While it stokes the fires of nostalgia, the second half of Pablo Honey is pretty forgettable. Sadly, the key guitars on the album are long gone. With Creep in the bag, Pablo Honey came together in just three weeks, costing £100,000. Image: Andrew Benge / Redferns Even the chef can play guitar The result has been immortalised within Radiohead as ‘The Noise’. The three pairs of barbarous, muted up and down strokes that introduce the chorus were “the sound of Jonny trying to fuck the song up,” recalled O’Brien.
Jonny Greenwood had his own concerns over Creep’s sparkly clean arpeggios and launched an attempt at sabotage, armed with his Telecaster Plus and a Marshall Shredmaster. The song’s G/B/C/Cm progression, with its Beatles-indebted major/minor shift, nods so heavily to Hollies hit The Air That I Breathe it that it resulted in a legal claim, while BBC Radio 1 banned the single for being too depressing. Creep was viewed by the band as a ‘throwaway’ and nicknamed their ‘Scott Walker’ song, but at the end of a searing performance, everyone in the studio broke into applause, knowing they’d witnessed a lightning in a bottle moment.
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