The Bends by Radiohead

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Release 01 April 2016
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Radiohead - The Bends Album Songs

No Song Title Time
1. Planet Telex 4:19
2. The Bends 4:06
3. High And Dry 4:17
4. Fake Plastic Trees 4:50
5. Bones 3:09
6. (Nice Dream) 3:53
7. Just 3:54
8. My Iron Lung 4:36
9. Bullet Proof ... I Wish I Was 3:28
10. Black Star 4:07
11. Sulk 3:42
12. Street Spirit (Fade Out) 4:13

The Bends, released on 13 March 1995 in the United Kingdom and on 4 April 1995 in the United States, is the second studio album released by the English rock band Radiohead. The album was dedicated to the late comedian Bill Hicks. The album contains singles "High and Dry", "Fake Plastic Trees", "Just", "My Iron Lung", and "Street Spirit (Fade Out)". The Bends was ranked number 110 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and number 2 on Q's 100 Greatest Albums Ever. The album was subject to much greater critical acclaim than their debut Pablo Honey (1993), and it reached number four in the UK Albums Chart. However, it failed to build on the commercial success of their single "Creep" outside the United Kingdom, and it peaked on the American charts at number 88. Although it lacked the instant success of later Radiohead albums, The Bends achieved triple platinum sales certifications in the UK and Canada and platinum sales in the US and the EU. According to the band, The Bends marked the start of a gradual turn in Yorke's songwriting from personal angst to the more cryptic lyrics and social and global themes that would come to dominate the band's later work. Most of the album was seen to continue the lyrical concerns of Pablo Honey, although in more mature fashion. The songs "Fake Plastic Trees" and, in particular, "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and its b-side "Talk Show Host", are often seen as a precursor to their next album OK Computer (1997). "Fake Plastic Trees" was partly inspired by the commercial development of Canary Wharf, while "Sulk" was written as a response to the Hungerford massacre. According to Yorke, "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" was inspired by the book The Famished Road by Ben Okri. The lyrics to the songs on The Bends, particularly those of "My Iron Lung", were cited in the British music press as an example of Yorke's alleged depression. Melody Maker ran an article during The Bends period which suggested Yorke would be the next "rock 'n roll martyr" or suicide. The Bends was the first of the band's full-length records with artwork by Stanley Donwood, in collaboration with Yorke, who went under the name "The White Chocolate Farm" (later shortened to Tchock). Originally Yorke had wanted to use an image of an iron lung as the cover, but he lost it. The eventual album cover was created at the last minute by morphing a photograph taken by Donwood of a medical dummy with Yorke's own face. It is also the last Radiohead album whose liner notes and artwork include pictures of the band members. The Bends met with much greater critical acclaim than Pablo Honey, appearing on many end-of-year lists in 1995. Within the UK, it assured Radiohead's role as a standard-bearer of "indie" Brit-rock bands. The album was released during the height of the '90s Britpop movement, benefiting from renewed press attention to British guitar music; however, in the band's home country, Radiohead's music was rarely grouped with Blur, Pulp and other so-called "Britpop" acts, instead receiving some acclaim for diverging from the fashionable aspects of the scene. In the United States, the album eventually reached number 88 on the Billboard 200 in 1996, while the single "High and Dry" reached number 78 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK, The Bends reached number 4 and remains a bestseller. In mid-1995 Radiohead toured as an opening act for R.E.M., playing songs from The Bends and extending their popularity with a mass audience. The Bends had an influence on the subsequent generation of British pop bands. In 2006, The Observer listed it as one of "the 50 albums that changed music", saying, "Radiohead's Thom Yorke popularised the angst-laden falsetto, a thoughtful opposite to the chest-beating lad-rock personified by Oasis's Liam Gallagher. Singing in a higher octave-range and falsetto voice to a backdrop of churning guitars became a much-copied idea, however, one that eventually coalesced into an entire decade of sound. Without this, Coldplay would not exist, nor Keane, nor James Blunt." Radiohead members said they later distanced themselves from their mid '90s sound partly because they felt little affinity for those that adopted the sound. The Bends took second place behind Radiohead's OK Computer in both 1998 and 2006 reader polls of Q magazine for the best album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 110 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Rolling Stone initially gave the album an average rating. In 2000, Virgin's Top 1000 Albums of All Time ranked The Bends at number two, second only to Revolver by The Beatles. ℗ 1995 XL Recordings Ltd

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The Beginning. This album with its assault of guitar heavy rock album may be the best of all of them. Easily the most accessable of the Radiohead catalog. Ok Computer changed music forever but The Bends is well just brilliant.

The Bends. Having been a fan from the beginning, I rediscovered them from iTunes recently, as my kids turn to teenagers I need to go back to my tenange years and see if I can cope with what I had heard !!, and basically after a few beers and wine, I was in tears, I remembered when I heard each one of these songs, these guys are up in the top tier of song writers ! love every track and , cannot explain how much I love this band ! proper engineers of music !!! thank you guys for delivering to me albums and songs that influenced my life !!! x

One of the best. Not only is this one of Radiohead's best, but one of the best albums of the 1990s

Anything Thom touches is a masterpiece. Gold

The Bends. This was the last Radiohead album I ever owned. I couldn’t deal with the ones after OK Computer. They didn’t sound good to me. This one was a great second album by the band. High and dry is by far the best track on this. Fake Plastic Trees is an awesome critique of plastic surgery trend that was happening then. In all the band keeps things pretty interesting and there’s a lot of great material to find something to like.

Uh…. I prefer “Creep” from “Pablo Honey”.

Best album ever. One of the most inspirational and beautiful albums I could ever see myself connecting with.

High and Dry.. I don't get radiohead. What music do they want to play. I am drawn in by High and Dry and repulsed by others. The vocals are often drowned out by the distorted guitar. Sorry. I guess I am just an old fuddy duddy.

Timeless Album. Very good listen. One of the best albums I ever heard.

Brilliant. One of my all-time favorites. Such an incredible album, one of the best rock records of the 90's.

Good. It's pretty good

Full and Beautiful. Back in the the year 2000, when downladable music was just a double-leaved sapling poking through the dirt, I began my freshman year at art school. I was 17, completely uncool, and hadn't yet truly discovered "music." My mind was a relatively blank slate, my ideas about love and people in general were naive, and the world still felt very new. Echoes of Radiohead would whisper throughout the dorm, and had to know what this sound was. "You've never heard of Radiohead?" someone scoffed when I asked. Reminds me of my saddest, msot hopeful, most lovelorn days in college, which, in restrospet were actually best and the most free days of my life. Fake Plastic Trees may be my favorite song of all time. I would listen to it on repeat for hours, sometimes all night long while painting with a size 000 paintbrush into the soft gray light of the morning. I miss those days. Life has become a lot busier, a lot more serious, and a lot less free now that I'm entering my mid thirties. This album is a nostalgic, wistful, waking dream when I hear it. Thank you, Radiohead, for sharing such beautiful music with the world. You were the first of thousands of bands I've discovered through the years since that first incredible year of art-making and music discovery. Thank you so much for this perfect album.

The Beginning of a Legacy. The first of many incredible albums from the world's greatest band.

Classic rock. Classic, high and dry, fake plastic trees, (nice dream), street spirit, all just vlassic

The Bends. Best Radiohead album. This is a real no brain industry. It's really hard to admit this is my recording after I was punished playing music for class introduction. That's me on the cover after electroconvulsive 'therapy' punishment. The school and city is very prejudice. If you read the info on the album they won't admit the real story about the bends as it would give me credit as the band.

Start Here. Interesting story -I'm a semi-serious music fan who managed to live through the last 25 years without paying much if any attention to Radiohead. Heard all the critical acclaim but the doses I came across never really hooked me. Until I was fortunate enough to come across The Bends and 'forced' myself to take the time to listen. Well what I heard was who I always 'wanted' to hear when someone gave me a sampling of Radiohead. This album is high quality top to bottom and is a showcase of the epic musical and songwriting skills of this band in their early years. Highly influenced - Bowie, Talking Heads, REM - but very much their own. This album will pull you in and open you up to what in a very short time period I have come to appreciate is a band that deserves an unparalleled place in music history. This is their most accessible work but arguably their best. Sure OKC takes things to another level and if you love KidA good on you - but for straight ahead digestible rock this is Radiohead at the top of their game, which I have come to understand is as good or better than anything else out there. If you've never heard this just buy it now, turn it up, and by your 3rd time through I promise you will be a lifetime fan of Thom and Radiohead. They are everything you could ask for from a band and more.

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