Portishead (album)
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Portishead studio album | |||||||
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September 30, 1997 |
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Label (s) | Go! Discs / London | ||||||
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CD, LP |
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11 |
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running time |
50 min 3 s |
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Portishead, Dave McDonald |
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Portishead is the second album by the trip-hop band from Bristol of the same name . It was released about three years after its highly acclaimed predecessor Dummy and at the same time marks the beginning of an eleven year waiting period for the third studio album, Third . The songs All Mine , Over and Only You were released as singles.
Track list
- Cowboys (Barrow, Gibbons) - 4:38
- All Mine - 3:59
- Undenied (Barrow, Gibbons) - 4:18
- Half Day Closing - 3:49
- Over - 4:00
- Humming - 6:02
- Mourning Air - 4:11
- Seven Months - 4:15
- Only You (Barrow, Gibbons, Utley, Thorne , Hardson, Stewart ) - 4:59
- Elysium - 5:54
- Western Eyes - 3:57
(All titles by Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons & Adrian Utley unless otherwise noted.)
Samples
As on the band's debut album, there are also some samples from other musicians on this album . This concerns the song Only You with samples by Ken Thorne's Inspector Clouseau , The Pharcydes She Said and the song Western Eyes with a sample by Hookers & Gin by Sean Atkins Experience .
Reviews
The album is a bit behind its critically acclaimed debut, but has also been called a "brilliant record" .
In various album-of-the-year-1997 rankings, the album achieved top places, including in Melody Maker (18th place), in NME (32nd place), Spin (6th place) and in Q (in the top 50; no order) .
Film music
Some pieces on the album were used as film music or in series, including Undenied in Unter dem Sand and Only You in Warehouse 13 (Season 1, Episode 5).
Web links
- Review at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ Rolling Stone on Portishead's second album in the review of Dummy. - 500 best albums of all time (Rolling Stone)