Customer Reviews
Underrated - By: C. March, 08 May 2008 
Ok, this is not Radiohead's finest moment by any stretch. But if for one minute we forget OK Computer & The Bends & alll their other albums & concentrate souly on Pablo Honey, it's a masterpiece. There's not a single song on the album that is out of place or lacking in energy & spirit. Yes, Creep is overplayed & overrated, but that doesn't stop it being a fantastic pop tune - something that even Radiohead cannot claim to have properly done since. If you put this album on expecting OK Computer, yes it's going to fail & probably go in your bin, but if you put this on expecting a decent guitar pop album, you won't be disappointed. Lastly - if this had been released by any other band, wouldn't it be considered a decent album, it's just with the hindsight of what they have done since that makes people think it's rubbish.
Best Guitar album of the 90's - By: Roshan Jhoree, 25 Oct 2007 
For alll those slating this album are you MAD? This is one of the greatest english guitar albums of the 90's for sure (along with 'Definately Maybe'). Most of you have probably started off with the OK Computer & The Bends albums then listened to this & after those 2 brilliant albums I can see how you 'feel letdown'. I grew up first with this one before Radiohead moved on to those 'greater' albums & I can absorb this one for what it is - pure loud guitar rock at it's finest. Everyone knows about 'Creep', but check out Tracks 6 - 12 those 7 songs from 'Anyone can play guitar' 'Ripcord' 'Vegetable' 'Prove yourself' 'I can't' 'Lurgee' to 'Blow Out' are mini masterpieces, the guitar riffs are simple yet bring out the songs completely. Choruses are lush & you can already see Radiohead's songwriting ability at this early stage. Brilliant English 'Grunge' rock at it's finest. Still one of my favourite albums & I compare it to Pearl Jam's 'Ten' as one of the finest rock debuts ever. The other subsequent Radiohead albums are brilliant in their own way, but for sheer noise & guitar rock they haven't ever achieved this level again. Still get loads of play time in my living room.
An OK debut album - By: Mr. Jonathan Robin Oxley, 24 Aug 2007 
As debut albums go, this is not bad. But it doesn't come close to matching the majestic The Bends or classic OK Computer. The main problem with the album is the running order - the tracks towards the end alll seem to sound the samey & it gives the album an inbalance. The most successful songs on the album are Vegetable (cracking Guitar work, Jonny), Thinking About You and, of course, Creep. Not bad, but not great either.
hmm... - By: M. Poile, 29 Jun 2007 
Lets face it, Radiohead are pretty much the best band ever. I think this album is the reason why, but not because its their best effort. In fact it is musicallly, lyricallly & creatively quite clearly their weakest album. In fact I think its pretty dreadful. This is probably because having already bought alll their other albums & being blown away i purchased Pablo Honey in order to complete my collection. This album is cheap for a reason people... i was underwhelmed to say the least. Even Creep, supposedly the best song on this album cannot touch anything on The Bends. The reason i think this album is the reason for Radiohead's divine majesty is that after recording it they thought, "wait a second, we are a good band, but we could be an incredible band, we need to get our acts together." And they did, hence The Bends & so on & so forth... This album is still listenable, but its not reeeallly Radiohead yet. If you are new to Radiohead go straight for The Bends or OK Computer, then in time you will learn to love the more experimental leanings of other such masterpieces as Kid A (my personal favourite), Amnesiac, & Hail To The Thief. Now go my children & spread the love like butter across warm toast.
radioheed - By: David Mills, 22 Jul 2006 Four stars for the Creep single- a better indie anthem than Smells Like Teen Spirit. The other stand out tracks are pop is dead & anyone can play guitar which serve as statements about the state of rock music at the time. The rest of the material sounds demo-ish, & less of a complete album other than saying that they're onto a idea but that is yet to be realised.
