I was warned off Radiohead because I was struggling with depression and their music was considered ‘too depressing’ by a lot of people. What I found when listening to them was familiarity and belonging. I found that by letting the emotion in, I was better able to allow my emotions out, which was ultimately the healthiest thing I could do. Metal helped me let go of my anger, Radiohead helped me let go of my sadness. I still struggle to this day. I expect I will tomorrow, and each day after. But with Artists like Radiohead helping me to process my emotions, the burden is lighter. Thank You Radiohead, and Thank You Elizabeth, for sharing your love of music, your knowledge, understanding and for helping me to increase my appreciation of this most wonderful Art.
I’m in the same position. I’m sorry you deal with this too. I’ve never delved into Radiohead. Where should I start? Which album is the best introduction to the band and Thom? All the best to you. Keep turning to music! I do.
Absolutely. I think Radiohead are cathartic. They allow us to feel our deepest sadness, but also offer a some softness and beauty in their music like a little glimmer of hope.
"Creep" is one of the few songs Bob Dylan once said that he is so glad that Radiohead wrote this fantastic piece of art and that it became one of his all time favourite.
Elizabeth, I had no idea you were such a super fan of Radio Head!!! I don't think I've ever seen you so introspective and emotional over a song before. It's really beautiful and well deserved. This song brings out emotions in me that I didn't even know I had lol. Thom Yorke is just the king of emoting when he sings. He can really get under your skin.
Thank you! They've had a place in my heart for so long, and I really didn't expect people to truly just crave my analysis over any "shocker" moments most videos have. This is inspiring!
@@TheCharismaticVoice I speak for myself, but I watch you because I just love your reactions and analysis! No need for it to be a new song. Today I actually felt like I got to know you a little bit more and I love that! Inspiring indeed!!!
@@TheCharismaticVoice I can't speak for anyone else, but I've heard almost every song you've analyzed prior to watching your video. Sometimes seeing your brain explode in disbelief and awe at a moment I was waiting for is the fun part. But most of the time, it's the way your analysis emphasizes something that brings new or specific appreciation to the timbre, style, composition, or technique in the song. Connecting this to Radiohead, and hoping to hear much more, their albums are some of the few that I can go back and listen and find something I hadn't noticed before even after literal dozens of full playthroughs - sometimes it's a synth line that only comes in on one verse and is never heard again, or a low rumbling bass note that was too low for conventional means of listening and only came out after adding a sub woofer to my desk. I can't wait to hear you unpack even more layers I've missed!
I’m one of those guys who, if something is too popular, I won’t give it a shot. I know, I’m getting better about it. But here I am, in my early 50s and I’m finally getting around to loving Radiohead.
Which is ironic, because the band HATES fame and will actively sabotage themselves if they feel they become too popular, making the next album almost inaccessible in being experimental.
Kudos to you for still having an open mind about music. I put Radiohead up there with bands like the Beatles and Pink Floyd, I think they're that great and the spiritual successors to the Beatles. They both really started to change their sound after the first couple of albums and I love how much their music evolved but the bands kept their unique identity regardless of how different the sound was.
I was the same in my younger years ... Madonna, U2, Michael Jackson are the ones I remember the most... but internally I liked them all, just refused to admit it at the time.
I’ve always been on the fence about Radiohead BUT,this version of Creep took me back to some of the most amazing & also most upsetting times in my life - and I really embrace it all. Thank you so much for covering this one for us.❤ I wrote this about halfway through the video…here at the end I’m not ashamed to say I’ve goosebumps & tears in my eyes….all in a good way ❤
When you're a teenager and listen to this song the first time, it really hits inside your soul like no other song could ever reach. When I was 13 years old and listened to this on MTV for the first time I felt like that was myself singing instead of Tom, because all the pain and hurt that this song represents just matched every single word from what was feeling at that time in my life. And I think I wasn't alone at this situation... I believe thousands and thousands of people felt the same way as I did. This is insane...
Radiohead’s In Rainbows album has a special place in my heart because it really helped me get through a tough time after receiving a medical diagnosis that changed my life. It’s a beautiful, ethereal and somber reflection on life and death to me and helped me with my grief. My favorite song is Nude, I think it’s such an emotional, beautiful, haunting song.
That's the album I listened to all the time after my wife died suddenly at 48, it helped snap me out of shock and finally grieve normally. I'm forever grateful to them for that and I hate when people say all their music is depressing, there's almost always some hope mixed in there someplace. A lot of depressed people have posted about how Radiohead was a real blessing during times of crisis and their "go to" band to calm down use their coping skills.
I love this song, and while there are countless covers, none have impacted me as much as the one Pau, the drummer from The Warning, did as an Instagram challenge. Fans chose a song, and a few hours later, she posted an incredible cover of "Creep," performed on their slightly out-of-tune home piano. She perfectly conveys the emotion of the song with her amazing voice and piano playing.
I agree!! Pau did an amazing cover of this on piano! Is there anything The Warning cannot do? I just saw them covering "You Outta Know" by Alanis Morissette. Incredible! But their own music live is the best.
This song was the anthem for the rejected and invisible people of the '90s. It's a timeless song, there will always be unrequited love and this song expresses it beautifully. Also, everything about this song is imperfect, which is exactly what makes it perfect. It exactly mirrors the emotion of the song.
See, I disagree somewhat about this version. I always find this version a little disappointing, which is to some degree unfair as it's own thing. And it's an ambiguity, an imperfection, that is missing compared to the original. The original to me invokes an infactuation and yearning for the subject, but also an angst, an anger, even a degree of contempt. It's not simply the lyrics, but in a big part it's the lyrics. I think it just tends to be much harder to get that emotion into the lyric "you're so very special" compared to "you're so fucking special" which has that ambiguity, that jealously, that contempt already built in. It's a challenge to sneer your way through the line "you're so very special"! Moreso in some of the cover versions that with Thom himself, I find it often takes a conflicted, bittersweet, human song and ends up creating a saccharine, twee serenade. They'll have some pain in the yearning, sure, but not the almost spiteful edge. Fine if you like that sort of thing, but a very different beast. To me, it's kind of a bit like how cover versions of 'Hallelujah' can often end up being one-dimensionally earnest compared to Cohen's redition in which sincerity and sarcasm manage to coexist, and which is much more real and interesting!
I was always requesting radiohead and i just thought i was being ignored. Now i know why you haven't done any songs before. I'm honestly happy to know you love them as much as i do. IN RAINBOWS is my favorite album, but my favorite song is PYRAMID SONG. Thanks for playing some Radiohead.
I have a distinctive memory of feeling so overwhelmed with life I was almost frozen, I couldn’t cry I just was existing- then one night I went outside and sat under the stars and put on OK Computer and Thom’s voice hit so deep that by No Suprises I was sobbing - he helped me to feel what I needed to and what I was avoiding - for that I am forever grateful.. and whenever I am struggling I know I have that judgement-free place I can go 🥰
For all the reasons Elizabeth loves Thom Yorke's voice... These are the reasons those of us who love Nick Cave love his voice. He shares so much emotion through his voice. I dare anyone to listen to "The Weeping Song" without, well, weeping.... Or falling in love again through "Are You the One I've Been Waiting For" The only difference is Nick's voice is so much cleaner. The man grew up IDIALIZING the legendary Johnny Cash and it shows. I know how much she will just fall in love with Nick once she hears him. Well, hears him again. Nick's music is in sooooo many movies, including Harry Potter.
Always adored Creep. The Radiohead song that makes me well up every damn time is "Exit Music (For A Film)". I know it was written for Romeo And Juliet, but to me feels like it's a mother and child trying to get away from an abusive husband/father, and breaks my heart every time. Thom said that it "was the first performance we'd ever recorded where every note of it made my head spin-something I was proud of, something I could turn up really, really loud and not wince at any moment."
I’m obsessed with acoustic sets too!! There is definitely something about acoustic versions of songs. More emotional, stripped down, and imo more vulnerable. It often cuts more than studio versions I have found. Idk this acoustic version was a thing, so thank you so much for sharing this analysis!!! ❤
I'm 41 years old and grew up with the likes of Radiohead, R.E.M., Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Pixies, Mudhoney, Staind, Linkin Park, and others. In the early 90s, I started wearing black eyeliner, black lipstick, black fingernail polish, fishnet long-sleeved shirts, long hair, flannels, and I was viewed as a "creep" and "weirdo." I have memories of the negative behaviors others showed towards me. So, when I listen to this song, as well as other songs from Radiohead and other bands on the list I gave, it takes me back to those times and shows me how much I have grown through the years and how I took those negative behaviors from others and helped those who have been on both sides of that behavior. Music is such a strong outlet. Like you have said in many of your reactions in the grunge/post-grunge/metal eras, it's about the emotion rather than the "correct pitch." It unlocks the emotions the listener is feeling. Thank you so much for your reactions and analysis of this genre. I've watched many of them...multiple times! You and your husband both have a great rest of y'all's day!!!
Basically the last Radiohead song I was hoping you’d analyze but still pumped to see my favorite band on the channel! Fake Plastic Trees next PLEASE! 😁🤘
So pleased you've finally got to Radiohead and the emotive genius that is Thom Yorke but picking the song for many fans is like choosing between your children. My personal favourites are the ethereal "Street Spirit" or "Pyramid Song" or the rollercoaster ride of "Paranoid Android" but you could choose almost any of the suggestions here and you will please many but not all Radiohead fans.
Yeah, High and Dry is obvious from the beginning and thus radio friendly but still with a listen as are Ava Max's dance tunes or Taytay's pop, personally, I am not ready for FTTPS.
This was beautifully introspective on your part, and I'm grateful for it. It's totally cool to see you react this way to music. I remember seeing the video for this song too many times to count while watching MTV during breaks from school when it first came out. Awesome analysis as always. *high-fives*
I was a headbanger in high school when this came out and I was NOT interested in "popular" music. THEN years later, on a day in 2001 I heard a little song called Pyramid Song. That day my life changed. I have been obsessed with everything Radiohead and Thom Yorke since. I knew you were a fan of Radiohead and that's why you didn't feature them. I AM SO HAPPY THAT YOU FINALLY HAVE!! Please continue to feature Thom and exposing more people to Radiohead! Made my damn day.
I love the way Thom happily overdrives his voice into a place where it would normally be "fixed" in production or producer would insist on a retake, but they keep it in, because it adds to the angst, which is after all what it's all about....
Thank you for that one. I’ve been silently sitting here in my couch, with a tear in my eye, reliving some of my favorite music in the whole world when I was in my late teens. It was, and still is, so pure emotion as you so eloquently put it. Daring to be all emotion, and doing it so beautifully.
The Bends is an underrated album. Love that you also appreciate Fake Plastic Trees! 90’s was my high school days so all these Grunge bands were my jam! Love all your vocal breakdowns!
I'm glad you did this version. I've never heard it. I always see the live version, (which I think might be the official video?) This was really cool. I could picture the whole thing. And as always, you say so many interesting things.
This was the most emotionally impactful entry you have made yet. The way you related this to your teenage self really spoke to me in a way that nobody has in years, particularly the "ugly inner stuff". The specific lines that visibly punch you straight in the feels take me on the same flashbacks as you. (🎶I don't care if it hurts...🎶) You inspired me to share this song (acoustic version ❤) and your analysis with my 13 y/o son, who is going through some heartache atm. (I will let you know how it goes...) You make it so relatable in a way I wish I had when I was this age, 29 years ago. Your insight that how we may feel like a creep/weirdo that doesn't belong here connects you to everyone else relating to this song, not isolate you from everyone else, is particularly meaningful/impactful. Thank you. P.S: Extra props to your S/O for bringing you "extra refreshments" during this review of what is clearly an immensely important song (landmark?) in your teenage life. He knows what is up.
Thom Yorke sings one of two ways at any given time, ‘perfect’ or ‘perfectly imperfect’. I don’t even know if it’s intentional or if he’s the lightning rod for emotion, but I do know he is a genius. It’s why they’re the greatest band of all time.
You're spot on... Thom intentionally sings off pitch for emotion and to play around I think. He can sing perfectly all the time, but it's boring to him.
First reactions are their own level of wonderful of course. But sprinkling in a few familiar-tunes-to-you, helps us to know you better too, which is wonderful too! More Radiohead like "Fake Plastic Trees" would be great to explore such an iconic vocalist like Thom Yorke. I would be remiss if I also didn't recommend a Marillion song that this one brings to mind musically and stylistically, if not lyrically called: "The Hollow Man". The version from "With Friends From The Orchestra" really shows off Steve Hogarth's ability to emote in such a genuine and intimate way.
Radiohead did cite Marillion as one of their influences. Steve Hogarth brings it home in a similar way. This reaction made me think of Marillion's acoustic version of Wrapped Up In Time, which just breaks my heart
so pleased you're such a big Radiohead fan. I stumbled across your channel and have been fascinated as I'm also a huge fan of heavy music(especially SOAD) and also classically trained as a pianist so the juxtaposition of raw rock music and technical analysis really hits home for me.Thom Yorke's voice is ethereal and otherworldly and this particular song is iconic and just connects with so many people. amazing as ever. keep up the good work. Also love the facial expressions when something connects with you emotionally.
I discovered Radiohead when Pablo Honey came out. Creep was the gateway song to an underrated debut album. The Bends is what cemented their greatness in my mind, and I’ve been amazed with how they have evolved. One of the greatest bands EVAH!
LOVE THIS! Radiohead is amazing! Such an awesome breadth of sounds and songs! I really dig your reactions and excitement around checking out music! Fun learning stuff too!
I wouldn’t do a live version. Whilst it’s great, you don’t get the full impact of the vocal harmonies. It’s like Bohemian Rhapsody live; it’s just not as it was intended to be heard.
She does voice though and honestly Exit Music for a Film shows Thom's range in such a stunningly beautiful written piece of music. I think his work on that piece is exquisite. I can't think of a modern singer that can do the things that Thom does with the authenticity he does it with.
Well, there is a stunning live version! Not by Radiohead though. Pau from The Warning, sitting at an old out of tune piano and recorded on an iPhone. Staggering performance.
I love this song, and the acoustic version is even more beautiful. Thanks for covering this! Also love "Fake Plastic Trees". This version was after a major hospital stay and my twins and I processing that.
Dear Elizabeth, Thank you very much for this one. I have had a really hard period of my life, and I am better now, and all the emotions you are talking about, it really speak to me. Thanks, and all the best to you.
The analysis is a walk down memory lane for me as well. The recalling of losing yourself in someone else reminds of the Depeche Mode song, "It's only when I lose myself in someone else, that I find myself." Much thanks for your continuing vocal analysis in all things musical!
I bought Pablo Honey, liked it, never 'loved' it, but liked it enough to buy The Bends on day of release, as soon as Fake Plastic Trees finished, on first listen, I knew this band were something... else. They went on to become IMO the best band since The Beatles and Pink Floyd, nobody has a discography to match theirs, 9 albums and every one of them different from the others, never repeating, always pushing their music forward and in many directions.
You mentioned all of the things in that song and performance that touch me deeply in exactly the ways and for these reasons. You exactly voiced it right for me. I now appreciate the song even more. Thanks 😘
I suggest you react to Mimi and Josy, the winners of The Voice Kids Germany covering Creep, specially the Blind Audition. It's the ultimate Creep cover...
Thank you for this one, Elizabeth! Thank you for your words! I'm glad to know, you are a radiohead fan, too. One of the best bands out there. Wow, this must be my lucky day! Two of my favorite singers! My suggestion for the next Radiohead Song : Exit music ( theme for a movie) or Street Spirit
too many times, Tracy kept saying I need to love her mind but that was the catch 22 since she never had time to talk. I think she knew I was not worthy. It goes back but forward, including the goddess that inspired my pseudonym.
When I felt really isolated and alone, Radiohead were kinda like a beacon of recognition, that helped a lot. But also, so completely beautiful, all at the same time. Tom York is amazing, the raw energy he puts in to his songs is so rare. I love that guy!
Fully aware this channel is focused on voice, I still think you missed by not doing the studio version. The emotion in his voice is the same, as you listen to a troubled soul singing along with a beautiful melody and great chords. But when the guitars come in like a bolt of lightning and represent the anger, fear, and resentment that's taking so much effort to control and keep inside - it's the most pure, primal music about teenage angst I've ever heard. Sweet melody - sweet, sometimes emotionally breaking voice - and then a jagged, discordant sledgehammer of sound absolutely takes this to another level. The first time I heard that, it was more than goosebumps. More like a 110v surge directly to the spine.
I am grateful that you feel those emotions listening to the studio version, and that's the one that resonates with you. I'll admit, my husband did the prep document for this video and had the studio version on there... and I decided to make the switch because the acoustic hits me a little bit differently. It was my decision to make that switch. I'm sure if I did the studio, some folks would tell me I missed the mark and should have done the acoustic, or a live version. I do the best I can. There's precident for me doing multiple versions of something, so I may come back to "Creep". I truly love Radiohead, and if enough people petitioned, I'd absolutely do another version.
@TheCharismaticVoice I'm glad you love Radiohead and did this song. But as far as which version is more emotive, I'll have to agree to disagree. Cheers. 🫡
As someone that did not hear radiohead till WAY later than my angsty youth, I can tell you that this song does bring back the memories of those heartbroken desparate years. It expresses that time when we thought that romantic perfection was acheivable, just not by us. It was a moment that so many of us have experienced. Just as Hi Ren is timeless to those that share that pain, this song is "timeless" in the same way, the year, century, doesnt matter, This is a moment in life.
I feel like this song is one of those songs which all good singers need to try their hand at. Singers who cover this song and do it well are much higher up on my list. Pau from The Warning and Iron Mouse are two such singers.
This might be too late after you uploaded, but Radiohead was everything to me. I’ve loved them all my life! OK Computer and In Rainbows are my favorites. When they toured on The Bends in 1995 or 1996 I saw them in Minneapolis at First Avenue. When the show was over Thom York came out of the front of the club and was steps away from me. My friend and I ran up to him and proclaimed our love and he ducked into his tour bus. I’m embarrassed now because I know he has anxiety and probably didn’t like it, but I was 15 and my manners weren’t quite together yet. 😂
This song was an anthem for me and my friends and kids like us in the 90s. The way he sings it is so perfect for the lyrics and the chords are just right too. There are times in life when you just feel so out of place and weird. I just remember the first time I heard this song when I was in high school I was just blown away. I showed it to everybody and I bet I listened to it like 500 times that first year lol. Even today it takes me back to those long lazy summers and crazy school years trying to avoid the "cool kids" and be left alone. Thank God I had my "weird" friend group or I don't know how I would've coped lol. I'm so different now than I was back then and my kids probably wouldn't believe me about how much I can relate to this song.
the ability to tap into that old bardic gift to make the singer/listener Feel The Song, is embodied in this song. my introduction was shortly after the album dropped. thanks random cd club of the time.
That was super nice, and a version I never heard before. Speaking of versions, please have a listen to "Pau from The Warning" sing this on her family Upright Piano, for an online challenge. She had 4 hours to learn and perform a song chose by the online community, and she nails it as only she can do. Oh, and she was still a Minor at the time. 💓
This is definitely a great song. Loved the breakdown that you did Elizabeth 😊 Pau from The Warning does a very emotional cover of this song that I think you would find heartbreaking. Hope you get to check it out one day. Keep up the great work 👍🏻
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I never appreciated Radiohead when I was younger. I always saw it as just depressing music. Now I understand the music and lyrics so much more. They're absolutely amazing.
Great song, offers something for us creeps and weirdos everywhere. The feeling of not belonging and alienation while at the same time adoring someone else is so real (for some of us at least). Been a fan since 1995.
Her appreciation for Dave Grohl will only go up! He played the drums on what is considered perhaps their greatest masterpiece album, 'Songs for the Deaf', as he was kind of in between things and still getting Foo Fighters together & off the ground when he joined Queens of the Stone Age as an official "honorary" member for the album's studio entire recording and played many shows with them afterward. He called them the greatest rock and roll band on Earth for a period of several years, during that time. The studio version of 'No One Knows' from the album is one of the great masterpieces of the genre.
"Creep"? Paulina from The Warning could say sth about it since she did great cover of that song, but I`m here because of other band: would You consider reacting to one of "Freeze the Fall" songs? It`s very cool young (three teenagers) band from Canada with their first EP and they already have couple decent songs ("Glitch", "Daughters of Witches" or "One Left Standing"). Who knows, You may like it. :)
Ahhh, memories of 10th grade flooding back. Also, can't wait to hear all the criticism for not using the "Pablo Honey" studio, or radio single versions. Who cares? This one has a cleaner Thom York vocal for E to absorb.
It is not real, if you ever did sound engineering it is a real as AI. You record and record over and over, it is an amalgam that does not exist, it is an illusion. You will never hear it that way from them again.
Love Radiohead and your analysis was amazing. What Radiohead was/is to you is what Blue October and Justin Furstenfeld was/is to me. You need to do Blue October! Don't care what song but "Fear" is a good place to start. Love your stuff and keep it up!
For those into DCI, Bluecoats did Creep as part of their show a while back. As part of warmups, they have a clip of the brass line singing their parts. th-cam.com/video/O2IPPszCstE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9e8zvazI0zOsNnnj
Saw Thom play his solo show in Auckland on Friday - what an artist! He did an acoustic version of 'Fake Plastic Trees' that was awesome, and finished with a soulful rendition of 'Lucky'. The visual effects were fantastic too. Recommend :) If you're looking for emotional punch, I can't listen to 'Codex' from 'King of Limbs' without tears in my eyes; such a simple song, but so beautiful. 'Dawn Chorus' from 'Anima' is another one.
Thank you for this one.... I had the fortune to hear this song when it first aired out on MTV back in the day.... I was a teenager, angry and lost in love...man, it hit me hard and I still love it to the core, sort of like you felt through this video. Also, honorary thanks to your husband for making you whatever you were drinking... made you all introspective, cheers!
Elizabeth thanks for sharing this reaction that very personal and evokes so much emotion for you. your vulnerability and expression was so genuine and honestly took my breath away. thank you!
Hey, if she ever need a LONGER video she can do "Live Lounge Allstars - Times Like These BBC Radio 1 Stay Home Live" It has a lot of singers, just try not to laugh at Taylor Hawkins and his lava lamp (Made In Chicago under the "L") I have been to the factory many times. I was so tempted to buy their Infinity Mirror prototype so many times.
I remember "creep" being huge on the radio and tv. My first experience with an album of theirs was when The Bends came out. I loved the whole album front to back. Radiohead played KNDD's Endfest in August of 1997. I was so excited to see them perform, hoping to hear songs like "fake plastic trees", "street spirit" and "creep"....But Radiohead had just released OK Computer, and I hadn't heard that yet. So instead, i got songs like "airbag", "talk show host" and "paranoid android". I remember being disappointed by the set. To this day, I have never seen them live again. They are the last of my "white whales" of bands i want to see before I'm done seeking out concerts to attend. I'll be sure to be familiar with their most recent album whenever they decide to tour the west coast of the United States again. Excellent vocal analysis, thank you so much for doing things like this!
I like acoustic versions of songs. But, I was slightly hoping that you would react to one of their live versions. Nonetheless, thank you for doing this reaction.
I was listenning to NWA and PE in the preceeding years and discovered the Cure around the same time. Started discovering some outstanding Brits like the Stone Roses The Cult and rolling Stones. I was in highschool when I first heard Creep. Sugar filled the whole of my body and hormones a mess. I'd just broken up with a girl two years above me (I had no idea back then), self doubt and self imposed ostracization were darkly inviting . Then like a bolt from the blue I heard Johnnys jarring riffs and Thoms amazing voice and perfectly broken lyrics hooked me. My Favourite album was the BENDS and a B side Acoustic album ITCH were my most prized possessions. Killer Cars, Thinking about you and the first acoustic version of Creep were on my selected repeats. I cannot express my thanks for your content. And for reminding me that we are all together but alone under the banners of music, art and love.
You need to hear Pau of The Warning's rendition of Creep! It happened during that time in 2020, sung as an instagram challenge while playing on the family's upright piano. Magnificent, and let the video play all the way through!
I went to Radiohead's Oxford gig back in 2001. I wasn't expecting them to perform Creep as that point they hadn't performed it for a couple of years. Seeing Thom hit the "Run" part was something else. I hope you analyse Pyramid Song next, the time signature is weird/complex. I have a musical composer friend who tried to figure it out, but it's eluded her (she has perfect pitch and synaesthesia).
Wow! I've never heard this version and I agree, it's better in a lot of ways. I'll be learning these chords (probably the same) and strum patterns as soon as I'm finished here. Also, I didn't know about the direct biological connection between vocals and emotion. This explains a LOT to me. Apparently that connection is strong in me. I've been a musician since the mid 70's and there are some songs I literally cannot perform live because I begin crying and my vocals go to shit. It doesn't matter how many times I play it, the emotion will not go away. The thing is, i'm not an emotional guy when not playing music. My bandmates used to make fun of me for this weakness and I never understood why it was happening. I want to look into this further. For me, this is one of your best videos as I, for once, learned something I didn't already know or have expanded information on. There was more benefit for me with a song you have already heard as opposed to the ones you haven't. All I can say is, Awesome! and Thank you!
Oh, the feels! I have loved this song since I first heard it (KUKQ, Phoenix AZ - courtesy of our DJ Larry Mac - now with KLPX Tucson ;). I was 17/18 yo. You just connected the line between Tom's and Maynard's voices that I couldn't put my finger on. Thank you for helping me find even more things to love in music.
Your next video should be Pau (the DRUMMER) from The Warning covering this song after practicing only 4 hours on a slightly out of tune piano. Do NOT cut offf the very end! Extremely RAW performance, as it should be.
Love your honesty/transparency on previous exposure to requests. I wonder as to whether you are aware of the reaction channel VirginRock. Personally I believe a collaborative reaction from the pair of you would be beneficial to all 3 parties exposed to such a beast. 2 passionate and erudite women with elite skillsets in their particular fields imparting knowledge as to why we common physical labourers react so strongly to music would (I hope) be a force to be reckoned with. Thank you for articulating why songs/ music is so influential on my mental well-being.
I was warned off Radiohead because I was struggling with depression and their music was considered ‘too depressing’ by a lot of people.
What I found when listening to them was familiarity and belonging. I found that by letting the emotion in, I was better able to allow my emotions out, which was ultimately the healthiest thing I could do. Metal helped me let go of my anger, Radiohead helped me let go of my sadness.
I still struggle to this day. I expect I will tomorrow, and each day after. But with Artists like Radiohead helping me to process my emotions, the burden is lighter.
Thank You Radiohead, and Thank You Elizabeth, for sharing your love of music, your knowledge, understanding and for helping me to increase my appreciation of this most wonderful Art.
I’m in the same position. I’m sorry you deal with this too. I’ve never delved into Radiohead. Where should I start? Which album is the best introduction to the band and Thom? All the best to you. Keep turning to music! I do.
👏👏 I’m with brother 👏👏😊
Indeed, well said
Interesting and insightful. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely. I think Radiohead are cathartic. They allow us to feel our deepest sadness, but also offer a some softness and beauty in their music like a little glimmer of hope.
"Creep" is one of the few songs Bob Dylan once said that he is so glad that Radiohead wrote this fantastic piece of art and that it became one of his all time favourite.
Any song that Prince chooses to cover is golden.
@@onlylooksitalian Prince is FA
Elizabeth, I had no idea you were such a super fan of Radio Head!!! I don't think I've ever seen you so introspective and emotional over a song before. It's really beautiful and well deserved. This song brings out emotions in me that I didn't even know I had lol. Thom Yorke is just the king of emoting when he sings. He can really get under your skin.
Thank you! They've had a place in my heart for so long, and I really didn't expect people to truly just crave my analysis over any "shocker" moments most videos have. This is inspiring!
@@TheCharismaticVoice I speak for myself, but I watch you because I just love your reactions and analysis! No need for it to be a new song. Today I actually felt like I got to know you a little bit more and I love that! Inspiring indeed!!!
@@TheCharismaticVoice I can't speak for anyone else, but I've heard almost every song you've analyzed prior to watching your video. Sometimes seeing your brain explode in disbelief and awe at a moment I was waiting for is the fun part. But most of the time, it's the way your analysis emphasizes something that brings new or specific appreciation to the timbre, style, composition, or technique in the song. Connecting this to Radiohead, and hoping to hear much more, their albums are some of the few that I can go back and listen and find something I hadn't noticed before even after literal dozens of full playthroughs - sometimes it's a synth line that only comes in on one verse and is never heard again, or a low rumbling bass note that was too low for conventional means of listening and only came out after adding a sub woofer to my desk. I can't wait to hear you unpack even more layers I've missed!
Pleaaaaaase pretty please do everything in its right place !!!!
It is Radiohead, one word, though :)
Love Radiohead so much. For me, Street Spirit (Fade Out) is the pinnacle of musical expression
I’m one of those guys who, if something is too popular, I won’t give it a shot. I know, I’m getting better about it. But here I am, in my early 50s and I’m finally getting around to loving Radiohead.
Which is ironic, because the band HATES fame and will actively sabotage themselves if they feel they become too popular, making the next album almost inaccessible in being experimental.
Kudos to you for still having an open mind about music. I put Radiohead up there with bands like the Beatles and Pink Floyd, I think they're that great and the spiritual successors to the Beatles. They both really started to change their sound after the first couple of albums and I love how much their music evolved but the bands kept their unique identity regardless of how different the sound was.
It's never too late
As long as you found it! Gen X is here ❤
I was the same in my younger years ... Madonna, U2, Michael Jackson are the ones I remember the most... but internally I liked them all, just refused to admit it at the time.
I’ve always been on the fence about Radiohead BUT,this version of Creep took me back to some of the most amazing & also most upsetting times in my life - and I really embrace it all. Thank you so much for covering this one for us.❤
I wrote this about halfway through the video…here at the end I’m not ashamed to say I’ve goosebumps & tears in my eyes….all in a good way ❤
When you're a teenager and listen to this song the first time, it really hits inside your soul like no other song could ever reach. When I was 13 years old and listened to this on MTV for the first time I felt like that was myself singing instead of Tom, because all the pain and hurt that this song represents just matched every single word from what was feeling at that time in my life. And I think I wasn't alone at this situation... I believe thousands and thousands of people felt the same way as I did.
This is insane...
Radiohead’s In Rainbows album has a special place in my heart because it really helped me get through a tough time after receiving a medical diagnosis that changed my life. It’s a beautiful, ethereal and somber reflection on life and death to me and helped me with my grief. My favorite song is Nude, I think it’s such an emotional, beautiful, haunting song.
That's the album I listened to all the time after my wife died suddenly at 48, it helped snap me out of shock and finally grieve normally. I'm forever grateful to them for that and I hate when people say all their music is depressing, there's almost always some hope mixed in there someplace. A lot of depressed people have posted about how Radiohead was a real blessing during times of crisis and their "go to" band to calm down use their coping skills.
In Rainbows is my favourite album by them, and it isnt even close.
I'd love for her to go through the entire basement session of In Rainbows. So so so good and entirely live.
@@buddhamack1491 Such an awesome performance that, I watch it regularly.
@@jameshannagan4256 Fully agree. Very sorry for your loss too brother and glad this helped somewhat ❤
Fake Plastic Trees needs to be the next Radiohead analysis.
That would be fantastic!
Followed by Street Spirit.
Totally agree.
Yep. "Fake plastic trees" and "street spirit " I'm almost more intrigued with "SS" than "FPT."
Almost.
There’s also a good cover of it by Holly Humberstone
I love this song, and while there are countless covers, none have impacted me as much as the one Pau, the drummer from The Warning, did as an Instagram challenge. Fans chose a song, and a few hours later, she posted an incredible cover of "Creep," performed on their slightly out-of-tune home piano. She perfectly conveys the emotion of the song with her amazing voice and piano playing.
I agree!! Pau did an amazing cover of this on piano! Is there anything The Warning cannot do? I just saw them covering "You Outta Know" by Alanis Morissette. Incredible! But their own music live is the best.
Agree, Pau's cover is awesome. It's a must. This needs to be thumbed up more
@@thontor very true, such an emotional performance - easily a tear jerker!
Thanks for posting this, never heard it but it's an amazing cover. Also a band I hadn't heard of so thanks for getting me into them too!
This song was the anthem for the rejected and invisible people of the '90s. It's a timeless song, there will always be unrequited love and this song expresses it beautifully.
Also, everything about this song is imperfect, which is exactly what makes it perfect. It exactly mirrors the emotion of the song.
Yup. Listened to it constantly in High School.
See, I disagree somewhat about this version. I always find this version a little disappointing, which is to some degree unfair as it's own thing.
And it's an ambiguity, an imperfection, that is missing compared to the original. The original to me invokes an infactuation and yearning for the subject, but also an angst, an anger, even a degree of contempt. It's not simply the lyrics, but in a big part it's the lyrics. I think it just tends to be much harder to get that emotion into the lyric "you're so very special" compared to "you're so fucking special" which has that ambiguity, that jealously, that contempt already built in. It's a challenge to sneer your way through the line "you're so very special"!
Moreso in some of the cover versions that with Thom himself, I find it often takes a conflicted, bittersweet, human song and ends up creating a saccharine, twee serenade. They'll have some pain in the yearning, sure, but not the almost spiteful edge. Fine if you like that sort of thing, but a very different beast.
To me, it's kind of a bit like how cover versions of 'Hallelujah' can often end up being one-dimensionally earnest compared to Cohen's redition in which sincerity and sarcasm manage to coexist, and which is much more real and interesting!
@zak3744 Amern. I agree with you especially regarding Cohen. His version of Hallelujah will never be equaled.
It works well as an anthem for the rejected and invisible of any era. I was bornin in the '50s and can completely relate.
I can remember listening to this in 1993, when I was going through a tough time, after moving to Germany, from the UK.
I was always requesting radiohead and i just thought i was being ignored. Now i know why you haven't done any songs before. I'm honestly happy to know you love them as much as i do. IN RAINBOWS is my favorite album, but my favorite song is PYRAMID SONG. Thanks for playing some Radiohead.
Who's here for when Thom belts "run"?
Goosebumps and tears still after 30 years
Chrissie Hynde's cover blows away original
Yes lol I am
@@genemedrea907 As much as I love Chrissie (and that cover) I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree there! 🙂
For real I was not expecting for Thom to be such an Great Singer by every word I hear him sing in this song.
I have a distinctive memory of feeling so overwhelmed with life I was almost frozen, I couldn’t cry I just was existing- then one night I went outside and sat under the stars and put on OK Computer and Thom’s voice hit so deep that by No Suprises I was sobbing - he helped me to feel what I needed to and what I was avoiding - for that I am forever grateful.. and whenever I am struggling I know I have that judgement-free place I can go 🥰
For all the reasons Elizabeth loves Thom Yorke's voice... These are the reasons those of us who love Nick Cave love his voice. He shares so much emotion through his voice. I dare anyone to listen to "The Weeping Song" without, well, weeping.... Or falling in love again through "Are You the One I've Been Waiting For" The only difference is Nick's voice is so much cleaner. The man grew up IDIALIZING the legendary Johnny Cash and it shows. I know how much she will just fall in love with Nick once she hears him. Well, hears him again. Nick's music is in sooooo many movies, including Harry Potter.
Always adored Creep. The Radiohead song that makes me well up every damn time is "Exit Music (For A Film)". I know it was written for Romeo And Juliet, but to me feels like it's a mother and child trying to get away from an abusive husband/father, and breaks my heart every time.
Thom said that it "was the first performance we'd ever recorded where every note of it made my head spin-something I was proud of, something I could turn up really, really loud and not wince at any moment."
Yes yes yes!!!! This song is so intense and beautiful and painful and mourning and just ALL the feels!!!!!
@@ashleyguffington5706 I'd challenge anyone to truly listen to the lyrics of the song and not well up!
Wow! Never thought of it that way. Ooof. :( Thank you.
I always feels it like that as well.
Exit Music is a masterpiece 🔥
I’m obsessed with acoustic sets too!! There is definitely something about acoustic versions of songs. More emotional, stripped down, and imo more vulnerable. It often cuts more than studio versions I have found. Idk this acoustic version was a thing, so thank you so much for sharing this analysis!!! ❤
I'm definitely here for when you analyse How To Disappear Completely. The song that Thom Yorke has called the most beatiful song he's ever written.
I'm 41 years old and grew up with the likes of Radiohead, R.E.M., Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Pixies, Mudhoney, Staind, Linkin Park, and others. In the early 90s, I started wearing black eyeliner, black lipstick, black fingernail polish, fishnet long-sleeved shirts, long hair, flannels, and I was viewed as a "creep" and "weirdo." I have memories of the negative behaviors others showed towards me. So, when I listen to this song, as well as other songs from Radiohead and other bands on the list I gave, it takes me back to those times and shows me how much I have grown through the years and how I took those negative behaviors from others and helped those who have been on both sides of that behavior. Music is such a strong outlet. Like you have said in many of your reactions in the grunge/post-grunge/metal eras, it's about the emotion rather than the "correct pitch." It unlocks the emotions the listener is feeling. Thank you so much for your reactions and analysis of this genre. I've watched many of them...multiple times! You and your husband both have a great rest of y'all's day!!!
Basically the last Radiohead song I was hoping you’d analyze but still pumped to see my favorite band on the channel! Fake Plastic Trees next PLEASE! 😁🤘
I'm so sick of this song. Everyone picks this song and I think there are way more interesting choices
So pleased you've finally got to Radiohead and the emotive genius that is Thom Yorke but picking the song for many fans is like choosing between your children. My personal favourites are the ethereal "Street Spirit" or "Pyramid Song" or the rollercoaster ride of "Paranoid Android" but you could choose almost any of the suggestions here and you will please many but not all Radiohead fans.
Yeah, High and Dry is obvious from the beginning and thus radio friendly but still with a listen as are Ava Max's dance tunes or Taytay's pop, personally, I am not ready for FTTPS.
I appreciate the emotional honesty in this video. It takes strength to put that out there. Love your work and research ❤
This was beautifully introspective on your part, and I'm grateful for it. It's totally cool to see you react this way to music. I remember seeing the video for this song too many times to count while watching MTV during breaks from school when it first came out. Awesome analysis as always. *high-fives*
I do not MTV has been irrelevant for decades. It is a pointless channel now, they might as well just show A&E reruns.
@@toriless Which is why I said that I remember it, not that the channel was still relevant.
Just so you know, you are awesome. Doesn’t matter what genre I just like to watch your analysis. Interesting, and also entertaining
I'll be so happy if you ever analyze Pyramid Song
I was a headbanger in high school when this came out and I was NOT interested in "popular" music. THEN years later, on a day in 2001 I heard a little song called Pyramid Song. That day my life changed. I have been obsessed with everything Radiohead and Thom Yorke since. I knew you were a fan of Radiohead and that's why you didn't feature them. I AM SO HAPPY THAT YOU FINALLY HAVE!! Please continue to feature Thom and exposing more people to Radiohead! Made my damn day.
I love the way Thom happily overdrives his voice into a place where it would normally be "fixed" in production or producer would insist on a retake, but they keep it in, because it adds to the angst, which is after all what it's all about....
Thank you for that one. I’ve been silently sitting here in my couch, with a tear in my eye, reliving some of my favorite music in the whole world when I was in my late teens.
It was, and still is, so pure emotion as you so eloquently put it. Daring to be all emotion, and doing it so beautifully.
The Bends is an underrated album. Love that you also appreciate Fake Plastic Trees! 90’s was my high school days so all these Grunge bands were my jam! Love all your vocal breakdowns!
The Bends is their best album. Millennials and their OK Computer...
Underrated? It’s widely regarded as a classic! Pablo Honey is underrated.
Props for listening and being a fan of Radiohead! You never struck me as a fan of one of the greatest live bands ever!
I'm glad you did this version. I've never heard it. I always see the live version, (which I think might be the official video?) This was really cool. I could picture the whole thing. And as always, you say so many interesting things.
This was the most emotionally impactful entry you have made yet. The way you related this to your teenage self really spoke to me in a way that nobody has in years, particularly the "ugly inner stuff". The specific lines that visibly punch you straight in the feels take me on the same flashbacks as you. (🎶I don't care if it hurts...🎶)
You inspired me to share this song (acoustic version ❤) and your analysis with my 13 y/o son, who is going through some heartache atm. (I will let you know how it goes...) You make it so relatable in a way I wish I had when I was this age, 29 years ago. Your insight that how we may feel like a creep/weirdo that doesn't belong here connects you to everyone else relating to this song, not isolate you from everyone else, is particularly meaningful/impactful.
Thank you.
P.S: Extra props to your S/O for bringing you "extra refreshments" during this review of what is clearly an immensely important song (landmark?) in your teenage life. He knows what is up.
Thom Yorke sings one of two ways at any given time, ‘perfect’ or ‘perfectly imperfect’. I don’t even know if it’s intentional or if he’s the lightning rod for emotion, but I do know he is a genius. It’s why they’re the greatest band of all time.
You're spot on... Thom intentionally sings off pitch for emotion and to play around I think. He can sing perfectly all the time, but it's boring to him.
First reactions are their own level of wonderful of course. But sprinkling in a few familiar-tunes-to-you, helps us to know you better too, which is wonderful too! More Radiohead like "Fake Plastic Trees" would be great to explore such an iconic vocalist like Thom Yorke. I would be remiss if I also didn't recommend a Marillion song that this one brings to mind musically and stylistically, if not lyrically called: "The Hollow Man". The version from "With Friends From The Orchestra" really shows off Steve Hogarth's ability to emote in such a genuine and intimate way.
I totally agree! Would love some muse analysis as well! I would love to hear her insight on Matt Bellamy!
Radiohead did cite Marillion as one of their influences. Steve Hogarth brings it home in a similar way. This reaction made me think of Marillion's acoustic version of Wrapped Up In Time, which just breaks my heart
@@elizaconroy2737 Yes! Matt is another of those singers who can bring the deep feels out of you. My favourite kind!
@@pcart2785 These singers don't "perform" as much as they bare their souls and make it feel it's especially for you. So intimate and moving.
so pleased you're such a big Radiohead fan. I stumbled across your channel and have been fascinated as I'm also a huge fan of heavy music(especially SOAD) and also classically trained as a pianist so the juxtaposition of raw rock music and technical analysis really hits home for me.Thom Yorke's voice is ethereal and otherworldly and this particular song is iconic and just connects with so many people. amazing as ever. keep up the good work. Also love the facial expressions when something connects with you emotionally.
I discovered Radiohead when Pablo Honey came out. Creep was the gateway song to an underrated debut album. The Bends is what cemented their greatness in my mind, and I’ve been amazed with how they have evolved. One of the greatest bands EVAH!
LOVE THIS! Radiohead is amazing! Such an awesome breadth of sounds and songs! I really dig your reactions and excitement around checking out music! Fun learning stuff too!
How to Disappear Completely should be next
The way you describe Radiohead's role in your memories totally resonates with me. This is the perfect song to capture teen angst.
Finally, Radiohead! We need some Paranoid Android, preferably the BBC Later Live version. Please and thank you.
This
I wouldn’t do a live version. Whilst it’s great, you don’t get the full impact of the vocal harmonies. It’s like Bohemian Rhapsody live; it’s just not as it was intended to be heard.
She does voice though and honestly Exit Music for a Film shows Thom's range in such a stunningly beautiful written piece of music. I think his work on that piece is exquisite. I can't think of a modern singer that can do the things that Thom does with the authenticity he does it with.
Well, there is a stunning live version! Not by Radiohead though. Pau from The Warning, sitting at an old out of tune piano and recorded on an iPhone. Staggering performance.
The live version doesn't capture the grand and intricate feeling of the studio version well, this song doesn't really work live imo
I love this song, and the acoustic version is even more beautiful. Thanks for covering this! Also love "Fake Plastic Trees". This version was after a major hospital stay and my twins and I processing that.
Weird Fishes or Reckoner from the Basement live sessions would be amazing :)
Nude or Reckoner for the people who don't know how well he can sing.
Yeeeeeeeees. Just the entire live sessions done in one sitting for a live stream.
Ok, that might be asking too much but we can dream
@@buddhamack1491followed by Idles In the Basement Session. Two massively cranked voices back-to-back
Dear Elizabeth, Thank you very much for this one. I have had a really hard period of my life, and I am better now, and all the emotions you are talking about, it really speak to me. Thanks, and all the best to you.
...so the next one to look at has to be Pau's cover of this, Pau from The Warning. It's a must.
The analysis is a walk down memory lane for me as well. The recalling of losing yourself in someone else reminds of the Depeche Mode song, "It's only when I lose myself in someone else, that I find myself." Much thanks for your continuing vocal analysis in all things musical!
Yeah, is "For a minute there
I lost myself, I lost myself
Phew, for a minute there
I lost myself, I lost myself"
Is it good or bad or ...?
I bought Pablo Honey, liked it, never 'loved' it, but liked it enough to buy The Bends on day of release, as soon as Fake Plastic Trees finished, on first listen, I knew this band were something... else.
They went on to become IMO the best band since The Beatles and Pink Floyd, nobody has a discography to match theirs, 9 albums and every one of them different from the others, never repeating, always pushing their music forward and in many directions.
Both over for over three decades
You mentioned all of the things in that song and performance that touch me deeply in exactly the ways and for these reasons. You exactly voiced it right for me. I now appreciate the song even more. Thanks 😘
I suggest you react to Mimi and Josy, the winners of The Voice Kids Germany covering Creep, specially the Blind Audition. It's the ultimate Creep cover...
Thank you for this one, Elizabeth! Thank you for your words! I'm glad to know, you are a radiohead fan, too. One of the best bands out there. Wow, this must be my lucky day! Two of my favorite singers! My suggestion for the next Radiohead Song : Exit music ( theme for a movie) or Street Spirit
The anthem for all us guys out there that worshipped a girl from afar because we didn't feel we were good enough for her.
too many times, Tracy kept saying I need to love her mind but that was the catch 22 since she never had time to talk. I think she knew I was not worthy. It goes back but forward, including the goddess that inspired my pseudonym.
When I felt really isolated and alone, Radiohead were kinda like a beacon of recognition, that helped a lot. But also, so completely beautiful, all at the same time. Tom York is amazing, the raw energy he puts in to his songs is so rare. I love that guy!
I like this Radiohead song and look forward to the review
Radiohead's "Creep" is such a powerful song. And music's ability to pull old feelings from our depths up, simply amazing. Great review.
Fully aware this channel is focused on voice, I still think you missed by not doing the studio version. The emotion in his voice is the same, as you listen to a troubled soul singing along with a beautiful melody and great chords. But when the guitars come in like a bolt of lightning and represent the anger, fear, and resentment that's taking so much effort to control and keep inside - it's the most pure, primal music about teenage angst I've ever heard. Sweet melody - sweet, sometimes emotionally breaking voice - and then a jagged, discordant sledgehammer of sound absolutely takes this to another level. The first time I heard that, it was more than goosebumps. More like a 110v surge directly to the spine.
Agreed. I was disappointed that it was the acoustic version ☹️
This version seems like he's trying to hard to be off. Where the studio version has so much more emotion.
I am grateful that you feel those emotions listening to the studio version, and that's the one that resonates with you. I'll admit, my husband did the prep document for this video and had the studio version on there... and I decided to make the switch because the acoustic hits me a little bit differently. It was my decision to make that switch.
I'm sure if I did the studio, some folks would tell me I missed the mark and should have done the acoustic, or a live version. I do the best I can.
There's precident for me doing multiple versions of something, so I may come back to "Creep". I truly love Radiohead, and if enough people petitioned, I'd absolutely do another version.
@TheCharismaticVoice I'm glad you love Radiohead and did this song. But as far as which version is more emotive, I'll have to agree to disagree.
Cheers. 🫡
@@TheCharismaticVoice can’t please everybody. I love this song but I’ve never even heard this version and now I love it. Cheers
As someone that did not hear radiohead till WAY later than my angsty youth, I can tell you that this song does bring back the memories of those heartbroken desparate years. It expresses that time when we thought that romantic perfection was acheivable, just not by us. It was a moment that so many of us have experienced. Just as Hi Ren is timeless to those that share that pain, this song is "timeless" in the same way, the year, century, doesnt matter, This is a moment in life.
I feel like this song is one of those songs which all good singers need to try their hand at. Singers who cover this song and do it well are much higher up on my list. Pau from The Warning and Iron Mouse are two such singers.
This might be too late after you uploaded, but Radiohead was everything to me. I’ve loved them all my life! OK Computer and In Rainbows are my favorites.
When they toured on The Bends in 1995 or 1996 I saw them in Minneapolis at First Avenue. When the show was over Thom York came out of the front of the club and was steps away from me. My friend and I ran up to him and proclaimed our love and he ducked into his tour bus. I’m embarrassed now because I know he has anxiety and probably didn’t like it, but I was 15 and my manners weren’t quite together yet. 😂
This song was an anthem for me and my friends and kids like us in the 90s. The way he sings it is so perfect for the lyrics and the chords are just right too. There are times in life when you just feel so out of place and weird. I just remember the first time I heard this song when I was in high school I was just blown away. I showed it to everybody and I bet I listened to it like 500 times that first year lol. Even today it takes me back to those long lazy summers and crazy school years trying to avoid the "cool kids" and be left alone. Thank God I had my "weird" friend group or I don't know how I would've coped lol. I'm so different now than I was back then and my kids probably wouldn't believe me about how much I can relate to this song.
When was Freaks and Geeks on TV. You might know.
Thanks!
I only recently found out he's singing "weirdo". I could never figure it out and had to look it up. Now I can't unhear it!
What else did you hear in its place? I’ve always heard “weirdo”
@@ST62382 Agreed, It is not like "burn" in Alicia Witt's More, I was guessing at that one for years. Bird? Burr? Bored ?
Honestly, I couldn’t say. Lyrics aren’t high on my music listening hierarchy so I kinda just went “Wea Wea ea” and moved on…
the ability to tap into that old bardic gift to make the singer/listener Feel The Song, is embodied in this song. my introduction was shortly after the album dropped. thanks random cd club of the time.
That was super nice, and a version I never heard before. Speaking of versions, please have a listen to "Pau from The Warning" sing this on her family Upright Piano, for an online challenge. She had 4 hours to learn and perform a song chose by the online community, and she nails it as only she can do. Oh, and she was still a Minor at the time. 💓
This is definitely a great song. Loved the breakdown that you did Elizabeth 😊 Pau from The Warning does a very emotional cover of this song that I think you would find heartbreaking. Hope you get to check it out one day. Keep up the great work 👍🏻
You should check out Thom Yorke’s collaboration with PJ Harvey, “This Mess We’re In.”
PJ! PJ! PJ!
PJ Harvey - You Said Something
PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan
PJ Harvey - The Dress
PJ Harvey - The Darker Days of Me And Him
PJ Harvey - Angeline
PJ Harvey is a bit crazy, might as well pick Tricky
@@toriless I’d pick Massive Attack first.
Radiohead is one of my favourite bands of all time and OK Computer is in my top 5 albums. Great video as always
I never appreciated Radiohead when I was younger. I always saw it as just depressing music. Now I understand the music and lyrics so much more. They're absolutely amazing.
Then avoid all Billie Eilish, her songs are sad and MANY of her videos disturbing ...
Great song, offers something for us creeps and weirdos everywhere. The feeling of not belonging and alienation while at the same time adoring someone else is so real (for some of us at least). Been a fan since 1995.
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Yes!!!! She really needs to do a reaction to them!
I would prefer she analyze Them Crooked Vultures. That's Josh Homme's best work in my opinion.
Her appreciation for Dave Grohl will only go up! He played the drums on what is considered perhaps their greatest masterpiece album, 'Songs for the Deaf', as he was kind of in between things and still getting Foo Fighters together & off the ground when he joined Queens of the Stone Age as an official "honorary" member for the album's studio entire recording and played many shows with them afterward.
He called them the greatest rock and roll band on Earth for a period of several years, during that time.
The studio version of 'No One Knows' from the album is one of the great masterpieces of the genre.
This is my favorite version too. Glad you picked this one.
Worth checking out the Haley Reinhart cover of this song. Glorious and unique!
Chrissie Hynde's cover is also fabulous
@@TroggyTrog Elizabeth had a review of her!
@TroggyTrog She covered the PMJ w/ Haley version a while ago already, as well as the covers of Seven Nation Army and All About That Bass.
It’s the slower pace of this version that makes it more powerful when you said it I suddenly clicked I understood why I enjoy this one more too
"Creep"? Paulina from The Warning could say sth about it since she did great cover of that song, but I`m here because of other band: would You consider reacting to one of "Freeze the Fall" songs? It`s very cool young (three teenagers) band from Canada with their first EP and they already have couple decent songs ("Glitch", "Daughters of Witches" or "One Left Standing"). Who knows, You may like it. :)
The return of the Halloween intro & outro! Great work, Kirk!
I'd also definitely recommend checking out Pau from The Warning's piano cover of Creep, it it absolutely amazing!
When I discovered Radiohead, I became absolutely obsessed. I gave my life to Radiohead, basically, for at least 3 years. It remains a deep love.
Ahhh, memories of 10th grade flooding back. Also, can't wait to hear all the criticism for not using the "Pablo Honey" studio, or radio single versions. Who cares? This one has a cleaner Thom York vocal for E to absorb.
It is not real, if you ever did sound engineering it is a real as AI. You record and record over and over, it is an amalgam that does not exist, it is an illusion. You will never hear it that way from them again.
Love Radiohead and your analysis was amazing. What Radiohead was/is to you is what Blue October and Justin Furstenfeld was/is to me. You need to do Blue October! Don't care what song but "Fear" is a good place to start. Love your stuff and keep it up!
For those into DCI, Bluecoats did Creep as part of their show a while back. As part of warmups, they have a clip of the brass line singing their parts.
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Any DCI reference gets a thumbs up. And, yes, the Bluecoats version was amazing!
Saw Thom play his solo show in Auckland on Friday - what an artist! He did an acoustic version of 'Fake Plastic Trees' that was awesome, and finished with a soulful rendition of 'Lucky'. The visual effects were fantastic too. Recommend :)
If you're looking for emotional punch, I can't listen to 'Codex' from 'King of Limbs' without tears in my eyes; such a simple song, but so beautiful. 'Dawn Chorus' from 'Anima' is another one.
You need to do Cake- going the distance. Cake is a band that is humourous in its lyrics and memorable in its base lines and horn section
While I enjoy Cake, not sure his vocals deserve much analysis...
Hard agree
Yeah, but that are responsible for the long line of cars. Can I forgive that even they love madly.
Certainly would love some Cake coverage, but Distance wouldn't make my top 10 requests.
@@burningpuppy476 Wow.
Thank you for this one.... I had the fortune to hear this song when it first aired out on MTV back in the day.... I was a teenager, angry and lost in love...man, it hit me hard and I still love it to the core, sort of like you felt through this video. Also, honorary thanks to your husband for making you whatever you were drinking... made you all introspective, cheers!
Please checkout Paulina from the Warning’s cover of this while playing the piano. Wow
Elizabeth thanks for sharing this reaction that very personal and evokes so much emotion for you. your vulnerability and expression was so genuine and honestly took my breath away. thank you!
THANK YOU for presenting the acoustic version!
Hey, if she ever need a LONGER video she can do "Live Lounge Allstars - Times Like These BBC Radio 1 Stay Home Live" It has a lot of singers, just try not to laugh at Taylor Hawkins and his lava lamp (Made In Chicago under the "L") I have been to the factory many times. I was so tempted to buy their Infinity Mirror prototype so many times.
I remember "creep" being huge on the radio and tv. My first experience with an album of theirs was when The Bends came out. I loved the whole album front to back.
Radiohead played KNDD's Endfest in August of 1997. I was so excited to see them perform, hoping to hear songs like "fake plastic trees", "street spirit" and "creep"....But Radiohead had just released OK Computer, and I hadn't heard that yet. So instead, i got songs like "airbag", "talk show host" and "paranoid android". I remember being disappointed by the set.
To this day, I have never seen them live again. They are the last of my "white whales" of bands i want to see before I'm done seeking out concerts to attend. I'll be sure to be familiar with their most recent album whenever they decide to tour the west coast of the United States again.
Excellent vocal analysis, thank you so much for doing things like this!
I like acoustic versions of songs. But, I was slightly hoping that you would react to one of their live versions. Nonetheless, thank you for doing this reaction.
i was hoping too , specialy this one : th-cam.com/video/US0CUegPr3g/w-d-xo.html
@Mve_be Yup. Thom doesn’t hold anything back. He just lets it all out.
I was listenning to NWA and PE in the preceeding years and discovered the Cure around the same time. Started discovering some outstanding Brits like the Stone Roses The Cult and rolling Stones. I was in highschool when I first heard Creep. Sugar filled the whole of my body and hormones a mess. I'd just broken up with a girl two years above me (I had no idea back then), self doubt and self imposed ostracization were darkly inviting . Then like a bolt from the blue I heard Johnnys jarring riffs and Thoms amazing voice and perfectly broken lyrics hooked me. My Favourite album was the BENDS and a B side Acoustic album ITCH were my most prized possessions. Killer Cars, Thinking about you and the first acoustic version of Creep were on my selected repeats. I cannot express my thanks for your content. And for reminding me that we are all together but alone under the banners of music, art and love.
You need to hear Pau of The Warning's rendition of Creep! It happened during that time in 2020, sung as an instagram challenge while playing on the family's upright piano. Magnificent, and let the video play all the way through!
yep. relive the angst through an actual teenager learning it for the first time.
I went to Radiohead's Oxford gig back in 2001. I wasn't expecting them to perform Creep as that point they hadn't performed it for
a couple of years. Seeing Thom hit the "Run" part was something else. I hope you analyse Pyramid Song next, the time signature is weird/complex.
I have a musical composer friend who tried to figure it out, but it's eluded her (she has perfect pitch and synaesthesia).
I Love Pau's version from The Warning
I agree that's my favorite cover of this song. It's so raw and unfiltered and Pau is so good at conveying the emotion of the song with her voice.
I wholeheartedly agree with you! Goosebumps and ninjas cutting onions!
As a big Radiohead fan and a TW fan I can only concur. Pau's rendition is something special.
Absolutely agree! Pau's cover is a must, Come on Elizabeth, you wont be disappointed.
Wow! I've never heard this version and I agree, it's better in a lot of ways. I'll be learning these chords (probably the same) and strum patterns as soon as I'm finished here. Also, I didn't know about the direct biological connection between vocals and emotion. This explains a LOT to me. Apparently that connection is strong in me. I've been a musician since the mid 70's and there are some songs I literally cannot perform live because I begin crying and my vocals go to shit. It doesn't matter how many times I play it, the emotion will not go away. The thing is, i'm not an emotional guy when not playing music. My bandmates used to make fun of me for this weakness and I never understood why it was happening. I want to look into this further. For me, this is one of your best videos as I, for once, learned something I didn't already know or have expanded information on. There was more benefit for me with a song you have already heard as opposed to the ones you haven't. All I can say is, Awesome! and Thank you!
No surprises, it’s so short but so complex
Oh, the feels! I have loved this song since I first heard it (KUKQ, Phoenix AZ - courtesy of our DJ Larry Mac - now with KLPX Tucson ;). I was 17/18 yo.
You just connected the line between Tom's and Maynard's voices that I couldn't put my finger on. Thank you for helping me find even more things to love in music.
CREEP > CREEP also The Sundays analysis pleaseeeee 😓
I love the Sundays! Second that suggestion!
Pyramid Song is an astounding Thom Yorke performance. Strange, off-kilter beat, beautiful falsetto - just lovely.
Please check out The Warning Dust To Dust / Dull Knives live at The Pepsi Center, it will blow your mind.
Yes! Elizabeth, you need to hear Pau's voice!!!
Thank you so much for choosing the acoustic version. It’s so much better.
Your next video should be Pau (the DRUMMER) from The Warning covering this song after practicing only 4 hours on a slightly out of tune piano. Do NOT cut offf the very end! Extremely RAW performance, as it should be.
Love your honesty/transparency on previous exposure to requests. I wonder as to whether you are aware of the reaction channel VirginRock. Personally I believe a collaborative reaction from the pair of you would be beneficial to all 3 parties exposed to such a beast. 2 passionate and erudite women with elite skillsets in their particular fields imparting knowledge as to why we common physical labourers react so strongly to music would (I hope) be a force to be reckoned with. Thank you for articulating why songs/ music is so influential on my mental well-being.