The Bends [2CD & DVD]

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Artist: Radiohead
Label: Parlophone/EMI

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 4068

Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5.2 x 0.7

EAN: 5099969361722
ASIN: B001PSQG2C

Release Date: March 23, 2009
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Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Planet Telex
•	The Bends
•	High And Dry
•	Fake Plastic Trees
•	Bones
•	(Nice Dream)
•	Just
•	My Iron Lung
•	Bullet Proof ... I Wish I Was
•	Black Star
•	Sulk
•	Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Disc 2

•	The Trickster
•	Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
•	Lozenge Of Love
•	Lewis (Mistreated)
•	Permanent Daylight
•	You Never Wash Up After Yourself (Live)
•	Maquiladora
•	Killer Cars
•	India Rubber
•	How Can You Be Sure
•	Fake Plastic Trees (Acoustic Version)
•	Bullet Proof ... I Wish I Was (Acoustic)
•	Street Spirit (Fade Out) (Acoustic)
•	Talk Show Host
•	Bishop's Robes
•	Banana Co
•	Molasses
•	Just (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session)
•	Maquiladora (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session)
•	Street Spirit (Fade Out) (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session)
•	Bones (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session)

Disc 3

•	Bonus DVD : High & Dry
•	Bonus DVD : High & Dry (US Version)
•	Bonus DVD : Fake Plastic Trees
•	Bonus DVD : Just
•	Bonus DVD : Street Spirit (Fade Out)
•	Bonus DVD : Bones (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster)
•	Bonus DVD : Black Star (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster)
•	Bonus DVD : The Bends (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster)
•	Bonus DVD : My Iron Lung (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster)
•	Bonus DVD : Maquiladora (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster)
•	Bonus DVD : Fake Plastic Trees (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster)
•	Bonus DVD : Just (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster)
•	Bonus DVD : Street Spirit (Fade Out) (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster)
•	Bonus DVD : My Iron Lung (2 Meter Session)
•	Bonus DVD : High And Dry (2 Meter Session)
•	Bonus DVD : Fake Plastic Trees (2 Meter Session)
•	Bonus DVD : Street Spirit (Fade Out) (2 Meter Session)
•	Bonus DVD : The Bends (Live On Later With Jools Holland)
•	Bonus DVD : High And Dry (Live On Later With Jools Holland)
•	Bonus DVD : High And Dry (Live On Top Of The Pops)
•	Bonus DVD : Fake Plastic Trees (Live On Top Of The Pops)
•	Bonus DVD : Street Spirit (Fade Out) (Live On Top Of The Pops)

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Editorial Reviews:

From Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars

Pure Awesomness June 22, 2010
Dom Greenwood (Wouldn't you like to know.)
Ok, I'll start off by being brutally honest. I've only really gotton into Radiohead in the last few months, and so I don't think I can judge this in the way older people can, being that I was only 2 when the album was released.

However, I will say this. I love this album. The original album itself is pure genius. The tracks are iconic. Dare I say that this album may even be better than OK Computer. The band really showed themselves to be more than just 'Nirvana lite' and showed they could do more than just Creep. The iconic chords in the songs are just brilliant. I mean the opening of Just? you don't get much better than that. High and Dry and Planet Telax are just a couple more of the great tracks. Oh to hell with it, I LOVE all the tracks. There isn't a really a bad one. They all rock!

The second CD provides us with some of Radiohead's lesser known work, not to mention the guitar in Talk Show Host. I think its great how these tracks could have been forgotton yet have been saved in a way by this CD. I love India Rubber and Killer Cars especially. Not only this but the DVD is great, providing 4 great music videos and a bunch of live and studio performances.

I really do reccomend this to any Radiohead fan, its a great lot of musical stuff (:D) and will keep your ears and eyes entertained for hours and hours. In fact I reccomend this to anyone, Radiohead fan or not. This was the first album of thiers I listened to and it completly converted me to them. So buy this collection, it may just revolutionise your music taste...

4 out of 5 stars

Great Coaster November 28, 2009
Mr. D. Seal
2 out of 16 found this review helpful

I do love these new fangled shiny mug coasters, apparently you can get music off them but I put the thing close to my ear for a good hour and nothing.

5 out of 5 stars

The Definitive Version of This Album April 22, 2009
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

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.

4 out of 5 stars

Tidy Package March 17, 2009
J. Daniel (UK)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful

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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