Here comes my two on Portishead... I really don't think that they
are "trip-hop" at all...I have this strange feeling that they never use
that narrow-minded term to discrobe their music that way. Jeez, where I
come from, trip-hop was in reference to that goofy music the Wicked SF
boys were playing--House with a lot of old electro instumentals and other
little breaks records...Not this Mo'wax Dorado stuff, so popular of late.
Portishead is good pop music. British. Moody. Dark. I never
even thought to compare them to things relevant to this list. I
know...Wait, I dug up this gem for you.
"If you're going to catagorize us, then trip-hop's not a bad
word, but not really necessary. The last thing I wanted to do was sound
like Massive Attack." Geoff Barrow continues with: "Someone in France
was saying we make really good pop which is their word for "alternative"
music. Inthe States it will probably be the same."
I think as far as pop music goes, they are pretty good. If all
commercial radio was playing this kind of music, rather than the crap
that it promotes (ballads! ballads! r+b! A local radio station just
claimed on a TV commercial that it will play "No Bad Rap"! more
ballads!) maybe American radio would'nt be so bad.
On Thu, 19 Jan 1995, Chris Hewson wrote:
quoted 14 lines It would appear to me that if everyone looked hard enough they>
> It would appear to me that if everyone looked hard enough they
> would probably find a copy of ISDM somewhere. Try looking in crap
> mainstream shops where that would probably not sell too well. By the way
> I saw a copy last week in Stockport (Manchester). My advice would be to
> buy the new BDP album instead as it's rather special (Hmmm!).
>
> Does anyone actually like Portishead by the way??? In my humble
> opinion they are probably the worst example of the so called 'trip-hop'
> genre. Everyone should go out and buy Mo' wax records instead.
>
>
> Chris Hewson (cdh20@cam.ac.uk)
>