::Firsties Week:: Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place

It was hard to pick a Radiohead track because almost every one of their opening tracks are solid. My brother actually recently pointed out that OK Computer opening track "Airbag" serves as a bridge between the final track "The Tourist" making the whole album a continuing loop!

However I chose "Everything In Its Right Place" because I've recently discovered something about the album that its from. Radiohead has always been a band shrouded in mysteries and conspiracies, and I highly doubt any of them are true most of the time, especially this one, but there's a theory that says that Kid A foretold 9/11 and that its a perfect musical interpretation of that fateful day and the months following it. Once again, I don't believe it was intended to be that way and in fact, neither does the author of this theory Chuck Klosterman. Just a crazy coincidence. Intentions aside, it gave new meaning to this album for me.

Anyway. The song. It paints a perfect picture of the album's feeling. The feeling I get from this album is a feeling of numbness and complacency that has a twinge of creepiness and a sense dread that slowly wells up in the pit of your stomach. This song is supposed to (according to the completely made up, yet interesting theory) symbolize the morning commute on 9/11 in New York. You get the image of people going about their business but deep down there is a feeling that something isn't right. Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon.

Kid A, Kid A, Kid A, Kid A
Everything, everything, everything, everything..
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Everything, everything, everything..
In its right place
In its right place
Right place

There are two colours in my head
There are two colours in my head
What is that you tried to say?
What was that you tried to say?
Tried to say.. tried to say..
Tried to say.. tried to say..

Everything in its right place