It’s just too thrilling, perhaps? The guitars maybe a little too exciting? No. Some people seem to have a problem with this song, which I’ve never understood. ![]() The second track on the record is called ‘Creep’ and you may have heard it from time to time if you’ve frequented indie discos at any point in the last two decades. If it came out tomorrow it would still sound fantastic, almost 20 years on. From the opening squall of ‘You’ this is a record that still sounds fresh and visceral and alive. It may have only been a year later that they were putting out the ‘My Iron Lung’ EP, but ‘Pablo Honey’ is far too good to be seen as mere juvenilia. I know it’s easy to get carried away by the fantastically clever stuff that followed. Instead he named ‘Creep’ his “choice cut”, and deemed the rest of the album “not worth your time or money.” ![]() Meanwhile Robert Christgau – self-appointed ‘Dean of American Rock Critics’ – didn’t even bother giving ‘Pablo Honey’ a grade. It’s routinely referred to not just as the worst Radiohead record, but as the runt of the litter by some considerable distance.Īssessing the latest round of Radiohead reissues a couple of years ago, Pitchfork’s Scott Plagenhoef joylessly decreed that ‘Pablo Honey’ “didn’t betray hints of the band Radiohead would become” on the way to awarding it a derisory 5.4. When I look into the tiny baby eyes on the cover of ‘Pablo Honey’, I sense that it feels unloved.
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