Creep (Radiohead song)

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"Creep"
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Original UK release
Single by Radiohead
from the album Pablo Honey
Released21 September 1992 (1992-09-21)
Recorded1992
StudioChipping Norton Recording Studios in Oxfordshire, England
Genre
Length
  • 3:56 (album version)
  • 4:01 (radio edit)
  • 3:50 (live version)
Label
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)Thom Yorke
Producer(s)
Radiohead singles chronology
"Creep"
(1992) 		"Anyone Can Play Guitar"
(1993)
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"Creep" is the debut single by English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 21 September 1992. It appeared on their debut studio album, Pablo Honey (1993).

Thom Yorke's lyrics express an obsessive, self-destructive sexual attraction. When the song moves to the chorus, Jonny Greenwood produces blasts of guitar noise. Radiohead took elements from the 1972 song "The Air That I Breathe"; following legal action, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood are credited as cowriters.

"Creep" was not initially a chart success, but achieved radio play in Israel, and became popular on American alternative rock radio. It was reissued in 1993 and became a worldwide hit, likened to alt-rock "slacker anthems" such as ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'' by Nirvana and ''Loser" by Beck.

"Creep" is atypical of the music Radiohead later became known for. The band grew weary of the song, feeling it set narrow expectations of their music, and did not perform it for several years. Though they achieved greater commercial and critical success with later albums, "Creep" remains Radiohead's most successful single. In 2021, Yorke released a remixed version with time-stretched acoustic guitar and synthesizers.

Writing and recording[]

Singer Thom Yorke wrote "Creep" while studying at Exeter University in the late 1980s.[3] Yorke said: "I wasn't very happy with the lyrics; I thought they were pretty crap."[4] Guitarist Jonny Greenwood said the song was inspired by a girl that Yorke had followed around and who unexpectedly attended a Radiohead performance.[5]

In 1992, during rehearsals for their first album, Pablo Honey, with producers Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie, Radiohead spontaneously performed "Creep". Yorke jokingly described the song as the band's "Scott Walker song", which Slade and Kolderie mistook to mean the song was a cover.[6] After some failed attempts to record other songs, Slade and Kolderie suggested Radiohead play "Creep" again. They recorded it in a single take; after the performance everyone in the room burst into applause. After Radiohead assured Kolderie that "Creep" was an original song, he called EMI to tell them to consider it as the band's first single.[7] While the recording had minimal overdubs and the band had not intended to release it, the producers were impressed.[3][8]

The middle eight originally featured a guitar solo from Greenwood. When guitarist Ed O'Brien pointed out that the chord progression was the same as the 1972 song "The Air That I Breathe", Yorke wrote a new middle eight using the same vocal melody. According to Greenwood, "It was funny to us in a way, sort of feeding something like that into [it]. It's a bit of change."[9]

The version issued for radio play replaces the line "so fucking special" with "so very special". Radiohead worried that issuing a censored version would be selling out, but decided it was acceptable since their idols Sonic Youth had done the same thing; nonetheless, Greenwood noted the British press "weren't impressed".[5] During the recording session for the censored lyrics, Kolderie convinced Yorke to rewrite the first verse, telling him he thought Yorke could do better.[10]

Composition[]

Ostinato from Radiohead's "Creep" features modal mixture, common tones between adjacent triads (B between G & B, C and G between C & Cm, see: chord letters), and an emphasis on subdominant harmony (IV = C in G major).[11]About this soundPlay (help·info)

The G–B–C–Cm chord progression is repeated throughout the song, only alternating between arpeggiated chords in the verses and last chorus and loud power chords during the first two choruses. In G major, these may be interpreted as "I–V7/vi–IV–iv".[11] According to Guy Capuzzo, the ostinato musically portrays "the song's obsessive lyrics, which depict the 'self-lacerating rage of an unsuccessful crush'." For example, the "highest pitches of the ostinato form a prominent chromatic line that 'creeps' up, then down, involving scale degrees – ♯– – ♭....[while] ascend[ing], the lyrics strain towards optimism...descend[ing], the subject sinks back into the throes of self-pity ... The guitarist's fretting hand mirrors this contour".[12] According to Guardian critic Alexis Petridis, "Creep" has an "almost complete lack of resemblance to the music [Radiohead] went on to make".[13]

When the song shifts from the verse to the chorus, Jonny Greenwood plays three blasts of guitar noise ("dead notes" played by releasing fret-hand pressure and picking the strings). Greenwood said he did this because he did not like how quiet the song was; he explained: "So I hit the guitar hard—really hard".[5] O'Brien said: "That's the sound of Jonny trying to fuck the song up. He really didn't like it the first time we played it, so he tried spoiling it. And it made the song."[14] Unimpressed by the song's outro, producers Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie suggested that Johnny Greenwood implement a piano figure.[15] During the final mix, Kolderie forgot to add the piano until the outro; however, the band approved of the result.[16]

Lyrics[]

According to Yorke, "Creep" tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks the self-confidence to face her and feels he subconsciously is her.[citation needed] When asked about "Creep" in 1993, Yorke said: "I have a real problem being a man in the '90s... Any man with any sensitivity or conscience toward the opposite sex would have a problem. To actually assert yourself in a masculine way without looking like you're in a hard-rock band is a very difficult thing to do... It comes back to the music we write, which is not effeminate, but it's not brutal in its arrogance. It is one of the things I'm always trying: to assert a sexual persona and on the other hand trying desperately to negate it."[17] Jonny Greenwood said the song was in fact a happy song about "recognising what you are".[5]

Music video[]

The "Creep" music video was filmed at the Venue, Oxford. For the video, Radiohead performed a free short concert, playing "Creep" several times. They donated proceeds from audience members to the Oxford magazine Curfew, which had covered their early work.[18]

Release[]

Having a big hit like that wasn't in the game plan. We were giddy ... The first tour we sold out, and our American tour manager was going, "You know, I’ve toured with bands who have been doing this for seven, eight years, and this isn’t usual." So it was really great on the one hand. But on the other hand we couldn't follow it up. The album had a couple of other songs that were OK, but we didn't have a body of work. We didn't know what we were doing.

—Guitarist Ed O'Brien[19]

EMI released "Creep" as a single on 21 September 1992,[20][21] when it reached number 78 on the UK Singles Chart, selling 6,000 copies.[22] BBC Radio 1 found it "too depressing" and excluded it from playlists.[23] Radiohead released the follow-up singles "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Pop Is Dead".[23] Towards the end of 1992, the Israeli DJ Yoav Kutner played "Creep" often on Israeli radio, having been introduced to the song by an EMI representative, and it became a national hit. Radiohead quickly set up tour dates in the country to capitalise on the success.[24][25]

"Creep" had similar success in New Zealand, Spain, and Scandinavia.[26] In the US, "Creep" became an underground hit in California after it was added to an alternative rock radio playlist in San Francisco.[27] A censored version was released to radio stations.[3] By mid-1993, "Creep" had become an alt-rock hit in America, a "slacker anthem" in the vein of ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'' by Nirvana and ''Loser" by Beck.[3] Radiohead were surprised by the success. Yorke told Melody Maker in 1993 that many journalists misunderstood it, asking him if it was a joke.[23] In September 1993, they performed "Creep" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, the show's first musical guests.[28]

Radiohead did not want to reissue "Creep" in the UK, but they relented following pressure from the music press, EMI and fans.[29] The 1993 reissue, released in the UK on 6 September, reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart.[30][31] The release was bolstered by a Top of the Pops performance in September, which drew criticism from the music press and artists including Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher.[5][32] In the US, "Creep" was aided by its appearance in a 1994 episode of the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head; Capitol, Radiohead's US label, used the endorsement in a marketing campaign with the slogan "Beavis and Butt-Head Say [Radiohead] Don't Suck".[33] An acoustic version of "Creep", taken from a live performance on KROQ-FM on 13 July 1993, was included on Radiohead's 1994 EP My Iron Lung.[34]

In June 2008, "Creep" re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 37 after its inclusion on Radiohead: The Best Of.[35] As of April 2019, in the UK, it was the most streamed song released in 1992, with 10.1 million streams.[36] It remains Radiohead's most successful single.[37]

Critical reception[]

Larry Flick of Billboard wrote in his review of the reissue: "Minimal cut, boosted with just a touch of noise, relies mainly on an appropriately languid, melodic vocal (which also vaults into Bono-esque falsetto range) to pull the whole thing together. A possible spinner for alternative and college radio."[38] Troy J. Augusto from Cashbox described it as a song "for all those of the post-pimple set who just can't find their way in this big ol' world. Vocalist Thom Yorke is our too-self-aware hero who won't let a little disillusionment keep him down. Song's hook is the razor-sharp guitar play that frames Yorke's gnashing of teeth."[39] Marisa Fox of Entertainment Weekly wrote that "Creep" was "the ultimate neurotic teen anthem", marrying the self-consciousness of the Smiths, the vocals and guitar of U2, and the "heavy but crunchy pop" of the Cure.[40] People called it a "startling pop song" and a "gripping descent into love’s dark regrets".[41]

According to journalist Alex Ross in 2001, "What set 'Creep' apart from the grunge of the early nineties was the grandeur of its chords—in particular, its regal turn from G major to B major. No matter how many times you hear the song, the second chord still sails beautifully out of the blue. The lyrics may be saying, 'I'm a creep,' but the music is saying, 'I am majestic.'"[42] Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote in 2001 that Creep "achieves a rare power that is both visceral and intelligent".[43] In 2007, VH1 ranked "Creep" the 31st greatest song of the 1990s.[44] In 2020, The Guardian named "Creep" the 34th greatest Radiohead song, writing: "In the end, the band’s disavowal of the song sent its credibility full circle. Nowadays, 'Creep' is a joke, but we’re all blissfully in on it."[37]

Legacy[]

Following the release of Pablo Honey, Radiohead spent two years touring in support of Belly and PJ Harvey. They performed "Creep" at every show, and came to resent it. O'Brien recalled: "We seemed to be living out the same four and a half minutes of our lives over and over again. It was incredibly stultifying."[33] Yorke told Rolling Stone in 1993: "It’s like it’s not our song any more ... It feels like we’re doing a cover."[45] During Radiohead's first American tour, audience members would scream for "Creep", then leave after it was performed.[3]

Yorke said Radiohead felt they were being judged on a single song and had to move on.[33] According to O'Brien, the success of "Creep" meant that Radiohead were not in debt to EMI, and so had more freedom on their next album, The Bends (1995).[19] John Leckie, who produced The Bends, recalled that EMI hoped for a single "even better" than "Creep" but that Radiohead "didn't even know what was good about it in the first place".[46] Radiohead wrote the Bends track "My Iron Lung" in response; it contains the lines: "This is our new song / just like the last one / a total waste of time".[33] Yorke said in 1995: "People have defined our emotional range with that one song, 'Creep'. I saw reviews of 'My Iron Lung' that said it was just like 'Creep'. When you're up against things like that, it's like: 'Fuck you.' These people are never going to listen."[47]

Singer Thom Yorke in 1998

During promotion for Radiohead's third album, OK Computer (1997), Yorke became hostile when "Creep" was mentioned in interviews and refused requests to play it, telling a Montréal audience: "Fuck off, we're tired of it."[48] He dismissed fans demanding it as "anally retarded".[48] After the tour, Radiohead did not perform it until the encore of their 2001 homecoming concert at South Park, Oxford, when an equipment failure halted a performance of another song.[49]

In a surprise move, Radiohead performed "Creep" as the opening song of their headline performance at the 2009 Reading Festival.[50] They did not perform it again until their 2016 tour for A Moon Shaped Pool, when a fan spent the majority of a concert shouting for it; Radiohead decided to play it to "see what the reaction is, just to see how it feels".[51] They performed "Creep" again during the encore of their headline performance at the Glastonbury Festival that year; according to Guardian critic Alexis Petridis, "Given Radiohead’s famously fractious relationship with their first big hit ... the performance of 'Creep' [was] greeted with something approaching astonished delight."[13]

In 2017, O'Brien said: "It's nice to play for the right reasons. People like it and want to hear it. We do err towards not playing it because you don't want it to feel like show business."[52] In the same interview, Yorke said: "It can be cool sometimes, but other times I want to stop halfway through and be like, 'Nah, this isn't happening'."[52]

2021 remix[]

In July 2021, Yorke released "Creep (Very 2021 Rmx)", a remixed version of "Creep". The remix is based on a time-stretched version of the acoustic version of "Creep", extending the track length to nine minutes, with "eerie" synthesisers.[53] Yorke contributed the remix to a show by the Japanese fashion designer Jun Takahashi, who provided artwork and an animated music video for the song.[53] Vogue described the remix as "haunting and spare",[54] and Classic Rock described it as "woozy" and "discombobulating".[55] Rolling Stone said it was a fitting track for the COVID-19 pandemic, when "a sense of time is warped and singular moments can seem both fleeting and drawn out simultaneously".[56]

Cover versions[]

In April 2008, American musician Prince covered "Creep" at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. A bootleg recording was shared online, but removed at Prince's request; after being informed of the situation in an interview, Yorke said: "Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our song."[57][58] "Creep" has also been covered by artists including Frank Bennett,[59] Postmodern Jukebox,[60] the Pretenders,[61] Kelly Clarkson,[61] Tears for Fears,[62] Arlo Parks,[63] the Scala & Kolacny Brothers,[64] R3hab,[65] Mónica Naranjo,[66] Mxmtoon[67] and Paul Gannon.[68] Actor Jim Carrey covered the song at Arlene's Grocery.[69]

Copyright infringement[]

The chord progression and melody in "Creep" is similar to that of the 1972 song "The Air That I Breathe", written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood.[70] Rondor Music, the publisher of "The Air That I Breathe", sued Radiohead, and Hammond and Hazlewood received cowriting credits and a percentage of the royalties. Hammond said Radiohead were "honest" about having reused the composition, and so the songwriters agreed to take only "a little piece" of the royalties.[71]

In January 2018, American singer Lana Del Rey said on Twitter that Radiohead were taking legal action against her for allegedly plagiarising "Creep" on her 2017 track "Get Free", and had asked for 100% of publishing royalties instead of Del Rey's offer of 40%. She denied that "Creep" had inspired "Get Free".[72] Radiohead's publisher Warner/Chappell Music confirmed it was seeking songwriting credit for "all writers" of "Creep", but denied that a lawsuit had been brought or that Radiohead had demanded 100% of royalties.[73] In March, Del Rey told an audience that "my lawsuit's over, I guess I can sing that song any time I want".[74] The writing credits for "Get Free" were not updated on the database of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.[74]

Formats and track listings[]

All tracks are written by Radiohead.[a]

Personnel[]

All credits adapted from the original release liner notes,[77] except where noted.

Radiohead[d]

Production

Artwork

  • Icon – design
  • Steve Gullick – photography
  • Maurice Burns – painting ("Craigavon Under Age Drinkers Rule")

Charts[]

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[115] Gold 35,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[116] 4× Platinum 320,000double-dagger
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[117] Gold 45,000double-dagger
Italy (FIMI)[118] 2× Platinum 100,000double-dagger
United Kingdom (BPI)[119] Platinum 600,000double-dagger

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
double-dagger Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes[]

  1. ^ Except "Creep" composed by Radiohead, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood.[75] On the liner notes of Pablo Honey, Thom Yorke is credited as the lyricist of "Creep", "Lurgee", "Prove Yourself", "Blow Out", "You" and "Vegetable".[76]
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Same tracks appear on the two sides of the cassette tape.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c The 12 and 7-inch vinyls contain two tracks on each side.
  4. ^ The band members' instruments are not credited on the liner notes; these instruments are listed based on the members' roles in the track recording process and their later live performances regardless of Yorke's use of guitar in the music video.

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