[atari 2600]

And if you play Kid A while watching
The Wiz, it syncs up perfectly to the onscreen action!

 

C'mon, who would seriously believe Radiohead intended that a seventeen-second delay between two simultaneously-playing copies would compose an alternate album?

You kiddies have been hittin' the Robitussin-DM a little too hard again.

I know there's people that insist it's for real, that the drums are all on-beat and each musical phrase lasts seventeen seconds; I just think it's nonsense. People are embellishing because it does sound okay except for "Optimistic;" and how ironic it is that "Optimistic" sounds like shit when listened to in this manner.

Originally Posted by Metafilter

Kid 17
August 27, 2007 6:31 PM

What happens when you play two separate copies of Radiohead's "Kid A" exactly 17 seconds apart? According to some, it produces some amazing synchronization effects. Although some fans claim to have heard Thom Yorke say it was intentional, "Whether or not it was intentional to me seems beyond the point. Fact of the matter is that it actually 'kind of' works." If that doesn't float your boat, you can always just sync it up with The Matrix.
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