Sour Times (Extravaganza): Portishead- Sour Times Single, Sour Times E.P. and Sour Times (Nobody Loves Me) (1994)- EAC CD Rip (FLAC)

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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Portishead- Portishead (1997)- Vinyl Rip (24 bit FLAC)

I saw the 24 bit vinyl rip of this perfect album and I had to post it immediately. More to follow, but I've been drinking.




From Andrew McGuire at Modern Music:

With Dummy, their 1994 debut, Portishead not only created a classic of turntable-derived soul, but defined their sound so exhaustively as to spawn a host of imitators. So what to do for a follow-up? As it happened, the answer was simple--refine the template. This self-titled album simply ups the ante on everything that made their debut so special: the brooding sense of menace, that deep streak of romantic fatalism. Much is made of the cinematic quality of Portishead's music--and indeed, many of these tracks sound like they should be accompanying some existentialist spy flick from the mid-1960s. But ultimately, it's singer Beth Gibbons that's their greatest asset: her vocals gliding effortlessly from the furious ("Cowboys") to the forlorn ("Mourning Air"); from the exuberant ("All Mine") to the exhausted ("Only You")--and all set to the group's most ambitious and expansive arrangements to date. A majestic, damaged and frequently terrifying masterpiece.




Technical Information:

Artist: Portishead
Album: Portishead
Year: 1997

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: Vinyl Rip
Avg. bitrate: 2888 kb/s
Sample rate: 96000 Hz
Bits per sample: 24
Channels: 2
File size: 1 GB
Length: 0:49:58




Tracklisting:

Side A:

01. Cowboys (4:38)
02. All Mine (4:00)

Side B:

03. Undenied (4:19)
04. Closing (3:48)
05. Over (3:56)

Side C:

06. Humming (6:01)
07. Mourning Air (4:11)
08. Seven Months (4:15)

Side D:

09. Only You (4:59)
10. Elysium (5:55)
11. Western Eyes (3:58)





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