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Everything in Its Right Place

The opening track of Kid A, the first song Yorke wrote for the album.
Radiohead, from Kid A (2000)

Yorke wrote it on piano, and it opens Kid A, released on October 2, 2000 on Parlophone and Capitol; it was not a single. It was recorded in 1999 and produced by Nigel Godrich and Radiohead. Attempts to arrange it for the full band in Copenhagen and Paris failed, so in Gloucestershire Yorke and Godrich moved it from piano to a Prophet-5 synthesizer, and Godrich processed Yorke's vocal with a scrubbing tool in Pro Tools. Yorke described it as being about trying to fit into the right place and the right box so you can connect. Live, Yorke plays Rhodes piano while Jonny Greenwood manipulates the voice with a Kaoss Pad, and a live version is on I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001).

Steve Reich's Radio Rewrite (2012) reinterprets it. The song is certified Silver in the UK, Gold in Canada and Gold in New Zealand. We found no video, and no setlist count.

Covers and versions

  • Steve Reich (2012) Radio Rewrite reinterprets it.

More songs by Radiohead

The National Anthem, How to Disappear Completely, Idioteque, Creep, Paranoid Android, Fake Plastic Trees

Sources

  1. Everything in Its Right Place, Wikipedia
  2. Kid A, Wikipedia