shakahislop
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this isn't a phenomen I've noticed myself
is this the worst album ever made?
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shakahislop
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doesn't do that much for me now but back in the day, and to use the parlance of the time, i used to totally 'bum' this, although it's all burial really and doubt massive attack had much to do with it:
there's some good bits in the tricky book about him meeting massive attack, tricky's family being without exaggeration gangsters, massive ttacvk being the lads from the rich bit of bristol. tricky at that time - which frankly lasted about three years or something and then he never made anything good again - was head and shoulders above anything massive attack ever did, and lets face it he's the part of the massive attack mix which gave it cred in the pre-internet days where you basically didn't know anything about the people making the tunes.
there's some good bits in the tricky book about him meeting massive attack, tricky's family being without exaggeration gangsters, massive ttacvk being the lads from the rich bit of bristol. tricky at that time - which frankly lasted about three years or something and then he never made anything good again - was head and shoulders above anything massive attack ever did, and lets face it he's the part of the massive attack mix which gave it cred in the pre-internet days where you basically didn't know anything about the people making the tunes.
shakahislop
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in restrospect i think i would have liked burial a lot less if i had had a warmer coat
qwerty south
no use for a witticism
oveerrated - I really enjoyed the follow up album
Arthur Brick
Mortar Life
never really got why this got labelled as trip hop. Always seemed like a lazy white rock journalist label. ‘Soul’ would be more accurate imo.
tbh I think first 3 massive attack albums are pretty decent. A lot ‘smoother’ than what I was listening to at the time (amerikkkas most wanted etc) but a lot better than other commercially successful mainstream stuff. I just googled ‘best selling albums 1991’ and it’s fucking awful:
tbh I think first 3 massive attack albums are pretty decent. A lot ‘smoother’ than what I was listening to at the time (amerikkkas most wanted etc) but a lot better than other commercially successful mainstream stuff. I just googled ‘best selling albums 1991’ and it’s fucking awful:
never really got why this got labelled as trip hop. Always seemed like a lazy white rock journalist label. ‘Soul’ would be more accurate imo.
tbh I think first 3 massive attack albums are pretty decent. A lot ‘smoother’ than what I was listening to at the time (amerikkkas most wanted etc) but a lot better than other commercially successful mainstream stuff. I just googled ‘best selling albums 1991’ and it’s fucking awful:
'Joyride' is amazing!
It is acceptable, not amazing. have you forgotten how to use adjectives, ollie?
You're right, I'm sorry Third.
currently listening to OMD - Architecture & Morality
fuck me, this record is dreadful, much much worse than Blue Lines
I guess that must be why it only sold four million copies as opposed to six million
That's a brilliant record tbh.
CrowleyHead
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For the record, the Mad Professor Massive Attack record is far worse than any of their regular albums.
shakahislop
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all the teenage druggies i knew loved massive attack, they were sexy and sensuous, they were all about mdma bliss, or a kind of fantasy simulation of it anyway, they were explicitly urban and therefore cool, they were seemingly the opposite of the earnest guitar thing but they still had songs that sounded like songs, choruses, but a bit more restraint in their emoting, more understated
shakahislop
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thirdform i met a really sexy turkish girl the other day, do you think she'll be impressed if i memorise all the turkish music you've posted on dissensus and talk to her about it? or is it all the turkish equivelent of gabba?
woops
is not like other people
I have a soft spot for Teardrop. Never listened to a whole Massive Attack album until a few years ago when I was staying at a cousin’s house and they had Mezzanine and I stuck it on. I liked the bits that sounded a bit metal but it didn’t leave a deep impression otherwise. Always got the sense they had more cred than Faithless without necessarily actually being better.
I liked Portishead a lot at the time and still do, although what once seemed ambitious now seems like a curio, a line of investigation that didn’t really lead anywhere.
I liked Portishead a lot at the time and still do, although what once seemed ambitious now seems like a curio, a line of investigation that didn’t really lead anywhere.
william_kent
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100% agree
although, you know there are 2 mad professor vs massive attack dub albums now? both shit, second one they had to flesh out with some Siousxie & the Banshees dubs, ffs - 2nd one coloured vinyl though, so audio fidelity is total shite
Burial has managed to spin straw into gold for longer than I’d have expected. Rival Dealer was the last thing that really turned my head. I think he does one thing every five years or so that actually leaves a mark, and there’s a lot of little études in between, some quite charming but mostly a bit forgettable. David Stubbs really likes the ambient stuff with no beats, I find it totally unengaging.