which is the best "creep"?

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I like every song called "Creep." I think.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, I'd say it's NOT the Stone Temple Pilots

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link

And it's NOT TLC

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link

And I wish it could say it's not Radiohead, but those are the only three I can think of right now.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:42 (eighteen years ago) link

TLC
Radiohead
The Fall
Afghan Whigs
Stone Temple Pilots

and yeah, all five are fab.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link

TLC

― Sym Sym (sym), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

It can't be Afghan Whigs or The Fall, cause I don't like either of those bands. So I guess I'm going with Radiohead.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:46 (eighteen years ago) link

c.r.e.e.p. >>> all the others

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm thinking TLC wins for me.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

all 5 are good songs, i'd favour the whigs though

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"Too Many Creeps" -Bush Tetras

― Curmudgeon (Steve K), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link

oooh nice!

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

god, that STP song is abominable. I've said it once, and I will say it again: that song has the absolute worst lyrics of any song, ever. i really wonder how drunk (or dumb) weiland had to be to amble into the studio with those lyrics and perform them without any sense of shame.

― gunda, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link

No, I think there are other STP songs with worse lyrics.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

And I feel that time’s a wasted go
So where ya going to tommorrow?
And I see that these are lies to come
Would you even care?

And I feel it
And I feel it

Where ya going for tommorrow?
Where ya going with that mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?

vs.

Forward yesterday
Makes me wanna stay
What they said was real
Makes me wanna steal
Livin’ under house
Guess I’m livin’, I’m a mouse
All’s I gots is time
Got no meaning, just a rhyme

It's a tough call.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Also "Creep" by The Chills - but again, not as good as TLC.

― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link

S.P.U.D's is the best.

― cb, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Dannii Minogue triumphs here

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Chino XL

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

The Radiohead one may be in the top100 songs about going to a stripclub.

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link

TLC

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link

tlc, radiohead, and the fall versions are all great. i havent heard the chills' version or the afghan whigs' version...

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

The Afghan Whigs version is a cover of the TLC song. It's just about the greatest thing ever (2nd only to their cover of "Easily Persuaded").

If you haven't heard it, you really owe it to yourself:

http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=150RAP23RXSSB3BIQL8T27B83K

― casey (t. fiend), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Time for a mash-up. Somebody please do this.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

TLC, by a country mile. And I'm not just saying that because of the name.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Idaho, off their first ep.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't see what's so bad about those STP lyrics.

I had Chino XL in mind when I posted this thread, as well as "Negative Creep" by Nirvana.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I like Stone Temple Pilots. "Creep" is something I really wish they'd never recorded.

The Afghan Whigs' version of TLC's "Creep" is a very interesting take, and I love how well the song works both as alt-rock and with a male singer, but it doesn't even come close to the unforced crazysexycoolness of the original.

But Radiohead's "Creep" is just absolutely perfect, a song that distills self-loathing down to its bare essentials and kinda makes every song written after it on the same subject unnecessary. One of the great novelty rock hits of all time.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 22 September 2005 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link

And personally, I think The Whigs' version of "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" trumps their "Creep" by miles.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 22 September 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I really don't like Radiohead's "Creep". Really, everything they released circa Pablo Honey can go fuck itself as far as I'm concerned.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

see "Cyclo" and you might change your mind.

Nirvana "Negative Creep"

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Bush Tetras seconded.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

The Fall trumps them all.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

TLC and the Fall's songs are good, Radiohead's isn't, didn't like the Whigs' version, not heard STP or Dannii Minogue's.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

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