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Tear Jerker / Portishead

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About half their discography is either this or Nightmare Fuel.


  • "Roads". It's probably the violins. Also the band allowed it to be used for a video relating to Sophie Lancaster's death, which doesn't exactly make it seem any more cheerful. (Sophie Lancaster being a girl who was beaten to death for being dressed as a goth.)
  • "The Rip". The very well done melancholic A minor guitar arpegios and the fact the lyrics are heavily implied to be about drug addiction.
  • "Wandering Star" from Dummy, which features these lyrics, which are immediately relatable to anyone who suffers from depression or other mental health disorders:
    Please could you stay a while to share my grief?
    It's such a lovely day to have to always feel this way
    And the time that I will suffer less
    Is when I never have to wake
    Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
    The blackness of darkness forever.
    • The second verse isn't much better:
      Those who have seen the needle's eye now tread
      Like a husk, from which all that was now has fled...

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