10 Perfect Rock Songs That Musicians Hate
7. Creep - Radiohead
If you were to take the Radiohead of right now and compare them to their old selves in the '90s, it would be like night and day. Ever since the turn of the century, every single Radiohead release had felt like its own separate creative endeavor, like the subtle ambience in Kid A or the classical influences going on in an album like a Moon Shaped Pool. So how do you take a band like that and convince them to go back into post grunge territory?
That's not to say that Creep is a bad song by any stretch. If anything, it's what helped Radiohead get their foot in the door, making for a humungous chorus and a lyric that seemed to fit right in during the outsider scene of the early '90s. As the years go by though, Thom Yorke has described the song as horrible and has done everything he can so he wouldn't have to play it at gigs.
When you see the journey that the band have gone on though, you can kind of see what he's talking about. At a time when you're making some of the most off the wall music you can, seeing this subtle reminder of your former self might just feel like looking at old baby pictures. You don't have to run from your past, but you sure as hell don't want to live in it either.