Portishead (band)
Portishead are an English band formed in 1991 in Bristol. They are named after the nearby town of the same name, eight miles west of Bristol. Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on their first records.
Their debut album, Dummy, was met with critical acclaim in 1994. Two other studio albums were issued: Portishead in 1997 and Third in 2008.
History
Dummy (1994)
Portishead's first album Dummy was released in 1994. The cover features a still from the band's own short film To Kill a Dead Man. The credits indicate that at this juncture, Portishead was a duo of Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons. Adrian Utley, who co-produced the album with them (and who played on 9 of the tracks and co-wrote 8), became an official band member shortly after its release.
Despite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States (where it sold more than 150,000 copies even before the band toured there).Dummy was positively described by the Melody Maker as "musique noire for a movie not yet made".Rolling Stone praised its music as "Gothic hip-hop".Dummy spawned three singles: "Numb", "Sour Times", "Glory Box", and won the Mercury Music Prize in 1995. The success of the album saw the band nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 1995 Brit Awards. In 2003, the album was ranked number 419 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album is often considered one of the greatest trip hop albums to date and is a milestone in the definition of the genre.
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ALBUMS
- Dummy / Portishead released: 2009
- Third released: 2008
- 2007-12-08: ATP Festival, Minehead, UK released: 2007
- Portishead Remixed: Dumb released: 2006
- Portishead: The Remixes, Volume 1 released: 2005
- Portishead: The Remixes, Volume 2 released: 2005
- 2005-02-19: Tsunami - Crisis in Asia: Bristol, UK released: 2005
- Portishead + Epigones released: 2004
- MTV History Hits 2002 released: 2002
- Melody Nelson: B-Sides, Rarities & Unreleased Tracks released: 2002
- Roseland NYC Live released: 1998
- Only We released: 1997
- Portishead released: 1997
- Live at the Empress Ballroom released: 1995
- Nobody Loves Me! released: 1995
- Trip-Hop Reconstruction released: 1995
- Dummy released: 1994
- 1998-08-09: Sudoeste Festival 1998: Zambujeira Do Mar, Portugal released:
- 1998-06-26: Glastonbury, Somerset, UK released:
- 2008-04-07: Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands released:
- Live in Paris released:
- Live Chicago released:
- An Evening With released:
- 1998-08-15: La Route du Rock Festival, Saint-Malo, France released:
- Desolation Row released:
- Greatest Hits '99 released:
- Live Weisen 1998 released:
- Sweet Times: Non-Album Tracks released:
- Millennium Hits released:
- 1998: Portugal released:
- Lowland Beats released:
- Live at New York (1997) released:
- 1995-04-17: Mysterious Heads: Rock'n'Cafe, Seattle, WA, USA released:
- 1998-08-21: Symphony: Bizarre Festival, Cologne, Germany released:
- Mysteries released:
- Toy Box released:
- B-Sides released:
- Only the Lonely released:
- Welcome to Portishead released:
Portishead Remixed: Dumb
Released 2006- Mysterons (JoolsMF remix)
- Sour Spit (Rolo remix)
- Strangers (DJ Matt Hite remix)
- It Could Be Real (Pheugoo remix)
- I Chill (Lenlow remix)
- It's a Con (Pilchard remix)
- Thriftshop's Numb (Thriftshop XL remix)
- Roads (CompactRisk's Hard Shoulder remix)
- Pedestal (Solcofn's Dark Matter mix)
- Biscuit (Toy mix) (Ektopic Beats remix)
- Glory Box (Alex C Adventure) (Alex C remix)
Portishead + Epigones
Released 2004- Toy Box (Glory Box remixed by Portishead)
- Scorn (Glory Box remixed by Portishead)
- Portishead + Epigones
- Sour Sour Times (Sour Times remixed by Portishead)
- Soul Times
- Shreaded Times (Sour Times remixed by Portishead)
- Airbus Reconstruction (Sour Times remixed by Airbus)
- Underwater Love
- Underwater Love
- Underwater Love
- Numbed in Moscow (Numb remixed by Portishead)
- Revenge of the Number (Numb remixed by Portishead)
- Earth - Linger (Numb remixed by Portishead)
- Portishead + Epigones
- Numb
Toy Box
- Glory Box (Mudflap mix)
- Toy Box
- Sheared Box
- Sour Sour Times
- Lot More
- Sheared Times
- Airbus Reconstruction
- Scorn
- Theme From to Kill a Dead Man
- Roads
- Wandering Star
- Glory Box (edit)
- Over
- Numb
- Strangers
- Melody (feat. Jane Birkin)
- Ballade de Melody Nelson (feat. Jane Birkin)
- Ah Melody (feat. Jane Birkin)
- En Melody (feat. Jane Birkin)
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by: PortisheadI'm never so lost, I can't find my way
Been searching, but I have never seen
A turning, a turning from deceit
'Cause the child rose as life
Tried to reveal what I could feel
I can't understand myself anymore
'Cause I'm still feeling lonely
Feelin' so unholy
'Cause the child rose as life
Tried to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, ohh no
I'm fooling somebody
A faithless path I roam
Deceiving, to breathe this secretly
A silence, this silence I can't bear
'Cause the child rose as life
Tries to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, ohh no
And this loneliness,
It just won't leave me alone
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