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Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Street Spirit (Fade Out) (commonly referred to as "Street Spirit") is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead, featured on their second studio album The Bends, which was released in 1995.

Noted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Thom Yorke as "one of the band's saddest songs" and describing it as "the dark tunnel without the light at the end", "Street Spirit" was released as the band's ninth single and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, the highest chart position the band achieved until "Paranoid Android" from OK Computer, which reached number three in 1997.

Yorke has suggested that the song was inspired by the 1991 novel The Famished Road, written by Ben Okri, and that its music was inspired by R.E.M.

The track is built around a soft melody in A minor with an arpeggio (broken chord) guitar part. A previous, working title for the song was "Three Headed Street Spirit", as seen in interviews with Thom Yorke preceding the release of The Bends.

The single is also acclaimed for the quality of its B-sides; for example, "Talk Show Host" rose to prominence after it was remixed by Nellee Hooper for the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet, since becoming a regular at Radiohead concerts.

In 2008, the song was featured on Radiohead: The Best Of, a compilation album.

Music video

The black-and-white music video for "Street Spirit" was filmed during two nights in a desert just outside Los Angeles.

It premiered in February 1996 and was directed by Jonathan Glazer, who said, "That was definitely a turning point in my own work. I knew when I finished that, because they found their own voices as an artist, at that point, I felt like I got close to whatever mine was, and I felt confident that I could do things that emoted, that had some kind of poetic as well as prosaic value. That for me was a key moment."

Glazer would later direct the video for "Karma Police".

The lyrics:

Rows of houses, all bearing down on me

I can feel their blue hands touching me

All these things into position

All these things we'll one day swallow whole

And fade out again and fade out

This machine will, will not communicate

These thoughts and the strain I am under

Be a world child, form a circle

Before we all go under

And fade out again and fade out again

Cracked eggs, dead birds

Scream as they fight for life

I can feel death, can see its beady eyes

All these things into position

All these things we'll one day swallow whole

And fade out again and fade out again

Immerse your soul in love

IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE

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Radiohead - Creep (Live at Reading Festival, 2009)

Creep is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead.

Radiohead released "Creep" as their debut single in 1992, and it later appeared on their first album, Pablo Honey (1993).
During its initial release, "Creep" was not a chart success. However, upon re-release in 1993, it became a worldwide hit.

Attendees of Radiohead's early gigs often exhibited little interest in the band's other songs, causing the band to react against "Creep" and play it less often during the mid-to-late 1990s.

In 1998, halfway through their OK Computer tour, the band dropped the song from set lists altogether. "Creep" was not played live again until 2001, but it has since reappeared several times on the band's live sets.

In 2008, the song was included in the Radiohead: The Best Of compilation album.

According to Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, Thom Yorke wrote "Creep" while studying at Exeter University in the late 1980s.

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood said the song was inspired by a girl that Yorke had followed around who showed up unexpectedly during a show by the band.

In 1992 during rehearsal sessions with producers Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie, Radiohead spontaneously performed "Creep". Yorke described "Creep" to the producers as "our Scott Walker song"; Slade and Kolderie mistook the singer's remark and believed the song was a cover.

After tension arose due to unsatisfactory attempts at recording other songs, Slade and Kolderie tried to improve morale by requesting Radiohead to play "Creep" again. The band recorded the song in a single take; after the performance everyone in the room burst into applause. Once the band assured Kolderie that "Creep" was an original song, he called EMI to tell them to consider the song as Radiohead's next single.

While the recording had minimal overdubs and the band did not intend to release it, the producers were impressed with the song.

Due to similarities to "The Air That I Breathe", a song recorded by The Hollies in 1973, Radiohead was successfully sued for plagiarism. Consequently, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood are credited as co-writers of "Creep".

"Creep" uses a chord progression used in "The Air That I Breathe" in its verse and a melody from "The Air That I Breathe" in the bridge following the second chorus.

According to Yorke, "Creep" tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks the self-confidence to face her and feels he subconsciously is her. When asked about "Creep" in 1993, Yorke said, "I have a real problem being a man in the '90s... Any man with any sensitivity or conscience toward the opposite sex would have a problem. To actually assert yourself in a masculine way without looking like you're in a hard-rock band is a very difficult thing to do... It comes back to the music we write, which is not effeminate, but it's not brutal in its arrogance. It is one of the things I'm always trying: To assert a sexual persona and on the other hand trying desperately to negate it."

Jonny Greenwood said the song was in fact a happy song about "recognizing what you are".

Covers

Frank Bennett released a crooner version in 1996.

Nu metal band Korn performed the song at their MTV Unplugged performance in 2006.

In July 2010, the trailer to the American drama/biography film The Social Network included a cover of "Creep" by Belgian choir group Scala & Kolacny Brothers.

Christian rock band Anberlin covered this song for AOL Sessions Under. The song was eventually released on their compilation album Lost Songs, which was released in November 20, 2007.

Singer/songwriter and actress Carrie Manolakos launched her debut album, Echo, in April 2012, with a concert at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village. She ended the show with a cover of "Creep", which went viral days later, when it got picked up by Gawker, under the title "Eargasm."

Macy Gray released a version of the song on an album of all covered songs titled "Covered" in March 2012.

The Brazilian actor and singer Wagner Moura, recorded a version of "Creep" to a soundtrack for the movie O Homem do Futuro.

Tripod covered the song in a performance at the NSC in August 2006.

Singer/Songwriter Daniela Andrade covered the song in her album "Covers By Daniela Andrade Vol. 1"

Metal band Sentenced covered the song in the re-issue of Frozen album in 2007.

The song was covered by Dean Geyer and Lea Michele on the 2013 Glee episode "Guilty Pleasures".

Steampunk band Abney Park also covered this song in their album Taxidermy in 2005.

The Pride of Arizona marching band of the University of Arizona performed an arrangement of "Creep" as the second part of their 2012 show titled "Radiohead 2.0" arranged by director Jay C. Rees.

The lyrics:

When you were here before

Couldn't look you in the eye

You're just like an angel

Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather

In a beautiful whirl

I wish I was special

You're so fucking special

But I'm a creep

I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts

I want to have control

I want a perfect body

I want a perfect soul

I want you to notice when I'm not around

You're so fucking special

I wish I was special

But I'm a creep

I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

She's running out the door

She's running

She runs runs runs runs

Runs

Runs

Whatever makes you happy

Whatever you want

You're so fucking special

I wish I was special

But I'm a creep

I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

I don't belong here

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Radiohead - Karma Police 

This song is about fate and how it will always catch up with you. The theme of the song is portrayed very well in the video where a man is chased by a car which is then set on fire by the man. (thanks, Craig - Blairgowrie, Scotland)

Thom Yorke: "Karma is important. The idea that something like karma exists makes me happy. It makes me smile. Karma Police is dedicated to everyone who works for a big firm. It's a song against bosses." 

While shooting the video, Yorke almost died of carbon monoxide poisoning from the car he was sitting in.

Ed O'Brien, who supplied the closing wall of feedback said in an interview in Humo magazine: "When someone in the band behaved like an a--hole, one of the others always said: 'The Karma Police is gonna get you.' I suppose it's all rubbish that your destiny depends on your deeds in a previous life, but you have to trust on something."

The lyrics:

Karma police

Arrest this man

He talks in maths

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a detuned radio

Karma police

Arrest this girl

Her Hitler hairdo

Is making me feel ill

And we have crashed her party

This is what you'll get

This is what you'll get

This is what you'll get

When you mess with us

Karma police

I've given all I can

It's not enough

I've given all I can

But we're still on the payroll

This is what you'll get

This is what you'll get

This is what you'll get

When you mess with us

For a minute there

I lost myself, I lost myself

Phew, for a minute there

I lost myself, I lost myself

For a minute there

I lost myself, I lost myself

Phew, for a minute there

I lost myself, I lost myself