Because Radiohead's "Creep" and the summer of 1994 hold a special place in my heart, and Axium's version entirely misses whatever it was about the original that made it so meaningful to me.
Word. When Cook sings it, he sounds like a guy who thinks he won't get this girl to pay attention to him. When Yorke sings it, he sounds like a guy who doesn't know if he'll ever get another human being to pay attention to him ever again. I think the boys would probably do a more credible version now, but I'm just not that interested.
Anyway, back cimorene's point: I probably read it the same way you did, at the same age, but then I heard it again in college, and had read enough Shakespeare by that point to get the second (le petit mort) reading (which is really the FIRST reading, according to Wikipedia). But I also found it a bit bitter, then, too, because I thought it was saying that said death was in part because she was stringing him along (a "name on the list").
But the thing is, even if Cook would have kept the bridge, it would have worked for me, because the bridge is saying "you did make this easy for me, but I let it happen and got caught up." And Cook does culpability pretty damn well. So without it, I still get a sense that he recognizes that he is in part responsible for being in the situation in the first place ("I should've walked away").
And we're just oceans apart on Mr. Sensitive. To me, the lyrics build throughout the entire song, to that violent, brutal bridge. And the slightly off-kilter harmonies and the hard consonsance just reinforce how difficult it is, but it's still shot through with the tiniest bit of hope/defiance in that "never let the worst get the best of him" (which to me IS very melodic).
Among the many reasons I love NtC.
Because Radiohead's "Creep" and the summer of 1994 hold a special place in my heart, and Axium's version entirely misses whatever it was about the original that made it so meaningful to me.
Word. When Cook sings it, he sounds like a guy who thinks he won't get this girl to pay attention to him. When Yorke sings it, he sounds like a guy who doesn't know if he'll ever get another human being to pay attention to him ever again. I think the boys would probably do a more credible version now, but I'm just not that interested.
Anyway, back cimorene's point: I probably read it the same way you did, at the same age, but then I heard it again in college, and had read enough Shakespeare by that point to get the second (le petit mort) reading (which is really the FIRST reading, according to Wikipedia). But I also found it a bit bitter, then, too, because I thought it was saying that said death was in part because she was stringing him along (a "name on the list").
But the thing is, even if Cook would have kept the bridge, it would have worked for me, because the bridge is saying "you did make this easy for me, but I let it happen and got caught up." And Cook does culpability pretty damn well. So without it, I still get a sense that he recognizes that he is in part responsible for being in the situation in the first place ("I should've walked away").
And we're just oceans apart on Mr. Sensitive. To me, the lyrics build throughout the entire song, to that violent, brutal bridge. And the slightly off-kilter harmonies and the hard consonsance just reinforce how difficult it is, but it's still shot through with the tiniest bit of hope/defiance in that "never let the worst get the best of him" (which to me IS very melodic).