Album of the day (#1177): The Bends by Radiohead

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Today's album of the day

The Bends by Radiohead (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1995.
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Overall rank: 15
Average rating: 87/100 (from 1423 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Planet Telex
2. The Bends
3. High & Dry
4. Fake Plastic Trees
5. Bones
6. (Nice Dream)
7. Just
8. My Iron Lung
9. Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was
10. Black Star
11. Sulk
12. Street Spirit (Fade Out)

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[Dingerbell]

Incredible album, and considering that I rate three Radiohead albums better than this, it shows how great Radiohead are. A unique sound in Radiohead's discography- to be fair though, they all have a unique sound- and the first of their albums I fell in love with. My favourite songs are Just, Bullet Proof, My Iron Lung and Fake Plastic Trees.

[HazeyTwilight]

Love this album. It's outside my top 50 at the moment, but it would be inside that region if there wasn't other albums by Radiohead I loved even more (then again, my favourite Radiohead album continuously changes between their four most popular). Transitional would be the perfect word to describe it.
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[Guest]

Well this is kind of out of the blue

Anyway, it's pretty good. Probably only my 4th favorite of theirs, and it's got noticeable flaws, but it's good.

[HoldenM]

Not a weak track, and a handful of absolute gems among gems. Lower echelon of great Radiohead albums, but just barely. Even an inferior album from them is still a bona fide masterwork.

Track picks
2. The Bends
3. High & Dry
4. Fake Plastic Trees
7. Just
12. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
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[TracyJacks]

My favourite Radiohead album, ever since I listened to it it became an instant favourite. I still wait for the day when other Radiohead album/s become my favourite but it hasn't happenned yet.
Fantastic songwriting, production, lyrics all the way through...there is not a weak moment on this album.
Great production work by John Leckie.

[drakonium]

...again?

Ah well, very strong record IMO. Used to be my fav by them, now I prefer both OKC and HTTT, and maybe Kid A too. Fake Plastic Trees may forever stay my favorite Radiohead song, though.

[Norman Bates]

I defy anybody who was around in '95 to tell me he could have guessed at the time something like Kid A would come out of a band who'd just made such an average album.

[SamuelPear]

Had a re-listen about a week ago on a powerful stereo and this is a really good record. Sounds great, Yorke is intelligible for once ... A fine record, might be the only one easy to get in, in Radiohead's discography.
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Norman Bates wrote:

SamuelPear a le swag

[Goodsir]

This was my first Radiohead album. OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, and In Rainbows are all better in my opinion, but it's still great despite that.