The Bends

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Album Everyone jumps straight to OK Computer when they talk Radiohead but this one deserves way more credit. It's more raw, and honestly has some of their best songs on it. Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit Pressing For the pressing, skip the 2008 Capitol (flat and lifeless, everyone who owns one regrets it) and the more recent GZ Czech pressings. The one to get is the 2016 XL repress that uses the original UK metalwork On the turntable it sounds pretty great, Planet Telex opens up properly, and Fake Plastic Trees has real emotional weight to it. It's a touch quieter than the original Parlophone so crank it up a bit.. Street Spirit closing the record is haunting in the best way.

Quntin-jazz logged

Album Everyone jumps straight to OK Computer when they talk Radiohead but this one deserves way more credit. It's more raw, and honestly has some of their best songs on it. Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit Pressing For the pressing, skip the 2008 Capitol (flat and lifeless, everyone who owns one regrets it) and the more recent GZ Czech pressings. The one to get is the 2016 XL repress that uses the original UK metalwork On the turntable it sounds pretty great, Planet Telex opens up properly, and Fake Plastic Trees has real emotional weight to it. It's a touch quieter than the original Parlophone so crank it up a bit.. Street Spirit closing the record is haunting in the best way.