30 years of Radiohead’s “Creep”
September 21, 2022
Radiohead released their first single, “Creep” 30 years ago today, in 1992.
At first it was a flop. BBC Radio considered it “too depressing” to play on the air. So the song didn’t belong in their home country, until it started getting played in other parts of the world — in Israel, Spain, Australia — and eventually the world realized that Radiohead is special …
Radiohead long refused to play “Creep” in concert, but here’s a live performance from 2006:
Last year Thom Yorke released a remix of “Creep,” slowed way down to make it 9 minutes long. A YouTube commenter says: “Feels like Thom just wanted all of us to know the endless pain and agony of playing Creep again and again.”
And now, here’s a revelatory reinvention: “Vintage Postmodern Jukebox” version by Haley Reinhart (see YouTube for info on the musicians)
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