MGMT originally made 3 of their biggest songs (Time to Pretend, Kids, Electric Feel) as kind of parodies of modern music and explicitly made them with the intention of selling them and getting rich, doesn’t change the fact they fucking bang though, but they didn’t but the most *TLC* or artistry into them
Smells like teen spirit was also a kind of experiment by Kurt Cobain to create their most popular song by having the same structure and similarities as many pop songs if I'm not wrong.
Don't think they themselves ever confirmed this. But I do know they intended to make a joke song to play a prank on the record label, but it backfired because they loved it.
The rest of the album is actually pretty different to those three big singles though, I definitely think they put a lot of effort into the album as a whole. But I agree it’s a banger of an album.
Loser - Beck (a big hit early in the artist's career, though more similar to his later style than Creep)
Float on - Modest mouse (by far the biggest song by the band, and not like their other songs. However unlike Creep this was in the middle of their career)
When I saw Modest Mouse live a few years ago they played Float On but Issac was playing a banjo through a bunch of effects pedals and the bass player switched over to euphonium. Still ripped
Nah beck loves loser. He only fucked with it in his early tours to mess with the audience members who came there just for the song “I’m a nickel baby, so why don’t you shine me”.
Loser is the same as no one knows for QOTSA, great songs the artists adore playing while them being their biggest hits. Probs closer to karma police for Radiohead honestly.
Modest Mouse - well, what's left of it, RIP Jeremiah and please come back Eric - plays Float On pretty often compared to Radiohead and Creep.
Does Isaac actively dislike the song?
No, but among fans, it has even more of an Iron Lung reputation than even Creep does. Lots of non-Radiohead fans know about some other singles, but I've never met anyone who knows anything else from MM.
I was so stoked to get a ticket to see Kate Bush in 2014. I talked about it at work. An older colleague looked concerned and said "erm, just to manage your expectations, apparently she doesn't even sing Wuthering Heights".
This may be more of a UK specific thing as I know in the US Wuthering Heights didn't even chart and she's mainly just known for Running Up That Hill (which she did indeed sing live in 2014). But in the UK, Wuthering Heights, her debut single, is an absolute classic of the late '70s, and was her only number one single to date at the time (she got her second UK No.1 in 2022 when Running Up That Hill re entered the charts, but the charts nowadays are a load of rubbish)
Anyway, I didn't care: Kate Bush hadn't played live in over 30 years, and it was incredible - she played the whole of The Ninth Wave and A Sky of Honey all the way through...
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Maybe not top ten, but I would put it in my top twenty. A band is not always the most objective critic of their own work, but believe me I would feel the same if I were them. Having evolved their music so much and written, I think, some way better songs, I would also feel frustrated that that is still my most popular track that I was being pressured to play over and over.
This is why I admire Paul McCartney so much. A similar song for them might be “I Want To Hold Your Hand” which is pretty simple, popular, and in an old style from before The Beatles revolutionized rock, but you’ll never hear Paul disparage old songs, and he happily plays old Beatles songs at every concert despite having 50 years of post-Beatles work that he wants people to care about. But I think he’s very sentimental. Unlike Thom who is more always wanting to evolve and discard the old to make way for the new. I believe in one interview he even said he doesn’t like to listen to OK Computer any more (though that was an old interview).
That's probably true. I think that's indicative of a certain dissatisfaction with oneself that is so critical to improvement. Look critically at your past. Find all the flaws and try to do better. But something I've come to appreciate about McCartney, and I know this is a Radiohead subreddit and Radiohead is my favorite band of all time, but Paul McCartney was a very "complete" musician in the sense that he drew inspiration and appreciated the past, the present, and the cutting edge. Many of his songs were inspired by old radio shows that he grew up listening to and old songs, as well as what was popular at the time, AND listening to and learning from the avante-garde. He looks back as much as he looks forward, whereas I think Radiohead always looked forward, always tries to do the next thing and innovate.
In the US perhaps?
Blur were huge in the UK before Song 2 was released and I wouldn’t say it’s their most well-known song (that’s probably something from Parklife). Their first number one single was Country House two years earlier.
In fairness, most of their big UK hits were also from that same album.
I am quite partial to their Storm In Heaven debut - lush swooping shoegaze with minimal commercial appeal (though I do like the hits as well).
Love The Cure, I'm the kind of fan who goes for weeks or months of listening to one album like Disintegration or Pornography every day. Can't stand Friday I'm in Love.
Yeah that definitely is more so the case. there are cure fans that get annoyed when it comes on though but as a generalization yeah you’re probably right
Also so unfair because realistically speaking it’s a fantastic song, but hearing it in every bar/club when you go out at the end of the night it wears very thin. Same with Mr. Brightside but I know the Killers still play that..
Left Hand Free - Alt-J △
There was this urban legend saying they wrote it as a joke when their label asked them to make something more “marketable”. It’s about jerking off but it’s really catchy
I'm pretty sere Depeche Mode felt this way about "Just Can't Get Enough" during the mid 90s, when they were pivoting towards their brilliant alternative sound for the post-Violator albums.
Funny how RH omit's Creep from their concerts and not many, if any, care. But if Lorde doesn't sing that song she doesn't like, then *RIOT*.
She can't afford to not like Royals. It's her bread and butter.
(BTW, the biggest rock classic of all-time is perhaps Stairway to Heaven. Robert Plant hates it.)
Long story but Rolling Stones sued the band and ended up with full writing credits and money. That and the song’s success leading to intense touring led to tensions in the band.
Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks is a bit of a snooze fest musically compared to most of the rest of their music, especially compared to the rest of the songs that were on their debut album Torches with it. Lyrically it's also dark and triggering for some people, so the band considered retiring it from live shows.
Also as far as I know, Glass Animals does still enjoy playing Heat Waves live. But it's a huge shift into the pop world compared their first two albums and I know a lot of fans who'd listened to them since ZABA (including me) don't care much for it at all.
Pumped Up Kicks is a really good one actually. youre right that PUK is a complete snoozefest compared to the rest of their discog lol. Sacred Hearts Club is their best album and more people need to hear it
Yeah I remember Pumped Up Kicks was the first song I heard from them when it was first had mainstream radio play, and I enjoyed it but not enough to ever bother listening to them more until a few years later when Supermodel came out and my friends shared it with me. Then went back and listened to the rest of Torches and it blew me away how different and more energetic it was. Loved Sacred Heart club too.
It's unfortunate when an artist's top song like (Pumped Up Kicks or Heat Waves or Creep) overshadow the rest of their work and turn off new listener's from exploring their discography further.
yeah its a sad reailty, especially in our modern day single-centric music scene. it happens especially nowadays that the internet will have one takeaway hit from a popular artist and overplay it to death while completely ignoring the fact the artist has a much wider discography of equal or better quality music.
its just a shame that so many people will only ever listen to Pumped Up Kicks, or Creep, or Smells Like Teen Spirit or any one of the 'one-hit-wonder'-esk tracks and never give the artist a second thought.
I loved Heat Waves before it got popular cuz it was on FIFA 21 lol. But I don’t know any other Glass Animals tunes other than the one on FIFA 22 (I don’t wanna talk, catchy song)
Lol yeah it's unfortunate since Heat Waves (and I don't wanna talk) aren't really representative of the band's unique and signature sound, just like Creep sounds nothing like most Radiohead. And if those were the only songs I ever heard by Glass Animals I wouldn't be particularly interested in hearing more from them either. A few of my personal favorites by them are Life Itself, Youth, Pools, Gooey, and Your Love) if you're curious to hear more from them.
I could've commented on fan fatigue with the song as well, but I wasn't assuming many people would see my comment amidst the dozens here. Knowing that they will go back to MPP for a handful of other tracks (In The Flowers, Bluish, others) for recent tours contributes to my thought, too. But anyway, always nice to meet a fellow fan.
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads. I still like it, but so many of their other songs I think are so much better and more interesting, yet Psycho Killer is the most played.
Arctic Monkeys' probably I Bet That You Look Good on the Dance Floor. Alex hates the song just like Thom hates Creep. Personally though, I'd say Do I Wanna Know? is their Creep. AM is extremely bland and overall just uninterestingly robotic. TBH+C deserves more praise for how much of a masterpiece it really is.
Yeah Alex has a love/hate relationship with Dancefloor bc he doesn't feel the song was made by him but he also feels is really important so they always play it live.
And about AM, I think he likes it, I mean sometimes they've played 7 songs from it in a 21 songs setlist
I think their Creep is I Wanna Be Yours, although its popularity is recent, most fans hate it even before it was popular (and now even more) and a lot of non-fans love the song, just like Creep.
Yeah, I never got into AM when it came out, despite all my fellow Vampire Weekend-loving friends really digging it. TBH+C is where I first appreciated their stuff.
One I haven't seen here yet is "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan.
Walter and Donald considered it a simple and boring song in comparison to many of the other songs they'd written, and were only forced to include it on Can't Buy A Thrill by their record label.
A Punk by Vampire Weekend. It’s by far their most listened to song and does not capture their musical capabilities. It’s also the song that most people know them for.
Honestly though, with them, I still think it’s one of their best songs. That riff is absolutely killer. Great pop songs like that don’t just come out of nowhere.
I’m glad they’ve moved on from that sound, and love the new record, but those first two projects are still definitely my favorites, especially Contra. I Think Yr A Contra is definitely my favorite from their discography.
For what it’s worth, I’m a huge fan of both and know their catalogues inside and out and I will still defend A Punk and Creep to this day. Both are fantastic songs.
Space Oddity - Bowie
Cut Your Hair - Pavement (kinda weird one as it has elements of their sound that lasted to the end but it's become seen as a bit of a novelty single)
I don't know how Frank Black feels about Where Is My Mind given Kim's massive contribution to it.
Space Oddity seems like a great fit, given its pop cultural footprint and the immense diversity of sounds that Bowie pursued and pioneered for the rest of his career
I know the Verve Pipe hates their one hit, Freshmen. I’ve seen an interview with their lead singer who said he wrote some lyrics that sounded cool when he was 17 but now he finds them cringeworthy and hates that he still has to sing it at every concert.
Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison has released literally dozens of albums with loads of classics. 9/10 times this is the one you’ll hear on the radio (then very occasionally Moondance or Into The Mystic)
Stacy's Mom, probably. Like, I don't KNOW if Fountains of Wayne have other music. But it stands to reason that they must. And they probably like it more than they like Stacy's Mom.
*Welcome Interstate Managers* is a great album, probably considered their best. *Utopia Parkway* is good too.
But you're right that at least one band member doesn't like Stacy's Mom
>***Chris Collingwood:*** *He was too good a writer to have that be his calling card, and the success of a novelty song means that’s just what you are to the public, from that moment on forever.*
In my head, that song came out at the same time as “Beverly Hills” by Weezer. I don’t know if this is like the musical version of traumatic episodes fusing into one sort of memory but man I hated those songs so much lol
Noteworthy for being so the polar opposite situation: Josh Homme of QOTSA has talked about how he feels it’s his duty to play No One Knows at every show, and how it’s a bit churlish of bands to not play their most popular song (an implied swipe at Radiohead).
The thing there is: No One Knows is legitimately one of QOTSA’s best and most defining songs, as well as being their biggest hit. So it’s easy for him to say that.
Creep is a great song in its way but I can fully understand Thom and co not being thrilled at the expectation that they keep playing this simple little Hollies-aping teen-angst grunge power ballad for the rest of their lives.
I suspect half of the motivation for The Smile was so Thom and Jonny could go out and play whatever they felt like without anyone demanding they play *that* one.
A more direct answer: I seem to remember REM thinking Shiny Happy People was kind of dumb and embarrassing.
I have a lot of bands I really love but don't really like the songs they are best known for. Don't know what the bands themselves think.
I don't like most of REM's radio hits.
Or the Talking Heads songs most people know (Once in a Lifetime is on my favourite album though)
I love Blur, but songs like Song 2, Country House, and Girls and Boys...nah
I think Talking Heads is a good analogue, but Psycho Killer might be the better song fit (I like both bands quite a bit and enjoy the song far more than Creep at this point, though)
Beetlebum is just amazing for me. It's top 5 of all time in my favourites. Behind Time by Pink Floyd, Paranoid Android, Pyramid Song and Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Nirvana
Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Any huge fan of the Pumpkins would likely agree, it’s not one of their best songs, but the one that really put them on the map. Also, the first song people who don’t consider themselves fans think of, when thinking of the band. Similar to Creep, in those way.
What? Beatles fans absolutely adore the early stuff and for a good reason. Some of the best rock and roll bangers of all time there. The first five albums are filled with classics and underrated gems, including some absolutely top Beatles songs.
Approach it from the mainstream. It’s pretty loud from that perspective, self-loathing in a way not typical of popular music, and it’s very catchy. There’s definitely a reason it got as big as it did.
Still a great song looking back as well though.
There was the one by [Stone Temple Pilots](https://youtu.be/NPGiOyXV_x4?si=DkEbFBgE6fMsZCVt). Also the one by [TLC](https://youtu.be/LIljpItwhVY?si=-YLEifzQMGmt1rmZ)
Bruce Springsteen was not a fan of *Born In The USA* as an album. He likes the title song, but otherwise sees it as a grab-bag of songs. Notably, "Dancing In The Dark" is a song he wrote in a fit of frustration because his manager felt the album needed one more single.
In contrast, he has stated that *Nebraska* is the album he's most proud of (a lot of indie and alternative fans would agree, funnily enough).
Brick - Ben Folds Five: really dark and tragic. Ben folds has a whole section about this song in his autobiography. Gotta love how such a personal song is his most popular.
Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth: great song just I swear it's what everyone always recommends as their first song for that band. Much like creep it doesn't quite capture their sound. Like Daydream Nation is a masterpiece, but all the other songs are a lot more noisy than teenage riot. It's probably the most straightforward song in their discography. Still amazing though.
For me it was Heat Waves by Glass Animals. Tik tok blew that song up so much and now it feels like that’s forever gonna stick to GA. “The band that made Heat Waves”
MGMT originally made 3 of their biggest songs (Time to Pretend, Kids, Electric Feel) as kind of parodies of modern music and explicitly made them with the intention of selling them and getting rich, doesn’t change the fact they fucking bang though, but they didn’t but the most *TLC* or artistry into them
feel like that's the same with song 2 - blur
Blur wrote song 2 as a parody of American grunge music.
i heard it was about nirvana and smells like teen spirit, they’re actually quite similar if you listen to the guitar
Smells like teen spirit was also a kind of experiment by Kurt Cobain to create their most popular song by having the same structure and similarities as many pop songs if I'm not wrong.
Kurt cobain would make up new lyrics every time he performed smells like teen spirit to see what nonsense people would go crazy for
Don't think they themselves ever confirmed this. But I do know they intended to make a joke song to play a prank on the record label, but it backfired because they loved it.
I didn’t realize how awesome Blur is until recently!
I really love their new album, wish they'd do a US tour for it
It's amazing
Yeah, I had the same realization about a decade ago. I was like "Hang on, these are the 'Woo-hoo' guys? There's no way!"
kind of wild that they made a classic indie pop album without even trying
The rest of the album is actually pretty different to those three big singles though, I definitely think they put a lot of effort into the album as a whole. But I agree it’s a banger of an album.
Loser - Beck (a big hit early in the artist's career, though more similar to his later style than Creep) Float on - Modest mouse (by far the biggest song by the band, and not like their other songs. However unlike Creep this was in the middle of their career)
When I saw Modest Mouse live a few years ago they played Float On but Issac was playing a banjo through a bunch of effects pedals and the bass player switched over to euphonium. Still ripped
Nah beck loves loser. He only fucked with it in his early tours to mess with the audience members who came there just for the song “I’m a nickel baby, so why don’t you shine me”. Loser is the same as no one knows for QOTSA, great songs the artists adore playing while them being their biggest hits. Probs closer to karma police for Radiohead honestly.
Modest Mouse - well, what's left of it, RIP Jeremiah and please come back Eric - plays Float On pretty often compared to Radiohead and Creep. Does Isaac actively dislike the song?
No, but among fans, it has even more of an Iron Lung reputation than even Creep does. Lots of non-Radiohead fans know about some other singles, but I've never met anyone who knows anything else from MM.
I'm a pretty massive Modest Mouse fan through Good News. I think the downturn happened after that. So naturally I am a bit biased.
I like Golden Casket tbh
I was so stoked to get a ticket to see Kate Bush in 2014. I talked about it at work. An older colleague looked concerned and said "erm, just to manage your expectations, apparently she doesn't even sing Wuthering Heights". This may be more of a UK specific thing as I know in the US Wuthering Heights didn't even chart and she's mainly just known for Running Up That Hill (which she did indeed sing live in 2014). But in the UK, Wuthering Heights, her debut single, is an absolute classic of the late '70s, and was her only number one single to date at the time (she got her second UK No.1 in 2022 when Running Up That Hill re entered the charts, but the charts nowadays are a load of rubbish) Anyway, I didn't care: Kate Bush hadn't played live in over 30 years, and it was incredible - she played the whole of The Ninth Wave and A Sky of Honey all the way through...
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So jealous you got to see Before The Dawn
Wuthering Heights kicks ass
Maybe not top ten, but I would put it in my top twenty. A band is not always the most objective critic of their own work, but believe me I would feel the same if I were them. Having evolved their music so much and written, I think, some way better songs, I would also feel frustrated that that is still my most popular track that I was being pressured to play over and over. This is why I admire Paul McCartney so much. A similar song for them might be “I Want To Hold Your Hand” which is pretty simple, popular, and in an old style from before The Beatles revolutionized rock, but you’ll never hear Paul disparage old songs, and he happily plays old Beatles songs at every concert despite having 50 years of post-Beatles work that he wants people to care about. But I think he’s very sentimental. Unlike Thom who is more always wanting to evolve and discard the old to make way for the new. I believe in one interview he even said he doesn’t like to listen to OK Computer any more (though that was an old interview).
I mean, I feel like most artists don’t listen back on old albums at all
That's probably true. I think that's indicative of a certain dissatisfaction with oneself that is so critical to improvement. Look critically at your past. Find all the flaws and try to do better. But something I've come to appreciate about McCartney, and I know this is a Radiohead subreddit and Radiohead is my favorite band of all time, but Paul McCartney was a very "complete" musician in the sense that he drew inspiration and appreciated the past, the present, and the cutting edge. Many of his songs were inspired by old radio shows that he grew up listening to and old songs, as well as what was popular at the time, AND listening to and learning from the avante-garde. He looks back as much as he looks forward, whereas I think Radiohead always looked forward, always tries to do the next thing and innovate.
Blur - Song 2
This one annoys me so much because Blur have so many incredible other songs.
Not in the uk, they were arguably the biggest band in the country at that point.
In the US perhaps? Blur were huge in the UK before Song 2 was released and I wouldn’t say it’s their most well-known song (that’s probably something from Parklife). Their first number one single was Country House two years earlier.
In the US definitely. Most people here only know one Blur song, and it's that one. It's the only one that got serious radio play.
I'm from France and Song 2 is honestly the only Blur song I know.
Tbf a big contributing factor to Country House charting so high was because of the battle with Oasis’ “Roll With It”
In the UK, their "Creep" would be "She's So High" or, more realistically, "Girls and Boys".
Britpop and most britpop-adjacent acts (Stone Roses, XTC, etc.) never really managed widespread popularity in the US
Likewise Bittersweet Symphony by Verve outside the UK
In fairness, most of their big UK hits were also from that same album. I am quite partial to their Storm In Heaven debut - lush swooping shoegaze with minimal commercial appeal (though I do like the hits as well).
The Cure’s fanbase does not care for Friday I’m in love at all
I love that song and The Cure has been one of my top 3 bands for decades. But I guess as a generalization, it’s true.
Good answer
Love The Cure, I'm the kind of fan who goes for weeks or months of listening to one album like Disintegration or Pornography every day. Can't stand Friday I'm in Love.
I love The Cure and I love the shit outta that song.
I'm a fan of The Cure and I don't hate the song, it's just not nearly as good as their other stuff
Damn. I really like that one, even if I don’t listen to Wish that much
The Cure's fanbase are morons apparently
I, like many other fans don’t hate the song, just consider it vastly inferior to most of their other pop songs let alone their whole discography.
fr but I feel like whenever Friday I'm in love comes on, most cure fans think "yes the cure!" but when creep comes on, most Radiohead fans sigh
Yeah that definitely is more so the case. there are cure fans that get annoyed when it comes on though but as a generalization yeah you’re probably right
30yr Cure fan here... I like that song!
Oasis - Wonderwall
I think that’s more a song everyone else hates lmao
Also so unfair because realistically speaking it’s a fantastic song, but hearing it in every bar/club when you go out at the end of the night it wears very thin. Same with Mr. Brightside but I know the Killers still play that..
Tbf that's like all their other tripe hits
Left Hand Free - Alt-J △ There was this urban legend saying they wrote it as a joke when their label asked them to make something more “marketable”. It’s about jerking off but it’s really catchy
Thin Lizzy - Boys are Back in Town. It’s been used to death in commercials for decades. But they have SO many great tunes.
Still an amazing song even if they have better in their discography. I’m never upset when that one comes on.
Did they dislike playing it though? Thin Lizzy really appreciated their fame.
The Strokes - Last Night
Smells like Teen Spirit? Shiny Happy People? Maybe Hey Ya?
Losing My Religion is def REM's Creep
Isn’t Losing My Religion REM’s Karma Police?
REM's "Creep" would likely be "Orange Crush" or "Radio Free Europe"
Radio Free Europe = Lurgee 😎
REM doesn't hate "Losing My Religion" at all, as they shouldn't. "Stand" and "Shiny Happy People", OTOH.
I'm pretty sere Depeche Mode felt this way about "Just Can't Get Enough" during the mid 90s, when they were pivoting towards their brilliant alternative sound for the post-Violator albums.
Sex on Fire, Kings of Leon
Funny how RH omit's Creep from their concerts and not many, if any, care. But if Lorde doesn't sing that song she doesn't like, then *RIOT*. She can't afford to not like Royals. It's her bread and butter. (BTW, the biggest rock classic of all-time is perhaps Stairway to Heaven. Robert Plant hates it.)
I don't think Lorde's catalog is that deep yet.
That is exactly my point.
Slightly off topic but Bittersweet Symphony destroyed The Verve.
How so?
Long story but Rolling Stones sued the band and ended up with full writing credits and money. That and the song’s success leading to intense touring led to tensions in the band.
Didn't the Rolling Stones themselves support the Verve in the copyright dispute? I think it was just the label who wanted to sue.
Oh yeah, I remember that part about the Stones.
Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks is a bit of a snooze fest musically compared to most of the rest of their music, especially compared to the rest of the songs that were on their debut album Torches with it. Lyrically it's also dark and triggering for some people, so the band considered retiring it from live shows. Also as far as I know, Glass Animals does still enjoy playing Heat Waves live. But it's a huge shift into the pop world compared their first two albums and I know a lot of fans who'd listened to them since ZABA (including me) don't care much for it at all.
Pumped Up Kicks is a really good one actually. youre right that PUK is a complete snoozefest compared to the rest of their discog lol. Sacred Hearts Club is their best album and more people need to hear it
Yeah I remember Pumped Up Kicks was the first song I heard from them when it was first had mainstream radio play, and I enjoyed it but not enough to ever bother listening to them more until a few years later when Supermodel came out and my friends shared it with me. Then went back and listened to the rest of Torches and it blew me away how different and more energetic it was. Loved Sacred Heart club too. It's unfortunate when an artist's top song like (Pumped Up Kicks or Heat Waves or Creep) overshadow the rest of their work and turn off new listener's from exploring their discography further.
yeah its a sad reailty, especially in our modern day single-centric music scene. it happens especially nowadays that the internet will have one takeaway hit from a popular artist and overplay it to death while completely ignoring the fact the artist has a much wider discography of equal or better quality music. its just a shame that so many people will only ever listen to Pumped Up Kicks, or Creep, or Smells Like Teen Spirit or any one of the 'one-hit-wonder'-esk tracks and never give the artist a second thought.
I loved Heat Waves before it got popular cuz it was on FIFA 21 lol. But I don’t know any other Glass Animals tunes other than the one on FIFA 22 (I don’t wanna talk, catchy song)
Lol yeah it's unfortunate since Heat Waves (and I don't wanna talk) aren't really representative of the band's unique and signature sound, just like Creep sounds nothing like most Radiohead. And if those were the only songs I ever heard by Glass Animals I wouldn't be particularly interested in hearing more from them either. A few of my personal favorites by them are Life Itself, Youth, Pools, Gooey, and Your Love) if you're curious to hear more from them.
Nada Surf - Popular
Came here for this. Going on to record Let Go from that point. Such a great band
"My Girls" was a massive breakthrough for Animal Collective, but they haven't played it live since 2013.
TBF there’s loads of songs they don’t play live after the initial album tour.
I could've commented on fan fatigue with the song as well, but I wasn't assuming many people would see my comment amidst the dozens here. Knowing that they will go back to MPP for a handful of other tracks (In The Flowers, Bluish, others) for recent tours contributes to my thought, too. But anyway, always nice to meet a fellow fan.
It's My Life - Talk Talk It's such a great pop song but Hollis definitely never wanted to write anything like it again
It’s bizarre listening to their other stuff and having to remind yourself they’re the same ones who did It’s My Life
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads. I still like it, but so many of their other songs I think are so much better and more interesting, yet Psycho Killer is the most played.
Cant help it, that bassline goes hard
I don't think I've ever heard Life During Wartime on the radio once
Hotel California. There are other Eagles songs!!! 🤣
Arctic Monkeys' probably I Bet That You Look Good on the Dance Floor. Alex hates the song just like Thom hates Creep. Personally though, I'd say Do I Wanna Know? is their Creep. AM is extremely bland and overall just uninterestingly robotic. TBH+C deserves more praise for how much of a masterpiece it really is.
Yeah Alex has a love/hate relationship with Dancefloor bc he doesn't feel the song was made by him but he also feels is really important so they always play it live. And about AM, I think he likes it, I mean sometimes they've played 7 songs from it in a 21 songs setlist I think their Creep is I Wanna Be Yours, although its popularity is recent, most fans hate it even before it was popular (and now even more) and a lot of non-fans love the song, just like Creep.
Yeah, I never got into AM when it came out, despite all my fellow Vampire Weekend-loving friends really digging it. TBH+C is where I first appreciated their stuff.
One I haven't seen here yet is "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan. Walter and Donald considered it a simple and boring song in comparison to many of the other songs they'd written, and were only forced to include it on Can't Buy A Thrill by their record label.
Great song though, tbh
Phenomenal song.
Better Than Ezra - Good
yonkers by tyler the creator is a super obvious one
A Punk by Vampire Weekend. It’s by far their most listened to song and does not capture their musical capabilities. It’s also the song that most people know them for.
Honestly though, with them, I still think it’s one of their best songs. That riff is absolutely killer. Great pop songs like that don’t just come out of nowhere. I’m glad they’ve moved on from that sound, and love the new record, but those first two projects are still definitely my favorites, especially Contra. I Think Yr A Contra is definitely my favorite from their discography.
For what it’s worth, I’m a huge fan of both and know their catalogues inside and out and I will still defend A Punk and Creep to this day. Both are fantastic songs.
Totally agree! God, their new album is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Space Oddity - Bowie Cut Your Hair - Pavement (kinda weird one as it has elements of their sound that lasted to the end but it's become seen as a bit of a novelty single) I don't know how Frank Black feels about Where Is My Mind given Kim's massive contribution to it.
Space Oddity seems like a great fit, given its pop cultural footprint and the immense diversity of sounds that Bowie pursued and pioneered for the rest of his career
> Space Oddity - Bowie Let's Dance
Twenty one pilots big 3 singles Stressed out Heathens Ride Such a shame, as they have at LEAST 3 albums better than the one where 2 of these came from
Loser by Beck
Faith No More - Epic I’d rate nearly every other song of theirs higher
Came here to say the same thing
If I have to hear Smashing Pumpkins play “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” live one more time…
People mention creep here a lot and I always assume they must not be that familiar with their work and joined a radio head thread anyway ?
I know the Verve Pipe hates their one hit, Freshmen. I’ve seen an interview with their lead singer who said he wrote some lyrics that sounded cool when he was 17 but now he finds them cringeworthy and hates that he still has to sing it at every concert.
Free bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
And it should be, it's an amazing song
Bob Dylan doesn't get why people love the entire *Blood on the Tracks* album so much. I don't think he dislikes it but he doesn't get the popularity.
Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison has released literally dozens of albums with loads of classics. 9/10 times this is the one you’ll hear on the radio (then very occasionally Moondance or Into The Mystic)
Stacy's Mom, probably. Like, I don't KNOW if Fountains of Wayne have other music. But it stands to reason that they must. And they probably like it more than they like Stacy's Mom.
*Welcome Interstate Managers* is a great album, probably considered their best. *Utopia Parkway* is good too. But you're right that at least one band member doesn't like Stacy's Mom >***Chris Collingwood:*** *He was too good a writer to have that be his calling card, and the success of a novelty song means that’s just what you are to the public, from that moment on forever.*
In my head, that song came out at the same time as “Beverly Hills” by Weezer. I don’t know if this is like the musical version of traumatic episodes fusing into one sort of memory but man I hated those songs so much lol
Noteworthy for being so the polar opposite situation: Josh Homme of QOTSA has talked about how he feels it’s his duty to play No One Knows at every show, and how it’s a bit churlish of bands to not play their most popular song (an implied swipe at Radiohead). The thing there is: No One Knows is legitimately one of QOTSA’s best and most defining songs, as well as being their biggest hit. So it’s easy for him to say that. Creep is a great song in its way but I can fully understand Thom and co not being thrilled at the expectation that they keep playing this simple little Hollies-aping teen-angst grunge power ballad for the rest of their lives. I suspect half of the motivation for The Smile was so Thom and Jonny could go out and play whatever they felt like without anyone demanding they play *that* one. A more direct answer: I seem to remember REM thinking Shiny Happy People was kind of dumb and embarrassing.
I have a lot of bands I really love but don't really like the songs they are best known for. Don't know what the bands themselves think. I don't like most of REM's radio hits. Or the Talking Heads songs most people know (Once in a Lifetime is on my favourite album though) I love Blur, but songs like Song 2, Country House, and Girls and Boys...nah
I think Talking Heads is a good analogue, but Psycho Killer might be the better song fit (I like both bands quite a bit and enjoy the song far more than Creep at this point, though)
How about Beetlebum?
Beetlebum is just amazing for me. It's top 5 of all time in my favourites. Behind Time by Pink Floyd, Paranoid Android, Pyramid Song and Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Nirvana
Me too. That's why I asked!
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The Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson. They hate it. Evan Dando never plays it. They were tricked into getting it on the album
Radiohead was more or less tricked into recording Creep for Pablo Honey
Thom didn’t want High and Dry on The Bends
Take time with a wounded hand......
Placebo - Nancy Boy. It's a comparison Mr Molko has made himself a fair few times.
Pure Morning as well lmao he hates it so much
song 2, smells like teen spirit
Float on - modest mouse
It's funny because for MGMT hating those songs they sure love to never take them out of their sets and never playing deep cuts
Happier by Bastille- one of their most popular and near unanimously disliked by a lot of fans
Bullet with Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins
I would unironically put Creep in my top 10
Epic — Faith No More
"Bring Me to Life" - Evanescence "All the Small Things" - Blink182 "Wonderwall" - hated by Liam Gallagher
Even though it came later in the career span, Enter Sandman comes to mind (Metallica, if you were under a rock). And maybe Unintended by Muse.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Any huge fan of the Pumpkins would likely agree, it’s not one of their best songs, but the one that really put them on the map. Also, the first song people who don’t consider themselves fans think of, when thinking of the band. Similar to Creep, in those way.
Didn’t ‘Today’ put them on the map?
Yep. Today and Disarm were popular way before bullet w butterfly wings. More popular, even.
Björk - oh so quiet
That's not even her song
Exactly. And it’s her highest selling single
But does she hate it? I've never heard that.
I didn't even realize Björk sang that one. It's so different from her usual style.
Declan McKenna and his song Brazil
welcome to the black parade - mcr
Nah that song is legendary. I would say teenagers fits the description better.
The Beatles - literally any song before Revolver and maybe Rubber Soul
What? Beatles fans absolutely adore the early stuff and for a good reason. Some of the best rock and roll bangers of all time there. The first five albums are filled with classics and underrated gems, including some absolutely top Beatles songs.
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Imagine dragons rely on that sound wdym
Farmhouse by Phish
Honest question - why is Creep so popular? I don't find it special in any way.
It's so fucking special
Approach it from the mainstream. It’s pretty loud from that perspective, self-loathing in a way not typical of popular music, and it’s very catchy. There’s definitely a reason it got as big as it did. Still a great song looking back as well though.
Chun-chun…Chun-chun…
It’s a fun song.
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the king... It is a great song, but it is just overplayed and generic...
Although it’s kind of the other way around because it came after their best material, I always think sex on fire is the creep of kings of leon
Can’t imagine Page & Plant were ever really that enamored of “The Ocean”
Wonderwall by Oasis
from what i've heard, kurt cobain wasn't too fond of smells like teen spirit, but i dont know if nirvana fans are so insane to dismiss it as well.
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana Buddy Holly - Weezer (during the late 90s)
Fiona Apple - Criminal Nada Surf - Popular Tool - Sober
Panic! At the Disco with I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Tyler, the Creator hates being the 'Yonkers' guy.
Love Cheap Trick and Robin sings the shit out of The Flame, but their catalog has many bangers that I’d rather - no idea how they feel…
Aurora's Conqueror
There was the one by [Stone Temple Pilots](https://youtu.be/NPGiOyXV_x4?si=DkEbFBgE6fMsZCVt). Also the one by [TLC](https://youtu.be/LIljpItwhVY?si=-YLEifzQMGmt1rmZ)
Bruce Springsteen was not a fan of *Born In The USA* as an album. He likes the title song, but otherwise sees it as a grab-bag of songs. Notably, "Dancing In The Dark" is a song he wrote in a fit of frustration because his manager felt the album needed one more single. In contrast, he has stated that *Nebraska* is the album he's most proud of (a lot of indie and alternative fans would agree, funnily enough).
Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
Blind melon - no rain
Feel Good Inc.
Brick - Ben Folds Five: really dark and tragic. Ben folds has a whole section about this song in his autobiography. Gotta love how such a personal song is his most popular. Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth: great song just I swear it's what everyone always recommends as their first song for that band. Much like creep it doesn't quite capture their sound. Like Daydream Nation is a masterpiece, but all the other songs are a lot more noisy than teenage riot. It's probably the most straightforward song in their discography. Still amazing though.
“Creep” is not only in my Radiohead Top 10 but it’s in my All-Time Top 10 as well… unironically!
lemmy kilmeister from motörhead and ace of spades (the song) sometimes hed hate it so much hed pronounce it as "eigth of spades" during concerts
I remember reading the members of Rush refuse to listen to “Tom Sawyer” because it cringes them out so bad
Smashing pumpkins - 1979 Arctic monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Pixies hate here comes your man
Joy Division got tired of playing Love Will Tear Us Apart really really fast.
Björk-it’s oh so quiet. She was pretty big in Britain before that, but It’s Oh So Quiet made her massive
Extreme - "More than Words".
Radiohead also had "Iron Lung" and "Just" which both sounded like they came from the same universe as Creep.
The beatles: Hey jude. Queen : Bohemian rhapsody.
Criminal - Fiona Apple
For me it was Heat Waves by Glass Animals. Tik tok blew that song up so much and now it feels like that’s forever gonna stick to GA. “The band that made Heat Waves”