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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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- The title comes from a Jerky Boys prank-call skit. Editor’s picks. The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The 50 Worst Decisions in Movie History.
- “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, 2018 · In 1993, Radiohead released their debut full-length Pablo Honey, its title inspired by a prank call from one of the Boys’ infamous comedy CDs.
- 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.
About “Pablo Honey”. 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 ”.
Nov 17, 2021 · Like the first two Jerky Boys CDs, Pablo Honey did go platinum in America: It sold 1.5 million copies or so. The rest is history.
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Sep 23, 2021 · Read the story of Radiohead's debut album 'Pablo Honey', and how the somewhat overlooked album contained flashes alluding to where the band were heading.
