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You know when I first heard Creep I hated it. Compared to the other stuff from the US I was listening to at the time I thought it was too much self-indulgence and feeling sorry for yourself for my liking. They got hugely better after that rocky start. I'm guessing what happened was they signed a record deal and the management were all grunge mad at that point and made them record an appropriate album. This actually happened to a friend of mine who got signed around the same period.

It took a couple of albums for them to get over that, perhaps once they had a big fan base I guess the record company let them do their thing.

It's a sad fact that most albums you here, especially ones riding the wave of a new fad, were concocted in board rooms and sales meetings and not by angsty musicians bearing their souls.

That basically is what happened according to Radiohead lol. I disagree with taking a few albums to get over it though. I mean, they're earlier stuff was more emo than now, but not Creep level. Now that they're independent they can play whatever lol.

It really is sad. Even if the artists write it themselves, I'm sure they're told a direction.