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Portishead Dummy Mp3, Flac, Wma Portishead Dummy mp3, flac, wma DOWNLOAD LINKS (Clickable) Genre: Electronic Album: Dummy Country: US Released: 1994 Style: Trip Hop, Abstract, Downtempo MP3 version RAR size: 1107 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1568 mb WMA version RAR size: 1144 mb Rating: 4.7 Votes: 572 Other Formats: MP2 ADX AA DMF AC3 MMF AU Tracklist Hide Credits Mysterons 1 Drums – Clive DeamerElectric Piano [Rhodes] – Geoff BarrowGuitar, Theremin – Adrian 5:02 UtleyWritten-By – A Utley*, B Gibbons*, G Barrow* Sour Times Electric Piano [Rhodes], Organ [Hammond] – Neil SolmanGuitar – Adrian 2 4:11 UtleyProgrammed By – Geoff BarrowWritten-By – A Utley*, B Gibbons*, G Barrow*, L Schifrin*, O Turner*, H Brooks* Strangers 3 Drums – Clive DeamerElectric Piano [Rhodes] – Geoff BarrowGuitar – Adrian UtleyWritten- 3:55 By – A Utley*, B Gibbons*, G Barrow*, W Shorter* It Could Be Sweet 4 Drum Programming – Richard Newell Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Geoff BarrowWritten-By – B 4:16 Gibbons*, G Barrow* Wandering Star Drums – Clive DeamerGuitar – Adrian UtleyOrgan [Hammond] – Gary BaldwinProgrammed 5 4:51 By – Geoff BarrowWritten-By – B B Dickerson*, B Gibbons*, C Miller*, G Barrow*, H Brown*, H Scott*, J Goldstein*, L Oskar*, L Jordan*, P D Allen* It's A Fire 6 Bass – Adrian UtleyDrums – Geoff BarrowOrgan [Hammond] – Gary BaldwinWritten-By – A 3:48 Utley*, B Gibbons*, G Barrow* Numb 7 Bass – Adrian UtleyDrums – Clive DeamerOrgan [Hammond] – Gary BaldwinProgrammed 3:54 By, Drums – Geoff BarrowWritten-By – A Utley*, B Gibbons*, G Barrow* Roads Drums – Clive DeamerElectric Piano [Rhodes] – Neil SolmanFlute [Nose Flute] – Dave 8 McDonald Guitar, Bass, Arranged By [Strings] – Adrian UtleyProgrammed By, Arranged By 5:02 [Strings] – Geoff BarrowStrings – Strings UnlimitedWritten-By – A Utley*, B Gibbons*, G Barrow* Pedestal 9 Bass – Adrian UtleyDrums – Clive DeamerProgrammed By – Geoff BarrowTrumpet – Andy 3:39 HagueWritten-By – A Utley*, B Gibbons*, G Barrow* Biscuit 10 Drums – Clive DeamerElectric Piano [Rhodes] – Geoff BarrowWritten-By – A Utley*, B 5:01 Gibbons*, G Barrow* Glory Box 11 Guitar, Organ [Hammond] – Adrian UtleyProgrammed By – Geoff BarrowWritten-By – A 5:06 Utley*, B Gibbons*, G Barrow* Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Go! Discs Ltd. Copyright (c) – Go! Discs Ltd. Recorded At – State Of Art Studios Recorded At – Coach House Studios Marketed By – Barclay Marketed By – Metronome Musik GmbH Made By – PMDC, USA Pressed By – PMDC, USA Credits Co-producer – A Utley* Engineer – Dave Mc Donald* Management [Portishead Is Managed By] – Fruit Producer – Portishead Vocals – Beth Gibbons Notes Category on spine and back: 828 553 - 2 Category on booklet: 828 553-2 Category on CD: 422-828 553-2 Samples Track 2: Lalo Schifrin from "More Mission: Impossible" courtesy of Warner Chappell Music/MCA Records. Smokey Brookes from "Spin-It Jig" courtesy of Goldmine Soul Supply. Track 3: Weather Report from "Elegant People" courtesy of MCA Music/CBS Records. Track 5: War from "Magic Mountain" courtesy of Polygram Music/ABC Records. Track 10: Johnnie Ray from "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" courtesy of Warner Chappell Music/Philips. Track 11: Isaac Hayes from "Ike's Rap II" courtesy of Rondor Music/Fantasy Records (booklet erroneously lists "Issac Moods" by Issac Hayes [sic]). All tracks recorded at State of Art and Coach House Studios. All tracks Chrysalis Music Ltd. Marketed in France by Barclay and in Germany by Metronome Musik/GmbH.1994 ℗ & © 1994 Go! Discs Limited. CD made in the U.S.A. Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode (Scanned): 042282855329 Barcode (Text): 0 42282 85532 9 Mould SID Code: IFPI 0328 Matrix / Runout: 422-828 553-2 01% Y Matrix / Runout (Mould): MADE IN USA BY PMDC Rights Society: BIEM / STEMRA Label Code: LC 7192 Distribution Code: BA 900 Other versions Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year Go! Discs, Dummy (CD, 828 553-2 Portishead Polydor, 828 553-2 Australasia 1994 Album) PolyGram Dummy (Cass, 828 522-4 Portishead Go! Beat 828 522-4 UK & Europe 1994 Album) 422 828 Dummy (CD, 422 828 Portishead Go! Discs Canada Unknown 553-2 Album, RE) 553-2 Dummy (CD, 828 522-2 Portishead Go! Beat 828 522-2 Europe Unknown Album, RP, Ove) Dummy (LP, 3794935 Portishead Go! Beat 3794935 UK 2014 Album, RE) Related Music albums to Dummy by Portishead Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury - Free Fire - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack The Jimi Entley Sound - Apache Portishead - Only You (French Version) Portishead - Over 2 Portishead - Roseland NYC Live Portishead - Third Portishead - Portishead Portishead - Over.
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