Editing Amnesiac (album) (section)

==Music and lyrics==
''Amnesiac'' was described as [[experimental rock]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2001/06/03/test-patterns-2/ | title=Test patterns | website=[[Chicago Tribune]] | date=3 June 2001 | access-date=12 November 2013 | author=Kot, Greg | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112140648/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-06-03/news/0106030465_1_thom-yorke-band-experiment | archive-date=12 November 2013 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> [[electronica]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/bv3n | title=Radiohead Amnesiac Review | publisher=BBC Music | access-date=20 February 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925112342/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/bv3n | archive-date=25 September 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and [[alternative rock]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.stereogum.com/718782/amnesiac-turns-10-hear-covers-of-every-track/top-stories/lead-story/ | title=Amnesiac Turns 10! Hear Covers of Every Track&nbsp;... | website=[[Stereogum]] | date=3 June 2011 | access-date=12 November 2013 | author=Lapatine, Scott | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112140824/http://www.stereogum.com/718782/amnesiac-turns-10-hear-covers-of-every-track/top-stories/lead-story/ | archive-date=12 November 2013 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> with elements of jazz.<ref name="Kornhaber-2021">{{cite web|last=Kornhaber|first=Spencer|date=4 June 2021|title=The 2001 album that captured modern dread|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/06/radiohead-amnesiac-best-album-20-years/619099/|access-date=4 June 2021|website=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref> [[Simon Reynolds]] described it as [[post-rock]].<ref name="REYNOLDS" /> Colin Greenwood said it contained "traditional Radiohead-type songs" alongside more experimental work,<ref name="MTV2">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1440923/radioheads-amnesiac-fills-in-kid-a-picture/|title=Radiohead's Amnesiac Fills in ''Kid A'' Picture|last=vanHorn|first=Teri|date=23 February 2001|publisher=[[MTV]]|access-date=14 July 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716002738/http://www.mtv.com/news/1440923/radioheads-amnesiac-fills-in-kid-a-picture/|archive-date=16 July 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and said that in both albums "the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures".<ref name="culturelab" /> ''[[The Atlantic]]'' contrasted ''Amnesiac'' with "the surgical glint" of ''Kid A'', with "swampy and foggy" arrangements and "uneasy" chords and rhythms.<ref name="Kornhaber-2021" /> ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' wrote that, whereas ''Kid A'' sounded futuristic, ''Amnesiac'' references music that predates rock, particularly the work of jazz musicians such as [[Miles Davis]], [[Charles Mingus|Charlie Mingus]] and [[Chet Baker]].<ref name="Dalton-20162">{{Cite web |last=Dalton |first=Stephen |date=August 2011 |title=Radiohead: 'We were spitting and fighting and crying...' |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/radiohead-we-were-spitting-and-fighting-and-crying-73254/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318062952/https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/radiohead-we-were-spitting-and-fighting-and-crying-73254/ |archive-date=18 March 2023 |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>

The first track, "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box", is an electronic song with synthesisers and metallic percussion.<ref name="Kornhaber-2021" /> "[[Pyramid Song]]", a [[Swing (jazz performance style)|swung]] ballad with piano and strings,<ref name="Kornhaber-2021" /> was inspired by the Mingus song "Freedom".<ref name="KENT">{{cite web|website=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |date=June 2001 |access-date=27 March 2012 |title=Happy now? |last=Kent |first=Nick |url=http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2001&cutting=121 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206154836/https://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2001&cutting=121 |archive-date=6 February 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> Its lyrics were inspired by an exhibition of ancient [[Duat|Egyptian underworld]] art Yorke attended while the band was recording in Copenhagen<ref name="KCRW" /> and ideas of cyclical time discussed by [[Stephen Hawking]] and [[Buddhism]].<ref name="KCRW" /> "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" is an abrasive electronic track.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Krueger |first=Jonah |date=2024-10-30 |title=''Amnesiac'' is the key to Radiohead's discography: album review |url=https://consequence.net/2024/10/radiohead-amnesiac-album-review/2/ |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

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Yorke said "You and Whose Army?" was "about someone who is elected into power by people and who then blatantly betrays them – just like [[Tony Blair|Blair]] did".<ref name="KENT" /> The song builds slowly on piano, before reaching a climax in the final minute. According to O'Brien, "In the Radiohead of old, on ''OK Computer'', that break would have lasted four minutes. We would have carried on '[[Hey Jude]]'-style."<ref name="rolling_stone" />

"I Might Be Wrong" combines a "venomous" guitar [[riff]] with a "trance-like metallic beat". Colin Greenwood's bassline was inspired by the [[Chic (band)|Chic]] bassist [[Bernard Edwards]].<ref name="KENT" /> The lyrics were influenced by advice given to Yorke by his partner, [[Rachel Owen]]: "Be proud of what you've done. Don't look back and just carry on like nothing's happened. Just let the bad stuff go."<ref name="KENT" /> "[[Knives Out (song)|Knives Out]]", described as the most conventional song,<ref name=":1">{{cite news |last=Merryweather |first=David |date=24 July 2001 |title=Single review: Radiohead – 'Knives Out' |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/5182/reviews/1723- |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508033751/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/5182/reviews/1723- |archive-date=8 May 2019 |access-date=2018-08-10 |work=[[Drowned in Sound]]}}</ref> features "drifting" guitar lines, "driving" percussion, a "wandering" bassline, "haunting" vocals and "eerie" lyrics.<ref>{{cite news|date=7 October 2010|title=Tricks or Treats: Radiohead – "Knives Out"|work=Consequence of Sound|url=https://consequence.net/2010/10/tricks-or-treats-radiohead-knives-out/|access-date=10 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810111414/https://consequence.net/2010/10/tricks-or-treats-radiohead-knives-out/|archive-date=10 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

"Morning Bell/Amnesiac" is an alternative version of "Morning Bell" from ''Kid A''; ''The Atlantic'' described it as a blend of "cosiness and nausea".<ref name="Kornhaber-2021" /> O'Brien said that Radiohead often record and abandon different versions of songs, but that this version was "strong enough to bear hearing again".<ref>"Planet Sound", [[Channel 4]] [[Teletext]], 19 May 2001</ref> Yorke wrote that it was included "because it came from such a different place ... Because we only found it again by accident after having forgotten about it. Because it sounds like a recurring dream."<ref name="spingrin">{{cite web |url=http://www.spinwithagrin.com/answer.asp?show=all|title=Spin With a Grin | publisher=[[Radiohead]] |access-date=1 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030215175803/http://www.spinwithagrin.com/answer.asp?show=all|archive-date=15 February 2003 }}</ref> He said the lyrics for "Dollars and Cents" were "gibberish", but were inspired by the notion that "people are basically just pixels on a screen, unknowingly serving this higher power which is manipulative and destructive".<ref name="KENT" />

[[File:Ondes martenot.jpg|thumb|300px|Jonny Greenwood used the [[ondes Martenot]], an early electronic instrument. Its resonating ''palme diffuseur'' loudspeaker (pictured centre) was used to treat the vocals on "You and Whose Army?".]]

"Hunting Bears" is a short instrumental on electric guitar and synthesiser.<ref name="Letts2010">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3HSuhm6DRGgC&pg=PA167|title=Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album: How to Disappear Completely|date=8 November 2010|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-00491-8|pages=156–167|author=Marianne Tatom Letts|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226222209/https://books.google.com/books?id=3HSuhm6DRGgC&pg=PA167|archive-date=26 December 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> "Life in a Glasshouse" features the Humphrey Lyttelton Band playing in the style of a New Orleans [[jazz funeral]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The chairman – Humphrey Lyttelton|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue/interviews/humph_transcript2.shtml|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=31 January 2001|access-date=1 April 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414233610/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue/interviews/humph_transcript2.shtml|archive-date=14 April 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref> According to Lyttelton, the song starts with "ad-libbed, bluesy, minor-key meandering, then it gradually gets so that we're sort of playing real wild, primitive, [[New Orleans blues]] stuff".<ref name="LYTTELTON" /> The lyrics were inspired by a news story Yorke read of a celebrity's wife so harassed by paparazzi that she papered her windows with their photographs.<ref name="KENT" />