Pitchfork reviewed one of my favorite albums ever this morning, and I think they offer a great perspective on it.

Additionally, I think the reasons they give for people disliking it offer an interesting balance to my nostalgic love of this CD.

I purchased Amnesiac, on a whim, after someone mentioned Radiohead as one of the “world’s biggest rock groups.” It might have been MTV.com.Their only other song I’d heard was Creep, and that was on a multimedia sampler CD-ROM that came with our computer when I was 9.

Pitchfork says that many people disliked Amnesiac because it came out as a collection of singles, with MP3s available online before anyone had a chance to hear the whole album. The derisive “Kid B” labels came about because while everyone had listened to Kid A from beginning to end, Amnesiac had slowly trickled into the public consciousness.

The fact that I was in 9th grade, blindly stumbling through the music world, had a hugely positive effect as far as listening to Amnesiac went. I was able to experience it, from beginning to end, as an album. (I actually copied it to a minidisc, which I’d play on repeat every night while I was at Web Design Camp at Syracuse University.) 8 years later, it’s one of only a few albums that I’ve enjoyed for so long.

What do you think? Kid A or Amnesiac? Who wins? I’d say Amnesiac but I know I’m probably in the not-so-vocal minority.