Check out this video for the Sneaker Pimps' Post-Modern Sleaze from their 1996 debut album Becoming X:
This is GREAT song and a GREAT video. And as with all good things, it didn't last. After the success of Becoming X, Chris Corner asked vocalist Kelli Ali (then Kelli Dayton) to leave, reportedly because he didn't want the band to sound like Portishead. After Ali's departure, the band more or less tanked. They're apparently still together, but only tenuously so.
The rub is that their stuff with Ali was miles ahead of anything Portishead ever did. And now, the stuff that Ali does is better than what the Sneaker Pimps do now.
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