RADIOHEAD - "the bends album" Tablature

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Radiohead's Album "The Bends"
compilation put together by
Sergio Lucero luceros6@cti.ecp.fr
"Sulk" added by Tex (randell@heinous.music.uiowa.edu)
corrections and additions welcome
current version 0.75 [9/12]
dated Dec. 3rd 1995
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SONGS

1 planet telex (missing)
the bends
high and dry
fake plastic trees
5 bones (missing)
[nice dream]
just
my iron lung
bullet proof..i wish i was
10 black star (missing)
sulk
street spirit [fade out]


CREDITS: Dan Zink [zink@uiuc.edu] 2,8tab
Sergio Lucero [luceros6@cti.ecp.fr] 3,6,9
Glenn Rubenstein [glennrub@delphi.com] 4
Kasper van Benten (kbbenten@cs.vu.nl) 7
Dave Stein (4dms3@qlink.queensu.ca) 11
Mike [michael.healey@balliol.ox.ac.uk] 12

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the bends

intro: D, C, B, C, B, C (x4)
verse: E, G, C (x2)

then:
--------------------------------------------------------
-2----2-3-5-8-7-5-----5----5-6-8-11-8-11-8-11-8-11^-----
-2--------------------5---------------------------------
-2--------------------5---------------------------------
-0--------------------3---------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------

then: E, G, C again

chorus: D, C, B, C

palm muted chord after
"i wish, i wish, i wish, that something would happen": E

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high and dry

Intro:

main: F#m7(11) Asus2 E


F#m7(11)
two ..
Asus2
I ..
E
don't ..

Flying ..
watching ..
You'd ...
kill ..
You ..
you're ..

Don't ..
Don't ..

Drying ...
All ..
you ..

Don't ..

Solo: (on a single string)

B-5-5-4-5-5--4-5-5--4-5s7s5-4--5-5-4-5-5-2-0----2---4-

B-5-5-4-5-5--4-5-5--4-5s7s5-4--5-5-4-5-5-2-0----------


It's ..
best ...
It's ..
the ..

Don't .....

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fake plastic trees

Special thanks to: et-lee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu


Okay, this is pretty accurate, I took the chords that Gene listed and
put them to the lyrics, figuring out the exact changes and the strumming
pattern. It sounds almost perfect when I play along to my CD and it
works well enough.


Strumming pattern:

e---------------------- (only strum for the D chord)
B----------x-----------
G----------x-----------
D---x-x----x-----------
A---x-x----x----------- (for the D chord, don't play this string...)
E--don't play----------

(4 of the above strums equals what you should play for
each chord when it changes)

(on the D/A/D change play 2 strums D, then 2 strums A, then 4 strums D)


Start strumming A for the intro, come in with
the lyrics on the second strum of the pattern)

A F#m
Her ..
E D
For ..
A D
In ..
A F#m
That ..
E D
In ..
A D
To ..


Bm
It ..
A
It ..
Bm
It ..
A
It ..


She ..
A ..
Who ..
He ..
For ..
But ..


And ..
It ..
It ..
It ..


She ..
She ..
My ..
But ..
I ..
If ..

And ..
It ..
It ..
It ..
And ..
If ..
All ..
All ..

A (with more energy)
F#m (with more energy)
D (with more energy, no change this time)

(end on) A

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[nice dream]

[Intro by Kasper van Benten]

C-B-Bb-A (x2)

A D
they ..
E
they ..
A D
they ..
E
gave ...

Bm E A
nice ...

i ..
but ..
she ..
the ...

Bm E A F#m
nice..

nice ..
nice ..
nice ..
nice ..
nice ..
nice ..

[anyone for the bridge section?]

Then back to "nice dream"

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just

Intro: C D# D F (3x)
C: x35553
D#: x68886
D: x57775
F: x81010108

Didn't figure out any more of this song..... YET!


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my iron lung

Here's how to play the beginning:


(bend and
release)
--------10-------------7-------------8------------------------
-----8------8-------8-----8-------8-----8----10-/-\----8------
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
-10-------------8-------------6-------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------

--------10-------------7-------------8-----11-----11----------
-----8------8-------8-----8-------8-----8------8------8-------
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
-10-------------8-------------6-------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------

--------10-------------7-------------8---10---11---10---8-----
-----8------8-------8-----8-------8---------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
-10-------------8-------------6-------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------

--------10-------------7-------------8-----11-----11----------
-----8------8-------8-----8-------8-----8------8------8-------
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
-10-------------8-------------6-------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------

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bullet proof..i wish i was

Verse: C Bm G D

Chorus: G D C

bullet ..

so ..
lead-..
i ..
all ..
bullet ..

bullet ..

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Its in 3 BTW

D
You ..
D
The ..
D
You ..
C G
sulk
D
Sit ..

(pre-chorus and chorus)

D
G C
Sometime ..
D
sometime ..
G C
God ..

For the end of the song (last chorus) we go up a tone to A-D-E for the
chorus.

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street spirit [fade out]

This just has three really easy picking patterns in it, plus a few bits
over the top which I can't be bothered to work out...

FIG A:

Am Asus4 Am Asus2
E-|---------0---------------0---------------0-----------------------|
B-|-----------------3---------------1---------------0---------------|
G-|-----2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2---|
D-|---------------------------------------------------------2-------|
A-|-0---------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|


FIG E:-

Em Em7 Em6 Em
E-|---------0---------------0---------------0-----------------------|
B-|-----------------3---------------1---------------0---------------|
G-|-----0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0---|
D-|---------------------------------------------------------2-------|
A-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-0---------------------------------------------------------------|


FIG C:-

C Cadd9 C Cmaj7
E-|---------0---------------0---------------0-----------------------|
B-|-----------------3---------------1---------------0---------------|
G-|-----0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0---|
D-|---------------------------------------------------------2-------|
A-|-3---------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|


Intro: A
Verses: A E
Chorus: C E A


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SPECIAL CHORDS

F#m7(11) 2022000

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