June 23, 2026
#365songs (174 / 365)
"Creep" is whatever. This is the first great Radiohead song. I bestow that title on "Just" and not "Fake Plastic Trees," another very good song, because "Just" features Jonny Greenwood chromatically tearing the shit up on guitar and Thom Yorke freaking the fuck out on vocals while still keeping the sense of dread and disaffection that this band does so well.
Plus the music video is over-the-top and melodramatic but still an all-timer. Those two seconds where the music drops and it's just Thom Yorke staring into the camera with his lazy eye? Hilarious! Classic! What does the man on the ground say? To be honest, I don't really give a shit, and I'm not sure I did even when I saw this for the first time in college — the YouTube comments have some great, mostly facetious suggestions, though — but it's a great video for a great song.
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