everything in classical music ... I'm sure Thom did it intuitively, I'm sure he wasn't thinking about it ... but it's perfect, it is everything." Reception "Everything in Its Right Place" alienated critics who had hoped for more of the rock music of Radiohead's previous albums. The NME described it as "the moment where Radiohead finally left behind the limitations of being an alt rock band and embraced a whole wide world of weirdness". In 2009, Pitchfork described the shock some fans experienced hearing it for the first time: Reviewing Kid A, the Guardian critic Alexis Petridis called "Everything in Its Right Place" a "messy and inconsequential doodle", and the Melody Maker critic Mark Beaumont dismissed it as a "haphazard and pointless synth'n'laptop experiment". Reviewing Kid A for the New Yorker, Nick Hornby described his disappointment in the song: "'Hey! I can handle experimentalism!' you think, but your confidence is immediately knocked flat by the lyrics." NME described it as a "beautiful triumph of understatement" and a "pointed" opener. "Everything In Its Right Place" was named one of the best tracks of the decade by Rolling Stone, NME and Pitchfork. In a 2020 piece for the Guardian, the journalist Jazz Monroe named it the 25th-best Radiohead track, writing: "Like David Byrne before him, Yorke had renounced his authorship to flirt with self-erasure, yielding to gorgeously sunlit synths." Personnel Radiohead Colin Greenwood Jonny Greenwood Ed O'Brien Philip Selway Thom Yorke Additional personnel Nigel Godrich production, engineering, mixing Gerard Navarro production assistance, additional engineering Graeme Stewart additional engineering Certifications References ' Radiohead songs 2000 songs Song recordings produced by Nigel Godrich Songs written by Thom Yorke Songs written by Colin Greenwood Songs written by Jonny Greenwood Songs written by Philip Selway Songs written by Ed O'Brien Songs about depression Post-rock songs