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“Kid A” is one of the more challenging songs on Radiohead’s fourth LP. Much like the album’s opener, “Everything in its Right Place”, it is distinguished by a conspicuous lack of guitars and heavily compressed vocals from Yorke.
While some of the lyrics make clear references to literature and polit...
[Verse 1]
I slip away
I slipped on a little white lie
[Verse 2]
We've got heads on sticks
And you've got ventriloquists
We've got heads on sticks
And you've got ventriloquists
[Verse 3]
Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed
Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed
Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed
Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed
[Outro]
The rats and the children will follow me out of town
Rats and children follow me out of town
Come on, kids
Kid A was written by Ed O’Brien & Colin Greenwood & Jonny Greenwood & Thom Yorke & Philip Selway.
Kid A was produced by Radiohead & Nigel Godrich.
The way they achieved the vocal effect of the track was by putting Thom’s monotone speaking voice through a Vocoder-like filter and using a Ondes Martenot, a keyboard like instrument, to control the pitch of the filter, to simulate singing.
“On ‘Kid A’, the lyrics are absolutely brutal and horrible and I wouldn’t be able to sing them straight. But talking them and having them vocodered through Johnny’s Ondes Martenot, so that I wasn’t even responsible for the melody… that was great, it felt like you’re not answering to this thing.” -Yo...