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Poll Question: Which album?
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OK Computer is an incrdible album, it might even be my most listened album ever. The album sounds so much deeper and better than other Radiohead releases. The Bends is a much weaker album I think. I did really enjoy some of the songs on there, songs like Street Spirit and Just, but in the album the album has several weaker songs. Pablo Honey is unlike the other two albums, garbage. 
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OK Computer is incredible, but I really enjoyed The Bends much more. "Street Spirit", "Planet Telex", and "Bullet Proof" are all excellent songs. 


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Here's how I'd rate them, out of 10 using  .5 increments:
 
OK Computer: 10/10
The Bends: 9.5/10
Pablo Honey: 5.0/10


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Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

OK Computer - 4/5
The Bends - 3/5
Pablo Honey - "Creep"/Garbage album

Okay, yeah, that pretty much sums it up. 



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Pablo Honey is only disregarded because Creep is kind of a weak song and because the production is really lacking. If you hear songs like "You" or "Blowout" live, you'd be really surprised at how great they sound. The writing was there (obviously not to the extent it is now), but the production definitely wasn't
 
Now, OK Computer wins for me, but both it and The Bends are masterpieces. I don't see the U2 comparisons unless you really can't distinguish one British vocalist from the next. The music is texturally, melodically and intellectually in a completely different league. I'm not surprised than many prog fans don't quite love The Bends because it's not so blatantly progressive or whatever, but i truly is a singular, incredible work.


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Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

OK Computer - 4/5
The Bends - 3/5
Pablo Honey - "Creep"/Garbage album

Okay, yeah, that pretty much sums it up. 



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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2009 at 00:33
OK Computer blows my brain socks



Bends is pretty wicked



Pablo Honey is
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Well, computer & bends are both great albums, but computer is in another level.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

OK Computer - 4/5
The Bends - 3/5
Pablo Honey - "Creep"/Garbage album

Okay, yeah, that pretty much sums it up. 
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OK Computer - 4/5
The Bends - 3/5
Pablo Honey - "Creep"/Garbage album
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Three albums which were all pressed, signed, and used as frisbees before the band encountered its first masterpiece, Kid A. 

Alright, some might not view Kid A as the true Deadiohead masterpiece, opting instead for the safety and warmth of the guitar heavier and more "classically" experimental Computerhead. And that's OK. It's easily the best of the three albums above, the first wholly and uniquely Radiohead sounding album, their first great effort. 

Which is why I think that Computer will take this...although some folks seem to think that The Bends is one of their best (I have a friend who swears by it). While I think it's a good album, I also think that's it's not quite there yet...a little too little Radiohead, and a little too much U2 sounding (and therefore emotionally shallow and stylistically narrow, albiet very intelligent) alt album. 

I have few positive visions of the future for Pablo Honey...the memory of which (aside from "Creep") I've mostly removed from my mind, but if I recally correctly, a not terribly intelligent, creative, emotional, or for that matter good, alt-grunge effort. And by effort, I mean slaughterhouse.
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