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- #1
- Posted: 11/26/2023 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#4725): Dummy by Portishead
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Today's album of the day
Dummy by Portishead (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1994.
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Overall rank: 76
Average rating: 84/100 (from 1629 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Mysterons
2. Sour Times
3. Strangers
4. It Could Be Sweet
5. Wandering Star
6. Numb
7. Roads
8. Pedestal
9. Biscuit
10. Glory Box
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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HoldenM
To Pedantically Split Infinitives
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Age: 30
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mianfei
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Location: Carlton North 
- #3
- Posted: 11/26/2023 22:50
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| HoldenM wrote: | Phenomenal.
Track picks
2. Sour Times
4. It Could Be Sweet
7. Roads
10. Glory Box |
Very much an amazing record, one of the four definitive “rock” albums of the early 1990s alongside Spiderland, Laughing Stock and This Timeless Turning — none of which I heard as a teenager in the cloistered suburbs of western Melbourne. Like Slint and the Romeros [Anisa and Roderick], Portishead created a soundscape that was almost alien compared to anything before it.
In fact, whereas Amon Düül II is a weak parallel to Sky Cries Mary’s trilogy of masterpieces, and one can hear definite traces of the sound of Spiderland in the Mahavishnu Orchestra — both of those groups dating from a quarter of a century before — there is not such a parallel with Dummy.
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LordMark
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Age: 37
Location: Ontario 
- #4
- Posted: 11/26/2023 23:06
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An excellent album from my favourite year of music. My only complaint is that some versions of Dummy don't include the phenomenal "It's a Fire".
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craola
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Location: pdx 
- #5
- Posted: 11/27/2023 00:22
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love it. their magnum opus and third best album.
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mianfei
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Location: Carlton North
- #6
- Posted: 11/27/2023 04:24
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| LordMark wrote: | | An excellent album from my favourite year of music. My only complaint is that some versions of Dummy don't include the phenomenal "It's a Fire". |
1994 was an outstanding year of music, although I did not know it at the time. If we study my all-time list, we will find 1994 has more albums than any other year except 1970.
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- Posted: 12/04/2023 04:24
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Just a brilliant record with sound scapes that can be used to escape inside of. Sonically and structurally, Dummy is such an amazing piece.
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