Cacophony is very cool too, just feels a bit unfinished?
Every day you stray further from Godās light.
Imagine if you went to heaven and God was a huge fan of Cheshire Cat, Dude Ranch and The Mark Tom and Travis Show
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Only one comment about The Bends so far 
Drowned in Cheshire Cat here we fuckin gooooo
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Iāve given it 2 minutesā thought and done no research but Iād struggle to come up with a better opening to any album than Carousel/M+Ms
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Planet Telex into The Bends is pretty good tbf
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i tell you what, The Bends is fucking excellent isnāt it. maybe better than OKC for me
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i canāt imagine hearing this after Pablo Honey coz iāve only ever come to it in retrospect. In Rainbows was the first Radiohead album i got when it was released, i was aware of Kid A and Amnesiac coming out and being ādifficultā, and remember HTTT coming out and people, including one of my housemates, being so excited, but i didnāt really care that much even though id heard The Bends and OKC by then coz my gf before i went to uni played them to me. but yeah it must have been mindblowing that the Creep band pulled this out of the bag
like, Bones is probably better than every track on PH but one of the weaker things on this? wild!
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as if the Creep band wrote The Bends, and Fake Plastic Trees, and Just, and My Iron Lung, and Street Spirit, and theyāre all on the next album after the Creep song! fuck!!
rate me up baby
Cheshire Cat by Blink 182
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- Carousel
- M+Ms
- Fentoozler
- Touchdown Boy
- Strings
- Peggy Sue
- Sometimes
- Does My Breath Smell?
- Cacophony
- TV
- Toast and Bananas
- Wasting Time
- Romeo and Rebecca
- Ben Wah Balls
- Just About Done
- Depends
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The Bends by Radiohead
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- Planet Telex
- The Bends
- High and Dry
- Fake Plastic Trees
- Bones
- (Nice Dream)
- Just
- My Iron Lung
- Bullet Proofā¦ I Wish I Was
- Black Star
- Sulk
- Street Spirit (Fade Out)
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1997, what a year. not a lot of people realise that only two albums came out that year. those two albums were:
OK Computer by Radiohead
Dude Ranch by Blink 182
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Forgot to say something about The Bends. I love it and gave it a 10 out of 10. I donāt like the way a lot of people view it as lesser than what came after on account of it being more traditional guitar rock. So many great moments. The title track is their Hummer or Naveed, and Black Star is their Recovering the Satellites.
Think people tend to take for granted what an incredible song Fake Plastic Trees is too, thereās just such a real sadness to it. Thereās something so genuine and universal in that ābut I canāt help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling, if I just turn and runā climax, it can still get me after 25+ years of listening to the album in a way that most of their other music no longer can.
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Dude Ranch was my introduction to Blink 182, and while I wouldnāt say itās the best one anymore, itās the one thatās The Most Blink 182 to me. Thereās something really special about it in a way that canāt be recaptured by them or anyone.
Thereās a lot of goofiness as youād expect from them (the horse fucking skit, the STD skit, the urine skit, a song titled Dick Lips, the entirety of Degenerate, etc.), but thereās a sadness surging through a lot of it too that elevates it over everything that came before.
Thereās this weird narrative among Serious Music Fans that theyāre not talented songwriters and that anyone can do what they do, but thatās always felt completely nonsensical and reeking of elitist jealousy to me. Dammit and Josie are 10/10 pop punk singles and perfect songs, period. Theyāre not replicable (think about how many shitty bands have tried and failed), and show why the band over everyone else ultimately went on to become absolutely massive and have a 30 year career.
On top of Scottās relentless drumming (which really, really suits the songs here), the thing that stands out the most about the album is the performance Mark turns in. Like, where did that come from? Heās so fired up! Thereās an energy and strain in his vocals that never resurface on any other album. It feels like heās going to jump out of the speakers.
There are so many great songs to choose from - Dammit, Josie, Apple Shampoo, Pathetic, Dick Lips, etc. - so this will probably be an unpopular pick, but Iām going to go with Lemmings as my favorite from it and maybe my favorite song of theirs period. Think itās a very affecting song about getting older, navigating the conflicting emotions in missing the old days while recognizing how flawed they were and how they werenāt what they seemed, reevaluating relationships, etc. It has that āyou canāt go home againā feeling. I think Mark wrote something timeless and universal here and he completely sells it with that vocal performance.
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Also, what a rager! Such an underrated song.
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First things first, Tomās vocals on Voyeur are fucking terrible.
Right, got that out of the way, quite like Dude Ranch, some strong songs, proper stupid ones and obviously the big hit. Notable standouts for me are Pathetic (solid, full on opener, proper rager), Waggy (for the ājacking offā line), the run of Untitled, Apple Shampoo (quality track), Emo and fucking Josie (what a song, might be the best thing theyāve done next to Zulu) is excellent. Degenerate might be one of the worst/best tracks theyāve ever done and always had a soft spot for Lemmings, again, another rager that.
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Dammit was the only thing Iād heard from them when I bought the album, I didnāt know they had two singers. A shocking moment.
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Just put Lemmings on again, and the drumming is so on point.
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TEAM SCOTT FOREVER
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Yeah, as skilled as Travis is and as much as he did suit some of their later stuff (Box Car Racer in particular), I think they lost something leaving Scott behind. He just charges forward and doesnāt stop, it fit those songs perfectly. I miss those snare rolls, they sound massive.
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itās going to be so difficult to choose a favourite from this album
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