A couple months ago I would have said (and probably did say) that anybody who figured Tortoise-head I mean Porpoise-head I mean Portishead would finish Top Five in Pazz & Jop has serious delusions about their critical standing in the States -- they've really never been *that* big a deal, believe it or not; both their '94 debut and '97 followup placed # 14 (never knew that til now!), and I can't imagine why they'd suddenly turn into huger potatoes 11 years later. I really don't think most rock critics in the midwest have any idea who they are, or care (beyond their being one-time prog-Sade I mean trip-hop one-hit-wonders I mean.) But now I'm less sure of all that. Not sure why; I don't *think* they've placed all that high on most magazines' iternal poll lists so far, but it's not like I've been watching out for them, either. So who the hell knows.
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Date: 2009-01-08 01:41 am (UTC)