The Eraser (song)
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“The Eraser” | |||||
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Song by Thom Yorke | |||||
Album | The Eraser | ||||
Released | 10 July 2006 | ||||
Genre | Art rock, electronica | ||||
Length | 4:55 | ||||
Label | XL Recordings | ||||
Writer | Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood | ||||
Producer | Nigel Godrich | ||||
The Eraser track listing | |||||
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"The Eraser" is a song by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, and the first track on his 2006 album of the same name. The piano chords heard throughout the song were sampled from a recording Yorke made of Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood [1].
The song has been remixed by Ellen Allien and Stretch'n'Vern. Yorke linked from the band's blog Dead Air Space to a video of clubgoers dancing to the latter mix during a set by DJ Sasha.
In 2007, the newly-formed American hip-hop supergroup Child Rebel Soldier (CRS), consisting of Lupe Fiasco, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West, released a song called "Us Placers" which features "The Eraser" as its musical backdrop. Yorke can be heard singing the refrain "the more you try to erase me the more that I appear" between each verse. The song appeared on Can't Tell Me Nothing, an official mixtape and circulated on the Internet.