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- “Stop Whispering” is one of the oldest Radiohead songs, dating back to their days as On a Friday. Ed O’Brien once referred to Pablo Honey, with some derision, as “a collection of our greatest hits as an unsigned band.”
- Jonny Greenwood‘s aggressive guitar stabs in “Creep” were intended to ruin the song. The menacing guitar stabs that come just before the chorus of “Creep” are arguably the song’s most memorable hook.
- Thom Yorke was persuaded to rewrite the first verse of “Creep” while recording a censored radio version. Once “Creep” was earmarked as Pablo Honey‘s lead single, EMI requested that Radiohead record a “clean” version for radio, eliminating the “fucking” in the second verse.
Perhaps our friends over at TV Tropes said it best when they remarked that Pablo Honey is the “weirdest Radiohead album, in that it’s not weird at all”.
Sep 23, 2021 · This brings us to our story today, the strange, debut studio outing by Radiohead — 1993’s Pablo Honey. Just like its successor, it often gets overlooked by fans and critics alike, as there are almost no flecks of the sonic majesty that the band would go on to cultivate throughout their career.
- The title comes from a Jerky Boys prank-call skit. In the early Nineties, fellow Thames Valley alt rockers Chapterhouse passed Radiohead a bootleg tape of prank phone calls that had been making the rounds in the New York comedy underground.
- “Stop Whispering” is one of the oldest Radiohead songs, dating back to their days as On a Friday. Ed O’Brien once referred to Pablo Honey, with some derision, as “a collection of our greatest hits as an unsigned band.”
- Jonny Greenwood’s aggressive guitar stabs in “Creep” were intended to ruin the song. The menacing guitar stabs that come just before the chorus of “Creep” are arguably the song’s most memorable hook.
- Thom Yorke was persuaded to rewrite the first verse of “Creep” while recording a censored radio version. Once “Creep” was earmarked as Pablo Honey‘s lead single, EMI requested that Radiohead record a “clean” version for radio, eliminating the “fucking” in the second verse.
Feb 22, 2023 · It’s nothing more than a standard early 1990s grunge album, and some days, it feels like the most radical Radiohead album in their entire catalogue. For a band like Radiohead, conformity and basicness are so rare that it’s almost fascinating to hear them embrace those things on Pablo Honey.
Pablo Honey is the debut studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 22 February 1993 in the UK by Parlophone and on 20 April 1993 in the US by Capitol Records. It was produced by Sean Slade, Paul Q. Kolderie and Radiohead's co-manager Chris Hufford.
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Heavily influenced by the dominant American grunge scene, with flecks of stadium-rock grandiosity, Pablo Honey offers little evidence of the compositional genius and thirstless experimentalism that would make Radiohead one of the biggest bands on the planet by the end of the decade.
