Bristol
51.4536°N -2.5975°W · Q23154
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Bristol. It sits in United Kingdom.
Journalists coined trip hop for it; the musicians preferred the city's name.
Massive Attack, Portishead, and Tricky emerged from overlapping Bristol crews around the turn of the 1990s, and the music press labeled the result the Bristol sound. Several of the artists rejected both the trip hop tag and the idea that there was a single scene at all.
Bristol's tide was so extreme that ships had to be packed to survive sitting on mud.
The Avon at Bristol has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world, and before the city's enclosed harbor was built ships settled onto the riverbed twice a day, so cargo and rigging had to be stowed to take that strain. The phrase is recorded in nautical English by the middle of the 19th century and now just means tidy.