Top 100 Trip Hop songs ever

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I don't recall a ~~trip hop~~ downtempo thread when ILM was Top 100 happy.

1. Portishead - Sour Times

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 06:22 (twenty-three years ago)

2. Sneaker Pimps - Sixth Underground *ducks*

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 06:24 (twenty-three years ago)

3. Massive Attack - Karmacoma
4. DJ Shadow - Lost & Found

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 06:25 (twenty-three years ago)

5. Tricky - Christiansands

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 06:26 (twenty-three years ago)

6. 808 State feat. James Dean Bradfield - Lopez

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 06:33 (twenty-three years ago)

7 bows 'king deluxe'

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 06:39 (twenty-three years ago)

8. Archive - Nothing Left
9. Portishead - Tribue to Monk & Canatella

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:06 (twenty-three years ago)

10. Lamb - Gold

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

You beat me to the lamb! but anyway, i was going to say "lusty."

11. Lamb - Lusty

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:12 (twenty-three years ago)

12.Tricky - Suffocated Love
13.Portishead - Glory Box
14.Neneh Cherry - Somedays

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:13 (twenty-three years ago)

if we're not careful, every track off of "dummy" and "maxinquaye" is going to be on this list.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:17 (twenty-three years ago)

well, we shouldn't forget Mezzanine either then...;-)

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:19 (twenty-three years ago)

15. Massive Attack - Teardrop

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

16. Alpha, Slim
17. Alpha, Nyquil

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:32 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread is a joke, right?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not a joke, gareth, but I'm having my usual semantic problems. What is trip hop, anyway? There's some agreed-upon definition floating around out there, but I'm not the sort to agree to something just because it's agreed upon.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:54 (twenty-three years ago)

18. Smith and Mighty - Walk On By>

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Trip hop is anything made by Portishead, Massive Attack and Tricky before 1998.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that about nails it, actually, and it's exactly what I was afraid of. This is not a genre.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

19. "Extremis" by Hal ft. Gillian Anderson. Actually... where's that most pointless song ever recorded thread?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

20. andrea parker 'the rocking chair'

― Farrah Slaxxx, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Bloody hell. If I may offer yet another unsolicited opinion, that is by far the worst track on that album.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

21. Modulor Mix - Air

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

22. Bug Powder Dust (Kruder & Dorfmeister Mix) - Bomb The Bass

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"Melodious Thunk" is one of the best song titles ever, tho. But whatever trip hop is, that's not it.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

23. Hot Flush - Red Snapper

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"This is not a genre."

No, it's an excuse for a genre.
Just ask Tricky Kid.

― J. Sot (J. Sot), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

24. Blue Flowers - Doctor Octogon
25. Just to Say Peace and Love - Nicolette

― Rick, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

The Aloof 'Favelas'
The Sandals 'Feet'
Massive Attack 'Daydreaming'
Herbaliser 'Road Of Many Signs'
Optical 'Reckless Dub'
James Bong 'Never Say'
Animals On Wheels 'Loath'
Archive 'All Time'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

it is funny how hard it is to think of stuff for this list...so much has been re-classified in the time thats passed

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

The Aloof 'Stuck On The Shelf'
Rae & Christian 'Swimming Pool'
Nicolette 'We Never Know'
We 'Chango'
Massive Attack 'Inertia Creeps (Alpha mix)'
DJ Shadow 'Changeling'
DJ Shadow 'In Flux'
RJD2 'The Proxy'
Prefuse 73 'Point To B'
Leftfield 'Shallow Grave' (?)
DJ Spooky 'Soon Forward'
Spacek 'Roun Soun'
Herbaliser 'Moon Sequence'
Req 'Razzmatazz'
Waiwan 'Filtered Funk'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Does 'Melodie Nelson' count?

― dave q, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I bet Kool Keith would get all pissed if he knew people went around calling "Blue Flowers" trip-hop.

― Brian the Snorf, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Well he can stroll on over here if he likes and experience some whoopass. 'S'Trip-Hop I say.

― Rick, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

the trip hop term is vile?

try some good stuff like early ninja tune or mo'wax.
Everything else is listed either not trip hop(it's hip-hop) or it's shit.

People, stop wearing trucker hats-they are played out

― leroy tippy toes, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

UNKLE 'If you find the Earth boring'

― cprek (cprek), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

keep on truckin!

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

The Herbaliser - "The Real Killer"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

poppy family - no blood in bone

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

do laika count? if so...

laika - moccasin
massive attack - inertia creeps
tricky - trickykid

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

2 wicky - hoover

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Earthling - First Transmission

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Earthling!

Skylab "Seashell"

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

26.Fila Brazilia--"2 Zeds and an L"

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"they came in peace" - Tranquility bass

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i fell asleep just reading this thread.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

...mission accomplished

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

whats a worse phrase - Trip Hop or Illbient?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"lovely head" - goldfrapp

― Sean@tangmonkey (Sean M), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

whats a worse phrase - Trip Hop or Illbient

chilled beats

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"purple" Crustation
"I can water my plants" Monk & Canatella
"Makes me wanna die"(stereo mc's remix) Tricky
"Silicone" Mono
"Stoker ace" Dan The Automator & Jennifer Charles
"High on nothing" Unsung Heroes

― Sami (Sami), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Laika - Uneasy

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 20 February 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Archive - Last Five

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 20 February 2003 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i think we should probably fill up the rest of the list with any currently unmentioned tracks by the Bristol massive and have done with it

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 February 2003 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

My picks:

Massive Attack - Eurochild
Mono - Silicone
Tricky - Feed Me
Portishead - Strangers
Bjork - Isobel
Nearly God - Poems
DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
Sabres of Paradise - Wilmot
Lamb (if they count?) - God Bless
Ruby - Paraffin
Mobb Deep - Hell On Earth (ha!)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

underworld - sola systim
belle and sebastian - electronic renaissance

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

dr octagon &/or princess superstar as trip-rap-hop

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Thursday, 20 February 2003 03:17 (twenty-three years ago)

luke vibert-sharp az

― robin (robin), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Wagon Christ 'Memory Towel'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

You guys are SO not numbering things! Aren't we beyond 100 already?

Anyway, don't forget Allison! "Pilots," by Goldfrapp

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

yeh but really there's no way Goldfrapp (or indeed half the stuff listed on this thread) can be classed as trip-hop in any way...'Pilots' has no real BEAT for starters! the thread is a farce for sure but still we have some valid suggestions here and there

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I only go by them AMG genre classifications, instead of critical thinking or whatnot.

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Moloko - Lotus Eaters (Fila Brazillia Brazilification)
Moodorama - Uncertainty
Bjork - Joga
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo - Mu - Getsu
Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats
Ming & FS - Electro Space Modulator
Massive Attack - Karmacoma (UNKLE situation remix)
Massive Attack - Black Milk
Terranova - Midnight Melodic
Lamb - Gorecki
Lamb - Cottonwool
Portishead - Sour Times
Portishead - Roads
Tricky - Hell Is Around The Corner
Roots Manuva - Clockwork
DJ Vadim - Conquest of The Irrational (Remix by The Prunes)
T Spigot - Hypnotic
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (K&D Session)

― Flash a.k.a. The Reaper, Sunday, 15 May 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

DJ Shadow - "In/Flux"
Sneaker Pimps - "Becoming X"

― ... And suddenly Ian Riese-Moraine is a naked man saying, 'Volvo! Volvo!' (Easte, Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Kid Loco - A Grand Love Theme
Saint Etienne - "Le Ballade de Saint Etienne"

― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

funki porcini - purrrfect
funki porcini - carwreck
funki porcini - the great drive by
breaks co-op - sound advice

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Tricky - Ponderosa

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Trip-Hop is a fussion between Hip-Hop, Funky Jazz and Jamaican Dub, commonly whit a downtempo beat and trippy grooves... Maybe the 50% of chillout music is Trip-Hop. Is some kind of intelligent Pop.

Forget the past... I'm sick of Portishead, Massive Attack and Moloko... Try something from Kruder & Dorfmeister, Thievery Corporation or Zero 7

― DJoG, Monday, 17 April 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Ah, my youth.

London Funk Allstars - 'Way Out'
DJ Shadow - 'WDYSLL Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit'/'Part 3'
The Runaways - 'Cowboys'
Common Ground (Tim 'Love' Lee) - 'Mambo A Go Go'
Massive Attack - 'Black Milk'
The Herbaliser - 'Scratchy Noise'
UNKLE - 'UNKLE Main Title Theme'/'Garage Piano'
Coldcut - 'Fat (Party and Bullshit'
Portishead - 'Revenge Of The Number'
Tricky - 'Ponderosa'
Natural Calamity - 'Home' (Prince Paul & MC Paul Barman Remix)/'As You Know' (Dust Brothers Remix)
Sukia - 'Garry Super Macho' (Dust Brothers Mix)
Money Mark - 'Cry' (Dust Brothers Mix)
DJ Krush - 'Kemuri'
Deejay Punk Roc - 'The World Is My Ashtray'
Nick Faber - 'Something For You'
Rae & Christian feat. Texas - 'Hush'
Texas feat. Rae & Chrsitian - 'Good Advice'
Only Child - 'Porquoi'
Aim - 'Loop Dreams'
DJs Wally & Swingsett - 'Wiggin''
Cyclops 4000 - 'Macroscope' (The Runaways Remix)

― BARMS, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 08:59 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

On The Air - Swandive.

― james, Sunday, 7 May 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Animals On Wheels - "Soluble Ducks"
Bluetech - "Prophetic Sines"
Blur - "Beetlebum (Moby Remix)"
The Cinematic Orchestra - "Burnout"
Handsome Boy Modeling School feat Cat Power - "I've Been Thinking"
Kool and The Gang - "Summer Madness"
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - "Heresy"
Nightmares On Wax - "Les Nuits"
Omni Trio - "Haunted Kind"
Peace Orchestra - "Who Am I (Animatrix Edit)"
Polar - "Sit Down and Dance"
Salif Keita - "Ana Na Ming (La Funk Mob Remix)"
Spooky - "Can't Remember"

What is trip hop, anyway? There's some agreed-upon definition floating around out there, but I'm not the sort to agree to something just because it's agreed upon.

Trip Hop = Acid Jazz minus one bonghit plus one hit of ecstasy.
I'd classify this stuff more as "Downtempo" (which is a more general term) than "Trip Hop", but thats a subtle distinction.

Forget the past...Try something from ...Thievery Corporation

*gags*

― viborgu, Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Tranquility Bass dude has emerged from his disappearance - put out a new song via bandcamp on a pay-what-you-want model & released a bunch of pre Freak Flag demos here

I have always felt this dude's groove pretty deeply and this thread was one of the hits on the project name, so yeah

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 19 August 2011 03:05 (fourteen years ago)

Might as well:

Emily Sande - heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=883yQqdOaLg

― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Friday, 19 August 2011 05:36 (fourteen years ago)

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