Album Rating: 5.0

Knives Out is chill and slow, and Paranoid Android is intense and has a ton of dynamic changes idk what the similarity is there?



thematically? no...



uh similar guitar? Nah uhhh

https://astralartifacts.bandcamp.com/album/and-then-theres-this

Album Rating: 3.0

Ars, The Bends is just alt rock Radiohead with classic song writing and that atmosphere that elevates it even higher.



But maybe you had to have been there I don’t know. 100% it’s a classic album though. If you look at what was around just before (Achtung Baby, Grace) and just after (Origin of Symmetry, Parachutes) it completely bosses that field - whether you personally dig that sound/feel or not.



This never felt like a classic, it just doesn’t have that thing about it. Following Kid A it’s plain as day. Also HTTT followed and felt similar to this….all over the shop and far from a classic, they’d dropped a level starting here



In Rainbows is sort of the latter career (positive) aberration because somehow they got the feel of a classic back once more. Only once though.

Album Rating: 5.0

Classic songwriting is not how I see The Bends



It was the first Radiohead album I checked, and one I used to like more, so if it were really that good, shouldn't I be nostalgic about it? but instead it grew off me hard

Album Rating: 3.0

I dunno, The Bends is really the only ‘you can play it through an open window on a sunny day’ Radiohead album, it even reminds me of going on holidays - if they didn’t have it (and I guess Pablo too) I think I’d see the band as far too stuffy and self serious. If I think ‘most 90s sounding albums’ it’s one of the first five I’ll recall.



Kid A and Ok Computer I do hold in higher regard though.

Album Rating: 3.0

Spot on Doof although I would take The Bends over Kid A if I had to.

Album Rating: 3.5

This is one of my least favorites by Radiohead :[

this is in fact a Top 4 Radiohead album and nobody can convince me otherwise
yada yada OKC, IR and Kid A yes yes yes okay but the thought of taking The Bends or AMSP or whatever over this is just hilarity
like, ‘you can play it through an open window on a sunny day’ Radiohead album okay let's start talking about the best Metallica albums to pound into your headphones when you're in the supermarket
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Album Rating: 3.0

The Bends is a rock record created by a band who are finding their feet ‘creatively’ while knowing exactly what they are doing at their craft.

The album has some of their greatest tunes and was and still is heralded as a classic by many.



Amnesiac is Pyramid Song along with directionless experimentation wankiness

Album Rating: 3.5

"The Bends is a rock record created by a band who are finding their feet ‘creatively’ while knowing exactly what they are doing at their craft."



Yeah, that's the problem. They hadn't fully found their voice yet, which is why it's one of their lesser releases

Album Rating: 3.0

Ask anyone over the age of 40 what the best Radiohead album is and 85-90 percent will say The Bends or OKC.

I Might Be Wrong and Knives Out are easily two most focused tracks in the Radiohead canon so idk, think that radar check's on you kazalwe

Album Rating: 3.5

"It's just Pablo Honey with better song writing"



Hilariously bad take

Album Rating: 3.5

I don't get the hate for the Bends, like only Radiohead could produce something like Fake Plastic Trees. They'll never do it again and that's great actually, but it's equally great that they did it once, just enjoy it and be amazed by it

Album Rating: 3.5

"Hilariously bad take"



Maybe to you, but that's the biggest problem I have with it. It's the midpoint between the amateur songwriting of Pablo Honey and the incredible leap forward that is OKC, so it's stuck in limbo and doesn't really have much of an identity of its own

Album Rating: 3.5

"Maybe to you"



I could say the exact same thing, personally I think the Bends is incredibly consistent in tone for a Radiohead release, perhaps one of the albums of theirs that most "has an identity". I can't really see how it doesn't.

Album Rating: 3.0

Johnny I maintain, i like the fact this band started out as a mere mortal rock band who released a couple of albums you can listen to outside of ‘dark room, headphones on’ setting - Kid A is almost impossible to imagine anyone listening to outside of their bedroom



You’d probably be sectioned for playing it in public

Kid A is almost impossible to imagine anyone listening to [2]

Album Rating: 2.5

Be me and view OKC as the awkward inbetween phase from the rock sound of The Bends to the experimental bliss that they perfected on Kid A.

Album Rating: 3.0

OKC is perfection