Embark on a sonic exploration with us as we retrospectively traverse the gothic soundscapes of Portishead's seminal album "Dummy." Discover how the trio's Bristol roots and the influence of a classic British TV series weaved their way into this masterpiece, crafting a rich auditory tapestry that resonates with themes of resilience and independence. Whether you're drawn to the melancholic melodies of "Wandering Star" or the sultry depths of "Strangers," our dissection avoids the well-trodden path of hit singles, guiding you to hidden gems within this timeless collection.
As we swap stories and laugh over pop culture references, our podcast becomes a playground for the curious and musically inclined. We'll compare tracks to iconic songs, untangle the album's atmospheric layers, and shine a spotlight on the standout organ and synthesizer work that define its haunting aura. Unleash your inner music detective and unlock a new appreciation for the subtle intricacies that make "Dummy" an evergreen classic.
In our wrap-up, we don't just rank our favorite tracks— we delve into the cryptic lyrics, embrace the dreamlike transitions, and celebrate the sleeper hits that often go unnoticed. Like sophisticated secret agents of sound, we invite you to uncover with us the enduring impact of Portishead's debut, promising that this is not just another listen but an experience that will linger and inspire. Stay tuned, as our podcast continues to chart a course through the uncharted territories of musical marvels.
Embark on a sonic exploration with us as we retrospectively traverse the gothic soundscapes of Portishead's seminal album "Dummy." Discover how the trio's Bristol roots and the influence of a classic British TV series weaved their way into this masterpiece, crafting a rich auditory tapestry that resonates with themes of resilience and independence. Whether you're drawn to the melancholic melodies of "Wandering Star" or the sultry depths of "Strangers," our dissection avoids the well-trodden path of hit singles, guiding you to hidden gems within this timeless collection.
As we swap stories and laugh over pop culture references, our podcast becomes a playground for the curious and musically inclined. We'll compare tracks to iconic songs, untangle the album's atmospheric layers, and shine a spotlight on the standout organ and synthesizer work that define its haunting aura. Unleash your inner music detective and unlock a new appreciation for the subtle intricacies that make "Dummy" an evergreen classic.
In our wrap-up, we don't just rank our favorite tracks— we delve into the cryptic lyrics, embrace the dreamlike transitions, and celebrate the sleeper hits that often go unnoticed. Like sophisticated secret agents of sound, we invite you to uncover with us the enduring impact of Portishead's debut, promising that this is not just another listen but an experience that will linger and inspire. Stay tuned, as our podcast continues to chart a course through the uncharted territories of musical marvels.
The finger is on the trigger, about to unleash a force with terrible powers beyond the comprehension of man. This force we shall know as the Mrons.
Speaker 3:Alright, thank you for listening to the Greatest Nine Hits. I'm Chris and playing Mrons it's really a Mrons in Strangers. Medley is my co-host, tim, and today's album is going to be from Portishead, a debut album called Dummy, and it was released in August 22nd of 1994. So it's their debut album and the band is from Bristol, England. I always want to say Bristol, Tennessee, because I'm from America.
Speaker 3:And one of the things that we have in common with the geography of you know from where this band is from is the city the name of the band is named after a city called Portishead, which is on the River Severn.
Speaker 3:It's actually on the mouth of the River Severn, which separates England from Wales, and on the other side of that the mouth is Cardiff, and just above Cardiff is it Newport Newport, wales, which is the sister city of the town that Tim and I are recording from, which is Annapolis, maryland. So we're on the Severn River, they're on the River Severn and we are recording this just just stones throw away from the Severn River. So there is a little bit of a linkage there from a geographic standpoint that Tim and I have and this of the affinity that we have for this band, and so we're going to just like all the rest of the albums that we cover, we are going to listen to all the songs, all the tracks, and then rank our top three non hits from this album. So it's got a couple of songs that many of you may have heard Sour Times and Glory Box. It's really, I think, the soul. Sour Times is the second song. Glory Box is the very last track on this album. So those are going to be the two hits. Everything else is up for voting between he and I. So we'll be doing that at the end, but in the meantime, let me give all of you a little bit of a deeper background.
Speaker 3:I didn't know about this until I'd heard this album several times and then I've heard it maybe about seven or eight more times between within the last week. And it consists of three members. The first one, jeff Barrow, beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley. Jeff Barrow plays all the instruments except for the guitar. Adrian Utley plays the guitar, beth is a singer, and it has elements of a lot of different genres, most notably, I'd say goth. There's I mean, it's not really a genre, it's a really more of an aesthetic that belies the music which is. There's hip hop, there's some scratching going on, there's also jazz elements infused in there. There's a pop, it's a little bit of rock. It's very creative, very unique, very avant garde, and it is. It's a, it's a prototype album of a genre that people have coined trip hop, because it's sort of has that trippy gothic aesthetic but you know, be lying underneath it be lying hip hop so, which was becoming really popular at the time, and one of the things.
Speaker 3:I didn't realize just until maybe until about an hour or two ago, is that they started recording these ideas. By the way, they may met. It was Jeff Barrow and Beth Gibbons who met at an enterprise allowance course in February of 1991. That was some sort of a government entrepreneur program. If you show up, present some sort of a business plan or an idea for a business, you would get an allowance from the conservative government at the time as a market thatcher initiative. But anyway, it's sort of like this public meeting for these entrepreneurs.
Speaker 3:The two of them met at a coffee break within that meeting, which I think is kind of cool. Some how or another they, I guess in London. The two of them went to London, had some recording ideas. I guess one of them must have known Nina Cherry who is did the buffalo stance. She was a hip hop artist really popular. I remember listening to Buffalo Stance in the clubs. It was on heavy rotation. Nevertheless, in 91, they meet at her house or they meet her at her house. They discuss some ideas. Her husband was Cameron McFay who in Barrow was doing some work for him, and that's how the very first ideas for the band and the music came about.
Speaker 3:They released a song Within the album there's a song called it Could Be Sweet. I think it's the 34th track on the album that we're going to listen to today and that was the very first track of music that they laid down, the two of them. They go back to Coach House Studios in the area of Bristol and from there they meet Adrian Utley, who was I think he was an engineer and, I think, really liked what they were doing and provided ideas, and they were really receptive and from there they recorded all the rest of the songs and they named the album Dummy. And here we are. So the result of what they collaborated on is what we're going to listen to, and it's amazing because overall, the album has sold about 3.6 million copies or had, according to Wikipedia, sold that many copies by the year 2008.
Speaker 3:I don't think any of their other albums came really close to this particular album. They got away from this type of a sound with their other albums. From what I've read, they don't necessarily like the name of the genre, tripp Hop. I think they see themselves more of a jazz oriented band, but they certainly incorporate acoustic things like that into it. So anyway, listen to listen a little bit of Tim and then interview's him. Nice, oh, look at that. All right, beautiful, all right. So while he's packing it up and he's going to join me momentarily again, continue to subscribe and continue to download us Wherever you get your podcasts. We're super thrilled. We're coming up on a hundredth episode. I think we're a few away, but nevertheless, you know when we do have big celebration, we've got some things in the works. We're in the nineties and we're happy to be doing this album and Tim is ready. Tim, how are you doing bud?
Speaker 6:Oh, doing well Living on split pea soup, a little beef turkey some trail mix a little trail mix in me.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean, I've turned. I've turned the tea. I've been into tea, I've been into healthy food. I'm going.
Speaker 6:I'm going. Vegetarian Trail mix is kind of healthy you know it's all right.
Speaker 3:I think it's got some preservatives in it.
Speaker 6:I don't need depending on what they put into it, I guess you know, instead of the M&M's you just got to go with, like chocolate chunks, I think that's exactly.
Speaker 3:You know, anyway, but that kind of a trail mix I I got you, yeah, so anyway, yeah, he's a, he's adjusting his mic. What are you to give me? Your thoughts about you give me your thoughts about the album, because this is, this is in your wheelhouse, you're familiar with it. What's your take? Give?
Speaker 6:us a drop, maybe just more, into, like, the nitty gritty of life, it's into the mysteriousness it maybe uh, you know there's no False profit, you got to kind of do it yourself. You know there's no captain scarlet to hold. You know this man will be our hero.
Speaker 1:No hero will make him indestructible. His name captain scarlet. You don't need captain scarlet.
Speaker 6:Okay, we got some men. We got some women from earth. Uh, we're all doing it, you know yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh, of course you know I didn't do a good job of introducing that, that original clear Mysterions.
Speaker 6:Yes, mr Ones, I guess. Yes, it's a show from 1967, 68 in Britain right. Which surely you know. These artists watched and gathered some trippy elements too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean it's familiar pop culture to these guys. Uh, but the name of the show? Yeah, captain, let's say okay, tret. Captain scarlet and the mister ones, 1968,. But I guess the premises like in the year 2068, the Inde, the indestructible captain scarlet, leads the agents of spectrum in a war of nerves against the mister ones from Mars.
Speaker 6:Yes, and apparently we went to Mars and we fired some things at them and, uh you, know, it was bad.
Speaker 7:Shut down motors, maintain radio silence. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 3:Well, apparently they were peaceful, but I think we fired something at them and it just got them pissed off.
Speaker 6:Yes.
Speaker 1:This is the voice of the MISTERONS.
Speaker 6:So we'll slow-drip the MISTERONS, but grab your space suit. This is an amazing album and I think it really deserves to be talked about. It was what? 419 out of 500 for Rolling Stones. It's best albums all time. Sure, it's paving the way for genres, even though they didn't like to be called TRIPOP, I think you know. I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, we're going over this anyway, because the very first songs called MISTERONS. That was the sort of melody that he was playing. I think it's a good way to start off the album.
Speaker 1:This is the trigger A.
Speaker 6:Martian Explosion vehicle. That was their vehicle.
Speaker 1:Three men from.
Speaker 7:Earth. Well, that about completes our patrol. Captain Black, once again nothing to report. But those signals we monitored at Spectrum. They must have come from somewhere.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they came from.
Speaker 7:MISTERONS.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, so that's sort of like the intro there, yeah and then they fire upon them. Exactly, got it Alright. So this is the introduction, last passion Ooh Halloween music right off the bat.
Speaker 7:I got my spacesuit.
Speaker 6:Heavy bass Somewhere where they come back.
Speaker 8:I'm not a crier, I don't cry. I work out. I love these. I don't cry. Nice, are you crying?
Speaker 2:Are you crying? What's that? Are you crying? Am I crying? No, I'm not crying.
Speaker 6:I'm not crying yet. It's a little emotional, it is. It's fine upper reaches, it's still holding on. This ocean will not be grasped. This ocean will not be grasped For nothing.
Speaker 2:Did you really want this?
Speaker 3:This is the voice of a miscown. Yeah, there's like these. These Ailes are super fast. Yeah, they're so fast. We gotta play the rest of this. We'll literally look at them. Here we go, thank you, we know that you will hear us, earthmen. Our retaliation will be slow.
Speaker 1:But nonetheless effective. It will mean the ultimate destruction of life. It will be useless for you to resist.
Speaker 8:For we have discovered the secret of reversing matter.
Speaker 3:Okay, so those dudes just surrender? Yeah, they get shot at them. And then these guys are pissed On the planet. The misterons are mad, but the Earthlames are refusing to surrender right.
Speaker 6:Yes, yes whoa, I was over the part. Whoa, what You're blowing my mind right now, Shout out. You can watch the first episode on YouTube actually. So we kind of were doing that we didn't catch the whole script, but yes, that's the gist.
Speaker 3:Well, that was season one episode.
Speaker 2:Very nice.
Speaker 3:It's setting the stage for us.
Speaker 6:They're peaceful and they're pissed, but they're pissed. You can only take so much shit, just like in real life. This is kind of like in Bristol and wherever. Where else are they from?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, exeter yeah that whole top-west area.
Speaker 6:This has got that rainy overcast kind of day music that you can really yeah shout out to Bristol, by the way.
Speaker 3:Shout out to.
Speaker 6:Bristol.
Speaker 3:City, bristol City, bristol City. Where are some cities around there? Shout out to anybody on the southern Shout out to Portishead, of course, right there.
Speaker 6:Chittening Holland Sheepway Shout out to Long Ashton Portbury.
Speaker 3:Oh, I love.
Speaker 6:Portbury. I love Flaksporten, lay Woods. Don't sleep on Stoke Gifford.
Speaker 3:Bradley, stoke.
Speaker 6:Shoe Town, shvetham, that's a little outside of Bristol, that's southeast Chittening.
Speaker 3:We love it, we love you. I'm a shitty bee.
Speaker 2:Listen.
Speaker 6:Okay, yeah, oh, creepy, creepy, creepy. I tell you what Shout out to our sisters in Newport, annapolis loves you.
Speaker 8:As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit. You won't need much, just a tiny taste, alright shout out to.
Speaker 6:Fear and Loathing. Yeah, exactly, shout out to the fans of Fear and Loathing.
Speaker 3:Alright, we're off to a good start.
Speaker 6:That was a good song, it was creepy, it was really creepy.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's good, that's a sweet.
Speaker 6:Now what does this sound like? This is some James Bond shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the whole song is James Bond. We get up, we ranked.
Speaker 6:We're ranking the Bonds by the way Coming up.
Speaker 3:This is Sour Times.
Speaker 8:I hit. Oh, Forbidden Fruit hit nice.
Speaker 6:That's a great line. Courtesies that I despise.
Speaker 2:She got sexy boys Shake.
Speaker 6:Monster, she does.
Speaker 3:Shout out to Dalton. Fist begins.
Speaker 6:Shake Dalton was okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was a rank.
Speaker 6:I think Sean Connery is number one. Take a right, take a shot now. That's Sean Connery. That's Sean.
Speaker 3:You think I'm number two, roger.
Speaker 6:Roger, you gotta be Roger.
Speaker 7:Just a drink, a martini shaken not stirred.
Speaker 3:That was Connery, right yeah it was Connery. It's Pierce Brosnan.
Speaker 8:Shake.
Speaker 1:Forbidden Fruit hit nice Shake.
Speaker 2:Not stirred.
Speaker 6:That's more bitter than Sour. Sometimes he does the lemon twist. Remember the.
Speaker 3:They were bitters too.
Speaker 6:Bitter yeah.
Speaker 3:Bitter.
Speaker 5:Shaken, but not stirred.
Speaker 3:So mocking, shaking, shaking, that stirred.
Speaker 6:Innocence, decent nice.
Speaker 8:Disguise me though. Rot.
Speaker 7:Welcome on to Shake and Not Stir. Shake and Not Stir, don't look like.
Speaker 3:I gave it down. That's down, Phil.
Speaker 6:You know who also likes martinis Saul.
Speaker 1:Hi, oh, hello Hello.
Speaker 6:He's trying to get the bartenders attention. Hello, I like a martini place. I'm shaking that Stoid Stake shaken, I don't know. Just give me a drink, damn it.
Speaker 2:I'm a secret agent.
Speaker 6:I'm looking for the sky.
Speaker 7:I'm a sophisticated secret agent. We have to do that.
Speaker 3:We have to write something with Saul as Devil.
Speaker 7:Asada, I've got my space suit.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's good, that's a sweet.
Speaker 2:Sweet.
Speaker 6:Sour. Do you like sweet or sour?
Speaker 3:Bitter A little bit of both, yeah.
Speaker 6:I have a complex balance of all of them.
Speaker 3:Exactly, I like sour followed by sweet. I'm sure we're. You. Don't go from sweet to sour.
Speaker 6:It's like a palate cleanser. I have a phobia of losing my balance.
Speaker 1:I have a phobia.
Speaker 3:All right, oh yeah, this is Strangers. This is the medley right.
Speaker 1:This is what you're doing.
Speaker 3:This is like a synth. This is like a mood. I think you want to say A mood Right now. This is a synth, but you were doing it as a chord. You're playing it like it hasn't been coosy.
Speaker 6:Right. Well, I kind of just found On the plug. Yeah, it was on the plug, I was getting into this one.
Speaker 3:Here's the jazz.
Speaker 6:It's very jazzy.
Speaker 3:Very hip-hop-y Got it.
Speaker 6:There's people walking. You hear that Keele's hitting the floor. They created their own samples yeah, they created their own samples.
Speaker 3:Was it Adam McDonald's Did?
Speaker 2:you realize the way this song belongs to you.
Speaker 6:Dave McDonald plays Nose Flute.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dave McDonald producer.
Speaker 6:He plays the Nose Flute on. That's awesome.
Speaker 3:There's somebody who plays it on the plug.
Speaker 1:Oh, now feel, feel the night.
Speaker 6:Done it warning. Done it now.
Speaker 1:Feel the night, Done it, so morning kill.
Speaker 2:The solution was there all the time.
Speaker 8:I'm not afraid anymore.
Speaker 3:Now, that's kind of cool, whoa.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah. That part rips so hard?
Speaker 3:How's this not a hit?
Speaker 6:It's got that droning sort of electric something unplugged. That's like feedback. Is it in real? I think this is pretty real.
Speaker 8:Boldly go where no man has ever gone before.
Speaker 2:There's got to be a way. There is nothing more to be added to it.
Speaker 3:Shout out to you these out there.
Speaker 5:Call the fire department. This one's out of control.
Speaker 3:This site belongs to you. Yes, yes, yes. Copy I'm detached.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't know, I'm spitting.
Speaker 3:Shout out to Sandra Boa. I'm not stirred. All right, next song. It could be sweet, this is the one. This is the very first song they ever recorded.
Speaker 6:I mean.
Speaker 3:Adrian Otley was not a part of the band at this point.
Speaker 6:Wow.
Speaker 3:They got they when they recorded this.
Speaker 6:So I hope the government would give them money for their band that they're, they're like yeah, was this?
Speaker 3:yeah, this is a good question about whether or not. Dear.
Speaker 6:Margaret Thatcher. We're going to start a band. We're going to name it Portis Head. It's going to get all these people to visit Portis Head.
Speaker 3:I know it's not a bad idea, it's a success.
Speaker 6:It's not a bad idea Like if they're creative people for the government to give them money to make band. Hey USA, let's do that. Come on, me and Chris, Chris can play some stuff. I'm sure they've got both multi instrumentalists and we have a roadcaster already, geez.
Speaker 3:Oh, exactly, yeah, oh, we didn't need a program.
Speaker 5:Look upon my fear.
Speaker 6:Oh, why are you scared? I have a phobia of fairness.
Speaker 2:I swear.
Speaker 8:How much more black could this be? The answer is none. None is actually black.
Speaker 6:Even their love songs are like depressing.
Speaker 3:That's a cool sample there. Yeah, that was I. Can't you kind of have to listen carefully? I like this song. They're taking it down. This is the song where you need a song where it facilitates a hook up. Oh yeah, like if you're at the bar and you meet somebody at an enterprise meeting and they're hot, just laugh at everything that they say. Yeah, just laugh at everything they say, and then when the song comes on, yeah, play this one, just the right, the mood is right.
Speaker 6:Have a little, a little drink maybe.
Speaker 7:Just a drink.
Speaker 3:Maybe something sweet like a grasshopper or something like that. What is a grasshopper? I don't know. It's like green da ment and some shit.
Speaker 6:Oh, that's a conversation starter, you think so? Yeah, okay, I mean crazy color drinks always win.
Speaker 3:No, that's true. You order it because it makes you stand out in the otherwise dingy bar.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 3:So you have to differentiate yourself.
Speaker 6:You want to piss off the bartenders as much as possible? Yeah, in a dingy bar.
Speaker 3:Well, in a bar, everything's non-verbal, so you have to have your non-verbal when you're at a bar. Yeah, for sure, and that's probably the drink order, that in and of itself. So you have a lot of fruit in it, yeah, umbrellas and all that stuff. We need some umbrellas Orange twists that are lit on fire, even slices With a round glass or a tangela, yeah, and then you have to have a little bit of a drink.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 8:Oh, I sweat Whoa what just happened.
Speaker 3:I mean, Shout out to Nina Cherry.
Speaker 6:Okay, no, you hang up.
Speaker 8:No, you Okay.
Speaker 3:Shout out to the tea drinkers.
Speaker 6:Shout out to the people who use speakerphone to talk to people.
Speaker 2:Okay, one, two, three.
Speaker 3:I got a good tea idea.
Speaker 7:Oh.
Speaker 3:The boiling water, of course. You take fresh turmeric slice, you know, just peel off the edges, put it in to the grater. Oh, you grate that up and you grate up a piece of ginger, oh, my gosh. You kind of fill up the bottom with the rind.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then you pour that in. You take a little bit of a thing of honey. Mm-hmm and there you've got your tea right there. Yeah, just those three things in the water.
Speaker 6:Wow.
Speaker 3:I tried it. It was good. You know the ingredients have to be fresh and you have to do, you have to grate it.
Speaker 6:Can you actually put tea in there?
Speaker 3:Well, you just put the hot water in it and then it becomes tea, but then it's herbal tea.
Speaker 6:Tea with the herbs too, then it would just be black tea with like turmeric and ground ginger.
Speaker 3:Oh, no, I mean.
Speaker 8:Well, you don't hang up either. Turn it off, turn it off.
Speaker 3:All right, I'll see the next couple.
Speaker 6:We'll have a conversation.
Speaker 3:We'll talk about it.
Speaker 6:We'll talk over the phone. We'll get into the minutia of different holistic. The idea is holistic tea.
Speaker 5:I just thought it was healthy.
Speaker 7:What does it do? Can't you see? It makes everlasting gobstoppers.
Speaker 6:You can be gobstopper tea, you know.
Speaker 3:Well, it's just a sweet tea really, I mean, yes, it's got the ginger in it. It makes it sweet without sweetening it.
Speaker 7:Where am I going?
Speaker 3:Well, we're going to the next song, which is Wandering Star, which is kind of like the beginning of Running With the Devil.
Speaker 6:But I never have to wake Very gothic here. Sure.
Speaker 2:There is nothing more to be added.
Speaker 8:How much more black could this be? The answer is none.
Speaker 3:None is black Like a scratching face to throw in there.
Speaker 6:I really like the guitar on this too.
Speaker 3:That was all, adrian.
Speaker 8:How much more black could this be? The answer is none. None is black.
Speaker 5:Call the fire department. It was out of control. What would you do if?
Speaker 8:you had to A million dollars, I'll tell you what I'd do man Two chicks at the same time. Man, that's it. You had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time Damn straight.
Speaker 5:I always wanted to do that. Man Well, type of chicks that double up on a dude like me. Dude, good point.
Speaker 8:I don't think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up too, Because chicks dig dudes with money.
Speaker 5:Well, not all chicks, Well, type of chicks that double up on a dude like me dude.
Speaker 2:Good point.
Speaker 1:It's like waking up from a dream.
Speaker 7:After a while, one's experience begins to have what I would call a haven't we been here before?
Speaker 2:Man, this is this is a trippy one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's really dark man.
Speaker 6:It's really alternating between the major and minor.
Speaker 7:What's it do? Can't you see it makes everlasting gobs. Starburst.
Speaker 6:It's just major, minor, major, minor, major, minor, major minor. Yeah little noodling, major, minor noodle. Little Leslie Nielsen here.
Speaker 5:The car, follow that car.
Speaker 6:Coming at. Ya Get the Ham and Griddle. We got the Roadcaster with the Ham and Griddle here Round and round.
Speaker 8:Whoa what just happened.
Speaker 3:What just happened. We are off the rail.
Speaker 7:Is this Raga Something like?
Speaker 3:that. So we just kind of did a little palette cleanser around this one. Wait, it's just, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Light of my light Deeper and deeper.
Speaker 3:What's the organ there? It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:Pardon me.
Speaker 3:Alright, we got a little palette cleanser here. That was going to do between the last two or the next two, but we'll do it between these ones.
Speaker 6:What's the name of this band? This is sticking to myself from Jonathan Coltrane, alright.
Speaker 3:Shout out to the.
Speaker 6:Jonathan Coltrane.
Speaker 3:Okay, shout out to Jonathan Coltrane.
Speaker 2:It feels. It feels better, that's right.
Speaker 6:But we're going to be lost again. Alright, we're going to be spinning, we're going back.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, yes yes, call me, I'm attached. I don't know, I don't know, I'm spinning. Okay, so we're going back into the doldrums here. This is called. It's a Fire.
Speaker 2:It's a fire.
Speaker 3:Fire. Oh, sorry about that. I got to control a little bit.
Speaker 6:I'm losing it here. This is great Organ. Yeah, Adrienne Utley on the Hammond organ here. Okay, no wait.
Speaker 3:No, it's Jeff, is it Jeff? Sounds like something Jeff would do, I don't know. Synthesizer on tracks 4 and 6. What track is this? Is this 6? Which one are we on, anyway?
Speaker 6:Yeah, 6,. Yeah, so it's actually Gary Baldwin on the Hammond organ, is it? Yeah, we got Jeff's Gary Baldwin here.
Speaker 3:Well, adrienne is playing a synthesizer of some sort. If that's an organ, not a synthesizer, they have two synths. Are they doubled up on synthesizers?
Speaker 6:Double up on a dude like me.
Speaker 5:dude there's something like that.
Speaker 6:There's lots of horns. No, that's Okay. Maybe this is the synthesizer.
Speaker 3:Maybe this might be a granality. This is doubled up on synths.
Speaker 2:You fool.
Speaker 3:Kind of synths that would double up on a dude like me. I would totally double up on a couple of synths if I had the opportunity, maybe with a million bucks, a few, maybe with a million bucks. I figure I can see that.
Speaker 6:I know a farce when I see one. That's right.
Speaker 3:She's not happy.
Speaker 2:You fool.
Speaker 1:An old saying in Tennessee.
Speaker 4:I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee. There's this boom he wants.
Speaker 1:An old saying in Tennessee. He wants. Shame on, shame on you. You fool me. We can't get fooled again.
Speaker 2:Shout out to George Bush.
Speaker 3:Sir, what was that like 2000.
Speaker 6:Anti-shout out to George Bush.
Speaker 3:Yeah, anti-shout, oh God.
Speaker 6:We don't have a low bar of shell.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know, shout out to it, I'm not gonna go there. I don't know. Not a control. Yeah, this is out of control.
Speaker 5:Call the fire department.
Speaker 6:It's a fire here. It is a fire, oh man.
Speaker 8:So why? What just happened? I?
Speaker 6:mean Wait, should we do one more pallet cleanser?
Speaker 3:Yeah, we want to do the same one. I wouldn't call this a pallet cleanser. This is sort of what we've been listening to, sort of. But whatever, this is not Portisette, this is.
Speaker 6:Just believe that you're yourself and realize that all that shit is fucking bullshit.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh, good timing.
Speaker 7:Where am I going?
Speaker 3:Okay, so this song is called Numb. This is a Portisette song.
Speaker 6:I'm gonna draw it out. This is where it starts. That was Radiohead. Yeah, pallet cleanser Gotcha.
Speaker 3:I think Port, I think Radiohead, kind of borrowed away from these guys a little.
Speaker 6:I know. No, totally, this is never a rap hit. No, they did. I think Tom York definitely heard some of this and was like Johnny, get on the on the sticks and do some weird stuff. Yeah, I call it.
Speaker 2:David, donald, what are you calling me? Who lost the car?
Speaker 5:Follow that car.
Speaker 3:And Sinatra was like oh, what about that dame, that Gibbons? Hey, I like that broad, I love the way she talks.
Speaker 6:Feel what I could feel.
Speaker 2:It feels, it feels better. Are you crying? Are you crying? Am I crying? No, I'm not crying. Deeper and deeper Way down. That feels.
Speaker 6:Listen to the spacey organs again. Really intricate stuff in the background.
Speaker 3:This is not Barbershop, this is.
Speaker 1:No, I know.
Speaker 2:This is whatever the complete opposite of Barbershop.
Speaker 3:I appreciate the placement.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's.
Speaker 5:Pardon me, I wonder if you could tell me how to get back on the expressway.
Speaker 3:Not to family vacation. You chose E St Louis, Excuse me Holmes.
Speaker 2:I never told you about this friend. No, I'm not. Yes, the giant pretty man.
Speaker 3:So yeah, shout out to the really, really drunk. I can see Like somebody being really drunk.
Speaker 6:Thank you very much. You're on like Quailu's or something, something.
Speaker 5:What it is, bro. We're from out of town, no shit.
Speaker 2:There's a radio hatch right there.
Speaker 6:Lady of War Increased detachment from reality.
Speaker 3:That was Tim adding that last part, but that was good.
Speaker 2:Dude, I just I don't get this. You can't just lump things into two categories. Things aren't that simple.
Speaker 6:You can't. It's not Trip Hop, it's not. You know Downbeat, it's not.
Speaker 3:But it is. I mean it's all those things.
Speaker 6:But it's all. They created a new genre. How cool is that, though? That's why you can't lump them into one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this is sort of like a flagship album of Trip Hop. It was their first album too. You gotta give them time for that right. You have to.
Speaker 6:Oh, I mean they knocked it out of the park times a million. I mean, how many records. This is yeah.
Speaker 3:This is a special album. Yeah, it's before Windows.
Speaker 6:I hope Frank thinks too.
Speaker 2:Has he ever told you about his friend Frank?
Speaker 3:They had like Prodigy and AOL. Yeah, they're not logged in.
Speaker 6:I think the fast pod rate the viewers are yeah, or the listeners are. Maybe we don't have an AOL sound clip of logging in.
Speaker 3:Or any records of like Jim 37.
Speaker 6:H-sex location. H-sex location. I'm a giant bunny rabbit. We've got a war to fight.
Speaker 3:There's always the giant bunny rabbit. There's always a character. So many movies I Of what they say.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm calling about the phobia. I have a phobia this room.
Speaker 2:From this moment. How can it feel? Ah, it feels this room.
Speaker 5:If loving the Lord is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Speaker 8:Storm In the morning.
Speaker 7:Light of my life.
Speaker 2:Ah, it feels. You can't say it feels better From sin to myself. I got nobody in my side. I'm not a cryer, am I?
Speaker 3:You're that am I.
Speaker 1:You're that am I.
Speaker 3:Don't cry, I work out, I have hobbies, I don't Come here.
Speaker 2:Oh, can't anybody see?
Speaker 6:Ah good, violence. If you're not moved by this, just Maybe, maybe do something.
Speaker 3:Give yourself a self-audit. Yeah, put on a. James Bond movie.
Speaker 2:How can it feel it's? Wrong I'm not here to hear Reverend.
Speaker 3:Brown, it's wrong.
Speaker 2:If loving the Lord is wrong.
Speaker 5:I don't want to be right.
Speaker 6:Increase detachment from reality.
Speaker 7:Do more hip-whip okay.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:Hey, can you Adrian? I think he's a good. He's a good addition. You can see the value that he's had.
Speaker 6:Wow, yeah, we're just marking it up for correctness mostly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're completely ruining the song, but at the same time, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 6:Make sure the copyright people can't get us. We go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 6:Got a war to fight yeah.
Speaker 2:Regardless of what they say. How can it feel this wrong?
Speaker 7:Oh, we got my space suit.
Speaker 8:From this moment. How can it feel this wrong?
Speaker 3:It's almost like. Zeppelin-esque that organ. Anyway, we're getting close.
Speaker 7:Shut down motors. Maintain radio silence. Let's get out of here, Alright.
Speaker 6:Stay with us, don't get out of here.
Speaker 3:So this next one is pedestal.
Speaker 6:I think it's important to not put the electronics on a pedestal here, Even though you do need a stand to get the mid-eye level. Maybe a standing desk. We need a standing desk for our road caster.
Speaker 3:Something like that. I don't know.
Speaker 6:It's all about posture on the pedestal. True that Don't put posture on the pedestal either, because there are advantages to a crooked back and a crooked spine Right on.
Speaker 3:So, anyway, where's the sound on this anyway?
Speaker 6:I don't know Technical difficulties.
Speaker 3:Where's the tech issue here? Anyway, so we got pedestal, and when is that Okay?
Speaker 6:Duck amongst yourselves. Give you a topic. Give you a topic.
Speaker 5:Uh.
Speaker 6:Pousa's scale actually doesn't reflect what you weigh. You know it's not accurate. Uh Pounzen Head of Stole.
Speaker 3:Some good bass on this one.
Speaker 6:It's the jazzy little drumming.
Speaker 2:It is jazzy drumming, it's a hip hop, jazz, bass so here it is.
Speaker 6:It's kind of like abass is going through a break-up song maybe. Yeah, I think so, yeah.
Speaker 2:The solution was there all the time. I'm not afraid anymore.
Speaker 3:You know the song is getting intense. Yeah, actually you brought it back. I like that, thank you.
Speaker 6:Where Earthlings we are peaceful. Do you fuck everything up? Why did you fire that missile at us, Assholes? We are so fucking pissed. We're gonna infiltrate your society and make you enslaved.
Speaker 3:No negotiation.
Speaker 6:You will not even know you're fighting us. You will not be able to call the fire department.
Speaker 5:Call the fire department.
Speaker 3:Pull me once. No saying in Tennessee I know it's in Texas, pull me twice. Shame on me. Probably in Tennessee this.
Speaker 4:There is nothing more to be added to it Says pull me once.
Speaker 3:What I'm taking thiswhat is this? Is this like a French word? I don't know.
Speaker 6:Yeah, pedestal is dope, shame on.
Speaker 3:Shame on you. I'm digging it. That's George Bush with the pedestal.
Speaker 6:Sorry, I'll set this one out. Yeah, you bet.
Speaker 3:Looks like some jam-ass from J. No time we call it a sun.
Speaker 8:Do more hip-hop therapy. No time we call it a sun. Give it a try.
Speaker 3:No time make or reason. Was that some sort of a prodigy prompt?
Speaker 6:Give it a try, maybe A little biscuit booty call.
Speaker 3:The next song is called biscuit. It's still like a biscuit.
Speaker 5:The car, follow that car.
Speaker 6:Again, we're lost. We're not asking for directions, excuse me, holmes.
Speaker 3:What it is.
Speaker 8:Pardon me.
Speaker 5:I wonder if you could tell me how to get back on the expressway. Fuck your mama. That wasn't nice.
Speaker 6:Some of the drivers out there are lost. What's that? The lost drivers out there shout out.
Speaker 3:Shout out to the scare.
Speaker 1:I have a phobia.
Speaker 8:Make myself hurt, no matter how hard I scream.
Speaker 3:Increased attachment for reality. That's sin slave of sensation.
Speaker 6:What Sin? Slave of sensation, cama, slave of sensation.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 6:Sin slave of sensation.
Speaker 2:I see you've been told you about his friend.
Speaker 6:He likes to wander around and do stuff in the night. Just wander around in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3:Something like that.
Speaker 7:Deeper and deeper Light of my life.
Speaker 2:Never falling. Yes, the giant bunny.
Speaker 3:Who did the never fall in love again?
Speaker 6:It's Kermit the frog slowed down. Wow, Increased attachment for reality.
Speaker 7:At last I've got my space suit.
Speaker 2:A mother's son has left me here.
Speaker 6:Wow what.
Speaker 3:This is getting dark. This should have seemed like a dream Deeper and deeper Way way down.
Speaker 2:I've suffered, no matter how hard I scream.
Speaker 3:Sin slave of sensation. How do you got those Sin slave?
Speaker 2:of sensation.
Speaker 1:This is the trigger Martian exploration. I'm shaking.
Speaker 3:What are these? What are these?
Speaker 6:I thought of this song oh, I know she thinks it's sweet, oh, that's good.
Speaker 3:That's sweet, Sweet. She's like oh sweet, Enterprise program really paid off. There is nothing more to the added glitch.
Speaker 6:It's all over now.
Speaker 3:What they put this in business.
Speaker 8:Whoa what just happened.
Speaker 7:I mean, what's it do? It makes everlasting gobstoppers.
Speaker 5:The car, follow that car.
Speaker 6:It's good like theme music. It's good soundtrack music. That's maybe that's why I like it so much, because you can listen to it over and over again and not get tired of it Because it's not in your face.
Speaker 3:Exactly. All right, man, this is it?
Speaker 6:This is the last one.
Speaker 3:This is Glory Box Giggity. No, seriously, this is the big hit Right.
Speaker 8:Give it a try.
Speaker 2:This is she's, Wow what.
Speaker 3:Wow, this song is reason enough.
Speaker 8:That'll give you two reasons. How much more black could this be? None.
Speaker 1:Hi, oh, hello, hello.
Speaker 6:I like that one.
Speaker 2:Give it a try.
Speaker 3:Or the fifth hour of the first day.
Speaker 6:Maybe you'll just need a little do more hypnotic.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I was waiting for Utley to have a song where he flexes his chops.
Speaker 6:Wow, Early on too. Here there's half the song left. This is great song. Even though this is a hit, I guess For our purposes we should highlight this song more because it needs to be in the genus of the song Listeners play list out there.
Speaker 3:All right, all right chant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hear you Increase the touch with the front.
Speaker 8:Give it a try.
Speaker 2:Yeah this is a song later, just a minute.
Speaker 5:Give it a try. Oh.
Speaker 2:It feels so good. Not a cry. Chicken nap, you're tired.
Speaker 7:Put down the bow and arrow.
Speaker 3:All right, digging it, man. What are your last words?
Speaker 2:here, it feels better. That was good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was a good way to end.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I mean best song.
Speaker 3:Saved the best for last right.
Speaker 6:Kind of interesting that they did that or how it worked out like that. Right, they wanted to round out the album. It was strong.
Speaker 3:Exactly, yeah. Well, a lot of times the very last song on albums becomes like the big hit. Rush's first album was Working man. Yeah that song. It was the very last song on that one, but anyway, sometimes it can be filler. But yes, yeah, no something, it's really good, exactly, but that's not going to be a part of our voting. It's going to be not that or sour, was it Sour Times?
Speaker 6:Yeah, so you told me them and we're really at number three For number three. For my number three. I'm in between Mr Ones and Pedestal, but I think Mr Ones really encapsulates the album, what they're about and very just this sort of just very trippy out there, spacey like Captain Scarlet type deal, right, but I'm going to go with Pedestal, number three, just because of the jazzyness, the little jazz-ish key solo there that they have, which really breaks up the album, I think, because there's nothing like that Anywhere else. So that's my number three.
Speaker 3:I got you no as well thought out. Thanks for For all of that, I'm gonna go. My number three is gonna be strangers.
Speaker 5:Nice.
Speaker 3:It's a really it's a, it's a super. I mean just it has a lot and like it's a more is more kind of a Ethos to it and but it they they cut across or they fit everything in all these elements In a really well thought out way. So I thought it was I'm gonna go strangers, my number three. Okay okay.
Speaker 6:Yeah my number two, then Was I gonna do?
Speaker 3:Guess some good ones there. You've got roads, oh, oh, roads, yeah, roads number two roads is my number two.
Speaker 6:I've been listening that song for a while now. It moves you. Yeah, it really does, it's. It's more of a a slow track, sort of reflective tune, if you will. Yeah yeah, all those are like it's a fire.
Speaker 3:Numb roads there. Those are all you get into this stretch of really.
Speaker 6:Glory box has a crescendo. That's really good.
Speaker 3:It's slow at first, but I agree, but I mean, my number two is gonna be on the opposite end of that is number two is mr Runs for me nice.
Speaker 6:I'm glad that was yeah, yeah yeah, of course, because it's.
Speaker 3:I Like the story of it and I like how it has such a gothic hero yeah thing to it and the way that they incorporate, like the theme of that show yeah, into like In that kind of spirit definitely gonna be still listening to this album in 2068, you know. I know pretty cool. Anyway, what's your number one?
Speaker 6:Number one is strangers. I love the lyrics there, mm-hmm. Yeah it's a. What is it like? Which ones like set aside your fears of life with the soul desire. Done, warning, done it now. Okay, ain't real on this side. Done in warning, done it now. Can anybody see the light? Where the morning Meets the dew and the tide rises like what?
Speaker 3:yeah what's going on here? What are they trying to say? What's?
Speaker 6:oh man, it's so cryptic and like, yeah, creepy.
Speaker 3:You realize, for why this site belongs to you this Kind of kind of sexiness to it, I guess it does. Yeah, you know, in a weird twisted kind of way it does.
Speaker 6:It's a gothic twist of you know weirdness.
Speaker 3:But it's sultry though too.
Speaker 6:I don't know what, I don't know what dummy is all about.
Speaker 3:But yeah, yeah. Well, there's a story behind that too, I think, but I don't want to get.
Speaker 6:I don't want to lose focus you know we're good thatcher would have been a dummy to not give them the funding that they would have, should have exact received in their Poor kids entrepreneur, government class or the hell it was.
Speaker 3:So, getting to my number one, I'm gonna go in a different direction. I'm gonna say it could be sweet, that's gonna be my number. Oh, because it is their very first recording ever.
Speaker 3:You know, okay the strongest one or it had the best aesthetic to it and all of that, but it was like it right after strangers, it it I mean I guess in the order, like when you listen everything from beginning to end it it Sounds really good right after strangers and it's very, you know, carefully, you know pulled off, yeah. So I think it's a that's that's gonna be my this album makes me want to be a Secret agent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, yeah. Well, I'm gonna listen to this a lot more, I think you are oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Definitely it puts me in this sort of like a centered mood. I mean, oh yeah, just in terms of the way everything is delivered, it's very direct and it's very sort of like matter-of-fact and it gives, even though it there are some really things for sensitive people to, yeah, be triggered by the way it's. You know, the way it's delivered is in a very direct and just matter-of-fact way versus, yeah, it having a really Comfortable or yeah, or like sad or bad emotion to it.
Speaker 6:So yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3:I kind of it's almost dignified. You know it's a. It's a dignified way to convey these, these, you know these Unfortunate times that occur in your life with relationships.
Speaker 6:Yeah, but it also makes me want to be a secret agent, like a sneaky secret agent.
Speaker 7:I'm sophisticated secret agent.
Speaker 6:I mean, I could be. You know, you probably are a podcast secret agent. Yeah exactly into the future we go.
Speaker 3:Well, aren't we all?
Speaker 6:we are you know, and hopefully you know more listeners are not strangers to this album, because yeah, give it a chance.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's, there's a lot to it and it's good stuff, all right, all right. Well, that's a bow on it. Thanks, guys, thanks for listening. Well, we'll see you on the flip side. Bye, bye.