Albulm:

The Bends Released: 04/04/95

01. Planet Telex 02. The Bends 03. High and Dry 04. Fake Plastic Trees 05. Bones 06. [Nice Dream] 07. Just 08. My Iron Lung 09. Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was 10. Black Star 11. Sulk 12. Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Info:

Produced by: John Leckie, Radiohead, Jim Warren, & Nigel Godrich Recorded at: Rak, The Manor, & Abbey Road, London, England

Reviews:

Rolling Stone 5/13/99, pp. 58-59 Included in Rolling Stone's  "Essential Recordings of the 90's."

Q Magazine 2/96, p. 63 Included in Q's 50 Best Albulms of 1995 - "...THE BENDS' lasting mightiness is confirmed--as is the scary impression that they'll only get better..."

Melody Maker 12/23-30/95, pp. 66-67 Ranked #6 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's 'Albulms Of The Year'  - "Rock as self-evisceration...consistently, savagely, brilliant..."

New Musical Experience 12/23-30/95, pp. 22-23 Ranked #4 in NME's  'Top 50 Albulms Of The Year' for 1995

Rolling Stone 5/18/95, p. 88 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...THE BENDS [is] a sonically ambitious albulm that offers no easy hits. It's a guitar field day , blending acoustic strumming with twitches of fuzzy tremelo and eruptions of amplified paranioa..."

Enterainment Weekly 4/6/95, p. 92 "...Sometimes folky, sometimes rocky, the sophmore albulm from this English band offers a smorgasbord of guitar flavors, most of them tasty. The stylistic leaps make for schizoid listening...but give these boys credit for not sitting still..." -Rating B+