I was already a Radiohead fan, like everybody else in the world. They were all just normal dudes.” “It’s one of the great albums of all time,” Reedus says of The Bends. “That song in ...

The post Radiohead’s The Bends Was a Sophomore Record No One Saw Coming: Classic Album Review appeared first on Consequence. One of my favorite anecdotes about the creation of The Bends ...

It’s almost legally required of any respectable music fan in the 21st century to regard Radiohead’s sophomore album, The Bends, as a brooding masterstroke of post-grunge, pre-millennial ...

Two decades on years on, ‘The Bends’ is remembered as Radiohead’s first great album: a nuanced, searing indictment of capitalism and cynicism. But as Jazz Monroe discovers, a toxic fug of ...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Radiohead‘s The Bends, the second album from the Oxford quintet and the LP that proved Thom Yorke and Co. were more than just “Creep.” With tracks like ...

The Bends contains some of the songs most beloved by the band’s faithful. Here are our choices for the Top 5 on the album. If you only know Radiohead post-OK Computer, you might be surprised at ...

This is a record where Radiohead indulged in somewhat conventional songwriting and recording methods. That’s not to say The Bends is devoid of inspiration or inventiveness; quite the contrary.

His gripes seem wholly justifiable. It’s May 1992 – just under three years before Radiohead will release The Bends. The Drill EP, which is currently languishing in EMI’s warehouses, is the group’s ...

When Radiohead were laying down tracks for their second long player, The Bends, throughout 1994, there was no doubting they were under pressure. The group’s record label, Parlophone, was desperate to ...

The word-of-mouth response to The Bends meant that Radiohead knew their third album would make a considerable impact – the backdated goodwill even prompted Radio 1 to playlist obtuse lead single ...

I was already a Radiohead fan, like everybody else in the world. They were all just normal dudes.” “It’s one of the great albums of all time,” Reedus says of The Bends. “That song in ...