Chords for Thom Yorke Ruins Creep

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Radiohead, the band Radiohead.
With their legendary front man, Tom York.
They have come together for a huge surprise
in this year of our Lord 2021.
This new version of the classic song,
so classic it's essentially become a meme
at this point in the Radiohead fandom,
a Creep, little track.
You may have heard of it,
one of the biggest alt rock tracks of the 90s,
kind of put the band on the map and everything like that.
And obviously from their debut,
they went on to develop an entirely [G] different sound,
which is why their debut is looked at
almost like a black sheep in their catalog or whatever.
But Creep still kind of stands out as a fan favorite,
even if it is a slightly tongue in cheek fan favorite
to [Abm] this day for many.
Yes, we have a new version, a remix as it were,
of this classic song, Suddenly [G] Dropping,
with a Radiohead featured [Gb] on the track.
It's titled as a very 2021 remix.
I mean, we're only like halfway into the year so far.
I don't know what makes this version so 2021.
[N] I guess we will learn when we listen to it.
But one thing I can tell you about this track
is that it's nine minutes long.
Did you think the song Creep was too long
or maybe a little overly dramatic already?
Well, too bad.
Now you're gonna get nine minutes of that.
I have no idea what the hell this new version holds
or what it will be doing for the duration
of this massive amount of time.
Let's give it a spin and [B] find out.
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After that, all I can think of is like,
what are we gonna title this video?
What the hell was [Bb] this thing?
For nine minutes, I can't say I enjoyed myself at all,
with maybe [Gb] the exception of some
of the wailing vocal embellishments
in the third fourth of the song
where the synths were laying it on kinda heavy,
sounded sort of blissful and thick.
But outside of that section,
I found none of this interesting or appealing at all.
It's to the point where it feels like Radiohead
is purposefully, or Tom York,
is purposely taking the piss out of the song a little bit.
And it's not even that the remix is long
or experimental or abstract,
because Tom York and Radiohead have come out
with their share of music that exists in that realm
over the years.
It's not surprising that a remix of this song
by Tom York in 2021 would be a little bit weird.
Like, of course, there's going to be elements of it
that sound like some stuff
from the last Tom York solo record.
That was just gonna be, that was obvious.
But as far as abstract and electronic
and almost like boundary-less music goes,
Tom York has come out with much better stuff
than what is offered on this remix.
And let's start with some observations right off the bat.
I mean, at first it sounded like
we were going to get kind of a campfire version of the song,
for the most part, very acoustic, very skeletal.
Sounded like it's coming off an old recording,
possibly, as well, [G] which is kind of cool to hear that.
But then it becomes very [N] clear
that this recording is slowed down,
which there's a lot of ways to slow down recordings,
but this one is not slowed down particularly well.
It's kind of stretched out to the point
where you hear these digital stutters
and digital stretch marks
that are actually quite unappealing and grating
and make the recording just not all that pleasant
to listen to.
And look, there are applications [Ab] of that type of effect
that is in a lot of recordings
that I have enjoyed personally,
as far as sample-based music and so on and so forth.
But I can't say it works as far as like a tone setter
in this instance, nor does it sound all that appealing
when the synths start coming into play on this thing,
because of course there are huge mountainous synth movements
that start covering this really long
acoustic recording of Creep.
And even they don't really sound
all that well balanced or layered.
The decay on a lot of the notes
that Tom York is playing here is just really long
to the point where a lot of the notes
that are being played, the leads,
are just like sloppily cascading over each other
and melting into each other in a really unappealing way.
They're just kind of drowning out
the acoustic recording underneath.
If this thing were slowed down more carefully
and there was more care in kind of crafting
the synth patches here, placing the effects,
and I guess layering the synthesizers in general,
[Gb] I think this could be a really cool remix
of this Radiohead classic.
But as it stands, I think the execution
is really effing messy.
And it's so messy in comparison with Radiohead's
and Tom's other stuff, leads me to believe that,
you know, the messiness is intentional.
And the messiness is in a way like a statement
on the song itself, a statement on the band's feelings
maybe about the song itself, Tom's feelings.
Maybe to Tom and maybe to Radiohead,
that is exactly what 2021 is.
Maybe that's what 2021 boils down to for them
because this remix is a mess.
It is a really kind of a junk pile.
And I don't think I will be listening to it again.
Let me know what you think about this remix.
Let me know if you feel like a creep or a weirdo.
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Anthony Fantano, Sir Thomas of York, [N] forever.