Bends
by Radiohead£5.52 Free Shipping
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- Released
- 01/01/2001
- Music Genre
- Rock
Description
Additional personnel: John Matthias (violin, viola); Caroline Lavelle (cello).
Producers: John Leckie, Radiohead, Jim Warren, Nigel Godrich.
Engineers include: John Leckie, Nigel Godrich, Chris Brown.
Recorded at Rak, The Manor and Abbey Road, London, England.
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.
Product Details
- Artist
- Radiohead
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- EMI
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #2097
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 1995
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 1995
- Number of Discs
- 1
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #1740
- Cast & Crew
- Radiohead (Music Performer)
Press Reviews
...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... Alternative Press (4/95, p.71)
...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+ Entertainment Weekly (4/7/95, p.92)
Ranked #6 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's `Albums Of The Year' - "Rock as self-evisceration....consistently, savagely brilliant... Melody Maker (12/23-30/95, pp.66-67)
Ranked #4 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995. NME (12/23-30/95, pp.22-23)
Ranked #30 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums" - "...Suburban bleakness....More personal than OK COMPUTER and all the more chilling for it. NME (8/12/00, p.29)
Ranked #4 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime Q (10/01, p.106)
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s. Q (12/99, p.84)
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... Q (2/96, p.63)
Ranked #35 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums Q (6/00, p.75)
Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's. Rolling Stone (5/13/99, pp.58-59)
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... Rolling Stone (5/18/95, p.88)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Planet Telex
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The Bends
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High and Dry
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Fake Plastic Trees
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Bones
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Nice Dream
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Just
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My Iron Lung
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Bullet Proof.....I Wish I Was
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Black Star
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Sulk
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Street Spirit(Fade Out)
