That guitar drop...... was the moment a generation was defined.

My favourite line in this song is "I want you to notice when I'm not around".

It's one of his early songs which talks about him not feeling good enough because of the way he looks. His insecurities as a child surrounding his lazy eye and that he doesn't feel like he belongs . It's a heartbreaking song and his live versions are amazing as you see that emotion play out.

He feels creepy bc he's watching and admiring her from afar and is totally insecure about himself

I'm a brit, and this came out when I was at high school. It's very difficult to overestimate how big this track was and what a difference it made to so many people. Radiohead just went from strength to strength after this. Also for your sad playlist from Radiohead, Exit Music (for a film) and The Pyramid Song. I don't think anyone sings sad songs like Thom.

this guy says all the right things, he must be super smart to get songs so fast.

Two songs have made me pull over to the side of the road on first listen, this was one of them. I was twenty-one, running a landscaping crew over the summer, working in southern Ohio. I pulled my bosses '73 Chevy pick-up (straight six, three on the tree) and trailer full of mowers off onto a dirt patch and just sat there... listening.

I think he expresses what many young people (particularly teenagers) think - from a boy's perspective - he's in love with a girl who is "special" etc and he is so lacking in self esteem that he thinks he can never have her, because he's just a creep, a weirdo... he feels not good enough and out of place, awkward. This song struck a chord with young people at the time, because being a teenager is full of this kind of self doubt and angst - the song expresses the worrying and depressing thoughts that many teenage boys go through. And teenage girls too.

Its basically one of about 4 songs that sums up the entire generation that heard it for the first time. 💯

I love your videos because you appreciate the lyrics and you try to understand the story of the song. So many people don't learn the lyrics. To me the vocals and the story are the best part.

There’s a cover of this song by Post Modern Jukebox featuring Hailey Reinhardt that will blow you away!

This song resonates with so many of us because at one time or another in our lives we have all felt we were invisible or disconnected from everyone around us. It hurts to feel as if you don't belong anywhere.

Nobody will ever top Radiohead's original version - it's just not possible. I've heard lots of good covers, but nothing comes near to Thom Yorke's pure raw emotional projection. Not only is the music beautiful, but those lyrics, combined with Thom's voice of Radiohead's *MASTERPIECE* ......And that's why this song is covered so much! It has been in my top 5 since it was released and it's never left it - I doubt it ever will. PLEASE listen to 'Street Spirit' (Fade Away) by Radiohead.....haunting is an understatement 🖤.

Radiohead are phenomenal. Their sound evolved from album to album. They are one of the most influential bands of the oast 40 years. Choose songs from each album. Thom Yorke's voice is amazing on it's own. They're brilliant.

Hello out there, to all my fellow CREEPS & WEIRDOS out there, we make the world a more interesting place to live!!! Bands like CREEP, take you on an emotional journey, so you feel the music, & that's what makes them exceptional, & seriously successful! 😎 Great reaction 😎

I love Radiohead! This song is so cool. It would be great if you could react to a live concert version Jools Holland live of Paranoid Android, as well as a live session of Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) they did live in Japan from this channel rrn3000 also the Basement sessions of In Rainbows, the song "Weird Fishes" is so amazing! They are so gifted musically. If you follow their music from the start, you can see how gifted they each are and that creatively together, there is no other band like them. Check out Thom and Jonny's side band called "The Smile". They are amazing!!

Radiohead were the first gig that I ever went to and I was 16 ☺️🖤💜

The part where the guitars escalate and scream and cry is the highest art of form.

This song is about a time when the lead singer, Thom Yorke was at university. He was really infatuated with this girl in his class. He never had the courage to approach her and ask her out so he took a dark turn. He ended up stalking her through the uni campus. Even showing up at parties he knew she was there. He realises how much of a “creep” he was and he never thought that this beautiful woman would ever consider being seen with him. Anyway, he wrote a song about this dark history of him and this girl who was unobtainable to a guy like him. Years later, “Creep” became a huge hit and defined a generation of teenagers. Me one of them. At a concert Radiohead was playing at, this girl turned up to watch him play. He was incredibly embarrassed as it was well known by then that this song was about her. But because he was insanely famous now, this girl wanted to be seen with him and even asked him to date her. Thom Yorke politely declined her advances and never saw her again. He personally hates this song which is ironic because it was this song that put Radiohead into the stratosphere of fame and fortune. After so many years of playing this song at concerts all over the world, I think it was in the early 2000’s he refused to play this song again. I think it was in 2019 he decided to play this song for the first time in over 15 years and I think they haven’t played it since.

I just discovered your reaction channel tonight @Shon. Gotta day I love your enthusiasm and there's just a natural quality to you that no all 'tubers have. I'll keep watching!

Dude had severe self-esteem issues: "I'm a creep. I'm a weirdo."

I love this song so much. What really gets me is that The Hollies sued them because it sounds like The Air that I Breathe and I don't hear it, but that Ed Sheeran debacle...as if.

I loved your reaction very spontaneous and honest and good ideas about the song!

3:45 Completely agree, the desire for companionship is one of the deepest feelings we can experience...one big thing about Radiohead's lead singer, Thom Yorke, is that he has had strabismus from childhood (aka lazy eye, though his isn't as bad as Colin Hay's from another excellent band, Men at Work)...so he was very apprehensive about talking to women for fear of rejection...and supposedly that is where this song comes from, if you notice, he keeps his eyes mostly closed in this video so as not to accentuate his issue...to where you would never know it unless you saw him in person...we all cope in different ways...

Bruhhhhh i just found your channel thru Kells (MGK) and wowwww my G.... i am blown away and forever subbed. Youre so accepting of EVERYTHING. Imagine if the remainder of the world was like you. Damn dawg. Keep doing amazing stuff like this please. You are more than appreciated 🙏👏🏽🤝

Your take on this was spot on

It's about Love. Ant it has layers ;) - Love is not easy for most people...

Rock and pop are the best music, real music.

You should see his live performance. Emotional and powerful

It's a confidence thing, and sometimes even the coolest people are awestruck and dumbfounded when they run into a type of love that captivates them so much, they feel lesser, like an infatuated creep, out of their league, etc. Imposter syndrome, but on a romance level. This song skyrocketed the group though, "Exit For a Film" is my favorite of theirs, I believe it was in the end credits of Romeo & Juliet years ago.

Fantastic reaction! I’ll watch a few more before I subscribe, but badass so far.

Radiohead is a vibe, my dude.

It’s a haunting and disturbing insight into people who feel like misfits.

He is so insecure, self hating even that he can't even approach her. He feels insignificant. Love the song!!❤

As an teenager at school who had a crush on a girl at school but was too scared to tell her this makes so much sense.

He approached a girl at a party..she told him he was a creep and literally ran out the door..true story

Great reactions!! Keep up the good work!!

Great job...your reviews are fun to watch as you listen and get it.

This song has always given me "school shooting" vibes (especially when he's telling people to run). The music is mellow while he's singing about her, but once he switches to himself, the music gets hard and "distorted". This song is so great.

great video man i enjoyed the reaction keep it up ,,,im from canada

Broski I love your reaction to this, Keep it up.

Nice analysis Shon ... thoughtful reaction ... 👍

I love your reactions they're always fun to watch. The most fantastic Rock and roll ballad to me personally is "Edie (Ciao baby) by the British band The Cult.

Ey bro greetings from Colombia Rock it!!! 🤘🤘🤘

For the ones that don’t fit in with society to well 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

she's running out the door She running she runs runs runs runs

Good vibes man 🤙 "I don't belong here" refers to him feeling like shes so much better than him that if he was with her it wouldn't feel right to him. I believe he did have a crush and either he was denied in a heartbreaking way or more likely he never told them how he felt because of his self-confidence...or lack thereof.

One of my favorites.

Love you and this song!!

i love your reaction dude

SHEEEEEEE'S RUNNIN! OUUUUTT!!!!!

Keep up the good work!

If you haven't heard of "Bush" then check out the album "Sixteen Stone", top songs are "Everything Zen", "Little Things", "Comedown", "Machinehead", "Glycerine"

recently sub'd, I've really enjoyed your reactions and how you actually try to listen to the lyrics. You find the meaning or even just the feeling the song gives you. So many reactors just bob along to the beat and scream how great without even trying to understand. I appreciate ya, this was a lovely reaction to a grinding, sad song. Have you checked out any R.E.M. yet? I think it would be a great reaction to do Everybody Hurts and Losing My Religion (the official video version). Have a wonderful day!

In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins... Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine...

He's creeping on the girl watching her. Not approaching her because he doesn't feel worthy.. Maybe if he had a better body or personality he would.

He's a stalker or a peeping tom. that's what the song is about. They also stopped playing it live for a very long time. Good history, look into it.

It's not about him being creepy. It's more about how he feels about himself and not feeling good enough

Definitely check out Tears For Fears' version (played live at any concert of theirs). A dear friend who adores this song in the original, actually said she liked Tears For Fears' version better. Even moodier, if that's possible.

I was in high school when I first heard this song and it hit like a ton of feathers.

Yes I know it's the original, but have you heard Brian Justin Crum singing this song on AGT? He was EXCELLENT (ofcourse they are too!!!)

You should give Bob Dylan's 'It's alright ma,( I'm only bleeding ), I think you will find it interesting! Love your reactions, bro!

Listen to Brian Justin Crum do this cover on AGT. Its too 🔥🔥🔥🔥 to even say how awesome it is. Pure snap. ❤❤

Epic tune/band

Best song EVER

I listen to this song every f#&King day, & the performance ROCK.🙌

NICE SHOT MAN- FILTER.....a banger that has a dark story behind it.....

15 step (in the basement) is worth a watch .. but then so many are

When you react, it might be helpful to have lyrics pulled up. 😉 Love your channel and reactions! Keep up the great work!

I still feel on the outside looking in, and I’m old.

Enormously huge hi when it was released!!! He thinks she thinks he's a creep. 💜💜💜🎵🎼🎶🥁🎤🎸🎙🎹🤘🤘🤘

They best amazing ❤

❤‍🔥❤‍🔥🤗 Issa Deep Vibe

You're so charming and well spoken

My favorite male voice ❤

Charlie Daniels. Devil went down to Georgia.

You ever been crushing on someone HARD, but from afar? That's what this is. He's creepin' on this person and he's aware of what he's doing, and he's like, "What the hell am I doing? I need to stop (I don't belong here.).

This song was in Westworld. It was being played by the automatic playing piano.

Yeah welcome

Notice when he's talking abt her the music is soft and beautiful...but when he talks abt himself the music gets all ranchy.

IDK, I didn't write the song. But it seems pretty clear to me that this was written from the point of view of the stalker.

Wait for it, wait for it... gink/Gink. Gink/gink. Brrrrreeeeeaaaaannngg

You are too beautiful a human to understand this song.

I think he was a bestie with someone that he was just friends and it never was said and missed opportunity

I have a few suggestions for ya: Type O Negative - Love ya to Death. Tesla - Signs. Sound Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

Watch "Ram Jam" black Betty....I think u will love it.

Do the best live performance

Your reactions are great 😁if you haven't heard of Audioslave, Chris Cornell is phenomenal, check out the official music video, Cochise, you won't be disappointed 😁✌️

He feels unworthy of their love. Even if they offered themselves up on a platter he wouldn’t be able to have a healthy relationship because his self-worth is so insanely low that he will, by default, expect to lose the one thing he wants and has. Better to have never lose it than to have it and know what it’s like to not have it.

I would love to see you do some reactions to The Warning.

Think of the nerd/weird kid (boy) in High School who would love to date the 'Popular Girl', so he goes up at a dance and she is like, "OMG, Weirdo, you are such a creep, what are you even doing here, you don't belong here". I am sure many guys have encountered this, and many girls (now grown) feel bad for it.

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I read somewhere that most people want to be with someone that they think is a little above them, maybe just slightly out of their league. What about when you are convinced the person is completely out of your league. That goes to all sorts of weird places; lots of what ifs. What if they get tired of me? What if they find someone better? Why are they with me? Should I believe they care about me? It's sort of dark because this is where a lot of domestic violence comes from. He says I want to have control and he's doing that by figuring out what will please her, another person might take control quite differently.

Shon u r beautiful man beautiful soul beautiful energy ❤️😘💪

he speak about his exitence in this world in a spiritual way. is like hi does not beelong to this place and of cours he can t be with a gril because the grils from the point of him are from this world and he is a werde

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It's about stardom. Guess the rest

The singer (Thom Yorke) would go on to describe this song as "a joke that nobody got," I've thought a lot about that, but I'm still not 100% sure what he meant. Maybe he means the song is meant to be sarcastic but everyone took it at face value, or maybe the song doesn't represent how he felt personally but people took it like that. I dunno for sure, but I do know the band tried really hard to distance themselves from this song ever since.

He's a stalker 😂

There are so many small KZfaqr's telling me "I already know what time it is" but I really don't. What time is it? What it do and wat it is is it? I don't know these things. And can someone get this man a pack of hanes t shirts?