The Bends - Radiohead

Full review How do you start to review an album by such a band? How do you try and adequately convey how much you would urge everyone to get a hold of a copy of this CD or their collection is simply not complete? I actually do not know, but I will try my best here to let you know how and why. Radiohead started its life in the late 1980's, originally calling themselves 'On a Friday' (the only time they could all arrange to meet) but didn't really get any kind of success until after they had finished their respective university courses. They then produced and released their debut which enjoyed great success over the pond and the album actually went gold. ...  Read the complete review

Radiohead's second album titled The Bends is an album filled with inspirational music from the indie rock band. The album consists of 12 high quality tracks The highlight of the album for me is HIGH AND DRY. There is great guitar in this song and the chorus just comes to life full of energy. A real good song. MY IRON LUNG is another song full of energy. The mixture between the guitar and the lyrics is perfect and really builds with great feeling in the song. JUST is a quality song. The vocals of Thom York are fantastic as he sings with so much passion. The opening track PLANET TELEX sets the album off in a good direction. ...  Read the complete review

Ahh another old favorite ...Radiohead 'The Bends' I been digging through my music lately, giving some old faves some play-time on my music machine. 'The Bends' is in my opinion the best of Radioheads efforts for the simple reason ALL the songs are good, it's the kind of album I'll put on and listen to it all without having to skip past any crap songs because I like them all, which is rare. I will say this though it's quite strange when you go digging through your music collection, like finding old friends..bits of soundtrack from your life. Or is that just me? 'The Bends' came out in '95 and is / was the follow up to ...  Read the complete review

As I mentioned in my op last week there really is only one album by Radiohead that seems to be constantly on my CD player. That album is of course the follow up to the 1994 release Pablo Honey, 1995?s The Bends. Often the subject of much debate between Radiohead fans but personally this is my favourite album to date. The follow up and it?s predecessor both push it close but overall I find The Bends to be the more complete album. The Oxfordshire based band, lead by Thom Yorke have taken the music world by storm since the mid 90?s. A lot of other bands show heavy influences of Radiohead?s sound but it was this album more than any other that will be found on lists ...  Read the complete review

Following the massive critical acclaim Radiohead received for their third album, OK Computer, and the subsequent experimental nature of their next two releases, it might be easy to forget their earlier effort, The Bends. That, though, would surely be a mistake, as it's arguably their greatest work. Admittedly, it is more mainstream than OK Computer, and that's probably why that album took the plaudits whilst The Bends has always been referred to as the band's more accessible 'rock album'. This is certainly true in respect to the overall style of the record, but the guitar rock of most of the songs hides a much deeper musical vision for the group, ...  Read the complete review