Reaching number 7 in the charts in 1993, 'Creep' was the first UK top ten hit for which group?
"and frequently appears on best-of lists. In 2003, it was ranked number 110 on ""Rolling Stone""'s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. By the time Radiohead began their first US tour in early 1993, their debut single ""Creep"" (1992) was in heavy rotation on MTV and had achieved top-ten chart positions in the UK and the US when reissued in 1993. The grunge sound of their debut album ""Pablo Honey"" (1993) had led critics to dismiss Radiohead as ""Nirvana-lite"", and neither the album nor the singles ""Stop Whispering"" and ""Anyone Can Play Guitar"" matched the chart success of ""Creep"". Radiohead"
"Creep (Radiohead song) ""Creep"" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as their debut single in 1992; it appeared on their first album, ""Pablo Honey"" (1993). ""Creep"" was not initially a chart success, but became a worldwide hit after being rereleased in 1993. The members of Radiohead grew weary of the song in later years, and refused to perform it for a period. It is included in the """" compilation album. According to Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, singer Thom Yorke wrote ""Creep"" while studying at Exeter University in the late 1980s. Guitarist Jonny Greenwood said that"
"June 1988 with ""Wow!"" (1987), and earned Brit Award nominations for Best British Single for ""Love in the First Degree"", and Best Music Video for their 1988 hit cover of The Supremes single ""Nathan Jones"". Fahey left the group in 1988 and formed Shakespears Sister, best known for the UK number one ""Stay"" (1992). She was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan. This line-up had UK top five hits with ""I Want You Back"" (1988) and The Beatles track ""Help!"" (1989), recorded with comedy duo French and Saunders for the charity Comic Relief. In 1989 they embarked on their first world tour."
"chart. The White Stripes reached #2 with their single ""Icky Thump"". The 7"" format of the single went on to become the UK's biggest selling 7"" single in twenty years, which was partly due to a tie in with XL Records and NME (who had given away a free foldout 7"" of new song ""Rag and Bone"", with space to include the ""Icky Thump"" 7""). The Traveling Wilburys went to #1 for the first time with ""The Traveling Wilburys Collection"", followed by The White Stripes with their sixth album ""Icky Thump"". Britain's most successful girl group the Spice Girls reformed"
"the time Radiohead began their first North American tour in June 1993, the music video for ""Creep"" was in heavy rotation on MTV. The song rose to number two on the US modern rock chart, entered the lower reaches of the top 40 pop chart, and hit number seven in the UK Singles Chart when EMI rereleased it in the UK in September. Radiohead began work on their second album in 1994 with veteran Abbey Road Studios producer John Leckie. Tensions were high, with mounting expectations to match the success of ""Creep"". Recording felt unnatural in the studio, with the"
"the Top Hot 100 Song category in 1995. Retrospectively, ""Creep"" was listed at number 21 on ""Billboard"" Hot 100's decade-end list of the 1990s, and became the fourth-most-successful song on the chart by a girl group. In the United Kingdom, ""Creep"" peaked at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart and at number four on the R&B Chart. It reached the number four spot in New Zealand, becoming TLC's highest listed single in the country at the time. It went on to receive a gold certification from Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ) with 7,500 copies sold, and peaked at number 35"
"the album's lead single on October 31, 1994, and it gained both critical acclaim and commercial success. Music critics praised Austin's work and TLC's new musical direction, and commercially ""Creep"" became the group's first number one on the United States ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It topped the chart for four consecutive weeks and was later certificated platinum in sales. Following its European debut/re-issue in early 1996, the song reached the top ten in the United Kingdom and New Zealand and the top forty in other countries. Included in the remixes was a new rap verse written by Lopes which warns listeners"
"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"". EMI released ""Creep"" as a single in September 1992, when it reached number 78 on the UK Singles Chart, selling 6,000 copies. Radio 1 found the song"
"reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, ""Who Will You Run To"" (1987), which reached number seven, and ""There's the Girl"" (1987), which reached number 12. ""Bad Animals"" also became the band's first top-10 album success in the UK, peaking at number seven on the UK Album Chart. In 1990, ""Brigade"" became the band's sixth multiplatinum LP and added three more top-25 ""Billboard"" Hot 100 hits: ""Stranded"" and ""I Didn't Want to Need You"", which reached numbers 12 and 24, respectively; ""All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You"" reached number two, but created controversy when it was"
"Squeeze (band) Squeeze are a British rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s. They are known in the UK for their hit songs ""Cool for Cats"", ""Up the Junction"", ""Slap and Tickle"", ""Another Nail in My Heart"", ""Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)"", ""Tempted"", ""Labelled with Love"", ""Black Coffee in Bed"" and ""Hourglass"". Though not as commercially successful in the United States, Squeeze had American hits with ""Tempted"", ""Hourglass"" and ""853-5937"", and were considered a part of the Second British"
"Their first single ""5, 6, 7, 8"" was a techno line dance song. Though not typical of what became their style, it was their first hit both in the UK and internationally. Despite only peaking at number 14, the single achieved considerable longevity in the fast-paced singles climate of 1997-1998, racking up over four months on the UK chart. The track remains one of the highest selling singles never to reach the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart. Its release in Australia gave the group their first number one in 1998. Tim Byrne then founded a management & production"
"their first UK top ten hit, ""The Love Cats"". Their 1987 album ""Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"" saw them move into the mainstream and their 1989 album ""Disintegration"" was released to critical acclaim, reaching number three in the UK album chart. Brett Anderson and Mat Osman from Haywards Heath helped form Suede in 1989 and were hailed as ""the best new band in Britain"", winning the 1993 Mercury Prize for their debut album ""Suede"" and kick-starting the Britpop movement. Guitarist Richard Durrant also began his career in the 1980s; the house music of DJ John Digweed also rose to"
"on the UK singles chart. It would not be until the release their third single, ""Animal Nitrate"", that Suede would break into the top ten, with the song peaking at number seven following their performance of it at the 1993 BRIT Awards. Suede became associated with the Britpop movement of the period and achieved commercial success throughout the United Kingdom, with three of the group's five studio albums charting at number one. Their popularity throughout the rest of the world varied throughout the group's lifetime, but had several charting hits in Sweden and Finland. Suede's commercial success in the United"
"the top 10 of the British charts: MSG's first album peaked at No. 8, Whitesnake's ""Ready an' Willing"" at No. 6, Judas Priest's best-seller ""British Steel"" and Motörhead's ""Ace of Spades"" at No. 4, while ""Back in Black"" by AC/DC reached number one. As proof of the successful revival of the British hard rock and metal scene, tours and gigs of old and new acts were sold out, both at home and in other European countries, where the movement had spread. Groups arising from the NWOBHM were no longer precluded from world tours and were often chosen as opening acts"
"the band's drummer, and their debut album, ""Crocodiles"", met with critical acclaim and made the UK Top 20. Their second album, ""Heaven Up Here"" (1981), again found favour with critics and reached number 10 in the UK. The band's cult status was followed by mainstream success in the mid-1980s, as they scored a UK Top 10 hit with the single ""The Cutter"", and the attendant album, ""Porcupine"" (1983), which reached number two in the UK. The next release, ""Ocean Rain"" (1984), regarded as their landmark release, spawned the hit singles ""The Killing Moon"", ""Silver"" and ""Seven Seas"". One more studio"
"British top 10. In 1981, Motörhead became the first of this new breed of metal bands to top the UK charts with ""No Sleep 'til Hammersmith"". After a string of UK top 10 albums, Whitesnake's 1987 self-titled album was their most commercially successful, with hits, ""Here I Go Again"" and ""Is This Love"", earning them a nomination for the Brit Award for Best British Group. Many metal artists, including Def Leppard, benefited from the exposure they received on ATV and became the inspiration for American glam metal. However, as the subgenre fragmented, much of the creative impetus shifted towards America"
"on their year-end chart. In other territories, ""Creep"" moved into the top-twenty in the Netherlands and Australia, while reaching the top-forty in France, Switzerland and Germany. The song appeared on Canada's ""RPM"" magazine Top Singles top-forty, year-end dance chart at number 35. It also charted in Belgium, Sweden and the European Hot 100 Singles. ""Creep"" maintained this moderate European success after its January 1996 re-issue. ""Creep '96"" climbed up to number six on the UK Singles Chart, where it remained for seven weeks, and reached third place on the country's R&B chart. The re-release also improved the song's original 1995"
"its playlist, and soon other radio stations along the American West Coast followed suit. A censored version of the song was released to radio stations, and, by the second half of 1993, the song had become a hit nationwide, charting at number 34 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. By the time Radiohead went to the United States, they were surprised by the success of the song. Yorke told ""Melody Maker"" in 1993 that many journalists misunderstood the song, asking him if it was a ""joke"". Radiohead initially did not want to reissue ""Creep"" in the UK, but relented; bassist Colin"
"911 (English band) 911 (pronounced ""nine one one"") are an English pop group consisting of Lee Brennan, Jimmy Constable and Simon ""Spike"" Dawbarn. They were formed in 1995 and released their debut single ""Night to Remember"" in May 1996. This was followed by their debut album ""The Journey"" in March 1997, which was certified Gold by the BPI in November 1997. 911 released two more Silver-certified albums, ""Moving On"", which featured the talents of guitarist Nick Cash (real name Keith Lucas) and ""There It Is"", in 1998 and 1999, respectively. ""There It Is"" also produced their only UK number-one single,"
"the British music press, not all of it favourable; ""NME"" described them as ""a lily-livered excuse for a rock band"", and ""Creep"" was blacklisted by BBC Radio 1 because it was deemed ""too depressing"". Radiohead released their debut album, ""Pablo Honey"", in February 1993. It stalled at number 22 in the UK charts, as ""Creep"" and its follow-up singles ""Anyone Can Play Guitar"" and ""Stop Whispering"" failed to become hits. ""Pop Is Dead"", a non-album single, also sold poorly; O'Brien later called the track ""a hideous mistake"". Some critics compared the band's early style to the wave of grunge music"
"corpses with vampyric elongated canines come to life and chase him through the facility. He is cornered at a locked door, but as they attack the scene changes to leave him on his own. He returns to the security centre to watch the CCTV replay where he sees the truth. The three girls were real, and are shown sensually attacking him with their canines. The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor) ""The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor)"" is a song by London-based electronic dance band Freaks. It entered the charts on week ending 8 September 2007 (The Official Chart Company always"
"The Creepers The Creepers were an English rock music group, formed in Manchester in 1982, originally as ""Marc Riley & The Creepers"". After being dismissed from The Fall by Mark E. Smith, Marc Riley formed his own record label (In-Tape) with Jim Khambatta, and his own band. The first single ""Favourite Sister"" (which featured his former bandmates Steve Hanley, Craig Scanlon and Paul Hanley) was followed up with ""Jumper Clown"", which poked fun at his previous band's singer. A Peel Session was the source of the next release in 1984, with a compilation of these early releases, ""Cull"", following the"
"Creep (Stone Temple Pilots song) ""Creep"" is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, appearing as the seventh track off the band's debut album, ""Core"" and later released as a single. The song also appears on the band's greatest hits album, ""Thank You"". A live version featuring Aaron Lewis is included on The Family Values 2001 Tour release. In a November 2014 interview with ""Songfacts"", Scott Weiland said, ""That's just the idea of being a young person somewhere, caught between still being a kid and becoming a young man. It's that youth apathy, that second-guessing yourself, not feeling"
"Creeper (band) Creeper are an English rock band from Southampton. Formed in 2014, the group features lead vocalist Will Gould, guitarists Ian Miles and Oliver Burdett (who replaced Sina Nemati in 2015), keyboardist and second vocalist Hannah Greenwood, bassist Sean Scott and drummer Dan Bratton. Creeper released their self-titled debut extended play (EP) ""Creeper"" in 2014, which was followed by ""The Callous Heart"" and ""The Stranger"" on Roadrunner Records in 2015 and 2016, respectively. They released their debut full-length album ""Eternity, in Your Arms"" in 2017, which debuted at number 18 on the UK Albums Chart. Formed through their mutual"
"Happy Clappers <br> Happy Clappers were a house studio project from the UK, featuring Chris Scott, Graeme Ripley, Martin Knotts and Mark Topham, with Sandra Edwards on vocals. They scored two hits on ""Billboard's"" Hot Dance Club Play chart, in 1996 with ""Can't Help It"" (which went to number two) and ""I Believe"" (1995). ""I Believe"" was a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom in 1995, reaching its highest position at number 7, but was never released in the US until American producer Chris Cox remixed it in 2002. ""I Believe"" had been released three times in the UK"
"peak on Scotland's chart at number 44 to number 17. It peaked on the Swedish chart at number 56. The song was described by many publications as a ""masterpiece"" and a ""classic"", and became one of the group's signature hits. Almost a decade after its debut, Mimi Valdés of ""Vibe"" said that the song lifted their ""girl power movement"" to new heights, with its female-empowerment theme inspiring works by many artists at the time, including Aaliyah, Missy Elliott and Destiny's Child. The term ""creep"" still appears in rap music. As with many TLC songs, ""Creep"" positioned women as the gazers"
"Radiohead Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards), brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals) and Philip Selway (drums, percussion). They have worked with producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994. After signing to EMI in 1991, Radiohead released their debut single ""Creep"" in 1992. It became a worldwide hit after the release of their debut album, ""Pablo Honey"" (1993). Their popularity and critical standing rose in the United Kingdom with the"
"and number nine on the Mainstream Top 40. After more than a month in the top ten, ""Creep"" reached the number one position on January 28, 1995, and became TLC's first number-one hit in the US. ""Creep"" held the number-one position for four consecutive weeks before it was overtaken by Madonna's single ""Take a Bow"". The song placed at number three on Hot 100's year-end chart with 800,000 copies sold in 1995, making it the 18th best-selling single that year. Due to the song's commercial success, it won a ""Billboard"" Music Award for Top R&B Song and was nominated for"
"by singer/rhythm guitarist Thom Yorke sometime in the late 1980s, while he was at Exeter University, and was shared with other members of the band, who were mostly very enthusiastic, citing the song as a reason to continue making music together. However, it was not included on any of their early '90s demo tapes and had not been a part of their live set. At the time, ""Inside My Head"" (which would later be released as a b-side to ""Creep"") was considered a good candidate for the band's lead single. Sometime in 1992, the band began an impromptu performance of"
"to a Who-influenced hard rock style supplemented by a striking use of high-pitched backing vocals. The band first achieved success in the UK charts, with thirteen Top 20 hits during the 1970s alone, with ""Block Buster!"" (1973) topping the chart, followed by three consecutive number two hits in ""Hell Raiser"" (1973), ""The Ballroom Blitz"" (1973) and ""Teenage Rampage"" (1974). The band turned to a more hard rock style with their mid-career singles, like 1974's ""Turn It Down"". ""Fox on the Run"" (1975) also reached number two on the UK charts. These results were topped in West Germany and other countries"
"DVD. In 1996 Geldof recorded a self-mocking cover version of the song with Dustin The Turkey which reached number one in Ireland. Rat Trap ""Rat Trap"" is a single by The Boomtown Rats, which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1978, the first single by a punk or new wave act to do so. It was written by Bob Geldof, and produced by Robert John ""Mutt"" Lange. It replaced ""Summer Nights"", a hit single for John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John from the soundtrack of ""Grease"", at number one in the UK chart after"
"Trapt Trapt is an American rock band that formed in Los Gatos, California in 1995, best known for their chart-topping 2002 single ""Headstrong"". The group consists of lead vocalist Chris Taylor Brown, bassist Peter ""Pete"" Charell, drummer Brendan Hengle, and guitarist David Sudock. They have released seven studio albums to date: ""Amalgamation"" (1999), ""Trapt"" (2002), ""Someone in Control"" (2005), ""Only Through the Pain"" (2008), ""No Apologies"" (2010), ""Reborn"" (2013), and ""DNA"" (2016). The members of Trapt met in middle school in the mid-'90s, and were in an early NOFX cover band with Manny Terres (guitar) and Aaron Azlant (lead vocals)"
"8 in the UK Singles Chart). Jon Campbell was a member of the synthpop band, Thru The Fire from 1988 to 1990, when he left the band to form The Time Frequency. Their first release was the White Label EP, ""Futurama"". In 1992 the band released ""Real Love"" through the record label Jive Records. They released more singles and EPs until 1994, when they released their first album, ""Dominator"", which included many of the singles that had been released prior to 1994. Jive Records would not pay session singer Mary Kiani enough money to be a full-time member of the"