Trivia / Pablo Honey

• Better Export for You: The Japanese release includes "Pop Is Dead", "Inside My Head", "Million Dollar Question", and live versions of "Creep", and "Ripcord" as bonus tracks.
• Black Sheep Hit: "Creep," their first hit, isn't one in the context of this album, but it's become more of a starting point for their work than anything else — they evolved past it fairly quickly.
• Breakthrough Hit: "Creep" became the band's first top ten hit in the UK and catapulted them into the British mainstream almost immediately.
• Creator Backlash:
  • The Pablo Honey era in general. Songs from then are virtually never performed anymore, with the exception of "Creep" every dozen or so shows. Thom Yorke dismissed the band during this period as a case of Small Name, Big Ego, claiming that the fame they got from "Creep" went to their heads for a brief period of time.
  • Radiohead grew to hate "Creep" because people would show up to their concerts exclusively to hear it, acted indignant until they played it, and left immediately afterwards. They continued to play it reluctantly, usually stating how they have no respect for the people that wanted to hear it right before. They eventually cut the song from their setlist for a long period of time, and wrote "My Iron Lung" as a reaction ("This / This is our new song / Just like the last one / A total waste of time / My iron lung.") They even asked every single band who were playing on the Pyramid Stage (which they headlined) at Glastonbury 2003 if they'd be so kind to perform it so they didn't have to (the duty was taken up by Moby instead). Since 2009, however, the band has a much kinder stance towards "Creep" and now play it in concert often; It seems that they've warmed up to it now that they've long since escaped its shadow. They've played "Creep" several times in 2009, 10 times in 2016 and 5 times in 2017 (including their Coachella and Glastonbury sets), each time receiving a warm reception from the audience.
• Rarely Performed Song: For a long time, Radiohead refrained from performing "Creep" due to their discontent with audiences only showing up to hear that song and leaving right after it was over. They eventually made peace with the song and added it back to their setlist in 2016.
  • The entire album has been rarely performed ever since the 2000s began, with only "Creep", "You", "Lurgee", and "Blow Out" having been played at all since 2000. "Blow Out" and "Creep" are the only ones to have been performed after 2003, while "Creep" is the only one to have been performed more than a single digit number of times since 2000.
• Throw It In!: The three blasts of "dead notes" at the end of the verses in "Creep" were Jonny Greenwood getting frustrated with the slow song and trying to "fuck it up."

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