Trivia / Amnesiac

• Creator Breakdown: Both this album and Kid A (recorded during the same sessions) were heavily influenced by the nervous breakdown frontman Thom Yorke suffered as a result of the sudden burst in popularity that the success of OK Computer brought about, which led to an extensive and unyielding promotion campaign and a wave of emerging imitation acts, both of which eventually left the band burnt out. The progression of this breakdown is documented in the 1998 documentary Meeting People is Easy.
• Cut Song: The track "Cuttooth" was intended to be included on the album, only to be pulled off at the last minute for reasons still not known. The song would ultimately surface as a B-side on the single release of "Knives Out", while the lyrics to its chorus were recycled for "Myxomatosis" off their next album Hail to the Thief.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The blips for this album have yet to be made officially available; while the Kid A blips are free to watch in omnibus format via the Radiohead Public Library, the Amnesiac blips are still relegated to unauthorized uploads by fans on YouTube and other video-sharing sites (and in much lower quality compared to the official 720p upload of the Kid A blips).
• Refitted for Sequel:
  • The reversed backing track for "Like Spinning Plates" came from an early version of "I Will", which the band ditched for sounding too stereotypically Krautrock; the song would later be revisited on the band's next album, rearranged for acoustic guitar. Likewise, the backing to "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" was crafted from an attempt at recording "True Love Waits" in an electronica-style, which finally appeared fifteen years later as a minimalist piano-based arrangement on A Moon Shaped Pool.
  • To an extent, the entire album can be regarded as this, being made up of songs that were recorded for Kid A but were cut from the tracklist following the decision to cut it down from a double album to a single CD.
• What Could Have Been: Kid A and Amnesiac were originally recorded as a single double album; however, the band later decided to split their double-CD effort into two separate albums, released 7 months apart from one another, out of a concern that a double album would be too dense. Word of God states that "they cancel each other out as overall finished things. They come from two different places, I think ... In some weird way I think Amnesiac gives another take on Kid A, a form of explanation." As a nod to this, the pair were given a simultaneous anniversary reissue as part of the Kid A Mnesia set, alongside a third disc of studio outtakes.
• Working Title: "Egyptian's Song" for "Pyramid Song".

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