This is a song about every guy that went to a club and didn't feel like he was good enough. Just standing on the side, looking and wondering, and then going home alone. But meanwhile, a girl there was actually waiting to be asked. The eternal tragedy of the human dance.
You didn't understand the lyrics, but it's normal with that sound pressure at the club... Tom write about a girl he liked at college with a pinch of teenage angst and that suddenly attended a Radiohead performance. Then Jonny, who was quite bored with this one, try to smash the song with the guitar distortion at full. This sound turned to be an identity trait of Creep. Trivial fact: There are some similarities between Creep and The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies. Radiohead must include them as authors in the credits.
@@oskarobit Thom Yorke actually admitted to having Based the song of the air I breath because of a law suit and the courts agreed. So they had to give the credit and Royalties. Their is several stories about the song. One is the university girl story. Another is Yorke himself saying is was a girl he kept seeing at a bar and finally getting drunk enough to approach her but only creeping her out. The other if complete rubbish, which is about a girl that kept showing up at their shows before they got famous. Either way this song can be interpreted in many different ways. So yes it can be seen as going into a bar and just not feeling good enough.
@@oskarobit yea the chord progression in the slower parts of the tune is a rip off of The Air That I Breathe by the Hollies note for note intentional or not!
As a 90s teen, songs like this and "Self Esteem" by The Offspring were really relateable at times. It's definitely about self-perception, feeling not good enough; not a "creeper" in that sense. Great breakdown, by the end you both felt the singer's pain in his words. The live version amplifies that quite a bit.
You just remind me about band name offspring. I was on a good way to forget they ever existed. You cant put those two bands together. It is like Ham and jelly. It should be against the law to put those two bands in the same sentence
Seriously, one of the best rock songs EVER recorded. The progression of it reeks of lonely desperation/frustration whilst the lyrical AND musical melody are melancholy and evocative for most human beings. It's one of THOSE songs. If that makes any sense. Hall of fame stuff right here.
As a youth, I remember feeling alienated from most everyone, and the feeling was nearly always me and them, and rarely us. I was living in what Martin Buber called an I-It orientation, merely experiencing the world and people as separate. Feeling largely like a creep. But one day a lovely lady touched me, at a record store, and I woke from my dream of separation, some call Hell. I had transcended the I-It world of experience, and entered the I-You world of relation. Unity. Love. Creep no more. Heaven. Beyond time and space and boundaries.
For me the way the song describes how he sees himself from a female perspective we could change some of the lyrics table turned on anyone feeling that there nothing special also songs like this do actually have so much meaning to everyone who knows what it feels like to be not noticed or they think there not good enough
I always interpreted this as a guy who felt unworthy to ever be able to have a girl he viewed as being perfect but unobtainable. He called himself creep and weirdo because his life was beneath someone like her. The lead guitar crunching those two notes before the chorus is my favorite part of the song.
It is a Gen X thing. I was the same age as these guys at the time and the early 90's musically was wonderful (especially living in the pacific northwest and knowing some of the players). Best time of my life. Thom is vocally amazing granted he isn't from the PNW but the same time period.
I truly think the song speaks to the shy people who don't ever make a move and feel awkward. Not a stalker but feels like someone so beautiful could never love them back. So they watch from a guilded cage made of desire.
it is a sad song. however, so many of us that love this song can just relate to it. when this first came out, many of us just felt like "wow, somebody understands me and is singing about it"
This song is from the point of someone who doesn’t feel good enough and feels invisible! He’s not a stalker, he just feels different and weird because he doesn’t fit in with the “popular “ crowd! I remember kids like that in high school and I felt bad for them because it has to be hard to feel like you don’t belong! Sometimes kids commit suicide because the feel so alone! ❤️❤️
Such an iconic song by the flawless Radiohead!👏This song is on my list of all time top five songs & has never left it for over 25 years. Not only is the music beautiful, but those lyrics, combined with Thom Yorke's voice - *MASTERPIECE!* Hence the reason it gets covered so much, but no-one can achieve the perfection of Radiohead's original - Thom wrote it & you can FEEL his raw emotion! PLEASE PLEASE react to Street Spirit (fade away) - it is so memorising....a haunting song 💗 Also, 'Paranoid Android', 'Karma Police', 'No Surprises', 'My Iron Lung' - 30 years of beautiful songs. Radiohead almost need their own 'genre' - such an eclectic band.
The lead singer Thom Yorke used to spy on a girl he liked on campus during his university days. During that time he suffered with a negative image of himself and a lack of self-confidence. He didn't know what to do and why he was acting this way and he didn't have the courage to approach her. He wrote the song during this period as he felt like a creep and says that it's about being in love with someone, but not feeling good enough. He describes feeling as, "There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us."
I don't think he had any criminal intentions. He may have been trying to work up the nerve to approach her as he stated he had lacked confidence and didn't know what to do and why he would act this way. He said he "felt" like a creep.
@@annb9422 if you actually spy on another human, you are not just feeling like a creep, you are acting it out and being one and you have to stop and get help because you are doing something without consent which is harassment and may end up seriously hurting someone by taking it another step further. Few stalkers, harassers, etc, think of themselves as criminals while they commit those crimes...
@@ffreshfields5211 If you do research on what he actually says he had no criminal intent but a lack of self-esteem and a very poor image of himself. He was also very self conscious of his eye.
@@annb9422 @Ann B If you read what i said, i am not saying he had criminal intent but that spying is not okay and can potentially lead to criminal offences and mental health problems increasing if continued. That's dangerous to others and oneself and potentially what made him stop, the fear of obsession spinning out of control into even poorer judgment and actions. There is no need to make excuses for something that he himself is not making excuses for either and publically owns up to. He says correctly "i don't know why i did that". Because there is no moral or just reason for it. Only emotional ones that do not make the actions okay or healthy.
He wrote this song about a girl he had a crush on but couldn't work up the courage to ask out. He felt like a weirdo and a Creep and also felt that she was out of his league.
Hey y’all! He’s not stalking or that type creep.. it’s about his self esteem and how he is down on himself- really sad actually- I LOVE this song! Please do the official video, can y’all please do it just on your side of the monitor? Some songs, a lot, are even better when you see the performance- the official video is great- 💖💙👍🤘🏼
This song gets me all the time...I think its pretty universal for all of us at one time or another....the feeling that we just dont belong and looking and liking and even loving from a distance never quite getting the person that we are infatuated with....its actually a very sweet and honest emotional song.
The song is about him feeling like a creep because the girl he admires is out of his league in his opinion. So he feels like he doesn’t belong here. He feels like he’s a weirdo. He wishes he was special with a perfect body and a perfect soul so that he can be in league with her. It has nothing to do about being “creepy.“
Radiohead got sooooo many fire songs it's genuinely hard to choose one over the other...but I think No Surprises might be one of the prettiest songs ever written, up there with What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong...its almost a lullaby, just beautiful.
Ya, someone mentioned Haley Rhinehart with Post Modern Jukebox cover...damn good. I remember a guy last name Crum did an intense cover of Creep on American Idol as well. Sarah Geronimo, filipina, has a live concert cover of Creep that's pretty good too. Been covered a lot...Great song, Great reaction friends!
I struggled with my personal self and mental disease for a very long time. Rejected a lot. Mostly because i didn't fit into the standards people have. My brain would be a complete jumble and I would try to say the right things but it always ended up coming out wrong. This song always felt like that and not a stranger creeping although music is subjective and as BJ said, can be interpreted many ways. I sometimes don't ever feel like I belong in this life, like I was a mistake born to listen but never to be heard. It took alot of reflecting to get through those feelings and more. It takes alot to admit to yourself what is real and what is not and accepting yourself so if you don't accept yourself now, you can change and eventually reach a point where you do accept yourself. Even that is an interpretation that takes a life time to master
Great song that takes me back to my high school years. It came out around the same time the grunge era hit. He’s not being creepy. He pining over a girl who doesn’t know he exists.
Asia and BJ, I really like the way you two give thought to songs. You actually analyze how the song makes you feel and give good examples. Love how you blend reflection on lyrics and music. Great channel, great reactions. Really appreciate you.
Radiohead is amazing! They did there thing & changed things, then changed their thing and did that thing & changed things. I really REALLY have enjoyed what they have to offer. Saw them live maybe 20 years ago at the Hollywood bowl. Blown away completely. During this song, the crunch part wasn't that loud so Greenwood, Guitar, stepped back to a computer and tap tap tap...the next time CRUNCHCRUNCH & the crowd went wild
The comments- "Check out post modern jukebox version" "Check out the live version" "Its about a girl he had a crush on" "It's about feeling alienated" "Ahhh the 90's"
I'll just say it once: from that song to today, Radiohead it's a complete (and complex) musical experience at the level of Pink Floyd and sometimes beyond.
Ive heard this song covered quite a bit, but Haley Reinhart absolutely slayed this song with Post Modern Jukebox. A frickin masterpiece performance. I'd urge everyone to check out that video for a whole different take on this song.
Totally missed the whole point of the song. It's about being an outcast, feeling alienated and insecure around girls. He wrote it when he was a young lad growing up.
Yeah, the main character is just an unpopular dude crushing on a popular girl. All of us who weren't in the popular group back in our youth but had a thing for someone who was can relate to this song. When I was in school "creep" wasn't necessarily a stalker or anything like that. It basically meant the same as weirdo, nerd, geek, freak, dweeb, etc., and was mostly (but not always) used by popular girls to describe any guy not in the popular in group.
Yeah, it’s more about a guy who sells himself short, than being a creeper.. The second verse is about staying in control by staying home.. And we all know how that works out.. It’s relatable because we’ve all been there.. We’ve all felt that way at one time or another..
Now you're ready to hear Pau (from The Warning) sing this as part of a Tik-Tok challenge. The audience chose it and she learned it sang and posted it in under 4 hours. 😁😁😁😁
This is what the actual singer of the song quote about what the song is about "Yorke says this is about being in love with someone, but not feeling good enough. He describes the feeling as, "There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us."
Now that you have heard the original, please listen to Haley Rhinehart's PMJ versions. They are both amazing, but very different. th-cam.com/video/m3lF2qEA2cw/w-d-xo.html
The song written by Tom Yorke while in university about a girl he really liked. His lack of self asteem and worth are why he says I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo is his own self conscious telling him he is not good enough. Brilliant band.
Greep Best song ,...EVER, Thom Yorke have such a beautiful Angelic voice. He wrote the song when i was 17 years old, he had an obsession for a girl, and stalking her around Radiohead was and still is one of the biggest band from the 90s and 2000, There my all time favorite rockband
Truth is there was a lady in Exeter England who he fell for but didn't try for because he never thought he was good enough for... insecure. He almost died when she turned up in the front row of his concert...true story
Searching your archive and so very surprised you've yet to hear Post Modern Jukebox ft. Haley Reinhart covering Radiohead's Creep. She now owns that song. What a talent!
Greenwood said the lyrics were inspired by a woman who Yorke had "followed for a couple of days", and who unexpectedly attended a Radiohead performance
Radiohead are so British ! Some beautiful covers of this song have been done and you might have seen Justin Crumb doing a really good version on American x Factor
The song, lyrics, musical arrangement EVOKES a sense of our youthful experience where there had been someone who is a subject of our love whom may have rejected us, or we were too timid to approach. There is alot of inflection within the lyrics. He realises or was told he was a "creep, a weirdo", asking himself what he is doing "here". So he do realises what he is doing or realises what "effect" his presence is having on the other person - seeing her as "special" and wishing that he was just as "special" to her, i.e. having that "perfect body, perfect soul". He realises all this, and that is reflected in the lyrics itself. The vocal has that moanful, sorrowful, angsty, longing quality to it. Not quite "hating" the himself, or her. But posses sufficient self-awareness to and self-reflection that he questions himself "what am I doing here?" and eventually ending it with "I don't belong here. I don't belong here". A wonderful song, fantastic lyrics, perfectly executed to capture all that "feels" that is very representative of the Gen-X era and the people who were moved by it.
You should react to Radiohead's Paranoid Android. It's off their album OK Computer which is one the most groundbreaking records in the last 30 years. But great reaction!
Yeah, this was the attitude of the 90's... "this world sucks" 😂1993 was when this Radiohead single came out... Stone Temple Pilots also had a single called 'Creep'... Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Candlebox ... all these grunge/alternative rock bands were making songs about how hopeless life was... Nobody wanted to hear a band like Poison singing about "Nothing but a good time" ... Gansta rap was taking off, and goofy rappers like Biz Markie, MC Hammer and Third Bass were out of business... That was the early to mid 90's.
Much if rock music is about this very topic but this is an exceptionally “naked” viewpoint…baring his soul. A similarly brilliant song on this same line is How Soon Is Now by the Smiths.
The song was written by the singer who asked out a girl in college he admired. She ended up running off during his approach. So the song is about rejection and not feeling good enough.
Prince performed this song live. The video s on you tube. Also 90s rapper Chino XL did a rap song using this chorus. Cool song. Nice breakdown from you two
He loves her, but he's invisible to her. Lotta people have known that feeling. Watch the official video to see the looks on his face while he sings, and to see how the guitarist makes those sounds. Love your reactions. Peace.
It's about the doubting of yourself what's exeptable and fitting in . But singing the song the way he does it's actually him that is special but he can't see it through society's eye . Very deep very special 🎶🔥
It's about falling for someone beyond your reach and feeling alienated. Someone who's just waaay out of your "League".....Semi-autobiographical I think. Very relatable which is why it's such a great yet simple song......
unrelated recommendation ( my apologies ) I know you have enjoyed The Eagles . Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh in 1970 had a hit with his band The James Gang titled FUNK #49 . In Jan 2022 at age 74 Joe Walsh assembled some of his buddy musicians to play play FUNK #49 . It is a stellar performance . I know you appreciate great musicians - This could be the best tune you have so far heard in 2022 ? PLEASE watch this exact TH-cam : Walsh, Ringo & Co - Funk #49
this song is about someone who's going through a lot of sadness and depressing thoughts after a break up. His girlfriend, fiance, wife just called it quits.
WE ALL WANT TO BE SPECIAL FAM. TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER. TREAT OTHER PEOPLE LIKE WE WANT TO BE TREATED. I read that somewhere once, can't remember where.
Yet another great song of which you have to watch the LIVE video. You have to watch Thom Yorke sing, so powerful...and beautifully sad. Love you, guys!
PLEASE react to Brandi Carlisle's the Joke. The Grammy performance is what launched her into the stratosphere. Her entire catalog is phenomenal though. Trust me...you won't regret it.
I love Brandi Carlile, she’s my absolute favorite. And while I love their performance at the Grammys, they killed it…I think as a first listen it should be the video version, the video adds so much more feeling to the song. But both versions would be great 😊
@@pattyestrada6 I don't disagree. Both are beyond amazing...the Grammy version she has that rasp in her voice when she hits the high notes that gives me goosebumps. What's your favorite album?
@@DreamWriterDKS Yes, she nailed that high note at the Grammys. I’m always going to be biased towards The Story because it brings me a lot of nostalgia. But Firewatcher’s Daughter and Break Creek have some of my favorite songs. However lol…In These Silent Days is so good from beginning to end. It’s hard a choice…what’s your favorite?
@@pattyestrada6 Give Up the Ghost is always going to have a special place for me. I was a live in caregiver and my father and I became estranged when I came out. I was giving my patient a bath and Pride and Joy came on, stopped my dead in my tracks. By the Way I Forgive You is close second. It's like with Tori...depends on the mood I'm in.
@@DreamWriterDKS Pride and Joy is definitely one of those songs that just grabs you…I saw her last at Red Rocks W/The Colorado Symphony and when she played that song it was beautiful. I agree, depending on my mood I might gravitate more towards one specific album. And honestly they’re all so good!
LOL! I love when I’m watching these reaction videos praying they don’t pause right before a certain part and without fail everyone every channel does it!!
The lead singer,Thom Yorke, had a really famous comment, he said there's beautiful people and the rest of us, you have to remember he wrote this at college, 🤔
Thomas wrote the song about a love he had for a girl in college that he couldn't bring himself to talk to her. One night he was drunk and tried to talk to her but couldn't because of embarrassment and she ran from him. later he was doing this song for MTV event and seen her in the crowd they made eye contact and she realized it was about her.
Dave Grohl (Nirvana) said that Radiohead changed the music industry as we know it. Big words from an American icon to a British band that we respect him too. Something to think about.
This makes me think of being a teenager. I had all those feelings. I didnt belong. I wasn't liked. I didnt matter. It was a warped self image from a lack of esteem & an unstable home life. It sounded to me like he is going through the same, but I could be wrong. Great tune.
I think this song is about accepting that the person you’re attracted to doesn’t have eyes for you, and giving that expression so you can finally let it go.
It's about not fitting in, feeling alienated, not about creeping on someone
"Sunday bloody Sunday" *Alan Partridge*
@@POWER-LINKS You are a catch I guess. Wouldn't want anyone like you in my life - you people are losers. BIG L energy from you
@@lassemadsen607 I agree. He's a loser trying to hide
@LYNX-R-US bro no one’s on your side rn, thus making you the loser in the context that is given.
I laughed out loud when BJ thought he was a stalker lol.
This is a song about every guy that went to a club and didn't feel like he was good enough. Just standing on the side, looking and wondering, and then going home alone.
But meanwhile, a girl there was actually waiting to be asked. The eternal tragedy of the human dance.
You didn't understand the lyrics, but it's normal with that sound pressure at the club...
Tom write about a girl he liked at college with a pinch of teenage angst and that suddenly attended a Radiohead performance. Then Jonny, who was quite bored with this one, try to smash the song with the guitar distortion at full. This sound turned to be an identity trait of Creep.
Trivial fact: There are some similarities between Creep and The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies. Radiohead must include them as authors in the credits.
@@oskarobit Thom Yorke actually admitted to having Based the song of the air I breath because of a law suit and the courts agreed. So they had to give the credit and Royalties. Their is several stories about the song. One is the university girl story. Another is Yorke himself saying is was a girl he kept seeing at a bar and finally getting drunk enough to approach her but only creeping her out. The other if complete rubbish, which is about a girl that kept showing up at their shows before they got famous. Either way this song can be interpreted in many different ways. So yes it can be seen as going into a bar and just not feeling good enough.
@@oskarobit yea the chord progression in the slower parts of the tune is a rip off of The Air That I Breathe by the Hollies note for note intentional or not!
no, this song is about mental illness
Yes brother, that's it, that's what we feel
As a 90s teen, songs like this and "Self Esteem" by The Offspring were really relateable at times. It's definitely about self-perception, feeling not good enough; not a "creeper" in that sense. Great breakdown, by the end you both felt the singer's pain in his words. The live version amplifies that quite a bit.
The problem is everyone wants someone a level up. Just find someone who's an equal loser to yourself and all's good.👍
You just remind me about band name offspring. I was on a good way to forget they ever existed. You cant put those two bands together. It is like Ham and jelly. It should be against the law to put those two bands in the same sentence
Y'all gotta see the video or a live version. His face/voice says it all. epic song!
Creep, LIVE AT THE MTV BEACH HOUSE is the best live performance.
Seriously, one of the best rock songs EVER recorded. The progression of it reeks of lonely desperation/frustration whilst the lyrical AND musical melody are melancholy and evocative for most human beings. It's one of THOSE songs. If that makes any sense. Hall of fame stuff right here.
As a youth, I remember feeling alienated from most everyone, and the feeling was nearly always me and them, and rarely us. I was living in what Martin Buber called an I-It orientation, merely experiencing the world and people as separate. Feeling largely like a creep. But one day a lovely lady touched me, at a record store, and I woke from my dream of separation, some call Hell. I had transcended the I-It world of experience, and entered the I-You world of relation. Unity. Love. Creep no more. Heaven. Beyond time and space and boundaries.
For me the way the song describes how he sees himself from a female perspective we could change some of the lyrics table turned on anyone feeling that there nothing special also songs like this do actually have so much meaning to everyone who knows what it feels like to be not noticed or they think there not good enough
Well said.
For me the song was the song its not that deep haha
Buddy, yr just a person. Every person is eligible to connect somehow with another.
@ David Beckwith
You're a poet and an artist.
I always interpreted this as a guy who felt unworthy to ever be able to have a girl he viewed as being perfect but unobtainable. He called himself creep and weirdo because his life was beneath someone like her. The lead guitar crunching those two notes before the chorus is my favorite part of the song.
It's a Gen X thing. You really should see the live version, he kills it.
It is a Gen X thing. I was the same age as these guys at the time and the early 90's musically was wonderful (especially living in the pacific northwest and knowing some of the players). Best time of my life. Thom is vocally amazing granted he isn't from the PNW but the same time period.
For sure a GenX thing.
That guitar riff before the chorus part just makes ya wanna move lol.
Maybe it is a Gen X thing because I'm a Gen X;'er and love the song and always have. It's so raw and powerful.
It's gen x because it's quality music how much of that is about these days
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I truly think the song speaks to the shy people who don't ever make a move and feel awkward. Not a stalker but feels like someone so beautiful could never love them back. So they watch from a guilded cage made of desire.
it is a sad song. however, so many of us that love this song can just relate to it. when this first came out, many of us just felt like "wow, somebody understands me and is singing about it"
This song is from the point of someone who doesn’t feel good enough and feels invisible! He’s not a stalker, he just feels different and weird because he doesn’t fit in with the “popular “ crowd! I remember kids like that in high school and I felt bad for them because it has to be hard to feel like you don’t belong! Sometimes kids commit suicide because the feel so alone! ❤️❤️
Such an iconic song by the flawless Radiohead!👏This song is on my list of all time top five songs & has never left it for over 25 years. Not only is the music beautiful, but those lyrics, combined with Thom Yorke's voice - *MASTERPIECE!* Hence the reason it gets covered so much, but no-one can achieve the perfection of Radiohead's original - Thom wrote it & you can FEEL his raw emotion!
PLEASE PLEASE react to Street Spirit (fade away) - it is so memorising....a haunting song 💗
Also, 'Paranoid Android', 'Karma Police', 'No Surprises', 'My Iron Lung' - 30 years of beautiful songs. Radiohead almost need their own 'genre' - such an eclectic band.
Fake plastic trees another masterpiece.
Suddenly after many years they are my favourite band because they relate so much.
The lead singer Thom Yorke used to spy on a girl he liked on campus during his university days. During that time he suffered with a negative image of himself and a lack of self-confidence. He didn't know what to do and why he was acting this way and he didn't have the courage to approach her. He wrote the song during this period as he felt like a creep and says that it's about being in love with someone, but not feeling good enough. He describes feeling as, "There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us."
So...He was a stalker🤣
I don't think he had any criminal intentions. He may have been trying to work up the nerve to approach her as he stated he had lacked confidence and didn't know what to do and why he would act this way. He said he "felt" like a creep.
@@annb9422 if you actually spy on another human, you are not just feeling like a creep, you are acting it out and being one and you have to stop and get help because you are doing something without consent which is harassment and may end up seriously hurting someone by taking it another step further. Few stalkers, harassers, etc, think of themselves as criminals while they commit those crimes...
@@ffreshfields5211 If you do research on what he actually says he had no criminal intent but a lack of self-esteem and a very poor image of himself. He was also very self conscious of his eye.
@@annb9422 @Ann B If you read what i said, i am not saying he had criminal intent but that spying is not okay and can potentially lead to criminal offences and mental health problems increasing if continued. That's dangerous to others and oneself and potentially what made him stop, the fear of obsession spinning out of control into even poorer judgment and actions. There is no need to make excuses for something that he himself is not making excuses for either and publically owns up to. He says correctly "i don't know why i did that". Because there is no moral or just reason for it. Only emotional ones that do not make the actions okay or healthy.
This song never gets old for me. So many can relate …..this will go on for generations! Another one I’d say watch him sing this
One of my all time favorite bands! They were inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame 2019.
He wrote this song about a girl he had a crush on but couldn't work up the courage to ask out. He felt like a weirdo and a Creep and also felt that she was out of his league.
Radiohead has to be experienced live to get the full effect of their music! A band of genius's.
Hey y’all! He’s not stalking or that type creep.. it’s about his self esteem and how he is down on himself- really sad actually- I LOVE this song! Please do the official video, can y’all please do it just on your side of the monitor? Some songs, a lot, are even better when you see the performance- the official video is great- 💖💙👍🤘🏼
I feel like they would have gotten it more with the music video.
This song gets me all the time...I think its pretty universal for all of us at one time or another....the feeling that we just dont belong and looking and liking and even loving from a distance never quite getting the person that we are infatuated with....its actually a very sweet and honest emotional song.
I've always felt that way, my entire life. Turning 40 very soon, and still feel that way. Probably always will.
Same here. 56
Soon to be 52 and still feel the same. It never gets better but you can numb yourself.
That long HOWWWWLLL has to be the rawest expression of the pain of unrequited love ever recorded.
The song is about him feeling like a creep because the girl he admires is out of his league in his opinion. So he feels like he doesn’t belong here. He feels like he’s a weirdo. He wishes he was special with a perfect body and a perfect soul so that he can be in league with her. It has nothing to do about being “creepy.“
Radiohead got sooooo many fire songs it's genuinely hard to choose one over the other...but I think No Surprises might be one of the prettiest songs ever written, up there with What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong...its almost a lullaby, just beautiful.
Ya, someone mentioned Haley Rhinehart with Post Modern Jukebox cover...damn good. I remember a guy last name Crum did an intense cover of Creep on American Idol as well. Sarah Geronimo, filipina, has a live concert cover of Creep that's pretty good too. Been covered a lot...Great song, Great reaction friends!
Brian Justin Crum. He's incredible.
This song hits a lot of emotions people may not talk about. It's powerful
That grin that came across BJs face when that first chord hit at the chorus, me too man 👊🏻😉
Check out the live performance when you can(labeled "Best Live Performance"). It's so vulnerable and emotionally engaging. His pain is palpable
I struggled with my personal self and mental disease for a very long time. Rejected a lot. Mostly because i didn't fit into the standards people have. My brain would be a complete jumble and I would try to say the right things but it always ended up coming out wrong. This song always felt like that and not a stranger creeping although music is subjective and as BJ said, can be interpreted many ways.
I sometimes don't ever feel like I belong in this life, like I was a mistake born to listen but never to be heard. It took alot of reflecting to get through those feelings and more. It takes alot to admit to yourself what is real and what is not and accepting yourself so if you don't accept yourself now, you can change and eventually reach a point where you do accept yourself. Even that is an interpretation that takes a life time to master
MORE RADIOHEAD!!!
Great song! One of the first songs my sons played/ learned in their band! Was an education for me! Came across as sad, and a vulnerable person! 😞
Great reaction love this band/song so damn much. Never get tired of them.
You should check out the video to this song. It's pretty cool to see them performing and how the crowd reacts.
You guys nailed it. Such an iconic song.
Nailed it 😂😂
Great song that takes me back to my high school years. It came out around the same time the grunge era hit. He’s not being creepy. He pining over a girl who doesn’t know he exists.
Asia and BJ, I really like the way you two give thought to songs. You actually analyze how the song makes you feel and give good examples. Love how you blend reflection on lyrics and music. Great channel, great reactions. Really appreciate you.
Thank you so much!!
@@AsiaandBJ And yet you missed what this song was about.
@@taoist32 No they actually nailed it- did you even watch their reaction to the end? 🤔
Radiohead is amazing! They did there thing & changed things, then changed their thing and did that thing & changed things. I really REALLY have enjoyed what they have to offer. Saw them live maybe 20 years ago at the Hollywood bowl. Blown away completely. During this song, the crunch part wasn't that loud so Greenwood, Guitar, stepped back to a computer and tap tap tap...the next time CRUNCHCRUNCH & the crowd went wild
Asia with them Aww's...tugged on my heart strings
You should check out Post modern Jukebox version of this song ft. Haley Reinhart it's really good in a different spin
The comments-
"Check out post modern jukebox version"
"Check out the live version"
"Its about a girl he had a crush on"
"It's about feeling alienated"
"Ahhh the 90's"
Did the Emos ever find happiness?
I'll just say it once: from that song to today, Radiohead it's a complete (and complex) musical experience at the level of Pink Floyd and sometimes beyond.
it's worth saying as many times as needed for people to hear... you couldn't be more on point!! radiohead is beyond slept on
Ive heard this song covered quite a bit, but Haley Reinhart absolutely slayed this song with Post Modern Jukebox. A frickin masterpiece performance. I'd urge everyone to check out that video for a whole different take on this song.
Haley Reinhart blows me away!
She made it her own. Amazing!
no joke. definitely worth watching
They would Love the Postmodern Jukebox Haley ❤️ Reinhart version...
She's absolutely one of the best living singers.
Yes yes yes you guys will absolutely love her vocals on this cover!!
Totally missed the whole point of the song. It's about being an outcast, feeling alienated and insecure around girls. He wrote it when he was a young lad growing up.
You have to hear the cover by post modern jukebox ft Haley reinhart
Yes, Yes, YES!!!
Haley rocks all covers with pmj!
Yeah, the main character is just an unpopular dude crushing on a popular girl. All of us who weren't in the popular group back in our youth but had a thing for someone who was can relate to this song.
When I was in school "creep" wasn't necessarily a stalker or anything like that. It basically meant the same as weirdo, nerd, geek, freak, dweeb, etc., and was mostly (but not always) used by popular girls to describe any guy not in the popular in group.
I just heard this song for the first time last year Dave Chapell sang it in a Foo Fighter’s concert. It’s really different but I love it
Yall need to hear Haley Reinhart from Postmodern Jukebox's cover of this!!! It is amazing!
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Radiohead is one of the best bands to come along the last 30 yrs. U guys should check out more of their stuff.
this one has always stayed with me over the yrs!! this track was home for a while in my teens
Yeah, it’s more about a guy who sells himself short, than being a creeper.. The second verse is about staying in control by staying home.. And we all know how that works out..
It’s relatable because we’ve all been there.. We’ve all felt that way at one time or another..
Woweee!! The way that distortion kicks in. It ALWAYS gets me!
Now you're ready to hear Pau (from The Warning) sing this as part of a Tik-Tok challenge. The audience chose it and she learned it sang and posted it in under 4 hours.
😁😁😁😁
Such a relatable song beautifully performed❤. Takes me back.. still appreciate it❤❤
This is what the actual singer of the song quote about what the song is about "Yorke says this is about being in love with someone, but not feeling good enough. He describes the feeling as, "There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us."
Listen, I’m 54 years old so I grew up listening to Radiohead and let me tell you this is an amazing band and this is a fucking amazing song!
Now that you have heard the original, please listen to Haley Rhinehart's PMJ versions. They are both amazing, but very different.
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As well as lyrically interesting, it's also a great high-energy rocking song when it gets going.
The song written by Tom Yorke while in university about a girl he really liked. His lack of self asteem and worth are why he says I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo is his own self conscious telling him he is not good enough. Brilliant band.
Greep Best song ,...EVER,
Thom Yorke have such a beautiful Angelic voice.
He wrote the song when i was 17 years old, he had an obsession for a girl, and stalking her around
Radiohead was and still is one of the biggest band from the 90s and 2000,
There my all time favorite rockband
Pau from The Warning does an amazing cover of this song. Just her and a piano. Beautiful!!!!
Truth is there was a lady in Exeter England who he fell for but didn't try for because he never thought he was good enough for... insecure.
He almost died when she turned up in the front row of his concert...true story
Searching your archive and so very surprised you've yet to hear Post Modern Jukebox ft. Haley Reinhart covering Radiohead's Creep. She now owns that song. What a talent!
Greenwood said the lyrics were inspired by a woman who Yorke had "followed for a couple of days", and who unexpectedly attended a Radiohead performance
Radiohead are so British ! Some beautiful covers of this song have been done and you might have seen Justin Crumb doing a really good version on American x Factor
Prince did an amazing cover of this song at Coachella.
The greatest band of the last 30 years. Nobody does what Radiohead does.
The song, lyrics, musical arrangement EVOKES a sense of our youthful experience where there had been someone who is a subject of our love whom may have rejected us, or we were too timid to approach. There is alot of inflection within the lyrics. He realises or was told he was a "creep, a weirdo", asking himself what he is doing "here". So he do realises what he is doing or realises what "effect" his presence is having on the other person - seeing her as "special" and wishing that he was just as "special" to her, i.e. having that "perfect body, perfect soul". He realises all this, and that is reflected in the lyrics itself. The vocal has that moanful, sorrowful, angsty, longing quality to it. Not quite "hating" the himself, or her. But posses sufficient self-awareness to and self-reflection that he questions himself "what am I doing here?" and eventually ending it with "I don't belong here. I don't belong here". A wonderful song, fantastic lyrics, perfectly executed to capture all that "feels" that is very representative of the Gen-X era and the people who were moved by it.
You should react to Radiohead's Paranoid Android. It's off their album OK Computer which is one the most groundbreaking records in the last 30 years. But great reaction!
"How To Disappear Completely" - the extension of this song, and it's a work of art as so.
you should here the live version in concert. hi vocal range really goes to its extreme.
Yeah, this was the attitude of the 90's... "this world sucks" 😂1993 was when this Radiohead single came out... Stone Temple Pilots also had a single called 'Creep'... Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Candlebox ... all these grunge/alternative rock bands were making songs about how hopeless life was... Nobody wanted to hear a band like Poison singing about "Nothing but a good time" ... Gansta rap was taking off, and goofy rappers like Biz Markie, MC Hammer and Third Bass were out of business... That was the early to mid 90's.
Amen to that!! haha
And punk coming back thrue big doors..Offspring,Green day,Bad religion,NOFX,Lag Vagon,Pennywise...
Much if rock music is about this very topic but this is an exceptionally “naked” viewpoint…baring his soul. A similarly brilliant song on this same line is How Soon Is Now by the Smiths.
I love it when our friends across the Atlantic discovered British music for a little island we do turn out some shit hot music
Im watching this a year from posting. They got the message after they read the comments. Great reaction yall.
The song was written by the singer who asked out a girl in college he admired. She ended up running off during his approach. So the song is about rejection and not feeling good enough.
Have you done Pau's, from The Warning, cover of this song? It's amazing.
Prince performed this song live. The video s on you tube. Also 90s rapper Chino XL did a rap song using this chorus. Cool song. Nice breakdown from you two
You nailed it BJ.
You can feel his emotions with the music, the words and the his tone.
Great reaction!
When he says "I don't belong here", I always took it as not neccessarily location, but here, as in life, on this Earth, living this life
I heard this song early on in life. I could definitely identify with the artist. Some of the time. But not all the time.
Glad to see people listen to some radio head always one of my favorite bands from the 90's Try karma police or bones
I remember singing this at the top of my lungs in my 82 Olds Cutlass Supreme
He loves her, but he's invisible to her. Lotta people have known that feeling. Watch the official video to see the looks on his face while he sings, and to see how the guitarist makes those sounds. Love your reactions. Peace.
It's about the doubting of yourself what's exeptable and fitting in . But singing the song the way he does it's actually him that is special but he can't see it through society's eye . Very deep very special 🎶🔥
It's about falling for someone beyond your reach and feeling alienated. Someone who's just waaay out of your "League".....Semi-autobiographical I think. Very relatable which is why it's such a great yet simple song......
You must check out post modern jukebox version of this. It is amazing!
unrelated recommendation ( my apologies ) I know you have enjoyed The Eagles . Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh in 1970 had a hit with his band
The James Gang titled FUNK #49 . In Jan 2022 at age 74 Joe Walsh assembled some of his buddy musicians to play play FUNK #49 . It is a stellar performance . I know you appreciate great musicians - This could be the best tune you have so far heard in 2022 ? PLEASE watch this exact TH-cam :
Walsh, Ringo & Co - Funk #49
this song is about someone who's going through a lot of sadness and depressing thoughts after a break up. His girlfriend, fiance, wife just called it quits.
WE ALL WANT TO BE SPECIAL FAM. TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER. TREAT OTHER PEOPLE LIKE WE WANT TO BE TREATED. I read that somewhere once, can't remember where.
Yet another great song of which you have to watch the LIVE video. You have to watch Thom Yorke sing, so powerful...and beautifully sad. Love you, guys!
I survived depression. Barely. Might not one day. This is a great way of expressing the feeling of, im not good enough.
PLEASE react to Brandi Carlisle's the Joke. The Grammy performance is what launched her into the stratosphere. Her entire catalog is phenomenal though. Trust me...you won't regret it.
I love Brandi Carlile, she’s my absolute favorite. And while I love their performance at the Grammys, they killed it…I think as a first listen it should be the video version, the video adds so much more feeling to the song. But both versions would be great 😊
@@pattyestrada6 I don't disagree. Both are beyond amazing...the Grammy version she has that rasp in her voice when she hits the high notes that gives me goosebumps. What's your favorite album?
@@DreamWriterDKS Yes, she nailed that high note at the Grammys. I’m always going to be biased towards The Story because it brings me a lot of nostalgia. But Firewatcher’s Daughter and Break Creek have some of my favorite songs. However lol…In These Silent Days is so good from beginning to end. It’s hard a choice…what’s your favorite?
@@pattyestrada6 Give Up the Ghost is always going to have a special place for me. I was a live in caregiver and my father and I became estranged when I came out. I was giving my patient a bath and Pride and Joy came on, stopped my dead in my tracks. By the Way I Forgive You is close second. It's like with Tori...depends on the mood I'm in.
@@DreamWriterDKS Pride and Joy is definitely one of those songs that just grabs you…I saw her last at Red Rocks W/The Colorado Symphony and when she played that song it was beautiful. I agree, depending on my mood I might gravitate more towards one specific album. And honestly they’re all so good!
I just started watching u guys tonight and I’ve watched several. Very cool. I can tell u really love and feel music, no matter the type.
LOL! I love when I’m watching these reaction videos praying they don’t pause right before a certain part and without fail everyone every channel does it!!
The lead singer,Thom Yorke, had a really famous comment, he said there's beautiful people and the rest of us, you have to remember he wrote this at college, 🤔
Thomas wrote the song about a love he had for a girl in college that he couldn't bring himself to talk to her. One night he was drunk and tried to talk to her but couldn't because of embarrassment and she ran from him. later he was doing this song for MTV event and seen her in the crowd they made eye contact and she realized it was about her.
Dave Grohl (Nirvana) said that Radiohead changed the music industry as we know it. Big words from an American icon to a British band that we respect him too. Something to think about.
Hard to believe never heard this song. Very popular and so loved by generation of that day
This makes me think of being a teenager. I had all those feelings. I didnt belong. I wasn't liked. I didnt matter. It was a warped self image from a lack of esteem & an unstable home life. It sounded to me like he is going through the same, but I could be wrong. Great tune.
I imagine this written by a young man feeling socially awkward/outcast in the middle/high school expressing his frustration with an unrequited love.
I think this song is about accepting that the person you’re attracted to doesn’t have eyes for you, and giving that expression so you can finally let it go.