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"The Bends" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead from their second studio album, The Bends (1995). In Ireland, it was released by Parlophone on 26 July 1996 as the album's sixth and final single, and reached number 26 on the Irish Singles Chart.
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.
"Fake Plastic Trees" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released on their second album, The Bends (1995). It was the third single from The Bends in the UK, and the first in the US. It reached the top 50 on the UK Singles Chart , the New Zealand Singles Chart , the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and the Canadian Rock/Alternative chart.
Yorke's lyrics, embodying different characters, had expressed what one magazine called "end-of-the-millennium blues" [48] in contrast to the more personal songs of The Bends. According to the journalist Alex Ross, Radiohead had become "the poster boys for a certain kind of knowing alienation" as Talking Heads and R.E.M. had been before. [5]
[5] [6] The Bends (1995) marked a move toward "anthemic rock", [5] with more cryptic lyrics about social and global topics, and elements of Britpop. [5] [7] [8] OK Computer (1997), the first Radiohead album produced by Godrich, [9] features more abstract lyrics that reflected themes of modern alienation, [10] and subtle, complex and textured ...
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“For a long time, I didn’t have lyrics, but then I had a dream where I was in a café and a song was playing, and the lyrics to that song became the lyrics to ‘Time Waited’ – the ...
(Reuters) -Four men were convicted in Spain on Sunday in connection with the homophobic murder of a 24-year-old nursing assistant that sparked protests in cities across Spain and abroad.