Creep is actually a famous song from the English substitute rock band Radiohead. Creep was Radiohead debut single and it was released in 1992. It had been the main single on their first album Pablo Honey 1993. Unknown reality is the fact that when "Creep" was first launched it was not such a large hit. Nevertheless it all altered after they released their firs album, Creep chords grew to become throughout the world mega hit like Breakeven Chords.
Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, and Thom Yorke wrote Creep when they were studying together at Exeter University in the late 1980s. Legend says that the song was inspired by one girl that Yorke had followed around. A modern comparison can be made to Taylor Swift in the song "Love Story", where she is following her man.
"The G-B-C-Cm chord progression is repeated throughout the whole song, just alternating between arpeggiated chords in the verses and last chorus and loud power chords during the first two choruses. In G major, these may be interpreted as "I-III?-IV-iv". According to Guy Capuzzo, the ostinato musically portrays "the song's obsessive lyrics, which depict the 'self-lacerating rage of an unsuccessful crush'."
The band recorded the song in a one single take, it was so powerful performance that everybody I the recording room applauded of the powerfulness of the song. Interesting fact, at first there were a lot of radio stations who refused to play the song, because they found it way too depressing to their audience. Also the original version is "So f***ing special" but US radio replaced it with "So very special".
After mid 1998, Radiohead did not play the song live at all until the final encore of a 2001 hometown concert at South Park, Oxford, when they played it in a seemingly impromptu decision after an equipment failure on the organ just after the start of "Motion Picture Soundtrack". Thom Yorke commented that they would be playing a "slightly older song... I think." To date, the last major performance of the song was at Reading Festival 2009, where it opened their set.
According to Yorke, "Creep " tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks the self-confidence to face her and feels he subconsciously is her.
Creep by Radiohead is a great song for guitar players, because its really simple and you can learn it very quickly.
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