Songs that use the Creep chord progression

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I love how this song (creep) is a counter argument to major chords being happy and minors being sad... Three major chords in a row and it just has a depressing aura

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the creep chord progression kind of sounds like what acceptance should be. The acceptance of sadness or a bad situation, kind of the calm that comes after accepting a bad fate

When you realize most of your favorate songs have the creep chord progression and your just now starting to connect the dots

Makes perfect sense that Pixies used it. Radiohead, like many bands of the era started out as basically Pixies tribute bands. They later became so much more!

This is probably one of the most evocative chord progressions I've heard. No wonder Radiohead's use of it is the most famous, Creep perfectly evokes that feeling this progression brings.

'Mitski - My love mine all mine' also uses it in A major key I think.

Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo definitely joined the list

Lana Del Ray ripped off Radiohead a lot more than Radiohead ripped off The Holiies.

I was one of the 6000 people that bought "Creep" on its initial release, which helped it to surge to number 78 in the charts. Best 50p I ever spent. I've just realised that it's the thirtieth anniversary of the release of 'Pablo Honey' tomorrow, which means it's also 30 years since I saw Radiohead play live to a small audience at Sheffield Uni. They were quite good, but Thom Yorke was very drunk. I did not expect to be watching internet videos about them thirty years later.

My favorite is Michelle by Sir Chloe! It uses the progression well. It’s one of my fav progressions personally

during lana’s 2018 lalapaloza performance, she performed “get free” and finished it by saying “now that my lawsuit is over i can sing that song whenever i want”

In Creeps chorus when the chord B Major is played,Thom sings "weirdo" and on C Minor he sings "I don't belong here". The lyrics line up perfectly with the music, as B major and C minor aren't technically in G major. So they sound a bit weird and don't belong there. It happens multiple times in the song too. Listen to what words he sings when these 2 chords are being played. Almost every time the word perfectly mirrors the role of the chord within the chord progression. See how many you can pick out. Perhaps this might be one of the reasons a lot of people connect with the song? Its happening on a subconscious level. The Beatles of course were masters of this, as in nearly every song the lyrics almost perfectly align with whats happening musically. Whether it was intentional or not, who knows?

The violin arrangement over the minor fourth in Sweet Dreams' The Last Shadow Puppet was sublime.

Creep, Space Oddity and Where is my Mind are songs I've listened to 17,486 times... Never heard a similarity 😮

Most plagiarism lawsuits for pop songs are absolutely ridiculous.

This song on guitar makes so much sense. It's 3 barre-chords with very minor hand movements. When you break it down for piano, it seems genius, but it's basically like what you'd find naturally by noodling around on an acoustic in the 90s. (Which to be fair is probably how it was written lol)

That explanation about why to use a sharp or flat was amazing, and something I've always wondered! (Slowly learning music theory)

More examples that aren't mentioned here 3:00 Michelle - Sir Chloe Blues de mar - Gaby Moreno Introverted - Elita Edit (2024): Vampire - Olivia Rodrigo Ere - Juan Karlos