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LIGE audience. Radiohead sings 'The Bends'
continued from page 9 The most surprising and exciting part of B Thomas Crowley
never took off), a Detroit Pistons jacket, a the evening occurred when one of Blige's y sritr star status with the success of their fi
-whiteT-shirt and black biker pants(the first background performers,claiming tobe ama- , single, the notorious Creep.
of some four different outfits she'd change gician, made none otherfthan the Notorious 'The bends' n. A condition marked In addition, the blessing of heavy ra
into in the course of the concert). Her B.I.G.appear. The audience went crazierthan by paralysis, pain, etc. developed in com- Lion on FM and MTV also holds the cu
blonde, curly/frilly hair was fried, dyed and it already was (a nearly impossible feat) as of centrifugal force, which can dispet
laid to the side. She entered singing "You B.LG. performed his well-known, and oft- *f . with attists cmelly and indifferently. For
Remind Me," which led into "Reminisce." quoted "Big Poppa"single. nately though, Radiohead haveevadedi
Upon being asked by one of her six Blige's visit to theFox proved that she Radiohead threatofone-hit-wonderdom, due entir
dancers, "Hey Mary, ever been in love be- has a very strong fan base in Detroit. One St Andrew's Hall to their ability to turn out an album asi
fore?Everhadasweetthang,"Blige sang fan, 24-year-old Nicole Allen, best" ne- markably consistent as "The Bends."
"Sweet Thang," which mellowed the summed up the love Blige received."I June 9, 1995 O'Brien explained, "When we made t
tempo created by her previous two songs. knew every word to every song she per- album, every song had to be as good asi
.The brilliant blue, green and purple lights formed tonight. Every moan, every groan, ing from an atmosphere of high pressure, next. You often find with albums nov
emanating from the stage created a sense of every 'ha ha ha,' Iknew it." as i a caisson, to airofordinary pressure days that maybe there are five great trac
-Random House. and seven fillers, and we were really at
"...the parallel being, going from one mantsthat we weren't going to do that. C
A N N A i b o ~t 'environment to the next, too quickly," said favorite albums aren't like that, so w
Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien of the title should we do that? We wanted to make
5th a t Liberty 7 f-97 of the band's dazzling follow-up LP. An album of 12 really strong songs."
IBARGAIN MATINEES $3 GOODCHQUATYTETERFQUENTMOEOER apt one at that, considering the Oxford And make that album they did, in t
before 6pm ALL SCREENS STEREO quintets rapid ascension from obscurity in process establishing a unique sound th
SsPresent This Coupon their home country to worldwide alterna- unlike many releases of the past year,c
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the audience, stood facing drummer Phil
Selway, their eye contact perhaps necessary
for the rhythm section to function properly.
Working their way through nearly all of
"The Bends,"Radiohead played each andev-
ery song as if it were the opening number.
They nevermissed abeat,musically (acouple
of the amps go out and Thom strapped on an
acoustic for solo renditions of'Thinking
About You'and "(nice dm')"orotherwi
("Not now. I'm busy up here," he retort
whenafriskycrowd membermadeanunsa-
vory proposition). A-ha! A sense of humor!
That thegroup, allsmiles,iscapableofenjoy-
ing themselves as muchas theiraudiencedis-
pelled whatis arguably one ofthe biggest mis-
conceptions about them.
Before exiting stage right, the band
played that "Creep" song, but cleverly
enough, followed it up with "My Iron
Lung," the song that exorcised th
Frankenstein's Monster phenomenon th
former song had become. With the beauti-
fully haunting "Street Spirit (fade out)"for
an encore, Radiohead ended the concert the
same way they ended the album: Proving
that they not only have survived the bends
but learned to sing about the experience as
well.
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