What Yorke originally intended is a mystery as the percussion that kicks in later is a solitary kick drum on each quarter beat, not giving anything about the meter away. The time signature flits between 6/4 and 4/4.

With the high C note that gives us C, Db∆7 and Eb6 (if you’re unfamiliar with chord naming conventions, have a read of this). The triads are C major (C E G), Db major (Db F Ab) and Eb major (Eb G Bb). This is called an inverted pedal, where there’s a note that drones throughout and it’s in the bass or lowest voice. The intro is comprised of three chords, each chord is a simple major triad with a high C note on the top. The whole song is really just three chords, with a fourth thrown in briefly during the verse, so it’s a nice, easy piece to get your fingers around. I totally lost interest in playing guitar… it just didn’t do it for me any more… I started playing the piano, I’m a terrible piano player so that was kind of good… everything was a novelty… I wrote a lot of stuff on piano… the less you know about an instrument the more you get excited about it.

He cites losing interest in guitar music as a major influence for this album, and he’s fairly disparaging about his keyboard abilities too, saying: Thom Yorke composed the song originally on the piano before taking it to the studio. The opener is Everything in its Right Place, which has been covered by Alarm Will Sound, Robert Glasper and Brad Mehldau, remixed by Gigamesh, Tensnake and Paul Oakenfold and sampled by Marcel Fengler and SBTRKT.

With less of an obvious rock influence than OK Computer but not quite as far-out and experimental as Amnesiac, it regularly tops music publications’ ‘best of’ lists. Released in 2000, and sandwiched between OK Computer and Amnesiac, it’s probably fair to say it had a little influence from both of these albums. Radiohead’s Kid A saw a change in direction for the Oxford five-piece.

Everything in its right place piano tab