Friday Radio.Blog Update: Trip Hop
…and electronica. I’m not an expert on the genre, but here’s some stuff I like.
Daft Punk - Human After All
Not trip hop, but really great dance music. I think. I’m never sure what to call stuff like this.
Denali - You File
I couldn’t find my favorite song of theirs, but this’ll do. I really prefer trip hop with female singers.
Everything But The Girl - Before Today
One of my all-time favorite bands, they’ve evovled into trip hop. I love Tracey Thorn’s voice.
Massive Attack/Tracey Thorn - Protection
One of my all-time favorite songs.
Orb - Hallucinogen LSD
Don’t know anything about these guys, sorry.
Portishead - Sour Times
The best trip hop band.
Theivery Corporation - Lebanese Blond
Don’t know much about these guys, either.
Got any good trip hop to recommend?
Ooh, yes. Tricky is incredible. They’re often in collaboration with both Massive Attack and Portishead. If you want anything I can email it to you.
Comment by Rusty — April 22, 2005 @ 3:34 pm
Great stuff Susan — a nice sendoff vibe for the weekend.
Comment by Steve Evans — April 22, 2005 @ 3:35 pm
Whoops, I just realized the song I have posted as “Protection” is “Better Things.” Not in my list of favorite songs of all time but still a good one.
Comment by Susan M — April 22, 2005 @ 5:18 pm
I like Morcheeba (they are more hop than trip)quite a bit and listen to their album “Charango” more than I listen to Portishead (though I admit, Portishead is the best trip hop).
Comment by another — April 22, 2005 @ 10:48 pm
Thanks Susan,
Here are my unsolicited reviews –
Thievery Corp: Loved it! Thinking about buying their CD now.
Portishead: Love it. An old favorite of mine.
Orb: Not really my thang
Massive attack: Like the voice, not thrilled with the song.
EBTG: Same great voice, much better song.
Denali: Cool enough
Daft Punk: Niiice. Diggin’ that groove!
Comment by Geoff Johnston — April 23, 2005 @ 2:17 am
The more I listen to this Daft Punk song, the more brilliant I think it is.
Glad you’re enjoying this stuff.
Comment by Susan M — April 23, 2005 @ 4:03 pm
Massive Attack’s Angel is one of my all time favorites of the genre. But how could you leave out Mazzy Star? She’s the best of the genre by far. Orb has some fantastic remixes of Pink Floyd stuff. But they are more Trance (a subgenre of techno) and not really Trip Hop.
Comment by clark — April 24, 2005 @ 2:48 pm
I’ve never really thought of Mazzy Star as trip hop (unless I’m confusing them with someone else–I haven’t listened to them in years). Like I said, I’m not an expert on the it…I get confused as to what is what in the electronica genres.
Comment by Susan M — April 24, 2005 @ 5:34 pm
Yeah, I’d definitely call Mazzy Star Trip Hop. A few others, now that I’m home by my iTunes.
Hooverphonic - Vinegar & Salt; Mad About You
Mazzy Star - Take Everything; Umbilical; Blue Light; Disappear
Morcheeba - Big Calm; Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day; Coming Down Gently
Portishead - Sour Times; Protection (with Massive Attack); Only You
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground; Spin Spin Sugar
Everything But the Girl - Better Things (with Massive Attack);
Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl; Black Milk
Not truly Trip Hop - but close. Plus there’s a lot of crossover between groups.
Poe - Angry Johnny
This Mortal Coil - You and Your Sister; FYT; Song to the Sire (awesome song)
Comment by Clark Goble — April 24, 2005 @ 10:34 pm
Song to the Siren (a Tim Buckley cover) by This Mortal Coil is also on my list of best all-time songs. Definitely my favorite cover.
You have “Protection” listed as Portishead but it’s by Massive Attack, with Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl on vocals. It’s the song I meant to post but was mislabeled so I ended up posting “Better Things” instead.
My favorite song by Morcheeba (which I don’t have ripped) is “Trigger Happy.”
Comment by Susan M — April 25, 2005 @ 10:02 am
Good call on bringing the Sneaker Pimps up, Clark. I love “Sick” — it ends up on half of the mix cds I burn.
Comment by Geoff Johnston — April 25, 2005 @ 12:41 pm
I was trying to figure out where I’d heard “Lebanese Blond” before (had it been on this radio.blog previously? did a friend put it on a mix cd? etc.) when I heard it while listening to the Garden State soundtrack.
And pulled out Garden State because of this post - I wanted to hear Frou Frou’s “Let Go.” I’ve heard Frou Frou called trip-hop before, and a google search returns results that point to yes, but are they really? I don’t know, but I do like that song a lot. (”there is beauty in the breakdown . . .”)
Comment by Heather P. — April 26, 2005 @ 2:00 am
I love that song, Heather. I was thinking of posting it but didn’t really think they qualified as trip hop. Shows what I know!
Comment by Susan M — April 26, 2005 @ 10:21 am
Frou Frou definitely has Trip Hop influences, although they are a little too poppish for me. (I think one could say the same about Effervescence (sp?))
Comment by clark — April 26, 2005 @ 3:13 pm
Do you mean Evanescence? I thought they were Linkin Park-ish nu metal.
Comment by Susan M — April 26, 2005 @ 3:22 pm
Susan’s right — they are like a linkin park. And they totally suck.
Comment by Steve Evans — April 26, 2005 @ 4:43 pm
You know who totally rules, that is kinda like Evanesence, but way better? The Gathering. A Dutch band. They started out death metal with a male vocalist, but then they added a really great female singer. They’re sort of ethereal and metal at the same time.
Comment by Susan M — April 26, 2005 @ 4:55 pm
You’re right. Evanescence wasn’t what I was thinking of. (And yea, they do suck, although I confess a certain guilty pleasure to that Daredevil song) Someone suggested to me Lacuna Coil for a better version of Evanescence, although I couldn’t get into them either.
BTW - not really Trip Hop, but has anyone heard the French band Nouvelle Vague? They do kind of Brazillian-like Lounge versions of old 80’s songs. They cover, for instance I Melt With You in a weird way. You start not thinking you’d like it, but they definitely grow on me. I found them by accident with one of those free songs from Pepsi.
Comment by Clark Goble — April 27, 2005 @ 12:18 am
Yeah I’ve got their cd of 80’s covers. My brother in Taiwan sent it to me for Christmas. I love it. I can post a couple songs if anyone wants to hear it. Definitely weird.
Comment by Susan M — April 27, 2005 @ 10:02 am
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Comment by Cinephile — July 11, 2005 @ 7:04 pm
Check out Mudville from NY…
Here’s an MP3 link:
http://music.download.com/mudville/3600-8992_32-100673978.html?tag=listing_song_artist
Comment by Helen — July 22, 2005 @ 11:04 am
hi I love trip hop massive attack, mandalay, collide, P, …you habe oir entre rios (aregentina) I come from chile…nice blog.
bye..
PD..my inglish is a little
Comment by pepe — September 27, 2005 @ 2:39 am