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Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for sharing the music video of Radiohead performing "Creep" in honor of the fact that on September 21, 1992, Parlophone Records released 'Creep' by Radiohead. as their debut single.
"Creep"
Lyrics
"When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so fucking special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
Oh, oh
She's running out again
She's running out
She run run run run
Run
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here"
Background on the song from songfacts.com/facts/radiohead/creep
"When asked about the song in 1993, lead singer Thom 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."
On the other hand, guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood said the song was in fact a happy song about "recognizing what you are." >>
Yorke says this is about being in love with someone, but not feeling good enough. He describes the feeling as, "There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us."
Yorke wrote this in 1987 while he was a student at Exeter University in England. He first recorded it acoustic.
This was written before the band formed. Yorke gave his demo version to Colin Greenwood, who joined him and helped put the band together.
This wasn't released in the US until Radiohead's debut album in 1993. The band finished college and signed their record deal in 1991.
Yorke based this on a song called "The Air That I Breathe," which was written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood in 1972. After "Creep" was released, Radiohead agreed to share the songwriting royalties, so this is credited to Yorke, Hammond and Hazlewood.
This did well in the US, but not in their native England. When they released their third album, O.K. Computer, Radiohead was huge in England but not in the US.
On the album version, Thom Yorke sings, "You're so f--king special." For radio, he recut it as, "You're so very special." Yorke regrets changing the line for the radio version, saying it disturbed the "sentiment of the song." According to him, the song lost its anger as a result.
According to Q magazine April 2008, the recording of this song came about as a result of producers Sean Slade and Paul Q Kolderie struggling with "Inside My Head" and "Lurgee." They remembered a track that that the band had played in rehearsal, introduced by Yorke as "our Scott Walker song." This portrait of an outsider was then recorded in one take.
The video, directed by Brett Turnbull, was recorded at a club in Oxford called The Zodiac.
One of the extras in the crowd scenes is a teenage Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet. The producer and DJ has remixed Thom Yorke and Radiohead tracks and also supported Radiohead on tour.
This is nicknamed "Crap" by the band due its slacker-anthem ubiquity.
When this was first released in England in 1992, the song flopped. It did well when it was re-released a year later, after Radiohead grew a fan base.
The three blasts of guitar noise that precede the chorus was the result of Jonny Greenwood trying to sabotage a tune he considered too "wimpy."
Yorke claims he received fan mail from "murderers" saying how much they could relate to this song.
Prince performed this at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2008. He also played Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" and The Beatles' "Come Together." >>
The song returned to the UK singles chart in August 2010 after X-Factor auditionee Hollie Burns performed it on the show.
According to the book Radiohead: Hysterical and Useless, this song was inspired by Thom's obsession with a stranger. He was infatuated with a woman who was out of his league, who he'd never met but frequently saw in bars, and he found himself following her around. When he finally got himself drunk enough to build up the courage to confess his obsession, she freaked out. >>
The first country this charted in was Israel.
Lea Michele and Dean Geyer performed this on Glee in the 2013 episode "Guilty Pleasures."
This was featured on the TV series Community in the 2014 episode "Basic Intergluteal Numismatics."
Charlotte Church cites this as the song she wished she'd written. "It's just transcended all musical boundaries," she told NME. "People who are into hip-hop or hard house or whatever like it. There's just something about that song that, no matter who you are, you're going to respond pretty positively to it - especially in a festival situation."
I was not familiar with Radiohead
Radiohead in Rainbows - From the Basement
In Rainbows 0:20 1. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
In Rainbows 5:35 2. 15 Step
In Rainbows 9:35 3. Bodysnatchers
In Rainbows 14:00 4. Nude
Hail to the Thief 18:30 5. The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths In The Cold)
Hail to the Thief 21:44 6. Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury And Executioner)
In Rainbows 25:40 7. House of Cards
In Rainbows 31:20 8. Bangers and Mash
Kid A 34:53 9. Optimistic
In Rainbows 39:50 10. Reckoner
In Rainbows 44:46 11. Videotape
Hail to the Thief 49:32 12. Where I End and You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq_a8f24UJI
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Orlando Illi Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown CMSgt (Join to see) MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro SSG David Andrews Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Charles H. Hawes SGT Mark Halmrast PO1 William "Chip" Nagel CPT Gabe SnellLTC Greg Henning
"Creep"
Lyrics
"When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so fucking special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
Oh, oh
She's running out again
She's running out
She run run run run
Run
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here"
Background on the song from songfacts.com/facts/radiohead/creep
"When asked about the song in 1993, lead singer Thom 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."
On the other hand, guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood said the song was in fact a happy song about "recognizing what you are." >>
Yorke says this is about being in love with someone, but not feeling good enough. He describes the feeling as, "There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us."
Yorke wrote this in 1987 while he was a student at Exeter University in England. He first recorded it acoustic.
This was written before the band formed. Yorke gave his demo version to Colin Greenwood, who joined him and helped put the band together.
This wasn't released in the US until Radiohead's debut album in 1993. The band finished college and signed their record deal in 1991.
Yorke based this on a song called "The Air That I Breathe," which was written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood in 1972. After "Creep" was released, Radiohead agreed to share the songwriting royalties, so this is credited to Yorke, Hammond and Hazlewood.
This did well in the US, but not in their native England. When they released their third album, O.K. Computer, Radiohead was huge in England but not in the US.
On the album version, Thom Yorke sings, "You're so f--king special." For radio, he recut it as, "You're so very special." Yorke regrets changing the line for the radio version, saying it disturbed the "sentiment of the song." According to him, the song lost its anger as a result.
According to Q magazine April 2008, the recording of this song came about as a result of producers Sean Slade and Paul Q Kolderie struggling with "Inside My Head" and "Lurgee." They remembered a track that that the band had played in rehearsal, introduced by Yorke as "our Scott Walker song." This portrait of an outsider was then recorded in one take.
The video, directed by Brett Turnbull, was recorded at a club in Oxford called The Zodiac.
One of the extras in the crowd scenes is a teenage Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet. The producer and DJ has remixed Thom Yorke and Radiohead tracks and also supported Radiohead on tour.
This is nicknamed "Crap" by the band due its slacker-anthem ubiquity.
When this was first released in England in 1992, the song flopped. It did well when it was re-released a year later, after Radiohead grew a fan base.
The three blasts of guitar noise that precede the chorus was the result of Jonny Greenwood trying to sabotage a tune he considered too "wimpy."
Yorke claims he received fan mail from "murderers" saying how much they could relate to this song.
Prince performed this at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2008. He also played Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" and The Beatles' "Come Together." >>
The song returned to the UK singles chart in August 2010 after X-Factor auditionee Hollie Burns performed it on the show.
According to the book Radiohead: Hysterical and Useless, this song was inspired by Thom's obsession with a stranger. He was infatuated with a woman who was out of his league, who he'd never met but frequently saw in bars, and he found himself following her around. When he finally got himself drunk enough to build up the courage to confess his obsession, she freaked out. >>
The first country this charted in was Israel.
Lea Michele and Dean Geyer performed this on Glee in the 2013 episode "Guilty Pleasures."
This was featured on the TV series Community in the 2014 episode "Basic Intergluteal Numismatics."
Charlotte Church cites this as the song she wished she'd written. "It's just transcended all musical boundaries," she told NME. "People who are into hip-hop or hard house or whatever like it. There's just something about that song that, no matter who you are, you're going to respond pretty positively to it - especially in a festival situation."
I was not familiar with Radiohead
Radiohead in Rainbows - From the Basement
In Rainbows 0:20 1. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
In Rainbows 5:35 2. 15 Step
In Rainbows 9:35 3. Bodysnatchers
In Rainbows 14:00 4. Nude
Hail to the Thief 18:30 5. The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths In The Cold)
Hail to the Thief 21:44 6. Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury And Executioner)
In Rainbows 25:40 7. House of Cards
In Rainbows 31:20 8. Bangers and Mash
Kid A 34:53 9. Optimistic
In Rainbows 39:50 10. Reckoner
In Rainbows 44:46 11. Videotape
Hail to the Thief 49:32 12. Where I End and You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq_a8f24UJI
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Orlando Illi Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown CMSgt (Join to see) MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro SSG David Andrews Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Charles H. Hawes SGT Mark Halmrast PO1 William "Chip" Nagel CPT Gabe SnellLTC Greg Henning
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New one for me, but perhaps by 1992 I wasn't paying as much attention to new music.
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