CD-Charts Position 11
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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.

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CD-Charts Position 12
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Glory Box

by: Portishead

Release Date September 22, 1994
I first heard this song on Trigger Happy TV 3, but unfortunately it wasn't on the soundtrack so I thought I'd never find it. I'm thrilled I've got it now, because it simply is the sexiest song I've ever heard. It's got a beautiful sultry feeling to it which makes you feel like Beth Gibbons is trying to seduce you through your stereo. Gorgeous orchestral back-drop with a passionate chorus that makes you want to smile, cry and drag the nearest person into bed. Also, it's a perfect chilling song. Get it now while you have a chance 'cos it can be a nightmare to get hold of.

CD-Charts Position 13
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All Mine

by: Portishead

Release Date September 08, 1997
I first heard this song on Trigger Happy TV 3, but unfortunately it wasn't on the soundtrack so I thought I'd never find it. I'm thrilled I've got it now, because it simply is the sexiest song I've ever heard. It's got a beautiful sultry feeling to it which makes you feel like Beth Gibbons is trying to seduce you through your stereo. Gorgeous orchestral back-drop with a passionate chorus that makes you want to smile, cry and drag the nearest person into bed. Also, it's a perfect chilling song. Get it now while you have a chance 'cos it can be a nightmare to get hold of.

CD-Charts Position 14
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Dummy [VINYL]

by: Portishead

Release Date August 18, 1994
I had heard the name 'Portishead' floating around electronica forums on the net but had never acted on the actions of other people's critic of their music. However, I came onto amazon and found a nearly all 5 star review from all the reviews so I just had to buy as a vivid fan on trip hop style music.
From first glance, you can hear how much Massive Attach have been influenced by this gritty, smooth jazzy 90's trip hop feel, it feels like a 45 minute drug that intises you into a olbivion of funk and future feel.
Trip hop has never really sounded so innovative and fresh even in the new millenium. The more recent trip hop artists like tycho and bonobo take on more of an electronica influence on trip hop, and as much as I feel that style, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 15
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Sour Times CD1

by: Portishead

Release Date
I had heard the name 'Portishead' floating around electronica forums on the net but had never acted on the actions of other people's critic of their music. However, I came onto amazon and found a nearly all 5 star review from all the reviews so I just had to buy as a vivid fan on trip hop style music.
From first glance, you can hear how much Massive Attach have been influenced by this gritty, smooth jazzy 90's trip hop feel, it feels like a 45 minute drug that intises you into a olbivion of funk and future feel.
Trip hop has never really sounded so innovative and fresh even in the new millenium. The more recent trip hop artists like tycho and bonobo take on more of an electronica influence on trip hop, and as much as I feel that style, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 16
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Numb

by: Portishead

Release Date November 24, 1998
I had heard the name 'Portishead' floating around electronica forums on the net but had never acted on the actions of other people's critic of their music. However, I came onto amazon and found a nearly all 5 star review from all the reviews so I just had to buy as a vivid fan on trip hop style music.
From first glance, you can hear how much Massive Attach have been influenced by this gritty, smooth jazzy 90's trip hop feel, it feels like a 45 minute drug that intises you into a olbivion of funk and future feel.
Trip hop has never really sounded so innovative and fresh even in the new millenium. The more recent trip hop artists like tycho and bonobo take on more of an electronica influence on trip hop, and as much as I feel that style, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 17
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Machine Gun [12" VINYL]

by: Portishead

Release Date April 14, 2008
I had heard the name 'Portishead' floating around electronica forums on the net but had never acted on the actions of other people's critic of their music. However, I came onto amazon and found a nearly all 5 star review from all the reviews so I just had to buy as a vivid fan on trip hop style music.
From first glance, you can hear how much Massive Attach have been influenced by this gritty, smooth jazzy 90's trip hop feel, it feels like a 45 minute drug that intises you into a olbivion of funk and future feel.
Trip hop has never really sounded so innovative and fresh even in the new millenium. The more recent trip hop artists like tycho and bonobo take on more of an electronica influence on trip hop, and as much as I feel that style, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 18
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Pnyc: Live at the Roseland Theatre

by: Portishead

Release Date September 28, 1998
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 ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 19
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Numb (Blue Cover - German Import)

by: Portishead

Release Date
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 ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 20
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Sour Times [CD 2]

by: Portishead

Release Date April 07, 1995
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 ... Read More: