Glory Times |  | Artist: Portishead
Label: Go! Beat
Category: Music
Buy Used: $20.00
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1181363
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 667340158329
EAN: 0667340158329
ASIN: B0000DEOMD
Release Date: May 26, 1998
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Condition: Flawless 2 disc set, jewel case and art included. Carefully packaged, quickly shipped.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Sour Sour Times | | • | Lot More | | • | Sheared Times | | • | Airbus Reconstruction | | • | Theme from To Kill a Dead Man |
Disc 2
| • | Glory Box | | • | Glory Box | | • | Scorn | | • | Sheared Box | | • | Toy Box |
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Album Description
1995 release on Go! Beat, a double CD single set coupling together in a double slimline jewel case the CD singles for the two hits from the British trip hop act's debut album, 'Glory Box' and 'Sour Times'. 10 tracks total. The 'Sour' CDfeatures 'Sour Sour Times', 'Lot More', 'Sheared Times', 'Airbus Reconstruction' & 'Theme From To Kill A Dead Man'; The 'Glory' CD contains two obvious mixes of 'Glory Box' (Edit & Mudflap Mix), plus 'Scorn', 'Sheared Box' and 'Toy Box'.
Album Details
Double dose of remixes and rarities of the angst ridden band whose sound and demeanor make them the logical choice in a progression from the mantle of Joy Division. The remixes of 'Sour Times and 'Glory Times' singles are now exclusively found here.
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 Portishead - Glory times July 22, 2006
Kristopher D. Miller (Washington)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As far as I know, this is not an "official" release by this band, but, I couldn't love it more. If you're not one of those people that HAS to have everything they've ever done, just stick to their major releases, you'll be just fine. This set doesn't really have any new material so to speak, it's a ton of remixes. But, as I said, I love it. Each and every track gives a new representation of two of their classics. If you breathe Portishead, you'll love this album... if you listen to them only occasionally, don't even bother, you'll most likely be let down.
I Love Beth Gibbons! September 7, 2005
J. Green (Nuevo Mexico)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love this band. Always have. Just wish there was more. I would give this another star, but, that is reserved for "Dummy". Oh, i'm sure the drummer is insane. Nobody can keep a beat like that, unless you are insane.
Nobody loves me, it's true July 2, 2005
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
51 out of 51 found this review helpful
Portishead only has two (soon to be three) full-length albums to their name, as well as a live album. Not so easily accessible is "Glory Times," a two-disc collection of alternate takes on two of the best songs on their debut. After this, it's hard to hear "Dummy" quite the same way again.
The first disc is taken up by three "Sour Times" mixes and two instrumentals. It opens with the gently jazzy "Sour Sour Times," before veering to the poignantly funky "Lot More," and the scratchy, raw "Airbus Reconstruction." The instrumentals are even more impressive: the ominous, stately "Sheared Times," and "Theme from 'To Kill A Dead Man," which has piano and electronica building up to a soaring string solo.
The second disc, on the other hand, has four mixes of "Glory Box," plus another instrumental. It opens with a basic edit and goes on to the guitar-heavy, fuzzy "Glory Box (Mudflap Mix)," and the playfully wistful "Toy Box." The instrumental is "Sheared Box," a mess of murky electronica that slowly pulls itself into something resembling melody.
"Scorn" is perhaps the star of both discs here -- one of the remixes of "Glory Box," but not the relatively cheerful one on "Dummy." It has a slow, dark melody, with Beth Gibbons slowly intoning, "Gonna give my heart away,/Leave it to the other girls to play,/For I've been a temptress too long." She sounds pretty evil here.
"Glory Times" is not a place to start checking out Portishead. New potential fans: Try one of their full-length albums, or even their live album. Not this one.
Anyone who does will end up being frustrated by the limited material. Instead, this is for fans of Portishead who really, really enjoyed "Dummy" and want to check out anything Portishead has done. And, I might add, are willing to hear the same melodies over and over, albeit in different forms.
Beth Gibbons does it all here, ranging from scratchy garage-rock vocals to the eerie she-devil voice of "Scorn." She gets a bit buried in "Airbus Construction," where it sounds like a scratchy-voiced man is trying to sing over her. But most of the time, she just adds the necessary note of wistfulness to the songs, whatever the mix is.
"Glory Times" is a good accompaniment to "Dummy," but only if the listener is already a fan. An excellent listen for fans of Portishead.
 For hardcore Portishead-heads only October 16, 2002
Daniel Fireside (Cambridge, MA USA)
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
I've burned a hole through my "Dummy" and "Portishead" cd's, so it was nice to hear several alternative takes of two of my favorite tracks. However, the list price is rather steep for the amount of music (less than one regular cd, despite the fact that they put it on two), and you really have to be in the right mood to listen to the same lyrics and chord progressions over and over. Overall, the live album is much more satisfying.
Classic songs accompanied by innovative remixes June 9, 2002
Kandy (Home of the Lost World)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
"Glory Box" and "Sour Times" are classic songs and if you can't get enough of them, then you would love Portishead's different interpretations of them. "Airbus Reconstruction" is a grungy rock version of "Sour Times" and I wasn't surprised because Portishead member and producer, Geoff Barrow, has stated that he admired Nirvana. "Lot More" is a grimier urban "Sour Times" while "Sour Sour Times" has an acid jazz feel. "Scorn" takes the Isaac Hayes sample and the dark beat from the part at the end where Beth sings "This is the beginning of forever and ever" and reverses them in the song, so that the Isaac Hayes sample is the break and the dark beat is the main music (You'll understand if you hear it). "Toy Box", "Sheared Box" and Theme from "To Kill A Dead Man" are instrumentals that don't sound anything like "Glory Box" and "Sour Times" but they are good nevertheless. Also, if you don't have Portishead's "Dummy", you're music collection is missing out. "Dummy" is a classic.
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