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Pablo Honey (Album) by Radiohead

Artist Biography For Radiohead

Radiohead Is An English Rock Band Formed In Abingdon Oxfordshire In 1985. The Band Consists Of Thom Yorke Vocals Guitar Piano Keyboards Brothers Jonny Greenwood Lead Guitar Keyboards Other Instruments And Colin Greenwood Bass Ed O'Brien Guitar Backing Vocals And Philip Selway Drums Percussion . They Have Worked With The Producer Nigel Godrich And The Cover Artist Stanley Donwood Since 1994. Radiohead's Experimental Approach Is Credited With Advancing The Sound Of Alternative Rock. Radiohead Signed To EMI In 1991 And Released Their Debut Album Pablo Honey In 1993 Their Debut Single "Creep" Became A Worldwide Hit. Radiohead's Popularity And Critical Standing Rose With The Release Of The Bends In 1995. Radiohead's Third Album OK Computer 1997 Brought Them International Fame Noted For Its Complex Production And Themes Of Modern Alienation It Is Acclaimed As A Landmark Record And One Of The Best Albums In Popular Music. Radiohead's Fourth Album Kid A 2000 Marked A Dramatic Change In Style Incorporating Influences From Electronic Music Jazz Classical Music And Krautrock. Though Kid A Divided Listeners It Later Attracted Wide Acclaim. It Was Followed By Amnesiac 2001 Recorded In The Same Sessions. Hail To The Thief 2003 With Lyrics Addressing The War On Terror Was Radiohead's Final Album For EMI. Radiohead Self-Released Their Seventh Album In Rainbows 2007 As A Download For Which Customers Could Set Their Own Price To Critical And Chart Success. Their Eighth Album The King Of Limbs 2011 An Exploration Of Rhythm Was Developed Using Extensive Looping And Sampling. A Moon Shaped Pool 2016 Prominently Featured Jonny Greenwood's Orchestral Arrangements. Yorke Jonny Greenwood Selway And O'Brien Have Released Solo Albums In 2021 Yorke And Jonny Greenwood Debuted A New Band The Smile. By 2011 Radiohead Had Sold More Than 30 Million Albums Worldwide. Their Awards Include Six Grammy Awards And Four Ivor Novello Awards And They Hold Five Mercury Prize Nominations The Most Of Any Act. Seven Radiohead Singles Have Reached The Top 10 On The UK Singles Chart "Creep" 1992 "Street Spirit Fade Out " 1996 "Paranoid Android" 1997 "Karma Police" 1997 "No Surprises" 1998 "Pyramid Song" 2001 And "There There" 2003 . "Creep" And "Nude" 2008 Reached The Top 40 On The US Billboard Hot 100. Rolling Stone Named Radiohead One Of The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time And Rolling Stone Readers Voted Them The Second-Best Artist Of The 2000s. Five Radiohead Albums Have Been Included In Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time Lists. Radiohead Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 2019. Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Radiohead Studio Albums
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Pablo Honey Is The First Studio Album By English Alternative Rock Band Radiohead First Released In Early 1993. The Album's Title Comes From A Jerky Boys Prank Call Skit In Which The Prank Caller Says "Pablo Honey? Please Come To Florida!" To His Victim. This Snippet Is Sampled By The Band In The Song "How Do You?". The Album Includes The Single "Creep" Radiohead's Most Well-Known Hit On Mainstream Radio. Pablo Honey Peaked At #22 In The UK Charts And Went Platinum There And In Other Countries. After A Long Dormancy While The Members Attended University The Band On A Friday Reconvened In The Early 1990s Becoming Fixtures On The Local Oxford Scene With A Series Of Demo Recordings And Well Attended Live Gigs Finally Signing With EMI/Parlophone And Changing Their Name To Radiohead. The Band's First Official Release The Drill EP Was Produced By Their Managers Chris Hufford And Bryce Edge And Sold Poorly. For Their Debut Album The Band Sought The Production Skills Of Massachusetts-Based Paul Kolderie And Sean Slade Responsible For Dinosaur Jr. And Buffalo Tom Albums Of Which They Were Fans. Several Months In Advance Of The Album The Band Came Out With Their Debut Single "Creep". According To Bassist Colin Greenwood "Creep" Had Been Written By Singer/rhythm Guitarist Thom Yorke Sometime In The Late 1980s While He Was At Exeter University And Was Shared With Other Members Of The Band Who Were Mostly Very Enthusiastic Citing The Song As A Reason To Continue Making Music Together. However It Was Not Included On Any Of Their Early '90s Demo Tapes And Had Not Been A Part Of Their Live Set. At The Time "Inside My Head" Which Would Later Be Released As A B-Side To "Creep" Was Considered A Good Candidate For The Band's Lead Single. Sometime In 1992 The Band Began An Impromptu Performance Of "Creep" At A Recording Session Referring To It As Their "Scott Walker Song" Because It Reminded Them Of One Of Their Musical Idols. Rumour States That Jonny Greenwood's Famous Guitar Crunches In The Chorus Were Supposedly An Attempt To Ruin A Song He Didn't Like. But "Jonny Played The Piano At The End Of The Song And It Was Gorgeous " Stated Producer Paul Kolderie Though The Piano Was Mixed In At The Wrong Time The Band Decided To Keep The Take Complete With Mistake Not For The Last Time . "Everyone Who Heard 'Creep' Just Started Going Insane. So That's What Got Us The Job Doing The Album." As Soon As Their Managers And Producers Realized The Song Was An Original Not A Walker Cover Other Plans Were Put On The Back Burner To The Band's Surprise And "Creep" Was Released As A Limited Single To The Public In Late 1992. However The Single Initially Went Nowhere. It Was Even Blacklisted From Radio 1 For Being Too Depressing. In The Meantime The Bulk Of The Album Was Recorded In Autumn 1992. Recording Sessions Were Completed Very Quickly As The Band Had Been Playing Many Of These Songs For Years. However What Ended Up On Pablo Honey Represents Only A Fraction Of Their On A Friday-Era Recorded Material With Very Little Overlap With Earlier Demos. The Album Was Once Described By A Radiohead Member As 'Our Greatest Hits As An Unsigned Band' With Smooth Sonic Textures Anthemic Vocals And Walls Of Guitar Noise. "Prove Yourself" Which Had Led Off Drill Reappears However In A Different Recording As Do "You" And "Thinking About You" In Reworked Versions. In The Heady Alternative Musical Climate Of 1993 Pablo Honey Did Not Receive Particular Attention. Upon Release However The Critical Reaction To Pablo Honey Tended Towards The Positive With Rolling Stone NME Allmusic Q Magazine And Entertainment Weekly Giving Favourable Reviews. Besides "Creep" The Album Also Included The Melodic Perhaps Ironic And Sonic Youth-Influenced Single "Anyone Can Play Guitar" And U2-Like Single "Stop Whispering". Also On Pablo Honey Are Ethereal Rocker "You" Fan Favourite "Thinking About You" And "Blow Out" The Latter Of Which Is Apparently The Band's Personal Favourite From The Album And Points Ahead To Their Future Sonic Manipulations. By Mid-1993 "Creep" Had Become A Hit In Israel Then The United States And Then A Worldwide Hit Finally Reaching Number 7 When It Was Re-Released During The Autumn Of 1993 In The Band's Native Britain. "Creep" Went On To Define The Band's Early Career At The Expense Of Anything Else On Pablo Honey. The Song Whose Self-Loathing Lyrics Struck A Chord With Many Fans Was Released Around The Same Time As Other So-Called "slacker" Anthems Such As Beck's "Loser" And Was Seen By Some As A Part Of The Grunge Movement Kicked Into High Gear By Seattle Bands Nirvana And Pearl Jam. Radiohead Eventually Fell Into A Media-Created Niche As The "British Nirvana" Due Both To "Creep" And To The Equally Morose If Not Equally Successful Other Songs On The Album. In Fact Radiohead Did Share Similar Influences As Nirvana Notably The Pixies And R.E.M. Although The Smiths Were Also A Large Influence On The Band At This Time. By Their Next Album The Bends 1995 Radiohead Was More Often Being Lumped By The Press With The Britpop Or "Brit-Rock" Movement A Reflection Of Changing Trends. However The Band Are Not Unanimously Pleased With "Creep". Although At First Ecstatic At Their Success They Soon Came To Resent Being Unable To Escape Its Shadow Inspiring The Bitter Song "My Iron Lung". When Performing Live In 1993 And 1994 Much Of The Audience Would Often Leave After "Creep" Had Been Performed Ignoring All The Other Material From Pablo Honey. One Exception Was "Prove Yourself" A Song Yorke Removed From Setlists After He Realised The Crowd Would Always Chant Along With Its Disturbing Refrain "I'm Better Off Dead." By The Mid-'90s As The Band's Style Evolved And They Became More Confident About Their Newer Material The Band And Yorke In Particular Came To Believe "Creep" Had Been Given Too Much Weight And By The Late '90s Yorke Apparently No Longer Identified At All With Their Biggest Hit. The Clip For "Creep" Was Conspicuously Absent From Their Official 1997 Video Compilation Release 7 Television Commercials None Of The Other Videos From Pablo Honey Were Included Either . For A Time The Band Refused To Play It Live But Beginning In 2001 It Has Been Aired Several Times As An Encore. The Videos From Pablo Honey Have Since Been Released By EMI On The 2008 DVD Radiohead The Best Of. Other Songs From Pablo Honey Have Received Even Less Recent Attention From The Band. Besides "You" Which Was Performed Live By Special Request Once In 2002 Very Occasional Performances Of "Creep" And The Surprising Performances Of "Blow Out" In Tokyo During Their 2008 Tour The Dreamy "Lurgee" Is The Only Other Song From Pablo Honey That Has Been Played Live By The Band Since The OK Computer Era. The Band However Have Said In Recent Years That They Are Not Unhappy With The Album Or Its Production Given Their Lack Of Experience At The Time. Radiohead Members Have Mentioned "Blow Out" As The Pablo Honey Track Of Which They Are Most Proud. Apart From "Creep" The Album Itself Is Rarely Mentioned By The Band Today And The Bends Is Usually Considered A More Notable Album By Those Who Prefer Radiohead's Early Rock Sound. However Pablo Honey Continues To Sell Steadily And Has Attained Platinum Status.