Which one is your favorite? - XIII -

Here is a Portishead song for you that has been quite popular in the 90s. Portishead were a UK group formed in Bristol by Geoff Barrow (numerous instruments), Beth Gibbons (vocals), Adrain Utley (guitar) and Dave McDonald (sound engineer). This was their first of three UK Top 20 hits. The album it came from, Dummy, was named as 1994's album of the year by three separate British magazines, Melody Maker, Mixmag, and The Face. In 1995 it won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize, awarded to the best album by a British artist.

And here is the song for this week;

"Glory Box"

"Glory Box" is an Australian term for a piece of furniture where women store clothes and other items in preparation for marriage. The title doesn't appear in the lyric.

The song used a sample of Isaac Hayes' "Ike's Rap II," from Hayes' 1971 double-album, Black Moses. 

The song can be heard in several films, such as Stealing Beauty, When the Cat's Away, The Craft, B. Monkey, Tout pour plaire, Lord of War, Claudine's Return and Wild. The song also featured in a Levi's Jeans commercial, and a French TV advert for Candia milk in the early 2000s.

And here are the 3 versions I chose for you;

• John Martyn - "Glory Box"

•  Eva Cortés - "Glory Box"

• Olivia Colman - "Glory Box"

Now the floor is yours, go ahead and make your comments (here, Instagram, Facebook wherever you feel like...).

nb. Please note that I intentionally do not include the original versions of the songs as it would be a little unfair to the artists covering the songs, and I am sure that sometimes you will be surprised to see that the songs you thought were the originals are just covers...