The Genius Of… Pablo Honey by Radiohead

埃德·奥布赖恩（Ed O’Brien）called it “pretty shit”,Thom Yorke承认它是“有缺陷的”和“天真的”，它几乎分裂了Radiohead向上。然而，帕勃罗蜂蜜lit the fuse on the career of one of the greatest British bands of all time.

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Having existed since the mid-80s under the far more prosaic name On A Friday, Radiohead signed a six-album deal with EMI in 1991. Yet it was another two years before the major label were rewarded with a debut album.

受到体育场摇滚巨大的斑点，受到占主导地位的美国垃圾场景的严重影响，帕勃罗蜂蜜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.

What’s so good about帕勃罗蜂蜜, then? Well, there’s something ephemeral and precious in seeing a band who would later write songs of such awe-inspiring complexity and sophistication asParanoid Android,一切都在正确的位置和Pyramid Song, so nakedly naive and unguarded. It’s worth the price of admission just to hear Thom Yorke bellow “I wanna be in a band when I get to heaven” with complete abandon.

更重要的是，帕勃罗蜂蜜captures the embryonic dynamic between the band’s three guitarists. Jonny Greenwood’s exhilarating melange of tremolo-picked soundscapes, chunky octaves, screaming high-register runs and killswitch antics place him alongsideJohnny Marr约翰·斯奎尔（John Squire）是十年中最有影响力的吉他手。

Meanwhile, notional rhythm man O’Brien’s foundational textures and beguiling chord shifts from Yorke marked the five-piece, completed by bassist Colin Greenwood and drummer Philip Selway, out from the rest of the nascent Britpop crowd.

Their Scott Walker song

寻找制作人，以抛光1992年的原始人才钻头EP，EMI回避了Grouchy史蒂夫·阿尔比尼，谁生产了小精灵’ quiet-loud blueprintSurfer Rosa。

取而代之的是，演出参加了耶鲁大学的毕业生保罗·科德里（Paul Kolderie）和肖恩·斯莱德（Sean Slade），但奇普·诺顿（Chipping Norton）工作室的早期会议令人难以置信。

Kolderie发现乐队缺乏经验和拱顶的野心，这是一场麻烦的完美风暴。“这是他们的第一个唱片，他们想成为甲壳虫乐队，”他后来告诉Mojo。

The producers struck gold, however, when they serendipitously captured lead singleCreep在跟踪其他材料的热身过程中。塞尔威声称乐队不知道录像带正在滚动。

Creep乐队将乐队视为“投掷”，并以“斯科特·沃克（Scott Walker）”为名，但在灼热的表演结束时，工作室中的每个人都掌声掌声，知道他们在瓶装时刻目睹了闪电。

这首歌的G/b/c/cm进展，其甲壳虫乐队的大型/小转换，对Hollies的点头大声点头我呼吸的空气it that it resulted in a legal claim, while BBC Radio 1 banned the single for being too depressing.

Jonny Greenwood had his own concerns overCreep’s sparkly clean arpeggios and launched an attempt at sabotage, armed with his Telecaster Plus and a Marshall Shredmaster. The three pairs of barbarous, muted up and down strokes that introduce the chorus were “the sound of Jonny trying to fuck the song up,” recalled O’Brien. The result has been immortalised within Radiohead as ‘The Noise’.

甚至厨师也可以弹吉他

和Creep在包里，帕勃罗蜂蜜在短短三个星期内聚在一起，花费了100,000英镑。可悲的是，专辑中的关键吉他早已不复存在。

Greenwood is said to have played exclusively a 1990 Tobacco Burst Telecaster Plus bought with the band’s EMI advance. Like much of Radiohead’s early gear, it was stolen in 1995, in Denver, Colorado.

90年代初吉布森约克在记录中使用的SG标准和O’Brien的标准里肯贝克360 Mapleglo, adorned with帕勃罗蜂蜜stickers, were also victims of the heist, adding to the record’s sense of impermanence.

帕勃罗蜂蜜a的一方供应大部分黄金及其所有单曲。停止耳语可以追溯到星期五的演示，这是一种简单的练习，但包含了唱片中一些最令人叹为观止的吉他演奏。

A homage to Pixies, it’s partially a protest song that cycles between D and G chords. It gives us an early glimpse inside Jonny Greenwood’s sonic toolbox as a repeated five-note pattern opens into a blistering outro replete with unison bends and a scything single-note riff.

在Thinking About Yousuggest at least an unconscious appreciation ofU2。尽管有公开的参考文献，但这是格林伍德兄弟妈妈最喜欢的曲目。

平流层移相器，令人难以置信的挑选幻灯片和反馈爆发来使这种自我反射的短暂停顿避免任何人都可以弹吉他- 90年代初期的愚蠢片。

在回应冠军头衔时，Kolderie将他能找到的任何人（包括Studio Chef）围起来，建造了沸腾的吉他漩涡。同时，乔尼·格林伍德（Jonny Greenwood）用画笔攻击了他的弦乐，阿尔比尼（Albiini）肯定会批准这项技术。

The song is a critique of tasteless fretboard showboating. “Worshipping guitarists is all buying guitar magazines,” Greenwood later spat (ouch). “Anybody can play guitar, but writing songs is a far harder challenge.”

While it stokes the fires of nostalgia, the second half of帕勃罗蜂蜜很容易忘记。靠近吹熄最鲜明的是，干净的和弦和Selway的爵士乐tick脚唤起杰夫·巴克利在将鞋子风暴归为舞蹈风暴之前，这是专辑的结尾。

Promisingly imperfect

临界接收良好的接待没有达到帕勃罗蜂蜜。NME, having recently damned Radiohead as “a pitiful, lily-livered excuse for a rock ‘n’ roll group”, gave the album 7/10. TheLA Timesdismissed the band for “steering too close toSmiths- 像旋律一样，努力地沮丧the Cure普及”。

Melody Maker’s Simon Price was more measured (and accurate), judging the debut “promisingly imperfect”, while curiously labelling the band “the new果酱” and finding similarities between吹熄和Dire Straits’秋千的苏丹。

尽管在家中接受了凉爽的接待，Creepwas gaining the band momentum Stateside thanks to heavy MTV airplay. It was to become a millstone around their necks, though.

After seemingly endless tour dates withPJ哈维，Belly和James是一位礼貌地邀请支持Duran Duran的邀请，并取消了阅读节目，乐队厌倦了演奏他们的大单曲。正如约克所说，Radiohead“吸了撒旦的公鸡”。他后来透露他们几乎要分裂了。

一会儿，如果Radiohead在1993年解散，那么英国吉他音乐可能已经采取了英国吉他音乐的方向以及至少以同一形式存在的乐队名单。

Little by little

尽管在专辑图表中几乎没有创造出涟漪，但帕勃罗蜂蜜从那以后，英国的三倍植物已经销售，在美国售出了150万张。

The album has also been subject of copious critical revisionism; by 1998,Qwas naming it the 61st best album of all time. But Pablo Honey’s greatest legacy is that it gave the band the latitude to record more nuanced material.

“The second album is going to be much better than the first,” predicted Yorke. Two years later,弯曲提供了三位吉他手的极端，世代才华的更完整的证据。

但是，随后的三张专辑 -OK Computer,Kid A和失忆– changed the musical world in just five years. Having put Britpop out of its misery, Radiohead concocted a radical fusion of ambient electronica and era-defining use of the guitar, becoming the world’s most innovative band in the process.

甲壳虫乐队从1963年到1967年的变形旁是有史以来最关键的转变之一。没有Radiohead，就无法想象现代音乐，这一切始于帕勃罗蜂蜜。

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