50 Best Songs of the Nineties
From Britney Spears and Ace of Base to Beck and Nirvana
36. Portishead, "Glory Box" (1994)
Elegant trip-hop melancholy, with Beth Gibbons drowning her sorrows to that timeless Seventies sample of cheeba-zonked Isaac Hayes funk – a sample brought back to the radio in 2015 by the not-born-yet Alessia Cara.