Portishead, performing their classic 'Sour Times' in Germany, 1998. Extremely High Quality even though it doesn't trigger Youtube's 'HD' settings. This is a 1.6 gigabyte uncompressed AVI file.
In September 2010, I left my computer on for 6 days to download the 7gb torrent of the entire concert at 2kb/second. It was slow but worth it.
At the time the only other version of this performance on Youtube had audio problems during the climax, which was extremely annoying.
When I finished my torrent, I was equally annoyed to find that it too was missing the audio during the climax. Fortunately, I possessed the audio version of this performance (uninterrupted) and sony vegas. I spliced the two seamlessly together. Enjoy!
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Sour Times comes off Portishead's debut 1994 album, 'Dummy.'
"The album earned critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize beating stiff competition which included PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love, Oasis' Definitely Maybe, and Tricky's Maxinquaye. It is often credited with inventing the sub-genre of trip-hop and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s."
"Despite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States (where it sold more than 150,000 copies even before the band toured there)"
"On the two morosely startling albums that made Portishead's reputation when it came out of England in the 1990s, Beth Gibbons's voice and words were bereft and bitter, floating in music that placed vintage samples in sparse, echoey backdrops, conjuring emotional abysses and the irrevocable passage of time. The band itself was self-effacing, but word of mouth, from introvert to introvert, worked as much as radio play to cultivate devoted fans."
