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The album title, a term for decompression sickness, references Radiohead's rapid rise to fame with "Creep"; Yorke said "we just came up too fast". [57] John Leckie , who produced The Bends , recalled that EMI hoped for a single "even better" than "Creep" but that Radiohead "didn't even know what was good about it in the first place". [ 58 ]
The album title, a term for decompression sickness, references Radiohead's rapid rise to fame; Yorke said "we just came up too fast". [37] While touring for their 1997 album OK Computer , Yorke became hostile when "Creep" was mentioned in interviews and refused requests to play it. [ 74 ]
With Radiohead's fourth album, Kid A (2000), Yorke moved into electronic music, influenced by Warp acts such as Aphex Twin. For most of his career, he has worked with the producer Nigel Godrich and the cover artist Stanley Donwood. Yorke's solo work comprises mainly electronic music. His debut solo album, The Eraser, was released in 2006.
The art of Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, the artist behind the band’s album covers, will be featured together for the first time in a public exhibition.
It was the fifth Radiohead album nominated for the Mercury Prize, making Radiohead the most shortlisted act in Mercury history, [204] and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Song (for "Burn the Witch") at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. [205] It appeared on several publications' lists of the best albums of the year.
The Bends combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Work began at RAK Studios, London, in February 1994. Tensions were high, with pressure from Parlophone to match sales of Radiohead's debut single, "Creep", and progress was slow.
Popular Music reviewed the work, commenting that although the book had weak notes it was still a "worthwhile venture". [4] The ARSC Journal also wrote a review, noting that Radiohead's members "are averse to any sort of intellectualizing of their music" and that "If, in the end, what Radiohead does is "pure escapism," as drummer Phil Selway deems, then this book deconstructs not only that ...
Though Radiohead wrote "The Bends" in 1992, [59] before "Creep" was released in September of that year, [60] commentators interpreted the title as a comment on the success of "Creep"; [57] [58] others have commented that the song, particularly the line "I want to be part of the human race", feels like a sequel to "Creep", continuing the similar ...