4 posts tagged “third”

I really like Portishead's song, "We Carry On", from their album, Third. I have been listening to the album a lot more lately, especially when I have to drive to San Antonio for my job. Anyway, the sound of the song makes me think of a train (that ongoing, repetitive beat or sound effect or whatever you call it).

I was trying to think of a movie with a train scene in it. At first I thought of Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train", but I thought the movements would be too slow for the song. Then, I remembered the scene from the James Bond movie, "To Russia With Love", where the bad guy opens up the wrong briefcase. I watched every Bond movie that would come on TV with my dad growing up so it's easy to recall scenes sometimes. I thought that scene could go with the song so here it is ...

The above video is from Radiohead's blog.

Here is the original song by Portishead.

I love it when an artist I really like is a fan of another artist I really like (or something like that).  

OK, there are three songs on Portishead's new album, Third, that make me think of others songs.

The first song is "Hunter", which makes me think of a song from the 1992 horror movie, Candyman, by Philip Glass called "Face to Razor".

Here are the two songs ...

02 Hunter

Portishead

04 Candyman (1992) Suite: Face To Razor

Philip Glass

The next song on Third is "The Rip", which makes me think of the Pink Floyd song, "On The Run", from Dark Side of the Moon. You have to listen to all of "The Rip" to hear the similar sound. Here are those two songs ...

04 The Rip

Portishead

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03 On The Run

Pink Floyd

(If you play Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz, "On The Run" plays a little bit after the above scene.)

The next song from the Third album that reminds me of another song is "Deep Water", which reminds me of the Ink Spots' "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire". Again, you have to listen to the Portishead song for a while to see the similarity. Here are the two songs ...

07 Deep Water

Portishead

I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

Ink Spots

OK, now here are three songs that I listened to or thought of recently that use the expression "lights go down" or "when the lights go down" in them.

John Stewart - Gold

Gold

John Stewart

Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - The Lights Go Down

09 The Lights Go Down

Electric Light Orchestra

and finally Madonna's Heartbeat (from Hard Candy) ...

04 Heartbeat

Madonna

I just realized that it is Madonna's song "Give It 2 Me" that says "when the lights go down", but "Heartbeat" does have the phrase "that the light shines on" so it is a little topical. OK, I am done now. This post is way too random.

I saw some photos of Gillian Anderson in Maxim on one of those entertainment shows like Entertainment Tonight or something like that. I actually can't remember which one it was. Anyway, she looks amazing in the photos, and I really liked her character, Scully, on X-Files who tried to be rational and skeptical even when aliens were all around her (she kind of caved in later in the series). Anyway, here are the photos with some cool Portishead songs to go with them.

Nylon Smile

Portishead

Plastic

Portishead

Machine Gun

Portishead