The group had originally formed back in their schoolboy days at the all-boys Abingdon School under the name On a Friday. When school ended and the band went their separate ways to university, they kept in touch and played together on holidays and occasional weekends. After college, On a Friday reconvened in earnest in 1991 and began gigging and recording demos. After guitarist Jonny Greenwood put a demo in the hands of an EMI record exec while working in a local record shop, the band was signed to a rather staggering six-album contract (you certainly don't see that in the new millennium). But the band came out of the gates with a resounding thud when their Ep Drill failed to enter the U.K. Top 100 and, more than ever, they were in desperate need of a break.
So the band reconvened with new producers Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade (Dinosaur Jr.) to record what the band later referred to as "our greatest hits as an unsigned band." One song that the band didn't immediately throw at their new producers was a tune Thom Yorke had written back at Exeter University. It was a claustrophobic, paranoid fever dream about a stalker too weighed down by his own self-doubt to ever approach the object of his obsession. It was called, appropriately, "Creep." When the band first noodled around, rather spontaneously, with the song in the studio, their producers' ears perked up. Yorke shrugged the track off as "our Walker Brothers song." Kolderie and Slade mistook the remark to mean that it was a cover, so even though "Creep" sounded better than anything else they'd worked on, to that point, they set it aside to get back to work. more on this story

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