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"Sour Times" is a song by English trip hop group Portishead, from their debut album "Dummy". It was written by all three members of the band. It was released by Go! Beat Records in 1994 as a CD single, accompanied by three bonus tracks: "It's a Fire", "Pedestal", and "Theme from 'To Kill a Dead Man'". NME ranked it number 32 in their list of the 50 best songs of 1994. Slant Magazine placed it at number 77 in their ranking of "The 100 Best Singles of the 1990s" in 2011.
The song uses a sample from Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin's "Danube Incident", from the 1967 album "More Mission: Impossible". Portishead sped up the sample to a desired tempo which took Schifrin's arrangement up nearly a semitone, giving the song a dissonant kind of "hip-hop tuning”.
Samples: Danube Incident
Spin It Jig
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