"Fake Plastic Trees" is not only an all timer but a core memory for me. I remember watching the video and bawling as like a 10 year old and realizing "oh music can make me feel sad and I don't mind that....." It was a long interesting ride from there lol
I've listened to these songs 1000's of times and Fake Plastic Trees still gets me. Today once more I was crying....with you. I'm a 48 year old man and a Master Sergeant in the military. No shame! Feel it! I've watched all your Radiohead videos and they're great! Subscribed!
The irony of you wearing a Heisenberg shirt and the fact that Thom Yorke gave the actor who played Jesse in Breaking Bad a gift with the lyrics to Fake Plastic Trees written on it.
this song is so crazy melancholic beautiful that i just wanna kys while i'm hearing last chorus, really my beloved song of entire radiohead discography
17:02 His vocal performance on this album, and especially in Fake Plastic Trees, was heavily inspired by Jeff Buckley. You definitely need to react to Jeff Buckley’s album, Grace!!
Went to the place in Highbury where Thom saw Jeff sing recently. Didn't know. Some Americana band who were ok. It felt like a holy place when I was told that.
YES, everyone listen to this comment. 👌 Its amazing how much of modern music takes inspiration from radiohead and how they take inspiration from older tracks, music just develops.
It's "The Bends" so it's full of such lyrics: "We're too young to fall asleep, to cynical to speak - we are losing it, can't you tell?" "Be a world child, form a circle before we all go under". "The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear".
Radiohead has always been masterful at evoking powerful emotions and often it's not even through the lyrics or the subject matter but just through beautiful composition alone. That's why sometimes their music does actually remind me of classical compositions rather than "just rock and roll" they have a real gift for that.
@@MxnwellMxnlymxn-gs4epride the lightning by metallica, good kid maad city by kendrick, around the fur by deftones, nevermind by nirvana, demon days by gorillaz, the low end theory by a tribe called quest, toxicity by system of a down,aenima by tool, atliens by outkast, meteora by linkin park, i could go on but those are the bests i can think of rn 😅
Fake Plastic Trees does to me what High and Dry does to you. I'm already a wreck before it finishes me off with "if I could be who you wanted, all the time" Loving the reaction I'm only a few songs in.
Radiohead are probably the most important band to me. They were my gateway drug. They were so boundary pushing that it got me to explore music outside of the mainstream and I am eternally grateful. Glad to see they touched you too.
if you want to understand the complexity and the vibrance and how much of a time warp this is for me.....I was 15 when The Bends came out and i'm 44 now.......and this music never gets old....NEVER...its like a fine wine - gets better w age.
This is an album energetically different from their others, it makes me feel youthful sensations without losing the emotional part, too underrated imo. (Great reaction as always)
the instruments for my iron lung were taken straight from a live show, it’s on youtube “live at the astoria” they only re recorded thoms vocals in the studio😭
the high and dry got to me as well sister....i thought about my first true love in 2002 when I was 22......we used to bang out to Radio head all the time.....and that last part of the song was so true of my loss of her.....never saw her again after MARCH 2005. 3 years of bliss w my love. WHEWWWWWWWWWW lolz. back to reality.
Started off loving Fake Plastic Trees and High and Dry, ended up loving Sulk and Street Spirit (Fade Out); Radiohead really takes people on fascinating journeys
"My Iron Lung" is basically about "Creep" and how the band hates it being their most popular song. An iron lung is a mechanical respirator that worked using negative pressure to assist breathing, most commonly in polio, where patients had paralysed lungs. It effectively breathed for someone who was unable to do so. “My Iron Lung” tells of how “Creep” is the only thing keeping Radiohead successful or alive. The iron lung metaphor is apt because while “Creep” was keeping the band alive (financially), it was also very constraining and they perceived it as forcing them to play a certain style of music. Similarly, an iron lung does not allow the patient inside it any freedom of movement. Also, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead's guitarist and multi-instrumemtalist) are now making music in another band (the Smile) with the drummer Tom Skinner from Sons of Kermet. They have released two albums by now, both being very beautiful, Radiohead level of quality imo. The third album is going to be released this year, on October 4th.
This is amazing rock album. Much more conventional than what they would become. This was a huge step forward from Pablo Honey, but they would leap forward again even further for OK Computer, and again for Kid A. As fans it was wild how they were changing and evolving so fast - really pushing what could be done with the genre.
Hail to the theif next!!! Another incredible album. Personally it took me a couple listens but songs like “I will”, “where I end and you begin”, and “wolf at the door” hit hard.
"Street Spirit is our purest song, but I didn’t write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; it's biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn’t ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve. Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that song. It’s called detachment. Especially me; I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn’t play it. I’d crack. I’d break down on stage. That’s why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That’s what’s meant by ‘all these things you’ll one day swallow whole’. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn’t have it in me to articulate the emotion. I’d crack… Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don’t realise what they’re listening to. They don’t realise that Street Spirit is about staring the fucking devil right in the eyes, and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he’ll get the last laugh. And it’s real, and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that too long, I’d crack. I can’t believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song. That’s why I’m convinced that they don’t know what it’s about. It’s why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell every time I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of its meaning, like when you’re going to have your dog put down and it’s wagging its tail on the way there. That’s what they all look like, and it breaks my heart. I wish that song hadn’t picked us as its catalysts, and so I don’t claim it. It asks too much. I didn’t write that song." - Thom Yorke
oh my goodness gracious i need people to stop posting this quote because its not real and thank god its not because it makes him sound so ridiculously pretentious !! that said street spirit is still at least top 2 on the bends
I mean it's been floating around since the late 90s at least. But I just spent half an hour searching Google, the Internet Archive, my own bookshelf, etc. and couldn't find even one attributed source. _And_ it doesn't line up with anything else Thom has ever said about the song - in other, sourced interviews he said he wrote it in a stream of consciousness inspired by a book, and generally sounds extremely pleased and proud of how it turned out. I think I'm comfortable calling this one a fake.
This is my favorite of their albums. I've listened to it so many times. I think they've done better albums since, and having this as a favorite doesn't mean I don't like their more recent stuff. In fact I think if I was to make a list of my favorite 12 Radiohead songs I don't even know if any of the 12 songs from The Bends would be on the list. It's just the album I've listened to the most, and over so many years, so there's a strong nostalgia element for me and I'm very comfortable with it.
Love it Kate! Now we have something else to bond over as I was thick into the bends when I was your age. I’m playing this when you least expect it and no one will leave happy 😬
I’m so jealous of you experiencing Radiohead’s songs for the first time. This was the first album of theirs I bought when it was released and was probably my favourite until InRainbows was released. The ones you like the most today will not be the ones you like the most in years to come. Keep listening and enjoy the journey.
I absolutely love your videos. I love,like myself, how you get so emotional, and only great music has the power to do that. There are some bands, like Radiohead that just hit that sweet spot, and I’m not ashamed to say that I also cry to songs that have that emotional pull and that you can relate to almost in a spiritual way
Honestly still love this as my favourite Radiohead album of the heart (Ok Computer - Gut, In Rainbows - Spirit, Kid A - Head) because it was my first :)
Exactly what I needed! This will be exciting, very different from what you have heard so far 😊 Feeling emotions is not the same as feeling upset, girl 😉 Release the emotions! Radiohead is good for you❤
Bought this album on day of release after liking Pablo Honey, as soon as Fake Plastic Trees finished on first listen, I knew right then that this band was on another level.
The bends was played by a friend all those years ago. Being their second album, second albums are always a thing. I knew after that Radiohead were going to be one of my favourite bands. With this album they confirmed it. I'm so hapoy for you to hear this and the fact you said I'm already excited almost immediately...YES!!!
Miscellaneous fun facts / internet rumours from the late 90s: the sample at the beginning of "The Bends" is a high school marching band rehearsing outside Thom's hotel room window - "Just" was allegedly the result of a competition between Thom and Jonny to cram the most possible chords into a single song - "My Iron Lung" is literally _about_ "Creep" and their ambivalence over becoming superstars because of a song they didn't even like that much and got VERY sick of very quickly - the spooky bg noises in "Bullet Proof..." were made by Ed and Jonny without listening to what Thom had recorded first - and I'm pretty sure "Sulk" still contains the highest non-falsetto note Thom's ever hit on a Radiohead record 😅
That last "God rest your soul" on Sulk is surely the highest non-falsetto note he's hit. His high end power is noticeably reduced after this album - even OK Computer is a subtle but apparent step in that direction. It's just what happens to voices as they age, and Thom was PUSHING his voice hard in the early years. He's still a fantastic singer, but I think what makes The Bends my favorite Radiohead record is Thom's voice. That youthful energy and power and range of the vocals is only captured on this album and Pablo Honey, and The Bends is the only one of those two where Radiohead sounds like Radiohead - a gestating, sort of proto-Radiohead, but Radiohead nonetheless.
Street Spirit is such a devastatingly sad song.. Written from the person of someone who has taken their own life, and what stresses and tragedies in their life led them to that place.. They do a live acoustic version of this with just Thom and His Guitarist, and it is my favorite Radiohead live performance ever. Haunting
Hardcore fans really love (nice dream) in my experience. Fake Plastic Trees and Street Spirit are still two of their best songs. And My Iron Lung is about the song Creep, because it gave the band life and they can never escape it! Grim!
I would love to see you listen to something like Twin Fantasy 2018 by Car Seat Headrest. The album is mostly about regretting your past and learning to overcome and move past your mistakes, as well as learning to find love when you're not the best at communication. I don't wanna spoil it too much but the album has made me cry a couple of times.
I saw them OPEN for R.E.M. in 1995 during their Monster tour my junior year in high school. Second row, center, Reunion arena in Dallas, TX. They played this album front to back. The only thing I had heard from Radiohead at the time were Creep and Fake Plastic Trees. Core memory.
I love this album!! So dark but comforting at the same time. Street Spirit is one of my favorite Radiohead songs. You should definetly react to Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor next. It's my favorite album ever, and they're dropping a new one on october 4th!!!
The Bends really does play like a greatest hits album. As you say, they could have released every song on it as a single. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending how you look at it), Radiohead have picked up the tag of 'the British band who write miserable/depressing songs', but those people are confusing depressing with beautiful and have likely only heard Creep. (also, I've enjoyed watching your journey through their catalogue so far! Always great to see people 'get it'. Looking forward to the rest!)
really glad you enjoyed this one! one of my favourite radiohead albums overall, it’s wild that their discography is so consistent that it can often be overlooked. if you do decide to take a break from radiohead for a bit, ill once again throw out my recommendation of twin fantasy (2018) by car seat headrest, just based on your love for the more rock oriented tracks. it’s absolutely one of the best modern rock albums, and if you like radiohead, i have no doubt you’ll enjoy it as well!!
absolutely not !! she first has to listen to Hail To The Thief, and finish her journey with The King of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool, amsp is an ending to this band, it would be better to leave it for the last reaction
I agree with rain_down_on_me, save A Moon Shaped Pool for last!! Though Kate mentions at the end here that she wants to do AMSP next, and then take a bit of a break before she continues with the rest, which I can also understand.
You have to listen to the second part of OK Computer (OK not OK). A lot of the songs aren’t produced to album standards, but it’s a very interesting look at what Radiohead will leave off an album. Especially Lift.
This album truly is a thing of beauty; almost forgot how amazing it is. I love watching this band change, improve and evolve over their first 4 albums. The Bends is a great album and it foreshadows their masterpiece and a truly amazing (and life-altering, imo) album, OK Computer. It's hard to put into words the emotions that the band evokes in us. I've watched dozens of Radiohead reaction videos and yours are really some of the best. I hope most of those tears are hopeful ones- thanks for sharing them with us. P.S. All of their music videos are great but Street Spirit is a true work of art- be sure to check it out.
A Moon Shaped Pool should really be the last LP of theirs you listen to (at least until they come out with a new one, supposedly they are working on it). There's also various EPs, singles, and B-sides, all of which contain some really great music. Radiohead's B-sides aren't really bad, rejected songs, like they would be for most bands. When it comes to Radiohead, they just didn't happen to fit well in a track list for any given particular album. A lot of them are fan favorites they play often live. Some of their best music is not from the main disk of their LPs, but for whatever reason didn't match too well with their sound for that era. So if you want to stretch this out a bit more, you could listen to stuff like In Rainbows Disk 2, OK Computer's OKNOTOK second disk, the extra tracks from Kid A Mnesia, etc.
My favourite band as a teen, just such incredible instrumentalists. Madam, you should listen to Modest Mouse and The Mars Volta discographies. You won't be disappointed. Glad I stumbled across your channel.
Sometimes find the phrase 'going on a journey' a little cringe, but legitimately have gone on a journey with you on these albums and it's been a blast. Special place for this one as it was my first Radiohead album experience, Fake Plastic Trees was first song I learned on guitar, Just was on a mixtape I made for my sister..I love this album, essentially. Fade out, again.
"Lets hope this one is really really happy" "I cant handle another one like that"..... into an even sadder song. I knew it was coming & had the feels for ya there.
immediately had to go and see how much "fake plastic trees" destroyed her lol
"Fake Plastic Trees" is not only an all timer but a core memory for me. I remember watching the video and bawling as like a 10 year old and realizing "oh music can make me feel sad and I don't mind that....." It was a long interesting ride from there lol
lets face it, we wanted her heart to be broken XDD
It wore her out
I was gonna say the same thing
bullet proof...
this made me realize high and dry & fake plastic trees back to back is EVIL.
Same, never really noticed. That's bad to do to a person
"lets hope this one is really really happy!!" WHAT A WAY TO START FAKE PLASTIC TREES
I've listened to these songs 1000's of times and Fake Plastic Trees still gets me. Today once more I was crying....with you. I'm a 48 year old man and a Master Sergeant in the military. No shame! Feel it! I've watched all your Radiohead videos and they're great! Subscribed!
thank you so much for this :,) ❤️
i 2nd that. sub'd!
The irony of you wearing a Heisenberg shirt and the fact that Thom Yorke gave the actor who played Jesse in Breaking Bad a gift with the lyrics to Fake Plastic Trees written on it.
SHUT UP THATS CRAZYYYY
Nice Dream is such an underrated gem, It should be up there, agree 100%
I’ve always believed this. It’s such a beautiful song
this song is so crazy melancholic beautiful that i just wanna kys while i'm hearing last chorus, really my beloved song of entire radiohead discography
17:02 His vocal performance on this album, and especially in Fake Plastic Trees, was heavily inspired by Jeff Buckley. You definitely need to react to Jeff Buckley’s album, Grace!!
Grace is like the most gorgeous album I ever heard 💯
Went to the place in Highbury where Thom saw Jeff sing recently. Didn't know. Some Americana band who were ok. It felt like a holy place when I was told that.
YES, everyone listen to this comment. 👌
Its amazing how much of modern music takes inspiration from radiohead and how they take inspiration from older tracks, music just develops.
Grace would emotionally DESTROY her 😭
This is where they really started finding their sound.
Yeah, when "The Bends" came out, it just blew me away. It's a perfect album.
"If I could be who you wanted, all the time" is the MOST heart wrenching lyric of all time
It's "The Bends" so it's full of such lyrics:
"We're too young to fall asleep, to cynical to speak - we are losing it, can't you tell?"
"Be a world child, form a circle before we all go under".
"The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear".
Fun fact, Thom Yorke recorded the vocals for planet telex while on the floor drunk on wine.
yeah but when im singing on the floor while wine drunk its a bad thing and i "need to go to alcoholics anonymous"
you can drink it but you will be drunk
And he recorded Fake Plastic Trees after seeing Jeff Buckley in concert.
That fact floored me, pun not intended.
The fun facters out again.
High and Dry: "I can't take another one like that"
Next track Fake Plastic Trees: "Hold my beer"
Radiohead has always been masterful at evoking powerful emotions and often it's not even through the lyrics or the subject matter but just through beautiful composition alone. That's why sometimes their music does actually remind me of classical compositions rather than "just rock and roll" they have a real gift for that.
One of the best sophomore albums of all time
Care to name any others?
I'll say alexisonfire's watch out
@@MxnwellMxnlymxn-gs4epride the lightning by metallica, good kid maad city by kendrick, around the fur by deftones, nevermind by nirvana, demon days by gorillaz, the low end theory by a tribe called quest, toxicity by system of a down,aenima by tool, atliens by outkast, meteora by linkin park, i could go on but those are the bests i can think of rn 😅
Fake Plastic Trees does to me what High and Dry does to you.
I'm already a wreck before it finishes me off with "if I could be who you wanted, all the time"
Loving the reaction I'm only a few songs in.
Radiohead are probably the most important band to me. They were my gateway drug. They were so boundary pushing that it got me to explore music outside of the mainstream and I am eternally grateful. Glad to see they touched you too.
It's Thom's sincerity and authenticity that shine through all their music, he's one of those guys that I don't mind calling an artist.
The fact that this album is overlooked by many is why they're one of the all time greats.
It's one of the most played in their discography though.
Lol It’s not overlooked
When the riff in Fake Plastic Trees kicks in, i die internally every time (also, i think that black star is heavily underrated)
Black star is one of those songs that actually make me sad, idk why she thought it was happy
“Were not even gonna dilly dally” immediately dilly dallies
i love to stall when i know there’s pain coming
@@k8thegr8. based.
@@k8thegr8. but it's gooooood pain!
if you want to understand the complexity and the vibrance and how much of a time warp this is for me.....I was 15 when The Bends came out and i'm 44 now.......and this music never gets old....NEVER...its like a fine wine - gets better w age.
Jonny’s use of the RE20 and Small Stone pedals on Planet Telex are so badass, it’s such an underrated song and Jonny’s a genius
Been listening to this since 1995 and it still sounds fresh enough be released in 2025
This is an album energetically different from their others, it makes me feel youthful sensations without losing the emotional part, too underrated imo. (Great reaction as always)
The background vocals on (Nice Dream) are Ed O'Brien, one of the guitarist.
nice dream...that song was THE song i used to listen to on repeat. just hits me. great reaction.
The music video for "Just" is my favourite music video for a Radiohead song ever. You should definitely check it out.
the instruments for my iron lung were taken straight from a live show, it’s on youtube “live at the astoria” they only re recorded thoms vocals in the studio😭
(nice dream) is a top from this album for me.
the high and dry got to me as well sister....i thought about my first true love in 2002 when I was 22......we used to bang out to Radio head all the time.....and that last part of the song was so true of my loss of her.....never saw her again after MARCH 2005. 3 years of bliss w my love. WHEWWWWWWWWWW lolz. back to reality.
honestly you are so real, wish i could experience Radiohead for the first time again
The moment you said you interpreted the lyrics relating to your life is so real, I really hope you're doing fine and smiling everyday
25:55 How appropriate for her to make this comment about "Creep" immediately before "My Iron Lung" (which is about the popularity of Creep)
Started off loving Fake Plastic Trees and High and Dry, ended up loving Sulk and Street Spirit (Fade Out); Radiohead really takes people on fascinating journeys
There’s no filler on this album.
I'm pretty sure if she ever does Nick Drake, we will have to put her on life support.
Only a matter of time before A Moon Shaped Pool...
"My Iron Lung" is basically about "Creep" and how the band hates it being their most popular song. An iron lung is a mechanical respirator that worked using negative pressure to assist breathing, most commonly in polio, where patients had paralysed lungs. It effectively breathed for someone who was unable to do so. “My Iron Lung” tells of how “Creep” is the only thing keeping Radiohead successful or alive. The iron lung metaphor is apt because while “Creep” was keeping the band alive (financially), it was also very constraining and they perceived it as forcing them to play a certain style of music. Similarly, an iron lung does not allow the patient inside it any freedom of movement.
Also, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead's guitarist and multi-instrumemtalist) are now making music in another band (the Smile) with the drummer Tom Skinner from Sons of Kermet. They have released two albums by now, both being very beautiful, Radiohead level of quality imo. The third album is going to be released this year, on October 4th.
Radiohead wears her out. But she's always back for more..
To live in a world, to live in THIS world, without a shield against emotion, is the epitome of courage. Kudos to you. ❤
❤❤❤
This is amazing rock album. Much more conventional than what they would become. This was a huge step forward from Pablo Honey, but they would leap forward again even further for OK Computer, and again for Kid A. As fans it was wild how they were changing and evolving so fast - really pushing what could be done with the genre.
I would argue that OK Computer was already well into the experimental phase, and not really a rock album the way that The Bends is.
Hail to the theif next!!! Another incredible album. Personally it took me a couple listens but songs like “I will”, “where I end and you begin”, and “wolf at the door” hit hard.
I love how all the reactions I've seen of this album have Nice Dream as a favourite. Definitely underrated and one of my top tracks as well
wow not heard High and Dry in a while and your reaction got to me. Balling my eyes out at the moment
"Street Spirit is our purest song, but I didn’t write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; it's biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn’t ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve. Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that song. It’s called detachment. Especially me; I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn’t play it. I’d crack. I’d break down on stage. That’s why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That’s what’s meant by ‘all these things you’ll one day swallow whole’. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn’t have it in me to articulate the emotion. I’d crack… Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don’t realise what they’re listening to. They don’t realise that Street Spirit is about staring the fucking devil right in the eyes, and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he’ll get the last laugh. And it’s real, and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that too long, I’d crack. I can’t believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song. That’s why I’m convinced that they don’t know what it’s about. It’s why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell every time I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of its meaning, like when you’re going to have your dog put down and it’s wagging its tail on the way there. That’s what they all look like, and it breaks my heart. I wish that song hadn’t picked us as its catalysts, and so I don’t claim it. It asks too much. I didn’t write that song." - Thom Yorke
Yes!
that is beautiful
oh my goodness gracious i need people to stop posting this quote because its not real and thank god its not because it makes him sound so ridiculously pretentious !! that said street spirit is still at least top 2 on the bends
How are you sure? I am pretty sure I read it in a credible source very long ago...
I mean it's been floating around since the late 90s at least. But I just spent half an hour searching Google, the Internet Archive, my own bookshelf, etc. and couldn't find even one attributed source. _And_ it doesn't line up with anything else Thom has ever said about the song - in other, sourced interviews he said he wrote it in a stream of consciousness inspired by a book, and generally sounds extremely pleased and proud of how it turned out. I think I'm comfortable calling this one a fake.
Love your Radiohead marathon!
This is my favorite of their albums. I've listened to it so many times. I think they've done better albums since, and having this as a favorite doesn't mean I don't like their more recent stuff. In fact I think if I was to make a list of my favorite 12 Radiohead songs I don't even know if any of the 12 songs from The Bends would be on the list. It's just the album I've listened to the most, and over so many years, so there's a strong nostalgia element for me and I'm very comfortable with it.
Love it Kate! Now we have something else to bond over as I was thick into the bends when I was your age. I’m playing this when you least expect it and no one will leave happy 😬
I’m so jealous of you experiencing Radiohead’s songs for the first time. This was the first album of theirs I bought when it was released and was probably my favourite until InRainbows was released. The ones you like the most today will not be the ones you like the most in years to come. Keep listening and enjoy the journey.
I absolutely love your videos. I love,like myself, how you get so emotional, and only great music has the power to do that. There are some bands, like Radiohead that just hit that sweet spot, and I’m not ashamed to say that I also cry to songs that have that emotional pull and that you can relate to almost in a spiritual way
yes, I was waiting for another Radiohead album reaction! You made my day.
Love the Bends as well, please keep reacting to more Radiohead!
Honestly still love this as my favourite Radiohead album of the heart (Ok Computer - Gut, In Rainbows - Spirit, Kid A - Head) because it was my first :)
Underated channel, love the vids
Radiohead is so much more than music. It's an experience, no matter how many times I listen to it
Exactly what I needed! This will be exciting, very different from what you have heard so far 😊 Feeling emotions is not the same as feeling upset, girl 😉 Release the emotions! Radiohead is good for you❤
This is my favourite Radiohead album. I love every track on it and have listened to it regularly throughout the years since it was first released.
Bought this album on day of release after liking Pablo Honey, as soon as Fake Plastic Trees finished on first listen, I knew right then that this band was on another level.
The bends was played by a friend all those years ago.
Being their second album, second albums are always a thing. I knew after that Radiohead were going to be one of my favourite bands. With this album they confirmed it.
I'm so hapoy for you to hear this and the fact you said I'm already excited almost immediately...YES!!!
extremely envious of all the albums you haven't heard... I wish I could re-discover a lot of them
There’s quite a few RUclips vids of them live…. I was lucky enough to see them at Glastonbury in 2017. Unforgettable
I am loving your Radiojead journey! Hail to Thief mext, followed by The King of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool!
Nawwwww thanks for the teen flashbacks in the 90s getting too emo memories
Miscellaneous fun facts / internet rumours from the late 90s: the sample at the beginning of "The Bends" is a high school marching band rehearsing outside Thom's hotel room window - "Just" was allegedly the result of a competition between Thom and Jonny to cram the most possible chords into a single song - "My Iron Lung" is literally _about_ "Creep" and their ambivalence over becoming superstars because of a song they didn't even like that much and got VERY sick of very quickly - the spooky bg noises in "Bullet Proof..." were made by Ed and Jonny without listening to what Thom had recorded first - and I'm pretty sure "Sulk" still contains the highest non-falsetto note Thom's ever hit on a Radiohead record 😅
That last "God rest your soul" on Sulk is surely the highest non-falsetto note he's hit. His high end power is noticeably reduced after this album - even OK Computer is a subtle but apparent step in that direction. It's just what happens to voices as they age, and Thom was PUSHING his voice hard in the early years. He's still a fantastic singer, but I think what makes The Bends my favorite Radiohead record is Thom's voice. That youthful energy and power and range of the vocals is only captured on this album and Pablo Honey, and The Bends is the only one of those two where Radiohead sounds like Radiohead - a gestating, sort of proto-Radiohead, but Radiohead nonetheless.
You crying to fake plastic trees is so real😭
Street Spirit is such a devastatingly sad song.. Written from the person of someone who has taken their own life, and what stresses and tragedies in their life led them to that place.. They do a live acoustic version of this with just Thom and His Guitarist, and it is my favorite Radiohead live performance ever. Haunting
Hardcore fans really love (nice dream) in my experience. Fake Plastic Trees and Street Spirit are still two of their best songs. And My Iron Lung is about the song Creep, because it gave the band life and they can never escape it! Grim!
I would love to see you listen to something like Twin Fantasy 2018 by Car Seat Headrest.
The album is mostly about regretting your past and learning to overcome and move past your mistakes, as well as learning to find love when you're not the best at communication. I don't wanna spoil it too much but the album has made me cry a couple of times.
I saw them OPEN for R.E.M. in 1995 during their Monster tour my junior year in high school. Second row, center, Reunion arena in Dallas, TX. They played this album front to back. The only thing I had heard from Radiohead at the time were Creep and Fake Plastic Trees. Core memory.
bro nice dream hits HARD for me oh my god
After watching your Radiohead videos I can’t help but think you’d really like the flaming lips ‘the soft bulletin’.
my iron lung is criminally underrated
I love this album!! So dark but comforting at the same time. Street Spirit is one of my favorite Radiohead songs.
You should definetly react to Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor next. It's my favorite album ever, and they're dropping a new one on october 4th!!!
Best album of all time DO IT KATE
Street Spirit has always been in their top 10 for me. Got to see them perform it live in Atlanta. So good!
My favorite radiohead album. Accurate reaction. Nice dream so underrated.
There’s a live version of Street Spirit on RUclips with Thom and Jonny both playing acoustic guitars … you should definitely give that a watch 👌🏼
I think this is their most musically pleasing album. There’s a certain purity of expression in it.
Don't miss the b-sides to all of the albums.
Kate: “I’m prepared for anything at this point…”
*guitar riff for “The Bends” starts*
Kate: *speechless*
I got to see them live in 2017, and I can confirm: Just BANGS live. It was insane
The Bends really does play like a greatest hits album. As you say, they could have released every song on it as a single.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending how you look at it), Radiohead have picked up the tag of 'the British band who write miserable/depressing songs', but those people are confusing depressing with beautiful and have likely only heard Creep.
(also, I've enjoyed watching your journey through their catalogue so far! Always great to see people 'get it'. Looking forward to the rest!)
really glad you enjoyed this one! one of my favourite radiohead albums overall, it’s wild that their discography is so consistent that it can often be overlooked.
if you do decide to take a break from radiohead for a bit, ill once again throw out my recommendation of twin fantasy (2018) by car seat headrest, just based on your love for the more rock oriented tracks. it’s absolutely one of the best modern rock albums, and if you like radiohead, i have no doubt you’ll enjoy it as well!!
Street Spirit (Fade Out) is one of my all time favorite songs - it is beautiful and delicate but also haunting and eerie.
My favorite from them Jonny’s guitar work is just amazing🤩🐐
Im 51 years old I was in my 20's when this album came out and it changed my life. Your reaction was rare and beautiful. Thank you.
After you do the last couple albums, don't forget there's still the smile, atoms for peace, and the thom yorke solo stuff
And dozens of fantastic b-sides as well, in fact they have more great non-album music than the vast majority of bands have on their albums.
Just think. All the folks that have not heard RH have simply missed out.
"Black Star - ok this sounds happier" lol
She for sure has to do A Moon Shaped Pool next.
Edit; nevermind
absolutely not !! she first has to listen to Hail To The Thief, and finish her journey with The King of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool, amsp is an ending to this band, it would be better to leave it for the last reaction
I'm scared for her for that reaction.
I agree with rain_down_on_me, save A Moon Shaped Pool for last!!
Though Kate mentions at the end here that she wants to do AMSP next, and then take a bit of a break before she continues with the rest, which I can also understand.
@@meIonman I really don't know if she'll ever recover.
This whole album rips me to pieces emotionally.
You have to listen to the second part of OK Computer (OK not OK). A lot of the songs aren’t produced to album standards, but it’s a very interesting look at what Radiohead will leave off an album. Especially Lift.
This album truly is a thing of beauty; almost forgot how amazing it is. I love watching this band change, improve and evolve over their first 4 albums. The Bends is a great album and it foreshadows their masterpiece and a truly amazing (and life-altering, imo) album, OK Computer. It's hard to put into words the emotions that the band evokes in us. I've watched dozens of Radiohead reaction videos and yours are really some of the best. I hope most of those tears are hopeful ones- thanks for sharing them with us. P.S. All of their music videos are great but Street Spirit is a true work of art- be sure to check it out.
i love your videos so much, i hope you react to many more wonderful albums :D keep it up
A Moon Shaped Pool should really be the last LP of theirs you listen to (at least until they come out with a new one, supposedly they are working on it). There's also various EPs, singles, and B-sides, all of which contain some really great music. Radiohead's B-sides aren't really bad, rejected songs, like they would be for most bands. When it comes to Radiohead, they just didn't happen to fit well in a track list for any given particular album. A lot of them are fan favorites they play often live. Some of their best music is not from the main disk of their LPs, but for whatever reason didn't match too well with their sound for that era. So if you want to stretch this out a bit more, you could listen to stuff like In Rainbows Disk 2, OK Computer's OKNOTOK second disk, the extra tracks from Kid A Mnesia, etc.
My favourite band as a teen, just such incredible instrumentalists. Madam, you should listen to Modest Mouse and The Mars Volta discographies. You won't be disappointed. Glad I stumbled across your channel.
every she says " i hope this song is happy" it's going to the abother sad song
13:35 LMFAO 😂🤣
@@arthurcassuli yup
"I hope it's really really happy"
*first bars of Fake Plastic Trees
"OH GOD.."
Lol😂
THE BENDS LETS GOOO SHES GONNA CRUMBLE WITH THIS ALBUM 😎
Hail to the Thief should be next please😊
Yes
black star is so sad i feel like if they make a movie based on it it would be such a tearjerker
Sometimes find the phrase 'going on a journey' a little cringe, but legitimately have gone on a journey with you on these albums and it's been a blast.
Special place for this one as it was my first Radiohead album experience, Fake Plastic Trees was first song I learned on guitar, Just was on a mixtape I made for my sister..I love this album, essentially.
Fade out, again.
"Lets hope this one is really really happy" "I cant handle another one like that"..... into an even sadder song. I knew it was coming & had the feels for ya there.