![]() “Fake Plastic Trees” is a beautiful 90s ballad and its ghost-like keyboard sounds and soft guitar chords in the beginning build up to an emotional chorus toward the end with intense percussion, loud distorted guitar chords, and passionate vocals. The intense build-up to the chorus of “Here is Gone” from The Goo Goo Dolls’ 2002 album “Gutterflower” has often been compared to “High and Dry,” “The Bends'” third track, for the ingenious guitar chord progressions. ![]() ![]() The Oxford-based band, originally named On A Friday simply because they held band practices on Friday evenings, was certainly unprepared for the fame they received from “Creep.” Yet with “The Bends,” they managed to produce one of the most influential alternative albums of the 1990s. “For their second album, Radiohead chose an extremely symbolic title… Radiohead rose too soon (due to the success of ‘Creep,’ which they were hardly prepared for) and had to suffer the unpleasant consequences (critical backlash, record company pressure, general confusion and dismay about how to continue meaningfully).” Though it never made it as a single, “The Bends” expertly captures some of the band’s sentiments about its catapult into fame.Īccording to Mac Randall’s “Exit Music: The Radiohead Story:” ![]() The title track follows with its classic rock guitar riffs and symbolic lyrics about decompression sickness. Time Magazine lists “OK Computer” as one of the Top 100 Albums of all time, but Radiohead’s 1995 sophomore CD “The Bends” is truly an all-killer no-filler attempt on the band’s part.Īs with most of the British alternative band’s other CDs, the enigmatic lyrics and intense energy in the first few distorted guitar chords of opener “Planet Telex” draw the listener in for the long haul, ready and eager to listen to the remaining tracks. ![]()
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