You know what? I wasn't feeling this to start off. In fact, I was prepared to make some sort of joke about how no one has ever seen the world's biggest trip hop fan and the creator of this list in two separate locations at the same time. Because clearly the guy who made this list is the One True Trip Hop Fan of All Time and there's no arguing the point. And I won't argue that Third is in any way as good as Portishead's other stuff, but by the end I was pretty won over. "The Rip" is a pretty fantastic song. I liked "Threads" a lot, too. And really, everything in between was kind of working for me in a way that is different from the way their other stuff does. There's a more alternative bent to these songs, maybe? I don't know. I just know I liked it.