Creep (Stone Temple Pilots song)
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| Single by Stone Temple Pilots from the album Core |
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| B-side | "Crackerman" "Where the River Goes" |
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| Released | 1993 | |||||||||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Grunge | |||||||||||||
| Length | 5:33 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Music: Robert DeLeo Lyrics: Scott Weiland & Robert DeLeo |
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| Producer | Brendan O'Brien | |||||||||||||
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"Creep" is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, appearing as the seventh track off the band's debut album Core and later released as a single.
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[edit] Composition
Performed at a lumberingly slow tempo, the song is a calm interlude between two heavily distorted tracks. It was the third and final single from the album. The song was noted for its striking resemblance to the grunge scene of the day, and the band was scathed for jumping on the bandwagon by most music critics when the single first came out in 1993.
[edit] Music video
The music video, directed by Graeme Joyce, was shot in all black and white film and mostly showed the band members along with repeated shots of an old-fashioned running water faucet.
[edit] Alternate versions
The version of the song on the music video is actually different from the one that appears on Core, with some slight differences in how Scott Weiland sings parts of the song (notably the lyric, "Think you're kinda neat, then she tells me I'm a creep"). Also, the song in the video is approximately 30 seconds shorter than the one on the album due to the removal of repeated lines in the first chorus. This altered version is the one the band usually played at concerts and the one that appeared on most singles for the song "Creep".
[edit] Notable appearances of the song
- The song appeared in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down.
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