10 Greatest Ever Radiohead Songs
3. Everything In Its Right Place
Everything In Its Right Place serves as the opening to Kid A, the most experimental of Radiohead’s albums. It set the tone for the record perfectly. It’s fragmented, abstract, experimental and most importantly beautiful.
The lyrics appear to display a deep internal conflict in the narrator’s mind. “There are two colours in my head” implies two different emotions or thoughts at odds with one another. Maybe this is the conflict between the band’s commercial appeal and their artistic integrity?
What the song also does is immediately tell the audience that this album will be nothing like OK Computer, which was the preceding album. Instead of forward thinking, experimental art rock, the audience is subjected to a subdued and contemplative electronica track. It serves both as a warning to the audience and as a perfect introduction to the rest of the album.
Everything In It’s Right Place contains some of Thom Yorke’s most powerful lyrics distilled down to their most simplistic form.