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The Bends - Radiohead |
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16.11.00 (20 review reads) |
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Advantages: mind expanding music
Disadvantages: not music you want played at a Christening
The Bends
Radiohead (Parlophone 1995)
Truly unique. A great album that explores many different emotions. The music is so clever that it is difficult to concentrate on anything but the music. Thom Yorke’s lyrics are beautiful astonishing, with very powerful visual images: “Cracked eggs dead birds…I can feel death and it’s beady eyes”. The music is clearly a deep exploration of different thoughts, like they are singing us an account of their most interesting and powerful thoughts. Song titles like ‘Fake Plastic Trees’,’ My Iron Lung’ and ‘Bullet Proof…I Wish I Was’ illustrate this nicely. There is an great variation of music the watery Street Spirit, to the Grungy Just and the obviously R.E.M.-esque songs like Sulk.
Thom Yorke’s voice acts as an emotive hammer that wallops you around the head in slow motion. Songs like High and Dry will have your wondering if his voice is going to pass out of the human audible range. Johnny Greenwood’s guitar complements the exceptional lyrics by producing equally emotive sounds from a different plain. The rest of the band are awesome but not quite as noticeable due to the prominence of the vocals and guitar.
Music needs Radiohead as much as Radiohead need music.
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