Dummy
by Portishead
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Dummy track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 3 days ago |  nextorgd | 1,206 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2026 15:36 | glebrus | 469 | 81/100 |
| ! | 06/18/2026 02:04 |  AvalancheGrips | 777 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/10/2026 14:48 | BuddyJimbo | 40 | 95/100 |
| ! | 06/06/2026 10:14 | lvillela | 124 | 92/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 84.4/100, a mean average of 83.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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This album sure has a cool vibe, perfect chillax album. And one of the great female vocal performances, quite varied style from one track to the next including jazzy on a couple of tracks - and sounding a lot like Billie Holiday in the intro and outro of "Glory Box", which is no bad thing. Other album highlights are "Strangers", "It's a Fire", and "Pedestal". Actually the album is flawless all the way through, which is rare.
They took the best part of hip hop, the funky drum beats, and combined it with very creative electronic production to produce a perfect fully formed version of trip hop. Some tracks they get into a nice groove with those break beats, others more experimental.
This feels very lesbian
Album of the year at the 1995 Mercury Prize
LukasAntoine00s 11/19/2025 03:09 | #311718
79.5
El disco al que se le atribuye ser la piedra angular del trip hop es muy agradable para la primera escuchada. Aún así, le falta mucho para alcanzar a Bocanada de Cerati... camina kilómetros detrás. Su mayor error defecto es la inconsistencia, en que las mejores canciones se ven opacadas por las normales. Favoritas: Sour Times, de lejos la mejor; detrás, a la par, Mysterons, Glory Box y Roads.
Where's "It's a Fire" in the track listing?
Lounge music for the ambient electro crowd. I bought it on the credit of 'Glory Box'. I should have been happy as it's all in similar style, but alas, it just didn't do it for me. There are some good tracks but I find it's appeal is lost very quick when listening to it all in one sitting.
An excellent trip-hop album. Worth listening to over and over again. 9.5/10!
This album is near perfection, beautiful movie-like experience that takes you somewhere between noir cinema of 40s and modern (90s) city, vocals are beautifully haunting, emotional and instrumentals are often sensational, Glory Box and Sour Times are the most well-known songs, but I feel that Roads is probably my favorite here.
Myterious, dark, sexy. Very, very good album.
ExTeaSea 09/03/2022 21:15 | #289238
Fantastic album for sure but they honestly got better with each album. That's just me though.
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