The Bends - Radiohead Reviews

Quite simply the one of the best albums in the world…ever. There you go, you can avoid reading the rest of this op if you want because that’s all you need to know. The album opens with ‘Planet Telex’, a brooding, dark tension builder framed within a void of featureless distortion and noise. ‘The Bends’ ...  Read the complete review

Baby's got the Bends.......Oh no. This is a really great album, prized above all others in my CD collection. The songs are deep and meaningful and really catchy. The band themselves are a bit on the depressing side, all seem to point at inner despair of the songwriting team. The tracks vary from the jumpy to the heavily ...  Read the complete review

The Bends. As well as being a bloody awful thing that happens if you come up too fast from a dive, it is also one of the most genre-creating, important albums of the 90s. Along with Oasis' (Whats the Story?) album and Nevermind by Nirvana, this is going to be on the 90's most important albums lists, not Robbie Williams and Destiny's ...  Read the complete review

I have become intrested in Radiohead when I first just I loved it then I settled down and heard street spirit and no suprises which I saw the videos to I then heard Ok computer which was lent to me by a friend, I then borrowed the bends and then pablo honey all in a month actually. I am going to see radiohead live soon, I have just recently ...  Read the complete review

Disproving all the critics and doubters who proclaimed that 'Creep' was their only decent song, Radiohead returned in 1995 with an absolute belter. The Bends is a monumental album, significant in both its stirring rock sound and the scope of Thom Yorke's lyrics. Radiohead have always had a melancholic, contemplative side to ...  Read the complete review

The thing I liked most about The Bends was that there was not a single bad track on it. Usually this is a good sign. They would have to be THE British Bands of the 90s for me - 5 albums, 2 of which were voted #1 and #2 in a recent 'Best Albums In The World Poll' in America. Those were THe Bends #1 and O.K. Computer #2 if you were ...  Read the complete review

After immersing myself in Kid A and Amnesiac for months I got this out and rediscovered the joys of listening to simpler, more accessible, almost singalong, good old fashioned adult rock. This for me is the best album they have so far produced. Add to the fact that they dedicated it to Bill Hicks just raises them in my eyes by another notch. ...  Read the complete review

This was a right kick up the jacksy for the Brittish music business. A well needed one too. In my opinion, Radiohead are the most innovative and original band to come out of England in the 1990s, and with this album, some say they were just getting started. Some say they were at their peak- it depends how you interpret their next album, ...  Read the complete review

For many, Radiohead’s finest hour, for others just the start of the Radiohead phenomenon. Either way, most music fans agree that The Bends is one of the finest albums of its kind in the last ten years. Another thing that is certain is that it is music produced during the period where Radiohead could still be deemed to ‘rock’ and ...  Read the complete review

One of the best albums ever recorded, especially within my range. I have never heard an album with so many brilliant features all combined before. Thrill and pleasure are the main things that make this album what it is. The opening track 'Planet Telex' is definately a good choice for the first track on the album. It is an ...  Read the complete review

it's amazing how quick people are to point out that "ok computer" is the greatest album of the 90s. it's a damn good record, but it isn't even the best radiohead material out there. "the bends" is better. yeah, yeah, crazy experimentation is great, especially when it all works out well, but sometimes it's a ...  Read the complete review

I don’t own this album but am currently borrowing it from a friend, and I really need to tell people how damn good it is! But no-doubt if you are anywhere near being sane then you will already know for yourself. The Album has a very mellow theme but with a few faster songs as well. <01>Planet Telex - “You can crush ...  Read the complete review

I don't know if I have all the details right when I say this, but some time ago the NME conducted a survey of musicians to discover the most influential groups of all time. Number one was the Beatles. Predictable, but perfectly reasonable too. Number two was David Bowie. Not so predictable, but not so unreasonable either. Number three was... ...  Read the complete review

There's a deep irony here that I don't think anyone else has picked up on. Radiohead's first album, Pablo Honey, had the single Creep on it. This song catapulted the band to unexpected stardom. They rose too fast and it hurt them. The bends is something that effects divers, they rise to the surface to fast and nitrogen bubbles become ...  Read the complete review

This is probably, on and off, my favourite CD ever. I can listen to this anytime place or mood I'm in. But it's the same with Radiohead's equally excellent 'OK Computer' CD and I'm always with myself over which i like the best. But then again....who cares?! Credit to Radiohead for producing two top class albums ...  Read the complete review

The second Radiohead album marked a massive leap forward from the sub-grunge sound of their debut ‘Pablo Honey’. It arrived in the year of Britpop, 1995, but unlike most albums from that period, it has stood the test of time and is generally regarded as a classic. But what makes ‘The Bends’ so good? Its qualities are in ...  Read the complete review

Beautiful. Unhappy. Diverse. There's so many words that can be used to describe this never bettered album. A real modern day legend, this one will be remembered throughout the decades. My favourite album of all time, "The Bends" is one of the the most original, searching, despairing and despondent records I have ever had ...  Read the complete review

Following the largely indifferent reaction to 1993’s Pablo Honey, Radiohead’s explosive The Bends (1995) capitalized on the brilliance merely hinted at by their debut and propelled the Oxford five-piece towards the stratospheric heights secured by OK Computer (1997). The pulsating guitars and suffocating paranoia of the ...  Read the complete review

The Bends is the best radiohead album ever and may'be the best album ever bar none. It has many great hits including the well known fake plastic trees. The bends is a great song, very good rock and roll. There are also some great songs which may go unnoticed like nice dream and planet telex and just. Then it is capped off brilliantly with ...  Read the complete review

In a recent UK poll of the nations favourite albums, usually dominated by the Beatles, a new threat had come to the Fab Four in the form of The Bends, the second album from Oxford band Radiohead. It came number two behind the Beatles Revolver. Now, I own both albums and it has to be said that the Bends is way better. It was the album that shed the ...  Read the complete review