| The Bends | 
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Sales Rank: 602
Category: Music
Artist: Radiohead
Publisher: Capitol
Studio: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Label: Capitol
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 29626
UPC: 724382962625
EAN: 0724382962625
ASIN: B000002TQV
Publication Date: 1995
Release Date: April 4, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Planet Telex | | • | Bends | | • | High & Dry | | • | Fake Plastic Trees | | • | Bones | | • | Nice Dream | | • | Just | | • | My Iron Lung | | • | Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was | | • | Black Star | | • | Sulk | | • | Street Spirit (Fade Out) |
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While Radiohead saw its stock rising in 1994, it wasn't until 1995's The Bends that it really became a blue chip band. And for good reason. The quintet honed its talent for bombastic Brit Rock, yet still preserved an edge of unpredictability. Even singles like the title track didn't give in to the kind of swooning guitar cliches usually embraced by commercial radio. If the CD proved anything, it was that Radiohead could find solid ground between pop experimentation and the tradition of born-in-the-bone, balls-out rock. --Nick Heil
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 Essential Radiohead June 28, 2009
I've had OK Computer and Amnesiac for a couple years now, and finally decided to buy The Bends. I don't know how I managed to survive without this CD. I'm not going to make you suffer through some novel-length self-important pseudo-intellectual wanna-be musical theory term paper intended to impress complete strangers... nah, instead I just wanna tell you guys that I think its a great CD. If you like Radiohead, you'll love The Bends. Like all great music, you must sit in front of a full dynamic range sound system, and give this album your complete and undivided attention. Also, like all great music, it gets better each time you hear it- NO, not hear it, I mean listen to it. There is a difference between just hearing music, and really listening to it. For example, I never understood "dancing" when I was a teen, because all the pretty girls wanted to jiggle their boobs and butts to a redundant beat, but didn't have a clue as to the content of the crappy music they were listening to. On the other hand, I was contemplating the lyrical content of great music like Rush 2112, Farewell to Kings, and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon- always hoping that there would be equally great musical compositions in the future of the rock genre to satisfy thinking men. This is one of those albums you probably won't dance to. Enjoy.
Radiohead FTW June 28, 2009
Excellent album.
Up there with Kid A, OK Computer, and Amnesiac. Classic radiohead doing what they do best. vinyl quality is beast.
Great rock album April 14, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Bends is one of my favorite rock albims. It is before Radiohead becomes experimental and electronic, which I also love. Every song is great.
What does music do for you? March 20, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Music is many things to many people, but I think we can all agree that at its finest, a song can lift us out of the mundane for a brief, transcendent moment in time. The sounds that unlock these moments are unique from person to person and day-to-day even within the span of our own lives. For example, I might have listened to a song dozens of times in the past, but if I hear it at just the right moment in my life, circumstance and memory collide to "unlock" the tune for myself. I hear the song in a different way, as cheesy or strange as that sounds.
Lately I've been hearing the album "The Bends" in that way. This collection of twelve soaring pop-rock songs evoke frustration, boredom, alienation, anxiety, and anger vicariously with glimmers of joy and hope; in short, it's slowly coming to sum up my mid-twenties.
Anyway, enough about my emotional attachment to this music, let's get to the bottom line of this review: "The Bends" offers up an obscene amount of "more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts" musical moments and comes highly recommended (surprise, surprise) from this reviewer. It is equally enjoyable through headphones, cranked over the car stereo, or murmuring in the background at a party. Enjoy!
A Classic Album January 5, 2009
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this album when it first came out when I was about 16 and I still listen to it and love. It's rare when an album can be a part of your life for so long.
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