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The Bends

Radiohead

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Album Review

Pablo Honey in no way was adequate preparation for its epic, sprawling follow-up, The Bends. Building from the sweeping, three-guitar attack that punctuated the best moments of Pablo Honey, Radiohead create a grand and forceful sound that nevertheless resonates with anguish and despair — it's cerebral anthemic rock. Occasionally, the album displays its influences, whether it's U2, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., or the Pixies, but Radiohead turn clichés inside out, making each song sound bracingly fresh. Thom Yorke's tortured lyrics give the album a melancholy undercurrent, as does the surging, textured music. But what makes The Bends so remarkable is that it marries such ambitious, and often challenging, instrumental soundscapes to songs that are at their cores hauntingly melodic and accessible. It makes the record compelling upon first listen, but it reveals new details with each listen, and soon it becomes apparent that with The Bends, Radiohead have reinvented anthemic rock.

Customer Reviews

Masterpiece!

Well, it's hard to describe how good this album really is, I'll start by saying that it's for me and for many people, the best album released by Radiohead. Secondly, all songs are so well crafted that they feel like they all have their own little world in which they live in, but still, they all work out in the whole thing, which is The Bends, A Masterpiece of modern rock music. I could go on and on with praises for this album but i think what i said previously is enough to convince people to buy this album and enjoy the great work that Radiohead put in it. The last ting i'll say is that Fake Plastic Trees is pure genious, both lyrically and musically. Buy it and you'll be glad you did!

Always awesome

I can't believe I remembered this album...so much better than all the crap that some bands come up with nowadays!!

Great

Fake Plastic Trees is one the best songs from the 90s. Sad and beautiful, depressing and inspiring

Biography

Formed: 1989 in Oxford, England

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Radiohead were one of the few alternative bands of the early '90s to draw heavily from the grandiose arena rock that characterized U2's early albums. But the band internalized that epic sweep, turning it inside out to tell tortured, twisted tales of angst and alienation. Vocalist Thom Yorke's pained lyrics were brought to life by the group's three-guitar attack, which relied on texture — borrowing as much from My Bloody Valentine and Pink Floyd as R.E.M. and Pixies — instead of virtuosity....
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