Radiohead – The Bends

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Label:	Parlophone – PCS 7372, Parlophone – 7243 8 29626 1 8
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress
Country:	UK
Released:	Mar 13, 1995
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Alternative Rock

Tracklist

A1	Planet Telex	4:22
A2	The Bends	3:58
A3	High And Dry Co-producer – Jim Warren Engineer – Chris Brown (8), Jim Warren, John Leckie, Nigel Godrich Engineer [Assistant] – Guy Massey, Shelley Saunders Producer – Radiohead	4:17
A4	Fake Plastic Trees	4:50
A5	Bones	3:07
A6	(Nice Dream)	3:51
B1	Just	3:52
B2	My Iron Lung	4:36
B3	Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was	3:28
B4	Black Star Co-producer – John Leckie, Nigel Godrich Producer – Radiohead	4:03
B5	Sulk	3:42
B6	Street Spirit (Fade Out)	4:13

Companies, etc.

Recorded At – Rak Studios
Recorded At – The Manor
Recorded At – Abbey Road Studios
Mixed At – Abbey Road Studios
Mixed At – Fort Apache
Mastered At – Abbey Road Studios
Edited At – Abbey Road Studios
Pressed By – EMI Records

Credits

Arranged By [Strings] – Jon*, Thom*
Artwork [Fine Art By] – Stanley Donwood, The White Chocolate Farm
Artwork [Pasting] – Green Ink
Bass – Colin Greenwood
Cello – Caroline Lavelle
Drums – Phil Selway
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Ed O'Brien
Guitar, Organ, Recorder, Synthesizer, Piano – Jonny Greenwood
Mastered By, Edited By – Chris Blair
Mixed By – John Leckie, Paul Q. Kolderie, Radiohead, Sean Slade
Producer – John Leckie (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B3, B5, B6)
Viola, Violin – John Matthias
Vocals, Guitar, Piano – Thom Yorke
Written-By – Radiohead

Notes

Differences between this and the 1st 1995 pressing are:

Matte cover and inner sleeve.
Large pixelated 0% in lower left corner of b/w side of inner sleeve.
Matrix number stampings end in -2.
Red pound symbol in the black circle on labels (on left, between TRADE and MARK).
For a version with the same runouts but without the pound sign, and two concentric circles on labels, please see Radiohead - The Bends.
Please see Radiohead - The Bends for glossy jacket and inner, large pixelated 0%, Matrix ending -2, only one circle on labels, and no £ on record labels.

Matrix numbers stamped except the words in capital letters which are etched
Printed in UK [Jacket]
MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND [Labels]
Pressed on 120g standard weight vinyl.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text): 7 2438 29626 1 8
Matrix / Runout (Side A): PCS 7372 A-01-01-2 D SHE'S OUT WITH HER ANSWERPHONE
Matrix / Runout (Side B): PCS 7372 B-01-01-2 D (NICE DREAM)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	The Bends (Cassette, Album, Promo)	Capitol Records	none	US	1994
Recently Edited	The Bends (CDr, Album, Test Pressing, Stereo)	Not On Label	none	UK	1994
	The Bends (CD, Album)	Parlophone, Parlophone	7243 8 29626 2 5, CDPCS 7372	UK	1995
Recently Edited	The Bends = ザ・ベンズ (CD, Album)	EMI, EMI	TOCP-8489, CDPCS 7372	Japan	1995
Recently Edited	The Bends (CD, Album)	Capitol Records	CDP 7243 8 29626 2 5	US	1995

Reviews

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Mjt510 Jan 7, 2022
Mine says Morcheeba! lol weird mispress, couldn't believe i had something rare on my hands.
Foo4Fun Sep 22, 2021
My pressing has the Trade Mark w/ red £ both sides, the matrix is PCS 7372 A-01-01-2 D with hand etched words, and the giant pixelated 0% on the lower left read corner of the inner. However, my jacket and inner sleeve are glossy, as with the Later 1st Press.
cherp May 11, 2020
My pressing has the pound symbol on side one and not on side 2, can anyone tell me if this is belongs under this press or not?
postblueink Nov 5, 2017
will buy original inner sleeve without " 0% " on it.
kyle15 Feb 18, 2017
Edited 6 years ago
Mine has the matrix info listed here, but with a £ on both labels and 0% on inner. Not 180g either. Old "made in England" sticker under barcode likely placed by whoever imported back in the day.
KristoKoppel Nov 12, 2016
So this copy has no red "pound" sign on A side and a red pound sign on B side? At least it is so on the pictures. Someone wrote that this copy should have a blue inner sleeve (compared to the 2007 version), but as I can see from the pictures it is white. Total headache!
fake_blues May 12, 2016
if the (2007) repress is indentical in everyway to the 1995 press (without 0% and £) how are we supposed to know which one we have?
barondavid09 Nov 22, 2014
My copy of The Bends has red pound signs on labels and Matrix ends in -1 consistent with first pressing however there is 0% symbol on inner. Can anyone shed any light on this please it's baffled me. Thank you.
Barcode: 7 2438 29626 1 8
Matrix / Runout (A Stamped): PCS 7372 A-01-01-1 SHE'S OUT WITH HER ANSWERPHONE D
Matrix / Runout (B Stamped): PCS 7372 B-01-01-1 (NICE DREAM) D
gary.p.watson Oct 18, 2013
I have just bought a copy on vinyl, and I have the same as cackman: pound sign on the label, 0% on the inner sleeve.

What I am interested in knowing is: seeing as they have the same runout codes, would that mean they were both pressed from the same 1995 master?
VillegasLillo Jun 16, 2013
I think this is NOT the issue you get when you buy a sealed copy at amazon or anywhere nowadays.
I see 1000+ users think they have an original 1995 pressing, but I think that's very unlikely.
Chances are, you have this repress:
http://www.discogs.com/Radiohead-The-Bends/release/4605999#

Original issue has a "£" sing in label, and no "0%" figure in inner sleeve, next to the credits.

See the pictures, and compare them to the repress.
Barcode and runout codes are identical.
Greetings.