THE SUNDAY SYNC - PORTISHEAD - DUMMY 8PM 10/05

"Nobody loves meeeeee, it's true....not like you do". Set beside that sleazy twanging guitar, it's both pure and dirty at the same time.
 
Sour Times has been there to get me to those suicidal thoughts, that keep me grounded.
 
I've always found Sour Times vaguely menacing in a way I can't put my finger on - actually that's true of most of their output...
 
I didn't like Sour Times when it first came out - it wasn't as easy to access for me as Glory Box.

At the time (13 years old) I remember liked Glory Box but still finding it a bit too dark for me... by the age of 18 I loved the album. And listened to it quite a bit for a year or two... but since then nothing.
 
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I've always found Sour Times vaguely menacing in a way I can't put my finger on - actually that's true of most of their output...
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Its tragic movie music. So much is found in the association.
 
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I've always found Sour Times vaguely menacing in a way I can't put my finger on - actually that's true of most of their output...
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That's the only thread that really links their albums. That sense of dread, of something lurking...

This is DIVINE.
 
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I really didn't like either Glory Box or Sour Times on first listen, because I'm an idiot. It was only when All Mine came out a few years later that I went back and reappraised them.
 
I’ve never actually listened to the whole album. Lovely Sunday night listening to chain smoke to!
 
This is the first track that is a bit less melodic. I think what they do at their best is make music with really dark melodies and those trip-hop beats. Strangers lacks a little bit of the melody for me. I get what it's aiming for though.
 
Again, the wilful use of lower fidelity; the word "atmosphere" is often misused in music writing but Portishead really knew what it meant and how to create it. Uncanny, really.
 
It's like they switch the music from sepia to full colour at the flick of a switch.

The drum loop on this is the tits.
 
This is less for me. I prefer Beth crippled with misery rather than on the verge of hysteria.

Although still absolute quality.
 
Oh hang on, are we listening to the version of the album with It's A Fire as track six? It's not on my CD.
 
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Oh hang on, are we listening to the version of the album with It's A Fire as track six? It's not on my CD.
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Oh shit, have I fucked up the YT/Spotify - I don't have that track either...
 
It Could Be Sweet is the absolute tits.

The album is like a template for chilled 90s music.
 
There are two types of album I really love. Either the (a) experiment with every genre you can think of and see what happens (I'd include something like Christina Aguilera's Stripped in that... sorry, not sorry) or (b) the ones that just flow as one beautiful mass of music... and this album is such an example of (b).
 
It Could Be Sweet feels a touch more conventional that the first three songs. You can tell that it was an earlier recording.
 
I'll go to Spotify for It's A Fire. I don't think it sounds out of place exactly, but I would prefer it at the end.
 
OK - I'll slot it in and go with the majority! I have never heard It's A Fire!

I think It Could Be Sweet was the first song Barrow and Gibbons wrote together...must have felt auspicious. So delicate and lovely.
 
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It Could Be Sweet feels a touch more conventional that the first three songs. You can tell that it was an earlier recording.
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Again I have no knowledge of their history.

I presume Beth is @lolly 's nan or something.
 
This is such a VIBE, you can see why they were called dinner party music at the time.
 
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