A

Hidden Track?

I've noticed in the edit history that a hidden track is frequently put onto the track listing and then taken off again. I can confirm that this track is on my recording as a seperate track. I'm not sure, but I think it appears to be part of "Motion Picture Soundtrack" on some people's recordings of the album, and on other copies as an independent track. This site: http://www.hiddensongs.com/songs/kida.php appears to have some information on it, although I'm unsure of its reliability. 90.206.77.67 (talk) 12:41, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

When Kid A was originally released in 2000, there were several different editions and printings (some of which included a "hidden booklet," others were special editions featuring different artwork) but in each case, the musical content of the CD, tape or vinyl was the same, and a short hidden instrumental track appeared after a long silence as part of "Motion Picture Soundtrack", stretching out a three-minute song to the seven-minute range. Several years later, when the album was sold on iTunes and other commercial digital music services (in fact, it did not appear on iTunes itself until relatively late, around 2007 or 2008, due to Radiohead and many other musicians' issues with how iTunes deals with royalties, and Radiohead's original desire for their albums not to be sold as individual tracks) the hidden track was separated into its own track. But music was not sold digitally online in 2000, or for several years afterward, and all original editions of the album included the song as part of "Motion Picture Soundtrack". Fans who downloaded the album in 2000-1 from the original, legendary p2p service Napster, and from any of its successors since, however, found the hidden track included as a separate, short song after "Motion Picture Soundtrack". This song did not have a name, but was frequently misidentified back then as "Genchildren" due to tags in the original leaked mp3. "Genchildren" was actually the alias of the group or individual who leaked the album (which some have suspected was the band themselves), which was the only information in the tag on the hidden track in the leaked version, as the brief instrumental otherwise lacked a title entirely. "Genchildren" was NOT intended as the name of the hidden track. When the album has been sold digitally in years since with the hidden track separated, it has been untitled, as it was originally just a fragment added to the end of "Motion Picture Soundtrack." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.108.122.160 (talk) 16:09, 23 August 2011 (UTC)