It's a song.
It has a cracking guitar riff
It has no chorus to speak of
It has a lyric that is somewhat smug and condescending.
All of the above things is what made Radiohead, and what they are known for.
However, on release, it was compared, unfavourably, to "Anyone can play guitar", the eventual 'winner' of the "Worst song on Radiohead's greatest hits" 2CD set ("pop is dead" was not on that)
And yet, it was the first Rhead single I bought, on the strength of one appearance on that Johnny Vaughan "kids/current affairs" show (the like of which they do not make now, it's all "kids/Celebnews" now), where they played about three fairly dull songs which bored me to tears, and they played out the show with "Creep" at which point I went "Whoa, WTF???"
and dashed out to get it. (the next day, obv, not at 23:30 duh)
But the only available version was track 4 on "Pop is dead" so being a cheapskate and also cogniscant of the fact that I probably would not like the other tracks, bought the cassette single. Ah well, the 12" or the CD single (specially the CD single) worth a fortune now.
Still. Track one is alright...
― Mark G, Sunday, 18 January 2009 14:19 (seventeen years ago)
Is it really worth a fortune? Cor. It was OK at the time, but sits weirdly alongside what followed.
― ailsa, Sunday, 18 January 2009 14:36 (seventeen years ago)
hahahaha EMI's biggest fuck you to Radiohead to date was putting this video on the Best Of DVD collection.
― 909090909 Rivethed Brikkchin Reverk now DANZ (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 19 January 2009 03:01 (seventeen years ago)