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"Creep" is the first single released by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, and a track on their 1993 debut album Pablo Honey. When it was first given limited release in September 1992, Radio 1 found it "too depressing", and removed it from their playlist after airing it only twice. However, it subsequently became one of the band's biggest hits, and became their sole Top 40 hit in the United States despite the success of their further albums in the country.
"Creep" was TLC's first number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, (third number one total) and the first single from their second album, CrazySexyCool. It remained at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, and became the second best-selling single of 1995, behind Madonna's "Take a Bow". TLC won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Dallas Austin was nominated for Best R&B Song. It was the 3rd most successful Hot 100 Single of 1995, according to Billboard's Year End Charts.
The lyrics are told from the point of view of a woman who knows that her man is cheating on her and in turn cheats on him. Though, it must be mentioned that the female's intentions are not deliberately malicious, but she is led to cheat in her efforts to appease her "need [for] some affection," as T-Boz vocalizes,"I love my man, with all honesty, but I know he is cheating on me." A cover version of the song was released by alternative rock band The Afghan Whigs.
"Creep" is the seventh track off the album Core, the debut album by the band Stone Temple Pilots. Performed at a lumberingly slow tempo, the song is a calm interlude between two heavily distorted tracks. It was the third and final single from the album. The song was noted for its striking resemblance to the grunge scene of the day, and the band was scathed for jumping on the bandwagon by most music critics when the single first came out in 1993. The song appeared in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down.






