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Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.

Released
1994
Label
Go! Beat
On
Trip-Hop, 1994, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
ISRC
GBAQT9400066
Updated
2026-08-29
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  1. Ranked No. 2 in Trip-Hop

    An Isaac Hayes loop, a guitar that sounds like a broken theremin, and Beth Gibbons delivering the most desolate vocal of the decade. Grim, gorgeous, unrepeatable.

  2. Picked by 1994

    Trip-hop had existed for a couple of years and had no centre until Dummy. This is the track that fixed what the genre sounded like — the Isaac Hayes loop, the slowed drums, a voice singing over both as if it were a torch song.

  3. Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred

    An Isaac Hayes loop, a broken-theremin guitar and the most desolate vocal of the decade. Grim, gorgeous, and nobody has repeated it.