We've Got You Covered
Damien Rice takes on Radiohead's 'Creep'
“Creep” is probably the song to most accurately use the title to describe the mood of the song. “Creep” is, well, creepy. Which it should be, Radiohead front man Thom Yorke wrote it about a girl he had been “following around.” After she unexpectedly showed up at one of their shows, Yorke penned what is arguably (it might not even be debatable, actually) Radiohead’s most popular song. A sort of funny side note to the song – Yorke and the rest of Radiohead had to convince their producer that it was an original song. The success of “Creep” started to haunt Radiohead, and the song that was recorded in 1992 was out of their live set list completely by 1998. Only a few years ago did they resurrect “Creep” on a sporadic basis for their live show.
Everybody has heard a cover of “Creep,” mostly because everybody had a friend in high school that played guitar and tried to sing. I’m sure you even tried your hand at it in the original “Rock Band.” One of the more famous versions of “Creep” comes from Damien Rice. Damien Rice’s original recordings bore me to tears, but his version of the Radiohead hit does a masterful job of capturing the same desperate, plea ridden and beaten down emotions that Yorke so wonderfully created in 1992. The only knock I could give against Rice is that he doesn’t even come close to sounding as angelic as Yorke comes off during the high notes; but who ever does?
Posted by Wes Soltis on Feb 23, 2009 @ 7:00 am
