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Suprisingly good considering,,, Mar 20, 2010
I hated the song when "Creep" when it first came out.(Radiohead described this as the song that nearly ruined them, hmmm?)
Fast forward to now. I'm a huge Radiohead fan, (buying all of their other albums when they came out), and yes, I have minimally warmed to CREEP (only for nostalgia reasons). But, I avoided listening to Pablo Honey because I didn't like Creep that much. But last week, I decided to give it a try after getting it for my IPOD. It's really a great album. Even pre-Bends/O.K. Computer, their art/craft still shines through their melodies and their lyrics. My favorites I find myself singing (even after the IPOD's turned off) are "Anyone Can Play Guitar," which is a really nice anthem and just cool lyrics. ( "I wanna play in a band, when I get to Heaven. Everyone can play guitar and they won't be a nothing anymore...") I also liked Ripcord and Vegetable as well. There were others as well.
If you're a longtime Radiohead fan, don't make the mistake I did and pass this up. There are some gems on here that are worth listening too.
 AM radiohead Feb 23, 2010
Before Thom Yorke decided he hated the world and began writing about it, Radiohead debuted with modest rock and roll album in 1993. Granted, it is easy to see that these guys were art-school rockers with some ambition, but the bulk of "Pablo Honey" mixes punky, Replacements like thrashing with the them coming to prominence of grunge. It's an otherwise inauspicious debut, the dawn of a band.
That is, except for the hit. "Creep" played off the soft-loud-soft-loud grunge blueprint with a heaping dose of pre-hipster self-loathing irony and managed to become a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. "You're so f---ing special," moans Yorke as guitarist Johnny Greenwood's stabbing cracks the docile surface, "I wish I were special, but I'm a Creep." Despite the fact the the band soon came to loathe the song (on The Bends, they slag the success of their hit during "My Iron Lung"), it did set the tone for much of what Radiohead would develop as a band attitude later.
That said, the rest of "Pablo Honey" has a few gems to be found. The more acoustic based "Thinking About You" is as plain a song as the band's ever done. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" is pretty much a fun song, and the time-workout of "You" is a lot more complicated than it sounds at first blush. Given the incredible path Radiohead would blaze within a few years, "Pablo Honey" shows a band working to find what eventually would be a unique voice on the alternative rock pantheon.
 Not as good as their newer releases. Dec 09, 2009
I own Kid A and OK Computer and I love them. I have heard most of hail to the theif and it is excellent, so I heard Creep and decided to get Pablo Honey. This album doesn't stand up to the albums I've herad, it has less of their creative use of computer generated sound and the songs tend to sound too whiney,sad and very 90's rock without it. I listen to it 3 times and dedcided to get rid of it. sad.
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 pablo honey Nov 23, 2009
Officials destroyed it because it wasn't officially marked fron Amazon. I ordered it for my grandson in prison. He was told that they destroyed it. A package can't be from a person. It has to be from amazon.
Definitive alternative. Nov 10, 2009
Before the progressive epics and avant-garde electronica of their more recent work, Radiohead made a brilliant debut album, drawing sonic influences from U2, Oasis, R.E.M. and Nirvana, and in the process summing up late 80's-early 90's alternative music with one album. 'Pablo Honey' is certainly Radiohead's least experimental record, although hints of their future musical direction pop up occasionally. Mostly, though, 'Pablo' is simply a straightforward, excellent alternative rock album.
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