How many times can an artist re-form and re-package a song while still keeping it honest? Hmmmmmmm. I don't have a clue as to an answer. I'm still recovering from my bout with Spalovac mrtvol and my Midnight Vultures Video Marathon©.
Here's more Portishead, in all it's glory(box). OH SHIT! You forgot something L&S! GLORYBOX!!!
From Sasha Frere-Jones at The New Yorker:
In an interview with the London Observer several months ago, Geoff Barrow, the leader of the British trio Portishead, complained, “They turned our songs into a fondue set.” “They” could be anyone—critics, fans, or the commercial concerns that have tried to license the band’s music for film or TV. But Portishead brought the cheese bath on itself—when your sound is languid and spacious, and your female singer is generally not a screamer, your albums are going to become hotel-lobby music, even if they’re brilliant. When the band released its startlingly complete début, “Dummy,” in 1994, it encountered a crisis common among delicate musicians: success and failure both feel like slights. Fans loved the band, but did they get it? Did people hear more than just dinner music? [...]but the band members seem to have accepted that being soothing, despite their perverse streak, is part of what they do—even if the music, upon closer inspection, isn’t reassuring.
Barrow is from the town of Portishead, twelve miles west of Bristol, where he met the guitarist Adrian Utley and the singer Beth Gibbons in the early nineties. He was in his twenties, and his musical skills were mostly non-traditional: mastery of turntables and samplers. He guided Utley and Gibbons into an aesthetic that was more appealing than their record company expected: sepulchral music that sounded like a warm, thick reduction of hip-hop, flecked with samples of soundtracks and dominated by the heady cry of a female singer who sometimes became so unhinged that it seemed as if the music itself were scaring her. “Nobody loves me,” she wailed over and over in “Sour Times,” the song that made Portishead famous. The band succeeded as miserabilists with high production values and a knack for the gorgeous and the odd—the booming, plangent bass and the sophisticated lady singer.
Sour Times CD Single Technical Information:
Technical Information:
Artist: Portishead
Album: Sour Times (CD Single)
Year: 1994
Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 776 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 41.9 MB
Length: 0:07:34
Tracklisting:
01. Sour Times (Edit) (3:27)
02. Sour Sour Times (4:07)
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Sour Times E.P. (UK) Technical Information:
Artist: Portishead
Album: Sour Times E.P.
Year: 1994
Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate:
Disc 1- 681 kb/s
Disc 2- 773 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size:
Disc 1- 74.6 MB
Disc 2- 118 MB
Length:
Disc 1- 0:15:19
Disc 2- 0:21:28
Tracklisting:
Disc 1:
01. Sour Times (3:30)
02. It's a Fire (3:47)
03. Pedestal (3:37)
04. Theme from 'To Kill a Dead Man'
Disc 2:
01. Sour Times (3:28)
02. Sour Sour Times (4:09)
03. Lot More (4:23)
04. Sheared Times (4:19)
05. Airbus Reconstruction (5:09)
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Sour Times (Nobody Loves Me) (US) Technical Information:
Artist: Portishead
Album: Sour Times (Nobody Loves Me)
Year: 1994
Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 717 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 165 MB
Length: 0:32:16
Tracklisting:
01. Sour Times (3:25)
02. Numbed in Moscow (3:55)
03. A Tribute to Monk & Canatella (11:00)
04. Lot More (4:22)
05. Theme from 'To Kill a Dead Man' (4:26)
06. Airbus Reconstruction (5:09)
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