Creep
version originale
6 septembre 1992,
Creep
première sortie
18 septembre 1993,
Creep
deuxième sortie
3:55
radio edit (version expurgée)
18 septembre 1993, promo
Creep3:55
version acoustique
18 septembre 1993,
Creep
deuxième sortie
4:19
autres versions
1993,
Creep
Black Session
?
4:05
4:13
bande annonce du film Cyclo (à ne
pas confondre avec la bande originale du même film, qui est identique
à la version album)
1:20
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galactic achievement society
?
Aleister Einstein
?
derniers lives
14 juin 1998, Tibetan Freedom Concert,
Washington
7 juillet 2001, South Park,
Oxford
27 juillet 2002, Coliseu do Porto,
Porto
3 août 2003, Chiba Marine Stadium,
Tokyo
13 août 2003, Tweeter Center,
Boston
20 août 2003, Merriweather
Post Pavillion, Columbia
Après ça, le groupe l'a inclue dans les set lists quasi normalement.
Ed
...the song, Creep was big, but Radiohead
wasn't...
Paul Q Kolderie
And the one day in rehearsal, they burst into this
other song, which I guess they'd just written. When they finished it, Thom mumbled
something like, "That's our Scott Walker song"... except I thought he said "That's
a Scott Walker song". Now I was pretty familiar with Scott Walker, but
Jeez, there's a lot of albums and I could have missed something! We walked out
of the rehearsal that night and Sean said, "Too bad their best song's a cover.
Jonny played the piano at the end of the song and it was gorgeous. Everyone
who heard Creep just started going insane. So that's what got us the
job doing the album.
Le groupe a en partie copié le morceau de 1974 des Hollies
The Air That I Breathe, intentionnellement (voyez
là pour les paroles).
Jonny
What happened was, we wrote Creep, and
the middle eighth just had... my guitar playing a tune. And Ed stopped [us]
and said, 'This is the same chord sequence as that Hollies song', and then sang
it. So Thom copied it. It was funny to us in a way, sort of feeding something
like that into [it]. It's a bit of change.
Creep is saying "I wanna be abhorred", isn't it?
Thom
Yeah, definitely... It's about... [pause] It's about
sympathy... [longer pause] This is all very hard. If, erm... Yeah I suppose.
Mmmm... [very long pause] As soon as I say this, everyone will take the piss...
It's just, I think... [pause for several centuries] Part of me is always looking
for someone to turn around, buy me a drink, give me a hug and say it's all right.
Thom
...Because i just go off on one. For days I can't
talk to people. And it shocks me because I'm still doing it. I want to be alone
and I want people to notice me - both at the same time. I can't help it. There's
this book, Famished Road, where the main character has these forces
following him around and pulling him about - I feel like that. It sounds really
tossy, this. If I was a painter, it would be like, 'wow! that's wonderful!'
but this is pop and in pop you're not meant to say things like this.
Titre
qui a failli faire éclater le groupe, Creep est sorti deux fois
en single en Grande-Bretagne et fut un hit plutôt majeur, mais pas autant
qu'aux États-Unis, où Radiohead était connu pour cette
'chanson à la con' ('that Creep song'). Le groupe tournait aux États-Unis,
les gens se pointaient juste pour entendre Creep et partaient. Personne
ne prêta attention à Pablo Honey, ou à aucune
des nouvelles chansons de The Bends, et bientôt tous les étudiants
l'avaient sur les lèvres, et le titre occupait toutes les machines à
karaoke et tous les juke-box du pays (d'ailleurs, allez sur la page du single
pour admirer la version vinyle pour juke-box, elle est de toute beauté,
d'un joli vert transparent).
Depuis, le groupe a toujours essayé de se libérer
de ce lien avec Creep. Ils haïssent la chanson, et cependant se
sentent obligés de la jouer "On le joue seulement parce que c'est quand
même un bon titre". Ils ont écrit My Iron Lung
exprès à propos de leur haine de cette chanson, mais ils n'ont
pas retrouvé de reconnaissance de masse pour un titre avant le hit de
Paranoid Android. N'importe comment,
Creep sera toujours un boulet pour le groupe.
shoulder of lamb, frying in a pan
Bizarrement, les paroles du début (car la toute première
version date d'environ 1985...) comprenaient 'épaule d'agneau, grillant
dans une poêle', entre autres.
Phil
It's inevitable that people look at us like a one-hit
wonder, because that's all they know of us. But Creep came along eight
years into our existence; we've always been progressing. I think The
Bends puts Creep in its proper place.
De source non vérifiée, les scratchings désormais
célèbres à la guitares de Jonny étaient sa manière
de montrer sa frustration de faire une chanson calme, voire chiante. Les enregistrements
pour la radio ont le mot "very" à la place de "fucking". Thom a dit que
la chanson parlait d'un ivrogne, et l'a dédiée à plein
de monde, comme, par exemple, Piers Morgan (rédacteur en chef du Sun).
successeur de Creep ?
John Leckie
It was either going to be Sulk,
The Bends, Nice
Dream or Just. We had to give those
absolute "attention, make the amazing, instant smash hits number 1 in America".
Everyone was pulling their hair and saying, "It's not good enough! We were
trying too hard".
Ed
I think you're right, I think Fake Plastic Trees
and Street Spirit... I prefer these songs far more than Creep.
Creep was of its time but songs like that, [Fake Plastic Trees]
everytime we play it and Thom starts strumming on that acoustic and its like
voom! It hits you. It's a really powerful song.
enregistrement
Chipping Norton Studio, Oxon
production
Sean Slade; Paul Q. Kolderie
ingénieur
Sean Slade; Paul Q. Kolderie
mixage
Sean Slade; Paul Q. Kolderie
Fort Apache, Roxbury, Massachussetts
master
Chris Blair
Abbey Road
If I could make a wish,
I think I'd pass.
Can't think of anything I need -
No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound,
nothing to eat, no books to read.
Making love with you
has left me peaceful, warm, and tired.
What more could I ask?
There's nothing left to be desired.
Peace came upon me and it leaves me weak.
So sleep, silent angel, go to sleep.
Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe
and to love you.
All I need is the air that I breathe, yes,
to love you.
All I need is the air that I breathe.
Peace came upon me and it leaves me weak.
So sleep, silent angel, go to sleep.
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