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
A Boy Named Goo cover

A Boy Named Goo

Goo Goo Dolls
Spring Hill Fair cover

Spring Hill Fair

The Go-Betweens
Earth Sun Moon cover

Earth Sun Moon

Love and Rockets
Sublime cover

Sublime

Sublime
The Aeroplane Flies High cover

The Aeroplane Flies High

The Smashing Pumpkins
Anthology cover

Anthology

The Clean
Key Lime Pie cover

Key Lime Pie

Camper Van Beethoven
Nighttown cover

Nighttown

The Walkabouts
Deep cover

Deep

Peter Murphy