Dummy (Album)
Occupation
- Vocals: Beth Gibbons
- Guitar: Adrian Utley
- DJ: Geoff Barrow
Dummy added, 1993 and 1994, published in October 1994, is the first album of the trip-hop band Portishead, Bristol. It is considered as influential for the genre.
Title list
In the sold in the UK edition of the album the song It's a fire is not included.
Occupation
In addition to the band members Gibbons, Barrow and Utley some studio musicians were involved: Gary Baldwin ( hammond organ ), Neil Solman (keyboards ), Andy Hague ( trumpet), Clive Deamer (drums) and Richard Newell ( drum machine).
Samples
In many songs on the album samples used by other musicians, including Lalo Schifrin ( The Danube Incident ) and Smokey Brooks ( Spin it jig ) in Sour times, Weather Report (Elegant people) in Strangers and Johnnie Ray ( I'll never drop in love again ) in Biscuit.
However, the most famous sample is Isaac Hayes ' Ike 's Rap II to Glory box. Curiously, the same song was also used in almost the same time resulting song Hell is round the corner from Tricky.
Mysterons contains a sample from the 1967 broadcast in the UK sci-fi series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. The song takes up the eerie atmosphere of this series, in which the Mysterons are invisible aliens who communicate by distorted voices from radio and television sets.
Charts
In the charts, the album was 19 weeks between 30 January and 27 August 1995 and came to number 45 in the UK charts, it stayed 71 weeks, however, and came to No. 2
Awards
From the magazines The Face, Mix Mag and Melody Maker, it was chosen as the album of the year. In addition, Portishead received for her debut Mercury Music Prize, also for the best album of the year. The Rolling Stone took it on its list of the 500 best albums of all time. The New Musical Express runs it among the " Top 30 Heartbreak Albums ".
In the German music magazine Spex album came in at number 6 of the Best list in 1994, and number 60 of the " plates of the century".
The magazine Visions put it on their list of " The most important albums of the 90 " on the 2nd place.
Singles and videos
Splits were Numb, Sour times and Glory box. The videos have been filmed by director Alexander Hemming.
In addition to these three pieces of the songs Mysterons, Roads and Strangers were played on the live concert in New York on 24 July 1997 and recorded on video.
Film Music
Several tracks on the album served as the soundtrack:
- Glory box in the movies Stealing Beauty, The Craft, And everyone is looking for his kitten, and Lord of War - Merchants of Death
- Roads in Tank Girl, Little Criminals and the television series MillenniuM and Coast Guard ( episode: " twist of fate " )
- Numb in the confessional.
Cover versions
The song was covered by the Roads Doom metal band My Dying Bride in 1998 and appeared in 2001 on their album Masterpiece II
In 2008, the album was Satanism. Sickness. Solitude. Extreme metal band Sick published on which they reinterpreted Wandering Stars.