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The Bends
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| Part No: | B000002TQV |
| Manufacturer: | Capitol |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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While Radiohead saw its stock rising in 1994, it wasn't until 1995's
The Bends that it really became a blue chip band. And for good reason. The quintet honed its talent for bombastic Brit Rock, yet still preserved an edge of unpredictability. Even singles like the title track didn't give in to the kind of swooning guitar clichés usually embraced by commercial radio. If the CD proved anything, it was that Radiohead could find solid ground between pop experimentation and the tradition of born-in-the-bone, balls-out rock.
--Nick Heil
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Japanese edition of their higly acclaimed 1995 & second album with two bonus tracks, 'How Can You Be Sure' & 'KillerCars'. 14 tracks total, also featuring the hits 'High And Dry', 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)', 'Just', 'Fake Plastic Trees' and 'My Iron Lung'. EMI release.
Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks.
| Radiohead for people who don't care for Radiohead | 2010-08-29 | 5 / 5 |
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This album was perfect for its time, and to me still represents some of the best music of the 1990's. It's also a great album for people like me who are challenged by Radiohead. Do I really like this band? Are they annoyingly pretentious? Genius? All of the above?
All doubts aside for this album. It's simply perfect. |
| This album never gets old.... | 2010-04-03 | 5 / 5 |
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This was the first Radiohead album I ever owned. I bought this album when it was first released in the 1990s. I didn't love every song when I was younger. As I get older, however, and relisten to Radiohead's first albums, my opinion has changed (Or maybe it's my tastes.)
Even though I own all of their albums, I'm beginning to appreciate their music -- and all their songs -- even more than I did when I was younger. I don't know if experience has changed me, but the words in many of the songs on "The Bends" have even more meaning than they did. I still own the original CD of this album.
I agree with those reviewers say that this is Radiohead's most accessible album. The album has a beautiful range of anthem-like songs ("The Bends"), to pacific ballads ("High and Dry" and "Fake Plastic Trees"), and rock songs. "Planet Telex" is one of my favorites off the album, along with "Just" -- *you do it to yourself, you do (and that's why it really hurts!)
Radiohead are one of the best artists (although my opinion is biased because they're one of my favorite bands.) They're good musicians and exceptional lyricists. I love their sarcastic sense of humor on their songs, their existential, abstract lyrics.
Some reviewers have claimed that people who love Radiohead are just being pretending to like them. That's not the case for me. I know, not everyone's going to connect to their music as I do. People have different music tastes: we'll have to agree to disagree.
As for Radiohead (and The Bends)-- this is always going to have a special place in my heart, in my music collection and on my IPOD!
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| Best CD ever! | 2010-02-15 | 5 / 5 |
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| There hasn't been one song on this album that I haven't enjoyed! Radiohead has such a unique sound and this CD is proof of that. This is seriously one of my favorite things to listen to. |
| Radiohead Turns It On | 2010-01-28 | 5 / 5 |
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While the first Radiohead album, Pablo Honey, was a decent go at the prevailing grunge sound of the time, The Bends was where Thom Yorke and company went from imitation to originality. Yorke's infatuation with modern alienation was focused and Jon Greenwood had fine tuned his guitar attacks into a voice that became unique to him and the band. More than any of their other albums, "The Bends" rocked hard and loud.
While the follow-up would find Yorke pushing his view more into the technology of alienation (and produce a masterwork in OK Computer), "The Bends" was still a human album. As "High and Dry" made it clear:
"Drying up in conversation,
You'll be the one that cannot talk.
All your insides fall to pieces,
you just sit there
wishing you could still make love."
That may be the most aching lyric to come off Yorke's pen, and it's followed by yet another bit of brilliance, "Fake Plastic Trees." I always though the line "that she bought from a rubber man in a town full of rubber plans" was a nod to The Beatles in Radiohead's own twisted world. Then there's the band looking at the flukish success of "Creep" on "My Iron Lung," where the sudden recognition of that one song becomes the twin blessing and curse of rock hit and novelty...and insecurity of creative doubt takes root.
While Yorke was already pushing Radiohead up and away from the typical rock forms of the day, "The Bends" remains the band's most rocking and accessible CD. The seeds of artistic explosion had already reached a fertile stage and would jump the tracks on the next two albums, yet to my ears, "The Bends" was Radiohead's first perfect record.
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| The last "traditional" Radiohead album | 2010-01-14 | 5 / 5 |
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| This and Pablo honey stand as Radiohead's only real conventional alternative rock albums, and they are two of the best alternative rock albums in exsistence, though The Bends is waaay better than Pablo Honey. Some of the standouts from the ablum include Planet Telex (which Thom Yorke recorded while lying on the ground drunk), Fake Plastic Trees, and Street Spirit (Fade Out). An absolute essential album for any Radiohead fan, or music lover in general. |
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