Creep is directly the reason that I didn't get into Radiohead until much more recently than when all of their ground-breaking albums were actually coming out.

Creep is directly the reason that I didn't get into Radiohead until much more recently than when all of their ground-breaking albums were actually coming out. I've never liked that song (it's too whiny for my tastes; maybe it's nascent emo?) and yet it was getting all the airplay on the radio in my teens. So it directly discouraged me from delving deeper into the Radiohead catalog and listening to all those killer songs because that one song didn't gel with me (and of course one song is never a fair representative of an entire artist's oeuvre). Meanwhile, that station, despite very much being a modern rock station that would blast Nirvana and various other 90s rock bands all day long, nevertheless still had real DJs who would occasionally play older "classic" rock songs like those by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, and those songs fucking rocked. So a few good representative songs from them led me down the rabbit hole of listening to those artists' entire catalogs N times over. Funny how Radiohead, which I actually lived through, I wasn't into at the time, but I did immediately appreciate the older classic rock. People like me are exactly the reason that Radiohead is moving up the list over time but classic rock bands aren't; they've already gotten their due for decades now. Now it's Radiohead's turn.