Pablo Honey by Radiohead

Pros: A historical curio; 'You', 'Lurgee', and 'Blowout.'
Cons: Radiohead's weakest album by far; only for completionists.

Much like the early albums of the Beatles, Pablo Honey lacks a sophistication, timelessness, and artsy polish that later Radiohead albums would have in spades. Going through their discography either backwards or forwards, it always sticks out like ...

Pros: Hints at truly innovative melody, a few words of advice and a story.
Cons: Some crap-pop, several songs are either too short or too long.

Overall Theme Radiohead play around with emotions and decide that they're boring. Well, that's what I scribbled at the end of my notes. (I don't normally take those, but ya know...) Maybe that is the whole reason that Pablo ...

Pros: A Very Good Debut from Radiohead.
Cons: Couple of Filler Tracks and Some Dated Song Textures.

Throughout the 1990s in British music, Britain has churned out a plethora of bands that all attained a sort of greatness through the decade. From the early 90s Madchester scene of the Stone Roses, Charlatans UK, and the Happy Mondays to its...

Pros: Easy to get into I suppose. Some sense of "fun". Amusing?
Cons: Bland, uninteresting, generic, skippable.

Okay, now get this. Thom Yorke – of Radiohead fame – visited me in a dream last night, and… Oops! Sorry Drew, for even _thinking_ about using one of your ideas. Only Eddie Vedder does that sort of stuff, right? Anyway ...

Pros: Superb debut album, one of their best
Cons: They moved away from normal guitar songs like these after the first few albums

Looking back through my ops it’s been ages since I started reviewing Radiohead albums and so getting back on the subject, I’ll start again with one of their best. This album goes back to the mid 90’s and 1994 in fact and is the debut release from the Oxfo ...

Pros: Subtle hints at later greatness. Creep, You, Blow Out. Yorke's remarkable voice.
Cons: This is as close to conventional as they'll hopefully ever get.

Pablo Honey, the debut album from British rock colossus Radiohead, is a lot like some of the girls I knew in high school. They looked OK at the time, but I certainly never expected them to transform into the hotties they’d later become. And so it ...

Pros: Raw, Emotional, Exposed Nerves.
Cons: Ditto As We Await Their Next Move.

I had to do it, I just had to do it. Sorry, but I just needed to write this to exorcise the bad feelings that have being rising within the walls of my stomach. You see, 'Kid A' and Radiohead's last release 'Amnesiac' have left me shook and cold, a...

Pros: Their humble (and rather enjoyable, actually) beginnings
Cons: Not exceptional, often (gasp) drab

If this series of reviews has served to prove one thing (and it has), it’s that one should never attempt to dissect the entire canon of an artist unless one has both the time, the inclination and the stamina. I love Radiohead, but their ...

Pros: A perfectly decent debut album from Radiohead.
Cons: Not as good as the next three releases, but then what is?

(Three and a half stars actually)

So many people take for granted the sheer ground-breaking qualities of Radiohead's more recent albums, that Pablo Honey is often dismissed as lightweight and, well, not very good. Sure, it's not...

Pros: "Creep" and "You". Thom Yorke's voice.
Cons: Um...the rest. Only for completists.

Emo-grunge.
I can't help thinking: Ride (another Oxford band) did this sort of thing much better, except Thom Yorke's voice is much stronger than Andy Bell's lonely, nasal drone.

Unfortunately, the strongest indications one gets of its...

Pros: ‘Creep’, and some other moments of lucidity
Cons: Sprawling direction-less and occasionally painful material

Apparently, on releasing “Pablo Honey”, none of the members of the band weren't satisfied. They didn’t like the design, the cover, and they weren’t too fond of the music either. And it shows why. “Pablo Honey” are the first, and mainly banal, stabs of a...

Pros: It's Radiohead.
Cons: Boring, lifeless and average.

Well, this is certainly an improvement from their debut Drill EP, but I'm still not too impressed. Or actually, I AM impressed with the group, but not with this album. I had the benefit of buying these CDs out of order (OK Computer-The Bends-Airbag/How...

Pros: "Creep" and some other solid songs worth replay
Cons: Some dull, unimportant material is used to fill up the album

The album Pablo Honey is based around a song that Radiohead wished they never recorded. The song "Creep", which is a fan favourite, temporarily doomed Radiohead to one hit wonder status for three years. On their next album, Radiohead actually wrote a...

Pros: Solid Musicianship, Thom Yorke's Songwriting And Vocals
Cons: A Few Un-Memorable Songs.

Way back in 1992-1993 when Alternative rock was just bursting onto the scene MTV was a fun thing to watch. i can remember the first time i saw the video for "Creep". The video was something that MTV used to call "buzz clips", and it...

Pros: A good debut with some great songs
Cons: The genius is there, if not the songs

Ok, so 'creep' right? You all remember that song, y'know that guy with the funny eye, screaming 'im a creep' to thousands of folk. Well Thom Yorke will never forget it and i guess probably wants to put it far behind him.

Pablo Honey....