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Portishead – Glory Box
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“Glory Box”, the final track on Portishead’s Dummy, is one of their most well known songs, most notably for its unique use of “Ike’s Rap II” by Isaac Hayes, a popular sample in
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Portishead – Only You
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The music video was directed by Chris Cunningham.
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Portishead – Sour Times
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“Sour Times” is a song by English trip hop group Portishead, released as their second single in August 1994. Written by all three members of the band, “Sour Times” features on
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Portishead – Mysterons
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The song title is derived from the Mysterons, a species from Mars who are the antagonists/villains in the classic 1967-1968 British TV show, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
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Portishead – Strangers
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[Verse 1] / Ooh / Can anybody see the light? / Where the morn' meets the dew and the tide rises / Did you realize no one can see inside your view? / Did you realize for why this
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Portishead – Wandering Star
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[Verse 1] / Please, could you stay awhile to share my grief / For it's such a lovely day / To have to always feel this way / And the time that I will suffer less / Is when I never
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Portishead – Numb
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Numb Is the lead single from Portisheads debut album Dummy
The single, and music video released on June 13th 1994, and released four days later in Australia where it would see it
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Portishead – Undenied
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[Verse 1] / Your softly spoken words / Release my whole desire / Undenied / Totally / [Hook] / And so bare is my heart / I can't hide / And so where does my heart / Belong? / [
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Portishead – We Carry On
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“We Carry On” is a song that sounds a bit like Clinic’s droning, rhythmically dense garage-kraut, except somehow spookier
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Portishead – Biscuit
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“Biscuit” is a haunting piece of music about being trapped by one’s own feelings and yearnings.
Many reviews of Dummy highlight the creative use of samples from the string section
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Portishead – Over
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“Over” is the second single from Portishead self-titled sophomore album.
The music video was directed by Chris Bran.
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Portishead – All Mine
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[Verse 1] / All the stars may shine bright / All the clouds may be white / But when you smile / Oh, how I feel so good / That I can hardly wait / To hold you / Enfold you / Never
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Portishead – Silence
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On the chase-scene-paced Third opener Silence, Gibbons sounds like both a defiant accuser and someone clinging on for dear life.
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Portishead – Elysium
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[Verse 1] / No one has said / What the truth should be / And no one decided / That I'd feel this way / If you felt as I / Would you betray yourself? / [Hook] / But you can't deny
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Portishead – SOS
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find / I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind / Whatever happened to our love? / I wish I
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Portishead – Cowboys
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[Verse 1] / Did you sweep us far from your feet? / Reset in stone this stark belief? / Salted eyes and a sordid dye / Too many years / [Chorus] / But don't despair / This day will
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Portishead – Plastic
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“Plastic” is possibly the only time that Third delves into Portishead’s archives, as mellow, drawn-out beats linger as a backdrop for Gibbons poignant vocal delivery.
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Portishead – Threads
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Portishead as you previously knew them are represented, barely, by the last song on the album— the sleepwalk-paced, David Axelrod-esque “Threads"—and even then, its intermittently
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Portishead – Pedestal
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[Verse 1] / How can I believe this miracle / Where the wind blows dry? / Through the force of a man / Undenied by his eye? / [Chorus] / Oh, you abandoned me, how I suffer
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Portishead – Small
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“Small” splinters into Syd Barrett-isms at the coda of and the melodic identity that he and Geoff Barrow built on a foundation of minor keys and sinister grandeur that still holds
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Portishead – Humming
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Closer / No hesitation / Give me / All that you have / And it's been so long, that I can't explain / And it's been so wrong / Right now, so wrong / Naked / My thoughts are creeping
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Portishead – Hunter
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The cabaret highwire act Hunter highlights the fragility in Beth Gibbons' voice.
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Portishead – Western Eyes
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[Verse 1] / Forgotten throes of another's life / The heart of love is our only light / Faithless screeds, consolidating / Holding down sweet charity / [Pre-Chorus] / With western
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Portishead – Deep Water
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[Verse] / I'm driftin' in deep waters / Alone with my self-doubtin' again / I try not to struggle this time / For I will weather the storm / [Chorus] / I gotta remember (Gotta
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Portishead – Half Day Closing
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[Verse 1] / In the days of golden days / When everybody knew what they wanted / It ain't here today / [Verse 2] / Through the times of lasting love / When parents talked of things
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Ab-Soul – Portishead in the Morning / / / HER World
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The title for Part 1 of the track is a direct reference to the English trip-hop group Portishead. Soul has been a long-time fan, stating on his Dec. 2016 Hot 97 interview that he
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Portishead – Mourning Air
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[Verse 1] / Did I see a moment with you / In a half lit world / I'm frightened to believe / But I must try / If I stumble if I fall / [Refrain] / I'm reaching out in this mourning
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Portishead – Scorn
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I'm so tired of playing / Playing with this bow and arrow / Gonna give my heart away / Leave it to the other girls to play / For I've been a temptress too long / Just... / Give me
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Portishead – Seven Months
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[Verse 1] / How can I forget you / Disregard how I feel / Silently listen / To the words I can't see / [Chorus 1] / As long as I have tried / As low as I can be / I will never
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Portishead – Magic Doors
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Magic Doors is a good choice of single, in that it is one of the more percussion-led tracks from Third. After verses brimming with menacing Eastern drones, harsh minimal percussion
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Portishead – Roads
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“Roads” is a track from Portishead’s album “Dummy” – the band’s debut studio album. The tracks “Roads” and “Strangers” (from the same album) were used in the soundtrack of the film
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Portishead – Nylon Smile
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“Nylon Smile”, is an almost heartfelt plea by Beth Gibbons that actually sounds like a nervous breakdown in progress right before your very ears.
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WENS – Portishead
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[Verse 1] / I loved a boy who loved Portishead / Spent most our days and nights wrapped up in bed / He broke my heart believe it or not / Now I walk around town like a robot / I
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Portishead – Requiem For Anna
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[Verse 1] / A day like any other / Where I’m all alone / Why Anna, Anna / Are you all alone by yourself / Are you all alone by yourself / [Chorus] / La la la, la la la, la la la
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Portishead – Numb (Earth - Linger)
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I'm ever so lost / I can't find my way / Been searching, but I have never seen / A turning, a turning from deceit / 'Cause the child roses like / Try to reveal what I could feel
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Portishead – Lot More
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To pretend no one can find / The fallacies of morning rose / Forbidden fruit, hidden eyes / Courtesies that I despise in me / Take a ride, take a shot now / Cause nobody loves me
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Portishead – Toy Box
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I'm so tired, of playing / Playing with this bow and arrow / Gonna give my heart away / Leave it to the other girls to play / For I've been a temptress too long / Just... / Give me
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Portishead – Over (Live at Roseland Ballroom, NYC)
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[Verse 1] / I can't hold this day anymore / Understand me anymore / To tread this fantasy openly / What have I done? / [Chorus] / Oh, this uncertainty / Is taking me over / [Verse
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Portishead – The Rip
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[Verse 1] / As she walks in the room / Centered and tall / Hesitating once more / And as I take on myself / And the bitterness I felt / I realize that love flows / [Chorus] / Wild
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Portishead – Numb (Revenge of the Number)
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And ever so lost / I can't find my way / Been searching, but I have never seen / A turning, a turning from deceit / 'Cause the child roses like / Try to reveal what I could feel
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Portishead – Numb (Numbed in Moscow)
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I'm ever so lost / I can't find my way / Been searching, but I have never seen / A turning, a turning from deceit / 'Cause the child roses like / Try to reveal what I could feel
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Mike Batt – Portishead Radio
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Portishead Radio, Portishead Radio / Get me my girl on the line / Portishead Radio, Portishead Radio / I'm having to wait a long time / Yankee Romeo Sierra Tango / Yankee Romeo
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Portishead – It Could Be Sweet
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[Verse 1] / I don't want to hurt you / For no reason have I but fear / And I ain't guilty of the crimes you accuse me of / But I'm guilty of fear / [Pre-Chorus 1] / I'm sorry to
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