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Pablo Honey är det första albumet av den engelska alternative rock-gruppen Radiohead, utgivet under första halvan av 1993. Albumet producerades av Sean Slade och Paul Q. Kolderie och spelades in i Chipping Norton Studio och Countryard Studio, Oxfordshire, från september till november år 1992. Albumet innehåller tre singlar: "Anyone Can Play Guitar", "Stop Whispering", och deras mest kända radiohit, "Creep". Pablo Honey placerade sig som bäst på tjugoandra plats på Storbritanniens albumtopplista och sålde där platina, liksom i andra länder. Albumtiteln är taget från en busringningssketch av Jerky Boys, där busringaren säger "Pablo, honey? Please come to Florida!" till sitt offer. Detta är samplat av bandet i låten "How do you?".
Efter Pablo Honey gavs ut lämnade Radiohead sin introspektiva, grunge-influerade musikstil och självdistansierade låttexter och fokuserade istället på mer expansiva, experimentella kompositioner. Albumet överskuggades av bandets senare verk, men fick ändå positiva recensioner och har på senare tid hyllats av kritiker.
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Oxfordshire's best-known musical export have been voicing the angst of an inarticulate generation for the last fifteen years, kicking off with Pablo Honey, their exploration of suburban, adolescent self-awareness. Released when the boys still glistened with the sheen of an expensive private education and set against the more mature redneck, white bread, blue-collar roar of Nirvana, Radiohead's intelligent, delicate take on the loud/soft, quick/slow language of grunge appeared spineless and effete until Creep was released and set the record straight.
Massively backed by UK 'indie' radio, the single became a hit in the slacker student community, and simultaneously established the band as serious musicians, with interesting points to make and hefty musical skills with which to drive them home.
The band's apparent overnight success came after years of dedication (even keeping in touch while away at various universities) and endless free time spent in rehearsal. They'd toughened up and tightened their sound on the road before setting out to make the album, and had grown the confidence to expand ideas across lengthy instrumental breaks that other new kids in the studio might fear to try.
It all resulted in a stunning blend that combined the best aspects of prog rock (challenging lyrics, deft chord changes, novelty time signatures and so forth) with the plaintiveness of bedsit singer song-writing and the sound of expensive equipment thrashed at by experts. Though later albums were better received, this remains one of rock's most impressive debuts.
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