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Portishead is the second studio album by the English electronic music group Portishead, released on 29 September 1997 by Go! Discs. With Portishead, the band chose to eschew sampling other records, which had been a defining feature of their debut album Dummy. Instead, they created original pieces which they wove into the songs, resulting in a more textured sound. The only song to employ samples was "Only You", which incorporates elements of Ken Thorne's Inspector Clouseau score and The Pharcyde's "She Said". "Western Eyes" is listed as sampling "Hookers & Gin" by the Sean Atkins Experience in the album's liner notes. In reality, this song does not exist; like most of the samples on the album, it was created by the band. The album cover is a still image from the music video of the song "All Mine".
There was a Portishead album on the original list. There were hundreds of 90s UK electronic albums on the original list. wtf is wrong with you? 1/5.
I’m glad someone put this on here because even though this doesn’t beat out dummy, I think it’s better than 3. There are a couple songs on here that’re just fantastic. Humming was probs my fav. Beth gibbons is just too good.
A solid album by Portishead. Not as great as the other two studio albums or the live recording, but still a pleasure.
The three album run of Portishead is a gradual transformation from gloopy fungus music to James Bond villain theme songs. Every time I listen to this album, I find myself enjoying it more and more than "Dummy". It might honestly be their best. Certainly has the most vivid soundscapes of their catalogue.
Rating: 9/10 Best songs: Cowboys, All mine, Undenied, Seven months, Only you
Awesome.
Another great album from Portishead
Very soothing triphop
Tales of pain and despair set to a murk of electronica. I much prefer this over the popular sample heavy Dummy. I think Third is even better.
Textbook portishead
5 stars on a moody, gloomy, and or doomy day!
Some songs I loved, others were hard pass. At least it's interesting 3.6
I was new to Portishead on this project, so I don’t have a lot of context or ability to distinguish this a lot from the other albums. A lot of that dramatic cinematic music and haunting lyrics. Great!
Now all the Portishead albums are included. Deserved? Yes
Another great Portishead album. I still think Dummy is their magnum opus, but the other two records and fantastic to be fair. This one doesnt have the catchiness of some of the tracks from Dummy but is also generally not quite as eerie and ruminative as Third about a decade later.Instead Gibbons’ vocals are a lot more present in the mix and more theatrical, a la Kate Bush, before the distant grooves really kick in. It’s a great stepping stone between the single-heavy debut Dummy and the more mature and obscure Third - the darkness is there for sure but it’s peeping through rather than decaying everything
Not sure this is as good as Dummy, but still really enjoyable.
This and other female led bands from the 90s were genre defining
Yeah easily their worst. Still good though
A pleasant walk through English electronica.
This was a lot of the same for me, chill track with some voice here in there saying something about something
This band intersects with my tastes on paper, but I can never quite get into it. Emotionally I find the music very monotonous.
Sits right in between 'Dummy' and 'Third' for me, enjoyed the more prominent trip-hop/DJed elements but some tracks still drag on without enough meat on their bones to justify the track length.
Pretty good, not as good as their first album though. I do like that there was less sampling. 3 stars.
Trip hop, acid jazz. Ni fu ni fa.
Beautiful
Good album, but I prefer the ones of the list, still worthy of inclusion in its own right though.
Portishead was one of my controversial artists; on the main list I gave them a 2 and a 5. Which brings us to the main point -- there's already two of these on the main list. Minus a star for pretty much failing to understand the assignment. As far as the album itself, didn't love it. Very well executed and super atomspheric, I think they probably accomplished exactly what they were going for. But it isn't a world I personally want to visit or spend time in.
Portishead is the most overrated shit 1 It's not even just that I don't like it. I can't see how anyone could like it.
Any other artist/band have their whole discography in this list? Because portishead now does. Not sure if all three needed to be added let alone anything other than Dummy. The self titled album opens in quite a rough way but then smooths out a little bit more as it progresses. The instrumentals are always something portishead has done well with the trippy clandestine sound but the singer is what makes or breaks their albums and this one was not too good. This one finished in third place…out of three. 3.4/10
no thanks. terrible, terrible vocals.