Pablo Honey (1993)

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I clearly remember the moment when I first heard Radiohead's "Creep", the song that made Radiohead one of the most important bands appeared on British rock scene in the 90's. It was 1994, I sat down in my room watching MTV and suddenly I'd heard a beautiful melodious tune, which went gently and slowly at first, but at one moment it had literally blown up by multiple guitar attack, and after a short while the tune became gentle again. That was amazing! Unfortunately, it was impossible for me to get this album at that time, so I got "Pablo Honey", as well as several other Radiohead's albums (actually I got them all), only six years later. The summer of the 2000 became the time of my real addiction to Radiohead, and "Pablo Honey" was my favorite album. I never considered Radiohead as BritPop stars, but sound of this album is very close to BritPop. I think exactly this fact brought these true rock experimentalists out to alternative mainstream, the place they never actually belonged to. If you are not familiar with Radiohead yet, "Pablo Honey" would be the right place to start with them.