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You
Creep
How Do You?
Stop Whispering
Thinking About You
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Ripcord
Vegetable
Prove Yourself
I Can't
Lurgee
Blow Out |
Pablo Honey
Released: 04/23/93
Produced by Paul Q. Kolderie, Chris Hufford, Sean Slade. Recorded at Chipping Norton
Studio and Courtyard Studio, Oxon, England. |
Notes:
Ranked #35 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of 1993' - "...is a throwback
to a homegrown tradition of great guitar-band albums...." New Musical Express 12/25/93,
p.67
3 Stars - Good - "...British teenagerhood has never been grumpier....the best bits
rival Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. and even the mighty Sugar..." Q Magazine 4/93, p.86
"...one of those flawed but satisfying debuts that suggests Radiohead's talents
will really blossom later on..." New Musical Express 3/13/93, p.33
"...mates
Smiths-type self-consciousness with dramatic U2-like vocals and guitar, with Cure-style
heavy but crunchy pop..." - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly 5/28/93, p.56 |
Rolling Stone review
Flashing a song called "Creep" as a musical ID takes cheek, but then, everything about
these Brits is unabashed. On their debut, the swagger affected by every arch-Anglo
since the Kinks is already in full effect. Three guitars (and bass) and a singer whose
narcissistic angst rivals Morrissey's ("I will not control myself!" Thom e. Yorke
screams on "Vegetable," and on "Prove Yourself" he mourns, "I'm better off dead"),
these five Oxford lads come on extreme. What elevates them to fab charm is not only
the feedback and strumming fury of their guitarwork Ð and the dynamism of their whisper-to-a-scream
song structures Ð which recall the Who by way of the early Jam, but the way their
solid melodies and sing-along choruses resonate pop appeal. On "Blow Out" they savage
a bossa-nova intro with sheer noise; "Thinking About You" is bitter folk with acoustic
guitars soundly pummeled; and the rest of "Pablo Honey" is equally surprising. If
they don't implode from attitude overload, Radiohead warrant watching.(RS 672/73) |
