I used to play this SO LOUD in my kick ass stereo at 3am totally pissed dancing around my living room in London. In the morning, late morning, I would ask my kindly elderly widowed neighbour if she was disturbed by the loud music and she always said “no darling you just have fun”. She was sweet.
I’m 60 years old and I’ve got to say this is one of my favourite songs which is saying something considering how good the music was in the 1960’s and ‘70’s.
@Rob Roy Reminds me of when they mentioned in an interview they tried to do a colaberation with David Bowie and his response was along the lines of "but you guys are shit".
Exactly the same age as you_ and the memories this brings back of that time in my life really just starting out after leaving my teens. Beth Gibbons voice so haunting
Listening to Portishead live is an emotional experience… Beth has class, mystique and swag. Remember late nights listening to this with a buzz in the dark with lit candles. Just a vibe that’s hard to beat
On holiday in kephalonia with my 13 year old daughter. I’ve got my iPad & speakers. She said “ dad can you play this?” Glory box. Portishead. I’m so Fuking proud!!!!!
Portishead haven't in actual fact split up. They did a Ukraine benefit gig at Bristol 02 academy only couple of years ago. I missed it dammit! And are rumoured to have been working on some new stuff?
I am forever a 16 year old boy in love with Beth. Holding that cigarette, delivering some of the best our culture will ever have to offer. This song is so timeless and sultry. I have no shame singing it as a guy. I do quite frequently.
1994, I was 21. doing all of the things young people do at university and nobody snapping or selfies, you could be a discoverer of who you are without the whole damn social media sticking it's large nose in.......happy days
God damn, I saw Portishead on my 18th birthday, back in 1998 and I was candy flipping which made it even better! Beth Gibbins performance was SO intense, her eyes connected with every person in that audience. At the end of the show she jumped down in front of the stage and shook hands/exchanged hugs with everyone in the front row, including me! Set a bloody high bar for other vocalists to meet after seeing her :)
She reminds me of Janice Joplin so much, with the smoking of the cigarette and singing from the soul and still sounding amazing. Definitely my top 3 female voices of all time.
Man, her voice does so much wonderful emotional play on this song. Then there's that grotty guitar sound. IMO with that niche added burning cigarette its the perfect overall lost and desolation cocktail lounge vibe ... Who hasn't been there before ..
I assumed it was a joint, not a tobacco cigarette. Personally, its no big deal either way, but it does change the "vibe". I mean, lonely and desperate, or DESPERATE?!?
@@squirlmy I'm betting 100 it's a cigarette! Just curious though,if it doesn't matter to you whether it's a joint or a tobacco cigarette then which vibe is "lonely and desperate" and which is just "desperate" in your opinion?
90er Jahre war meine beste Zeit viele Drogen nur Partys ich bin dann schnell auf den Drogen hängen geblieben fast 30 Jahre lang,jetzt bin ich seit 6 Jahren Clean und noch am Leben und dafür bin ich dankbar...
Freaking genius at work here. Portishead was just incredible. Beth being surprisingly audience engaged here. Very Billie Holiday phrasing at the opening few lines, great groove, what's not like? Compare this to most of what passes as innovative pop/rock in 2020 and the comparison is pretty stark. We were lucky to have been alive when music like this was conceived , recorded and performed.
I didn’t really understand the lyrics when this album came out in the 90’s (I was a teenager). I revisited it again in my 20’s and it spoke to me. Revisited again in the 30’s and i understood it and it made me sad. Now in my 40’s, it’s beautifully nostalgic. ‘96 bleeker street, NYC
There is nothing better than hearing a song that you love live and its as easily as good as the studio produced version!! She sounds bloody incredible live!
I'm so tired of playing Playing with this bow and arrow Gonna give my heart away Leave it to the other girls to play For I've been a temptress too long Just... Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be a woman I just wanna be a woman From this time, unchained We're all looking at a different picture Through this new frame of mind A thousand flowers could bloom Move over and give us some room, yeah Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be a woman I just want to be a woman So don't you stop being a man Just take a little look From our side when you can Sow a little tenderness No matter if you cry Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be a woman I just want to be a woman It's all I wanna be, is all a woman For this is the beginning Of forever and ever It's time to move over It's all I want to be I'm so tired of playing Playing with this bow and arrow Gonna give my heart away Leave it to the other girls to play For I've been a temptress too long Just... Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be...
Im a 50 year old Englishman, living in Demark for the last 25 years...This song kills me. The best performance ever. God it goes to the heart. Thank you portishead.
Maria McLaughlin My sis inlaw left one of their cd's at the house as soon as I heard her I was hooked....Fast forward found this live wow it just makes me love it twice as much.....she's awesome...the band also!!!!!
My most fav sensual song ever🔥💜 don't understand why I've only discovered this live version just now 🔥🔥🔥🔥as a woman this song ROCKS 💜💜💜 Sensual beyond words
Marko Fahrenheit Perhaps we both enjoy the same music?! My friends always tell me to go into Music journalism. Nah, I'd rather not. I'm just a fan of good music.
Gives me some wonderful flashbacks to a youth full of sorrows and joys, an absolutely eminent number performed sublimely and with a nerve that brings tears to my eyes. My deepest respect to Beth Gibbons and the rest of this fantastic band. 😘🙏🏼
After too many years I have just played this and it was like finding an old friend, loved it then, treasuring it once again. A true masterpiece. Haunting....
I was in pub bands in the early 80s and I hated all that smoke. Wasn't much of a punk rocker was I? This was one of my bands with me singing. ua-cam.com/video/ShuQKA8qNK8/v-deo.html
Yeah it's a bar that is what a bar should be like. Smoking out of hospitals ok fine but bars? You can't even smoke on bar patios most places anymore and that's outside. I did not actually spend much time in bars but I think it's ridiculous anyway.
thank you,we are losing our culture and so many are just going along with it i know alot of people that cant even afford a pint now and never use pubs anymore and we used to live in the chelsea and the red lion in easton bristol!last of the real grinding punk,metal,dub,drum n bass ,tekno venues in britain! tom waits hits all them deep notes with the help of cigarettes and whiskey!you stay positive xx
This is the sound and soul of my generation, born in the 70s lost it in the 90s
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Shit! Never seen anybody singing like this in my whole life! The way she uses the voice, it puts all the heart and soul in it! It makes your guts move and feel...
1998, 21 yrs old, working as a waiter, one of my co-workers a tall lady asked me to borrow Portishead cd. I gave it to her. 23 years later she is still coming to my mind from times to times.
I'm a metal head from gate. HOWEVER this type of music, Portishead, Bjork, Massive Attack, etc put me on a different plane. I'm so in love with the feelings that come with this sound. Most who know me just don't understand. I think they think I'm going crazy.
Beth's intensity and spectacular vocals are amazing to say the least. She is the best vocalist in a very long time who cares about her performance, (little of that around anymore) and making music a true art form. I've been captivated by her since the first record.
I`ve been to many shows where people are quite happy to chat at the bar, or between songs, which really annoys me. I was at this gig and you could of heard a pin drop between songs, so good. At the the time Portishead were something new and fresh, and absolutely mesmerising. Amazing show. Saw the Smashing Pumpkins there in 96, but thats another story.
Went so hard on my first xtc capsule, NewYearsEve party, industrial area Amsterdam in 1994. Remember standing on the roof, little snow, .... and Portishead.
I love this song so much. I listened to it right when is was out and hope there will still be some kind nurses in the hopefully far future that will play it for me when I am old.
All that passion and pain in her voice has reached down into the very depths of my soul to the effect that I live it those very words, and . . . . I’m a man. Bravo !
I used to play this SO LOUD in my kick ass stereo at 3am totally pissed dancing around my living room in London. In the morning, late morning, I would ask my kindly elderly widowed neighbour if she was disturbed by the loud music and she always said “no darling you just have fun”. She was sweet.
❤❤❤
this is so wholesome. i fucking love it
@@StaticChefrenstorone
That's so awesome, thanks for sharing that little story from your life!!
God, I really hope I'm this kind of old lady. 🖤
Loved this band and I’m 70 years.some of the best music came out of the 90s
I'll be quoting the same as you 19 years from now.
If you are still listening to this is 2024 I love you
49 and still loving the groove cheers
Listen to it everyday what a song 52 and still chilling to this day
Love you too :D
Yo también te quiero 🖤
74 and hearing this for the first time! - wow! The wonders of youtube to throw this into a Florence&TM selection.
I know what you mean. I just heard about trip hop 2 yrs. ago. Try Sneaker pimps-6 Underground.
If you're under the age of 30 and listening to this, then my hat is off to you. Music really was this good in the '90's
I am 14 and I can't tell how much do I love this music. Glory Box and the other 33 Portishead songs are wonderfully beautiful!
@@szmblanka Nice to hear intelligence, even in adults it is rare.
Alex Park Thank you!
The best.
That's right🤐🖤🥰🙏😎🌘
It's hard to believe it's a live recording, vocals and band outstanding.
OLD SCHOOL
Recorded through the desk I guess. Fantastic work ;-}
@@simonfenn3791 Yes, very well mixed
No it's not.
C'est tellement beau !!!!!!
She is somehow able to look like she's having fun while also conveying the loneliness and hopelessness of the song. Genius.
Her vocal style was once described as sounding like she was always approaching the point of climax!
@@ianread9019 by who?
@@noparanoiax he said "source: myself"
thats life
Drugs... thats what theyre good for.
I’m 60 years old and I’ve got to say this is one of my favourite songs which is saying something considering how good the music was in the 1960’s and ‘70’s.
This is good but since the 70s there are at least 1000 better songs..😅
@@andreanaso7926stupid comment.
Right, and this one of them. Shhh and listen
+1
Ooooh no.@@andreanaso7926
you know a bands good when they sound even better live
Yes -- or when they do an acoustic set.
Both of these are ways to separate "pop stars" & "rock stars"
from *MUSICIANS.*
@Rob Roy Reminds me of when they mentioned in an interview they tried to do a colaberation with David Bowie and his response was along the lines of "but you guys are shit".
Yes i agree and a lot of prog bands sounds better in live
no ! they were the best....
@@johnwaters7328 Young David Jones was pretty shit too.
The dynamics of this song are astounding. Utterly crushing and devastating one minute; intimate, delicate and so vulnerable the next. Incredible.
Thats why people like nirvana.
Luxo do luxo ao lixo de manhã, depois de uma madrugada intensa.
2021... We made it and this song is still as fucking cool as it was when I heard it in 1994 when I was 22.
Exactly the same age as you_ and the memories this brings back of that time in my life really just starting out after leaving my teens. Beth Gibbons voice so haunting
me too
Best album of all time
@@degenererad Best album of ALL TIME?... Ehhh, I wouldn't go that far.. Lol.
Bloody hell. I was 32, and it's still cool AF.
Listening to Portishead live is an emotional experience… Beth has class, mystique and swag. Remember late nights listening to this with a buzz in the dark with lit candles. Just a vibe that’s hard to beat
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: ua-cam.com/video/I4IGV5s8E84/v-deo.html Very well done!
Me too, I remember late nights listening to this with a buzz lightyear in the dark with lit candles.
THIS EXACTLY.
2020...who's still listening? I am :) This is a sultry, lurid performance and I love it.
I'm totally with you!
Yeah, it's pretty dope
i'm here! still loving Portishead
Still listening? LOL, I just discovered them!
Love it!
@@kennethhaas3807 Never too late to discover a such good song
This song never gets old. I could listen to it over and over.
So could I Lisa Orange feel the love!
beautiful song.
Me too. Its addictive!
Portishead is timeless... All of their music
Lisa Ortega i do countless times
This song is a masterpiece and that haunting voice is eternal ❤
On holiday in kephalonia with my 13 year old daughter.
I’ve got my iPad & speakers.
She said “ dad can you play this?”
Glory box. Portishead.
I’m so Fuking proud!!!!!
Good Dad. Must be very proud :)
They sound so good live!!! I'm blown away by their performance. She's so bad ass!!
go look at the Jools Holland performance. Epically fucking great
We literally lived through 90s with music like this. I miss it
I don’t miss any of it….I own it
Insane how her voice opens up when she sings the chorus.
Don't need weather with astonishing music ❤
It breaks my heart that there will never be music like this ever again. But I'm simultaneously thankful to have been alive for it.
Me too😢
Portishead haven't in actual fact split up. They did a Ukraine benefit gig at Bristol 02 academy only couple of years ago. I missed it dammit! And are rumoured to have been working on some new stuff?
We can only hope. Thank you Mike.@@mikeb7379
We from the 70's agree.
I Love Her perfect voice
I am forever a 16 year old boy in love with Beth. Holding that cigarette, delivering some of the best our culture will ever have to offer.
This song is so timeless and sultry. I have no shame singing it as a guy. I do quite frequently.
I bet shes hard work....not even a cup of tea
She is playing in Copenhagen "soon" .. and you bet your ass I've got a ticket
That hit hard
1994, I was 21. doing all of the things young people do at university and nobody snapping or selfies, you could be a discoverer of who you are without the whole damn social media sticking it's large nose in.......happy days
different times..better times
Im pregnant after listening to this song. I am a man.
😂❤😂❤😂
Awesome live audio clarity. Great band, Great singer.
So underrated so amazing so beautiful what a great band
Such an extraordinary and beautiful song, smokey and sultry
God damn, I saw Portishead on my 18th birthday, back in 1998 and I was candy flipping which made it even better! Beth Gibbins performance was SO intense, her eyes connected with every person in that audience. At the end of the show she jumped down in front of the stage and shook hands/exchanged hugs with everyone in the front row, including me! Set a bloody high bar for other vocalists to meet after seeing her :)
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What an 18th Birthday treat ❤💙
Watching and listening to this perfection is one of the rare moments in life where you feel like you're in the right place at the right time.
Absolutely love this one. Sensual, lonely, longing. Gets me emotional every time
i love this song
This is a masterpiece
🫡💙🏴
It is indeed ❤
The 90's man....I miss them.....
Love them since the beginning!
47 yo 2024. Can't stop listening this piece of Art, 💕
A love song for the pandemic, this whole Portishead album is a lifestyle.
One of maybe 3 albums ever i can listen to without skipping a song
It's a shame they only released three albums. We can use more Portishead!
Yes, a livestyle that no more exists. :(
It's crazy how timeless their music is. I can listen to Portishead all damn day on repeat.
Those first few albums and live at Roseland NY are untouchable ❤ I love Beth Gibbons
She reminds me of Janice Joplin so much, with the smoking of the cigarette and singing from the soul and still sounding amazing. Definitely my top 3 female voices of all time.
I was really mesmerized when this album came out. I've never heard something similar, so deep, sensual and powerful at the same time.
Man, her voice does so much wonderful emotional play on this song. Then there's that grotty guitar sound. IMO with that niche added burning cigarette its the perfect overall lost and desolation cocktail lounge vibe ... Who hasn't been there before ..
Me. Got it all to look forward to! lol
I assumed it was a joint, not a tobacco cigarette. Personally, its no big deal either way, but it does change the "vibe". I mean, lonely and desperate, or DESPERATE?!?
@@squirlmy I'm betting 100 it's a cigarette! Just curious though,if it doesn't matter to you whether it's a joint or a tobacco cigarette then which vibe is "lonely and desperate" and which is just "desperate" in your opinion?
Only thing that detracts from the perfomance is the smoky thing !!!
@@billsharkey9365 I think that's the point ;-}
When my grandchildren ask me what it was like living in the 90's, I'll just play this for them and grin ;)
I suppose sticking a white dove down their throats would be illegal lol. ;)
90er Jahre war meine beste Zeit viele Drogen nur Partys ich bin dann schnell auf den Drogen hängen geblieben fast 30 Jahre lang,jetzt bin ich seit 6 Jahren Clean und noch am Leben und dafür bin ich dankbar...
@@christophhorn2842 Me too mate. By the late 90's I was a mess but after a couple of decades at it I am good these days.
this made me grin
The 80s were better
Wish I met a woman like her x
Freaking genius at work here. Portishead was just incredible. Beth being surprisingly audience engaged here. Very Billie Holiday phrasing at the opening few lines, great groove, what's not like? Compare this to most of what passes as innovative pop/rock in 2020 and the comparison is pretty stark. We were lucky to have been alive when music like this was conceived , recorded and performed.
I didn’t really understand the lyrics when this album came out in the 90’s (I was a teenager). I revisited it again in my 20’s and it spoke to me. Revisited again in the 30’s and i understood it and it made me sad. Now in my 40’s, it’s beautifully nostalgic.
‘96 bleeker street, NYC
There is nothing better than hearing a song that you love live and its as easily as good as the studio produced version!! She sounds bloody incredible live!
I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give my heart away
Leave it to the other girls to play
For I've been a temptress too long
Just...
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just wanna be a woman
From this time, unchained
We're all looking at a different picture
Through this new frame of mind
A thousand flowers could bloom
Move over and give us some room, yeah
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just want to be a woman
So don't you stop being a man
Just take a little look
From our side when you can
Sow a little tenderness
No matter if you cry
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just want to be a woman
It's all I wanna be, is all a woman
For this is the beginning
Of forever and ever
It's time to move over
It's all I want to be
I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give my heart away
Leave it to the other girls to play
For I've been a temptress too long
Just...
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be...
merci💛
avec plaisir ;)
Thanks, dude.
Im a 50 year old Englishman, living in Demark for the last 25 years...This song kills me. The best performance ever. God it goes to the heart. Thank you portishead.
Beth is flawless. Sensual. Perfect song. 👿
Maria McLaughlin My sis inlaw left one of their cd's at the house as soon as I heard her I was hooked....Fast forward found this live wow it just makes me love it twice as much.....she's awesome...the band also!!!!!
Jason Phelps I'm glad you got turned on to them. She's at the top of her game and I lust her. 👍
🎼🎼🎼🙏
This is the sexiest song ever
The smoking ruins it
without the smoking, the song would never created.
What are y'all talking about? The smoking makes it even more hot. And as she's gotten older she's hotter than ever.
So hot!
Very hot. Especially when she tells the crowd "the weather is fuckin' shite".
Passion is pouring from her soul into mine every time I listen to this song. So fkn good.
It's 2023 and the shock I felt when I first heard this in 1994 has never left me.
The guitar tone at 2:38 is GOLD.
Yep.
Still kicks ass almost 25 years later!
Of course we're listening in 2022!
Music like this doesn't age, it stays as fresh & relevant as the day it came out 😉
My most fav sensual song ever🔥💜 don't understand why I've only discovered this live version just now 🔥🔥🔥🔥as a woman this song ROCKS 💜💜💜 Sensual beyond words
Never getting old! 2020 still watching this clip. Even in sober it made me feels like at the otherside.
One of the greatest gifts in life...Sexuality at its finest...
great comment and perfectly true......
***** Thanks buddy
You hit the nail right on the head!!!
Marko Fahrenheit Perhaps we both enjoy the same music?! My friends always tell me to go into Music journalism. Nah, I'd rather not. I'm just a fan of good music.
me too Kat.
Gives me some wonderful flashbacks to a youth full of sorrows and joys, an absolutely eminent number performed sublimely and with a nerve that brings tears to my eyes. My deepest respect to Beth Gibbons and the rest of this fantastic band. 😘🙏🏼
After too many years I have just played this and it was like finding an old friend, loved it then, treasuring it once again. A true masterpiece. Haunting....
I miss the cigarette filled bars and i am a non-smoker. Loved the atmosphere. Life is for Living no matter what.
Amen essenchial.
I was in pub bands in the early 80s and I hated all that smoke. Wasn't much of a punk rocker was I? This was one of my bands with me singing. ua-cam.com/video/ShuQKA8qNK8/v-deo.html
Yeah it's a bar that is what a bar should be like. Smoking out of hospitals ok fine but bars? You can't even smoke on bar patios most places anymore and that's outside. I did not actually spend much time in bars but I think it's ridiculous anyway.
thank you,we are losing our culture and so many are just going along with it i know alot of people that cant even afford a pint now and never use pubs anymore and we used to live in the chelsea and the red lion in easton bristol!last of the real grinding punk,metal,dub,drum n bass ,tekno venues in britain! tom waits hits all them deep notes with the help of cigarettes and whiskey!you stay positive xx
Damn, watching her sing this still makes me fall in love with her, just like it did in the 90's
Forever a classic. Will always love this song.
Beth Gibbons might be one of the greatest modern vocalists on earth. A powerful voice and so fearless...
This is the sound and soul of my generation, born in the 70s lost it in the 90s
Shit! Never seen anybody singing like this in my whole life! The way she uses the voice, it puts all the heart and soul in it! It makes your guts move and feel...
Moloko is better
@@saoralba4236 diferent. Moloko doesn't have the vibrato of her voice, or deep feeling and expression.
Then you should listen to Janis Joplin
@@prankster1590 Janis is a different story man...
Whenever I need a stress reliever, I always turn to Portishead
I am in love with this woman. What a band!
1998, 21 yrs old, working as a waiter, one of my co-workers a tall lady asked me to borrow Portishead cd. I gave it to her. 23 years later she is still coming to my mind from times to times.
Beth Gibbons is one of the coolest and one of the most beautiful singers of all time.
When the live version mirrors the recorded one just shows how much they’re in sync as a band.....Pure class !!! Not many bands get close
Agree
Porcupine tree , check them out , live in "Tilburg"
I originally had this on tape and just kept playing it. Just so moving.
Trip Hop is a great style of music that doesn't age.
her voice is always flawless, remarkable...
❤ this song is so touching...
Her voice speek in my heart...
So perfect
I'm a metal head from gate. HOWEVER this type of music, Portishead, Bjork, Massive Attack, etc put me on a different plane. I'm so in love with the feelings that come with this sound. Most who know me just don't understand. I think they think I'm going crazy.
This sounds like the best Bond song... Ever.
I love the dark sounds of Portishead!
Some music is so good its like a natural law. Now that this is I cant imagine a reality where it wouldn't. Thank you for this.
Hard not to weep at the beauty of this song and it's performance.
a smokin' performance !!!!!
In every sense...
As it were...
Fuck it's hard to be as good as the studio version when it's live. This could basically replace it. Damn it.
IIllytch321 it's better!
A perfect suicide song
@@plainjayne1981 karen, are you o.k sweet girl x
carkees1 p
right
This song makes my day my night...it's timeless. I feel it to the bone.
The album rewrote the soundscape at the time.
And one of the finest live bands you will ever experience.
Beth's intensity and spectacular vocals are amazing to say the least. She is the best vocalist in a very long time who cares about her performance, (little of that around anymore) and making music a true art form. I've been captivated by her since the first record.
She /they are truly amazing
I totally agree!!!!!!!
It's 2020 now and music industry still haven't made anything better than 90's....
This is such a sleazy, sultry rendition - love it.
I am from Brasil .i Love Portished and the leader of this group and her super stereo voice... Glory Box❤2021
So unique in the history of pop music. What a privilege to be listening to this.
True❤
I`ve been to many shows where people are quite happy to chat at the bar, or between songs, which really annoys me. I was at this gig and you could of heard a pin drop between songs, so good. At the the time Portishead were something new and fresh, and absolutely mesmerising. Amazing show. Saw the Smashing Pumpkins there in 96, but thats another story.
One of the best live performances I have heard
Went so hard on my first xtc capsule, NewYearsEve party, industrial area Amsterdam in 1994. Remember standing on the roof, little snow, .... and Portishead.
What kind of monster can dislike this masterpiece ?
mesicnicarodej Only a jealous one
Lol
Reformed smokers.
Hitler.. Or .. Mr self-righteous, go fuck yourself.
Isaac hayes true fans can dislike it
Cette femme a une puissance extraordinaire . Une pure merveille waouh !!!!!!
Such a great song and so melodic, she hits the spot 👍
This is such a great piece in music history ... so simple, so perfect ...
I come back to this so many times...
That guitar is still cool after all these years, and oh yes the woman's voice. Love it.
I love this song so much. I listened to it right when is was out and hope there will still be some kind nurses in the hopefully far future that will play it for me when I am old.
All that passion and pain in her voice has reached down into the very depths of my soul to the effect that I live it those very words, and . . . . I’m a man.
Bravo !