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Band: Portishead
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:42 pm
by chingalera_Archive
cant wait for a new one...both studio albums are flawless...and the live one aint bad either
Band: Portishead
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:49 pm
by glynnisjohns_Archive
To be honest as much as the first record kicks ass, i find the song cowboys to be one of P-Heads best.
Band: Portishead
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:28 am
by Josef K_Archive
Anyone seen them live?
I saw them in Edinburgh a few years ago. It was a seated gig, so the whole experience was more like watching a film than a band. A very good film, though.
Band: Portishead
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:09 am
by Benny_Archive
glynnisjohns wrote:To be honest as much as the first record kicks ass, i find the song cowboys to be one of P-Heads best.
agreed.
i listened a lot to the 2 Portishead records last week. it´s amazing how "un-dated" they are. compared with other things from that era (drum n bass, david bowie's 'earthling', eww), it sounds great, and the production is amazing. it´s always only 3 or 4 elements, or even less, and it works incredibly well.
plus, now that i play guitar, i can know how incredible is all the guitar playing in the record.
Band: Portishead
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:32 am
by SecondEdition_Archive
Dummy was one of those records that really sounded like it'd been made in outer space. I had no real point of reference to it when I first heard it. All I knew was that it was amazing and utterly beautiful. I remember when I first got it - in Chicago on a school trip, and I had it playing as I was walking the streets of Chicago at night after it had rained and it was all wet and foggy and dark in the city. I don't think you could even find a better atmosphere for a first-time listen to Portishead.
Absolutely not crap. The second album is actually really scary in places ("Cowboys," "All Mine," and especially "Humming"...good lord), but it isn't flawless like Dummy was; there are a couple tracks on there which suck the dong (Seven Months and Elysium are horrid). But overall, still a marvelous effort, even if Beth Gibbons' relentless depression gets a little hard to stomach after a while.
I never did hear the live album. I remember getting all excited when I heard they'd be putting out an album in...what, 2003 or so, called Alien, but that turned out to be a rumor. I fell completely for it too...well, now they're actually gonna release a new one. Hopefully it's as good as the second album was. I'm honestly not expecting another Dummy.
Band: Portishead
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:16 am
by The Code is Almighty_Archive
Everything they've done sounds like the soundtrack to an old James Bond film. And I have no problem with that.
Not Crap.
Does everyone have the 'To Kill a Dead Man' ep?
Band: Portishead
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:40 pm
by SecondEdition_Archive
The Code is Almighty wrote:Everything they've done sounds like the soundtrack to an old James Bond film. And I have no problem with that.
Not Crap.
Does everyone have the 'To Kill a Dead Man' ep?
Nope. But I've seen the movie. It really kind of sucks, but it's also really fun in a completely amateurish way. Not a word of dialogue...probably a good thing. They used a lot of the footage for the "Sour Times" video too.
The best Portishead video is doubtlessly "Only You." What an amazingly bizarre video that is.
Band: Portishead
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:28 pm
by Marsupialized_Archive
Band: Portishead
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:38 pm
by big_dave_Archive
Marsupialized wrote:People are looking in really all the wrong places for the new Sabbath, if you ask me
Is it on Tuesdays now?
Band: Portishead
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:47 pm
by SecondEdition_Archive
Beth Gibbons = Ozzy Osbourne?
you know, I could kind of see it, too...
bizarre...but only kind of, I can't imagine Beth singing "N.I.B." even if I tried, that would be too traumatic