“Biscuit” - PORTISHEAD | Reaction (FULL SONG)
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Portishead - “Biscuit”: • Biscuit
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Portishead hath arrived \m/
Trip-Hop is Hip-Hop music without the rapping the slow to mid tempo beats was normal in '94 it was mainly for head nodding I never understood why there's this dis association of what this music is it's clearly East coast rap based but instead of them using Boom bap drums which were the popular drum patterns at that time they went back to the Early 1970s and used Break beat drum patterns instead.
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To me triphop is the other side of the coin from grunge. Grunge is anger, sorrow and anxiety directed outwards, whilst triphop, especially Portishead, are the same feelings, but directed inwards.
Dummy is a work of art.
I saw them live. This little skinny oily haired woman stepped on the stage and an angel manifested when she began to sing. I have seen many bands live but have never seen a crowd so affected. We were all hanging on her every word. She was singing about us individually....singing for our inner selves. It was transcendent
I am one of those dads who love this band. When I think of music that represents my "youth" (20s) Portishead is where my mind goes first.
Right On!
I discovered Portishead one night after I'd had a bit of a smoke :p They were playing their live performance at Roseland NYC on TV. I didn't move an inch for the entire performance, totally engrossed .. Hypnotizing! Been a fan ever since.
90s😎 great memories.
If you like Portishead,I recommend Morcheeba and Faithless.
Love Portishead, love Beth's voice, I was a child in the 90s, and remember listening Portishead and Massive Attack a lot, I was captivated by the sound and the atmosphere, now as a adult, and understanding the language, the lyrics are so enigmatic and powerful.
As far I Know, the movement started Bristol UK, between 80s and 90s, with Massive Attack, then with bands like Portishead, the gender was most popular worldwide, and the inspiration for other bands like Hooverphonic, Thievery Corporation, and artists like Björk, Emiliana Torrini....
Greetings from Costa Rica
Please do the Dummy album in its entirety, you won't regret it. Deffo one of my top 5 albums of all time
The origin of Trip Hop lies solely with Massive Attack and their founding member named Tricky.
And both Tricky, and the current line-up of Massive Attack is still making music.
Keep 'em coming, Portishead's music is like nothing else, just beyond compare. Love the eerie vibe and Beth Gibbon's haunting vocals. Portishead were a UK-based band from the south-west. the band name is actually the name of a town near Bristol and there was a lot of interesting music from that area in the '90s - for instance Massive Attack and Tricky. Has clearly had a wonderful effect on you and you describe your responses so well.
I was a teen in this era they came out. I listened to a lot of this music. I can assure you they were huge fans of hip hop. They’ve said it. Hence all the scratch samples, drumbeats, etc.
Portishead is for My "the" trip hop band , massive attack is one of the pioners of the trip hop but Portishead is my Best, is like the trip hop most by sound (sorry My ingles) saludos desde chile
What a level of appreciation! I hope you make videos again soon!
So glad to have you! I look forward to it.
If you want to look into the beginning of trip hop there is a BBC documentary looking at the start of massive attack. It's all there.
Really touching to hear/see you talk about that song, about Portishead and what it does to your brain, THAT brain you have because I REALLY know what you're talking about ❤️ I was there when Dummy was released and there had never been anything like that before and we, people who GOT what was going on, were in awe, like, "what is it?!". And we were addicted. It was another pill for damaged brains. They are a brilliant band. Just go now and listen to Massive Attack, mainly - probably - their album Mezzanine, Portishead's second album, etc etc. Take very good care of yourself.
This means so much :) Thank you!
Portisheed is my favourite group. I had the luxery of seeing them live in 2011, and got to meet tthe group. I caught Beth Gibbons checkking out my butt. and the rest of the group tried to get me fired because the left on their bus and then realized they forget some posters and signage, and I already had them in my bag :P
❤ Portishead ❤😊
@WFMM - I grew up near Bristol in the UK and would hazard a guess that the region inspired a whole movement. Starting with Massive Attack in the late 80's early 90's. Dummy is such a smooth album though. So happy to see you absorb it.
If there is a Trip Hop origin, I think it's Massive Attack. Might be the next listen on this journey.
Tricky "Aftermath" "christiansands" "Hell is around the corner"
yea buddy. life forever changed cause of this album. you described the feeling it gives so perfectly, and I feel like it gave me such freedom, away from and towards my thoughts, simultaneously, especially in the darkest points of my 20s. It’s hard to say who started it exactly, because it’s all so complex, even though it all has a very similar downtempo feel, all triphop artists have a way of somehow carving out their own tiny lanes. Hypnotic, mysterious, vague yet deep. My mind is at ease and I can actually slow down and think, zoning out and in throughout the entire album, it’s a genuine experience. This album in particular made my dive deeper into jazz, but also old school hip hop.
Biscuit, for me, was a way of saying “I’m tired of feeling this way, yet here we are again, feeling it again.” Almost like an ode to the struggle, an ode to living in the trenches, to the Great Depression, to all the deep, dark & gloomy points of time that we have all experienced in at some point. And the interesting thing about it is it doesn’t have to be depressing, it can be if that’s your thing, but it almost feel like having an opportunity to zoom in on the depth of whatever it is you’re feeling.
My favorite song on the album is called “Over”. It feels, for me, like a moment of shift or transition in my psyche. It’s such a beautiful feeling to be like “you know what, f*ck this”, it’s so liberating. And her voice I mean wow.
Watch Portishead's Roseland Live , it is one of the best live performances .
Awesome reaction dude, love the imagery you evoke when describing how the song makes you feel. Check out EVERYTHING off the album Dummy, it's genuinely iconic. But don't neglect their most recent album, 'Third', stylistically quite different but also amazing, 'The Rip' and 'Machine Gun' are the standout tracks off that album for me.
And as others have said, you MUST also check out Massive Attack. 'Teardrop', 'Angel' and 'Unfinished Sympathy ' are good starting points.
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Stuff like Trip Hop and Grunge really demonstrate how the 90's were all about embracing the imperfect. So many artists, in all kinds of media, were bored of the way things were, and were just breaking stuff to see what worked.
Yo I am so ecstatic you finally had a chance to get to Portishead! I have loved the Radiohead reactions and then when you mentioned your new love of Trip Hop, I immediately was like "oh my God, you get to experience "Dummy" for the fist time! "Biscuit" isn't the song most people throw out there right off the bat - the 2 songs you'll see most are "Roads" and "Glory Box." Be clear - those are awesome songs. They are probably best listened to off their legendary 199 "Live at Roseland" show - complete with full orchestra - it is incredible FYI. But they had one radio play alt rock station song which is so cool it is ridiculous "Sour Times." You want to talk about the 'James Bond gone dark' vibe this music evokes, that song is the ultimate. More upbeat sonically, and I am totally down with why listening to the studio cuts has a lot of merit, so take these suggestions with a grain of salt. Skip the live stuff and do the studio for sure and it wouldn't harm anything. But there was an amazing concert series in the 90's into the 2000's - Live with Jools Holland. He'd have like 5 bands all set up in a circle and go around and chat them up for a minute and each one would usually do two tracks over the course of an hour. Some of the most incredible performances from big, medium and little known bands you can imagine. And it was a super intimate setting and the very nature bred truly great performances, as it was a highly respected deal to get on to the show for one - often it was soon-to-be BIG acts who nobody knew so they brought their A game. Also, when they played, the other bands would be like 20 feet away sitting on Amps chilling and grooving or entranced to the performance, and this also pushed the artists to really nail it. Lot of background there, ha, sorry. I mentioned it as Portishead - supporting the release of "Dummy" (and this being a British show and them being from Bristol - more on that and the birth of Trip Hop) they were known a little bit by then but not at all a huge name or anything. They played the song "Sour Times" and absolutely killed it - but you'd love it off the album too - and another of the top 5 tracks to me from "Dummy" called "Wandering Star." If I could recommend a next listen, especially after you point out the driving drum beat as one of your key ingredients to why this resonates so deeply for you as a musical style, "Wandering Star" and especially this live version, that is - ah man - what a song! Since "Dummy" - you read the review - is one of those occasional rare zero-fluff quote/unquote 'perfect' albums (I know that is a sort of silly statement but we are all musical friends here so screw it i am saying it!) like "Dark Side of the Moon," or "OK Computer" or Tribe Called Quest and Wu Tang Clan's "Midnight Marauders" and "Enter the 36 Chambers" respectively - 90's golden age hip hop examples both - though not my top favorite of the BIG 4 Seattle grunge bands, Pearl Jam's debut "Ten" another flawless front to back 'perfect' album, Beck's "Odelay" - think I need to get my head out of the 90's a bit? - The Prodigy with "The Fat of the Land" - "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" or let's go further back with The Beatles "Rubber Soul" - you get it.
My comments are too long to go through - probably a good hint but screw it. Oh yeah, since "Dummy" has no weak spot (to me of course, opinions always) these are just my top tracks and it will be a great experience no matter how you make your way through it. There is a song "Numb" that is the apex of sparse, lo-fi, desperate sounding pure Trip Hop. The beat is so tight and how they choose to layer over it so brilliant - I think it is everything you crave in this journey and more. "Mysterons" is sort of like Trip Hop meets Pink Floyd and that is a GREAT thing. So, "Roads" and "Glory Box" will be the tempting choices - and they are badass. And oh my god does Beth Gibbons the singer ever show her Amy Whinehouse meets Nina Simone meets Bjork voice on those. But I just think "Numb" or "Wandering Star" or maybe the one big hit off this album "Sour Times" are the best next steps. But this isn't life or death - you will get there eventually. Interesting you mentioned Radiohead for a ouple of reasons - they too became what they became by absorbing many disparate musical influences, mastering being a crushing straight guitar driven rock band ( also didn't hurt they happened to have the good fortune of having 2 literal once in a lifetime musical geniuses in Thom Yorke and lead guitarist and now 2 time Academy Award nominated orchestral soundtrack composer Jonny Greenwood as lead guitarist along with now legendary producer Nigel Godrich as their in-house unofficial 6th member before during and still as he branched out and did many massive albums for all kinds of superstars) but then looked to sources from The Smiths to obscure Icelandic music to Miles Davis 60's jazz fusion to DJ Shadow (remember that name in the Trip Hop larger world) to Questlove from "The Roots" in their song writing and production and sound they sought to create. Trip Hop is like this - you ask how did it come to be - it was from the Bristol area of England and the early days of Electronic music and the club scene it was blowing up into a massive thing - but in 1994 no one could avoid the explosion of Hip Hop and the quality it had made in leaps from Run DMC - no hating there but just being real as music will evolve always - to stuff like I referenced above in the form of Wu Tang, Tribe Called Quest, Dr. Dre and Snoop and West Coast G.Funk and Gangster rap, to the hard hitting beats out of NYC like Nas and jazzy beats like Tribe - it was so massive - and at the same time, via Grunge - alt-rock hit its hey-day, so you hear this influence to - they took early EDM, another sub-genre Drum and Bass (check out Tricky), the dozens of forms of popular hip hop, and the vibe of a great alt-tock band like say Alice in Chains, also the super cool sounds from female alt rock bands like Mazzy Star, Luscious Jackson...this is getting long (got long a LONG time ago - but yeah peep those bands - sick amazing stuff) - took it all in and just had a great combo with an amazing singer with just the right voice to make it beautiful yet eery and dark, a talented guitar player with an ear for a solid song structure, and a DJ/synth/producer and jazz drummers and such to play hip hop beats along with samples, and there ya go.
Your description of what this music makes you see is very cool. For me I envision like 3 people sitting on a kitchen floor with a microphone, a sampler, drum set in the corner, a guitar and bass next to some dude sitting leaning against the wall, and an old cassette recorder - like the lo-fi sound they intentionally get is so above anything else in the execution - dirty scratching and crackling samples, vocals that seem both far away but seared into your brain forever immediately - it is a masterpiece. That is my image. Then I just close my mind off to the noise of existence and let it sweep me up into the groove, always with Beth's voice as the lighthouse guiding me along. Oh yeah why was Radiohead a cool reference - they were friends and played many gigs and festivals together and there is an awesome clip of Thom and Jonny playing an acoustic live version of one of the best songs off of Portishead's 2nd album, "The Rip" as they sit in a living room on a recorded livestream from 15 years ago. Well worth hearing the original but the cover is killer. So yeah - if you read all of that I apologize - late night and I have enjoyed your reactions a whole lot - sure I am both addicted to music reaction videos as it is like sharing songs you love with friends and you know how excited you are to turn them onto it - it is he best explanation as to why i enjoy this since I first found them like 3 years ago as "a thing" on YT - my other 2 favorite artists, Pink Floyd and Stevie Ray Vaughan get a lot of vids but it never gets old. But Radiohead has taken a long time to get much traction as they are not the easiest band to dig especially on the first listen, so I am always happy when they show up (other than Creep, which I am glad people check out but there are more reactions even on that song, to like those renditions by singer talent show winners - not meaning to be a hater like - totally great for those people and best wishes but just a bummer that your favorite band doesn't pop up as much on one of your favorite guilty pleasures of video reactions and when they do it turns out to be a 13 year old girl with an astonishing incredible voice covering their most played out song!)
Last one - I swear I am not mental - just a long boring night and yeah - no good way to get around who nuts this looks but um, yeah, I don't care. Not at this moment. Tmrw I will be like, yo bro, you need to chill. But a couple other bands maybe you might like - more in the 'Break Beat' and/or lounge beat genre - The Prodigy, Underworld (the song "Born Slippy" was one of the most important and iconic game changers in the history of electronic music as well as the running theme song throughout the movie "Trainspotting" which is a staple 90's classic that will hold up forever- this song is SO SO worth reacting to...you can track me down and yell at me if you don't like it but I think it will gain you a HUGE fan boost as it has zero love anywhere on YT and they aren't a band likely to block as long as its just the track no movie footage or anything), a one album and done band called The Propellerheads that was so sick - tons of their songs pop up in movies like 'Matrix' and all over the place but their one album was so incredible - one of the 2 dudes struggled with some mental health and depression issues sadly for him (all that matters is he is okay and hopefully happy in life but the music will be the one album but that's ok it is an epic album and the song "Take California" is a gift to mankind) and lastly as a shout out to my home turf, out of DC, Thievery Corporation. I used to blaze in the back deck of this townhouse turned club called 'The 18th St Lounge' when they were the hot DJ's in DC - they turned into international superstars - great music to let your mind slow down and create - "Shaolin Satellite" is a great start. But to sum up - love what you do bruh - it is personal and smart and yo - I enjoy it a lot - I need to get out of my comfort zone and not just listen to the bands I like, I loved "Sober" by Tool when it was their first single they ever released, but now I see how much people like absolutely worship them yet have not given them single chance and I know I am probably - no almost definitely missing out BIGTIME - but I swear I will never rite a 9000 word comment again and however, I hope I can offer some pushes in some phenomenal directions to you as someone who literally went through my entire High school and college years from 1990 to 1999 - a truly magical and epic time for music with a ton of stuff you'd easily be able to miss without knowing it. Hit me back to let me know if you have a Patreon - I am guitar player and synth player(sort of - have a sweet UltraNova just learning thru experimentation) and have my little old person band but we don't suck that bad, and I still believe I can write songs which mean something and make me happy and performing is such an insane rush, so that is all that matters. Point is - I support the hell out of how you approach this and I need to embrace music I myself have ignored or just missed, as musicians/writers can always gain from hearing new things. Good stuff dude - "Wandering Star" - next Portishead :) I am just giving my 2 cents after giving like 30 dollars long of comments.
@@dreww1609 Brother, I cannot begin to describe what all of your words mean to me! It’s so fucking epic that you not only took the time to relay all of that mental goodness to me, but that you were comfortable putting it all out there! I can feel your excitement within your sentences. I’m so excited to listen to some Portishead and Radiohead albums coming up in their entirety for the channel. I’m planning on having a patreon play a role in the big picture coming up here soon as well. I’m figuring it all out! Your stories, as well as everyone else’s personal experiences, mean so much to me. Getting a glimpse into all of your lives and why you love music, or why you love this specific band etc, makes me so fucking happy. It’s dope as shit how passionate you are about the triphop/hip hop/90’s era. I’m sure your knowledge spans the other realms of decades as well.
I discovered Tool in highschool, my best friend and I listened to their entire catalog in one night, and we told ourselves we’d stop and go to sleep if we “for once heard a bad song”. We finished all four albums and an EP that night…
All 5 of their albums are a must, and I cannot stress enough that I believe the best experience is to listen to their albums in order to grasp their spiritual and creative journey.
-Undertow
-Aenima
-Lateralus
-10,000 Days
-Fear Inoculum
I personally have yet to listen to an album greater than 10,000 Days. It is my musical bible. There is a lot of debate over which is best, but none of that matters. Each album is wildly individual, and you will have a separate experience with each.
As for the future, i’m so glad to have you, and hear more of what you have to say. This is all GOOD STUFF!!! God Bless you, and keep on keepin’ on!!! \m/
Track is too PHAT!
Portishead Dummy album is more suitable for a late night, lights down low and a sipping of an adult beverage of your choice.
Massive attack and tricky are OG
Anthea is a good trip hop artists from the 90s very dark
Bit late to see and comment on this, not sure if you're still checking these. I'll try and give you some back story to trip hop from a guy that was around at the time. Much of it originated from the English city of Bristol. The three seminal acts in the genre, Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky all originated in Bristol. It's the sound of the underground street scene that grew up at that time. It evokes the urban decay, depression and general malaise of the youth. It emerged around the same time as the street art movement and the two are woven inextricably together. 3D who's the main guy behind Massive Attack was an underground street artist as well. If you're interested in the art side of it, look up Banksy who was also a product of this time and came up in Bristol.
The origins of the music can be found in the music collective from Bristol called The Wild Bunch. They used to play all night gigs out at clubs in the 80s, the gigs would consist of a DJ that would spin beats with some synth tracks and different musicians would come up and join in. MC's would rap, instrumentalists like bass players, sax players etc would join in. It was very free form, kinda jazzy in some ways. Unique sound. The Wild Bunch eventually broke up and the key players formed Massive Attack.
SO COOL!
I love the late 90s early 2000 it was a dark time very edgy if only the present was like this……..
Check out the band Massive Attack. They’re basically The Godfather of triphop.
Portishead just down road, (i've been plenty of times) i'm currently in Bristol...You like Trip hop, check Massive Attack.
This is there best album love it