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The Bends (Album) by Radiohead

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Radiohead Is An English Rock Band Formed In Abingdon Oxfordshire In 1985. The Band Consists Of Thom Yorke Vocals Guitar Piano Keyboards Brothers Jonny Greenwood Lead Guitar Keyboards Other Instruments And Colin Greenwood Bass Ed O'Brien Guitar Backing Vocals And Philip Selway Drums Percussion . They Have Worked With The Producer Nigel Godrich And The Cover Artist Stanley Donwood Since 1994. Radiohead's Experimental Approach Is Credited With Advancing The Sound Of Alternative Rock. Radiohead Signed To EMI In 1991 And Released Their Debut Album Pablo Honey In 1993 Their Debut Single "Creep" Became A Worldwide Hit. Radiohead's Popularity And Critical Standing Rose With The Release Of The Bends In 1995. Radiohead's Third Album OK Computer 1997 Brought Them International Fame Noted For Its Complex Production And Themes Of Modern Alienation It Is Acclaimed As A Landmark Record And One Of The Best Albums In Popular Music. Radiohead's Fourth Album Kid A 2000 Marked A Dramatic Change In Style Incorporating Influences From Electronic Music Jazz Classical Music And Krautrock. Though Kid A Divided Listeners It Later Attracted Wide Acclaim. It Was Followed By Amnesiac 2001 Recorded In The Same Sessions. Hail To The Thief 2003 With Lyrics Addressing The War On Terror Was Radiohead's Final Album For EMI. Radiohead Self-Released Their Seventh Album In Rainbows 2007 As A Download For Which Customers Could Set Their Own Price To Critical And Chart Success. Their Eighth Album The King Of Limbs 2011 An Exploration Of Rhythm Was Developed Using Extensive Looping And Sampling. A Moon Shaped Pool 2016 Prominently Featured Jonny Greenwood's Orchestral Arrangements. Yorke Jonny Greenwood Selway And O'Brien Have Released Solo Albums In 2021 Yorke And Jonny Greenwood Debuted A New Band The Smile. By 2011 Radiohead Had Sold More Than 30 Million Albums Worldwide. Their Awards Include Six Grammy Awards And Four Ivor Novello Awards And They Hold Five Mercury Prize Nominations The Most Of Any Act. Seven Radiohead Singles Have Reached The Top 10 On The UK Singles Chart "Creep" 1992 "Street Spirit Fade Out " 1996 "Paranoid Android" 1997 "Karma Police" 1997 "No Surprises" 1998 "Pyramid Song" 2001 And "There There" 2003 . "Creep" And "Nude" 2008 Reached The Top 40 On The US Billboard Hot 100. Rolling Stone Named Radiohead One Of The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time And Rolling Stone Readers Voted Them The Second-Best Artist Of The 2000s. Five Radiohead Albums Have Been Included In Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time Lists. Radiohead Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 2019. Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Radiohead Studio Albums
Pablo Honey 1993 The Bends 1995 OK Computer 1997 Kid A 2000 Amnesiac 2001 Hail To The Thief 2003 In Rainbows 2007 The King Of Limbs 2011 A Moon Shaped Pool 2016

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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.

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