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@lauraanne5175 Жыл бұрын
awesome video! Would love to see your take on early eels and eels now. Also thanks for free month on skill site, Ive been wanting to learn garage band!
@benpotaka5893 Жыл бұрын
Before 1994 I was strictly Thrash Black and Death Metal but was blindsided by Portishead and Massive Attack and it wasn't welcomed by my comrades at all, fuck them 🖕🏼
@jdgonzo19823 жыл бұрын
i was bullied at school for liking Portishead and Bjork!! Used to have their band names written on my pencil case!! I'm still proud of my 14 year old self... :)
@MonsieurSansHonte3 жыл бұрын
As you should be!
@whiteeulogianraven79953 жыл бұрын
Look around you, we still are that kid. At my 38 years old... Proud of the music I liked and Like.
@leeperola70233 жыл бұрын
Good on you. I'd of beaten up your bullies for sure in school. 🏴
@twomindz793 жыл бұрын
Should be for liking bjork. It's terrible.
@Music-tg5is3 жыл бұрын
@@twomindz79 You might just be needing that 'unused wheelchair' Clark, if you keep on like that. Someone will Kyrptonite yo a$$!
@matthews78053 жыл бұрын
Dummy was easily one of the best albums of the 90s.
@colinpee3 жыл бұрын
Of all time, ask me.
@asvegas7773 жыл бұрын
90s no brainer. Of all times - unknowable... but my lifetime and the lifetimes of anyone I know - yeah, probably.
@capoeirastronaut3 жыл бұрын
Easily.
@inthefade3 жыл бұрын
Of course. As someone who got sick of it in the 2000s, I've come back to it recently and it is just astoundingly good. All three of their albums are of equal caliber imo, but I'm very into the weirdness of 3rd even though I know it isn't intended to have as broad of an appeal.
@arghjayem3 жыл бұрын
Dummy and OK Computer.
@davidrobinson27763 жыл бұрын
It’s because Beth didn’t give up smoking and didn’t have lessons that makes her one on the greatest voices ever.
@BeastyBite Жыл бұрын
smoking was part of the onstage-identity of beth gibbons as form of counter cultural appearance to the perfect pop world.
@veganvocalist4782 Жыл бұрын
yes , she is a REAL artist , not put together by the old male handlers in the loan shark " MUSI" ? industry ;D)))
@fdfsdfsvsfgsg48889 ай бұрын
@@veganvocalist4782 Smoking fags makes you a "real artist"? If only it was that simple. That comment alone speaks volumes about how easily kids like you fell for the emperor's new clothes that was the "cool" music of that era.
@1024dram17 күн бұрын
@@veganvocalist4782jewish handlers
@nikfiendluvr6663 жыл бұрын
My dad gifted my his cd copy of Dummy when I was about 14/15 (I was also just coming out of an emo phase). He said about the album "this one's depressing, you'd like it". I instantly fell in love.
@PYC3343 жыл бұрын
hahah, what a cool dad
@gabe_s_videos2 жыл бұрын
Your dad sound cool :)
@veganvocalist4782 Жыл бұрын
haaahaa ;D))) great dad
@taylorig8 ай бұрын
I have also gifted Portihead to my now, 31yr old son. Back when they started. And he is so grateful now. Feels like a win as a dad 😉
@Darrenski7 ай бұрын
Well, I'm trying to get my 17 year old daughter into portishead and massive attack etc, but she's locked into a goth/siouxsie/bauhaus phase and thinking she's so different and edgy she isn't capable of listening to art that doesn't have a goth element. So glad I grew up in era when ppl could just listen to what they liked without feeling they needed to belong to a tribe. I was listening to Bristol music at the same time I was listening to Manchester and Seattle music. Metal, shoegaze, electronic music, IDM etc, I was never limited by a genre and never felt the need to have a tribe
@PoorMuttski3 жыл бұрын
the press thought "Glory Box" was about wanting traditional marriage? had they heard the song? it is obviously about a woman who is tired of faking "traditional" relationships and wants someone who will appreciate her and will work for the relationship. She says right in the refrain, "Give me a reason to love you." I love this song for that, too. too much Pop music is about whining about your crappy relationship and just accepting abuse because of "love". its nice to hear a song where someone says, "fuck this. It's YOUR turn to work for it."
@asvegas7773 жыл бұрын
Right? I don’t know how you can think that except if you only hear “i just want to be a woman” and nothing else and then put your trad twist on it...
@asvegas7773 жыл бұрын
Also the original video for this is set in the 50s and shows a bunch of male and female characters but is hardly traditional for the 50s or the 90s or even now really, with the characters crossdressed with no explanation. I mean, it’s not like these people are stripping or having sex, but they went in that direction of putting on gender persona presumably for some reason. (Video keeps getting pulled down of KZbin and Vimeo but can be found on Dailymotion I believe)
@dadwax3 жыл бұрын
Portishead - Roads in Roseland NYC from 1997 is one of the best live performances ever recorded
@AcmePotatoPackingPocatello3 жыл бұрын
Stunning .... I always tear up, watching that performance.
@Rikki4423 жыл бұрын
I agree completely.
@JustinJadunath3 жыл бұрын
You're gatdamn right!
@vesperflute90303 жыл бұрын
I can play it on my head, and it still hits me like a truck
@l0oshkin3 жыл бұрын
Fuckin A right!!!
@catloverkitten103 жыл бұрын
I’m so impressed that they physically scratched up their own vinyl and then looped it. Who does that?
@jdoedoenet3 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Reminds me a bit of Radiohead trying to get a good reverb sound when they were recording "In Rainbows." Their solution was to mic up a speaker that was hung on a rope half way down an old stone well shaft. (And it sounds every bit as amazing as it should!) There's a photo here: radioheadassets.s3.amazonaws.com/deadairspace/images/downthewell.jpg Some artists go the extra mile...
@JurgenKranz3 жыл бұрын
Think it's a technique public enemy used in their early work. Though pressing up your own vinyl, then scratching it, is a pretty cool extension.
@CorbCorbin3 жыл бұрын
Everyone did back then. It was when lo-fi was becoming very popular, and now there are effects made to make pristine beats, whether acoustic or digital, sound like a record that’s been used over and over. Even some having Vynil wobble, scratches, even stuttering repeats, with controls to muffle the tone as much as one wants.
@47fortyseven473 жыл бұрын
its trying to recreate the sound of sampling old bashed up records
@Bigotedechivo3 жыл бұрын
@@jdoedoenet they did that to the entire album or just one song? that's insane. I love them u.u
@d_inkz3 жыл бұрын
This band helped me cry out the crap during some dark times.
@DemonatasHatesYou3 жыл бұрын
and celebrate just as many. The roseland set is literally music to murder by.
@pizzaperson13 жыл бұрын
I was so lucky to be a teen at that time.
@alexnagy20443 жыл бұрын
Because:🚬🎤 "Blackness of darkness forever" 🙏🏻 I'm glad to you! btw✌🏻
@theant26513 жыл бұрын
Roads was always my favourite Portishead song. The opening makes me shiver every time.
@jakeholt48533 жыл бұрын
For years I couldn't stop listening to Roads on repeat. Still right up there with my favourite songs
@knownunknowns5893 жыл бұрын
Amen to that! Gibbons' tortured vocals cut so deep. I love it.
@alexandraanna60953 жыл бұрын
Most heartbreaking.
@waynegoldpig22203 жыл бұрын
That song was sooooo made for putting in shagging scenes in movies.
@rosschops95093 жыл бұрын
Always makes me cry. Sat in the car and sobbed last week.
@davidellis51413 жыл бұрын
Along with Massive Attack , Portishead delivered the best music of the 90's. I just picked up Dummy on a vinyl reissue & it sounds Massive !
@jon-paulfilkins78203 жыл бұрын
It was certainly a good time for popular music. These days, things have got so fractured I have no idea where to start looking for the good stuff!
@michaelotis2233 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Tricky!
@davidellis51413 жыл бұрын
@@michaelotis223 I like that Nearly God with Poems on it ! Terry Hall as guest. Maxinquaye is pretty epic as well.
@michaelotis2233 жыл бұрын
@@davidellis5141 indeed, Bristol was arguably the best forward thinking music hub of the 90s
@asvegas7773 жыл бұрын
Can agree. Though the 90s had so much great music, “the best” is both a competitive and a luxury concept. I rarely think about it that way and just feel grateful that there’s the old faves to enjoy, and I even find the things I missed to this day. The reissues and remasters can be great also!
@sentientmeatcomputer80973 жыл бұрын
"Dinner Parties and Fornication" sounds like a cool album name
@evapalma98993 жыл бұрын
Pulp-esque. The title track would have an amazingly ironic singalong chorus
@MrMairu5553 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a good night in/out (er, in-out... in-out!) to me! 🤣🤣
@aelmore3 жыл бұрын
Ideal sexytime music.
@iainmcclure4162 жыл бұрын
Or an excellent weekend in the suburbs?
@MichaelThomas-be7gq3 жыл бұрын
Dummy is one of the greatest and one of the most meaningful albums of all time... simple as that.
@alexisc61363 жыл бұрын
That feeling of, "I know that beat, how did they get it to go on like that?" is such a magical thing for those who love the art of sampling. And then Portishead, on top of their game, sampled themselves. LOVE IT.
@staceymacey19787 ай бұрын
Dummy is 30 years old and it sounds like it could've come out yesterday. It was the 1 CD that never left the CD changer.
@crescentfresh80013 жыл бұрын
Portishead blew my mind when I discovered them (and trip hop in general). I had never heard anything like it.
@ghostrider26643 жыл бұрын
This album has a special place in my life. When I was in the US Navy, 94-98....i had recently just reported to my boat, and was qualifying and îlearning about the Los Angeles class fast attack submarine while underway. 24 hours on, 6 off is pretty much what you have to do when youre a newbie on board. Needless to say, when I retired to sleep, I slept. And Dummy is what lulled me to sleep. I shared my rack with a fully armed Mark24 torpedo. I hugged it when the really sad songs came on. I think Im in the unique position to say that Portishead's Dummy sounds amazing at 700 ft underwater. I love the entire album. Its a masterpiece.
@behanseck23 күн бұрын
Same story. Same torpedo room. Same band. Maybe WE are unique.
@mohsinrao43343 жыл бұрын
It was Portishead that made the members of Radiohead realize that if they carried on with the style, aesthetic and reckless juvenile antics of Pablo Honey, they would be hated and then forgotten about. Portishead taught them to say "No" to media fanfare and yes to constant experimentation in their music. We owe Portishead more than we will ever know.
@user-ux3vw6mb4k Жыл бұрын
How?
@destroytheangels Жыл бұрын
that sounds really cool, however, what is the source?
@mohsinrao4334 Жыл бұрын
@@destroytheangels Ed O'Brien said as much when talking to Adam Buxton on the AB podcast!
@NathanWind993 жыл бұрын
This channel has consistently great taste in subject matter. I always learn something, despite being a fan of just about every band featured.
@davidellis51413 жыл бұрын
That's a Fact !
@vannjunkin80413 жыл бұрын
So true. They drop a video, I tune in period.
@gavalar74853 жыл бұрын
It's like he's been going through my record collection and picking random LP's to chat about. Fantastic channel!
@veerchasm13 жыл бұрын
They aren’t underrated, they are BRILLIANT and probably the best thing to survive the 90’s
@420greatestqueen3 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@asvegas7773 жыл бұрын
Agreed but a lot of great things survived the 90s
@phlarrdboi3 жыл бұрын
Except for me
@thebeardedseeker56333 жыл бұрын
Trip-Hop's comeback is long overdue.
@evapalma98993 жыл бұрын
The latest trip hop type of song I heard was in that iPhone ad a while back. It was called Nothing Burns Like The Cold. I forgot the artist
@nickeshchauhan56613 жыл бұрын
Check out Thievery Corporation, I particularly love their albums Temple Of I & I, and The Mirror Conspiracy
@Unsilence4093 жыл бұрын
trip-hop's revival in the post-trap era, given all we know now, is gonna be incredible.
@ashley096913 жыл бұрын
@@Unsilence409 where is the revival :(
@Unsilence4093 жыл бұрын
@@ashley09691 I don't know. go poke Trip Hop with a stick and tell it to do something. it'll happen soon enough
@jcoltrane89763 жыл бұрын
Can Neneh Cherry finally get some love for her role advancing the genres of Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, and Electronic. It strikes me that she’s at the nexus of all the new directions taken in the late 80s and early 90s.
@pabloplato3 жыл бұрын
Homebrew is such an underrated album, Aphex Twin sampled a tune from it for Cow Cud Is A Twin.
@danthebikeguy4473 жыл бұрын
She had good teachers from her time as a backing singer for The Slits
@PhilippeLarcher3 жыл бұрын
@@danthebikeguy447 also her dad
@Covenantt6663 жыл бұрын
@@PhilippeLarcher The whole family is filled to the brim with musical talent.
@veeforvendetta41263 жыл бұрын
So many people didn’t get their music and probably still don’t. It was deliberate, raw, unique, bleak, cinematic brilliance.
@mattb1543 жыл бұрын
That's why Third was so necessary. Whatever else about it, it's an uncompromising statement of what Portishead has always intended to be.
@phlarrdboi3 жыл бұрын
You got it tho. Is like they made it just for you. Your a stone cold genius.
@vidabreve3 жыл бұрын
One can agree more or less with your opinions. It's ok, music is a highly subjective matter. But what no one can deny is that you are exceptionally good at telling things, you are precise and clear to communicate these complex and subtle subjects. I love your channel, congrats and greetings from Argentina
@jamesstewart77363 жыл бұрын
This guy from England agrees totally. This is very much my “cup of tea” would also recommend his videos about Dave’s “Black” and MIA’s “ Paper Planes” to name but a few.
@clockwork98253 жыл бұрын
The Roseland Live show???🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ best live show I’ve ever heard!! 😩😩😩😢😢😢
@zubileegluckgluck3 жыл бұрын
I discovered the DUMMY album in Albany, NY in 1995, at Lulu Cafe on Lark St. The group of lesbians who worked and socialized at the cafe/restaurant/gallery played the album obsessively, for months. Everyone was happy to listen. This album became a kind of soundtrack for this time period. We had so many great times to this album. DUMMY is an absolutely perfect album, and this track is its shining gem. Thanks for this video.
@ondrejhronec92203 жыл бұрын
There's nothing like portishead. They're so unique and Beth Gibbons is a DIAMOND with platinum voice. Their songs keep amazing me nowadays just as when I first listened to them. Roads make me cry, Biscuit is my smoke-a-blunt song and Glory Box is a masterpiece above all. And all of them are jewels. I wish I could meet Beth one day and tell her she's a legend to me and her voice has been a soundtrack of my moods for more than half of my life 🖤
@darkonedbc7 ай бұрын
One of the best albums I'll listen to start to finish
@matthewh5862Ай бұрын
Timeless songs, what a great era of music to live through.
@amandacogger30753 жыл бұрын
Portishead don't get no where near the amount of credit they deserve. Still love them
@jos91163 жыл бұрын
Must admit I always assumed Tricky was just sampling Portishead because they were mates (or visa versa). Didn’t know they were both sampling the same original source.
@helple553 жыл бұрын
right? maxinquaye is one of my favorite albums but always thought tricky's one was an homage to portishead. it it's true, that's kind of a dick move to listen to a demo without an official release and make your version of the same thing. tricky's did come out 6 months after dummy though.
@SerialExperimentsTim3 жыл бұрын
I saw Portishead live when they toured their second album and it was genuinely one of the loudest concerts I've ever been to. Amazing show, amazing band. I'm still haunted by the performance of Roads that night.
@mammouth2727 Жыл бұрын
Yes! I saw that show in Montréal. Easily the best show I have ever seen.
@Chromaticosomaermati3 жыл бұрын
The study and love poured into every video on this channel is such a gift to music. Seeing things again through the eyes of Trash Theory feels like unlocking an old attic where all your favourite things were put away for later when you need them more.
@DaveSCameronАй бұрын
Beautiful comment, best wishes ☘️
@KarlBoltzmann3 жыл бұрын
Well made. Portishead are timeless. I must have listened to Dummy front to back at least a hundred times.
@RandomButtonPusher3 жыл бұрын
A year and a half or so ago, I came into the studio to host an afternoon shift at our public radio station, WXPR, and the station manager asked if I might squeeze in a half-hour live performance by and interview with an Americana duo that was in town for a show. That sounded fine with me -- not hard to drop a couple sets from the playlist. Now I always have a featured album/cd that I play a cut off to start each hour, so with the visiting musicians packing up in the studio after a great set that started on the half, I turned back to the desk and announced, "And now for the next cut off today's featured disk, Dummy by Portishead." When I muted the mike, the singer/guitar player had a bit of a shocked look, and said, "Wow, I love Dummy ... that album got me through some tough times when I was younger." He couldn't believe that I was playing it on the radio in northern Wisconsin some 25 years later. Independent community radio -- gotta love it.
@pgielzakdesign8 ай бұрын
This is your peak content. I had a tear in my eye at one point. This band was with me, along Lamb and Beirut (4ad) my whole life. Thanx man.
@levi-homer3 жыл бұрын
never clicked so fast , he rlly knew i was going thru a portishead phase😒😒
@rvfiasco3 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking the same thing. Haha.
@alexnagy20443 жыл бұрын
Same stuff, and well I see we like the same great artists... Rap in Heaven DOOM🙏🏾🕊️✌🏻
@thegreatslothlord77963 жыл бұрын
Portishead may never be an active band releasing multiple albums but whenever they do it often feels magical and totally unique, I can never forget just how amazing it was just listening to Dummy for the first time and listening to instrumentals for songs like “Biscuit”, “Mourning star”, “Sour time”, “Glory box” and “It’s a fire” as well as Beth’s mysterious and out-of-this-world vocals she had that really made their songs feel timeless where even listening to the album again still feels magical and something I could just play endlessly.
@rossrreyes3 жыл бұрын
Portishead, Gibons, Barrow and Utley, gets you to a uniquely emotional place that no other band, not one single other band, has ever managed to do. They actually defined their own mood. Its remarkable really
@HollySomers7 ай бұрын
Played Portishead nonstop in college. Deeply love the music
@oddblood4203 жыл бұрын
Their cover of ABBA'S song S.O.S is so unbelievably beautiful and haunting they made it their own.
@elsongs3 жыл бұрын
I was in college when "Dummy" came out. I was feeling it all over. Even to this day, when I'm listening to my iPod on shuffle, and suddenly "Strangers" drops, the whole world stops and I step into this whole other realm for the next 4 minutes.
@neildunford2413 жыл бұрын
One of the best albums ever made, by one of the best bands ever. Their ability to sample & keep the "soul" of the samples - then add it to it, is what's always set them apart
@mcdarwin3 жыл бұрын
I saw them live in Minneapolis in 1995 at the Guthrie Theatre and it was one of the best sounding shows I have ever seen. Easily still in my top 10 favorite shows of all time. Fun fact: they gave out faux Ray-ban style sunglasses with the Portishead logo printed in white on the sides and I still have this pair today!
@davidellis51413 жыл бұрын
I liked the Let It Be record store. A guy named Ryan ran it. Super cool place.
@mcdarwin3 жыл бұрын
@@davidellis5141 Went there many times and knew Ryan. He had great in stores with artists and met The Church and Robyn Hitchock there.
@davidellis51413 жыл бұрын
@@mcdarwin Cool ! I marketed Starfish in 1988 & am looking forward to a reissue this summer. Sold Ryan imports in the 90's and always got in any Prince release !
@mcdarwin3 жыл бұрын
@@davidellis5141 At that very in store I had the band sign my Starfish cd along with Hologram of Baal cd (the release at the time). I even have The Sum of the Parts album promo release for Starfish which featured acoustic versions recorded in Minneapolis.
@davidellis51413 жыл бұрын
@@mcdarwin Those tracks are on the reissue. 40 years for The Church is remarkable. Cool.
@whiplashthunderhead42583 жыл бұрын
This is a song that came to me some 7 years after releasing I thought it utterly magical And a complete love affair began I have continued to listen to it every day for the past two decades Thanks for the retrospective ❤
@unkleenkil27643 жыл бұрын
Portishead: Glory box represents the hope and heartache of '90s Britain, the more thoughtful/soulful "big brother" to the hard and fast Brit pop phenomena. Each of their albums capture perfectly the essence of the times..looking backwards to look forward..certainly a soundtrack to my younger years. Underated maybe..but much loved and cherished by all who lived through that decade.
@ustheserfs9 ай бұрын
how refreshing to search portishead:dummy:documentary and discover this. a truly unique tale of a band and album that's past and future but never present.
@hazelpony50113 жыл бұрын
This band ( and dummy) was banned in south Africa. I rushed out to get my own copy ,once unbanned here,smoked a blunt and this band is the reason why I love music so much. These guys are musical gods!
@TempleOfTheMartyrs8 ай бұрын
WHEN WE STARTED OUR BAND,......PORTISHEAD WAS ON OUR MIND
@brandonblaylock52423 жыл бұрын
I became obsessed with Portishead in high school and I still love them now at 30 years old... Such great memories of great times...
@ProximaCentauri883 жыл бұрын
Dummy is the album I was so crazy looking around almost every record store around Manila in the 2000s.
@420greatestqueen3 жыл бұрын
I love Portishead. All their albums are masterpieces from start to finish
@Watcher41113 жыл бұрын
They recorded 3 albums, all masterpieces
@ThreadBomb3 жыл бұрын
I'd say not. The second album was half great. The third one was decent but not memorable.
@sinenomine87393 жыл бұрын
@@ThreadBomb Songs like Magic Doors made Portishead repeat themselves a little bit, but i am fine with that. If the album with The Rip and Machine gun is not memorable for you, that i don't even know what will. I think 2nd album is more meaningful, but sticks too much to the same tone. Dummy is wonderful, no doubt, but i don't like it's romantic themes of woman's fragility.
@platovsky Жыл бұрын
Portishead was a very important part of my teenage lifetime ❤
@iainwilson56603 жыл бұрын
It always amazes me how people of my ages don't know who these are this was one of the tracks/groups that was the sound track to my teens.
@martinbernier60833 жыл бұрын
Another great episode. The music of Portishead is so perfectly imperfect, haunting and sobering that it will be eternal. Thank you again for this great piece.
@alondathomas2933 ай бұрын
First heard Sour Times on an alternative station, and liked it right away. I also recognized the sample as being from the Mission Impossible soundtrack, which I was familiar with only because my aunt had it. I didn't find out until years later what the name of the exact song was until I got the CD years later. My brother had Dummy. so I just taped it on cassette, got hooked on it, and played it to death in my car's tape deck---this was around 1997 or so. That's how much I loved that album, lol. Glory Box was definitely one of my favorite songs, but I loved the entire album, because it was that good, and depressing, too.
@veganvocalist4782 Жыл бұрын
one of the best most distinctive production teams/creators ever , in the World of music. Still in love with their sound and have so much respect for them regards not chasing fame and dropping to their knees , to others wills
@roccosulz16223 жыл бұрын
Portishead and Cocteau Twins are the sound of my soul. Thank you for the Dokumentary and the background. It still touches my heart.
@Legend4ry3 жыл бұрын
This band has influenced so much of my life. It seems to be every huge moment in my life has had a Portishead track as the soundtrack. Their output has been small but its never felt forced or unauthentic and it manages to capture much more than just the time it was made. Their music feels like individual people telling you their story at the same time and it just some how connects pefectly with one another. When I eventually got to see them live and hear their music loud and in its rawest form, it felt like they was playing just to me. I don't know how a gig with 10,000 people can feel intimate but they did it. To me every song is perfect. Every sound, note and lyric was destined to be part of those songs in the exact combination they put them together in. They're the greatest band to ever do it.
@dexterrobinson25313 жыл бұрын
I’ve had this album it came out. A hidden gem. Blew my mind this album.
@Chickentendaz3 жыл бұрын
Portishead ‘s music for me is an emotion , a memory , even the first time I heard it. Gives me the chills. There creativity with sound is brilliant!! Even wrong sounds can be worked into. Some of my fav.
@mcmacshalfilya3 жыл бұрын
We love PORTISHEAD. Yes we do!! We love PORTISHEAD. How 'bout YOU!?!
@giri.goyo_yt3 жыл бұрын
Every one of their tunes are imprinted in my soul. Stupendous mini doc with excellent musical references. And no ads till the end! *Bows*
@Titaniumparts3 жыл бұрын
I was living in Bristol in the 90s and knew Adrian. Late December '93 a group of us, including Adrian, had rented a cottage in Devon to see in the New Year. Adrian had brought along a tape of some stuff that he'd been working on with Geoff and Beth, really excited about this unique sound they were trying to develop. This tape featured the as-yet unfinished demos of several of the tracks that would eventually appear on Dummy. So that was the first time that I heard it, in its nascent development form, around six months before they actually cut the album. True story.
@tinygaucho45723 жыл бұрын
It took me awhile to realize that Geoff Barrow is my favorite artist. Portishead, Beak, albums he's produced, etc., he's just an amazing talent.
@iainmcclure4162 жыл бұрын
I think the music to "Annihilation' is stunning too.
@brettoneal2293 жыл бұрын
Portishead are brilliant. Still light years ahead of anything.Thanks for all this info!
@JMG72ARG3 жыл бұрын
a classy and timeless masterpiece
@antipatsy3 жыл бұрын
This is what I needed. God, I love them. And they're as good live as they are on disc.
@EvanLyman3 жыл бұрын
Simply put, one of the most influential and underrated bands of all time.
@danielab45043 жыл бұрын
The first time i heard Portishead i was 11 and it was the song Strangers, a dear friend e-mailed to me and it became a before and after for me when it comes to music, opened my mind to a completely different world, i just couldn't believe what i was hearing, so different, beautiful, haunting and mesmerizing! The whole album is a masterpiece but particularly Strangers gets me high on their sound with such ease!
@LambentOrt4 ай бұрын
It's quite amazing that two equally amazing songs, Glory Box and Hell Is Around The Corner, came out of the same sample. I was totally obsessed with the two albums Dummy and Maxinquaye. They were so different from anything that I heard up until that point, and completely changed the way I thought about music. Portishead is probably my favourite band of all time.
@johnsmith-og2my Жыл бұрын
That Portishead sound, when I first heard it, sent shivers down my spine and made all of the hairs on my arms stand at attention. My ears were in awe and my mind was blown. A similar experience was had very recently when I heard La Jungle for the first time. Absolute Audio Extacy
@stephknarr3 жыл бұрын
I love Portishead
@Spudcore3 жыл бұрын
Dummy has seldom been out of my regular music rotation since the late 90s. It's one of the best albums of all time in my opinion. Fave track is probably Biscuit. So much atmosphere!
@tiyanawilliams50702 ай бұрын
'It could be sweet" gives me a Joni Mitchell feel❤ I love most of Portisheads productions. It's like exploring a film.
@montybrewster7 Жыл бұрын
Dummy is still as joyous & inspiring to me today as it was back in '94. Thanks for this great look back TT.
@benjamin.j.boatman3 жыл бұрын
How did I never notice Glory Box and Hell Is Around The Corner share that Isaac Hayes sample? I feel like a Dummy! lol
@jamesstewart77363 жыл бұрын
I’ve got about half a dozen tracks in my collection which use this sample. Glory Box is the best though IMO.
@rbb29843 жыл бұрын
Dunno. But Hell is Around The Corner is a much better song. Portishead could easily be the better musicians but Tricky is the more interesting. Controversial opinion of course.
@kaotekdj3 жыл бұрын
@@rbb2984 I agree, Hell is Around The Corner is just dripping with atmosphere and sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. Glory Box is great but like most Portishead I find it a bit cold.
@tomfurstyfield3 жыл бұрын
@@rbb2984 I totally disagree, musically Hell is Around The Corner is pretty much the loop, Tricky over the top without the emotion of Gibbons and that's it, and he just copied them without the instrumentation.
@good_king_guitarman13343 жыл бұрын
I know, i feel the same...
@MidlandAngler3 жыл бұрын
My all time favourite band .. unique and untouched by any one in my opinion.
@lorelei77543 жыл бұрын
Yes!!! So excited to see Portishead! One of my favorite bands! I still remember clearly the first time I heard them. I must of been 15, 16 maybe. Their music is deeply rooted in my life, like memories and photographs. I feel lucky that I got so into trip hop during my teenage years.
@killahrabbit14003 жыл бұрын
Give me a reeeeasssoon to love you Give me a reeeeeassoon to beeeeeeheee a woman
@phlarrdboi3 жыл бұрын
Beeeeheeee?
@FGSFDS3 жыл бұрын
“I just wanna be a womannn!”
@hippiemark013 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for making this, mid nineties was a massively influential time and I think British music at this time is so rich and varied its still keeps giving all these years later.
@barryhall73 жыл бұрын
I had to pause this to listen to dummy on vinyl. Great stuff. Another brilliant video 👍🏻
@rebootweb3 жыл бұрын
There is so much to Portishead. The more you listen to tracks the more you hear and pick out. Some of the samples are so weird but so great. And she may claim she is not a singer, but she so much is.
@MorningThief_3 жыл бұрын
i enjoyed Sneaker Pimps... they had the atmosphere of Portishead & had that one big song, 6 Underground, & i listen to "Becoming X", the album it comes from, from time to time...i still enjoy it
@davidellis51413 жыл бұрын
Post Modern Sleaze
@Nomo_Popo3 жыл бұрын
I think I'm the only person that prefers Splinter and Bloodsport
@foscojenkins68773 жыл бұрын
"I'm so tired of playing.. playing with this bow and arrow."
@ejpmooB3 жыл бұрын
ah ... now I get it, after 20 years
@Qlyphy3 жыл бұрын
Lovely essay on this timeless album, it still hits me like it did over 20 year ago, even though I was in a completely different time of my life and head space. I reckon it will still be doing the same in another 20 years. Great video, a real treat during some especially sour times.... (couldn't help myself)
@bitzbox3 жыл бұрын
I got a little bit excited when you mentioned Candie Payne. Massively underrated. Then again so are Portishead imo
@Cookie_DDD3 жыл бұрын
I am literally transported to 1994 when I hear Glory Box! Never knew that sample was Isaac Hayes. Great video
@iezurashah58163 жыл бұрын
Listen during my skooltime.. cassette n now i owed a vinyl!!! Its a must have item!!!!!
@TheFilmsKaper3 жыл бұрын
i adore their self titled, i feel unstoppable when i listen to it
@normaleehi7 ай бұрын
thanks man. what a class tribute to one of the greatest groups of all time. looking forward to Beths new record!!
@jacklondoner45793 жыл бұрын
An excellent study of the UK music scene from the 1990s. Well done.
@sabertoothrobot3 жыл бұрын
Loved that CD. Burned several mix CDs with Glory Box, usually as the finale. Later moved on to iTunes playlists, and Glory Box made it into several of those. I have now have one of those mixes on a USB stick in my car. I remember having mind blown when I learned they had recorded music to vinyl and sampled it to make the songs, now hearing they would abuse the record to give it that scratchy effect still boggles me. Amazing record, well worthy of another excellent Trash Theory video.
@lucasp.calheiros27553 жыл бұрын
Congratulations for this episode and this channel in general!!Portishead are in a league of their own in their mix of influences, mainly in the way they can create this atmospheres with such fresh choice of sounds. Dummy,in my opinion, is one of the best albums ever made, one of those albums which definitely change lifes. It gives you oxygen to dive in yourself.
@javierquirogacl3 ай бұрын
The quality of this historical research is absolutely bomb. thanks!
@SMbigpapi2 жыл бұрын
I Fucking Love Portishead's Music!! 20+ years later and I'm still vibing out to it!
@gepflegtePCSpieleKultur3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for presenting the Band, very Interesting Land/Soundscape... I like it a Lot...
@Bodyknowledge773 жыл бұрын
You're quite good at cultivating what you harvest. This was time well spent like the others.
@alexnagy20443 жыл бұрын
Finally a channel, who's introduced by PORTISHEAD in 2021 already!!! This is an eternal love with Beth, man! She's just simply the best... talanted, with a nice soul and beautiful face; her eyes so shiny! 🎤"Blackness of darkness forever"🚬 Thank you for everything, cuz' : "Nobody loves me it's true. Not like you do." 🙏🏻🏹🖤🕊️🌼✌🏻
@JDsHouseofHobbies3 жыл бұрын
Dummy is still to this day, one of my very favorite albums.
@Evan_Makeba3 жыл бұрын
After 30 years of having their music on my Spotify only NOW I found out their names. Be you and the world will follow indeed.