This is why Radiohead kind of don't like Creep so much.
It's trite and formulaic, and nothing much like the rest of their stuff.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Wed 5 Jan 2022, 12:15,
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Not that old chestnut.
Moody rock band with intellectual pretentions resents biggest hit. Yawn.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 5 Jan 2022, 20:32,
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It's certainly formulaic,
but I wouldn't go so far as to call it trite. It is ultimately an excellent example of it's form, even if that form is unoriginal.
I got the feeling that Radiohead's distaste was more because of the overblown hype it got, at the expense of their other more interesting work, at a time when they were working hard to be not just another carbon copy indie band.
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