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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dummy_portishead_5711.jpg]]
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3	''Dummy'' is the 1994 debut album by British TripHop band Music/{{Portishead}}. "Glory Box" and "Sour Times" were their most successful singles. The album was critically acclaimed and is considered one of the most essential TripHop albums of all time.
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6	'''Tracklist'''
7	# "Mysterons" (5:02)
8	# "Sour Times" (4:11)
9	# "Strangers" (3:55)
10	# "It Could Be Sweet" (4:16)
11	# "Wandering Star" (4:51)
12	# "It's A Fire" (3:48)
13	# "Numb" (3:54)
14	# "Roads" (5:02)
15	# "Pedestal" (3:39)
16	# "Biscuit" (5:01)
17	# "Glory Box" (5:06)
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19	!! Sour Tropes
20	* AccentuateTheNegative: The lyrics and music are very gloomy.
21	** Subverted by "Sour Times", which has the line:
22	--> ''Nobody loves me, it's true... not like you do.''
23	* BeneathTheMask: "It's A Fire."
24	--> ''Cos this life is a farce''
25	--> ''I can't breathe through this mask''
26	--> ''Like a fool''
27	--> ''So breathe on, sister breathe on''
28	* BreakUpSong:
29	** "Pedestal"
30	--> ''You abandoned me''
31	--> ''How I suffer''
32	--> ''Ridicule breathes a sigh''
33	--> ''You abandoned me''
34	--> ''Lost forever''
35	** "Biscuit"
36	--> ''I'll never fall in love again, it's all over now''.
37	* TheCassandra: "Biscuit"
38	--> ''I can't make myself heard no matter how hard I scream.''
39	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album cover is in color, but dominated by the color blue.
40	* DespairEventHorizon:
41	** "Biscuit"
42	--> ''I'll never fall in love again, it's all over now''.
43	** "Glory Box"
44	--> ''I'm so tired of playing''
45	--> ''Playing with this bow and arrow''
46	--> ''Gonna give my heart away''
47	--> ''Leave it to the other girls to play''
48	--> ''For I've been a temptress too long''
49	* FaceOnTheCover: Beth Gibbons, the lead singer, in the center of the album cover image. The picture is taken from their short film ''To Kill a Dead Man''.
50	* FakeOutFadeOut: "Strangers" has one.
51	* GiveMeAReason: "Glory Box"
52	--> ''Give me a reason to be a woman, I just want to be a woman.''
53	* IdealizedSex: "Sour Times"
54	--> ''Covered by the blind belief''
55	--> ''That fantasies of sinful screens''
56	--> ''Bear the facts, assume the dye''
57	* LoveHurts: Virtually every track is about lovesickness, break-ups and feeling sad as a result.
58	* LyricalDissonance: Some of the music is actually quite catchy, while the lyrics are downright depressing.
59	* MoodWhiplash:
60	** "Sour Times", a very depressing song, with nevertheless a more hopeful refrain:
61	--> ''Nobody loves me, it's true... not like you do.''
62	** The instrumental of "Glory Box" cuts out at 4:13 and is briefly replaced with a dark, slow drumbeat. One track on the ''Glory Box'' single, "Scorn", reverses the situation: it has said drumbeat as the main instrumental, maintaining Glory Box's vocal track, and briefly uses Glory Box's instrumental at the equivalent point in the song.
63	* NonAppearingTitle: The title doesn't appear in any of the lyrics. Also "Wandering Star", where Gibbons does mention the title, but in plural ("wandering star'''s'''").
64	* OneWordTitle: ''Dummy,'' "Numb," "Mysterons," "Roads," "Biscuit," and "Pedestal."
65	* RecordNeedleScratch: All throughout the album.
66	* {{Sampling}}:
67	** "Sour Times" samples Music/LaloSchifrin's "The Danube Incident" and Smokey Brooks' "Spin It Jig."
68	** "Strangers" contains a sample of "Elegant People" from Music/WeatherReport.
69	** "Magic Mountain" by War is sampled during "Wandering Star."
70	** "I'll never fall in love again, it's all over now" in "Biscuit" is a sample from Johnnie Ray's "I'll Never Fall In Love Again."
71	** "Glory Box" has a sample from "Ike's Rap II" by Music/IsaacHayes, and a melody from the 1960's TV series ''The Adventures of ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.''
72	* {{Theremin}}: Prominent in "Mysterons."
73	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Everyone in the video for ''Glory Box.''

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