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Radiohead rebound from one-hit wonder status with this sophomore classic--the first to blueprint their operatic sonics.
On only their second outing Oxford's Radiohead fulfilled their huge potential, fashioning an album whose relentlessly downbeat tone was offset by an ability to formulate consistently winning melodies. The title track and "Just" throw some customary rock poses, but for the most part the band displayed a far more expansive approach. Thom Yorke emerged from the woodwork with a new-found vocal confidence, revealing a striking falsetto on two of the album's strongest tracks, "Fake Plastic Trees" and "High & Dry." The last three songs build inexorably to the stunning emotional climax of "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" with a control and poise that showcased the band's new maturity.
Recorded at Rak, The Manor and Abbey Road, London, England.
Producers: John Leckie, Radiohead, Jim Warren, Nigel Godrich.
Engineers include: John Leckie, Nigel Godrich, Chris Brown.
Personnel: Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano); Ed O'Brien (vocals, guitar); Jonny Greenwood (guitar, recorder, piano, organ, synthesizer); John Matthias (violin, viola); Caroline LaVelle (cello); Phil Selway (drums).
Audio Mixers: John Leckie; Paul Q. Kolderie; Radiohead; Sean Slade.
Recording information: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England; RAK; Rak, the Manor, Abbey Road; Rock City, Nottingham, England; The Manor.
Illustrator: Stanley Donwood.
Radiohead: Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano); Ed O'Brien (vocals, guitar); Jon Greenwood (guitar, recorder, piano, organ, synthesizer); Colin Greenwood (bass); Phil Selway (drums).
Additional personnel: John Matthias (violin, viola); Caroline Lavelle (cello).
Rolling Stone (p.64) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[With a] wild sweep of sound colors and exploded emotional palette..."
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.120) - Ranked #110 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "[O]peratic, marrying a majestic and somber guitar sound to the virtuosic urgency of Thom Yorke's vocals..."
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, pp.58-59) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
Rolling Stone (5/18/95, p.88) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...THE BENDS [is] a sonically ambitious album that offers no easy hits. It's a guitar field day, blending acoustic strumming with twitches of fuzzy tremolo and eruptions of amplified paranoia..."
Entertainment Weekly (p.67) - "Fourteen years later, Coldplay and dozens of lesser imitators are still hammering away at the stadium-size melancholy Radiohead perfected here."
Entertainment Weekly (4/7/95, p.92) - "...Sometimes folky, sometimes rocky, the sophomore album from this English band offers a smorgasbord of guitar flavors, most of them tasty, The stylistic leaps make for schizoid listening....but give these boys credit for not standing still..." - Rating: B+
Q (6/00, p.75) - Ranked #35 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"
Q (10/01, p.106) - Ranked #4 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"
Q (12/99, p.84) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."
Q (2/96, p.63) - Included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995 - "...THE BENDS' lasting mightiness is confirmed--as is the scary impression that they'll only get better..."
Alternative Press (4/95, p.71) - "...THE BENDS' greatest asset is its approximation of London Suede, all the parody and none of the pomp....THE BENDS proves that Radiohead didn't shoot their bolt with `Creep.' That there's a lot more stirring down there than their recent past might admit..."
Melody Maker (12/23-30/95, pp.66-67) - Ranked #6 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's `Albums Of The Year' - "Rock as self-evisceration....consistently, savagely brilliant..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.65) - Ranked #16 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[With] songs of such unpredictable elegance they would touch the heart in any setting."
NME (Magazine) (8/12/00, p.29) - Ranked #30 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums" - "...Suburban bleakness....More personal than OK COMPUTER and all the more chilling for it."
NME (Magazine) (12/23-30/95, pp.22-23) - Ranked #4 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995.
Pitchfork (Website) - "THE BENDS was essentially split between these poles: warmth and tension; riffs and texture; rock and post-rock..."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.89) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It had it all....Yorke's gloriously acerbic sarcasm ringing true throughout." Bends Music | List Price | $14.91 (You save $3.72) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Alternative, Rock/Pop, British | | Label | Capitol / EMI | | Orig Year | 1995 | | All Time Sales Rank |  333   | | CD Universe Part number | 1108126 | | Catalog number | 29626 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 04, 1995 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | Thom Yorke - vocals, guitar, piano
Jonny Greenwood - guitar, recorder, piano, organ, synthesizer
Ed O'Brien - vocals, guitar
Phil Selway - drums
Colin Greenwood - bass
Also: Caroline Lavelle, John Matthias |
Bends Music Review Average Rating: (4.2 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Most Excellent!
Tracks one through five are simply perfect. Rock music doesn't get much better than this. This is the album I think of when I think of Radiohead. Their newer stuff is great too, but this is absolutely essential.
Submitted by Colby (Stanton, NE, USA)
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AWSOME!!!!!!!! best
This and OK Computer run neck and neck, but this is an awsome record !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO IT MY WHOLE LIFE
Submitted by Sam H. (NO,LA,USA)
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Simply the best album I've ever heard.
Submitted by vivnirvana235 (FRANCE)
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Someone must have stuck thier foot in the greek reviewer's hummus, because he is sick in the head. Radiohead IS one of the best bands of all time. The Bends is their second best album, behind only the masterpiece that is OK Computer. Ignore the foolish previous reviewers that gave this album one star. They just can't appreciate good music. By the way, hummus is one tasty assed food.
Submitted by Go Flames Go! (Calgary, AB, Canada)
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Regarding the one-star reviews below: I don't know who pissed in their Kool-Aid, but they've missed something, or gotten sidetracked by the anti-Radiohead backlash that came about when OK Computer demolished every album from the 90's (save for some NIN). It IS a great album; the only song I never really liked was "Bones," but every other song is so good you won't even notice. "Street Spirit" is gorgeous, "My Iron Lung" is creepy, and "Just" does some respectable rocking out. The thing about Radiohead is that they may be a rock band, but they're not a hard rock band. And lately, they've gotten out of categorization altogether. So, if you're expecting the same old 90's crap like Nirvana, look elsewhere.
Submitted by xailith (Horry Co., SC)
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KID A won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. It was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award in the categories of Album Of The Year and Best Engineered Album.
This limited edition of KID A comes as a enlarged digipack book designed by Stanley and Tchock.
1997's OK COMPUTER turned the rock world on its ear by bringing visionary neo-prog rock touches to a Britpop format. Consequently, KID A was one of the most anticipated releases of its era, especially since Nigel Godrich, the man behind the mixing desk for the previous album, was again on hand for this outing.
On KID A, Thom Yorke's passionate wailing is put through the aural wringer, and the band's previous nimbly orchestrated full-frontal sonic assault is replaced by full-frontal electric piano, to iconoclastic effect. The ambient underpinnings and garbled vocals of "Everything in Its Right Place," and the instrumental "Treefingers," the electronic beats of "Idioteque," and Yorke's processed voice on the title track will come as quite a shock to diehard '70s rockers who spent the late '90s deifying Radiohead as heirs to the Pink Floyd throne. But these touches work brilliantly, while the more organic elements, such as the jazzy horn section on "The National Anthem," ...
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OK COMPUTER was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for Album Of The Year and won the 1998 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.
OK COMPUTER, Radiohead's third album, is the bombastic follow-up to 1995's sleeper hit THE BENDS, which left critics and listeners as impressed with the band's ability as they were curious about their potential. In spite of its technological-sounding title and apocalyptic sci-fi themes, OK COMPUTER is firmly grounded in the rock verities. Waves of guitars rage beneath the haunting melodies and near-hysterical fits of ...
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AIRBAG/HOW AM I DRIVING? was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.
1998 saw Radiohead perform pop music's most difficult task--their album OK COMPUTER was a critical smash, a worldwide pop hit, and, most importantly, a revolutionary step forward from the edgy, perfectly crafted pop music of their already masterful early efforts. Reintroducing a sense of intellectual adventure into rock music, at times they hearkened back to Pink Floyd, from whose compositional experimentation and epic scale they obviously gleaned a lesson or two. OK COMPUTER's opening track, "Airbag," serves as a starting point for AIRBAG/HOW AM I DRIVING.
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This Limited Edition of AMNESIAC includes a clothbound book with embossed logo and a 32-page full color booklet.
The Limited version of AMNESIAC won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.
This second helping from the sessions that produced the preceding KID A will probably strike close listeners as a bit more structured, though it'll be difficult to determine whether that's simply because the peregrinations of the last album have prepared them for the trips to the outer limits taken here. Those expecting a U2-like return to tuneful, anthemic guitar-rock will have their hopes dashed upon a rock of colorful electronic experimentation and moody, studio-enhanced madness.
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This twofer brings together a pair of albums by Klaatu--the band's self-titled release and HOPE. "California Jam," "True Life Hero," and "Madman" are among the tracks.
Those who appreciate the smart pop, art/symphonic-rock, and weird sci-fi themes of Klaatu needn't venture beyond this two-on-one issue of their first two Capitol releases. Klaatu frequently alternated between Beatlesque pop, the showy guitar rock and vocal theatrics of early Queen, and the electronic ...
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