Album Rating: 3.0

The Bends was experimental enough at the time compared to Grace or Monster or Definitely Maybe or whatever else was out

Album Rating: 2.5

A fair few people would still have the bends as Radioheads best.

Album Rating: 3.0

It's the one that takes me back the most and it's got this certain 'none-more-90s' warm quality to the sound and the Thommy knockers vox

For me The Bends just has a lot of meh tracks.Bones, Bullet Proof. And then there's those good songs that just bore you to death for some reason. Like Iron Lung, and I know i'm going to get hate for this ... but ... High and Dry too.

Sulk is legit one of their worst songs too .

Album Rating: 2.5

One of me mates had the Radiohead live at the Astoria vid.

Whenever I spin the bends I always picture that and greenwood looking like the fucking grudge stooped over his guitar with his timotei hair.

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah, watched that vid countless times

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I remember buying my copy of The Bends, bought it from this small record shop in Manchester, when I put it on I always find Planet Telex sticks out, I know it was recorded and added last minute, and it really shows

Album Rating: 3.5

this album has aged well



unlike that in rainbows garbage

Album Rating: 3.5

You take that back

Album Rating: 3.5

can't silence the truth

Album Rating: 3.5

In Rainbows destroys the living shit out of this album

Album Rating: 3.5

^yep

Album Rating: 4.0

This still jams tbh

Album Rating: 3.5

The highlights are classics but on the whole it just doesn't hold up. Couldn't tell you the last time I had the desire to play this all the way through.

Album Rating: 3.5

the bends is just an alt rock album...

Album Rating: 4.0

To each their own dude - granted "We Suck Young Blood" is perhaps the most boring thing they've ever done, but for my tastes the entire rest of the album is good at worst, nearly perfect at best. "There There" is top 5 Radiohead, and I always did love the diversity on display here.



"Nothing wrong with a good alt rock album - or in the case of The Bends, a perfect alt rock album." - This. Hard.

Album Rating: 4.0

This album's closer rocks so hard.

Yeah Wolf at the Door is my favorite track of theirs sometimes, it changes a lot

Album Rating: 3.5

I think you can tell from my username that I love There There

For me the highlights are 2+2=5 (pretty obvious) Sit Down. Stand Up (THE RAINDROPS - love it) Where I End and You Begin (check that bass line), There There (not their most showy tune but it works, great drumming), I Will (love Thom's layered vocals, wonderfully haunting, one of the most under appreciated things in their entire discog), and A Wolf at the Door (DANCE YOU FUCKER DANCE YOU FUCKER DON'T YOU DARE).

So yeah that's 6/14 amazing songs, still a lot of great material and there's good stuff on the other tracks too but as an album it's just so uneven.

Album Rating: 4.0

Swap out "Sit Down" and "I Will" for "Sail to the Moon" and "Scatterbrain" and you have my top 6 from this album.



Gonna take a stab at ranking/rating the tracks on this beast:



5/5: There There > A Wolf > Sail > Where I End

4.5/5: 2+2=5 > Scatterbrain

4/5: Sit Down > Punch Up > I Will > Myxomatosis

3.5/5: Backdrifts > Go to Sleep

3/5: The Gloaming

2/5: We Suck Young Blood



The diversity is a bit of a double-edged sword I'll admit; while it allows for several styles of fantastic songs, the lack of cohesion does dock a tiny bit from the rating, which would otherwise probably be a 4.5 for me.



The reserved nature of "There There" is one of the keys to its success imo, that and the way the song explodes into gear around the four-minute mark.