IT’S ALL A MATTER OF TASTE

Current mood: PSYCHOSIS...
Category: PSYCHOSIS... Music

There's one track on Bristol band Portisheads first LP that features that sample from Ikes Rap II..

It's a regulation downbeat number called Glory Box and it did very well....

The odd thing about this track, was that at the exact same time, Tricky (also from Bristol) had an almost identical track featuring the very same sample that also did well, at the exact same time...

The mood and feel of the two tracks are more or less exactly the same, yet I've always seen the Tricky version as being very, very much better...

Yes boss, to my ear, the phrasing of the vocal is far more hopeful and upbeat that Portisheads.

Add onto this, the extra work by The Gravediggaz that makes the b-sides into a remarkable separate entity called The Hell EP...

and I know where my vote goes...

These Gravediggaz tracks sound like a brain decomposing - that moment when you know you've had too many drugs, and that you might have some serious work to go to get back to your former life...

I like these tracks so much, I have them on the LP, on Red Vinyl 12" and a 7" Picture Disc single, meanwhile the Portishead version has no representation in the Giovan-archive at all..

So, what do you think???

Tricky or Portishead???

Or both in equal but different merit???