Vinyl Record
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - The Bends on LP vinyl. A 1995 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1995
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1995 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
The Bends is Radiohead's 1995 second album, the record where the band escaped the gravitational pull of Creep and became something more durable. It still belongs to the mid-1990s guitar world, but the writing is sharper, the emotional scale wider and the arrangements more controlled than on Pablo Honey. Planet Telex opens with woozy momentum rather than a simple rock statement; The Bends and Just carry abrasive guitar intelligence; High And Dry and Fake Plastic Trees show how vulnerable melodies could become public anthems without losing strangeness; My Iron Lung turns resentment about success into a self-diagnosing rocker; Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was, Black Star and Street Spirit (Fade Out) point toward the fatalism and atmosphere that OK Computer would enlarge. The 1995 context matters because British guitar music was becoming increasingly triumphal and personality-driven, while Radiohead were writing songs about artificiality, failure, exhaustion and dread. The Bends is not yet the great system critique of 1997, but it is where the band discovered how to make anxiety sing.
The Bends matters because it transformed Radiohead from a band with one enormous single into major album artists. It refined their guitar language, deepened Thom Yorke's writing and established the emotional and melodic seriousness that made OK Computer possible.
For collectors, The Bends is an essential Radiohead LP and the key 1995 bridge between Pablo Honey and OK Computer. It stands strongly on its own as a classic guitar album, while also revealing the band gathering the tools for their next leap.
Mid-1990s alternative rock with ringing guitars, muscular dynamics, aching falsetto, anthemic melodies, brittle emotional pressure and the first clear signs of Radiohead's widescreen unease.
Recommended for: Collectors building a core 1990s Radiohead and alternative rock shelf; Listeners who prefer the band's guitar-driven period; Fans of albums that turn vulnerability and distortion into big melodic drama.
When was The Bends released? The Bends was released in 1995 as Radiohead's second studio album. Why is The Bends important after Pablo Honey? It proved Radiohead were not defined by Creep, showing stronger songwriting, broader arrangements and a more distinctive emotional identity. Which songs define The Bends? Fake Plastic Trees, High And Dry, Just, My Iron Lung, Planet Telex and Street Spirit (Fade Out) are central tracks.