I actually quite like it and it works really well in the context of the film.
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 April 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVe-9VWIcCo
this cover is tight. jeez y'all
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
If they keep that woozy spacey production style for their next album I'll be chuffed.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
Yes it's good, but who else had an urge to listen to the original immediately after it was over.
― daavid, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
So this have had a bakers dozen looks like.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 September 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
great selections
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
Roads should be #1
A Tribute To Monk & Canatella is my #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSUE8fFlwWY
& Where's Biscuit? and It Could Be Sweet?
― Kat Slater Slag meme (jed_), Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:44 (six years ago) link
biscuit is awesome
my ten (don't really know the 3rd album well)
mysteronsstrangersnumbbiscuitcowboysall mineundeniedhalf day closingmourning aironly you
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
theme from to kill a dead man is great too
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
Missed them on the third tour. Anyone see them? This band has such a sparse discography but I guess at least there’s that Beth gibbons solo record
― Y'all (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
Hopefully you've caught everything Beak> has done, which is excellent and more or less carrying on from Third's Krautrocky starting point (but of course lacking Gibbons)?
― Soundslike, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
Havent heard it but I know Adrian has been on goldfrapps records ??
― Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
I saw them at the atp they curated which was just before third came out
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 30 June 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
I saw them live in 96 and I saw them live for the Third tour. They were fantastic both nights but I’d maybe give the win to the Third show. Every song overcharged with emotion. Delicately powerful.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
"It's a shame that there are only three records by Geoff Barrow's musical project. At least the singer formed another band and did one album, once, 16 years ago."
- you might enjoy checking out that Geoff Barrow has four albums, two live albums, and half a dozen EPs as BEAK>, an album and an EP producing and backing Anika, five albums of score with Ben Salisbury, and production work for eight or so other artists, plus session work.
"Nah. Imagine if the dude who did session work on three tracks on his first album, who has been a professional session musician for three decades, had done a few sessions for another band though!!!"
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
When you can spot a sic post in the first 2 words
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 2 July 2018 07:27 (five years ago) link
Best concert I've ever seen was them on the Third tour at Brixton Academy. Incredibly memorable
― mickcsmith (micarl), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
Did they play machine gun? ^^^
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
#Dummy25 22/08/1994 pic.twitter.com/lD0logm5bh— Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) August 21, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
having my mind blown hearing this for the first time on KCRW and going straight to Tower Records the next day to pick it up. damn that was 25 years ago!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 August 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
I wonder how I first heard it? Not the video/single. Did I go into it blind, based on reviews? Maybe. I recall it being put to great use in the vampire movie "Nadja."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
Steve Lamacq played, not Sour Times but Sour Sour Times the remix version from the CD, on the Radio 1 Evening Session, a coupla weeks before release of the single. I can still vividly recall frantically looking for a pen to write the title down with. Weird how no-one really knew about the Massive Attack connection for quite a while, i think The Face had probably done a piece on them by then but i wasn't hip to that yet. DL of this parish did a really good piece in Q about Dummy in 2017. I'd forgotten that it all came together via the Enterprise Allowance Scheme.
― piscesx, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
I remember hearing "Sour Times" on the radio and thinking "I don't care who this group is, I am buying this immediately"
I also remember having a conversation several months later with my mom where I was gushing about the album and she said "Oh I just heard this NPR story about some similar music, I really liked it and I'll have to find some reference to it when you come to visit later" and when I was home next and saw the info, it was a story about Portishead, lol.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
i thought i was such a dope hip hop producer after dropping samples of this in my buddies MPC60 and making little loop beats.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
One of the few times I can distinctly remember the first time I heard something. I was at uni when it came out and don't think I was listening to the radio as much or I might have heard it there; instead I was in someone's room and they played Mysteron, very much in a This Is An Event kind of way. The theremin + drum roll sold me on it straight away.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
I first heard this during a, uh, chemical episode, & "Roads" sent me into a paranoid freakout that lasted a couple of days. I bought the album soon thereafter and have stayed away from the chems ever since.
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
My college raver friends would always play this when we hung out in their dorm room smoking weed.
A rare perfect album.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
instead I was in someone's room and they played Mysteron, very much in a This Is An Event kind of way
n.b. this person later achieved 15 minutes of minor fame by remonstrating with Russell Brand outside of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
Ahh was hoping for a deluxe edition of this throwing in all remixes, versions and the 'To Kill A Dead Man' soundtrack. Maybe in another 25 years.
lol trump-esque discogs commenters
DOCTOR_DIATRIBE23 April 20, 2017edited over 2 years ago referencing Numb, 12", Single, Promo, GODX 114, 857 561-1 Love Numb the LP version but the other mixes just don't work!.In fact they are very crap as the music and vocals do not fit!... But they would if they were instrumentals!!!!!! Oh yes Earth Linger would be a moody banger in the vain of Hindsight by DJ Shadow!....Also A Tribute To Monk & Canatella is a nice slow hod nodder/swayer that sounds more like a tribute to Bob James ala Nautilus... 5***** for Numb + A Tribute To Monk & Canatella orig but the others left me not only numb but comatose! Shame!
― nashwan, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
Back in those weird 90s days of CD bootlegs juuuuust pre-dated CDR compilations of B-sides and EPs and things (not that I would know anything about that), I found this for reasonably cheap and was not complaining (it was almost certainly less than the cost of the actual import singles combined):
https://www.discogs.com/Portishead-Non-Album-Tracks/release/630440
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
YSI?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Astounding.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
I heard Sour Times on the radio on a rainy day while waiting in my mom's van as she ran errands. And I was immediately super in-love with it. I was just waiting for it to come on again. But I was nervous about buying the record for some reason. Didn't think it would be as good or something, expected filler, etc.
But then a friend of mine turned it on while we were driving around getting high and I was blown away. I still didn't buy the album though, just because my friend had it and we were always together.
Skipped the self-titled, but dipped back in when Roseland NYC Live came out, and I bought the Sour Times single on that same day.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 22 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
i remember seeing the video of "sour times" on mtv. it had nothing to do with the video which is on youtube these days. it was a kind of live video where you could see beth gibbons sing irc. i was totally blown away, i had never heard of the band before and nobody of my friends knew them. i was afraid to forget their name and that the band would be soon forgotten, they were totally obscure. the sadness in her voice grabbed me completely and i thought that this music was made only for me. i would have never thought that they would have so much success later on but if i remember well it took a couple of months before they really took off. of course i am very happy that they made it.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
maybe it was on 120 minutes as that was more or less the only programme i folowed on mtv.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
i picked up both original Sour Times cd singles (99p each) with some insane remixes/retakes, and fell hard.still think the 'airbus reconstruction' (sounds like an early studio live version) is the best version.
― mark e, Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
KEXP is playing through the album with song-by-song commentary from Barrow and Utley: full interview audio stream and text excerpts here
https://www.kexp.org/read/2019/8/22/portisheads-geoff-barrow-and-adrian-utley-breakdown-dummy-25-years-later/
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
lol at automated transcription
Andy Smith, who was an old maid from Portishead,
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/arts/music/portishead-dummy-anniversary.html
Barrow would really prefer not hearing about the time(s) you fucked to Dummy.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 23 August 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
Shouldn't have made so many slow jamz
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 23 August 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
still think the 'airbus reconstruction' (sounds like an early studio live version) is the best version.
airbus is an entirely different band! I love the hell out of that version as well.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 23 August 2019 08:18 (four years ago) link
well i never, i had no idea.ta for the pointer.
― mark e, Friday, 23 August 2019 09:33 (four years ago) link
He gave them a tape with a click track on it and Beth Gibbons’ vocal, refusing to play them the full song until they’d written and recorded the music.
Wow I never knew this either, what a great idea
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 23 August 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
I still haven't heard Airbus on their own though, to my shame.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 23 August 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
I picked up a cheap used vinyl copy of Dummy about a week after release from the Hackney branch of Music & Video Exchange, where it was filed under Hip-Hop.
― fetter, Friday, 23 August 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
my favourite kind of "hip-hop". probably they confused hip-hop with trip-hop...
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
Everybody is saying "Sour Times" "Sour Times" "Sour Times". The first PH song I heard was "Glory Box", and many times over, and the contrast of Beth Gibbons's cutesy delivery on the verses and her belting out the choruses reminded me of.. Jewel. And so I ignored this band until "All Mine" came out-- again, with the cutesy delivery? but irresistible. I don't think I listened to "Dummy" in its entirety until 2000. "Glory Box" was a misleading single! It works on the album sequence but on its own there is nothing to distinguish it from like.. Sneaker Pimps or whatever.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 23 August 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
I was in music limbo, cut off from radio and new releases, between the summer of 94 and end of 96, so only heard these guys once they had gained overexposure and kept being played in bars or student parties, which instinctively turned me off. For the longest time, I did not distinguish between 'Glory Box' and 'Hell Is Round The Corner'. It's "All Mine" and the 2nd album that brought me in.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
except Sneaker Pimps came out 2 years after and were an obvious knockoff xp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
i mean it's really not fair comparing them to groups that came out and copied their whole thing .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link