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“Creep” was a disastrous clarion call to millions of unsophisticated teenage dipshit rapscallions like me who fell in love with the song and turned up in Thom Yorke’s life and he couldn’t do anything about it.

“Creep” is Radiohead prank-calling MTV.Īnd it backfired. “Creep” is a knuckleheaded embarrassment. Turns out they hated “Creep” so much that they threatened to give up guitars altogether. They went on to make lavishly adored and prophetically dystopian albums that pointedly sounded nothing like “Creep” whatsoever. That’s the myth, anyway, yes? “Creep” made Radiohead, and Radiohead would go on to despise “Creep.” They pretty much stopped playing it live for years. It is a self-aggrandizing monument to self-loathing as constructed by a band that also maybe loathed the song itself. “Creep” is a gordian knot of self-loathing. He really didn’t like it, so he tried spoiling it, and it made the song.” Ed, explaining the genesis of “Creep” to the NME-this is ’92, this is the She Knows Who She Is interview-Ed says that sound, “Is the sound of Jonny trying to fuck the song up. Used to be called On a Friday but everybody hated that name renamed themselves Radiohead after a Talking Heads song. We got Ed O’Brien also on guitar, we got Jonny’s brother Colin Greenwood on bass, we got Philip Selway on drums. Jonny Greenwood, guitarist, Radiohead, makes that sound. The cataclysmic part is the explicit contempt for the song inherent in that sound. I just made that sound with my mouth, again. No, the cataclysmic part is just that sound. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was Kurt Cobain ripping off the Pixies. Every self-respecting early-’90s rock band loved the Pixies. That’s not the cataclysmic part, of course. The verses are very quiet the chorus is very loud. Same deal but for the electric guitar as a lifestyle. This is the very moment when Air Guitar, as a lifestyle, peaks and then dies.

Its impact on me, its impact on rock ’n’ roll, its impact on society.

Alanis morissette songs lyrics full#

I will try, and fail, to convey to you the full epochal significance, the cataclysmic impact of that sound. Part of the reason we ain’t got time to fuck around is that I need all the time I can get just to try to convince you that Radiohead were ever just young, unproven, uncouth, unsophisticated knuckleheads writing knuckleheaded songs about the girls who rejected them and giving knuckleheaded self-aggrandizing interviews to English music magazines just like 10,000 other knuckleheaded English rock bands who’d never be heard from again.īut mostly we gotta talk about that sound. She wasn’t even that nice, anyway.” Thom Yorke invented emo. I shouldn’t have admitted to her being a real person.” But then he added, “I’m sure she didn’t give a shit, really. The song is available here.Four months later, talking to the NME again, in February 1993, Thom Yorke said, “I got into a lot of trouble over that. Take a listen to the track, featuring a delicate piano opening and accentuated by an electronic instrumental backing, and check out the lyrics below. It's an extremely isolating, challenging journey to go through and so for me I just want to offer empathy for people in the public eye and to all of you hear tonight and everyone on the planet who is grieving." She also urged those currently struggling to visit the Mental Health Is Health website to learn how you can support yourself and others where mental health is concerned and suggested donations to help out the National Alliance on Mental Illness.Īt the 2017 Bennington tribute show, Morissette shared with the audience, "There's been a lot of vilification of people with depression and addiction and being troubled and being in the public eye and being made fun of for the challenges that we as a community of people with notoriety have gone through.

"Today is #MentalHealthAction Day… I'm sharing a song entitled 'Rest' written specifically about those of us who struggle with depression and anxiety, isolation, suicidal ideation and the profound despair that mental illness can plunge us into," explained Morissette in a statement accompanying the track.