Portishead - Elysium

[climber910]

I had my moment with Roads, with Wandering Star, with Only You, with the Rip, with Machine Gun, but it seems Elysium has remain as my favorite Portishead song, it's disturbing.

[iamdiabolique]

13 people- ACTA lovers!

[zombillybettie]

You can tell by the first 30 seconds this is gonna be a bad mutherfucker...

[zombillybettie]

Portishead always takes me to a different place! And I love where it takes me!



[heathensong1]

the pulsing lights stayin up wit the beats is tight, as if this music aint hypnotizing enough...@_@...love this shit.

[AggieMaryann]

Those little beating dots in the Portishead logo are trippin' me out.

[Nerner62]

i can imagine cypress hill rapping over this track.

[bragiq]

@Nerner62 Check Duel Of The Iron Mic by GZA

[ObeseSpecOps]

I like music.

[filipinobean]

I love the build up from 3:00 on to when she starts singing again...Effin' Sick!

[filipinobean]

Didn"t Eminem use some of this Stuff on one of his songs?

[cjsnw1]

@filipinobean Nope.

[TheSchemer1]

11 people are deciding how Beth Gibbon's feels.

[compella1]

The grimey drums definitely bring back an old Wu-Tang feel, Portishead is beyond sick, it's a terminal illness for the music lover's soul ;)

[yellowheart2]

las canciones de portishead son como sexuales y depresivas... lo amo

[annasadbuthappy]

10 people should be thrown in the Portbury dock

[absinthone]

Something about this chicks voice, Grabs me Nice..

[ELmorales1989]

PORTISHEAD FOREVER!

[coyotejoe]

This should be a final boss theme for a survival horror.

[MuppetMan246]

@coyotejoe I don't think so, but it'd be a great opening credits song to a survival horror!

[Mairatrix]

Wow! Awesome song!

[mayela70s]

definitivamente es mi artista favorita!! la amo

[stoneybones22]

Ammmmazzzinggg!!!

[Mare0110K]

i LOVE BETH GIBBONS.HER VOICE IS OUTSTANDING

[ladangelo202]

wholly shit

[MrMoomoojoe]

Spooky :D

[anginavarrete]

me muero por oir esta en vivo!!!!!

[younique84]

PORTISHEAD IS THE SH!T!!! 4REAL!

[sfbuck415]

I love Portishead but this song is so screechy. I take it off my Portishead playlists because I can't listen to it.

[LawrenceHaggerty]

i saw the lyrics "No one should fear what they cannot see" and thought of bleach episode 1

[TheProphetEliza]

f*k that was really loud!!! had to turn the sound way down!!

[swingtheleadpipe]

@sweeterthananything: Good point... the original trip-hop shit was played in clubs with black house music. Massive attack though?- come on. Theyre fuckin posers.

2 for Door into Head.

[sweeterthananything]

"Trip hop" is a media invention. Portishead have about as much in common with Thievery Corporation as Sonic Youth does with Nickleback. There is no "Bristol sound" either - Portishead, Massive Attack, and Tricky all went in quite different directions. It's the result of lazy journalism and people who don't even pay attention to what they're listening to beyond "good beats to get stoned to." No wonder they go to such lengths to distance themselves from it all.

[dbinatl]

P invented the genre....really



[stoneybones22]

this.is.and.always.will.be.so.­classically.dope.fosho

[stoneybones22]

this.is.and.always.will.be.so.­classically.dope.



[stoneybones22]

this.is.and.always.will.be.so.­classically.dope.

[BLAZE45]

is it just me or dose this band remind me of the Jefferson airplane like they were reborn into trip hop

[emoface4]

@BLAZE45 you are so fucking right

[CultivateInCulture]

more wu tang beats with a beautiful voice

[roeroe305]

this song just opened my mind to an idea thats going to help make me into a millionaire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[karmadany1]

subliiiiiiiiime

[abra323]

my ish !!!!!love this sound....

[PAULOJMFBZOO]

6 people don`t like Portishead

[KeirVega]

Lovely track

[chaosrace]

great tune!! it reminds me of GZA Liquid Swords Duel of the Iron Mic... i sometimes listen to them back to back to prolong the experience!!

[destiny66]

@chaosrace

great call! I remember when this cd first came out and thought that this track and "7 months" had to be influenced by RZA production.

[kmill621]

@chaosrace yeah man kinda reminds me of swordsman too. got that same vibe. good ass albums

[10Ammar]

One of the Wu affiliated groups used this beat! LOL awesome

[eartant]

Sadly they're only really well known for 'Sour Times' ( nobody loves me ) Which is one of my least favorite songs by them, kinda annoying actually. Songs like THIS kept me interested in them.

[beeblack2]

i loop this back in 2000, i it was a ill beat, a hip hop beat i did a show with this, love this track yo!

[GravemindLFX]

I mostly listen to metal and, I cant find a Portishead song i dont like ....

wtf??

[RedZebraKush]

i want to hear this song on a video game ^_^

[SuperBadgurl9]

love this song...thx for posting this

this is real music

' )

[lovemechekitten]

if bjork and 90's hiphop had kids it would be portishead.

[mm0use]

@lovemechekitten Except Beth can sing...

[19stuart73]

they werent underrated at the time... celebrated. im so glad. music isnt something of your own era every year had its amazing art since the beginning of art itself... have a listent to some beethoven really take it in and tell me it isnt amazing. I will never stop digging new and old music.

[LadyofWar1980]

Portishead are so underrated. This came out in the late 90s and its STILL sounds as good now as it did then. They are so ahead of their time.

[ROBLOXiansRejct666]

This song with her Black and white,

Holding and Umbrella and only her lips DARK Red colored

and her Tip toeing through someplace.

I could see it. (:

[mds48]

@ROBLOXiansRejct666 agreed!!

[ROBLOXiansRejct666]

@mds48

Hehe. (:

[mds48]

@ROBLOXiansRejct666 what about some dark place in london?

[razorcon92]

if she walked through the hood she would be okay cause even the niggas wld be feelin this shit.im black and i declare,THIS SHIT IS OFF THE WALL!!!!

[edmanr2003]

This tune is hot!

[youceflalgerino]

crazy music ,,,, here

[VibrantCore]

Her voice is absolute like no other I have heard.

[cracksend]

@DOOMED1993 word it does man

[DOOMED1993]

the drums remind me of duel of the iron mic

[MusiKatelyn]

This song makes me want sex.

[Mr62ford]

@MusiKatelyn Yeah, what is it about Portishead that is so sad but also makes you horny? Only Beth Gibbons can pull that off.

[MusiKatelyn]

@Mr62ford Lol, I'm not even sure... I can't believe this song was performed when I was 6, and I'm JUST NOW finding out about them.

[SesquipedalianVim]

I can’t help but feel that this song would make the perfect centerpiece of a dark and sensuously wound film. I’m dying to see it though it does not exist; in my mind’s-eye I keep getting tantalizing glimpses.

[WeepingBeauty420]

i love this song

[tomviolenceisadream]

elysium and humming are my favorit songs of portishead

[Nebulisation]

I loved this song so much! It reminds me of when I was on my 2nd or 3rd year of my college years :D

[RastaPapst]

the beat is hot what album is this?

[yakattack320]

@RastaPapst Portishead Portishead

[dicktator76]

NOW i know why this song reminds to wutang and consorts !! :-)

thnx

[CrowleyHead]

Not to stoke the flames any higher, but Geoff Barrow of Portishead was working with Tricky when he collaborated with Rza as part of the Gravediggaz... THE PLOT GROWS THICKER!!!!

[greko143]

Fack asome songs man!!! All their songs are asome!!!

[daleo1111]

Wu-tang (gza)has several songs with portishead samples.gza and rza have been influenced by PH.Look at the credits.

[tokillamockinbird1]

It actually would have to be vice versa, wu tang came out earlier in the nineties

[daleo1111]

tokillamockinbird1,are you stoned?portishead has been around well b4 the wu.How old r u?you must b very young.or ?Hey I did'nt say it.

[tokillamockinbird1]

No, bt I wld ask wht knd of rocks r you are smokn, if I cared. Bt I'm not n2 "reply dissing," so no offense/none takn. they might have been making musical mstrpiecs b4 94, but WuTng creatd classics tht hd WIDESPREAD impact in the EARLY 90s. not to say tht it is impssble that the wu cld hve been influencd by portishd; bt even in 98 (and I love the portishd lp) at least one of the beats sounded like smethng I had heard on a GZA lp that was THREE YEARS older. how old are u? did i ask that?

[Dazast]

and daleo1111

To intervene for a second... Wu drop their first single in 92 and the full album in 93. Portishead dropped theirs in 94. People always confuse who came out first because Sour Times & CREAM both came out with videos at the same time.

Personally I think both groups inspired each other and at the the same time Wu and PH were both perfecting their style when they were young. Rza talked about how he would walk boro to boro plotting on how to make it all happen & assuming PH was also

[Destnd4gr8nes1]

@daleo1111 -Just to shed some light _ i'm from NYC and not a youngin and Wu has been around since the late 80's and got out there in early part of 1990 - I bought their tape that they were selling on the street in 1991 before they got a deal. It had 2 cuts on it - but the whole 36 chambers was almost done and ready to record. RZA has said that these folks inspired him for cuts he did later on the Triumph album and the second Grave Diggas album - the beats they use are similiar but not copied.

[NightmareKingz]

@daleo1111 Stfu faggot Wu Tang released their debut album a whole year before Portishead get your facts straight bitch this shit jacks RZA's style

[iconicSLEAZOID]

@NightmareKingz Does it matter how the music came about? It's trip-hop for a reason. Chill out and enjoy it.

[pinky11]

this beat kinda sounds like a throwback wu-tang beat. anyone agree with me on this?

[EGshlimAJ]

bring that mutherfuckin portishead

[dethkon]

@pinky11 You're right- it sounds like 'Duel of the Iron Mic' off Liquid Swords. They probably flip the same sample, but the GZA song was actually released first ('95)

[RichieAusBerlin]

der mann weiß halt was gut ist...paule und portishead, beides übergeil

[ko22ril]

paul kalkbrenner - KRANK!!!

da hat kalki die melodie her :>

[psyvala]

No one has said what the truth should be

[madvillain7]

The beat reminds me of Duel of The Iron Mic by GZA... I love Portishead!!!!!

[jeffashields]

@madvillain7 yes!! it has that drawn out, nasty beat quality...

[MarkoVanBastard]

@madvillain7 The beat is Duel of the Iron Mic that's why, RZA sampled it directly from this track. RZA likes his Portishead, Kiss of a Black Widow on Wu Tang Forever also sampled Portishead's Over.

[madvillain7]

@MarkoVanBastard Actually, Duel of the Iron Mic predates this song by about 3 years, "Duel" from Liquid Swords (1994) and this song from Portishead's album in 1997... Rza sampled David Porter's "The Masquerade is Over" for Duel of the Iron Mic and slightly sped up the sample. You can find it at the very beginning of the original song.... Oh, and Kiss of a Black Widow was from the Bobby Digital in Stereo album, and was produced by Inspectah Deck...

[MarkoVanBastard]

@madvillain7 I lose

[hmntrchwsdnidabnklon]

damn this beat is sooo heavy!!!!!!!

[stevetheboweve]

Favorite Portishead song. soo sick.

[autocrat111]

great music, great vocals, just wish i knew about feminist indoctrination before i heard this the first time

[psyvala]

Do not focus about trip hop!!....just enjoy the fucking good music...who cares if they are the first trip hop band or not?... or that it is better than other bands...even portishead thinks that is stupid thoughts.

[andyacho]

I love this song. The lyrics isn't perfect, but It have darkness in Beth's voice and music...

[fazelinae]

What a sick trippy beat.

[pannekoeken2]

abel80114 ill be nice and not comment the crappy english.....but NO,portishead is not the first "triphop" band...and maybe not the best( i think they are ) to you but atleast the most timeless and diverse.

[Abel80114]

Portishead is the first Trip-hop group and i like very Portishead but they isn´t the best Trip hop Group

[DaarkDestiny]

when i said they weren't american I ws replying to a comment saying something about how american hip hop was shaping out, and they were comparing Portishead to biggie and shit. So I was trying to inform them that Portishead isn't american. I wasn't sure where they were from, hence why I said European. I did'nt want to be an ass and claim to know something I didn't. I was'nt trying to be mean in the first place. I love Portishead. I think she is awesome, and i normally don't like much hip hop.

[VenusInCancer]

dude you really dont need to explain yourself to anyone, not worth it, just dumb internet fighting you know.

portishead is amazing though fersure, cowboys is great too

[aethis123]

This song has officially blown my mind.

[FrozenHatake]

Portishead is the best trip-hop ever. AND they have a song called Elysium? I'm officially in love.

[trezirea2008]

portishead is fucking amazing! i "discovered" them in high school and since then i'm addicted! this song is sooo deep and sensual!

[Edith0205]

how can you not love trip-hop? x_x

[VictorianWasteFuck]

who cares if they arent american? its music and it should be appreciated in every shape and form regardless of what country or nationality the group is. Portishead fucking rocks.

Ive been listening to Portishead for a long time... my mom listened to them back 94-95 so ive been hearing her sweet voice for ages.

[ISAxFCKINxRIOS]

same deal man, i grew up listening to portishead all my life. now i listen to death metal n shit but no matter what if a portishead song pops on i still get chills

[mysticdanny]

This is a very nice song.

[Curtix]

yeap, truly epic!

[Curtix]

discovered thanks to Flying Lotus and I must say, I really, really love this song!

[Vipmaxp]

essential mix was insane!

[0nknees]

This beat tight! love it

[Vincentrey41]

la charge émotionnelle est fantastique. merci Portishead. Je vous aime. Quand venez vous jouer à Blois ?

[lulugoescuckoo]

Doesn't sound like a little girl to me.

[Blueyluvscheese]

Her name's Beth Gibbons, not Beth Orton :S

Love this song, although the live DVD version is better.

[SniffPeters]

This is one of those Portishead songs in which Beth Orton does her little girl voice. It's a shame that she was 42 when she sang this and was probably having a lot of old woman problems in the toilet

[TheSchemer1]

@SniffPeters OMG I cant help but laugh at the sheer childishness and patheticness of your ignorant comment. Just enjoy the freaking music and btw its Beth GIBBONS (other people have also educated you on this I know).

[TheSeperateMind]

i want the instrumental to this

[jdm6286]

This is some heavy shit! i fucking love it

[SniffPeters]

'Heavy shit'? Perhaps Beth Orton was constipated at the time due to her having a ten-egg supper the night before. If you also eat toilet roll, it helps save time in the morning.

[jdm6286]

I wonder if I should i start hating on dirty UK slang?

[XxBella81xX]

what the fuck are u on about?? lol

[antag0nismo]

One of their best songs.

[SkatersAnonymous]

Sick Song :))

[jordancoffin]

I don't agree with what a lot of people say, but i believe that they should still have the right to say it.

[ameliabateman]

where the hell are the moderators? racism, intolerance and bullying should be monitored.... corporate responsibility and protection for folk, much?

[benjixtc]

dude whats wrong with u come on just chill the fuck out!

[tpark91]

@benjixtc HAHAHA YESS!!

[Skan11]

@benjixtc This had to be said. Drug, that is all the spirit of music, is purely delivered.

[benjixtc]

wow dude chill i did not ask u now chill out !

[benjixtc]

i smoke weed and listen to this song....u shoulp try it too:)

[0nknees]

reond me an Wu-tang Clan

[mdk1337]

how did you do the dots?

[clessadnade]

with after effects, my friend. :)

[mdk1337]

ah, thx

[vallandar]

@clessadnade

what is the name of the software you used?

[Omisaler]

this song takes me there.

[NvrSettle]

BOOOOO! Wu tang didn"t steal this shit. Read up on your history of trip-hop and the euro/american connection please. Thanks.

[fidosmoker]

respect for wu soldiers

fuck the 50 cent and the game

those dudes are pussies

[nappa666]

man when this album came out it sounded more hip hop than many of the hip hop artists out at that time

[loque9]

dont think you are special cause you did drugs idiot

[fidosmoker]

logieu9 don"t call my like that

this is true

this song reamains my "special magic monements"

but i am not junkie anymore . . .

I suggest u to take "magic mushrums"

or fuckin LSd - after this operation try to listen THIS TRACk .

Fuck u logue

[NEOSTR1Z]

What a quality track

probably my fave by Portishead, gets better every listen

[Jkorpse]

Lovely.♥

[toecutterr6]

You have to wear a brown corduroy conductor's cap to listen to this music.

[flygeek007]

i'd say Triumph if I had to guess...it does sound like a RZA track.

[flygeek007]

Nope...Incarcerated Scarfaces off of Cuban Linx...

[youtubinfool]

i love mixmaster mikes cut of this and only just now discovered this. this is pure class.

[the0ataraxia]

no one has said what the truth should be and no one decided that I'd feel this way If you felt as I would you betray yourself..

[shawtydred]

sound like a wu tang beat

[keithp74]

because wu tang and other, but not all mid to late 90's rappers stole these beats.

[geekaleek]

wtf u on about mate lmao. 90's east coast hiphop and trip hop have virtually the same production techniques, so there is alot of similarities between the sounds, especially darker hiphop groups like wu, mobb deep etc

[DaarkDestiny]

their not even American. They are European......so..........

[cinestar2]

so...they cherish culture and style, intensity and complexity in their music, based on a colorful history of european culture

[TheSchemer1]

@DaarkDestiny more specifically they are English.

[minorotytype]

Sweet melody.

[ergcrew]

the beat sounds like a RZA beat.

[fazelinae]

Which one?

[magnacore11]

It just sounds like something RZA would do ;) Or accomplish

[glottis5]

Duel Of The Iron Mic

[TsukikageKitsune13]

I love this song.

[fazelinae]

Eerie

I like the scratching

[BessaIsGod]

This is so sweet. They should get so much more credit <3

[musikzzzz]

I like this.. I like that 'vinyl' beat and lazyness ;)