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The Bends [2CD & DVD] [Original recording remastered]

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  • Audio CD (23 Mar 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Parlophone/EMI
  • ASIN: B001PSQG2C
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,485 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Planet Telex
2. The Bends
3. High And Dry
4. Fake Plastic Trees
5. Bones
6. (Nice Dream)
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Disc: 2
1. The Trickster
2. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
3. Lozenge Of Love
4. Lewis (Mistreated)
5. Permanent Daylight
6. You Never Wash Up After Yourself (Live)
See all 21 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Bonus DVD : High & Dry
2. Bonus DVD : High & Dry (US Version)
3. Bonus DVD : Fake Plastic Trees
4. Bonus DVD : Just
5. Bonus DVD : Street Spirit (Fade Out)
6. Bonus DVD : Bones (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster)
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While Radiohead saw its stock rising in 1994, it wasn't until 1995's The Bends that it really became a blue chip band. And for good reason. The quintet honed its talent for bombastic Brit Rock, yet still preserved an edge of unpredictability. Even singles like the title track didn't give in to the kind of swooning guitar clichés usually embraced by commercial radio. If the CD proved anything, it was that Radiohead could find solid ground between pop experimentation and the tradition of born-in-the-bone, balls-out rock. --Nick Heil


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Originally released in 1995, 'The Bends' is one of the greatest British guitar albums ever - this acclaim perhaps even stretching to a global scale. Featuring the melancholic, yetanthemic 'High And Dry' and the irrepressible 'Just', 'The Bends' contains some of Radiohead's best material to date. This collector's edition comes with a disc of rare B-sides and a host of live performances, including some acoustic treats and a BBC Radio One session, and a DVD with promo videos and live songs.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Tidy Package, 17 Mar 2009
By J. Daniel "Jimmy" (UK) - See all my reviews
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One of the best albums of the 90's gets the obligitory 'Delux' treatment which smacks of record label cash-in. However this can almost beforgotten when the music is as good as this. For once the original album is left untouched. I am fed up of getting re-released albums with bonus live tracks/remixes/demos chucked on the end. The bends was made as a 12 track album and this is how it should be heard so kudos for keeping Disk 1 exactly as it should be.
The second disc is a mixture of b-sides, live tracks and sessions and although I have all the b sides from the singles already it is to have them compiled to save changing the cd every 15 mins. And it has to be said that a lot of the b sides from this era are up there with Radioheads best work. Talk show host, bishops robes and my personal favourite b-side ever Banana Co are all here, along with versions of the album tracks that I had not previously heard.
Finally the DVD. Promo videos which were released only last year by the label which are quite unneccessary, but also a number of Live tracks from their Live at the Astoria release as well as sessions and TV appearances (The Bends from Jools Holland is particularly strong).
So like I say, it does smell like another blatant cash in by Parlophone, and many fans will have the majority of this stuff already as I do whether ist be taped off the radio, video'd off the TV, as well as the original releases, but to have it in one nice package, and when the music is as good as it is then I would say it is £13 well spent.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Version of This Album, 22 April 2009
By Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB) - See all my reviews
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A short two years later meanwhile, and "The Bends" blew everything out of the water. At the time of release, Radiohead were largely seen as also rans. On the verge of being a second-rate pre-Menswear scrabbling for some kind of relevancy, they returned with an album that smashed your preconceptions of their abilities as also-rans, and gave an assured, brave do-or-die second album. In all probability, EMI were going to drop them shortly anyway, so they went for broke and did whatever they wanted. And what an album. Timeless, even now, "The Bends" is half a set of fragile and beautiful ballads that soundtracked a million exhausted commutes, and angry ennui rock songs. Some of them - "Bones" and "Sulk" were only slight progressions beyond the debut - but overall, the album hung together with a fluency.

The second CD captures all the bands b-sides from the time : many of the songs as good as anything they recorded for the main album, songs such as "The Trickster" and "Permanent Daylight" are the type of songs other bands would base whole careers on. Particular mention has to go to "You Never Wash Up After Yourself" (the best song title ever), and the glorious gem that is "Talk Show Host".There are 22 songs here from Radioheads golden era most people have not really heard, and if you have any interest in Radiohead, these are songs you should climb inside and live with forever.

The BBC Sessions are fabulous alternate versions of the well known songs, dispatched with passion. Sadly, the audio CD is incomplete : lacking the alternate versions, demos, and remix versions of "Talk Show Host", "Planet Telex" and "The Bends" as well as about 15 live songs issued on b-sides of weird format CD singles across the world. (Close EMI, but no cigar).

Most baffling is the absence of the 'Mogadon' version of the b-side "Killer Cars". This song, one of the most important in their canon to date, explicitly pulls together all the influences, adds a dash of the direction they were about to go into, and easily the equal of most of "OK Computer". At the very least it should be included on some of the unused space on the "Ok Computer" bonus disc. This song is far too good, important, and essential to be left to rot on a 15 year old CD single.

The DVD meanwhile is a further triumph. The rest of the Astoria concert is here (between this and "Pablo Honey" you get the whole concert), alongside two TV sessions for BBC and Holland, and a slew of promo videos and other appearances. As a compendium, it is pretty damn definitive. Aside from the missing songs, EMI have done themselves proud with a 57 song package across three discs.
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