Pablo Honey cover

Pablo Honey

Released

Given everything that followed after this album it’s almost like it’s a band with an alternate career that’s captured here, a UK quintet that thanks to a near-ubiquitous fluke hit of a single, the perfect alt rock melodrama of knowing self-pity that is “Creep,” might have become a one-hit wonder. Funny thing is that Pablo Honey, while a somewhat choppy listen, is still the work of a band that had been together for years already as teenagers, and songs like the riffing snark of “Anyone Can Play Guitar” and the rather poisonous ballad “Lurgee” showed their talent.

Ned Raggett

Recommended by

Suggestions
Barafundle cover

Barafundle

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Mahashmashana cover

Mahashmashana

Father John Misty
Songs for the Deaf cover

Songs for the Deaf

Queens of the Stone Age
Zima Junction cover

Zima Junction

Mark Burgess & The Sons Of God
Echo & The Bunnymen cover

Echo & The Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen
2:22 [Original Soundtrack] cover

2:22 [Original Soundtrack]

James Orr, Lisa Gerrard
Mother Love Bone cover

Mother Love Bone

Mother Love Bone