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

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

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

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

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

Mitski's new song My Love Mine All Mine uses this progression! I picked up on it as soon as I heard it thanks to this video

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?

I love that you always surprise with your examples. And always such good picks. Rick and Morty! Steven Universe! Alex Turner! Who would have expected those songs to all be in the same list?

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

As an ear-trained musician that's never fully utilized proper notation, it's hard to understate how helpful the "Use a letter, skip a letter" method in triad chords is

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