Portishead appreciation.

Depone · Post by **Depone** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:11 am

One of my all time fav artists. Grew up listening to this, massive attack, tricky, everything but the girl, leftfeild and morcheeba.

One of my fav by portishead is "it could be sweet'
I even made a remix/boot of it

vertx · Post by **vertx** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:48 am

Portishead get me every time, amazing...

One of their lps (can't remember if it was the self titled one or Dummy) got fucked up real bad in mastering or mixing in the pursuit of loudness and distorts real bad on a few songs.... such a disrespect to the music.

Roads is a special one for me.

fassyman · Post by **fassyman** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:00 am

vertx wrote:Roads is a special one for me.

x2, one of them tunes i keep comin back to when im feelin abit down or what have ya. beautiful music

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:22 am

Great band for sure.
Beth Gibbons vocals are always amazing.
I remember watching a live dvd maybe 5-6 years back where she smoked the entire way through the show and apologized the entire time for her terrible performance.
Needless to say, it was excellent.
Also her work with Rustin Man was great, Deadly posted up those links.

Third was an awesome albumn, incredibly dark and gloomy.

Morrello · Post by **Morrello** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:36 am

Theres a decent article in the latest Future music with Adrian utley talkin bout gear and studio techniques. Worth checkin out.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:51 am

Oh, thanks for that ^.

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:01 am

http://tv.sonicstate.com/play.php?vid=189 ; this is a brilliant video series/gear lust heaven.

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:08 am

legend4ry wrote:http://tv.sonicstate.com/play.php?vid=189 ; this is a brilliant video series/gear lust heaven.

The arp is speaks of in the first few minutes, the chopper sound.
I`ve always thought it was bloody great.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:12 am

Forgot about that vid. Was doing one of those today. Had my girl in my lap, trying to figure out a beat exclusively with my left hand.

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:18 am

I must say, while Dummy/Portishead has all the classics and is proper mood music; Third is production porn and sounds so much better live than the other stuff - I promise you! The prefect blend of gritty, organic music with vintage synths to give it bursts of energy and character - truly, truly amazing.

Its the song what just keeps on giving; was the best encore ever!!!

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:20 am

I agree

Third changed how I see portishead.
Not that I saw them as anything bad.
But I wasn`t as blown away by their production until third.
it`s like Radiohead in Rainbows.

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:28 am

Electric_Head wrote: it`s like Radiohead in Rainbows.

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Really does make me think ive took my musical journey the completely wrong way hahaha.

hutyluty · Post by **hutyluty** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:29 am

ive only ever listened to "third" but its pretty good

this ones my favourite

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:17 am

What is the camera man dressed as in that video to make his child that quite?
My son would have ripped the cables out of the arp and the proceeded to stage-dive off of the case.

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:21 am

6:15

Carry-on

great stuff

Divane · Post by **Divane** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:54 am

legend4ry wrote: .

I saw them live like a month ago, never had such a perfect moment in my life, ever.

Where did you see them? I saw them in the beginning of July at Roskilde Festival! Very big performance imo!

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:06 pm

Divane wrote:
legend4ry wrote: .

I saw them live like a month ago, never had such a perfect moment in my life, ever.
Where did you see them? I saw them in the beginning of July at Roskilde Festival! Very big performance imo!

Alexandra Palace in London at I'll Be Your Mirror.

23rd of last month!

bigfootspartan · Post by **bigfootspartan** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:14 pm

legend4ry wrote:I must say, while Dummy/Portishead has all the classics and is proper mood music; Third is production porn and sounds so much better live than the other stuff - I promise you! The prefect blend of gritty, organic music with vintage synths to give it bursts of energy and character - truly, truly amazing.
!!!

+1. When I ordered Third LP from the record shop the guy behind the counter shot me a dark look, but to me Third is the epitome of capturing vibes without being too in the background or too in your face. Just brilliant production quality and songwriting.

Laika · Post by **Laika** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:27 am

For sure, Third is an incredible album. Did people really think they were going to do another dummy or self-titled? Progression is the truth. I have "The Rip" 12" hanging on my wall:)

erratech · Post by **erratech** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:14 am

I got the Roseland New York dvd not long ago. Words cant describe how moving it was the first time i saw it, Beth Gibbons is surrounded by an orchestra and synths guitars, trumpets all kind of shit and she is in the centre and looks like a fragile little bird, the most delicate person you can imagine, so nervous and shy. Fucking amazing. To the point where after I watched it and crashed, all night I had her voice floating in the background of all my dreams, fucking well worth tracking down. DVD has probably 7-8 extra tracks to the cd plus all other random shit.

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