Which one is your favorite? - XV -

This is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands, Radiohead. It is from their debut album "Pablo Honey". The song was not initially a chart success, but became a worldwide hit after being rereleased in 1993. Radiohead took elements from the 1972 song "The Air That I Breathe"; following legal action, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood are credited as cowriters. The members of Radiohead grew weary of it in later years, and refused to perform it for a period.

Here is the song for this week;

"Creep"

Thom Yorke wrote the song in 1987 while he was a student at Exeter University in England. He first recorded it acoustic. He said that 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."

On the album version, Thom Yorke sings, "You're so f--king special." For radio, he recut it as, "You're so very special." Yorke regrets changing the line for the radio version, saying it disturbed the "sentiment of the song." According to him, the song lost its anger as a result.

The song interestingly became a popular hit almost everywhere but Radiohead's home country England. 

Following the release of Pablo Honey, Radiohead spent two years touring in support of Belly and PJ Harvey. They performed "Creep" at every show, and came to resent it.  Yorke said the band felt they were being judged on a single song and had to move on. During the tour for Radiohead's third album, OK Computer (1997), Yorke became hostile when "Creep" was mentioned in interviews and refused requests to play it, telling a Montréal audience: "Fuck off, we're tired of it."

Well we're not Thom...

And for the variety of the covers I chose 4 versions for you;

• Macy Gray - "Creep"

• Evrencan Gündüz - "Creep"

• Scala & Kolacny Brothers - "Creep"

• Postmodern Jukebox - "Creep"

Now the floor is yours, go ahead and make your comments (here, Instagram, Facebook wherever you feel like...).

nb. Please note that I intentionally do not include the original versions of the songs as it would be a little unfair to the artists covering the songs, and I am sure that sometimes you will be surprised to see that the songs you thought were the originals are just covers..