Pablo Honey - Radiohead

Looking back through my ops it?s been ages since I started reviewing Radiohead albums and so getting back on the subject, I?ll start again with one of their best. This album goes back to the mid 90?s and 1994 in fact and is the debut release from the Oxford band. Considered by many to be the best album of the lot, I?m not quite sure my vote would be with The Bends, however that makes this easily the second best of the 6 released to date. This is another of the albums I picked up in an HMV 3 for £20 sale and in fact I managed to pick up all the albums I was missing during this offer period. Of course Pablo Honey made a name for Radiohead and as such is one of the ...

Through looking back we might gain a semblance of the future. An oddly poetic note to start an opinion you might say (I’d probably agree with you too) but after reading recent interviews with Radiohead it’s one that’s struck me. After having spent their last two albums exorcising the ghost of the three guitar band who recorded this, their debut album and indulging Thom Yorke’s personal quest to destroy melody the band seem to be mellowing in recent times. Yorke has spoke warmly of missing his guitar and there seems a hint of a chance that Ed O’Brian’s vision of the band recording a ‘pop’ album of three minute guitar ...

{updated to include info on each track} In view of the fact that Radiohead have been very much in the public eye recently, what with the tour and the new oh-so-controversial album, I have decided to review their much forgotten first album, which happens to be my most favourite album of all time. This album is traditionally rock / britpop, and this is where Radiohead got their reputation for being the rock trendsetters of the UK in the 90s. The album is full of gorgeous harmonies which make it really easy to listen to, and I compulsively played it over and over again for about a year, having discovered it by accident. ...