The Eraser (song)

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“The Eraser”
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
The Eraser
(1)
Analyse
(2)


"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.

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