Inspired by the Beatles, Radiohead tried to keep the songs concise. Opening track "2 + 2 = 5" was recorded as a studio test and finished in two hours. Radiohead struggled to record "There There"; after rerecording it in their Oxfordshire studio, Yorke was so relieved to have captured the song he wept, feeling it was the band's best work. Radiohead had recorded an electronic version of "I Will" in the "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" sessions, but abandoned it as "dodgy Kraftwerk"; components of this recording were used to create "Like Spinning Plates" on "Amnesiac". For "Hail to the Thief", the band sought to "get to the core of what's good about the song" and not be distracted by production details or new sounds, settling on a stripped-back arrangement.