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"Just" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, included on their second album, The Bends (1995). It features an angular guitar riff played by Jonny Greenwood , inspired by the band Magazine . It was released as a single on 21 August 1995 and reached number 19 on the UK singles chart .
Much of "Just" was written by Greenwood, who, according to Yorke, "was trying to get as many chords as he could into a song". [11] Not satisfied with the versions of " My Iron Lung " recorded at RAK, Radiohead used a live recording from the London Astoria , with Yorke's vocals replaced and the audience removed.
The song begins with a discordant string harmony, [77] then a strummed D ninth chord acoustic guitar played by Yorke, [78] backed by B ♭ string tunes, creating a dissonant noise that moves between the D major and F ♯ minor chords. [77] O'Brien used guitar reverbs and delay effects, creating a melody that sinks between the A and E chords. [78]
Greenwood's major writing contributions to Radiohead include "Just" (which Yorke described as "a competition by me and Jonny to get as many chords as possible into a song"); "My Iron Lung", co-written with Yorke, [135] from The Bends (1995); "The Tourist" and the "rain down" bridge of "Paranoid Android" from OK Computer (1997); [16] the vocal ...
Abingdon School, where the band formed. The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, a private school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. [2] The guitarist and singer Thom Yorke and the bassist Colin Greenwood were in the same year; the guitarist Ed O'Brien was one year above, and the drummer Philip Selway was in the year above O'Brien. [3]
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The lyrics were inspired by the stress felt by the singer, Thom Yorke, while promoting Radiohead's album OK Computer (1997). Yorke wrote "Everything in Its Right Place" on piano. Radiohead worked on it in a conventional band arrangement before transferring it to synthesiser, and described it as a breakthrough in the album recording.