Dummy (album)
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Publication |
1994 (October 17th) |
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| Label (s) | Go! Discs / London | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
49 min 24 s |
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Portishead, Dave McDonald |
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Studio (s) |
State of Art, Coach House Studio |
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Dummy was added in 1993 and 1994, published in October 1994, is the first music album of the trip-hop band Portishead in Bristol . It is considered to be the style setting for the genre.
Track list
- Mysterons - 5:06
- Sour Times - 4:14
- Strangers - 3:58
- It Could Be Sweet - 4:20
- Wandering Star - 4:56
- It's a Fire - 3:48
- Numb - 3:58
- Roads - 5:10
- Pedestal - 3:41
- Biscuit - 5:04
- Glory Box - 5:06
The song It's a Fire is not included in the edition of the album sold in the UK .
occupation
In addition to the band members Gibbons, Barrow and Utley, some studio musicians were hired: Gary Baldwin ( Hammond organ ), Neil Solman (keyboards), Andy Hague (trumpet), Clive Deamer (drums) and Richard Newell (drum computer).
Samples
Samples from other musicians are used in numerous songs on the album , including Lalo Schifrin ( The Danube Incident ) and Smokey Brooks ( Spin It Jig ) in Sour Times , Weather Report ( Elegant People ) in Strangers, and Johnnie Ray ( I'll Never Fall in Love Again ) in Biscuit .
The best known sample, however, is Isaac Hayes ' Ike's Rap II on Glory Box . Curiously, the same song was also in the almost contemporaneous song Hell Is Round the Corner of Tricky used.
Mysterons contains a sample from the 1967 science fiction series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons in England . The song picks up on the eerie atmosphere of this series, in which the Mysterons are invisible aliens who communicate through distorted voices from radio and television sets.
Charts
In the German charts, the album was 19 weeks, between January 30th and August 27th 1995, and reached number 45. In the English charts, however, it lasted 71 weeks and came to number 2.
Awards
It was voted album of the year by The Face , Mix Mag and Melody Maker magazines. In addition, Portishead received the Mercury Music Prize for their debut , also for the best album of the year. The Rolling Stone took it into his all-time list of the 500 best albums on. The New Musical Express lists it among the "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums". In the English music magazine Fact , the album - behind Maxinquaye from Tricky - is number 2 on the list of “The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time”.
In the German music magazine Spex , the album came in 6th place on the 1994 best list and 60th place in the “Records of the Century”. Visions magazine put it in 2nd place on their list of "The Most Important Albums of the 90s".
Singles and Videos
Were couples all Numb , Sour Times and Glory Box . The videos were shot by director Alexander Hemming .
In addition to these three pieces, the songs Mysterons , Roads and Strangers were played at the live concert in New York on July 24, 1997 and recorded on video.
Film music
Several pieces from the album served as film music :
- Glory Box in the films Feeling and Seduction , The Witches' Club , And Everyone Is Looking for Their Kitten, as well as Lord of War and B. Monkey
- Roads in Tank Girl , Little Criminals and the television series Millennium and Coast Guard (episode: "Wink des Fate")
- Numb in Confessional (1995) by Robert Lepage. It can also be heard in the credits of the German television film Bei Klingelzeichen Mord from the crime series Polizeiruf 110 .
Cover versions
The song Roads was covered by the doom metal band My Dying Bride in 1998 and also appeared on their album Meisterwerk II in 2001 .
In 2008 the album became Satanism. Sickness. Solitude. by the extreme metal band Sick , on which they reinterpreted Wandering Stars .
In 2015 the Canadian singer Alessia Cara released her single Here , on which the basic loop of Glory Box was given a new text.
Web links
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- ↑ John Twells, Laurent Fintoni: The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time , Factmag.com, July 30, 2015
- Jump up ↑ Sick - Satanism. Sickness. Solitude. - CD Review at Metal1.info ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
