Portishead - It's A Fire
"Cos this life is a farce, I can't breath through this mask. Like the fool."
Album: Dummy [debut album]
Recorded: Bristol, England
Genre: Trip Hop, Lounge
Album Release: August 22nd 1994
Length: 3.47
Producer: Portishead
Vocalist: Beth Gibbons [age 29]
Label: Go! Discs
Official Audio
Live in Blackpool from 1995 (audio only)
Charts, Streams & Sales
Spotify: Over 12 million
YouTube Music: Over 5 million
Credits
Organ - Gary Baldwin
Details
- Beth Gibbons had a nearly finished version of the track before she met the band.
- Not included on the European versions of the album or the vinyl.
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“ Beth wrote it entirely. I think she got a beat tape off of Andy Smith that had just some loops on it, and she just sampled it up and looped it in a really weird place. It was great. I wish I had done that. You played the really wobbly bass stuff, which is the majority of it. You’ve worked out the weird kind of chords that she had. I can remember the session really well, too. ”
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