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Pablo Honey [VINYL] | ![Pablo Honey [VINYL]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LSgD1q4PL._SL500_.jpg)
| Artist: Radiohead
Label: Parlophone
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £15.98
You Save: £1.01 (6%)
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 19311
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Vinyl
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 12.1 x 0.2
UPC: 077778140917
EAN: 0077778140917
ASIN: B000007VFU
Release Date: September 1, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | You | | • | Creep | | • | How Do You | | • | Stop Whispering | | • | Thinking About You | | • | Anyone Can Play Guitar | | • | Ripcord | | • | Vegetable | | • | Prove Yourself | | • | I Can't | | • | Lurgee | | • | Blow Out |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
It's that old story: unknown British band gets an American hit single, gets huge off the back of that one song, and the success ends up destroying them. Fortunately, Oxford quintet Radiohead were the exception that proves the rule. Radiohead's albatross was "Creep"--a titanic anthem to paranoia, self-hatred and self-obsession, utterly huge in every way. Pablo Honey, though, is much more than filler. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" is certainly as good as "Creep"; swathed in walls of feedback, it races blindly into a apocalyptic chorus, frontman Thom Yorke singing "As the world turns and as London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar." Certainly, indie-rock seldom got better than this, and elsewhere "Vegetable" and "Prove Yourself" pulled similar pyrotechnical tricks. Pablo Honey was later superseded by first The Bends, and later OK Computer, but it's certainly much more than a curious debut. --Louis Pattison
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
Underrated May 8, 2008
Ok, this is not Radiohead's finest moment by any stretch. But if for one minute we forget OK Computer and The Bends and all their other albums and concentrate souly on Pablo Honey, it's a masterpiece. There's not a single song on the album that is out of place or lacking in energy and spirit. Yes, Creep is overplayed and overrated, but that doesn't stop it being a fantastic pop tune - something that even Radiohead cannot claim to have properly done since. If you put this album on expecting OK Computer, yes it's going to fail and probably go in your bin, but if you put this on expecting a decent guitar pop album, you won't be disappointed. Lastly - if this had been released by any other band, wouldn't it be considered a decent album, it's just with the hindsight of what they have done since that makes people think it's rubbish.
 Best Guitar album of the 90's October 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For all those slating this album are you MAD? This is one of the greatest english guitar albums of the 90's for sure (along with 'Definately Maybe'). Most of you have probably started off with the OK Computer & The Bends albums then listened to this and after those 2 brilliant albums I can see how you 'feel letdown'. I grew up first with this one before Radiohead moved on to those 'greater' albums and I can absorb this one for what it is - pure loud guitar rock at it's finest. Everyone knows about 'Creep', but check out Tracks 6 - 12 those 7 songs from 'Anyone can play guitar' 'Ripcord' 'Vegetable' 'Prove yourself' 'I can't' 'Lurgee' to 'Blow Out' are mini masterpieces, the guitar riffs are simple yet bring out the songs completely. Choruses are lush and you can already see Radiohead's songwriting ability at this early stage. Brilliant English 'Grunge' rock at it's finest. Still one of my favourite albums and I compare it to Pearl Jam's 'Ten' as one of the finest rock debuts ever. The other subsequent Radiohead albums are brilliant in their own way, but for sheer noise and guitar rock they haven't ever achieved this level again. Still get loads of play time in my living room.
 An OK debut album August 24, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As debut albums go, this is not bad. But it doesn't come close to matching the majestic The Bends or classic OK Computer. The main problem with the album is the running order - the tracks towards the end all seem to sound the samey and it gives the album an inbalance. The most successful songs on the album are Vegetable (cracking Guitar work, Jonny), Thinking About You and, of course, Creep. Not bad, but not great either.
 hmm... June 29, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Lets face it, Radiohead are pretty much the best band ever. I think this album is the reason why, but not because its their best effort. In fact it is musically, lyrically and creatively quite clearly their weakest album. In fact I think its pretty dreadful. This is probably because having already bought all their other albums and being blown away i purchased Pablo Honey in order to complete my collection. This album is cheap for a reason people... i was underwhelmed to say the least. Even Creep, supposedly the best song on this album cannot touch anything on The Bends. The reason i think this album is the reason for Radiohead's divine majesty is that after recording it they thought, "wait a second, we are a good band, but we could be an incredible band, we need to get our acts together." And they did, hence The Bends and so on and so forth... This album is still listenable, but its not reeeally Radiohead yet. If you are new to Radiohead go straight for The Bends or OK Computer, then in time you will learn to love the more experimental leanings of other such masterpieces as Kid A (my personal favourite), Amnesiac, and Hail To The Thief. Now go my children and spread the love like butter across warm toast.
radioheed July 22, 2006
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
Four stars for the Creep single- a better indie anthem than Smells Like Teen Spirit. The other stand out tracks are pop is dead and anyone can play guitar which serve as statements about the state of rock music at the time. The rest of the material sounds demo-ish, and less of a complete album other than saying that they're onto a idea but that is yet to be realised.
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