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intereact!Portishead
Retail Price (not our price): $13.98
Release Date: 1994-10-17
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
The collaboration of studio whiz Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons, Dummy was made at the same time as a short film noir called "To Kill a Dead Man," and the same approach--gloomy, tormented, and wildly melodramatic--permeates the album. "Sour Times" (the hit in which Gibbons cries, again and again, "Nobody loves me, it's true") and the more cryptic "Glory Box" are the linchpins of the album, defining its sound: dark flashes of old soul and film music, dehumanized electronic bleeps, Gibbons emoting like she's consumed by shame, and a bass-and-beat pulse derived from the slow bump and grind of the Bristol scene that spawned Barrow's old collaborators, Massive Attack. --Douglas Wolk
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Incredible Range [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is almost the perfect album. I bought this recently having listened to it years ago and it was like finding an old classical watch or something. It moved me. The hits are great of course- 'Sour Times' and 'Glory Box'. Songs like this just want you to run out and open a lounge with a blue light or something! Then there is the absolute gem in "It's a Fire' with that wonderful bass running through as her voice weaves between the notes. This album is a beautiful moment in time.2) Very strong album, but I prefer PNYC [Rating: 4 out of 5]
First, this is a phenomenal album, it creates an amazing atmosphere that feels both new and familiar. However, I gotta say that I prefer the live album PNYC(the dvd is even better.) Aside from the wonder of seeing the band and orchestra deliver an amazingly on-point performance, the interplay between the musicians (as opposed to the loops on the album) makes the songs really come alive. Anyway, Dummy is a great album nonetheless, and if you are coming at Portishead from an electronic, hip-hop or dance angle, then you will probably prefer this to PNYC. But if you're more into jazz, rock or classical than I advise to check out PNYC first.3) It's true; not like you do [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I love this CD. It has such slight presence but its power is unmistakable. The vocals are haunting, the music infinitely ambient. Portishead has the kind of elusive sound that you don't realize is being written in until you find yourself singing it later. Somehow Portishead was a wonderfully kept secret.4) a mighty trip (hop) [Rating: 4 out of 5]
portishead rocks!but the funny thing about this cd, with its echoing bass and drum lines, and the ghostly echoing lead vocals is that i love each song so much, i can't distinguish one from the other.this is not to say there is a sameness in the music. each track has its own character. but i swear, i don't remember a single name as i write this.5) Still ahead of its time. [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Portishead is the great tease of 90s music. Beth Gibbons continues to record, but Portishead created such complex and lush soundscapes that their limited catalog is simultaneously disappointing and sacrosanct.The beats and mix of instrumentation, the biting torch song lyrics and the haunting electronic synth bed are still sonically on the cutting edge of what artists are creating 10-12 years later.This album is full of languid trip hop beats that contrast well with Beth's tortured vocals.A must own for serious rock fans