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Radiohead's second studio album is already a vast improvement on their debut. The album is notably less hard rock than their last album, and features the sort of Brit-Pop sound that was beginning to grow popular around this time. This was actually the first Radiohead album that I had ever heard, and I was blown away by how solid it was. The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 100-1. Emily Barker. 25th October 2013. Radiohead, ‘The Bends’ (1995. But this follow-up was a rare record – iconoclastic without an ounce of.

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Loosieb on Pablo Honey

To my 17 year old self Pablo Honey was anger, energy, hope, rage, angst, fear – all the things that I clung to with a weird masochistic adolescent pride. There is a lot of fight in Pablo-era Radiohead, this is a band who took an audience on and were serious about having something to prove. In 1993, when the hackneyed glam of Suede was considered to be the best thing since sliced bread, this quintet of ostensibly polite Oxfordian misfits didn't have the necessary rock 'n' roll chops to impress the then influential weekly music press. But I wanted this band, who played like they really meant it, to succeed. Pablo Honey is still what first albums should sound like (but these days don't get the room to). A band finding their feet, exhausting their initial influences and becoming truly themselves.

Geneson on The Bends

The Bends is not Radiohead's most ground breaking album - it is, however, arguably their most complete album, their finest showcase of song writing. It is every bit as stunning in its ambitious scope as their subsequent work, spanning twelve flawless tracks that are more cohesively in tune with each other than any other Radiohead recording. The Bends contains moments that remain utterly unique to the Radiohead catalogue. They've never quite reached the glorious majestic heights as they do in the second half of Fake Plastic Trees. They've never channelled their anger and tension as directly as in My Iron Lung. Street Spirit (Fade Out) remains their most fitting and timeless album closer, for a band that is renowned for them. At its core though, The Bends is a collection of stadium rock anthems and moody rainy-day gems all in one.

theslider on OK Computer

Thom Yorke's wonderfully melancholic falsetto; Jonny Greenwood's sublime guitar work; the soaring harmonies; the frosty soundscapes. OK Computer was a work of immense quality by a band who knew exactly what they wanted, and would not compromise in achieving it. Radiohead's quest for musical development went even further after this release, incorporating electronica and the avant-garde on next album Kid A, but it is here on OK Computer that they truly reached their songwriting apex. The complex epic of 'Paranoid Android', conjoining at least three distinct sections; the lush dream pop of 'No Surprises'; the emotive depth of 'Karma Police'; the grand scale of closer 'The Tourist'. OK Computer is simply an astonishing listen.

Modeon on Kid A

The mark of a great album is one that reveals itself through successive listens, one that enables you to keep revisiting and re-exploring. The fact that it was a total game-changer in a landscape of musical uncertainty cements its place in rock and roll history. Radiohead were the first band of the modern age to truly shake off the shackles ascribed to them by the very industry who made them successful, and do it their way. Up until OK Computer, Radiohead were just another British guitar band. After Kid A, they were the band that everybody else wanted to be. Kid A's beauty lies in its minimalism, its sparseness and its intensity. And it is a truly beautiful album.

PopcornDuff on Amnesiac

Amnesiac's dissonant jumble of tracks, scattered like fragmented memories, seem sequenced deliberately to chafe and dislocate. That only makes its voyage more enchanting. The band's jazz influences are clearer here than anywhere - particularly in Phil Selway's drumming, all ride cymbal and shuffling snares - along with laptop clicks, reverberating guitars, krautrock drones and Jonny Greenwood's star-struck strings. It's sinister stuff, yet there's so much warmth here. The centrepiece is 'Pyramid Song', for my money Radiohead's most affecting work. Wavering strings and snatches of half-heard conversation hover throughout like decaying memories. There's something of the mystic about Amnesiac altogether: elusive yet cleansing, frightening yet cathartic, with its themes of death and rebirth, repression and release, and - as evoked by the title - forgetting and remembering.

SueMayhem on Hail to the Thief

This album portrays Radiohead's growth and maturity from their past two experimental albums and has a more distinctive sound. 'Hail to the Thief' is one of those albums which sparks so much emotion admist its web of electronic brilliance. A combination rare in music, let alone rock. It may not be the album I choose to listen to everyday (this is where 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac' step in) but on the rare occasion I play it, it hits me that the black sheep of all Radiohead albums creates visceral convictions far more valid than the rest of their works.

DavidTimms on In Rainbows

It may not be as culturally significant as OK Computer, or as musically revolutionary as Kid A, but no other album so perfectly encapsulates everything which puts Radiohead head and shoulders above their peers.
With 'In Rainbows', Radiohead managed to write a collection of songs which are instantly engrossing and wide reaching in their appeal, but so exquisitely crafted that they reveal new details and emotions with each listen. The consistency of In Rainbows is astonishing. It's an album which manages to make the songs fit together into a listening experience which is greater than the sum of its parts. In case you can't tell, this is my favourite album of all time.

StephanoBentos on The King of Limbs

The thing about The King Of Limbs is it's like one piece of music. A half hour electro-wonk-opera. It does nothing Radiohead have not done before, but it does do the sort of things they've done for a while now, very very well. And very completely. The album's unusual in structure. It is front loaded with awkward rain pouring rhythms (Bloom) which had me checking my headphone lead for breaks on first listen. And yet I was delighted to find the cut & paste parps were as intended. Towards the end there are softer melodies (Codex) and even the odd guitar riff (Give Up The Ghost). The King Of Limbs is like a best bits montage of Radiohead post Kid A. It blips, swoons, buzzes and croons like bits of In Rainbows, Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief put through a blender, but only the choicest cuts.

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Starting a record collection? Or trying to round out the one you have? Here's a list of 100 records, in alphabetical order, that most people can agree are essential listens. I picked based on two criteria: essentialness and availability. If there's no reasonable way you can pick up the album in store at any given time (and for under $40), it's not on there. If you'd like to head straight to shopping, check out this handy feature at our online store. Enjoy!

The Allman Brothers Band– Live At Filmore East (1971)

Hear pretty much the best guitar playing ever.

The B-52’s– The B-52's (1979)

A crash landing of alien surf riffs, sci-fi trash nostalgia and punk attitude that sounded like nothing before it and doesn't sound like anything since.

The Band – Music From Big Pink (1968)

Oh hi The Band, everyone is still trying to be you in 2013—Mumfords,Fleets,Morning Jackets. Get back to the roots of soulful, bearded acoustic dude music.

Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique (1989)

A hip-hop classic and landmark in multilayer sampling.

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)

The Beach Boys - Today!(1965)

Phil Spector invented the wall of sound, and The Beach Boys took that idea to its zenith on the perfect Pet Sounds. Meanwhile, Today is the best of the hit Beach Boys albums. Smiles forever.

The Beatles - Abbey Road (1970)

The Beatles - Let it Be (1970)

The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

The Beatles - The White Album (1968)

Get all of the Beatles' albums, they've all been recently reissued.

Big Star - #1 Record (1972) / Radio City (1974)

The CD era made these two albums by the cult power-pop band virtually indistinguishable from one another. Get 'em both and give 'em their due.

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1970)

The album that started it all for Ozzy and co. also helped launch metal as a genre.

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (1972)

Eschewing the hard-to-find records (Low, Lodger, Heroes etc.) and the best-of Changes ones (which are both essential), this 2012 reissue of Bowie's glam-rock opus sounds amazing.

James Brown – Live at the Apollo (1963)

The Godfather of Soul in all his raw glory, just a pure, visceral listening experience.

The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo(1968)

Ditto all the early, psychedelic stuff (find a used Greatest Hits if you can, to start), but this country-rock album is the most solid Byrds album.

Captain Beefheart– Trout Mask Replica (1969)

A mad classic!

The Cars - The Cars (1978)

Perhaps the quintissential new wave album.

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (1968)

I apologize if this album isn't available, and for the lack of country music in general on this list. In truth, classic country is the staple of bargain bins and thrift stores around the country, and classic country records from Cash, Loretta Lynn,Hank Williams,Tammy Wynette,Willie Nelson,Waylon Jennings,Dolly Partonand others help make for a great, affordable starter set.

Ray Charles – The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)

Swingin', life-affirming sounds.

The Clash- The Clash (1977)

Minecraft indev jar. The Clash - London Calling (1979)

The Clash are more than just a patch on a jacket, an emblem of punk and some radio hits. Pick up these records and immerse yourself in the legendary punk band.

John Coltrane– A Love Supreme (1964)

Oh, you like 'Mad Men' and being all suave in your big suits and pencil skirts? Put this on and you'll really be smooth, daddy-o.

Creedence Clearwater Revival- Green River (1969)

A bargain-bin staple, but also one of the best rock albums ever.

Daft Punk- Discovery(2001)

As they've shown with this year's superlative disco-prog-pop opus Random Access Memories, Daft Punk are one of the all-time great electronic groups (maybe second only to Kraftwerk, a group whose LPs can be frustratingly hard to find). Discovery is their best, full of huge, anthemic songs that seem to glow out of the speakers.

Miles Davis– Kind of Blue (1959)

This is a great place to start for jazz novices.

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)

A landmark of forward-thinking, psychedelic hip-hop.

DJ Shadow – Entroducting.. (1996)

A '90s classic of bargain-bin record repurposing from a master sampler. The ultimate record-store record.

Dr. Dre – The Chronic (1992)

Before he was more often known as a producer, Dr. Dre unleashed this gangsta rap classic.

Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)

It's easy to crap on Volkswagen and Wes Anderson for using Nick Drake's music, but they helped introduce this sad, romantic masterpiece to a new generation of starry-eyed kids.

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1975)

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

So much of modern music stems from Dylan, he's essential for any record collector.

The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin (1999)

Or you could buy Zaireeka and four record players ..

Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (1976)

For pure pop glee, I'm not sure anyone has ever done it better than Rumours.

Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul (1968)

A tossup between this and I Never Loved a Man The Way I Loved You, but really, you need both.

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (1971)

Mind-expanding beyond reason, and with some of the best album art ever.

Marvin Gaye– What’s Going On (1971)

A spiritual, strange, soulful trip.

Al Green – Let’s Stay Together (1972)

Try breaking up when this is on!

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (1967)

Pick up the UK version to impress your friends.

Iggy & the Stooges – Raw Power (1973)

A corrosive proto-punk tour de force that might split your speakers in two.

Michael Jackson– Thriller (1982)

Yes! Also find Off the Wall, which some would say is even better!

Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

I finally got into Elton John and it was like, where have you been all my life?

Robert Johnson– King of the Delta Blues: The Complete Recordings (1961)

Get your bearings on the birth of rock 'n' roll with this compilation of the legendary Robert Johnson's recordings.

Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971)

One of the greatest white soul singers ever, gone too soon but left this singular statement.

Joy Division - Closer (1980)

A haunting masterpiece that laid the framework for countless bands and genres to follow.

Led Zeppelin – IV (1971)

Nearly every Led Zep album is essential; peruse the bargain bins to find the first four in particular.

John Lennon– Imagine (1971)

You can't possibly hate Yoko Ono after hearing 'Oh Yoko!' Actually you should love her, and pick up Season of Glasswhile you're at it.

Love- Forever Changes (1967)

A personal fave! My parents heard me playing this and were like 'what is this new shit you're listening to?' It's from your era, dum dums. It's just always gonna sound fucking weird and amazing if you've never heard it.

M.I.A. – Kala (2007)

A brutal pop record, the kind that detonated hard at the time of its release and will most certainly stand the test of time.

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch a Fire (1973)

If you think the frat bros of America have ruined Bob Marley for you, you need to go back and explore the early Wailers records, starting with their classic major-label debut.

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968)

Like James Joyce in musical form, Astral Weeks is a sophistocated, stream-of-consciousness, genre-defying listen.

Joni Mitchell– Blue (1971)

One of the best folk, singer-songwriter, guitar, everything records.

My Bloody Valentine - mbv (2013)

Obviously if you can find the first two albums (in whatever print you can find), you should get them. But their latest album is a potent statement of the pure power of sound, and perhaps the best album of the year.

Nirvana – In Utero (1993)

Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)

Both of these have been reissued and are absolutely crucial. In Utero, in particular, has aged well.

Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die (1994)

One of the best rappers ever. This first album is his most perfect statement—morbid, funny, saddly prescient.

OutKast - Stankonia (2000)

This album and Is This It? were everything in the early 2000s.

Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted (1992)

A time capsule of indie-rock perfection and blueprint for scores of underground bands to come.

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

There's a reason Dark Side of the Moon posters line college campus walls 40 years after this album's release. It still amazes every time.

The Pixies- Doolittle (1989)

Kind of like The Velvet Underground & Nico for the '90s—every one of these tracks seems to map out a subgenre to follow.

Portishead – Third (2008)

My pick for best album of the new millennium.

Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley (1956)

Don't mess with The King. His first record is the shit.

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Prince – 1999 (1982)

Prince - Purple Rain (1984)

If you want to DJ anywhere, ever..

Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)

The greatest rap album of all time? Perhaps. No record collection (hip-hop or otherwise) is complete without this.

Queen – A Night at the Opera (1975)

Sure, it's got 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' which is awesome and all, but the rest of this record is fucking nuts.

R.E.M. – Murmur (1983)

A bunch of people told me this didn't belong on an all-time records list. Then I played them 'Talk About the Passion' and 'Sitting Still' and they were like 'oh, you're right, I'm a complete moron, thanks for the tip and I will listen to this record forever till the day I die!'

Radiohead – The Bends(1995)

Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)

The greatest band of our generation.

Ramones – Ramones (1976)

We can debate the first punk album/song all day, but the Ramones' singular sound, perfectly formed upon first release, is still what most people think of when they hear the word 'punk.'

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (1972)

The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (1968)

The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (1978)

Another record collection staple, The Rolling Stones have an estimable catalog. These are as good a place as any to start. Dig in.

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure (1973)

One of the best Roxy Music albums. Suave, dark and cool.

Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)

The blueprint for every band that burned quickly and brightly after them.

Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

Basically too beautiful for words.

Paul Simon – Graceland (1986)

Find out where Vampire Weekend got all those neat ideas!

Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours (1955)

The king of standards, Sinatra's ninth album tells the other side of the story of Sinatra as an artist on this moody, lovelorn masterpiece.

Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream(1993)

My favorite high-school album. Most of the Pumpkins' best albums (save Adore) have been reissued on vinyl. If somebody wants to shell out for Mellon Collie for me, I'd be infinitely grateful.

Patti Smith - Horses (1975)

Punk, meet poetry, let's play.

Sonic Youth– Daydream Nation (1988)

There's a reason Pitchfork calls this the best album of the '80s. Every so often, go back to the Sonic Youth well with this record and remember how they changed your brain forever.

Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis (1969)

An eternal favorite of breathy, blue-eyed soul.

The Strokes - Is This It? (2001)

This really was it in 2001. They were the band we'd been waiting for, and Is This It? captures lightning in a bottle.

T. Rex - Electric Warrior (1971)

Wow rock music would'be become really boring if this were never released! Yr welcome punk, glam, post-punk.

Talking Heads – Remain in Light (1980)

A complete arc in only eight songs, from exhuberant, afro-pop post-punk to a deeply dark conclusion.

Television – Marquee Moon (1977)

Marquee Moon can claim many 'bests'—best debut album (outside of maybe VU & Nico?), best punk album, best guitar record. It's just the best.

The Smiths– The Queen Is Dead (1986)

The Smiths - The Smiths (1984)

They're worth every sixpence.

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969)

The beginning of everything, the end of everything, R.I.P. Lou Reed.

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985)

Rain Dogs is Waits' undisputed classic, but it might cost you a pretty penny. Swordfishtrombones, which sounds unearthed from a carnival from hell, comes in a close second.

Muddy Waters – The Best of(1958)

While I am loathe to put greatest hits records on here (though there are plenty of great ones in their own right, artists who are better represented by their hits than full albums, and so on), it would seem remiss not to include Chicago blues legend Muddy Waters, whose influence (and catalog) are mammoth. He's been compiled many times over; this compilation of his early work is easily digestible and was reissued this year, making it an easy find.

Weezer – Pinkerton (1996)

A sick, fucked up, awesome rock record.

Kanye West– My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

Whatever, everyone! This rules.

The Who - Quadrophenia (1973)

I don't personally care much about The Who, but for completion's sake, why not.

Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973)

Stevie Wonder's records are so great, so influential. Discovering Stevie Wonder's catalog should be a joy for any music collector.

Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)

The Wu-Tang Clan now almost seems like it didn't happen—how could they have fit all of that talent in one band without stepping on each other or sounding like a mess? 36 Chambers still sounds lean and mean, even with its massive (and massively influential) cast of characters.

Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

You don't have to tell me that Harvest and After the Gold Rush are worth mentioning, but this is one of Young's classics we have in stock, housing proto-punk single 'Cinammon Girl' plus two awesome jams, 'Cowgirl in the Sand' and 'Down By the River.' Ugh just get all of his records already.

The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle (1968)

A wondrous pop record that always begs to be rediscovered.

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