Dummy

Well, my number five is an album that became one of the building blocks for one of the most distinctive subgenres of the '90s, namely being trip hop.

The album is Portishead's 1994 album Dummy, which introduced the band's eerie down-tempo style that sounded both like it came from another time and place, but also sounded completely modern.

It was kinda like you were trapped in the staticky zone in between two late-night radio stations.

They approached the music like alchemists.

I mean, they just take an aesthetic and they nail it really well.

So that's, uh, gonna be my number five.

Dummy by Portishead.

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This, of course, being Portishead, Dummy.

what an album

what an album so before we get into that let's talk about you know blue sky instant facebook we're at britpop banter you can email us and we do have an email to go through uh in a bit britpopbanter at gmail.com all views expressed on this podcast are 100% on our own and while we poke fun at some bones bands bones and artists we appreciate their talent and sacrifice to create these albums right it's been a wee while

To give you an idea of how studio obsessed they were, Porter's Head actually made a short black and white noir film called To Kill a Dead Man before they even put out a record.

They acted in it, wrote the score and used it to establish their aesthetic grainy monochrome 1960s spy thrillers and deep psychological tension.

In fact, the iconic cover of Dummy...

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Finally, my number one favorite album of 1994, which was From Portishead, and the album was called

Dummy.

To me, Dummy is the greatest trip-hop album of all time.

Trip-hop was pretty well innovated by the group Massive Attack in England in the early 1990s.

It was a fusion of the breakbeat style of electronic music with soul, funk, and jazz, and initially plenty of hip-hop.

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However,

despite the fact that Dummy didn't catch my attention in 1994, it is without a doubt the one album from this year that sounds absolutely fresh and