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The Bends is everything 90's alt-rock has to offer combined into one album. Radiohead has shown the world that they can create something everyone will enjoy while still doing their own thing and adding their own twist to their music. You can feel that there was put in so much more love, emotion and effort in this album compared to their first album.
The loud and aggressive songs like "Bones" go surprisingly well with the more slow, melancholic songs like "Bullet proof... I wish ... read more

First of all, this album is CRIMINALLY underrated. People often see this as the only bad Radiohead album, but when you give it a good chance it isn't as bad as people say it is.
Sure, it isn't as groundbreaking or as original sounding as all the other albums they made after this. But they still had their own sound in the early 90's while most of the alt rock/grunge bands sounded exactly the same.
You can really hear the potential in their songwriting which they fully developed later in their ... read more

I listened to the first song and had really high expectations for the rest of the album, but sadly only about four other songs interested me as much as the first one.
The album definitely felt like a whole, but when I look at the songs individually I think some are far better than others. I still really love some of the sounds on this album, as they sound pretty unique, but I would have loved to see them push these ideas a little further.