The Rip (song)

"The Rip" is a song by English band Portishead. It was released on 9 June 2008 as the second single from their third studio album, Third (2008). The animated music video for the song made by Nick Uff was first broadcast on 12 May 2008, on the band's website. The song peaked at number 98 in France and was listed at #199 on Pitchfork Media's top 500 songs of the 2000s. Garrett Kamps of The Village Voice called the song "so good it may have been worth waiting 10 years for".[1]

"The Rip"
Single by Portishead
from the album Third
Released9 June 2008
Recorded2005–2008
Genre
Length4:29
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Portishead
Portishead singles chronology
"Machine Gun"
(2008)		 "The Rip"
(2008)		 "Magic Doors"
(2008)

The song has been used in an advertisement campaign for the Gucci Bloom line of perfume.[2]

Track listing
  1. "The Rip" – 4:30
  2. "Silence" (Portishead live on Current TV) (EU digital download bonus track; Japan iTunes Store bonus track) – 4:37
  3. "The Rip" (EU and Japan iTunes Store bonus video) – 4:10

Charts
Chart (2008) Peak
position
France (SNEP)[3] 98

References
  1. Kamps, Garrett (2008-04-15). "Portishead: Replicants of Funk". Village Voice. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  2. "Gucci - Bloom - TV Ad Music". Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  3. "Portishead – The Rip". lescharts.com (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 7 June 2013.


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