Everything In Its Right Place (track)
by Radiohead
Everything In Its Right Place appears on the following album(s) by Radiohead:
- Kid A (track #1) (this album) (2000)
- I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (track #6) (2001)
- The Best Of (track #16) (compilation) (2008)
- Kid A Mnesia (track #1) (compilation) (2021)
- 5 Album Set (Box Set) (track #37) (compilation) (2012)
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In 10/8 or some variant thereof - my favourite time signature.
Taken singly, the ideas aren't terribly ground-breaking - aphex twin already used something equivalent to a kaoss pad to dehumanize vocals on windowlicker, and massive attack used the slow menace of gradually opening resonant filters on angel (yes, there it was a bass rather than rhodes that was filtered, but they're tonally similar, especially given the structure of the two songs). At any rate, its the execution of it all, more than its novelty, that makes it work.
Radiohead's peculiar talent (or one of them anyway) is their ability to reveal malevolent ambiguities in what might otherwise be conceived as platitudinous or tautological. In this case, Yorke sounds visionary and ecstatic when he sings 'everything' but then he is changed into something frightened and/or sinister as he sings 'in its right place.' This conveys that, while on its surface the prescription 'everything in its right place' seems sensible enough, in reality it has a kind of invisible violence. This trend continues through the album - you never get to see Kid A's monsters, and that's exactly what makes them so scary. (Edited)
Within the span of four notes, Everything In Its Right Place throws you into a world of erratic vocal manipulations, enveloping synths, and mounting tension, masterfully conveying a fragmented mental state and successfully introducing Kid A's desolate, icy tone. (Edited)
Evandar 03/21/2013 12:46 | #69345
I can't believe how unique this song is from anything else I've heard, and what an opener! It took me a couple of years to get into Kid A, but when I first got it, there was no going back, and this song is but the beginning of something cold, distant yet beautiful. (Edited)
Space-Dementia 01/31/2016 21:04 | #158340
That really unique sound of the opening synths is one of the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard. I can't even imagine the reactions of people who had fallen in love with OK Computer and The Bends and were now hearing this for the first time. I wish I had listened to their albums in chronological order. (Edited)
One of the best openers to any album ever. Period. (Edited)
