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Phenomenal album!!
20 years! 20 years! WTF?
This album + cannabis = my uni years. 🙂
I can remember reading a small feature about Portishead in Time Out, which we used to get at work for the movie posters. As they were a local band, it piqued my interest, so I asked about them in a little record shop in Bath the next weekend, and they had the first single in, just released ahead of the album.
That was it, first listen on getting it home and I was smitten! Same thing happened with Goldfrapp, who are even more local to me, around Bath.
I think I've seen both bands every time they've played locally ever since.
Beth's great live, one minute all spooky ice queen at the mike, next grinning and waving at friends in the audience and bumming cigs and lighters from people at the front!
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Superb album. Superb era for music.
Feeling old +20. Superb album though, must dig it out and put the headphones on!
Superb album, remember being blown away first time I saw Beth Gibbons on the Ray Cokes show on MTV, Whatever happened to Ray?
kimbers - MemberThis album + cannabis = my uni years.
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https://soundcloud.com/mrsoundlike/portishead-essential-mix-23-04
OK, so it's really a DJ Andy Smith mix, but as he was their crate digger at the time, worth a plug here!
Only live at NYC surpasses it!
I was in India thoroughly stoned when it came out and someone turned up with it, fantastic. Glastonbury 95 they were billed for the acoustic tent, fortunately for me that tent was run by friends. I got to be on the sound desk out front. The whole festival tried to get in that tent, probably one of the best gigs I've ever been to.
The The's Soul Mining was 30 recently...
Superb era for music.
Maybe in Bristol. Everywhere else was sh!t!
20 years! Really?
Crumbs.
I couldnt get anywhere near the acoustic tent that night..oh well.
Soul mining is a desert island album for me. Mind bomb could do with a re release these days.
Roads still sounds breathtaking.
Glastonbury 95 they were billed for the acoustic tent, fortunately for me that tent was run by friends. I got to be on the sound desk out front. The whole festival tried to get in that tent, probably one of the best gigs I've ever been to.
I just about squeezed into a corner, with a lousy view, it was great 🙂
20 years. Gulp.
Saw them at Willesden empire.
I feel old.
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Saw them at Willesden empire.
I feel old.
YOU feel old? I was 40 when it came out... 😐
cheers allways nice to revisit some old tunes 23:00 🙂
Definitely the soundtrack to many a herbally enhanced evening...
Third is a superb album as well- much more sparse and challenging in style, but had that same freshness when it came out.
Wow, where have 20 years gone! Takes me right back 😉
Definitely an album to listen to on a "proper" format (CD/Vinyl) rather than this compressed nonsense we use these days......
, so I asked about them in a little record shop in Bath the next weekend
Remember being in a record shop with my brother with him quizzing the guy at the till "'Horses Head' it sounded something like 'Horses Head'" after catching a snippet of it on the radio.
Wow. 20yrs ago! Memories of being in our first house, only garden chairs to sit on and getting drunk on cheap wine 🙂
Wow. Everyone swinging on Jamie's nuts. 🙁
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/20th-anniversary-re-releases
Remember when you pretty much HAD to go to a record shop to find "new" music. Spending hrs fliping through the records and discs, looking for that little something that screamed "buy me" on the front cover art 😉
These days, i wonder if the concept of the "album" itself is now out of date?
Still in my all time top albums, great sound.
Still listen to this on a regular basis.... Roseland is the one that I go to first though.
I was near the front for that Glastonbury 95 show. One of my best gigs ever and no regrets that it meant I missed the famous Pulp headline show. I remember the totally-off-his-tits-on-God-knows-what Evan Dando had missed his slot in the acoustic ten earlier in the day, so they put him on before Portishead. It didn't go down too well as people had already been waiting round for hours for them. The bad reception he got caused him to stomp off shouting something about Glastonbury being a "god damn hippy **** fest". Happy days. That was the 25th Glastonbury and it's very scary how close we are to the 50th now!
The bad reception he got caused him to stomp off shouting something about Glastonbury being a "god damn hippy **** fest". Happy days. That was the 25th Glastonbury and it's very scary how close we are to the 50th now!
From Evan Dando? Oh, the ironing! 😀
Bought this album the day it was released (on vinyl), I was on the way home from the dentist having an abscess treated.
It always reminds me of dental pain and serves as a great reminder to have check ups 🙂
amazing album.
Wow. Everyone swinging on Jamie's nuts.http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/20th-anniversary-re-releases
Your thread has no mention of Portishead, in the title or the thread, so no sure what you're point is?
Although, even if it stings a bit, it is nice to have everyone swinging on my nuts.
Yes a great album but also reminds me of getting older as I bought this when I moved into my first house!
Another noteworthy anniversary taking place this weekend is 25 years of the DiY free party collective.. Some great photo's coming through this morning from a field in the Notts. area 🙂
Your thread has no mention of Portishead, in the title or the thread, so no sure what you're point is?
Although, even if it stings a bit, it is nice to have everyone swinging on my nuts.
In the cold, hard light of day. I'm not sure what my point was either. A desperate cry for attention probably.
In the cold, hard light of day. I'm not sure what my point was either. A desperate cry for attention probably.
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Amazing album, & one that stands the test of time - much in the way that Massive Attack's [i][s]Brizzle[/s] Blue Lines[/i] does.
I remember the music press running all kinds of stories about how Portishead [the place], which gave rise to Portishead [the band], was something like [i]Twin Peaks[/i] - strange, uncanny, clocks running backwards, etc. As a native sou'wester, I'd usually treat such talk as typically-patronising metropolitan hype... but I spent some of 1994 doing A-Level Geology fieldwork along the (decidedly-eerie on a foggy day) Bristol Channel coastline (especially Sand Bay, for those familiar with it)... and [i]Dummy[/i] somehow combined in my imagination with the lonely stretches of raised beaches and solifluction terraces.
[i]Roads[/i] still demolishes me. And live, they - and most especially Beth - are still as spellbinding as ever. I once read a review which described Portishead as being like sharing a late-night taxi ride with a hip-hop Janis Joplin - and that, IMO, sums 'em up perfectly.
Another noteworthy anniversary taking place this weekend is 25 years of the DiY free party collective
Top crew. 😀
Roads does the same to me - goose bumps every time! I was an indie grunge kid when this came out and most of my mates where heavy metal fans, but we all owned and loved this album.
Geoff Barrow (portishead) is on 6music now on a take over of Stuart Maconies Freak Zone show, he's playing some of his preferred left field recordings and music.
Rather good…...
Yeah, but then I would have to turn off [url= https://soundcloud.com/earmilk/atoms-for-peace-bbc-radio-1 ]this[/url]. Will have to listen again later in the week.
*sets reminder*
Just speaking with my dad about this. He reckons that the amount of people 'actually' at the Portishead gig and Glasto vs the people that say they were there grows every year!!
I'm lucky enough to have had my copies of [i]Dummy, Portishead[/i], and the NYC concert video signed by Geoff and Beth. She apparently* grumbled about them going onto eBay the next day, bless her, but signed them anyway.
I still have them, no way would I part with them!
*A bloke I used to work with had a studio in Bristol next to theirs, in fact their old studio, they swapped over, because his was bigger.
Classic album.
Still one of the ones I turn to when I need something on repeat in my headphones when I'm pulling an all-nighter for work.
See also Tricky - Maxinquaye from the same era.
See also Tricky - Maxinquaye from the same era.
Check the credits, Alison Goldfrapp did vocals on that, just before forming her own band with Will.
And yes, great album.
Loved watching Tricky on the Kate Bush special programme, still got his really broad Bristol accent. 😀
He reckons that the amount of people 'actually' at the Portishead gig and Glasto vs the people that say they were there grows every year!!
Well you can tell him I tried to and couldnt get close, my friends and I had a compelling urge for "space" and the most we could find was in front of the Shamen that night!
Just speaking with my dad about this. He reckons that the amount of people 'actually' at the Portishead gig and Glasto vs the people that say they were there grows every year!!
I didn't realise it had become the "Sex Pistols at Manchester Free Trade Hall" gig of our generation! I have some photos from the gig somewhere at my Dad's, maybe I should dig them out.
It was crazy. My brother was a steward on the acoustic stage that night. They were seriously worried that the gig would have to be pulled(could have been almost an entire festival trying to get in a big top)thankfully the crew who ran that stage always sailed a bit close to the edge. They could have owned the main stage, why they were not bumped up I don't know. In years following Beth always hung out at the acoustic, fellow west countryers! I reckon I had the best spot in the tent!
That year Glastonbury had about twice as many people as tickets sold too!
Finally got around to playing it when the wife popped to Tesco this morning.
The kids were not impressed.
Placebo's "Without you I'm nothing" failed to rouse their intrest either.
Also reminded me that prior to portishead Evan Dando was late and tried to play his acoustic set. He was being a bit of a dick, and had to be removed due to the wrath of the crowd!
I remembered to dig out my photos of the Glastonbury '95 gig from my Dad's this weekend...
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Sadly I only got Portishead 15 years ago.
Playing it now, headphones on,
Amazing album.
Bumpage for the Monday morning crowd in case anyone in interested in the photos
timmys, I was there. Cant remember much though 🙄
I remember seeing Portishead at the now defunct Ashton Court festival - awesome. I have no idea when that was - late '90s possibly?
Wow...ok that is worrying. I have a copy of that in my car and it still gets played regularly. Wonderful album.
I was an indie grunge kid when this came out and most of my mates where heavy metal fans, but we all owned and loved this album.
Likewise. Got it early on (on tape!). I have an abiding memory* of being off my face on Koh Phangan beach at a full moon party in early 96 and retreating from the mayhem, watching from afar and listening to this on my walkman.
Played Roseland and Portishead almost to death at university in the mid-late 90s.
Geniuses the lot of 'em.
*more feeling, rather than specific detail!
I did an EP in a long gone band engineered by their sometime bass player, in a studio basement somewhere in Brizzle.
I'd like to say it was as good as Mysterons but it'd make me a big fat liar 😀
One of those rare albums that still sounds 'new' every time I listen to it.