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03 Oct 2011, 5:47 pm

You might like this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEQNAZGoZrw&feature=related[/youtube]

I haven't listened to this in a while and I decided to so I thought it would be cool to see if anyone else likes it.

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03 Oct 2011, 5:50 pm

my old computer cant get videos anymore. So youll have to tell me what it is.

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03 Oct 2011, 6:02 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

my old computer cant get videos anymore. So youll have to tell me what it is.

Its a band called Portishead, I am not sure how I would describe the music.....but some of it is pretty good. But yeah it sounds kind of like psychedelic rock mixed with some more electronic styles so its a bit weird but I do enjoy it.

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03 Oct 2011, 6:19 pm

they're even better live. I've never been that massive a fan but went to their concert this summer and they really blew me away.

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03 Oct 2011, 6:49 pm

Awesome! I like it. :-)

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03 Oct 2011, 7:30 pm

Good song! Thanks for posting. Now I'll have to check out their other stuff to see if I get turned into a fan.

Y'know what it reminds me of? "Dear Ophelia" by Abney Park, which is one of my favorite songs. I think this one and the one you posted have similar rhythms/tempos.

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03 Oct 2011, 8:09 pm

They're okay I prefer Goldfrapp.

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03 Oct 2011, 9:18 pm

That song is really old and not one of the stronger tracks from that album; I much prefer Roads or Glory Box. I'll be seeing them next month when they tour Australia for the first time in over a decade.

This are a couple of my favourite of their songs from their most recent album, Third.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCUtrLn42fc&ob=av3e[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNg9SQxip5A[/youtube]

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04 Oct 2011, 4:37 am

Coincidentally, I've been listening to this song alot recently, and Machine Gun.

It's hardly weird. If anything, it's beautiful. Their 3 albums are faultless, and am looking forward to their next.

There is a rather amazing live performace where rap group Public Enemy (one of my favourites) come on stage and rap with the song Machine Gun.

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04 Oct 2011, 12:15 pm

Try some Dadaist protopunk:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaNjmivU_-Y[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsRaTLePVnU[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZjkJVI0_Ps[/youtube]

All recorded/filmed when Czechoslovakia was still a Stalinist dictatorship.

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05 Oct 2011, 12:04 am

This thread reminds me of the Portishead song that I like the best:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7_rbwUy0U[/youtube]
I think it sounds very "Euro-chic."

In a similar vein, as suggested by an earlier poster, I first thought that another song, one that happens to be by Goldfrapp, was a Portishead song (as I had first heard it at about the same time as the Portishead album, a few years ago). It's also quite good and similar enough in tone for the artist to be confused in memory, so I will post it here:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPcsD-3wx54[/youtube]

Now, if you want a weird song, here's my top weird song at the moment:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB46N8QX63Y[/youtube]
It's like rock and opera and some sort of old-style dance music and classical all mixed together.

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05 Oct 2011, 5:06 am

Alternative wrote:

I honestly thought they'd released Machine Gun as a piss take

This song is great though.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBOaLjtR4mw&ob=av2e[/youtube]

I prefer the old stuff generally. 'Third' was mainly just a pretentious drag. The first two albums were a pretentious drag in a good way.

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05 Oct 2011, 5:14 am

lol. It's composition is beyond minimal and quite up itself I must admit.

But I'm always captivated by Beth's voice anyway. She could sing over white noise and I still would listen...within reason.

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05 Oct 2011, 5:34 pm

Diablo Swing Orchestra is an experimental metal band.

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07 Oct 2011, 10:39 am

Portishead always bored me a bit, but the last album has some great songs on it like "Machine Gun". Definitely more my bag than Dummy and the self-titled. If you like it I suggest some of the more out-there krautrock records like Can's Tago Mago, Neu!'s Neu! and Faust's IV.

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07 Oct 2011, 10:39 pm

I like Portishead. The newer album, Third, is a lot different from the old ones though. It's much darker, both musically and lyrically.

Her voice on the album closer almost sends a shiver down my spine.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6mJ5ndcL_s[/youtube]

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