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Pablo Honey
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- Radiohead - Pablo Honey Brazil Import
CD > POPULAR MUSIC > ROCK
Before Radiohead became the biggest critics' darling since Pavement or Dr. Dre, they were just another pre-Oasis British band with some loose indie ties, trying to gain some cred. Loopy enough to name this moody, often battering debut album for a Jerky Boys routine, they were also a lot more interesting when they hadn't yet learned the word "soundscape." "Creep," the miserably majestic single they now claim nearly ruined them, may not even be the best thing here; try "Anyone Can Play Guitar," an epitaph for River Phoenix before the fact. --Rickey Wright
| Pablo Honey | 2010-05-20 | 5 / 5 |
| Crazy time signature shifts, yearning falsetto, and layers of texture. You may think these words are being used to describe "Paranoid Android" or "Pyramid Song." But while the studio production may not be as over-the-top as those records, they are here being used to describe "You" or "Ripcord" or "I Can't."
Pablo Honey is a strange work. It contains enough artistic merit and uniqueness to be considered a great record, and yet it remains consistently derided as "pop" or "Nirvana-lite" by critics who refuse to acknowledge that they just plain got it wrong. These same critics, who often laud OK Computer and Kid A, forget what makes Radiohead so great in the first place: every album takes the band in a fresh, new direction. After all, how many times could Radiohead have made OK Computer and still be respected for it?
And Pablo Honey was the first of the band's many directions. Relying more on instrumentation and skill than on studio tricks and oddities, it provides a no-nonsense rock record that contemporaries were struggling to create, not churning out on a regular basis as the critics would have you believe. Take a song like "Lurgee"--so beautiful in its melody, yet equally as purifying lyrically. Listen to "Prove Yourself"--a song that quickly turns from self-deprecation to belief and confidence. Or what about "Blow Out," which starts as a mellow lounge song and rapidly blasts into a wave of guitars and frenzied drumming?
And there were a couple of songs, "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Creep", which sound pretty good themselves as singles. "Creep" in particular turns "bitter" from a mood into a concept.
When it comes to Radiohead, I think my favorite album is Kid A, followed by OK Computer. But Pablo Honey remains my third favorite. |
| Suprisingly good considering,,, | 2010-03-20 | 4 / 5 |
| I hated the song when "Creep" when it first came out.(Radiohead described this as the song that nearly ruined them, hmmm?)
Fast forward to now. I'm a huge Radiohead fan, (buying all of their other albums when they came out), and yes, I have minimally warmed to CREEP (only for nostalgia reasons). But, I avoided listening to Pablo Honey because I didn't like Creep that much. But last week, I decided to give it a try after getting it for my IPOD. It's really a great album. Even pre-Bends/O.K. Computer, their art/craft still shines through their melodies and their lyrics. My favorites I find myself singing (even after the IPOD's turned off) are "Anyone Can Play Guitar," which is a really nice anthem and just cool lyrics. ( "I wanna play in a band, when I get to Heaven. Everyone can play guitar and they won't be a nothing anymore...") I also liked Ripcord and Vegetable as well. There were others as well.
If you're a longtime Radiohead fan, don't make the mistake I did and pass this up. There are some gems on here that are worth listening too. |
| AM radiohead | 2010-02-23 | 3 / 5 |
| Before Thom Yorke decided he hated the world and began writing about it, Radiohead debuted with modest rock and roll album in 1993. Granted, it is easy to see that these guys were art-school rockers with some ambition, but the bulk of "Pablo Honey" mixes punky, Replacements like thrashing with the them coming to prominence of grunge. It's an otherwise inauspicious debut, the dawn of a band.
That is, except for the hit. "Creep" played off the soft-loud-soft-loud grunge blueprint with a heaping dose of pre-hipster self-loathing irony and managed to become a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. "You're so f---ing special," moans Yorke as guitarist Johnny Greenwood's stabbing cracks the docile surface, "I wish I were special, but I'm a Creep." Despite the fact the the band soon came to loathe the song (on The Bends, they slag the success of their hit during "My Iron Lung"), it did set the tone for much of what Radiohead would develop as a band attitude later.
That said, the rest of "Pablo Honey" has a few gems to be found. The more acoustic based "Thinking About You" is as plain a song as the band's ever done. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" is pretty much a fun song, and the time-workout of "You" is a lot more complicated than it sounds at first blush. Given the incredible path Radiohead would blaze within a few years, "Pablo Honey" shows a band working to find what eventually would be a unique voice on the alternative rock pantheon. |
| Not as good as their newer releases. | 2009-12-09 | 2 / 5 |
| | I own Kid A and OK Computer and I love them. I have heard most of hail to the theif and it is excellent, so I heard Creep and decided to get Pablo Honey. This album doesn't stand up to the albums I've herad, it has less of their creative use of computer generated sound and the songs tend to sound too whiney,sad and very 90's rock without it. I listen to it 3 times and dedcided to get rid of it. sad. |
| pablo honey | 2009-11-23 | 1 / 5 |
| | Officials destroyed it because it wasn't officially marked fron . I ordered it for my grandson in prison. He was told that they destroyed it. A package can't be from a person. It has to be from . |
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