All together now ...

May 26, 2016 4:29 PM

This week at a show in Paris, Radiohead performed a live version of Creep for the first time since 2009. Cameraphones were there.

Normally I'm all like 'why bother going to a gig and looking at it through a screen' but I thought this was pretty neat. Many more viewpoints to be had with a simple search on the intertubes ...

posted by carter (13 comments total)

Whoa, Paris, this song is really good, who sings it?
posted by indubitable at 4:42 PM on May 26, 2016

not to be a curmudgeon or anything, because i totally thought it was cool that they played their biggest hit, but - in the intervening 7 years radiohead was dormant and/or not on the road for about 5 and half years.

also - they've made a lot of really cool music since 1993, and they play it way more frequently (by their standards) than they play creep.
posted by fingers_of_fire at 4:43 PM on May 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

"For many years, Thom tried to pay the pope a million dollars to replace the word “Amen” with the phrase “‘Creep’ is a bad song,” but the pope wouldn’t do it because he liked the song so much. Everyone loved that song."
posted by arctor at 4:44 PM on May 26, 2016 [4 favorites]

Sometimes I sort of forget that Creep is a Radiohead song since some many other people have covered it and by this time it doesn't really sound like them.
posted by octothorpe at 4:50 PM on May 26, 2016

So almost disappeared down that Clickhole. I'd like to think RH didn't take themselves as seriously as their fans, but ...
posted by danielnashnz at 5:33 PM on May 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

also - they've made a lot of really cool music since 1993, and they play it way more frequently (by their standards) than they play creep.

That's kind of the point, isn't it?
posted by Chrysostom at 8:19 PM on May 26, 2016

Creep is the reason it took me so long to get into Radiohead. I hated that song so much that for years when people would talk about them I would just say "Yeah, whatever, I've heard them."
posted by bongo_x at 8:53 PM on May 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

Am I a weird or wrong Radiohead fan if I think that Pablo Honey is kinda meh and would never listen to the whole thing again? Maybe it's my age but for me it all started with OK Computer. I feel kind of bad that I just don't like the earlier stuff.
posted by dis_integration at 9:05 PM on May 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

Well, it is their only good song, after all.
posted by jonmc at 4:45 AM on May 27, 2016

Have any other bands given concert attendees streaming cameras and used the real-time video as part of their own stage backdrop right then?
posted by twsf at 7:09 AM on May 27, 2016

I like this performance because you can really hear how 90s the lyrics are
posted by beerperson at 8:09 AM on May 27, 2016

dis_integration: for me it all started with OK Computer. I feel kind of bad that I just don't like the earlier stuff

Me too. Which is odd really because the reverse is more often true. In fact a friend of mine was in a band that was called The Early Stuff precisely because the question "Do you like [some-band]?" so often gets the answer "I like the early stuff".
posted by merlynkline at 10:46 AM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

Am I a weird or wrong Radiohead fan if I think that Pablo Honey is kinda meh and would never listen to the whole thing again? Maybe it's my age but for me it all started with OK Computer. I feel kind of bad that I just don't like the earlier stuff.

That is not an uncommon view among Radiohead fans, in my experience. Ranking Radiohead albums has become a recurring joke so I regularly see rankings, and Pablo Honey is frequently at or near the bottom.

Still always surprises me, though. I'd rank it above everything they've released in the last fifteen years, though the latest one gets an incomplete because I haven't heard it beyond the two videos.
posted by mountmccabe at 4:27 PM on May 27, 2016