Enjoyed your reaction - asking Radiohead fans to suggest a song is likely to lead to an absolute parade of songs. Ill try and stick to three: 1. For rock/guitar Bodysnatchers (live version Later with Jools Holland) 2. For Beautiful sadness Daydreaming 3. For just a mix of all sorts of things Where I End and You Begin (live version From the Basement)
You have to put this in the context of opening the whole album, Kid A (which is actually the first words that can be barely discerned about ten seconds in, repeated twice). So if your standard is a symphony, this is simply the opener. The variety comes through the remainder of the album. This is (figuratively speaking) the infancy of the album. The full instrumentation has not arrived. There are no drums, and no traditional guitar sounds. Coming off the world-wide success of OK Computer and its arena-filling rock soundscapes, this was incredibly daring and unexpected. The "child" has only two colors in his head (babies can only perceive black and white). The child needs to find order and structure in a chaotic universe. It learns quickly to recognize the things it sees and hears repeatedly (e.g. parents' voices and faces, which it imprints), and defines everything else around those anchor points. The buzzes of the rest of the world remain unresolved, even if rhythmic and ambient, as you say.
That was an interesting take. If you're going to do more Radiohead, I'd like to hear what you have to say about "Paranoid Android." It's very, very different from this song.
@@EamonReacts Thanks. As much as I like "Everything in Its Right Place," I like the complexity of this one a lot more. Since you are a pianist, maybe you could listen to "Pyramid Song" sometime. It is primarily a piano song.
