It is an original but it’s not. Radiohead admitted they ripped this song off and paid a 60’s group a settlement for ripping off their song “The Air that I breathe” for this. It’s exactly the same chords just backwards.
@@slytherinsteph It gets deeper because Lana Del Rey has a song “Get Free” which was ripped off from Radiohead “Creep.” Lana Del Rey then paid Radiohead. You can’t make this stuff up.
Wrong. They only took elements from Albert Hammond song 'the air that I breath'. Even the tone between those two songs are different. However, following legal action, Albert Hammond and Hazelwood were credited as co-writers. After that legal issues, Radiohead, assured their producer, Mr Kolderie that "Creep" was an original song. He called EMI records and convinced them to release it as a single.
This is the original. This song has been covered dozens of times from various artists. In this case, however, the original artist can never be duplicated! This song is iconic!
I'm 65 years old, but I remember hearing this song for the first time. It took me back to being that teenager that didn't fit in with other kids. My family life was just more messed up, and I didn't feel like I fit in with the other kids. Whenbthis song came out, I was grown up with my own family, but that insecure kid jumped out with every word and note of this song and made me face that part of myself. Great music does that. It helps us recognize and internalize feelings we thought were long forgotten. This song was brilliant.
As I said in another video music that we truly connect can be cathartic by encapsulating and expressing big, intense and frequently confusing emotions (especially the painful ones) that can feel too complex, overwhelming or painful to articulate. Externalising our internal landscape and sometimes even reset it. This close link with emotions is why certain music can so vividly take us back to past times in our lives.
I'm also 65, and my years in high school were the worst time in life. Didn't feel like I fit anywhere, but music helped me to survive it. Now music helps me to keep going after losing my wife and daughter. The power of music can cross any boundaries we create. Peace 💚
Funny how I thought I was the only young adult dealing with this issue in my bag in the 90’s. Turns out there are more people like me that were dealing with, or had dealt with these kinds of experiences when they were growing up, and ya all are older than me…lol I’m 58 btw and this song still blows my mind, I ALWAYS get goosebumps at the end. 😎
When this song hit it was a song that knocked you over. No one sounded like this at the time. The vocals were crazy and the guitar riffs were incredible. This is their own song. Not a cover. The best self-loathing song that inspires you to accept who you are.
I mean, she actually said all those things. Can you believe it? The rest of us are meeting god knows what in bars, and here this girl meets a musical genius at Exeter College in Oxford, hears the sweetest compliment ever, and she calls him a creep. Some women just don't know what they've found.
I think you might be thinking of Beck's "LOSER"; you should react to that one, too! "A termite, that's choking on the splinters"; that line alone is worth listening! 😂
Brit lady of a certain age here. Saw Radiohead play live at Canterbury university back in the 90s. Tiny room …played Creep. I’ve seen a lot of bands live…but that was immensely impactful. Ah memories. It sums up the kids of the day. We were the kids of of a certain generation and this was the reaction to it.
Thom Yorke has a unique voice and the band is very innovative. This is the original song and many artists have covered it. Radiohead are one of Britain's most successful band in the last 30 years.
A true music lover will love any generation of good music. I know who you should check out. Angelina Jordan. She's been singing since she was 18 months old. She brings back the 30s, 40s, 50s through now. She's 18 now. Genius
Oh and btw. did you maybe mix up Radiohead with Portishead? They have a female singer, and a progressiv artsy style that could remind someone of Bjork.
Radiohead was pre-emo by like a decade (and almost a half). They were DEFINING for an entire generation. Us 90's kids weren't hard to please but we were spoiled with AMAZING music and anything that followed better have stood the fuck up. Thanks for the reaction and thus the reminder.
There is a HUGE difference between sampling someone's talent, and having the talent to perform your own interpretation of it. It's the difference between taking a picture of the Mona Lisa, or paining it yourself.
Not at all the same. Listen to Daft Punk, who sample heavily. "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" sampled Edwin Birdsong's ‘Cola Bottle Baby'. Check out your favorite artist in the whosampled website. You'll be hard-pressed to find anyone in the last 50 years who hasn't sampled another artist's work. Prince is often cited as the most gifted musician of the past 50 years, and he was a prolific sampler.
Thank you...a short but precise description in the explanation of the differences. I was Ling winded trying to explain why they are NOT the same . Covers and sampling. A rap fan, such as BP has said many times over and over he's heard a piece from soooo many rock songs( and I've heard this on other reaction channels) oh so and so had this in their song or I thought this was so and sons song. Many rap fans DO NOT listen to rock and therefore are under the impression these great pcs in a song were created by that particular rap artist when in fact it wasn't. A cover you're doing an entire song with your own interpretation put to it. And the world will know who the orinal came from because it's that well known a song or the credit will say so...
@@mitchchartrandI listened to Prince ,had his records( yes records, way back) I never recognized any known " famous " pcs. You can "sample " a cars motor revving, that's what sampling is...we're not talk similar sounding note patterns..direct pcs off of a song incorporated into one that is claimed by the artist as an original tune of their own...it's not.
I'd say Just, High & Dry, and *then* Paranoid Android, personally. [At least Just] But for Paranoid Android I want BP to react to the cut they showed on MuchMusic [Canadian MTV] where they played the American market version of the official video in split-screen with the version we got in Canada.
This is the original and they are the original. Radiohead is one of the greatest bands, if not the greatest band of the last 25 yrs. Each band member is a master a virtuoso and together and in solo projects have greatly influenced music and film scores. This is the anthem for everyone who’s doesn’t fit in.
Creep" is the debut single by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 September 1992. It was included on Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). It features "blasts" of guitar noise by Jonny Greenwood and lyrics describing an obsessive unrequited attraction.
Dang. That was like a week after I started high school. I didn't listen to hard rock back then, but have grown to love this song. I can see how it would be more from a guys perspective... a beautiful girl and a guy who feels totally unworthy. I LOVE the acapella version in Book of Life.
He's just relaying the feeling a lot of people get when they are totally infatuated with someone who either isn't interested or as was the case here, the girl didn't even know him. This was written by Thom Yorke about a girl who was at Uni with him, he was besotted by her but never had the courage to approach her. Apart from once late and night when drunk he told her how she felt and she ran, understandably really given it was late and a stranger who was drunk was telling her he loved her! The lines "She's running again" are about that night. There's a live version of this on YT tagged "Best live Performance". Give yourself a treat and give it a watch, his performance is show stopping. What a band, in my view they can't be pigeonholed , they aren't Rock, Progressive etc etc . They are Radiohead ...
That line "I want you to notice when I'm not around" always used to get me. I was 17/18 at the time and felt very isolated, and this song spoke to me so much.
@@crafty1096 Radiohead did not pay The Hollies anything. The Air that I Breathe was written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood and included in Albert Hammond's It Never Rains in Southern California album. The Hollies version was a cover.
@@crafty1096 I actually remember the song, the Air That I Breath, and it doesn't sound anything like Creep. There's nothing about them admitting anything. Normally I look up things like that too, because I'm of the generation who listened to some of my favorite music amazingly turn into a George Harrison song with different words. So I'm with you on checking this stuff out. But I don't think so in this case.
@@RickshawWreck It's not even a little. You should listen to the Hollies Greatest Hits album, it's on UA-cam. The only thing remotely similar is the slow beginning, building up to crescendo sound, which every British artist tends to do. Aside from that, the Air That I Breath sounds nothing like Creep. He never ripped off anything.
Radiohead are musical geniuses. Nearly 30 years of groundbreaking music. You can’t put them in a genre box. Every next album will subvert your expectations, until you give them up
Creep is Radiohead's original song. They don't do covers. As far as I know, everything they sing is original. The lead singer Thom Yorke has the most amazing high vocals. Listen to their song High and Dry for more.
These guys are pre-emo. Lots of people consider sad music "emo," but the original definition of it was emotional hardcore. It came out of the punk/hardcore movement in the US. Bands began to get a little more melodic with frequent stop and starts as well as emotionally heavy subject matter. This came out when I was in high school. It spoke so well what I was feeling. These guys are legit and they do mess with a lot of electronic stuff. The OK Computer album has a lot of that. For a song that will hit you right in the feels by these guys, check out Fake Plastic Trees! I always felt like crapping on hip hop for sampling was weak and probably someone who has no idea what goes into it. I'm a guitar player, and this song is frankly easier for me to play on a guitar than it is to try to chop up a sample, make the pitch, tempo, etc work in another tune. There is so much more than goes into sampling than people realize. I love "found" art, so what that is is art made entirely from stuff that's already out there, but tweaked, chopped up, and recombined. Not everyone puts found art in the same category as fine art and that is a mistake (IMO).
There are so many great covers of this song... in an interview Radiohead said that they won't put it in there set anymore. Haley Rinehart's cover with POST MODERN JUKEBOX is amazing. There have been some awesome covers played on AMERICA'S GOT TALENT & the other Got Talent shows from around the globe.
This was one of the best song of the 90s, Thom Yorke is one of the the greatest singer that came out of Brittian, and yes this is the original, Dave Chappelle did a cover of this song and did a Great job, and also this song was in the animation movie PROOF OF LIFE
Went and saw Tears For Fears last year on their tour...their first encore, Radiohead's "Creep". Absolutely outstanding, but Creep OWNS this. One of the greatest rock songs of all time.
As others have mentioned in the comments, "Creep" is a Radiohead song and Prince covered this song at Coachella. You might also enjoy "Karma Police", another Radiohead time. Also, I'm from Minnesota. More Prince.
Greatly inspired by "The Air That I Breath", most popular version by The Hollies. Radiohead was sued by the writers of that song and now Radiohead has them listed as co-writers. You can hear the similarities in the chord progression and feel of the song.
In the early 1970’s a band ( Alan PARSONS )wrote a song- the air that I breath - the instrumentals were incorporated into “creep " TRadiohead was sued, eventually gave recognition to Alan Parsons group for the instrumentals for Creep. the original version was air that i breathe circa 1972 .
This song is off Radioheads first album and obviously very early in their career (1993), so this is firmly in the 90's 'grunge' 'UK alt-rock' 'Britpop' era of music. But every Radiohead album is sonically pretty different from each other, and as you mentioned they've had a few later albums which lean quite heavily into an electronic sound. Their "guitarist" Jonny Greenwood is a genius when it comes to instrumentation and composition, and is literally a composer in his own right having done film scores, etc. I would say their most famous or critically acclaimed albums are 'OK Computer' and 'In Rainbows', but if you want to check out more official Radiohead music videos I would suggest: Paranoid Android, No Surprises, Karma Police, Pyramid Song, Knives Out, Daydreaming, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, etc.
No, this is the original. No one will ever do this song like them. One of best alternative rock bands of the 90s. Takes me back to high school. Best decade
i totally agree with you - it is a beautiful version. Dude is totally off his rocker whilst doing it like lol but there's nothing else like it. I go back and listen to that version about once every six months... i can't help myself. He's got the voice of an Angel. Glad someone else has called it out!
I would call it alternative rock. I felt this song so much when it came out. I hope my neighbours enjoyed the loud volume and me screaming/singing along. lol
On his last I don’t belong here: Freshman year of high school, this song was playing at a school dance, there was a girl, her name was Charlene. She was one of those girls who hung out with the grunge crowd, smelled of patchouli and had long pin straight brown hair, olive skin and brown eyes. I found her to be absolutely beautiful, we never talked much, but would share the occasional getting caught staring at each other embarrassment throughout our freshman year, anyhow back to the dance, somehow at the dance we ended up talking while all the other kids danced the night away. For a moment we were in a full cafeteria with blasting music, but yet alone. Lost in each others eyes and words. Then it happened, Creep came on. The song echoed through my chest and body as I couldn’t take my eyes off her. As he let out his last, I don’t belong here, she leaned over and gave me the softest most innocent peck on the lips. At 15, I was instantly a puddle. She scurried off and the next thing I remember was my mom yelling my name saying, Time to wake up. 😢 it was all a dream. But this song will forever put me back in that school dance. I don’t belong there. 😊
I LOVE this song with as much ferocity as I did when I first heard it on the airwaves in 1992! I hear ya about not keeping songs that have certain lyrics. I think one of the biggest reasons so many loved this song when they did is that, like me, I was a young teenager, seen as a 'weirdo' in a lot of ways, feeling unsure what my purpose was, and the lyrics of this song sort of brought that to the surface in a way that let a lot of us vent our frustrations. It helped me personally not dwell on it due to the intensity of the music played in the song, wrapped up in how good it sounded. It was really cathartic, and actually helped me shrug off those inadequacies so whatever people at my school and even in my family might say about how 'weird' I was, it didn't sink in like it used to. I let myself be as 'weird' as I wanted, because I realized that I wasn't weird; I was just different than others, and that was perfectly ok. LoL Lot of the time they thought me as weird was 'cuz I spent most of my time involved with my church and youth group. I wasn't spending all my time at the mall or hanging around at home doing nothing. So if that meant I was weird, so be it! 😄
I LOVE this song. And just because you sing along with it and appreciate it doesn't mean you ARE a creep or a loser. Don't take it so personally. It's not about you. It's Thom Yorke explaining how HE felt when he had an unrequited and ultimately embarrassing crush on a girl at Exeter College.
The difference between covering and sampling is that rock bands state upfront their's is a cover, and they'll acknowledge the original songwriters. By contrast, hip hop will blatantly take someone else's instrumentals and use them to record their own songs with different titles, verses, hooks, and subject matter entirely- and never acknowledge the original songwriters in the track listing or liner notes. To rock/metal fans, this is considered very dishonest and insulting
I mean thats just straight up not true, its very grey actually. In hip hop, not only are the OG artists compensated but the fans are genuinely interested in the sample itself; i cant tell you how many times ive gone to a sampled rap song and seen thousands of "Kanye brought me here" type comments. Whereas I doubt youve ever once gone to one of the original songs where Noel Gallagher from Oasis straight up steals the guitar solo. Its not black and white, theres stealing and sampling on both sides of music
@@danielmcgrath680 Paying the original songwriters royalties has nothing to do with it. The issue that rock/metal listeners have with rappers sampling their music is that the rappers never acknowledge they've used someone else's beat until they're forced to. Rappers don't place an asterisk in their track listings that states it's someone else's music they're rapping over. They don't keep the same choruses, lyrics, or song titles either. They just use their beats to write their own songs to
RH are their own genre. This is their early work before they came into their own sound. No one else sounds like them. Their CD, OK Computer changed music. It was so innovative, beautiful and so different from what rock music sounded like. Even today, that CD stands alone and others that they made after that one. They are just so damn good. My top 5 bands of all time. I LOVE RH and I LOOOOVE Thom LOLOL
Hey Black Pegasus! I think you may have Portishead confused with Radiohead, Portishead is a bomb ass band too. Check out Radiohead's All I Need next. I think it will touch a part of your soul.
"You are special" was the best line I ever heard from you -- and there were some pretty good lines in earlier reactions of yours... But with that one, you nailed it. All the very best best from Germany
If you thought they had a female singer... you may be thinking of Hailey Reinhart's version of this song. Few times can a cover to be said to be a cooler version of an already ultra cool song
Haley was the singer, but it should be called Postmodern Jukebox's version. PMJ does a lot of totally re-imagined covers and brings in guest vocalists. Haley is in several, but she is not the only singer that works with PMJ. Their collaboration on Creep was definitely awesome and HOT as heck. And very cool at the same time. But I would not say it was better than this, just as Disturbed's Sound of Silence was awesome but so different from Simon and Garfunkel's excellent original that I cannot call it better. PMJ is definitely worth covering. They usually have a 40s-50s sultry lounge styling - might call it torch song style. By the way, BP, it really would be a great reaction to compare the original All About that Bass with Home Free's country acapella cover and PMJ's sultry torch song cover - all very different and all very good for what they aim to be.
Absolutely not a cover, this is the original. Radiohead is one amazing band. Tom York is an incredible singer and songwriter. He gives the songs so much feeling and moods. You should check out their live show from the basement: it’s incredible and his vocals are sublime
Yeeeeeeeesssssssss!!! So glad you did RADIOHEAD. I've been hollerin' at you for the longest time to check them! I TOLD YOU!!! My friend, you have just taken what is but the very first step into the DEEEEEEEEP Rabbit Hole that is Radiohead. One of the most successful, influential, tight, forward thinking and under-appreciated bands you'll find. Do you a favor and dig deep into the thick-ass catalogue. you will not be disappointed. I promise you.
As I have explained before, the difference between sampling and covering comes down to giving credit to the originator. When a band does a cover version, the songwriters are given full credit, and royalties are paid. When a sample is taken, more often than not, no credit is given, and no royalties are paid. That's why hip hop gets criticized for sampling. It's not complicated.
Exactly! If you sample from another bands song you're required to have the originator "sign off" letting you do so. Some bands works like the HUGEcatalog the Beatles have to pick at I read that they won't sign off. I don't know who's in control of their stuff these days.
RADIOHEAD??!! Now you’ve gone and made me “eat crow”🐦⬛ You definitely picked another great, legendary song and your critique was spot on! I’m definitely joining the good people who support you! I know you’re headed for bigger things but please stay a while longer.
Oh thus tune I just had it full blast coming home from work ❤I love his voice having said that Jonny Greenwood composer on this group he is a genius. He has won a Oscar, for the soundtrack of a movie named Phantom thread he’s a genius unbelievable his talent.
They are a british band sometimes put in the genre of Art Rock in the uk or alternative in the u.s. Sometimes called experimental Rock, pop, indie rock. This song Creep is one of their biggest hits and in articles they have said they almost didn't record it because they didn't like it.
This is an amazing song. His vocals are brilliant. It is their song. This is an original. I'm surprised you didn't look up details of the song and band.
Radiohead is the original band doing this song. Many artists have done their version of these songs including VoicePlay and it was terrific! Brian Justin Crum did this on his audition for Americas Got Talent and it was fantastic!
Great song from a great Band. One of the most unique singer I've heard. Paranoid Android is my favourite Radiohead song and it stays in my Drum Playlist forever.
This was my freshman year in college and it was the alternative soundtrack. You can hear the pain in Thom’s pain through this whole song. You need to react to one of the live versions of this one.
Radiohead are absolute British gems, Creep being one of their best known songs. And now that you're heading down the Brit rock hole, perhaps you should have a look at Muse as well. Plug In Baby live in Rome would be a great start! Insane vocals and instrumentals all-round. Many people don't understand just how big some British bands are. Muse are epically huge.
Yes, they are the original artist of the song. 😊 I never really understood why anyone gets upset by artists sampling others music. All music has been sampled in one way or another… since music was created. I think that’s what makes music so powerful. It has bits & pieces from so many different genres, sounds, lyrics, vibes, etc.
Original artist, yes. Not a cover.
In 1994 I definitely felt these words.
It is an original but it’s not. Radiohead admitted they ripped this song off and paid a 60’s group a settlement for ripping off their song “The Air that I breathe” for this. It’s exactly the same chords just backwards.
@@crafty1096I never knew this! Wow…
@@slytherinsteph yep. Specifically the main verse guitar part
@@slytherinsteph It gets deeper because Lana Del Rey has a song “Get Free” which was ripped off from Radiohead “Creep.” Lana Del Rey then paid Radiohead. You can’t make this stuff up.
Wrong. They only took elements from Albert Hammond song 'the air that I breath'. Even the tone between those two songs are different. However, following legal action, Albert Hammond and Hazelwood were credited as co-writers. After that legal issues, Radiohead, assured their producer, Mr Kolderie that "Creep" was an original song. He called EMI records and convinced them to release it as a single.
This is the original. This song has been covered dozens of times from various artists. In this case, however, the original artist can never be duplicated! This song is iconic!
Have you heard the homeless mustard version? It was recorded live on the air with Andy and Opie and it's amazing!
Yes, and no. Does this sound kinda familiar? ua-cam.com/video/7duPNQCp-w4/v-deo.html
There are moments that are reminiscent of The Air That I Breathe by the Hollies.
You do realize covers are to pay tribute not "try to duplicate the original"? Ape.
Steven Crowder did a good remix to this song..lol
I'm 65 years old, but I remember hearing this song for the first time. It took me back to being that teenager that didn't fit in with other kids. My family life was just more messed up, and I didn't feel like I fit in with the other kids. Whenbthis song came out, I was grown up with my own family, but that insecure kid jumped out with every word and note of this song and made me face that part of myself. Great music does that. It helps us recognize and internalize feelings we thought were long forgotten. This song was brilliant.
I hear you
As I said in another video music that we truly connect can be cathartic by encapsulating and expressing big, intense and frequently confusing emotions (especially the painful ones) that can feel too complex, overwhelming or painful to articulate. Externalising our internal landscape and sometimes even reset it. This close link with emotions is why certain music can so vividly take us back to past times in our lives.
I'm also 65, and my years in high school were the worst time in life. Didn't feel like I fit anywhere, but music helped me to survive it. Now music helps me to keep going after losing my wife and daughter. The power of music can cross any boundaries we create. Peace 💚
Well said.
Funny how I thought I was the only young adult dealing with this issue in my bag in the 90’s. Turns out there are more people like me that were dealing with, or had dealt with these kinds of experiences when they were growing up, and ya all are older than me…lol
I’m 58 btw and this song still blows my mind, I ALWAYS get goosebumps at the end. 😎
When this song hit it was a song that knocked you over. No one sounded like this at the time. The vocals were crazy and the guitar riffs were incredible. This is their own song. Not a cover. The best self-loathing song that inspires you to accept who you are.
I mean, she actually said all those things. Can you believe it? The rest of us are meeting god knows what in bars, and here this girl meets a musical genius at Exeter College in Oxford, hears the sweetest compliment ever, and she calls him a creep. Some women just don't know what they've found.
I think you might be thinking of Beck's "LOSER"; you should react to that one, too! "A termite, that's choking on the splinters"; that line alone is worth listening! 😂
Soy un perdedor, I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me...
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I saw Beck support Radiohead at South Parks, Oxford. What a day/night. Superb!
Yes please react to Loser by Beck.....love it
Becks got a deep dive. BP would love to hear about his beef with Beyonce
Brit lady of a certain age here. Saw Radiohead play live at Canterbury university back in the 90s. Tiny room …played Creep. I’ve seen a lot of bands live…but that was immensely impactful. Ah memories. It sums up the kids of the day. We were the kids of of a certain generation and this was the reaction to it.
The perfect teenage angst song.....
Thom Yorke has a unique voice and the band is very innovative. This is the original song and many artists have covered it. Radiohead are one of Britain's most successful band in the last 30 years.
It's the original. Plenty of covers, but nobody does it like Radiohead... it gets me in the soul.
It's not. Look up "The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe".
@@yutehube4468 It's not the same song
@@annroberts2446 No, but the influence is clear as day. The chords are reversed, that's all.
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It breaks my heart!
I’m 70 years old and for some reason I really like this song.
me too love it
Cause its a great song!
Me three lol 😂😂😂😂
I'm 48 I've always loved it. HS memories hittin hard.
A true music lover will love any generation of good music. I know who you should check out. Angelina Jordan. She's been singing since she was 18 months old. She brings back the 30s, 40s, 50s through now. She's 18 now. Genius
"I want you to notice when I'm not around." So much said.
Yeah, everyone has felt like that in their lives. The lyrics are beautiful.
Oh and btw. did you maybe mix up Radiohead with Portishead? They have a female singer, and a progressiv artsy style that could remind someone of Bjork.
That sounds very plausible.
I think he's thinking about Radiohead's later albums that went more the direction he described.
Radiohead/Portishead.. good pickup. I reckon that's it. Love Beth Gibbons.
Yep portishead has him mixed up
Dummy is one of my favourite albums.....
Radiohead was pre-emo by like a decade (and almost a half). They were DEFINING for an entire generation. Us 90's kids weren't hard to please but we were spoiled with AMAZING music and anything that followed better have stood the fuck up. Thanks for the reaction and thus the reminder.
That is the same look we all had on our faces when we first heard Radiohead.
Grunge music but Radiohead did move into an electronic era- all of their work is absolutely brilliant (and original btw)
There is a HUGE difference between sampling someone's talent, and having the talent to perform your own interpretation of it. It's the difference between taking a picture of the Mona Lisa, or paining it yourself.
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Not at all the same. Listen to Daft Punk, who sample heavily. "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" sampled Edwin Birdsong's ‘Cola Bottle Baby'. Check out your favorite artist in the whosampled website. You'll be hard-pressed to find anyone in the last 50 years who hasn't sampled another artist's work. Prince is often cited as the most gifted musician of the past 50 years, and he was a prolific sampler.
Thank you...a short but precise description in the explanation of the differences. I was Ling winded trying to explain why they are NOT the same . Covers and sampling. A rap fan, such as BP has said many times over and over he's heard a piece from soooo many rock songs( and I've heard this on other reaction channels) oh so and so had this in their song or I thought this was so and sons song. Many rap fans DO NOT listen to rock and therefore are under the impression these great pcs in a song were created by that particular rap artist when in fact it wasn't. A cover you're doing an entire song with your own interpretation put to it. And the world will know who the orinal came from because it's that well known a song or the credit will say so...
@@mitchchartrandI listened to Prince ,had his records( yes records, way back) I never recognized any known " famous " pcs. You can "sample " a cars motor revving, that's what sampling is...we're not talk similar sounding note patterns..direct pcs off of a song incorporated into one that is claimed by the artist as an original tune of their own...it's not.
@@Cchan53 Tick, Tick, Bang sampled Hendrix' Little Miss Lover. For example.
One the most important and influential bands from the last 30 years
You * * need * * to listen to 'paranoid android' next
Yes this is the original band - not a cover
I'd say Just, High & Dry, and *then* Paranoid Android, personally. [At least Just]
But for Paranoid Android I want BP to react to the cut they showed on MuchMusic [Canadian MTV] where they played the American market version of the official video in split-screen with the version we got in Canada.
Don't Forget Ok! Computer.
@@JeffTiberend The track is from that album
@@MrYossarianuk It's been so long since I've listened to the album that I forgot.
This is the original and they are the original. Radiohead is one of the greatest bands, if not the greatest band of the last 25 yrs. Each band member is a master a virtuoso and together and in solo projects have greatly influenced music and film scores. This is the anthem for everyone who’s doesn’t fit in.
Radiohead is original from early 90’s and has been covered by every body and their mother especially on singing talent shows.
Creep" is the debut single by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 September 1992. It was included on Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). It features "blasts" of guitar noise by Jonny Greenwood and lyrics describing an obsessive unrequited attraction.
IIRC, johnny didn't like the song so tried to eff it up with his guitar towards the end of the verses. But, joke's on him, it totally works!
Dang. That was like a week after I started high school. I didn't listen to hard rock back then, but have grown to love this song. I can see how it would be more from a guys perspective... a beautiful girl and a guy who feels totally unworthy. I LOVE the acapella version in Book of Life.
He's just relaying the feeling a lot of people get when they are totally infatuated with someone who either isn't interested or as was the case here, the girl didn't even know him. This was written by Thom Yorke about a girl who was at Uni with him, he was besotted by her but never had the courage to approach her. Apart from once late and night when drunk he told her how she felt and she ran, understandably really given it was late and a stranger who was drunk was telling her he loved her! The lines "She's running again" are about that night. There's a live version of this on YT tagged "Best live Performance". Give yourself a treat and give it a watch, his performance is show stopping. What a band, in my view they can't be pigeonholed , they aren't Rock, Progressive etc etc . They are Radiohead ...
That line "I want you to notice when I'm not around" always used to get me. I was 17/18 at the time and felt very isolated, and this song spoke to me so much.
It's good but the lyric in "Lozenge of Love" gets me the most _"I won't be around when you really need me"_
You may have heard the name Portishead, female lead vocalist, they were sampled in hip-hop. Check out 'Glory Box'.
This is DEFINITELY the original. There's been several covers, but this is the best by far, in my opinion.
This is Radiohead's original. What you're probably remembering is hearing the radio version at some point.
Radiohead admits it’s a rip off of the song “The Air That I Breathe”by “The Hollie’s.” Radiohead paid The Hollie’s a settlement for this song.
@@crafty1096thanks I did not know that,but I guess all I know is thom hated playing this song.
@@crafty1096 Radiohead did not pay The Hollies anything. The Air that I Breathe was written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood and included in Albert Hammond's It Never Rains in Southern California album. The Hollies version was a cover.
@@crafty1096 I actually remember the song, the Air That I Breath, and it doesn't sound anything like Creep. There's nothing about them admitting anything. Normally I look up things like that too, because I'm of the generation who listened to some of my favorite music amazingly turn into a George Harrison song with different words. So I'm with you on checking this stuff out. But I don't think so in this case.
@@RickshawWreck It's not even a little. You should listen to the Hollies Greatest Hits album, it's on UA-cam. The only thing remotely similar is the slow beginning, building up to crescendo sound, which every British artist tends to do. Aside from that, the Air That I Breath sounds nothing like Creep. He never ripped off anything.
Radiohead are musical geniuses. Nearly 30 years of groundbreaking music. You can’t put them in a genre box. Every next album will subvert your expectations, until you give them up
Creep is Radiohead's original song. They don't do covers. As far as I know, everything they sing is original. The lead singer Thom Yorke has the most amazing high vocals. Listen to their song High and Dry for more.
RADIOHEAD - Alternative rock & Grunge. They were the original singers of "Creep"
Alt.rock yes, creep was theirs, yes. Grunge? No, definitely not. Indy band for sure.
Prince did Creep at Coachella. Excellent.
Prince was a fucking phenomenal talent! That would've been wild to see...
RIP Prince
It's on UA-cam. @@gingerbeardedone3318
If Prince does a cover of your song, it's a f*cking banger!
Prince was a legend a genius when he picked up his guitar it's going to be a wild ride. Pure perfection. R.I.P Prince.
Prince's version is definitely worth a watch. He does a fantastic job covering this song. It also brings out his guitar talent.
Genius and one of the best bands to ever come out of the UK.
These guys are pre-emo. Lots of people consider sad music "emo," but the original definition of it was emotional hardcore. It came out of the punk/hardcore movement in the US. Bands began to get a little more melodic with frequent stop and starts as well as emotionally heavy subject matter.
This came out when I was in high school. It spoke so well what I was feeling. These guys are legit and they do mess with a lot of electronic stuff. The OK Computer album has a lot of that. For a song that will hit you right in the feels by these guys, check out Fake Plastic Trees!
I always felt like crapping on hip hop for sampling was weak and probably someone who has no idea what goes into it. I'm a guitar player, and this song is frankly easier for me to play on a guitar than it is to try to chop up a sample, make the pitch, tempo, etc work in another tune. There is so much more than goes into sampling than people realize. I love "found" art, so what that is is art made entirely from stuff that's already out there, but tweaked, chopped up, and recombined. Not everyone puts found art in the same category as fine art and that is a mistake (IMO).
There are so many great covers of this song... in an interview Radiohead said that they won't put it in there set anymore. Haley Rinehart's cover with POST MODERN JUKEBOX is amazing. There have been some awesome covers played on AMERICA'S GOT TALENT & the other Got Talent shows from around the globe.
I can see emo in there but for me is a lot more grunge-ish, you can clearly see the influence of the scene at the time
Alternative is where I placed it back in the 90’s
Fake Plastic Trees ... thank you for this one ❤
This was one of the best song of the 90s, Thom Yorke is one of the the greatest singer that came out of Brittian, and yes this is the original, Dave Chappelle did a cover of this song and did a Great job, and also this song was in the animation movie PROOF OF LIFE
Went and saw Tears For Fears last year on their tour...their first encore, Radiohead's "Creep". Absolutely outstanding, but Creep OWNS this. One of the greatest rock songs of all time.
You may be thinking of Portishead which are a triphop band from Bristol with Beth Gibbons on vocals. "Roads" is a great song by them.
"Loser" by Beck pairs nicely with this one.
Soy un perdedor! Omg, yes!
As others have mentioned in the comments, "Creep" is a Radiohead song and Prince covered this song at Coachella. You might also enjoy "Karma Police", another Radiohead time. Also, I'm from Minnesota. More Prince.
One of the most important and influential bands of the last 20 years. Hands down. These guys are brilliant musicians and composers.
Many people have covered Creep but this is the original. Thanks for reacting to this! Love your videos. 😊
You have to do Street Spirit its stunning.
One of my all time favorite videos
@@stevensimpson8231 Same and it always moves me. Never fails.
You don't wanna burst his bubble 😂😂😂😂😂 He' s one of the greatest musicians on the planet.
"You ARE special" spoken like a true dad.
We're all unique, scientific fact.
Greatly inspired by "The Air That I Breath", most popular version by The Hollies. Radiohead was sued by the writers of that song and now Radiohead has them listed as co-writers. You can hear the similarities in the chord progression and feel of the song.
Didn't know but totally get it.
Prince covered this at Coachella without saying he was a creep, because...Prince.
Lol...well why would he...😅
Prince sang "you're a creep." A terrible performance. I lost a lot of respect for Prince that night.
😂
Sings someone else’s material but wouldn’t let Weird AL parody his music?...
In the early 1970’s a band ( Alan PARSONS )wrote a song- the air that I breath - the instrumentals were incorporated into “creep " TRadiohead was sued, eventually gave recognition to Alan Parsons group for the instrumentals for Creep. the original version was air that i breathe circa 1972 .
This song is off Radioheads first album and obviously very early in their career (1993), so this is firmly in the 90's 'grunge' 'UK alt-rock' 'Britpop' era of music. But every Radiohead album is sonically pretty different from each other, and as you mentioned they've had a few later albums which lean quite heavily into an electronic sound. Their "guitarist" Jonny Greenwood is a genius when it comes to instrumentation and composition, and is literally a composer in his own right having done film scores, etc.
I would say their most famous or critically acclaimed albums are 'OK Computer' and 'In Rainbows', but if you want to check out more official Radiohead music videos I would suggest: Paranoid Android, No Surprises, Karma Police, Pyramid Song, Knives Out, Daydreaming, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, etc.
No, this is the original. No one will ever do this song like them. One of best alternative rock bands of the 90s. Takes me back to high school. Best decade
Great song. The “best live version” of this song is even more amazing. The agony you hear in that one cuts through your soul
i totally agree with you - it is a beautiful version. Dude is totally off his rocker whilst doing it like lol but there's nothing else like it. I go back and listen to that version about once every six months... i can't help myself. He's got the voice of an Angel. Glad someone else has called it out!
I would call it alternative rock. I felt this song so much when it came out. I hope my neighbours enjoyed the loud volume and me screaming/singing along. lol
This is 100% genuine song of them... the song you have in mind is from Meredith Brooks and it's called I'm a bitch i'm a lover
A remarkable song...opening up alot of human faults and pain. It's well received, ❤😊
thom is a unique talent. Creep was HUGE then and now.
Love the "words matter..." I need to take that more to heart 🤘🤘
On his last I don’t belong here:
Freshman year of high school, this song was playing at a school dance, there was a girl, her name was Charlene. She was one of those girls who hung out with the grunge crowd, smelled of patchouli and had long pin straight brown hair, olive skin and brown eyes. I found her to be absolutely beautiful, we never talked much, but would share the occasional getting caught staring at each other embarrassment throughout our freshman year, anyhow back to the dance, somehow at the dance we ended up talking while all the other kids danced the night away. For a moment we were in a full cafeteria with blasting music, but yet alone. Lost in each others eyes and words. Then it happened, Creep came on. The song echoed through my chest and body as I couldn’t take my eyes off her. As he let out his last, I don’t belong here, she leaned over and gave me the softest most innocent peck on the lips. At 15, I was instantly a puddle. She scurried off and the next thing I remember was my mom yelling my name saying, Time to wake up. 😢 it was all a dream. But this song will forever put me back in that school dance. I don’t belong there. 😊
Oh my goodness I was so invested in this story!
Yeah - great reaction to a song which expresses the angst of youth!! Love it!
Brian Justin Crums cover on Americas Got Talent is amazing
Not to take away from the original, but that cover is my absolute favourite.
I LOVE this song with as much ferocity as I did when I first heard it on the airwaves in 1992!
I hear ya about not keeping songs that have certain lyrics. I think one of the biggest reasons so many loved this song when they did is that, like me, I was a young teenager, seen as a 'weirdo' in a lot of ways, feeling unsure what my purpose was, and the lyrics of this song sort of brought that to the surface in a way that let a lot of us vent our frustrations. It helped me personally not dwell on it due to the intensity of the music played in the song, wrapped up in how good it sounded. It was really cathartic, and actually helped me shrug off those inadequacies so whatever people at my school and even in my family might say about how 'weird' I was, it didn't sink in like it used to. I let myself be as 'weird' as I wanted, because I realized that I wasn't weird; I was just different than others, and that was perfectly ok. LoL Lot of the time they thought me as weird was 'cuz I spent most of my time involved with my church and youth group. I wasn't spending all my time at the mall or hanging around at home doing nothing. So if that meant I was weird, so be it! 😄
I LOVE this song. And just because you sing along with it and appreciate it doesn't mean you ARE a creep or a loser. Don't take it so personally. It's not about you. It's Thom Yorke explaining how HE felt when he had an unrequited and ultimately embarrassing crush on a girl at Exeter College.
I love this song because it's so honest. It's Thom's real story.
They are probably the most influential band since The Beatles so plenty to explore, and lots of different genres!
just one of those rare songs that you never seem to get fed up with,however many times you hear it
I feel this song in my soul every time I hear it. Thanks for your reaction.
The difference between covering and sampling is that rock bands state upfront their's is a cover, and they'll acknowledge the original songwriters. By contrast, hip hop will blatantly take someone else's instrumentals and use them to record their own songs with different titles, verses, hooks, and subject matter entirely- and never acknowledge the original songwriters in the track listing or liner notes. To rock/metal fans, this is considered very dishonest and insulting
Rockbands are happy to tell if you a song isn't theres
It was really cultural at the time, very much a part of the divergent crew, creep has changed meanings over time.
All samples are paid for, Led Zeppelin dont tend to acknowledge who they ripped off, bar some out of court settlements.
I mean thats just straight up not true, its very grey actually. In hip hop, not only are the OG artists compensated but the fans are genuinely interested in the sample itself; i cant tell you how many times ive gone to a sampled rap song and seen thousands of "Kanye brought me here" type comments.
Whereas I doubt youve ever once gone to one of the original songs where Noel Gallagher from Oasis straight up steals the guitar solo. Its not black and white, theres stealing and sampling on both sides of music
@@danielmcgrath680 Paying the original songwriters royalties has nothing to do with it. The issue that rock/metal listeners have with rappers sampling their music is that the rappers never acknowledge they've used someone else's beat until they're forced to. Rappers don't place an asterisk in their track listings that states it's someone else's music they're rapping over. They don't keep the same choruses, lyrics, or song titles either. They just use their beats to write their own songs to
Creep is one of my top 10 favourite songs. It just resonates with me.
Yessssss....check Portishead ❤❤❤
RH are their own genre. This is their early work before they came into their own sound. No one else sounds like them. Their CD, OK Computer changed music. It was so innovative, beautiful and so different from what rock music sounded like. Even today, that CD stands alone and others that they made after that one. They are just so damn good. My top 5 bands of all time. I LOVE RH and I LOOOOVE Thom LOLOL
he has the most amazing voice! ❤
This song is art off the canvas truly is❤️🇬🇧
Hey Black Pegasus! I think you may have Portishead confused with Radiohead, Portishead is a bomb ass band too. Check out Radiohead's All I Need next. I think it will touch a part of your soul.
"You are special" was the best line I ever heard from you -- and there were some pretty good lines in earlier reactions of yours... But with that one, you nailed it.
All the very best best from Germany
You should’ve done the live version.. it’s amazing👌🏼
One of my favorite songs from high school 30 years ago, and still is in my top 10
If you thought they had a female singer... you may be thinking of Hailey Reinhart's version of this song. Few times can a cover to be said to be a cooler version of an already ultra cool song
Haley was the singer, but it should be called Postmodern Jukebox's version. PMJ does a lot of totally re-imagined covers and brings in guest vocalists. Haley is in several, but she is not the only singer that works with PMJ. Their collaboration on Creep was definitely awesome and HOT as heck. And very cool at the same time. But I would not say it was better than this, just as Disturbed's Sound of Silence was awesome but so different from Simon and Garfunkel's excellent original that I cannot call it better.
PMJ is definitely worth covering. They usually have a 40s-50s sultry lounge styling - might call it torch song style.
By the way, BP, it really would be a great reaction to compare the original All About that Bass with Home Free's country acapella cover and PMJ's sultry torch song cover - all very different and all very good for what they aim to be.
@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 I'll say it: If not better, just as good at the very least.
Excellent!!!! Haley is AMAZING!!! And Sound of Silence by Disturbed… my two favorite songs and performances on UA-cam!!
Absolutely not a cover, this is the original. Radiohead is one amazing band. Tom York is an incredible singer and songwriter. He gives the songs so much feeling and moods. You should check out their live show from the basement: it’s incredible and his vocals are sublime
Definitely the original
Yeeeeeeeesssssssss!!! So glad you did RADIOHEAD. I've been hollerin' at you for the longest time to check them! I TOLD YOU!!! My friend, you have just taken what is but the very first step into the DEEEEEEEEP Rabbit Hole that is Radiohead. One of the most successful, influential, tight, forward thinking and under-appreciated bands you'll find. Do you a favor and dig deep into the thick-ass catalogue. you will not be disappointed. I promise you.
I think you mean portishead
Another great tune of their's is Paranoid Android from their album Ok Computer. Radiohead has remained an innovative and compelling band for 30 years
I wish I was special
Good luck down the Radiohead rabbit hole. This is just the tip of the iceberg. What a band.
As I have explained before, the difference between sampling and covering comes down to giving credit to the originator. When a band does a cover version, the songwriters are given full credit, and royalties are paid. When a sample is taken, more often than not, no credit is given, and no royalties are paid. That's why hip hop gets criticized for sampling. It's not complicated.
Exactly! If you sample from another bands song you're required to have the originator "sign off" letting you do so. Some bands works like the HUGEcatalog the Beatles have to pick at I read that they won't sign off. I don't know who's in control of their stuff these days.
@@Cchan53 Sony Music Publishing controls the Beatles' catalogue now.
RADIOHEAD??!! Now you’ve gone and made me “eat crow”🐦⬛ You definitely picked another great, legendary song and your critique was spot on! I’m definitely joining the good people who support you! I know you’re headed for bigger things but please stay a while longer.
Am I the only one who consistently skips the first few minutes of BP's videos to avoid the dribble and ridiculous intro 'song'?
Oh thus tune I just had it full blast coming home from work ❤I love his voice having said that Jonny Greenwood composer on this group he is a genius. He has won a Oscar, for the soundtrack of a movie named Phantom thread he’s a genius unbelievable his talent.
Radio is an amazing band. They're not for everyone but they should be. You either like them or you don't understand them.
This was the one and only! Nothing compares. x
Dude. I love reaction videos. That being said, I'm a fan now. You are so incredibly open to all forms of music. Nuff said. Fan here.
They are a british band sometimes put in the genre of Art Rock in the uk or alternative in the u.s. Sometimes called experimental Rock, pop, indie rock. This song Creep is one of their biggest hits and in articles they have said they almost didn't record it because they didn't like it.
This is an amazing song. His vocals are brilliant. It is their song. This is an original. I'm surprised you didn't look up details of the song and band.
Radiohead is the original band doing this song. Many artists have done their version of these songs including VoicePlay and it was terrific! Brian Justin Crum did this on his audition for Americas Got Talent and it was fantastic!
love your reactions man - radiohead are a very progressive/experimental band, hope you work your way through their work
I’ve seen a lot of people do this. Two of my favorites are Haley Reinhart Post Modern Jukebox and the other is Idina Menzel. Love the lyrics.
FIRST time REACTION to CREEP - Vintage Postmodern Jukebox ft. Haley Reinhart! @AnthonyRay
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Great song from a great Band. One of the most unique singer I've heard. Paranoid Android is my favourite Radiohead song and it stays in my Drum Playlist forever.
They’re amazing they are one of the best lyrical bands ever
British music so special and unlike the rest of the music world!!!
This was my freshman year in college and it was the alternative soundtrack. You can hear the pain in Thom’s pain through this whole song. You need to react to one of the live versions of this one.
This is by far my favorite reaction from you!! This one is a gem and a half!!!
Radiohead are absolute British gems, Creep being one of their best known songs. And now that you're heading down the Brit rock hole, perhaps you should have a look at Muse as well. Plug In Baby live in Rome would be a great start! Insane vocals and instrumentals all-round. Many people don't understand just how big some British bands are. Muse are epically huge.
Chills. Absolute masterpiece.
Love seeing you react to all these songs that have been in my eclectic playlists for years- just so much great music out there across all genres!
Yes, they are the original artist of the song. 😊
I never really understood why anyone gets upset by artists sampling others music. All music has been sampled in one way or another… since music was created. I think that’s what makes music so powerful. It has bits & pieces from so many different genres, sounds, lyrics, vibes, etc.
Huge,HUGE song! 1993 or 94. Still love this!