Vinyl Album - Radiohead - The Bends - Parlophone

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Radiohead
Title:	The Bends
Label:	Parlophone
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	PCS 7372 / 8 29626 1
Barcode:	724382962618
Date:	Mar 1995
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	8 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Radiohead	Planet Telex	Radiohead	10.0 Rate
A2	Radiohead	The Bends	Radiohead	9.7 Rate
A3	Radiohead	High And Dry	Radiohead	9.3 Rate
A4	Radiohead	Fake Plastic Trees	Radiohead	9.7 Rate
A5	Radiohead	Bones	Radiohead	8.5 Rate
A6	Radiohead	(Nice Dream)	Radiohead	9.5 Rate
B1	Radiohead	Just	Radiohead	9.5 Rate
B2	Radiohead	My Iron Lung	Radiohead	9.5 Rate
B3	Radiohead	Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was	Radiohead	9.5 Rate
B4	Radiohead	Black Star	Radiohead	8.5 Rate
B5	Radiohead	Sulk	Radiohead	8.5 Rate
B6	Radiohead	Street Spirit (Fade Out)	Radiohead	10.0 Rate

Notes

Produced by John Leckie except
A3 produced by Radiohead with Jim Warren
B4 produced by John Leckie & Radiohead with Nigel Goodrich

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Magic Marmalade 26th Jul 2021		Just weighed my copy... 125g.



Magic Marmalade 31st Jan 2021		Something's afoot here! (I think it's that thing at the end of my leg :) ...But something's been bugging me about my version of this from the start, since I bought it, and compared it with entries elsewhere online, and I'm pretty sure I know what it is now: My recent (2014) Warner garbed press is NOT 180g! I'm trying to find my weighing scales to be sure, but I'd be confident in saying my copy weighs in at around maybe 120g or so... basically the same weight as an original first press standard vinyl weight. The reason this is significant is that the (two) entries for this 2014 press (Warner-ed) on Discogs state that it is 180g press, and having seen the mixed bag of opinions and reviews as to quality there, it seems the reason maybe that there are two different weights of vinyl masquerading as the same issue.... confounded with each other, all same details, labels, artwork, just a thicker piece of vinyl. Which makes me wonder if this was a bit of a "made it up as we went along" job from Warner, when they acquired the EMI / Parlophone rights... that maybe they initially did as I said below, and just dusted off the old kit and made the same issue with slighlty modified artwork, but using the same grade of vinyl too... ... but then, attempted to merely upgrade the vinyl, by pressing onto 180g, but using kit (matrices, stampers, pressing machines etc.) designed, or rated only for 120g? Result, an inadequate bodged 180g run that caused a lot of problems for people (skipping etc.), while the ones they issued using the original vinyl grade were great. (Mine sounds F&%$ing spectacular!... And plays a treat.) I think this might be more evident that barely a year or two later, a new 180g Reissue was made. So perhaps it would be possible to confirm this by asking people who own the 2014 Warner whether they have 180g or 120(ish)g vinyl in their sleeves, and discovering which have problems and which don't.



Magic Marmalade 21st Jun 2015		I saw a comment on Discogs concerning the version have with the Warner credit, where some unhappy chap had to replace his copy twice due to an unlistenable second side (Skips, jumps etc.). This got me worried about my copy, as I'd only listened to the first side once I bought mine in the new year, once I'd got it home. I was concerned this might be a repressing issue in general, but I gave it a full spin today, and thankfully, it's all good! In fact, this sounds much better on vinyl than on the CD. Thom Yorke's voice has enough separation from the crunching guitars to be more distinguishable, and float high above it all in the right places. The vinyl has a more acoustic weight, and the dynamic changes in the music are handled much better (Sometimes, like in Sulk, and Black Star, his voice is nearly lost in the dense guitar sounds on CD, but great here). And the Power of songs like Nice Cream, and Just are greatly enhanced. Bullet Proof, High And Dry, and Fake Plastic Trees really benefit from the extra detail, and more organic sound too. Looking at the matrix numbers on this, they are: Side 1: PCS 7372 A - 01 - 01 - 2 ("She's Out With Her Answerphone" - scratched) D - stamped Side 2: PCS 73272 B - 01 - 01 - 2 ("Nice Dream" - scratched) D - stamped So exactly the same as the original press! They basically just fished the all the existing kit for this out of the broom cupboard, dusted it down, and continued pressing the original. So there'd be no reason to worry about buying a new copy of this.



Magic Marmalade 3rd Jan 2015



Magic Marmalade 3rd Jan 2015		Was expecting it to be a re-issue with new cat#, heavy vinyl etc. But it's exactly the same as this... they've just continued pressing this issue! Which is better actually, I think... especially as all the other vinyl in the new 180g+ issuings are very expensive. This was only £12.99 Only aspects that are different are that there are two lines of copyright on the bottom rear... the other giving credit to Warner Music, and expunging here and elsewhere on the sleeves and label any EMI reference