Everything in Its Right Place
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| Song by Radiohead from the album Kid A | ||||||||||
| Recorded | January 1999 – April 2000 | |||||||||
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| Length | 4:11 | |||||||||
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| Writer(s) | Radiohead | |||||||||
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"Everything in Its Right Place" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead. It is the opening track on their fourth studio album Kid A (2000). The song has been covered by several other artists, has been featured heavily on Radiohead's set list and received positive reviews from critics.
Following the critical and commercial success of their 1997 album OK Computer, the members of Radiohead began to suffer psychological burnout, and songwriter Thom Yorke suffered a mental breakdown. He began to suffer from writer's block and said he had become disillusioned with rock music. He listened almost exclusively to the electronic music of Warp artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, saying: "It was refreshing because the music was all structures and had no human voices in it. But I felt just as emotional about it as I'd ever felt about guitar music."
Yorke bought a house in Cornwall and spent his time walking the cliffs and drawing, restricting his musical activity to playing the grand piano he had recently bought. "Everything in Its Right Place" was the first song he wrote on the piano, followed by "Pyramid Song" (released on Radiohead's 2001 album Amnesiac). He said: "I'm such a shit piano player. I remember this Tom Waits quote from years ago, that what keeps him going as a songwriter is his complete ignorance of the instruments he's using. So everything's a novelty. That's one of the reasons I wanted to get into computers and synths, because I didn't understand how the fuck they worked. I had no idea what ADSR meant."
Producer Nigel Godrich was unimpressed with Yorke's piano rendition of "Everything in its Right Place". One night, he and Yorke transferred the song to synthesiser and Godrich manipulated the recording in Pro Tools. According to guitarist Jonny Greenwood, the song was a turning point in the making of Kid A: "We knew it had to be the first song, and everything just followed after it." He said it was the first time Radiohead had been happy to leave a song "sparse", instead of "layering on top of what’s a very good song or a very good sound, and hiding it, camouflaging it in case it’s not good enough."
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