Jonny Greenwood: “‘Everything In Its Right Place’ [...] dictated how we sequenced the record, because we knew it had to be the first song, and everything just followed after it. [...] Part of the process of recording this record meant that it took us so long to get our heads together and to get into a position where we were enjoying ourselves that it was quite hard to stop and we seemed to just record song after song, and [...] we certainly had too much for one record.”
Nic Harcourt: “So you didn't want to do a double album, because...”
Jonny: “We thought about it, but there's a sort of... I don't know, there's an arrogance in them. Bands get to a stage where they think their music is worth three hours of your time, and it's not really...”
Colin Greenwood: “We’d go in for like a week, like every day from 4 o’clock through to 11 or 12, working on the tracklistings for Kid A and with all the songs that we’d recorded, desperately trying to put in the songs that are on the next album, and we just couldn’t make an order fit.”