Originally posted by eagles54"The Bends" is their first album, and I still rate it as their best
I recently bought "Hail to the Thief" (yes, I'm slow on the uptake) and I'd like your considered opinions on what is another solid Radiohead offering, CD-wise.
Thank you.
Edit: S**t, I forgot about Pablo Honey! As mentioned below!
Creep is definitely one of my favourite songs aswell, where has my mind wandered?
Originally posted by FavsI think 'Pablo Honey' came out before that. That's the one with 'Creep' on it. But yes, i agree that 'The Bends' is their best, although lots of songs on 'OK Computer' are great too. I feel their later efforts are a little too self-consciously experimental...
"The Bends" is their first album, and I still rate it as their best
Originally posted by eagles54EVERYTHING!!! (apart from Pablo Honey...)
I recently bought "Hail to the Thief" (yes, I'm slow on the uptake) and I'd like your considered opinions on what is another solid Radiohead offering, CD-wise.
Thank you.
But to elaborate somewhat more:
The Bends - A seminal rock album, great guitar work, less produced, but full of raw power. Key songs: Just, My Iron Lung, Streetspirit
OK Computer - The best album of it's time, intense, crunching, despair and madness filled rock, an absolute must. Key songs: Paranoid Android (one of the best rock songs ever written IMO), Electioneering, No Alarms and No Surprises, Exit Music
Kid A - A real change in style, and a kick in the teeth for the fans who never really understood what they were on about. Still just as intense, but more production driven and sparsely decorated. What is there though is pure gold. Key songs: Discotheque, Morning Bell, Motion Picture Soundtrack
Amnesiac - Think all the songs that couldn't get into Kid A because they were just too wierd or depressing. Dark, very dark, so dark it makes you wanna give up and crawl into a hole forevermore. I love this album. Key songs: You and Whose Army?, Dollars and Cents, Knives Out
True Love Waits - A collection of live performances, interesting if you know all the studio versions a little too well. Good selection of tacks topped with an unreleased single 'True Love Waits' by Thom and his guitar. A definite for those true fans.
ComLag: I don't own this, but apparently a collection of unreleased b-sides and strange mutterings the band have collated along the way to wherever. Read some good and some bad reviews, but I imagine I would probably love it.
Also in the visual arena, I recently got hold of 'The most gigantic lying mouth of all time' Originally set to be a series on tv and basically a menagerie of wierd. After talks and movements towards this end the companies invoved pulled out because they deemed the pilot episodes just too damn frightening to be allowed on terrestrial TV. However for those of you that can stomach it it is candid, insightful and intense from start to finish, I love it, even if I can only bring myself to watch it a maximum of once every year.
Hope this helps and next time, don't wait so long dude!! 🙂
Originally posted by StarrmanWHAT?!?!?!?!?!!?!
EVERYTHING!!! (apart from Pablo Honey...)
But to elaborate somewhat more:
The Bends - A seminal rock album, great guitar work, less produced, but full of raw power. Key songs: Just, My Iron Lung, Streetspirit
OK Computer - The best album of it's time, intense, crunching, despair and madness filled rock, an absolute must. Key songs: Paranoid A ...[text shortened]... it a maximum of once every year.
Hope this helps and next time, don't wait so long dude!! 🙂
Pablo Honey is blatantly Radiohead's best album....
Originally posted by eagles54It's good: a bit less innovative than Amnesiac/Kid A, but a good deal easier to listen to. I especially liked "Where I End And You Begin" - don't ask why, I'm not a music expert.
I recently bought "Hail to the Thief" (yes, I'm slow on the uptake) and I'd like your considered opinions on what is another solid Radiohead offering, CD-wise.
Thank you.
As Starrman said, listen to anything else by Radiohead as well, except Pablo Honey. Pablo Honey isn't bad per se, it's just rather dull, as Radiohead at the time either didn't have the confidence or their label wouldn't let them do the unconventional stuff they wanted to do.
One tip with Radiohead: if you listen carefully to some of their lyrics, you might be disappointed to find out that Radiohead have some rather daft political views. Don't worry about it and concentrate on the sound.
Originally posted by mmanuelDespite agreeing with a number of your posts on other issues, on this you are either clearly joking or just plain wrong.
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!!?!
Pablo Honey is blatantly Radiohead's best album....
You are joking aren't you?
Please tell me you are....
I've just got into Radiohead in the last six months (I know...). Which is odd, because they are the first band I saw live!!
Actually, I didn't go to see them. They were supporting The Sultan's of Ping FC, back in about 1991 and I saw them at Bradford Queen's Hall.
Radiohead were very raw and punky, nothing like I have ever heard on their albums, and I quite liked it.
Less than a year later I saw them again, for free at my University. They had just written Creep at this time and I didn't like any of the stuff they played. Over the years I heard some of their stuff on the radio but never took to it.
About six months ago I bought Kid A for £5 and loved it and through that got into The Bends, then Amnesiac.
It's strange because the album which got me into them is widely recognised as being their most inaccessable offering...
Originally posted by VargMy brother knows Karl Marx
I've just got into Radiohead in the last six months (I know...). Which is odd, because they are the first band I saw live!!
Actually, I didn't go to see them. They were supporting The Sultan's of Ping FC, back in about 1991 and I saw them at Bradford Queen's Hall.
Radiohead were very raw and punky, nothing like I have ever heard on their albums, and I qui ...[text shortened]... e album which got me into them is widely recognised as being their most inaccessable offering...
He met him eating mushrooms...
Sultans of Ping are well good! -
I first saw Radiohead on the Pablo Honey tour (which is why I can't believe my mistake above!) at The Wulfren Hall in Wolves. They were supported by Marion. Radiohead are still the best live act I have ever seen (in a small venue). They were just soooo good that night.
I went to see Megadeth and Corrosion of Conformity the night after in the same place - how's that for a contrast!
Originally posted by StarrmanPablo Honey: agree, although 'You' is a good track and a sign of things to come. I liked 'Creep' but thought at the time Radiohead would be a one-hit wonder. Guess i was wrong there...
EVERYTHING!!! (apart from Pablo Honey...)
But to elaborate somewhat more:
The Bends - A seminal rock album, great guitar work, less produced, but full of raw power. Key songs: Just, My Iron Lung, Streetspirit
OK Computer - The best album of it's time, intense, crunching, despair and madness filled rock, an absolute must. Key songs: Paranoid A ...[text shortened]... it a maximum of once every year.
Hope this helps and next time, don't wait so long dude!! 🙂
The Bends: agree...
OK Computer: well, let's say the greatest album of its time likely to make it onto the charts...
Kid A/ Amnesiac: well yes its intense, weird, dark and depressing if the most intense, weird, dark and depressing music you listen to is indie pop/rock. but us true doom fans know better. if you want the real stuff you need to dig deeper than Radiohead. You want depressing? Check out Thergothon. You want dark? Check out Khanate. etc etc etc. I get the strong feeling they were just trying to be arty for the sake of it and protect their 'cred' from the effects of major record sales.
Hail to the Thief - if i see it discounted somewhere or 2nd hand i might buy it...
Summary: very good band - not yet truly great, but with the potential to become so.
I have all their albums and a few of their EPs and I would like to cast my vote towards 'The Bends' as being the most accesible and enjoyable album for most while voting for 'Kid A' as being their greatest musical accomplishment.
'Kid A' is an amazing album that never gets tiring to me and most likely never will. Unfortunately, I can no longer stomach listening to Fake Plastic Trees or High and Dry in their entirety due to their severe overplaying. Fortunately, Radiohead will never suffer from this again now that they make albums that are more experimental and less radio-friendly. Thank God, I say.
Originally posted by dfm65I'll check these two bands out if I get the chance, although I feel I may know what to expect. I like a great deal of intelligence in my music, something radiohead do very well, what I don't like is obviousness, moaning and being dark as some sort of death courting fashion trend. However I promise to reserve judgement till I have had a listen, thanks for the suggestion 🙂
Pablo Honey: agree, although 'You' is a good track and a sign of things to come. I liked 'Creep' but thought at the time Radiohead would be a one-hit wonder. Guess i was wrong there...
The Bends: agree...
OK Computer: well, let's say the greatest album of its time likely to make it onto the charts...
Kid A/ Amnesiac: well yes its intense, weird, ...[text shortened]... buy it...
Summary: very good band - not yet truly great, but with the potential to become so.
You guys can argue all day over which Radiohead album is the best but the fact is that with each album (except for Kid A/Amnesiac which should actually be one album) the band develop, grow, and go off on new tangents. I've been listening to them since Pablo Honey, and my favourite album is Hail to the Thief. What I love about them is that they are constantly breaking new boundaries with their music, and seldom succumb to their fan's expectations. You can't say thay about many bands. Each album is different from the last. If you're starting on Hail to the Thief then you should probably get (in this order) Kid A, followed by Amnesiac (preferably at the same time as Kid A) followed by OK Computer, and then after all that if you've still got the cash to spare get The Bends and Pablo Honey, though given this backwards approach you might be a little disappointed with their first two albums, they were young and full of egotistical gusto and they've grown a LOT since then. Truly a great band. Can't wait to see what they have in store for us next.