You
Creep
How Do You?
Stop Whispering
Thinking About You
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Ripcord
Vegetable
Prove Yourself
I Can't
Lurgee
Blow Out
Pablo
Honey
Released: 04/23/93
Produced by Paul Q. Kolderie, Chris Hufford, Sean Slade. Recorded
at Chipping Norton Studio and Courtyard Studio, Oxon, England.
Notes:
Ranked #35 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of
1993' - "...is a throwback to a homegrown tradition of great
guitar-band albums...." New Musical Express 12/25/93, p.67
3 Stars - Good - "...British teenagerhood has never been grumpier....the
best bits rival Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. and even the mighty Sugar..."
Q Magazine 4/93, p.86
"...one of those flawed but satisfying debuts that suggests
Radiohead's talents will really blossom later on..." New Musical
Express 3/13/93, p.33
"...mates Smiths-type self-consciousness with dramatic U2-like
vocals and guitar, with Cure-style heavy but crunchy pop..."
- Rating: B Entertainment Weekly 5/28/93, p.56
Rolling Stone review
Flashing a song called "Creep" as a musical ID takes cheek,
but then, everything about these Brits is unabashed. On their
debut, the swagger affected by every arch-Anglo since the Kinks
is already in full effect. Three guitars (and bass) and a singer
whose narcissistic angst rivals Morrissey's ("I will not control
myself!" Thom e. Yorke screams on "Vegetable," and on "Prove
Yourself" he mourns, "I'm better off dead"), these five Oxford
lads come on extreme. What elevates them to fab charm is not
only the feedback and strumming fury of their guitarwork ‚ and
the dynamism of their whisper-to-a-scream song structures ‚
which recall the Who by way of the early Jam, but the way their
solid melodies and sing-along choruses resonate pop appeal.
On "Blow Out" they savage a bossa-nova intro with sheer noise;
"Thinking About You" is bitter folk with acoustic guitars soundly
pummeled; and the rest of "Pablo Honey" is equally surprising.
If they don't implode from attitude overload, Radiohead warrant
watching.(RS 672/73)
