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ex · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 3:45 pm

Where are they!!!!!!!!! I can't find any news releating to them that is more current than 1998! Help?

Ahcri · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 4:46 pm

Hmm.. The band has became inactive around 1998. Therefore there won't be any news.

[ October 05, 2001: Message edited by: Ahcri ]

Impaler · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 6:34 pm

Dumb hippies at TIME named them one of the top ten best bands ever in a very recent Music Special issue.

Lunatique · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 6:51 pm

It's ok, don't freak out. There are other great trip-hop bands to listen to. My fav is Lamb. Check them out.

sacrelicious · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 7:26 pm

So wait- Does Portishead suck or are they cool?

ex · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 7:52 pm

they're cool meng.

hehe, radiohead was also picked for that list man, the one in TIME.

Jezebel · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 9:38 pm

portishead is amazing.

faustgfx · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 3:59 am

yeah. radiohead isn't.

ex · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 4:56 am

I think the Eels should have been on that list.

ewiser · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 5:06 am

Portishead website news
Well here is the news page from their website. Great band.

[ October 06, 2001: Message edited by: ewiser ]

ex · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 6:43 am

Yeah, that is the first place that I looked. Nothing helpful though.

faustgfx · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 6:48 am

get some Nasum and Botch.

ex · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 12:13 pm

Muzman · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 12:37 pm

I've always been more of a Massive Attack kinda guy. The fact that Portishead don't use rap vocals has always given them some wider appeal though.
Lamb are cool. I dunno if I'd call them trip hop though. A hell of a lot more jungle in their sound (Barlow used to be an in-house jungle producer for some record label after all). They do wide variety of stuff really.
From the vocal side of things, Portishead fans really ought to look up Goldfrapp. Lots of tortured, sultry torch stuff there. The music is a bit more Spy-Movie-Soundtrack but great none the less (and frankly I think Alison takes Beth to school in the vocal powerhouse field. But I'm biased

)

Jezebel · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 1:26 pm

Massive Attack is really cool stuff. I also like the sneaker pimps... becoming x is a cool album. Now they have a male lead singer though, so I can see how a lot of folks wouldn't like their newer work.

Ahcri · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 2:41 pm

Has anyone heard of Hooverphonic? Their lyrics are kind of cheesy, but the vocal of their lead singer is awesome, and some of the songs reminds me of the theme songs of James Bond movies.

Jezebel · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 4:15 pm

Yeap... I have a couple of Hooverphonic albums, I meant to mention them as well. But I don't consider their music to be as dark/moody as the aforementioned Portishead.

ex · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 7:26 pm

I'm going to have to look up Goldfrapp and Lamb. I've heard of Lamb, never looked into them though... :P

I love Sneaker Pimps, and I agree, their older stuff, with female vocals, is much better. OH well.

faustgfx · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 11:31 pm

a new stereophonic sound spectacular is a nice album.

NASUM!

BOTCH!

enjoy. hippie scum. *hiss*

daz199 · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 11:47 pm

the song
"massive attack"
by portishead
is pretty tiighhtt

KiNgStiNg · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 12:27 am

Portishead is my favorite band of all time....
just triggers something inside me.

ex · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 6:07 am

Im so missing something with Botch and Nasum.

Then again, maybe it's them that is missing something. What could it be though?

Oh yes, talent, why of course.

Muzman · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 6:37 am

*chuckle* Faustgfx is just pushing his Industrial barrow again (I assume). Note the KMFDM sig.

if you're into audiogalaxy and things of that nature look up 'human', 'deer stop' and 'utopia' by Goldfrapp (or the title track 'felt mountain', but there's no words. Fans of old Orbital and Tricky will probably recognise her singing). Not terribly trip-hop really, but there you go.
Some Lamb tracks that lean towards trip-hop to varying degrees are 'lusty', 'gold', the ultra mushy 'gorecki' and from the second album; 'b line', 'all in your hands', 'bonfire', 'softly', 'lullaby'. Generally Lamb's stuff is far more up-beat in lyrics and tempo than Portishead. As I said, they're a jazz/jungle outfit mainly. They do have this great dark undercurrent though (The track 'cotton wool' must be one of the best examples; turning fairly cutesy happy lyrics into a song of derranged, deluded obsession.)

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faustgfx · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 7:40 am

Flesh is a nice song.. i like it.

'there's a rusty halo on my head it must have been something that i said this is the dome of my betrayal this is the final broken nail fill this hole suck this soul i'm the thing i can't control press my flesh press my flesh press my flesh press my flesh'

*stomp*

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ex · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 7:57 am

baddaboom

faustgfx · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 8:00 am

kzerbl��t

ex · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 8:02 am

The Eels' new cd was releaced in Japan like a few weeks ago, but is not going to be released anywhere else until like Christmas. Poop.!

ex · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 8:03 am

could i have that as an audio?

faustgfx · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 8:04 am

maybe later

too lazy now

ex · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2001 8:08 am

well whats it mean?