Icebloom
10.03.24 | Here’s a ballot for you, Sput Royale-style:
1. Glory Box // Teardrop
2. Roads // Angel
3. Sour Times // Risingson
4. Mysterons // Dissolved Girl
5. Wandering Star // Inertia Creeps
6. Strangers // Black Milk
7. Biscuit // Group Four
8. It Could Be Sweet // Man Next Door
9. Numb // Mezzanine
10. It's a Fire // (Exchange) [vocals]
11. Pedestal // Exchange [instrumental]
A. Dummy // Mezzanine
B. Portishead // Massive Attack
Have fun! |
Colton
10.03.24 | Dummy because it has one actual good song (the opener) and 0 songs that sound like Jizz In My Pants |
Flashmobba
10.03.24 | I like dummy but mezzanine is one of the greatest albums of all time, the integration of samples and production is second to none |
JohnnyoftheWell
10.03.24 | why is Pedestal considered the bottom track on Dummy smdh
1. Glory Box (both among the weakest)
2. Roads oof
3. Risingson easily
4. Dissolved Girl
5. Wandering Star
6. Black Milk v easily
7. Biscuit i felt part of myself just die
8. It Could Be Sweet
9. Mezzanine
10. (Exchange) [vocals]
11. Pedestal lol
A. Mezzanine
B. Portishead
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SpiritCrusher2
10.03.24 | too lazy to fill all this out, Mezzanine wins for me |
DoofDoof
10.03.24 | 1. Teardrop
2. Roads
3. Sour Times
4. Mysterons
5. Inertia Creeps
6. Black Milk
7. Biscuit
8. It Could Be Sweet
9. Mezzanine
10. (Exchange) [vocals]
11. Pedestal
A. Dummy
B. Massive Attack
Now Blue Lines vs Dummy is the real match up...and Blue Lines narrowly wins that one
Portishead s/t seems the natural match up with the similarly toned Mezzanine (Mezzanine would narrowly win that) |
ArsMoriendi
10.03.24 | Dummy but they’re both 5s
Wait, let me fill this out properly |
ArsMoriendi
10.03.24 | 1. Glory Box
2. Angel (this one hurt the most)
3. Sour Times
4. Dissolved Girl
5. Inertia Creeps
6. Black Milk
7. Biscuit
8. It Could Be Sweet
9. Numb
10. (Exchange)
11. Pedestal
A. Dummy
B. Portishead |
Demon of the Fall
10.03.24 | 1. Glory Box
2. Roads
3. Sour Times
4. Mysterons
5. Wandering Star
6. Strangers
7. Biscuit
8. It Could Be Sweet
9. Numb
10. It's a Fire
11. Pedestal
A. Dummy (lol)
B. Portishead (lol)
this was a whitewash for me, because although I respect Mezzanine / Massive Attack greatly, Portishead are arguably my favourite band and Dummy is my #1 album of all-time. So although I wanted to be fair and give Mezz the odd 'win' by casting a critical eye over proceedings, this would be disingenuous
(2) re Blue Lines, which is actually my fave MA and would've been slightly trickier |
DoofDoof
10.03.24 | Checking my AOTY account and both Dummy and Blue Lines are on the exact same score of 96%.
Mezzanine sits at 92% while Portishead s/t is 91%.
So all very close stuff...probably a bad time to say 'Maxinquaye' has a 98% |
Trifolium
10.03.24 | Yes the Dummy vs Blue Lines matchup would be a lot harder, Dummy wins easily against Mezz, the only hard one for me would be Strangers vs Black Milk, which is one of my fave MA tunes. |
JohnnyoftheWell
10.03.24 | this matchup makes sense in that both are out-of-genre classics whereas Blue Lines never quite got there (and the Dummy tracklist would bury it lol let's keep things civil) |
DadKungFu
10.03.24 | 1. Glory Box
2. Angel
3. Risingson
4. Dissolved Girl
5. Wandering Star
6. Black Milk
7. Biscuit
8. It Could Be Sweet
9. Numb
10. It's a Fire
11. Pedestal
A. Mezzanine
B. Massive Attack |
Dedes
10.03.24 | Ty for getting me to finally check Mezzanine so I can immediately make claim that Portishead wins regardless of what I thought of Massive Attack. 3/10 It Could Be Sweet>>>>>>>>Mezzanine. Shoulda done Nickelback vs Creed. |
Hawks
10.03.24 | Both are amazing. Dummy is better. |
cylinder
10.03.24 | Third > |
mouldypigeon
10.03.24 | 1. Teardrop
2. Angel
3. Risingson
4. Dissolved Girl
5. Inertia Creeps
6. Black Milk
7. Group Four
8. Man Next Door
9. Mezzanine
10. (Exchange) [vocals]
11. Exchange [instrumental]
A. Mezzanine
B. Massive Attack |
DrMaximus
10.03.24 | 1. Teardrop
2. Angel
3. Risingson
4. Dissolved Girl
5. Inertia Creeps
6. Black Milk
7. Group Four
8. Man Next Door
9. Mezzanine
10. (Exchange) [vocals]
11. Exchange [instrumental]
A. Mezzanine
B. Massive Attack |
SomeCallMeTim
10.03.24 | Homogenic |
gabba
10.03.24 | 1. Teardrop
2. Angel
3. Risingson
4. Dissolved Girl
5. Inertia Creeps
6. Black Milk
7. Group Four
8. It Could Be Sweet
9. Mezzanine
10. It's a Fire
11. Pedestal
A. Mezzanine
B. Massive Attack
Roads would easily win over Teardrop, but not Glory Box. |
Winesburgohio
10.04.24 | perverse rankings but i will give my eagerly-await4ed contribution anyway !
1. Teardrop
2. Angel
3. Sour Times
4. Mysterons
5. Inertia Creeps
6. Strangers
7. Group Four
8. It Could Be Sweet
9. Mezzanine
10. (Exchange) [vocals]
11. Exchange [instrumental]
A. Mezzanine
B. Massive Attack |
artiswar
10.04.24 | fuck man, I don't know... Might have to go Dummy but it's really close. |
artiswar
10.04.24 | they serve different functions. Dummy is for when you want to feel sexy. Mezzanine is for when you want to disassociate and be alone in your thoughts |
normaloctagon
10.04.24 | Impossible choice
Great post though |
Havey
10.04.24 | 1. Teardrop
2. Angel
3. Risingson
4. Dissolved Girl
5. Inertia Creeps
6. Black Milk
7. Group Four
8. Next Door
9. Mezzanine
10. (Exchange) [vocals]
11. Exchange [instrumental]
A. Mezzanine
B. Portishead
easy sweep for the beetle album, but i'd rather hear a new album from portishead, considering their development, so i'm team mezz/head |
Egarran
10.04.24 | Mezzanine has a few songs I can live without and is a 4.5/5, Dummy only has classic tunes and is a 7/5. |
Icebloom
10.04.24 | Thanks for the submissions everyone! Seems so far we are a bit more Mezzanine-minded
My ranking:
1. Teardrop (ez, GB = overrated)
2. Roads
3. Risingson
4. Dissolved Girl (tough choice)
5. Wandering Star (tough choice)
6. Black Milk (ez)
7. Group Four
8. It Could Be Sweet (neither really)
9. Mezzanine (ez, best MZ track)
10. It's a Fire
11. Really don't care
A. Mezzanine
B. Portishead
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Icebloom
10.04.24 | Also
"Third >" agreed ahrd
Re the Blue Lines debate: yeah as Johnny said this was mostly meant to put two revered classics against each other, don't think Blue Lines has that level of popularity. (Also I could never get into that one)
But yeah style-wise other matchups might make more sense |
Jurtz
10.04.24 | Both are amazing. Dummy is better. [2] |
Hovse
10.04.24 | 1 Teardrop
2 Roads
3 Risingson
4 Mysterons
5 Wandering Star
6 Black Milk
7 It Could Be Sweet
8 Numb
9 (Exchange) [the version with vocals]
10 Pedestal
A Dummy but barely
B Portishead for sure. |
zakalwe
10.04.24 | Had both since their release
Always been Mezzanine.
1. Glory Box
2. Angel
3. Risingson
4. Mysterons
5. Inertia Creeps
6. Black Milk
7. Group Four
8. Man Next Door
9. Mezzanine
10. It's a Fire
11. Exchange [instrumental]
A. Mezzanine
B. Massive Attack
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markjamie
10.05.24 | Maxinquaye |
anarchistfish
10.05.24 | Massive Attack on everything apart from Glory Box...and Teardrop still getting shafted |
Dedes
10.06.24 | 1-Glorybox
2-Roads
3-Sour Times
4-Dissolved Girl
5-Wandering Star
6-Strangers
7-Biscuit
8-It Could Be Sweet aka best Portishead
9-Numb
10-Exchange
11-Exchange again!!
A)Dummy and issa sweep
B)Portishead |
Dedes
10.06.24 | I'm still fresh to MA tho so I shall be diving the back catalog soon |
