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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

There was a time, long before Radiohead started making music which sounded like malfunctioning radiators, mumbling about "sucking on lemons" and basically disappearing up their own backside, that they actually knew how to write a good pop tune. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of virtually everything Radiohead have done, it's just that sometimes it's such an effort to like their new style of experimental, progressive music. Nowadays, they seem ashamed of their older music - almost like an eccentric older relative they want to keep away from the public. Creep in particular, despite being their best known track, is noticeable only by its absence ...  Read the complete review

{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. ...  Read the complete review

Pablo Honey by Radiohead was released in 1993.Althugh it’s discarded alongside The Bends and OK Computer it is still a good album in it’s own right it is still a very good album. With songs such as Creep and Stop Whispering this is an album nit to be put down or dismissed. It is a mixture of full on rock songs and slow more poignant song such as the simply titled You. Radiohead here produced a completely different sound to what they have done on The Bends Pablo Honey Is a lot more simpler in sound and maybe lyrically. ...  Read the complete review