“I purposely avoided any conversation about Dummy with anybody because in the States and in mainland Europe it had the connotations of kind of trendy England music industry dinner party bullshit. What Dummy turned into was not what we intended it to be. It was assimilated by a dinner party kind of crowd and stuck on the background or put on by people coming down from pills as well. For me, it was avoiding that thing – the words “Dummy,” “sophisticated,” “European,” “soundtrack,” “aren’t we clever,” “jazz” aspect of it – because that was the complete opposite of where we’d come from, what our influences were, but it just rolled into that thing. So when people say it’s the record of the decade or that time I never believe it’s in there particularly for the right reasons. And if it was just a load of coke-snorting pricks, then that, to me, doesn’t mean anything.” 

- Geoff Barrow, Portishead Founder and Producer