Portishead, Dummy

kramerica · Post by **kramerica** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:59 am

Looks like it works for Mac and Linux now too.

http://www.listen.com

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:10 am

nylarch · Post by **nylarch** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:39 am

Lambs first album is brilliant. Second one has its moments but IMHO they started to lose their way by becoming more of a band and getting a little hippie-ish. Better off when they were just that crazy f*cker DJ and the singer. The programming on that first record is redonkulous.

Red Snapper went the same route - the first record (Prince Blimey) is perfection then they started having all these guest rappers and whatnot and went a bit wack. So many great loops on Prince Blimey - the drum sounds are fantastic.

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:46 am

I've just been listening to 100th window and overall I quite like it

but is it just me or does the 7th track "a smalltime shot away" sound alot like a Bjork track - the bassline and high twinkly noises are pretty damn close

glu · Post by **glu** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:53 am

forge wrote:tnx!

your scripting software isn't working

sorry, just started reading the manual for auto hotkeys.

Cryptic UK · Post by **Cryptic UK** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:12 am

Gorecki amazing tune.

did any of you get the massive attack singles box set the b sides are class i really like the remix of eurochild from the protection album i think its called euro zero on the teardrop single.

100th window is a good album, its just my least favorite one.

Cryptic UK · Post by **Cryptic UK** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:10 pm

Another good album from that time.....Homogenic by bjork.

Spikee · Post by **Spikee** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:37 pm

kramerica wrote:I should mention that Rhapsody (the subscription music service) is the best investment I ever made, and it's where I discovered 80% of the trip hop I listed way above. You can listen to the entire albums and libraries of these artists, and it links you to their influences, contemperaries, and followers. I wouldn't have found Lamb without it, for example (I think I started with Portishead and/or Massive Attack).

I agree. I also have Rhapsody and it's shocking how deep their catalog is. I was shocked to find Seefeel's Quique in its entirety

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:25 pm

I had many many late nights spent in a psylocibic haze listening to Dummy over and over and over again.
"Man, the CD's over, what now?"
"Just this play"
"Good idea"

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:22 am

I've been listening to Massive attack's 100th window again and it really is growing on me

it's alot more subtle than the past ones - not as much of a big mind blower - but then the whole musical landscape is different now - they(he?) couldnt blow us away in the same way again

but I'm really finding it's a nice album

there's something alot more bleak about it - even the "prayer fro england" one is quite final - like the soundtrack to the end of the world

they always had that apocalyptic feel, but after looking at the website and listening against the backdrop of the shit going on in the world it really feels like musc for the end times

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:27 am

That album just reminds me of being a student, too stoned to move and just staring at the wall. I don't think I'd have the patience to listen to it now, I'd be worrying that I should be doing something.

I miss those days, when time was for wasting and I laughed at the idea of mortality!

ploy · Post by **ploy** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:50 pm

after years the songs themselves are a bit flat, but the sounds and clarity still is impressive.

top 50, thats enough.

Contra · Post by **Contra** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:15 pm

y'all prolly gonna hate me, but i prefer listenin to their self-titled album instead of dummy. dummy still shits on alot of music that came out after it.

pz

Contra · Post by **Contra** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:17 pm

brightonalex wrote:That album just reminds me of being a student, too stoned to move and just staring at the wall. I don't think I'd have the patience to listen to it now, I'd be worrying that I should be doing something.

I miss those days, when time was for wasting and I laughed at the idea of mortality!

then old age settles in and yur like "wtf! time to get busy and work"

Novel · Post by **Novel** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:49 pm

brightonalex wrote:That album just reminds me of being a student, too stoned to move and just staring at the wall. I don't think I'd have the patience to listen to it now, I'd be worrying that I should be doing something.

I miss those days, when time was for wasting

Sounds like a lyric, there..

I miss those days /
when time was for wasting /
Now I wake up in the morning /
and it's guilt that I'm tasting /

Portishead, Dummy

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