PORTISHEAD: SOUR TIMES Single Album (1994)

PORTISHEAD: SOUR TIMES Single Album cover

Sour Times is a song by English trip hop group Portishead, from their debut album, Dummy (1994). It was written by all three members of the band and released as a single by Go! Beat Records in August 1, 1994, accompanied by three bonus tracks: It’s a Fire, Pedestal, and Theme from To Kill a Dead Man. The song uses a sample from Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin‘s Danube Incident, from the 1967 album, More Mission: Impossible. Portishead sped up the sample to a desired tempo which took Schifrin‘s arrangement up nearly a semitone, giving the song a dissonant kind of “hip-hop tuning”.

PORTISHEAD: SOUR TIMES Single Album CD

Tracklist:

  1. Sour Times
  2. Numb (Numbed In Moscow)
  3. A Tribute To Monk & Canatella
  4. Sour Times (Lot More)
  5. Theme From To Kill A Dead Man
  6. Sour Times (Airbus Reconstruction)

PORTISHEAD: SOUR TIMES Single Album back cover

Portishead

Portishead
Beth Gibbons: vocals (all tracks), production
Geoff Barrow:Piano drums
programming: string arrangements, production
Adrian Utley: guitar, bass guitar

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