Hot Chip, “Hold On”
Live on Jools Holland

One of the formative music videos of my childhood.

Ten Years of Kid A →

Featuring writing by: Stan Apps, Julie Ann Brandt, John Bueter, Jackie Clark, Brooklyn Copeland, John Deming, Brent Goodman, John Harkey, Jeff T. Johnson, Peter Bogart Johnson, Steven Karl, Amy Lawless, Masin Persina, Michael Schiavo, Christopher Snyder, Matt Soucy, Justin Taylor, Adam Trull, Ken L. Walker, Alice White, Melinda Kaye Wilson, Jim Wood

I was thinking of contributing to this, but I really disliked (and still dislike) Kid A. I heard it for the first time at my desk in the corner of my college dorm room, a live, exclusive stream of the entire album on some website, back when that sort of thing was a rare occurrence. I wanted to like it. I could tell just by listening to it that it was supposed to be cool. But it sounded like white noise. It was impossible to enjoy. I started doing other things with my headphones still on and forgot I was even listening after a while.