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Opening track " Everything in Its Right Place " was cited by Yorke and O ' Brien as the moment their frustrations with a year of contentious recording sessions began to give way.

The song was written late one night by Thom Yorke on a piano at home.

According to Yorke, " I bought a piano for my house, a proper nice one-a baby grand.

And this was the first thing I wrote on it.

And I'm such a shit piano player.

I remember this Tom Waits quote from years ago, that what keeps him going as a songwriter is his complete ignorance of the instruments he's using.

So everything's a novelty.

That's one of the reasons I wanted to get into computers and synths, because I didn't understand how the fuck they worked.

I had no idea what ADSR meant.

" The song was noted for its unconventional time signature ( 10 / 4 ), to a dance / house groove.

The feel of the song, especially when played live, has been seen as akin to house music and minimal techno due to its keyboard part, which plays an ascending chord sequence in a syncopated rhythm, alongside a steady, synthetic bass drum.

The composition highly differed from Radiohead's earlier work, as it featured neither guitar, piano, nor drums, but electric piano, drum machine and computer manipulations of Yorke's voice.