Product Description
Brand New ~ Sealed! Top Quality 2016 Reissue Vinyl Edition, Remastered From Original Master Tapes. Great Sound! With Their Second Album, Radiohead Became Something More Than A Band: They Became A Touchstone For Everything That Is Fearless & Adventurous In Rock!
Side 1:
Planet Telex
The Bends
High And Dry
Fake Plastic Trees
Bones
(Nice Dream)
Side 2:
Just
My Iron Lung
Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was
Black Star
Sulk
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
AMG –
The Bends marries ambitious, and often challenging, instrumental soundscapes to songs that are at their cores hauntingly melodic and accessible. Pablo Honey in no way was adequate preparation for its epic, sprawling follow-up, The Bends. Building from the sweeping, three-guitar attack that punctuated the best moments of Pablo Honey, Radiohead create a grand and forceful sound that nevertheless resonates with anguish and despair -- it's cerebral anthemic rock. Occasionally, the album displays its influences, whether it's U2, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., or the Pixies, but Radiohead turn clichés inside out, making each song sound bracingly fresh. Thom Yorke's tortured lyrics give the album a melancholy undercurrent, as does the surging, textured music. But what makes The Bends so remarkable is that it marries such ambitious, and often challenging, instrumental soundscapes to songs that are at their cores hauntingly melodic and accessible. It makes the record compelling upon first listen, but it reveals new details with each listen, and soon it becomes apparent that with The Bends, Radiohead have reinvented anthemic rock.