Massive Attack
Blue Lines
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AMG Review of Blue Lines
John Bush
All Music GuideThe first masterpiece of what was only termed rip-hop much later, Blue Lines filtered American hip-hop through the lens of British club culture, a stylish, nocturnal sense of scene that encompassed music from are groove to dub to dance. The album balances dark, diva-led club jams along the lines of Soul II Soul with some of the best British rap (vocals and production) heard up to that point, occasionally on the same track. The opener "Safe From Harm" is the best example, with diva vocalist Shara Nelson trading off lines with the group's own monotone (yet effective) rapping. Even more than hip-hop or dance, however, dub is the big touchstone on Blue Lines. Most of the productions aren't quite as earthy as you'd expect, but the influence is palpable in the atmospherics of the songs, like the faraway electric piano on "One Love" (with beautiful vocals from the near-legendary Horace Andy). One track, "Five Man Army," makes the dub inspiration explicit, with a clattering percussion line, moderate reverb on the guitar and drums, and Andy's exquisite falsetto flitting over the chorus. Blue Lines isn't all darkness, either -- "Be Thankful for What You've Got" is quite close to the smooth soul tune conjured by its title, and "Unfinished Sympathy" -- the group's first classic production -- is a tremendously moving fusion of up-tempo hip-hop and dancefloor jam with slow-moving, syrupy strings. Flaunting both their range and their tremendously evocative productions, Massive Attack recorded one of the best dance albums of all time.
Thursday Night's All Right For ... Massive Attack
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I hereby declare that Massive Attack makes the cut for Hip-Hop Thursday, based on this, one of their earliest cuts. And lo? Who's that busting some guest rhymes? That's right, none other than Tricky Kid himself, as he was known at the time.I love love LOVE the rhymes on this song!"Weebles wobble, occasional squabble, but what happens when the bomb drops down? Don't make a sound.""My heavy my br...
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hell keep you strong like vitamins
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and i quote,"Can't be with the one you love then love the one you're withSpliff in the ashtray, red stripe I pull the lidHer touch tickles, especially when she's gentleBut I don't hear her words 'cause I slide the instrumentalKeep the girl in the distance, moves are very hazyNo sunshine in my life the way I deal is shady"so smooth.
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Championship Mogging#5-- Compilations: How Deep is Your Love?
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...I got my coat pulled about a post that andrew lau threw up called "*The F-Word*":http://mog.com/andrew_lau/blog_post/32007 wherein the folks at Rhino Records were taken to task for going too deep on a Foreigner compilation; a band that some would opine didn't have an anthology's worth of cuts to re-issue in the first place...I posted my two cents on his post but then got to thinking, how muc...
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Hello everyone.Ok so this thing is much more complex that I originally thought! I posted just a few moments ago and got a comment from some cool person (david hyman) mentioning the embedded music clip. That confused me a bit until I realized that WHOA! Wings for Marie is totally playing on the page. Ha! That is pretty cool, I must admit.A bit about myself...my name is Megan. I am from Onta...
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im sure a lot of you guys have heard of massive attack. im also sure a lot of you have heard of their more famous albums, "mezzanine" and "100th window". but im not sure if a lot of you have heard their debut album "blue lines". if not, then go check it out. ill do a review later when i have some more time, but for now here are some of the songs i recommend off of "blue lines":"five man army" f...
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Though it goes uncredited in the album notes, this short dubbed up drum loop at the start fo 5 Man Army is brilliant when Massive Attack uses it and brilliant in it's original form. It is one of the reasons I was drawn to Blue Lines when it came out.For me this is a perfect example of why chasing samples is so rewarding. Just another way to find great music, and this original is a massive cut b...
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Thursday Night's All Right For ... Massive Attack
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I hereby declare that Massive Attack makes the cut for Hip-Hop Thursday, based on this, one of their earliest cuts. And lo? Who's that busting some guest rhymes? That's right, none other than Tricky Kid himself, as he was known at the time.I love love LOVE the rhymes on this song!"Weebles wobble, occasional squabble, but what happens when the bomb drops down? Don't make a sound.""My heavy my br...
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Championship Mogging#5-- Compilations: How Deep is Your Love?
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...I got my coat pulled about a post that andrew lau threw up called "*The F-Word*":http://mog.com/andrew_lau/blog_post/32007 wherein the folks at Rhino Records were taken to task for going too deep on a Foreigner compilation; a band that some would opine didn't have an anthology's worth of cuts to re-issue in the first place...I posted my two cents on his post but then got to thinking, how muc...
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well-(un)known
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im sure a lot of you guys have heard of massive attack. im also sure a lot of you have heard of their more famous albums, "mezzanine" and "100th window". but im not sure if a lot of you have heard their debut album "blue lines". if not, then go check it out. ill do a review later when i have some more time, but for now here are some of the songs i recommend off of "blue lines":"five man army" f...
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hell keep you strong like vitamins
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and i quote,"Can't be with the one you love then love the one you're withSpliff in the ashtray, red stripe I pull the lidHer touch tickles, especially when she's gentleBut I don't hear her words 'cause I slide the instrumentalKeep the girl in the distance, moves are very hazyNo sunshine in my life the way I deal is shady"so smooth.
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Ok...now that I have done the test post...
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Hello everyone.Ok so this thing is much more complex that I originally thought! I posted just a few moments ago and got a comment from some cool person (david hyman) mentioning the embedded music clip. That confused me a bit until I realized that WHOA! Wings for Marie is totally playing on the page. Ha! That is pretty cool, I must admit.A bit about myself...my name is Megan. I am from Onta...
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