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  • is this a camera phone?

  • @koalajones88 I have provided the link to better quality version in both video and description if you haven't noticed ;) it's just that this one was uploaded so much longer before and I didn't feel like deleting it :P

  • i don't think that it is playback..because he whisper some parts of the verse..

  • O jonny não usa a telecaster ai =(

    e o cachorro latindo ao fundo ? kk

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  • Is this playback???

  • he moves like morrison

  • playback :(

  • wow i love his hair here hes so handsome

  • jonny looks so girly here... and what can i say about thom???

  • When the song shifts from the verse to the chorus, Jonny Greenwood plays three blasts of guitar noise ("dead notes" played by releasing fret-hand pressure and picking the strings). Greenwood said he did this because he did not like how quiet the song was; he explained, "So I hit the guitar hard—really hard".[2] Ed O'Brien said, "That's the sound of Jonny trying to fuck the song up. He really didn't like it the first time we played it, so he tried spoiling it. And it made the song."

  • aaaahh!!! RADIOHEAD!!! my plastic hair!!!! RULES!!

  • Performed on my birthday.

  • Thom's hair! Jonny's hair! Jonny's starry sweater!

  • @ObscenityOlivia Phil's hair! lol.

  • This sucks - be aware though, that there is a good quality version of Youtube. Don't leave having heard just this. Search Radiohead totp and you'll find it under "radiohead-creep"

  • yeah..there's a dog...

  • is it me or is there a dog barking in the background.....

  • I lOve Jonny

  • Bob Rock wants his snare sound back

  • zing!

  • I have to say they performed live which is rare for top of the pops ... props for that !

  • Only the vocals are live, it's really bizarre because you can hear the vocals are a lot louder than the instrument playbacks.

  • TOTP did that alot - playbacks but with live vocals.

    Weird thing about the instrument playbacks, is Jonny's guitar. The crunch bit before the chorus (the "you're so fucking special" bit), I've noticed in this one that the second pre-chorus at 1:45, Jonny misses the first one, and still no sound. I'm wondering if that noise was a seperate sample triggered off at the key points to make it seem like they're doing it live.

    I might not be making much sense here, but it's clearly noticeable.

  • you're right. perhaps that guitar sample was on the vocal track, it's possible

  • Interesting idea. I think they might have edited it out to make it appear that it's live....you know, bands sometimes omit or add things in a live performance..who knows!

  • what a crap sound quality

  • i must to say it: poor performance

  • yeah, the band hates this song and the whole first album now. they'd delete that first album from history if they could.

  • this brilliant stuff. chekout a band called jekyll and their song bone crunching kick to the head and their song animals.they are brilliant and i feel emotion in bone cruncher.i love both bands radiohead and jekyll.

  • wtf jonny black pick guard?

  • probably just a "prop" for TV. I don't think that's Ed's Rickenbacker either - he didn't have a sunburst one like that until about 1996, and it's a different shape.

    My guess is they were touring at the time, and didn't want to bring any of their gear to the BBC studios for the sake of a performance that's not even live.

  • this song isn't really representative of radiohead at all

  • hahaha yeah! There is a dog on...... 1.10!! hahaha

  • Do you hear a dog barking in the background?

    .x.

  • yeah man that was me

  • No but I saw the ostrich passed behind, did you see it ?

  • but did you see the moonwalking bear?

  • But I´m creep

  • Vive Muse ;)

  • When you hit Top of the Pops is like your the biggest thing in UK, doesn't get anymore commercial succesfull then that.

    Radiohead is like the new U2's, the biggest and most popular band in the wolrd, love it.

  • They went beyond U2 with songs like Paranoid Android, Knives Out, Pyramid Song, Idioteque, etc etc etc. They are more like the new Pink Floyd, without the conceptual thingie.

  • Does Debbie Harry know Thom is trying to steal her act here. Hahaha

    Well, they were very young then.

  • seriously though, I like this if only for showing how important the bassline was to Creep. never mind that the Creep bassline was freely copied from the Hollies (the band gave credit) it's still a great moment for Colin Greenwood and when you can't hear it the song doesn't feel like Creep at all. I was just thinking, tho we Radiohead fans don't put any faith in pop charts, is it any coincidence that Creep and Nude are the only RH songs to ever chart in the US top 40? Their only BASS driven hits!

  • Radiohead are my heroes. Even when appearing in such a popular TV show with attempted stylish clothes, they decided to leave out the bass in this performance as a way of creating experimental music! True punks!

  • as much as i still have a lot of love for this song and album ... this video is really good at highlighting exactly why the band look back on this era with so much disdain. they look like fucking morons. thom with tight pants and what is almost a mullet?!? its horrible!!

  • He looked good with his hair long. :]

  • What the fuck with this dog in the background ?!

  • Why even pretend to play on this show? I'd break out a fingertapping solo on the chorus... Or maybe play an entirely different song?

  • haha.

    awk to the fucking ward.

  • they really came out at the wrong time.....but what a great band

  • johnny aint using his standard Telecaster..lol

  • they obviously filmed it off his tv with a camera!

    and has a dog in his/her house!

    common sense people

  • 1:15 you hear this barking noise O_o

  • LOL HIS HAIR LOL?!

  • Do I hear a fucking barking dog? wtf

  • i thought i heard it to LMAO xD 0:51 you hear this weird barking noise O_O lawl but i don't think there would be a dog in there. XD

  • you fail.

  • stop comparing bands.

  • I like pink floyd a lot, they're probably my favorite band. But radiohead is good imo.

  • that is a sick rickenbacker that he's playing. not to be messed up but thoms hairdo is so 90's. ha ha ha please don't call me names cause i can't stand people who stand up to dumb shit like music.

  • ur skin makes me cry,,,,that sentence has a lot of meaning when u have skin problems like me. Awesome song.

  • my cigarette fell when i read this..

  • Why is that? Its kinda random when u say stuff like that.

  • lmfao @ ItsRobin

  • i know what you mean

  • I'm glad someone does :)

  • spooky

  • sickening

  • Shit; Jonny isn't using a Tele Plus, he's using one without a humbucker, first time I've seen that.

  • Radiodrac is a member of the tinitus aware

    organisation,and warns us.

    This how you hear Creep when you're 80,

    2:04 when you're 90....

    Prepare~~~«d~_×b»~~~

  • PLYBACK...----==??)(//SUCK...t­vSHOWS..

  • I'm a big Radiohead fan, but this is NOT a good version. Apart from the horrible sound, the drums drag behind, Yorke sounds disinterested, and they all look bored....sorry.

  • Please just take this piece of shit video down, Creep at TOTP is available in perfect audio now.

  • FFS

    all this talk about who is better: nirvana or radiohead

    they are both amazing bands

    and what they did have in common...they both loved the pixies :D

    i think thom and kurt would agree the pixies are better than nirvana and radiohead without a doubt

  • But the Pixies are utterly awful. They're on par with Nirvana's primitive pub rock but they're not even in the same solar system as Radiohead.

  • "Pub rock"??? No way can you call the Pixies "pub rock". They laid the foundation for the grunge movement in the 80s and 90s, and still can be heard as an influence in bands today. Sure, Radiohead are like 20 times better, but Pixies are just a s important.

  • erm, i think u meant punk rock

    but the pixies heavily influenced cobain, a lot of tht influence can be found on 'nevermind', so u cant really call them 'utterly awful'

    tbh, u should just thank them =P

  • 'irrelevant old cunts'

    mate, get a life yeah?

    and try not to use obscene language to boost ur point either!

    they headlined the reading festival back in 2005, that must mean something?

    also, do u just think they're crap just because they never made mainstream success?

    sorry mate, but i so disagree with tht statement

    the pixies will remain legends, and people shall always respect them (namely kurt cobain and thom yorke)

    =)

  • No Pixies no Radaiohead, simple as that. They're a very special band. Bands like that only come around every so often. The pixies are amazing, not as good as Radiohead imo but you're a fool if you think they're "utterly awful". Its not a party without the Pixies. Radiohead are my favourite band but i do not want to hear them at a party!

    Go stick treefingers on at the next party your at and see how well it goes down.

  • I've never heard the Pixies at a party. ABBA, Village People, Erasure... never the Pixies. I've also never heard Radiohead at a party, but why choose "Treefingers" as an example? An ambient instrumental that's a distict one-off? Why not Just, High & Dry or Karma Police? At least people might acknowledge that while they're not good party tunes, they're still good tunes. If the Pixies went on at a party people would simply want to kill the DJ for playing dreadful, tuneless tat.

  • is that a dog i hear barking half way through.wen the writing on the screen comes up.lol

  • What the fucking haircut had Thom!!! LOL!!!

  • terrible audio, but cool video just to see thom's ridiculous hair

  • bad audio....louder, please !

  • thnx sawyerboy13

  • I HATE TOP OF THE TOPS

  • What guitar Johnny uses here?Is it an American standard or a standard?

  • looks like an american standard. actually a fender american standard telecaster.

  • Thom looks like Paris Hilton in this clip.

  • hehe thats true

  • its cos they have to lip sync on top of the pops

    they aren't singing live

  • i love jonny's shirt!!

  • the band is not playing! its just thom singin!

  • OMFG THAT?S TRUE

  • Thom has gay hair here, and it's an awful performance.

  • What was the the sound recorded in the next room? Or through a pair of head phones?

  • Interesting... Jonny Greenwood played on a standard telecaster, not a telecaster plus. Really rare to be noticed.

  • I remember reading somewhere he had astandard telecaster untill it was stolen, and has had his Tele Plus ever since. Shows you how old this is :P

  • Sorry that was meant for a kurt cobain vid dont know how it ended up here

  • LOL

  • You absolute, complete and utter cock.

  • One of the greatest songs EVER

  • thas cool!!!!!!

    great voice, love the song......really great song of all the times!!!!!

  • am i the only one who thinks that thom was one of the most beautiful people in the world in pablo honey era?

    maybe thats why people are being driven away when they see me... eh.

  • nope, it was damon albarn ;) but surely there must be more people thinking same as you ;) i'm crazy about that redhead thom from the bends era though ^^

  • It's okay. I agree. Pablo Honey era FTW.

  • No I agree with you, the first time i saw them was in this video when i was thirteen. I remember seeing thom as freaky, alien-like, because of the hair - yet absolutely beautiful. haha i practically fell in love! <3

  • great voice, love the song......really great song of all the times!!!!!

  • nirvanas great, but overrated.

  • thoms hair is awful

  • Radiohead vintage..back in the day.

  • The guy said it was a big bad flop. It was constantly played when it first came out here in the states. Thats weird it is usually us that are 15 years behind. My guess it was just timing. It was an era of self deprecating altrno/grunge lyrics.

  • Is it me or is there a flippin dog barking around 1.12 in? I'm getting off this gear I swear...

  • love his hair.

  • Johhny is wearing the same shirt as he used on their MTV Beach show

    I love Radiohead in all their history, but I have to say that I love the most their Pablo Honey/The Bends era

    Bad Quality video, but thanks to bring some of the old Radiohead up here :3

  • To be fair nirvana and radiohead are quite alot different as bands so i don't see how people can say which one is better than the other.

    Plus - who the hell says that suicide is cowardly? it's easy to stand on your podium and criticise something that you have no idea about.

  • Radiohead is awesome, Nirvana is awesome, ok? So please shut the hell up on who's better!

  • A-fucking-men to that!

  • show some fucking respect!!

  • Definition of "fag" = derogatory term for a homosexual male.

    Explain how.

    Cobain was married to one Courtney Love, a woman. Ergo, he was heterosexual.

  • he was bisexual actually

  • it's just music, dude. chill.

  • JUST MUSIC?!?! What are you, insane?? The Radiohead vs Nirvana war will rage on until the death... oh wait, that was 1994 when pussy boy shot himself. Oh, and Sesquipedaliantique - type 'kurt cobain eyeliner' into google image. I believe I need not say more.

  • They're both good bands.

    Radiohead are way more advanced however.

  • They are both great bands. Even if you don't like Nirvana, you still have to appreciate the fact they made rock popular again. And you are free to disagree and have your own opinion, but to go so far as to call someone who commited suicide a "pussy boy," dude, that just isn't cool. At least show some heart man. Wow, I mean, what were you thinking, "I am gonna insult a dead man,that will make me COOL!!!!" I mean, show SOME respect, man..

  • I disagree buddy, killing yourself makes you a quitter, not a martyr.

  • how is committing suicide a cowardly act when Cobain had nothing to run away from? Suicide is the ultimate act of independence, not cowardice

  • I agree, go do it.

  • sry, im too cowardly to commit suicide, lol

  • How about you just get off the dam subject of suicide and calling dead people quitters. Deadsexy4 is right but other i guess don't get it yet. SHOW SOME DAM RESPECT FOR THE DEAD!

  • your an idiot, both bands are feircely overated, and so are both front men.

    And yeh, its just music, its something personal to you, people like you who try and force your opinions on others are merely uncomfortable with your own tastes.

    in my humble opinion :)

  • Love their music!!

  • so many band can do so much rock. So much rock so much anger. Anger doesnt last that long. Radiohead is so fucking special. They are still here.

  • yay nirvana made 20 records totally different one from another and hit a new peak on every one...

    meh, why do i bother?

    plain dumbass...

  • ok wise guy. lets do a poll on mtv or vh1 . i bet you nirvana will win over radiohead barnone.

  • i think radiohead is far more "popular" simply because they keep doing stuff as becoming a global-recognized act.

    lets wait for that poll :)

  • How in the world did anybody get these guys confused with Nirvana? Nirvana can't even touch Radiohead.

  • jonny sure loves that shirt

  • radiohead is only.... radiohead.Gods

    Que se jodan los que no saben apreciar el arte

  • `radiohead is the best xD! claro pes como debe ser xD!

  • great old version of creep

  • Ooohh love that Thom Yorke!!

  • that hair is so gross

  • OMG!  WTF! His hair looks great!

  • guaaafff guaaafff

  • T. Yorke can do no wrong!

  • i think radiohead would probably cringe a fair bit looking back on this. had to start somewhere i suppose.

  • definitivamente todos su discos tienen algo que los haces especiales incluyendo pablo honey la radio siempre quizo hacer de ellos un = britanico al grunge y por supuesto que no iban a dar su mejor presentacion en top of the pops y que bueno que thom se corto ese horrible cabello!!

  • loool, thts a new one!

  • the phrase in the song 'float like a feather' really means she stings like a bee because of the pain of not being able to get close to her

  • könnt ihr den Bass mal n bisschen runterdrehen?DEr dröhnt so doll................

  • new radiohead is better their music is deeper and more metaphorical making for a better listen =)

  • grunge . and alternative is more alternative

  • You guys are all dumb, old radiohead was the best, Thoms hair was fine. This show wasn't won of there bests though..

  • this was back in the days when radiohead sucked heavily. you and blow out are the only good songs on pablo honey, and i hate how they felt like they had to be the british equivalent of grunge. thank god that they moved away from the shit and are now undeniably the best band that ever existed, hmm? <3 thom, even grunge thom. we forgive you.

  • 'grunge thom' lmfao its not grunge :\ its alternative rock.. same with the bends. old radiohead is best radiohead. new stuff doesn't compare to it IMO

  • thank God Thom cut his hair...

  • good

  • i hate this show, how all the bands lip synch with their instruments, and only the vocals are live

  • notice how johnny misses his queue and no sound comes out right before the second chorus.

  • Love Radiohead. Love Thom Yorke - but what is with his hair? Good song.

  • Y la guitarra de jonny, qué pedo?

  • thom can sure belt it

  • one of their weakest songs

  • one of the best songs from their debut album, you know ;)

  • mmm... IMO the best is blow out, then you and then creep... but still a weak song

  • I dont think so, You, Stop Whispering and Blow Out are the best songs on Pablo Honey IMO

  • truth.