Here’s an update to my previous post.
The new Portishead single:
Scott LeMee’s suggestions for naming the decade we live through…
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Some think Third is the final nail in the coffin of ‘trip-hop’
For a second I thought it was the new Kraftwerk single. Substitute Ralf’s monotone for Beth’s vibrato and we’re there.
I hope Gibbons hasn’t thrown away Paul Webb’s number.
I failed to discern a name for the decade in Scott LeMees piece, other than:
Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Frighties.
Nah, it’ll never catch on.
I’m reserving judgement on Third til the whole album comes out! And til I’ve listened to that single a few more times. Does seem as if the “new album will be very different” thing wasn’t wrong.
Thanks for the link, though, Oz.
That’s a neat way of explaining why trip hop was the ultimate Gen X music!
Had another listen. Reminds me a little of Sinead’s “I am stretched on your grave”.
On Youtube - [link]
Maybe dirges are Gen X music!
Dirges would explain the inexplicable popularity of Leonard Cohen amongst my contemporaries.
Man, you gotta remember I grew up with a mother whose musical tastes were post-hippie folk, and then post-adolescence, had all the wonderful experiences of Keating era Arts student unemployment. Oh, and the lie on couch with a bottle of scotch post relationship breakup with a mix tape really is one of the defining memories of my 20s!
Gotta love YouTube. Here’s Dead Can Dance (aptly named) doing a really dirge like version of the Sinead tune:
[link]
Now I remember why the turn to trip hop was so exciting!
Lordy there’s some shitty Sinead covers on YouTube.
Hope you’re not dissing DCD, Mark. They pwn everyone else, as far as I’m concerned.
All of the tracks from Third are up on YouTube now: see [link] for a list. Not what I was expecting, but I think I’m going to like it!
Rush to judgement, Brett! One of my perennial failings.
Thanks muchly for the link!
Some unexamined essentialising of race in that Salon review Oz linked to, I fear.
I’ll wait until week after next to get 3rd as a tactile resource (CD), but the auguries definitely indicate not-just-more-of-the-same goodness.
Apart from that, I echo Brett: Dead Can Dance vary, but were mind-blowing at their best, and not always zombified.
The live “stretched on your grave” by Skinhead O’Connor was an eye-opener re. her own re-interpretation. The studio version is about twice the speed, and is much more trancily tribal rather than totally moribund. And more effective, IMO.
Scared of looking for youtubes of bad Sinead covers, so I won’t, just yet.
Dead Can Dance (great Aussie band that) leave shit all over Portishead.
The real Bristol maestros are actually Massive Attack in my opinion. Blue Lines is just the perfect 90s album in every way. Horace Andy included!
Good to see I’ve got some backup on DCD. Obviously tastes vary, but I wouldn’t pick “I Am Stretched On Your Grave” as a good introduction to their work. This is better: [link]
Better than that, they’re a great Melbourne band! Hard to believe they started out playing pubs here …
Despite my fondness for Portishead, I’ve never tried listening to much trip hop. Might have to give Massive Attack a go.