BOT 90's Albums: The Bends - Radiohead v 30 Something - Carter USM

[MK Shrimper]

R1 continues.....

 

[Pubey]

No contest.:thumbsup:

 

[Supernaut]

Don't really like either, but voted The Bends just for Street Spirit.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Don't really like either, but voted The Bends just for Street Spirit.

Amazed. It's Radioheads 2nd best album before they vanished up their own rectum.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Don't rate the bends as highly as some but wins this hands down

 

[Supernaut]

Amazed. It's Radioheads 2nd best album before they vanished up their own rectum.

Ha ha - I know a lot of people who feel the same. Personally, I never liked them at all until I heard Street Spirit - on the back of that I checked out The Bends but I didn't enjoy it all. Same with OK Computer - really liked Paranoid Android so I checked out the album but only liked about half of it. It all clicked into place with Kid A for me, and they've got better with every album since IMHO.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Ha ha - I know a lot of people who feel the same. Personally, I never liked them at all until I heard Street Spirit - on the back of that I checked out The Bends but I didn't enjoy it all. Same with OK Computer - really liked Paranoid Android so I checked out the album but only liked about half of it. It all clicked into place with Kid A for me, and they've got better with every album since IMHO.

I know some people on SZ who feel the same as you! If it wasn't for their amazing early successes, Thom Yorke & Co would be stocking shelves at Lidl on the basis of Kid A onwards.

 

[Pubey]

I know some people on SZ who feel the same as you! If it wasn't for their amazing early successes, Thom Yorke & Co would be stocking shelves at Lidl on the basis of Kid A onwards.

Absolutely *****.

OKC > Kid A > Amnesiac > HTTT > The Bends > In Rainbows > TKOL > Pablo Honey

 

[MK Shrimper]

Absolutely *****.

OKC > Kid A > Amnesiac > HTTT > The Bends > In Rainbows > TKOL > Pablo Honey

In your opinion. In mine they're ****ing awful these days, and commercially they wouldn't be able to make the "music" they do these days. OKC & The Bends gave them that luxury.

 

[Pubey]

In your opinion. In mine they're ****ing awful these days.

oh here's one tune from each of their albums from Kid A onwards

[video=youtube;YLQ9S5D_mxw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLQ9S5D_mxw[/video]

 

[MK Shrimper]

Don't bother Pubes, I won't be listening to them. Life is too short.

 

[Pubey]

[video=youtube;s2VzLn6DMCE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2VzLn6DMCE[/video]

 

[Pubey]

[video=youtube;NuaPkGZ-HIA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuaPkGZ-HIA[/video]

 

[Pubey]

[video=youtube;8nTFjVm9sTQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTFjVm9sTQ[/video]

 

[Pubey]

[video=youtube;o5c9w6uWBOI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5c9w6uWBOI[/video]

enjoy!:smile:

 

[Mad Cyril]

I know some people on SZ who feel the same as you! If it wasn't for their amazing early successes, Thom Yorke & Co would be stocking shelves at Lidl on the basis of Kid A onwards.

No they wouldn't.

They all went to public school so their parents would have found them something to do.

 

[dingleydangley]

Don't really like either, but voted The Bends just for Street Spirit.

I hear ya. I'm voting Radiohead just because it's them. They simply weren't interesting yet at this time.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Must admit, I prefer The Bends to OK Computer (and certainly to anything Carter USM have ever done). I know that bars me from the cool club, but there you go. High And Dry is just beautiful.

 

[dingleydangley]

Amazed. It's Radioheads 2nd best album before they vanished up their own rectum.

At least their rectums were covered by clothes that fit. You wait 'till we get to Oasis our kid :winking:

 

[Greebosan]

Well it seems there's some work here to do in championing the mighty Carter USM, and arguably their greatest album, providing us with such timeless classics as 'Bloodsport for all', 'A Prince in a Pauper's Grave' and 'Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere'. There gems on other albums, but for general overall quality, I think this one's a winner for Carter fans (both of them).

For the record, my favourite Radiohead album is actually Pablo Honey, I guess I'm a man (of sorts) of simple tastes.