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Third

by: Portishead

Release Date April 28, 2008
One of the most boring albums I've heard recently, as a fan of 'Dummy' this bears little resemblance to what was an amazing sound with amazing vocals. Here the music sounds old and tired, the vocals are nowhere near as impressive and it greatly disappointed me that only one track (magic doors) comes anywhere near to the brilliance of 'Dummy'.
Every other track on this album is monotonous and a waste of time - but hey perhaps you'll like it! For me I can think of many other groups who still push the boundaries and make interesting tunes while Portishead wallow in this dreary depressing rubbish that doesn't even compare to their debut from ten years ago(?)

CD-Charts Position 2
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Dummy

by: Portishead

Release Date June 18, 1999
This album is absolutely brilliant. Vocally, it is pure genius, and musically it is perfectly timed. I have just bought this album, as a replacement for the one I lost in my mispent teenage times! It`s jst as great as I remember it being (unlike many of my music purchases of the 90`s)

CD-Charts Position 3
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Portishead

by: Portishead

Release Date June 18, 1999
harrowing, infectual and experimental sounds make this a far superior offering to the pedestrian dummy.thats no too say dummy is lazy or derivative it has some great tracks and a consistant theme but i think it never really climaxed like this self titled lp. cringeworthy certainly not gorgeous and expressive absolutely rarely groups have the integrety to produce music that attempts something new and in doing so pushes the boundaries for a greater experience in their second helping i strongly reccomend this for anyone who is ready to emerce themselves in the greatness this sublime album has to offer

raf!!

CD-Charts Position 4
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Roseland NYC Live

by: Portishead

Release Date June 18, 1999
Other reviewers have said it all - I just want to clarify a couple of things
1) A couple of tracks here are not the same performances as on the companion video. One of them, Roads, was recorded at a festival (and certainly sounds like it!). The other - well, read on...
2) None of the tracks on this album deserve to be damned with the faint praise of "faithful reproduction of the originals". For one thing, they're all loud and vivid-sounding, with a fine balance of ambience and clarity (and this makes a particular difference to the second-album material - Cowboys is a speaker-blaster!). Elsewhere, Mysterons and Strangers have extended codas; Half Day Closing (with all its vocal processing intact) ends with a strange `Liberty Bell'-like sample ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 5
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Third [VINYL]

by: Portishead

Release Date April 28, 2008
One of the most boring albums I've heard recently, as a fan of 'Dummy' this bears little resemblance to what was an amazing sound with amazing vocals. Here the music sounds old and tired, the vocals are nowhere near as impressive and it greatly disappointed me that only one track (magic doors) comes anywhere near to the brilliance of 'Dummy'.
Every other track on this album is monotonous and a waste of time - but hey perhaps you'll like it! For me I can think of many other groups who still push the boundaries and make interesting tunes while Portishead wallow in this dreary depressing rubbish that doesn't even compare to their debut from ten years ago(?)

CD-Charts Position 6
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Third: Ltd Edition USB, Double Vinyl and Etched 12" Box Set [VINYL]

by: Portishead

Release Date June 20, 2008
One of the most boring albums I've heard recently, as a fan of 'Dummy' this bears little resemblance to what was an amazing sound with amazing vocals. Here the music sounds old and tired, the vocals are nowhere near as impressive and it greatly disappointed me that only one track (magic doors) comes anywhere near to the brilliance of 'Dummy'.
Every other track on this album is monotonous and a waste of time - but hey perhaps you'll like it! For me I can think of many other groups who still push the boundaries and make interesting tunes while Portishead wallow in this dreary depressing rubbish that doesn't even compare to their debut from ten years ago(?)

CD-Charts Position 7
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Dummy (Us Import)

by: Portishead

Release Date February 17, 1995
This album is absolutely brilliant. Vocally, it is pure genius, and musically it is perfectly timed. I have just bought this album, as a replacement for the one I lost in my mispent teenage times! It`s jst as great as I remember it being (unlike many of my music purchases of the 90`s)

CD-Charts Position 8
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Dummy [VINYL]

by: Portishead

Release Date August 18, 1994
This album is absolutely brilliant. Vocally, it is pure genius, and musically it is perfectly timed. I have just bought this album, as a replacement for the one I lost in my mispent teenage times! It`s jst as great as I remember it being (unlike many of my music purchases of the 90`s)

CD-Charts Position 9
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Glory Times

by: Portishead

Release Date November 13, 1997
Portishead only has two (soon to be three) full-length albums to their name, as well as a live album. Not so easily accessible is "Glory Times," a two-disc collection of alternate takes on two of the best songs on their debut. After this, it's hard to hear "Dummy" quite the same way again.

The first disc is taken up by three "Sour Times" mixes and two instrumentals. It opens with the gently jazzy "Sour Sour Times," before veering to the poignantly funky "Lot More," and the scratchy, raw "Airbus Reconstruction." The instrumentals are even more impressive: the ominous, stately "Sheared Times," and "Theme from 'To Kill A Dead Man," which has piano and electronica building up to a soaring string solo.

The second disc, on the other hand, has four mixes ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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Portishead [VINYL]

by: Portishead

Release Date September 29, 1997
harrowing, infectual and experimental sounds make this a far superior offering to the pedestrian dummy.thats no too say dummy is lazy or derivative it has some great tracks and a consistant theme but i think it never really climaxed like this self titled lp. cringeworthy certainly not gorgeous and expressive absolutely rarely groups have the integrety to produce music that attempts something new and in doing so pushes the boundaries for a greater experience in their second helping i strongly reccomend this for anyone who is ready to emerce themselves in the greatness this sublime album has to offer

raf!!