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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0007464395932
Label: Polygram Records
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polygram Records
Release Date: 1994-10-17
Studio: Polygram Records
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The collaboration of studio whiz Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons, Dummy was made at the same time as a short film noir called "To Kill a Dead Man," and the same approach--gloomy, tormented, and wildly melodramatic--permeates the album. "Sour Times" (the hit in which Gibbons cries, again and again, "Nobody loves me, it's true") and the more cryptic "Glory Box" are the linchpins of the album, defining its sound: dark flashes of old soul and film music, dehumanized electronic bleeps, Gibbons emoting like she's consumed by shame, and a bass-and-beat pulse derived from the slow bump and grind of the Bristol scene that spawned Barrow's old collaborators, Massive Attack. --Douglas Wolk
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Summary: This Is Porishead
Comment: By far the best album Portishead has, i ripped the album at 320kbs and have listened to it so much its near 190kbs. The blend of classic trip hop style and modern sketching is amazing. For any fan of Massive Attack and Portishead and trip hop in general, if you do not have this album, you are missing out.
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Summary: as promised
Comment: product was shipped on time and in the condition promised. Very happy with this purchase.
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Summary: anthology
Comment: portishead first album,legendary masterpiece.Dummy
If you like trip hop you must have this album because it will take years before something similar happen again,if ever.this recording is genius.
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Summary: One of the greatest dance/electronic albums ever
Comment: "Trip-hop"? "Downtempo"? Although it is a dark record, between Beth Gibbons' tortured voice, Geoff Barrows' beats, scratches and samples, and Adrian Utleys' jazzy guitar: this album is pure sex.
Don't believe me? Try it.
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Summary: Essential electronic album.
Comment: What can be said that already hasn't been said? I don't think there's much. This must have REALLY seemed ground-breaking at the time: Backbeats that sometimes recall hip-hop elements and some real soaring, soulful vocals from Beth Gibbons. There's not a single bad song on here, and it's most famous for the awesome "Sour Times," which sounds at times like a James Bond theme with certain elements. Then there's "Numb" which is probably my favorite song on the album, real soulful vocals there. You get more blues-rockin' moments like on the record's closer "Glory Box." There's occasional samples which rule and sound neat like everything else. If you haven't heard "Dummy" yet you are in for a real treat. Pretty much everyone who owns it can tell you that it's well worth the hype. It is beautiful and proves electronic music CAN BE full of emotion. Even today, it doesn't sound dated at all. I like the follow-up album too, but advise this as your start.
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