As a teen my favourite bands did not include Radiohead. The list included the likes of The Manics, Stereophonics, Travis, Supergrass, REM and Blur. Oasis were my favourite band and I learned almost all their songs in great detail, and even had opinions on how to improve them!
My friends at school always used to say I was narrow minded with music - I liked what I liked and didn't try anything else. This was true, but someone then made me listen to OK Computer. Here was something I shouldn't have liked, and it's fair to say I didn't like it... I loved it! As soon as I had listened to this album about twenty times I went out and bought The Bends and here I discovered one of my favourite songs of all time, the insanely depressing Fade Out. It was only later at a live gig did I hear Creep for the first time.
When I bought Pablo Honey and started (as I always did with new CDs) reading the lyrics I noticed that Creep was actually the first song Radiohead had written. I was surprised mainly because I thought it was so good that only a truly experienced band could have written it.
So, as with a lot of things that I find interesting, I started doing some research on Creep. It was apparently written by the lead man, Thom Yorke after a girl came and watched them performing while he was doing a gig at the university he was at in Exeter. In fact, rumours are that Yorke started following this girl around campus, and this is where the inspiration for the song came from. Presumably this is where the lyrics "when you were here before couldn't look you in the eye" come from.
It was released in September 1992 but met very little success, selling only 6,000 copies in the UK. Radio 1 only played it twice and then removed it from it's playlist announcing that it was "too depressing". However, it become popular in the US after a radio station in San Francisco heard a copy and starting playing it. Soon, other radio stations were playing it and MTV frequently played the video. After this initial success in the US Radiohead re-released Creep and it reached number 7 in the UK Chart.
Radiohead soon began to tire of Creep though. They began not to like playing it because they found that a lot of fans would only go to their gigs to see this one song played and then they would leave. Because of this, Radiohead actually didn't perform Creep live at all during 1998 and 2001, and have only just started playing it again.
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