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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Still Ill


    There's a reference to this in the movie Heretic. I'm not going to fully recommend it, but Hugh Grant puts in a great performance and I'd say it's worth a watch overall.

    Whilst it may be their most popular song on Spotify, I doubt there's even a single Radiohead fan who'd count it as their favourite song.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭piggysiren


    Yeah I wouldn't be heartbroken if it was the hit they left out. It's more dissapointing to see stuff like Fake Plastic Trees, No Surprises and Street Spirit on selective rotation in the setlists.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭KawaKris


    I doubt it would make it into my top 20 fav Radiohead songs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    If I was picking my fantasy 25 song setlist Creep wouldn't be anywhere near it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,329 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Yeah it's not even a song I'd associate with the band anymore to be honest. More of a 'proto' Radiohead when they weren't really sure what they wanted to be, along with most of Pablo Honey.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭walkonby


    it’s like Paul McCartney playing Love Me Do, (which he does), the Beatles later work far surpasses it but there is a certain poignancy in going back to your first hit when you are getting on a bit. The lads in Radiohead are at that age when you would expect them to be looking back over the bands whole career, particularly coming back to playing live after a long break with no new material to present



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭Romero


    Breakdown of songs by album played across the four nights in Madrid. All of the footage I've seen looks like great gigs and I envy those who will get to see them over the next few weeks.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭walkonby


    really brings out the relative weakness of Amnesiac, KOL and AMSP

    And how good IR was, the pay what you want aspect really overshadowed the songs when that came out

    morning bell a glaring absence



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭joinme


    I revisited KoL recently and it holds up really well. Give up the ghost and Lotus flower are brilliant songs. Possibly underrated as a Radiohead album, and in most other bands catalogue it would be their masterpiece.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭crl84


    Pretty much no royalties due on songs performed in a live setting, and essentially zero for a song you co-wrote.

    People seem to be under the impression Radiohead hate Creep, yet they've played it dozens of times over the last 10-15 years. One of these bizarre self-perpetuating myths that has no basis in reality.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭deeks


    MSP is definitely not weak - relative or otherwise. KOL I can agree with.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭walkonby


    They did seem to get fed up having to play it all the time during the 90s. Thom says he finds it hard to sing it now, just with his voice aging, so it may not be heard live again i guess



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭FullBack Jam


    Per setlist.com, it hasn't been played by them for over 7 years. That's a hell of a long time. That's not just randomly playing it every so often. Must be some reason why that is the case.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭walkonby


    that’s because they haven’t been playing live! It appeared a few times on amsp tour, but hasn’t been a live staple since 1990s



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭crl84


    Yeah, because they haven't toured in 7 years....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭fafy


    Had a blast at the 4th Madrid gig on Saturday, in the round worked well i thought, Thom moves around to both sides every few tracks, and Phil is turned around for the encore only, loved it all, a minor fly in the ointment was “Present Tense” the arrangement just didn’t work for me, and i do like the track, but a minor quibble.
    Its a lucky dip track selection, thank god Creep is being left out, and i’d imagine the band are sick of playing it. They lean into one or more albums each night, on Saturday there was 5 each from In Rainbows & OK Computer.

    We didn’t q up early, got in around an hour before they came on, but still had a good view, great atmosphere, and everyone around me knew all the tracks played, added to the experience.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭FullBack Jam


    Oh ok. That would explain it. Cant believe its 8 years ago since 3arena.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Ekano


    The said in an interview they rehearsed all albums from the bends onwards. I'm not 100% sure of all setlists so far but I don't think there are any Pablo Honey songs played.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,276 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭Salvadoor


    I guess I'm a weirdo because I like Creep.

    I'd like it if they played it in London in 2 weeks time



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭fafy


    i’ve seen them on every tour since 2000, and it was never played,

    i checked there and “Creep”, has not been played live, since 2018 according to setlist fm, and hardly ever in last few tours


    however this tour is a bit different as not promoting an album, so its possible some PH tracks are played.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,631 ✭✭✭davywalsh7


    I seen them in coachella in 2017 and they played it but think it was only cos the sound had cut out twice for them earlier in the set



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    The few occassions they played it in 16/17/18 seemed to be mostly at festivals rather than their own stand alone gigs



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭walkonby


    i could have sworn they said somewhere they rehearsed songs from every album this tour, which i took to mean pablo honey too



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭VM Varga




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭RolandGoose


    I heard them do Creep in the Point on the Hail to the Thief tour in 2003, and again in 2006 in Marley Park on the pre In Rainbows tour.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭spindex


    Creep wouldn't be my favourite song by them but when they played it in the point that time, it was bloody marvellous. I think my ears are still ringing from when the guitars kicked in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Ekano


    I was in Amsterdam for AMSP. Thom started messing with the first chord of creep. The crowd reacted. Thom just said 'nah' and played something else. I appreciated the joke at our expense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭A.Gorilla


    Honestly I just cannot wait for Friday week for the London gig. My favourite band ever and it'll be my first time being able to see them. Bringing my son with me, They just happen to be his favourite band as well….Will be one for the ages :) All the setlists so far for me have been Unreal. Living for it now!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭KawaKris


    Yeah, I'm really buzzing for it now. Heading over Friday for Saturday's gig. Staying in Greenwich which is handy. Setlists look unreal. I've never been more excited for a gig. Can't wait.

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