10 More Songs That Are Huge Outliers On Rock Albums
1. Creep - Radiohead (Pablo Honey)
A common theory amongst Radiohead fans is that the English band didn’t really get started until their second album, 1995’s The Bends. This means that 1993’s Pablo Honey often gets ignored, which is mad, because it features their biggest ever song.
Creep is the second track on the album and remains their biggest seller. It is a soaring anthem for the undervalued, unappreciated, and self-deprecating, so it’s easy to see why it made such a big impact in the mid-90s.
Everyone hated themselves back then.
Unfortunately, success is a double-edged sword, and Radiohead became conscious of being defined by Creep. As a result, not only does it not sound like anything else on Pablo Honey, the band have deliberately gone out of their way to never make anything else like it ever again.
Radiohead’s frosty relationship with this song is one of the most famous examples of a band rejecting their biggest hit, but they have warmed to it a bit more in recent years. Even so, they’ve still never made another song like it and the likelihood is that they probably never will.