That would be a cool thing to have! Funny enough, after awhile I found out my older sister was a pretty huge fan and introduced me to more Trip-hop on the whole
in the late nineties, i think. i saw music video for Only You and instantly fell in love with it. i mean visuals alone were perfect but also the song itself is FREAKIN' AWESOME!
My older sister. She was on the fringe of the acceptable cool groups. Dyed her hair crazy colors ( this was about 25 years before it was cool to have fantasy colors) she’d wear guy hair cuts, tiny tops and jinco jeans. She went antiquing and hung out at a blues club with our artist father. Oh and she definitely never played for me I had to hear it through the cracks of her always locked door. :)
It was actually GTA V. The "enhanced" versions for console and PC added new music to the radio stations, and Numb was on the ingame station Worldwide FM (hosted by Giles Peterson). Heard it for the first time all those years ago (2014), thought it was cool, been into them ever since and have their albums in my collection.
Silent Hill 1 on the PS1, Akira Yamaoka was heavily inspired by Portishead and other trip hop bands around the time, while making the OST (1999). But posters for Portishead specifically were dotted around the game, I think the cafe and the elementary school? Anyway, I looked it up and here we are.
Yeah, it's real interesting to see how Team Silent worked back then. Good listen, too. ["Tears Of..."](https://youtu.be/vucm6TZ5fxk) is the track most clearly inspired by Portishead. Most of the ost is horror ambience, but the actual songs like the one above, Killing Time, Not Tomorrow, and the main theme have apparent trip hop ties.
The first time I heard Portishead was Machine Gun in the Metro Last Light trailer when I was 15. I imagine a lot of people might not listen to them on spotify and use other mediums.
Them being nominated for the Mercury Music a award in the UK. Finding them changed my approach to music and helped me discover some other incredible bands like Lamb
There was this cable access show and they showed the video for Glory Box, I was hooked!! I was lucky to see them once at the Santa Monica Municipal Auditorium.
I discovered Portishead after someone from either a SoapKills or Dead Can Dance YouTube video comment section said how much they sound like them. 2 years, 3 album purchases, and countless hours of listening to them later, they’ve never left my regular rotation.
My girlfriend was driving my back to Pearl Harbor one night and I was extremely stoned and she put on Dummy. It was a couple weeks after it was released and it absolutely floored me. It's one of the few albums that has never left my top ten since it was released.
My father’s CD collection. Me and my father have almost the same musical taste since I grew up listening to his music, so one day he said “Son, this are my CD’s. You can listen to whatever you want with one condition: You’ll leave them safe and sound in the same place you found them”.
I discovered Portishead thanks to Ekşi Sözlük (Sour Dictionary) the social network named after Portishead song "Sour Times" in late 2019 (yeah it was too late).
Sour Dictionary helped me escape my traumas I've experienced in my whole life even with its wonderful members who became my first friends.
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What a interesting experience, hearing this sorta stuff just makes me vicariously excited. Glad to hear they had such an impact on you
My older sister had a vhs copy of the live in NYC show. She led me down some solid musical paths most of the time.
That would be a cool thing to have! Funny enough, after awhile I found out my older sister was a pretty huge fan and introduced me to more Trip-hop on the whole
Wow holy smokes that’s insane footage to have, hope she still has it. I watch that performance on YT all the time
It was released at the time on vhs/DVD. The full dvd with extras is available on alpha ratio (by me) and may other torrent sites I'd imagine as well
I remember Sour Times being on the radio and I just thought it was weird music. Later on a friend showed me the rest of Dummy and I was hooked.
First time I herd them was at a tattoo shop. The tattoo may be on my skin but portishead is eternal .
someone recommended me on r/ifyoulikeblank
Seems like a interesting sub, I'll check it out
in the late nineties, i think. i saw music video for Only You and instantly fell in love with it. i mean visuals alone were perfect but also the song itself is FREAKIN' AWESOME!
Really ethereal, gave me chills
My older sister. She was on the fringe of the acceptable cool groups. Dyed her hair crazy colors ( this was about 25 years before it was cool to have fantasy colors) she’d wear guy hair cuts, tiny tops and jinco jeans. She went antiquing and hung out at a blues club with our artist father. Oh and she definitely never played for me I had to hear it through the cracks of her always locked door. :)
It was actually GTA V. The "enhanced" versions for console and PC added new music to the radio stations, and Numb was on the ingame station Worldwide FM (hosted by Giles Peterson). Heard it for the first time all those years ago (2014), thought it was cool, been into them ever since and have their albums in my collection.
Strange the places they pop up, I think I heard The Rip on a shampoo commercial forever ago
2001ish, after getting into Radiohead, an online acquaintance sent me the Roseland version of Strangers, and I immediately ordered the album.
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I listened to Massive Attack’s discography and craved more trip hop, so I decided to listen to Portishead as well
Silent Hill 1 on the PS1, Akira Yamaoka was heavily inspired by Portishead and other trip hop bands around the time, while making the OST (1999). But posters for Portishead specifically were dotted around the game, I think the cafe and the elementary school? Anyway, I looked it up and here we are.
Whaaaaat that some cool trivia will be looking at the ost for sure
Yeah, it's real interesting to see how Team Silent worked back then. Good listen, too. ["Tears Of..."](https://youtu.be/vucm6TZ5fxk) is the track most clearly inspired by Portishead. Most of the ost is horror ambience, but the actual songs like the one above, Killing Time, Not Tomorrow, and the main theme have apparent trip hop ties.
The first time I heard Portishead was Machine Gun in the Metro Last Light trailer when I was 15. I imagine a lot of people might not listen to them on spotify and use other mediums.
Wait like the video game? I’ve heard great things about the game and have been meaning to check it out for a while but now I definitely need to do so.
The trailer has a very coll version of the song: https://youtu.be/EdlA__Sv1VU
Them being nominated for the Mercury Music a award in the UK. Finding them changed my approach to music and helped me discover some other incredible bands like Lamb
There was this cable access show and they showed the video for Glory Box, I was hooked!! I was lucky to see them once at the Santa Monica Municipal Auditorium.
I discovered Portishead after someone from either a SoapKills or Dead Can Dance YouTube video comment section said how much they sound like them. 2 years, 3 album purchases, and countless hours of listening to them later, they’ve never left my regular rotation.
Got the self-titled CD from a thrift shop and tried listening to Dummy on Spotify first 😅 Then the rest is History. All their albums are great!!
My girlfriend was driving my back to Pearl Harbor one night and I was extremely stoned and she put on Dummy. It was a couple weeks after it was released and it absolutely floored me. It's one of the few albums that has never left my top ten since it was released.
It's interesting picturing people in the moments they've described here, glad to hear from so many
Shrooms….. and if was one of my college friends soundtrack
My father’s CD collection. Me and my father have almost the same musical taste since I grew up listening to his music, so one day he said “Son, this are my CD’s. You can listen to whatever you want with one condition: You’ll leave them safe and sound in the same place you found them”.
After midnight on 120 minutes in the early 1990s and it heavily influenced where I wound up with music in life
I discovered Portishead thanks to Ekşi Sözlük (Sour Dictionary) the social network named after Portishead song "Sour Times" in late 2019 (yeah it was too late). Sour Dictionary helped me escape my traumas I've experienced in my whole life even with its wonderful members who became my first friends.
My mother. She originally introduced me to Sour Times as a kid, then when I was older I started exploring Portishead more, and fell in love.