Portishead discography
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Studio albums3
Live albums1
Compilation albums1
Singles10
| Portishead discography | |
|---|---|
_(2540744819).jpg) Portishead performing in 2008 | |
| Studio albums | 3 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 1 |
| Singles | 10 |
| Video albums | 1 |
| Music videos | 11 |
| Remixes | 20 |
The discography of British trip hop group Portishead consists of three studio albums, one live album, one compilation, ten singles and one video album. The Bristol-based band consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley.
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
CAN [3] |
FRA [4] |
GER [5] |
NLD [6] |
NZ [7] |
NOR [8] |
SWI [9] |
US [10] | |||
| Dummy | 2 | 23 | 16 | 52 | 45 | 15 | 21 | 29 | 26 | 79 | ||
| Portishead |
|
2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 31 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 21 | |
| Third | 2 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 7 |
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Live albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
BEL (FL) [15] |
FRA [4] |
GER [5] |
NLD [6] |
NOR [16] |
NZ [7] |
SCO [17] |
US [10] | |||
| Roseland NYC Live |
|
40 | 33 | 35 | 9 | 7 | 59 | 19 | 23 | 66 | 155 |
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Singles
| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1][18] |
AUS [2] |
BEL (WA) [19] |
CAN [20] |
FRA [4] |
IRE [21] |
NLD [6] |
NZ [7] |
SCO [22] |
US [23] | ||||||
| "Numb" | 1994 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dummy | |||
| "Sour Times" | 13 | 66 | — | 29 | — | — | —[A] | — | 13 | 53 |
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| "Glory Box" | 13 | 96 | 36 | — | 12 | 12 | 25 | — | 17 | — | |||||
| "All Mine" | 1997 | 8 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | 29 | 8 | — | Portishead | |||
| "Over" | 25 | 159 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 29 | — | |||||
| "Only You" | 1998 | 35 | 131 | — | — | — | — | — | 37 | 40 | — | ||||
| "Machine Gun" | 2008 | 52 | 87 | —[B] | 84 | 82 | — | — | — | 33 | — | Third | |||
| "The Rip" | — | — | — | — | 98 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Magic Doors" | — | — | — | — | 83 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Chase the Tear" | 2009 | 164 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | non-album singles | |||
| "SOS" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes singles that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||||||||||||||
Compilations
- 1995 Glory Times (the "Glory Box" and "Sour Times" singles combined)
- 1995 The Rebirth of Cool Phive[26] ("Revenge of the Number")
Video albums
- 1998 Roseland NYC Live (PAL video)
- 2002 Roseland NYC Live (DVD; also includes all single promos and short films shown in the videography section)
Collaborations and miscellaneous releases
- 1999: Portishead collaborated with Tom Jones on "Motherless Child" from his album of duets Reload. That album also has a cover of Portishead's "All Mine" sung as a duet with Neil Hannon from The Divine Comedy.
- 2003: Geoff Barrow along with Adrian Utley, Clive Deamer, Tim Saul and John Baggott assisted with the production of Stephanie McKay's McKay under the Go! Beat Records label.
- 2005: Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley produced The Coral's The Invisible Invasion.
- 2006: Portishead recorded a cover of "Requiem for Anna" on the various artists compilation Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited.
- Portishead Interview and Mix CD (Geoff Barrow interviewed by Mark Findlay (INTER HEAD 1) and Mix by Geoff Barrow & Andy Smith with Cowboys (MIX HEAD 1))
- A track entitled "Acid Jazz & Trip Hop (Remix)" has been circulating the web and Portishead, Massive Attack, or Squarepusher are widely credited as the artist.[citation needed] However, the track is in fact a Portishead remix of an Unkle song that has been given different titles on a number of releases. On Unkle's earliest release, The Time Has Come EP, the track is entitled "If You Find Earth Boring (Portishead Plays U.N.K.L.E Mix)". However, on various compilations and "The Time Has Come" 2005 single by DJ Shadow, the track is entitled "Time Has Come (Portishead Plays Unkle Mix)".
Remixes
- Depeche Mode – "In Your Room" (The Jeep Rock Mix) (1993)
- Depeche Mode – "Walking in My Shoes" (Grungy Gonads Mix) (1993)
- Gabrielle – "Going Nowhere" (Portishead Mix) (1993)
- Whores of Babylon – "Fall of Agade" (Portishead Remix) (1993)
- Paul Weller – "Wild Wood" (The Sheared Wood Remix) (1994)
- Primal Scream – "Give Out but Don't Give Up" (Portishead Remix) (1994)
- Ride – "Moonlight Medicine" (Portishead's Ride On The Wire Mix) (1994)
- The Sabres of Paradise – "Planet D" (Portishead Remix) (1994)
- Gravediggaz – "Nowhere to Run, Nowhere To Hide" (Portishead Remix) (1994)
- The Federation – "Rusty James" (Portishead Remix) (1994)
- UNKLE – "The Time Has Come" (Portishead Plays Unkle Mix) (1994)
- Earthling – "1st Transmission" (Portishead's Earthead Mix) (1994)
- Earthling – "Nefisa" (Portishead Mix) (1995)
- Nine – "Whutcha Want?" (Portishead Mix) (1995)
- Massive Attack – "Karmacoma" (Portishead Experience) (1995)
- Junkwaffel – "Mudskipper" (Portishead So-So Mix) (1995)
- My Dying Bride - "Grace Unhearing" (Portishell Mix) (1998)
- Something for Kate – "Easy" (Mr Barrow and Mr Yates Surfin' For Kate Remix) (1999)
- Machine Gun Fellatio – "Horny Blonde 40" (Portishead Remix) (2002)
Videography
Music videos
- "Sour Times" (Hemming): made up of scenes from To Kill a Dead Man
- "Numb" (dir. Alexander Hemming)
- "Glory Box" (Hemming) homage to the Basil Dearden film Victim
- "Wandering Star" (acoustic version)
- "All Mine" (Dick Caruthers) based on a 1968 Italian talent show and The Outer Limits
- "Over" (Chris Bran)
- "Humming" (Ben Waters) A short film noir set to the song of the same name (2003)
- "Only You" (Chris Cunningham)
- "Machine Gun" (John Minton)
- "Magic Doors" (John Minton)
- "The Rip" (Nick Uff)
- "We Carry On" (Nick Uff)
- "SOS" (Unknown director)
- "Roads" (Together For Palestine) (John Minton)
Short films
- To Kill a Dead Man (1994) (Alexander Hemming)