Radiohead's "Creep"

One Song

Hartbeat

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

4.9 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

You love this song. But the band who wrote it? They hate it. And in many ways, that’s entirely appropriate. Because on this episode of One Song Diallo Riddle and LUXXURY are wading deep into a song that ’s an ode to self-loathing, anxiety, obsession, neurosis, self-lacerating rage, and … being kind of a creep.

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0:00.0	Welcome to One Song, a podcast we make here at Sirius XM at Heartbeat Studios.
0:17.0	Because I'm luxury. And you're a deal
0:25.6	Oh,
0:27.6	hell we're doing here
0:30.6	We're making a podcast
0:36.6	Oh, yeah We're making a podcast.
0:47.2	Oh, this episode's about radio head.
0:59.8	And the song, you know, you don't even need me to sing. you already know what the song's gonna be or do you welcome to one song luxury my man that was amazing was Was it, though? No, it was.
1:11.2	I always, you know, I think of you mainly like keyboards and all this other stuff, but you're a hell of a guitarist.
1:17.3	You're very kind.
1:18.1	You know what?
1:18.5	It's very kind to you to say that.
1:19.5	We're going to talk about a band today for whom technical proficiency wonderfully is actually not necessarily front and center. So, you know, I played a few chords
1:30.7	there. It's true. But one thing I do love about the band we're talking about today is how what they
1:34.9	do is playing with sound and ideas coming out of an era where being Eddie Van Halen was important.
1:40.5	They're like, you know what, let's get past that. You don't have to play a bajillion notes a second.
1:51.5	What's funny is when I first saw the title on our calendar,
2:00.3	today's song kind of has me in a mood a little bit. You know, it's a darker song. And I think that I'm like, I'm absorbing a little bit of the energy of the song today.
2:05.1	Like, I got the toad, man.
2:06.6	Yeah.
2:06.8	I feel like I'm like in the 90s.
2:08.9	Right.
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