I'm pretty sure I downloaded it about 5 years ago...and the one I have sure sounds like a studio version.

Radiohead's early B-sides had some real gems among them.

Is Killer Cars hard to find? I have the Japanese cd of The Bends (got it cheap years ago) and it's a bonus track. Great song.


OK Computer
The Bends
Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail To the Thief
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Pablo Honey


Favorite song: Street Spirit

Mine:

1) The Bends (hit after hit after hit)
2) OK Computer
3) Pablo Honey
4) Kid A
5) Hail to the Thief
6) Amnesiac

Favorite Song: Just / My Iron Lung

I really don't care for their last three. I saw their epic 930 club show pre-KidA where they played rock versions of True Love Waits and an acoustic version of MPS that was haunting, both much better than ever ended up on an album.

1. The Bends
2. Pablo Honey
3. OK Computer
4. Kid A
5. Amnesiac
6. Hail to the Thief

Basically, old Radiohead is far more accomplished than new Radiohead and OK Computer was the transition point.

The acoustic version of Motion Picture Soundtrack with the third verse is great but it can't touch the Kid A version. True Love Waits is great but the version on I Might Be Wrong is just ok and has the last two verses reversed, and where are the keyboards?!!!

I agree that The Bends is like a Greatest Hits package but it has two horrible songs in Bones and Sulk. And High and Dry isn't that great either. But I'd give this album to people to get them into Radiohead.

My two favorite songs are Lucky and The Tourist (although it is a rip off of Blur's This is a Low; the vocals are simply the best Thom has ever done).

B-Sides-wise, my favorites are the Amnesiac b-sides. Fog, Kinetic, The Amazing Sounds of Orgy, Worrywort, etc. Just awesome songs that are better than the album songs.

Sulk is great, Bones is the perfect transition from Black Star to Bullet Proof and High and Dry is a massive high point of the album for me. An album as perfect as The Bends should be seen as consisting of musical transitions or movements rather than songs per se and as a completely coherent, beautiful arranged work of musical genius, The Bends is a comtemporary masterpiece.


Anyone else like Thom's stuff with UNKLE and PJ Harvey? He totally made Harvey's 'Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea' for me. I really disliked Harvey's stuff before that point.

What? Bones is between Fake Plastic Trees and Nice Dream. Sulk's between Black Star and Street Spirit. The Bends has always felt like a Greatest Hits to me, just great songs but not a cohesive whole. At least compared to later works like OK Computer and Kid A.
High and Dry is a high point? Even the band doesn't like that song anymore, as they haven't played it often in recent concerts.

The Radiohead masterpiece triptych:

OK Computer
The Bends
Kid A

Then a considerable drop to:

Hail to the Thief
Pablo Honey

Finally, the album so bad that I nearly gave up on the band:

Amnesiac

Favourite song: Man-O-War

Great song; unfortunately, unlike Big Ideas, I don't think we'll ever hear a studio version. The lyrics of Man-O-War/Big Boots are awesome and are on the cover of Meeting People is Easy.

As a complete album, I have to go with OK Computer, although none of my top 5 favorite songs are on that album.

from NME:

RADIOHEAD HEAD INTO THE STUDIO

RADIOHEAD headed into the studio yesterday (August 18) to continue work on the follow-up to 2003’s ’HAIL TO THE THIEF’.

The band announced the plans for their as-yet-unnamed seventh studio album in a posting on their official website radiohead.com.

Singer Thom Yorke said: “We are going into a proper studio on Thursday (for a leettle (sic) while) with 192 faders which is a lot of choice a bit like the supermarket and it may all go off before we get to it so we have to eat quick.”

Radiohead have been recording on and off at their own studio since the beginning of early 2004, but it is unknown how much of that time has been spent working on the new album.

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood recently told Billboard: “"We don't take time off very well. We're enjoying it still, so why just go home and do nothing?"

A statement from the band’s management revealed that the group are "putting some ideas together" in the new studio to "see where they want to go with the next step musically".

Radiohead are currently without a record contract having fulfilled their commitments with EMI following the release of ’Hail To The Thief’.

However, their management dismissed recent rumours that Warner Music were lining up to sign the band, saying: “The band (are) not looking for a record company in any way, shape or form. They are out of a contract, but they're not actively looking for another one. They're getting on with doing what they do."

In another post, Yorke said: “No record contract as such. Any offers? What we would like is the old EMI back again, the nice genteel arms manufacturers who treated music a nice side project (and) weren't (too) bothered about the shareholders."

- working on new material

- Guessing they'll get a contract soon. Nobody would turn them away

- that it is an LP. I remember reading somewhere that Thom said that HTTT was the band's last LP and they were thinking of just releasing EPs in the future. But he does talk out of his ass a lot, so I took that with a grain of salt.

Radiohead is my favorite band of all time, I love all of their cds with the exception of Pablo Honey.

1. Ok Computer (Exit Music)
2. Kid A (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
3. Hail to the Thief (There There or Wolf at the Door)
4. Amnesiac (I Might Be Wrong or Knives Out)
5. The Bends (Just)
6. I Might Be Wrong (Spinning Plates)

I just seem to like their newer stuff much better than their older stuff. I like the Bends and it's playing often in my house, but Hail to the Thief and Amnesiac have such great songs, inventive. Another great track is Alligators in New York Sewers and Thom's collaboration with Bjork, I've Seen it All.

Good band. A few ridiculously amazing albums (1-3 on my list), a few average, and a complete pile of shit (6 on my list). Looking forward to the next one!

1. OK Computer (Airbag, or Lucky)
2. Kid A (Idioteque)
3. The Bends (Street Spirit)
4. Hail to the Thief (Punchup at a Wedding, or There There)
5. Pablo Honey (Stop Whispering)
6. Amnesiac (Pyramid Song)