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- #1
- Posted: 07/05/2020 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3489): 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: 77
Average rating: 84/100 (from 1424 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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- Posted: 07/06/2020 05:13
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Hell Yes.
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Christelex
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- #5
- Posted: 07/08/2020 10:08
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Very cool indeed. But I liked their sophomore album even more.
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- #6
- Posted: 07/08/2020 10:31
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I like this very very much, but don't really love it. I feel all three albums of theirs are somewhat equal, with Third probably being my slight favourite.
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CharlieBarley
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- #7
- Posted: 07/10/2020 23:28
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I love this dreamy album best of all their albums.
And I like all their albums.
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mianfei
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- Posted: 07/14/2020 00:43
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Dummy stands as one of four outstanding and groundbreaking “rock” albums from the first half of the 1990s. The others being Slint’s Spiderland, Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock, and best of all but least-known Sky Cries Mary’s This Timeless Turning from the same year as Dummy. I offer my thoughts on these albums, and a few others, here and on the previous page.
Whereas rap of the time was taking the melody out of soul music of the 1970s, Dummy was expanding it, creating a more melodic, atmospheric, and powerful sound than had ever been seen before. The first four tracks of Dummy are as breathtakingly beautiful as anything on the other three albums mentioned at the beginning of this post, and I do see a lighter side in mishearing ‘It Could Be Sweet’ as “you don’t get summer for nothing” given that I hate hot weather and know the huge costs it causes in Australia in terms of bushfires and greenhouse gas emissions.
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BozoTyrannus
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Age: 32
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- Posted: 07/14/2020 22:51
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This was the first album I ever listened to solely because of BEA. Good memories.
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