Massive Attack

[';']

anyone like them? i only have mezzanine and they have a new one out called 100th window. i've heard from other people that's it pretty good, and i want to know if others had heard it so i can find out if it's worth getting.

they're official site is awesome, looks cool, check it out. :D

[Sweet One]

I only have Mezzanine too...that's a great CD....i'm gonna check their site... :)

[athy]

don't have any cd of them, but i like their music
esp. 'tear drop' , the video is good too

[Sweet One]

the video for "Teardrop" is cool...kinda freaks me out though... :?

[';']

lol same here :D

[badali]

I know this thread is old, but I've got Mezzanine and Blue Lines (which is awesome) .. 100th window is good, but after they released it I saw them at Brixton Academy and they really disappointed :huh:

Did any of you guys get 100th Window?

[::Hayley::]

teardrop is one of the most beautiful songs... i love it :D
"love, love is a verb, love is a doing word.."

:D

[badali]

Hmm ... I just hafta listen to it again now ... how about Unfinished Sympathy? That's one of my alltime faves by Massive Attack ...

[::Hayley::]

yeah.... okit's hard to choose between the 2!

they have some great... if somewhat abstract... videos! :stunned: :D

[Sweet One]

Anyone a fan of their music?

[*Justine*]

Oh yeah.

[pharynx]

they're pretty nice

[el_scorcho]

Yes ma'am :)

[Sweet One]

Yay. I love all of you.

[el_scorcho]

:heart:

[fifi]

I love massive attack!! :heart:
Teardrop is one of my favourite songs ever and I think mezzanine was the first album I bought which actually made me appreciate music :)

[el_scorcho]

^ Ditto, I absolutely love Teardrop. It's a classic :D

[*Justine*]

...and Angel, also a nice song.

[el_scorcho]

Youuuuuuu are my angel...come from way above...to bring me loooove :heart:

[busybeeburns]

http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0641/breihan.jpg

Massive Attack
Roseland Ballroom
October 3

Stage props by Coldplay, wardrobe by Sprockets

Everyone OK out there?" asked Robert del Naja from the Roseland stage. "Well, that's good, because this next one's about my homicidal ex-girlfriend's mum who's a crackhead."

Massive Attack's music isn't built for mass adulation. They're studio creatures, and their psychedelic dread symphonies work on grooves and eerie sonic details, not hooks or personality. Emaciated robo-skank guitars, mumble-coo vocals, muffled breakbeats: It's interior-space music, and it doesn't leave a lot of room for showmanship. The British group is regularly credited with creating trip-hop, whatever that means, and hardly ever sounds anything like rap. But Massive Attack's spiritual descendants aren't the legions of politely glassy boutique music non-entities that sprung up in their wake. They have more in common with the damp, woozy, intuitively psychedelic rap scenes of Memphis and Houston, places where beats reflect drugs and depression, not ecstatic release.

As a result, the idea of a Massive Attack live show feels counterintuitive; this music's not made with any sort of communal experience in mind. So their recent three-night stand at the the Roseland did the only thing that makes sense: turned the usual live spectacle into a darkly tactile experience, the lights showing more character than the actual people onstage. The anonymous black-clad backing band worked up its fog-swept grooves in front of a wall of blinking lights apparently left over from the last Coldplay tour, while del Naja and Grant Marshall, the group's only remaining core members, stood off in the shadows, only visible in silhouette. The former nervously played master of ceremonies all night, dancing around like a boxer, incoherently mumbling his minimal stage patter, and disappearing into the wings whenever he introduced one of the night's guest vocalists (reggae vet Horace Andy, Cocteau Twin Liz Fraser). Marshall, towering over his partner whenever he was onstage, hardly acknowledged the crowd, murmuring his raps into the middle distance.

The only bits of actual performance came from the guests: Andy's amazing old-man dancing, Fraser rocking the flowing white dress. The music did most of the work. The backing band made the wise decision to stick largely with faithfully re-creating records like 1998's Mezzanine and only making a few minute changes: a great extended drone-squall guitar solo during "Safe From Harm," an ill-advised industrial throb on the gorgeously hopeful Andy showcase "Hymn of the Big Wheel." The replicas weren't perfect—the ethereal harpsichord chimes on "Teardrop" sounded somehow wrong coming out of an acoustic guitar—but their decade-old basslines still filled the air, loud enough to vibrate chest cavities. And the group pulled maximum mileage out of its few big-rock moments, marking the fuzz-guitar hammer fall of "Inertia Creeps" with an explosion of strobes and muddily connecting "Safe From Harm" to the outside world with a string of LCD-screen infographics about the Iraq war. But Massive Attack are about tension, not release, and their paranoid, languid sprawl worked live because they didn't work too hard.

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0641,breihan,74665,22.html

[badlydrawngirl]

Massive Attack are amazing

[mc_squared]

They're Dubya's favourite group!!:rolleyes:

[Awards2010]

I agree to that review Ian,

From Swindon tonight (makes note never to tackle the Magic Roundabout again) some beautiful epic music but the band didn't interact with the audience that much, the biggest plus was the wonderful light show and the wall of lights behind the band with facts about random stuff. Quite a few guest vocalists on some of the songs, which was good. Overall, as a sound experience it's a comparison to Explosions in the Sky's 70 minutes long set at this years End of the Road, another band which doesn't say a lot.

And bugger, I'm signed in under the awards account...

who cares? :P

[Tonsu]

Seen them about five or six times spread across Japan and the UK. One of my top five all-time music acts and also live experiences, they are stunning. Of course there will be zero interaction with the crowd, that is not at all what they're about. They are all about intense, beautiful, angry, edgy music, and do that style better than anyone else I have ever seen.

AWESOME band :)

Oh, and also spent Christmas night 2000 (think it was) seeing Mushroom (Andy Vowles) spin drum and bass in a tiny bar in Osaka, Japan - cracking night, and he's a really lovely fella (even if he was more interested in talking to my then-girlfriend after the gig than me :P)

If anyone likes Dub and hasn't heard the Mad Professor remix of Protection - 'No Protection' - (and further remixes of singles from Mezzanine) then check them out - great stuff too.

:)

[Electric.Candy]

the female singing 'Teardrop' was the girl from Cocteau Twins right?

[Tonsu]

the female singing 'Teardrop' was the girl from Cocteau Twins right?

Yep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5EqjtRuGU

[Electric.Candy]

:awesome:

[mc_squared]

Unfinished Sympathy is one of the best songs ever.:D

[Black Rose]

Unfinished Sympathy is one of the best songs ever.:D

And can you imagine what it would have been like if they finished it :wink3:

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

Unfinished Sympathy is one of the best songs ever.:D
there's a band here called The Unfinished Sympathy :surprised:
i wonder if they name after that Massive Attack's song. :anxious:

*selfnote: do check massive attack better*

[colduser]

Unfinished Sympathy is one of the best songs ever.:D

agreed.

[the_gloaming09]

bump...

so the new album is coming out in a week.

I just recently listened to mezzanine for the first time and it was really good!

briggins also sent me a link to the album streaming on npr... quite good so far!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123026141

[MrMagpie]

:thumbsup: Some great guest vocalists on it. I like it alot after the first listen.

[IMightBeWrong]

Mezzanine is one of the best albums i've ever listened to.

[SueDeNimes]

Thanks for the link, Briggins and the_gloaming09!
I'm listening at the moment :)

[i'maveryneatMonster.']

Bump.
I can't stop listening to these:

YouTube- Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix) - FULL SONG !!!

YouTube- Massive Attack - 100th Window - A Prayer For England

YouTube- MASSIVE ATTACK - Saturday Come Slow(2010)

[radiohead_pt]

Bump.
I can't stop listening to these:

YouTube- Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix) - FULL SONG !!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p_MvePxC4w)

YouTube- Massive Attack - 100th Window - A Prayer For England (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pxlN6DmZc)

YouTube- MASSIVE ATTACK - Saturday Come Slow(2010) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnluF5nn8kg)

I love Massive Attack and trip-hop. Portishead is also very good.

[mc_squared]

I love Massive Attack and trip-hop. Portishead is also very good.

Big up the Brisel massive! Bo!:rolleyes:

[eff-exx]

I love the beats.

[Dejan]

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack Teardrop‬‎

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack Atlas Air @ KCRW‬‎

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack Splitting The Atom @ Kcrw‬‎

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack - Girl I Love You‬‎

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack - Teardrop (Live from Abbey Road 2007) 1 of 3.avi‬‎

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack - Mezzanine (Live from Abbey Road 2007) 2 of 3.avi‬‎

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack - Angel (Live from Abbey Road 2007) 3 of 3‬‎

[The Escapist]

Why wasn't this just posted in the Massive Attack thread?

[mc_squared]

Why wasn't this just posted in the Massive Attack thread?

Good point.:dozey:

[SueDeNimes]

Why wasn't this just posted in the Massive Attack thread?Asked myself the same, merged and added the thread to the Band Index. :)

[The Escapist]

^thankyou and good thinking.

[Dejan]

Why wasn't this just posted in the Massive Attack thread?

because there wasn't a Massive attack thread in the band index GENIUS

[Braddock]

so much hostility :p

[Dejan]

so much hostility :p

get off my nuts

[eff-exx]

because there wasn't a Massive attack thread in the band index GENIUS

But there's such thing as a search feature.

[Dejan]

But there's such thing as a search feature.

oh R E A L L Y ???

[eff-exx]

oh R E A L L Y ???

LYK OMGAWDZ YES, REALLY.

[Dejan]

y'all guyz are amazing, instead of talking about the fantastic videos that i've posted....you are bitching about why i've started a new thread about the massive attack.

[Braddock]

who are the massive attack?


YouTube- ‪Massive Attack - Psyche (flash treatment) High Quality‬‎

[Dejan]

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack Teardrop‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I1ibLxw_lU)

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack Atlas Air @ KCRW‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuQOnflN69Q)

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack Splitting The Atom @ Kcrw‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATSYQo3eXLs)

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack - Girl I Love You‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atIXiwXeFnU)

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack - Teardrop (Live from Abbey Road 2007) 1 of 3.avi‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCg32T7KZis)

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack - Mezzanine (Live from Abbey Road 2007) 2 of 3.avi‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgh162GEM5o&feature=related)

YouTube- ‪Massive Attack - Angel (Live from Abbey Road 2007) 3 of 3‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hpcgo4vGPo)


the tear drop version they've played @ the Kcrw radio is INSANE
YouTube- ‪Massive Attack Teardrop‬‎

[The Escapist]

because there wasn't a Massive attack thread in the band index GENIUS

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the videos.

[Black Rose]

Why wasn't this just posted in the Massive Attack thread?

'Cos Dejan doesn't know how to use the search function :P

[SueDeNimes]

because there wasn't a Massive attack thread in the band index GENIUS-->
But there's such thing as a search feature.That's what I wanted to say as well. :)

And Dejan, you're not making any friends with your choice of words here. :nice:

[Christa42]

Im assuming no one here likes the Civil Twilight cover of Teardrop, i heard it live aat a

tiny venue and it was great and i loved it and turned me onto MA, but i know nothing about massive attack, and in no way im saying it is better, as good, in comparision etc, to the original, so no fighting please but feel free to throw tomatoes at the noob , i posted it in the CT thread

edit - hi anna your doing an amazing job

[SueDeNimes]

Hi Christa!! :cheesy:

I don't know the cover you're talking about but I bet you'll love Massive Attack!!
Don't know if you were watching House when it started but they used Teardrop as the intro song.
You could start listening to the Best Of album, that one's pretty good.

[Christa42]

will do, actually Civil twilight just realeased it as a single on itunes and i am gettingi into Massive, but so much music, so little time, just coming off my Arcade high woah!

edit lore loves house and says its great so i got to watch it tooooooooooooo

edit edit, i was afraid to post the cover here heheheh

[eff-exx]

y'all guyz are amazing, instead of talking about the fantastic videos that i've posted....you are bitching about why i've started a new thread about the massive attack.

Alright then. Thanks for posting the videos! :nice:

[Black Rose]

Flat of the Blade is a good song

[Josh42]

Asked myself the same, merged and added the thread to the Band Index. :)

WHOA WHAT?! A MOD ON COLDPLAYING ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING USEFUL?! :kiss:

YouTube- MASSIVE ATTACK - Saturday Come Slow(2010)

This one features Damon Albarn. :cool:

[SueDeNimes]

Hey Josh! Careful! :whip:
Without us you'd spend all your money on replica handbags, WOW gold, shoes, sunglasses and whatever else is "in" in the eyes of the spammers! :P

:kiss:

[The Final Track]

Flat of the Blade is a good song

Guy Garvey, y'know :smug:

[Josh42]

Hey Josh! Careful! :whip:
Without us you'd spend all your money on replica handbags, WOW gold, shoes, sunglasses and whatever else is "in" in the eyes of the spammers! :P

:kiss:

Hahahah yes sorry. Sometimes I forget that the mods do a fairly good job of deleting spam, but this is one of the first times I've seen something other than that. :kiss:

[Lizzybear]

WHOA WHAT?! A MOD ON COLDPLAYING ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING USEFUL?! :kiss:

YouTube- MASSIVE ATTACK - Saturday Come Slow(2010) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnluF5nn8kg&feature=related)

This one features Damon Albarn. :cool:

He's joined them live on a few other songs too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhIPFTEh8bU

People's youtube comments are always so entertaining... "that's 2D from Gorillaz" like it's his real name or something :P

[Tonsu]

the tear drop version they've played @ the Kcrw radio is INSANE
YouTube- ‪Massive Attack Teardrop‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I1ibLxw_lU)

An absolutely incredible arrangement - it's amazing to see them still taking such performance risks after so many years, and them all coming off :) Unfortunately though, no vocalist can come anywhere close to Liz on Teardrop. I've heard a few others make a great stab at it live, and the original arrangement just about pulls the song through, and makes it a delicious moment to cherish still, but I'd rather they just dropped it completely from the sets than have that experimental version with such a weak singer...

Now! If someone could edit that new version with Liz singing then...wow :o :dance:


<edit> I've also, so happily, seen Liz sing it live a few times herself on the Mezzanine tour, so I know what to compare it to...my goodness :heart: :heart: :heart:

[The Final Track]

Today is a Massive Attack kind of day.

[Braddock]

I like the remix of Flat Of The Blade.
Bulletproof Love.

[The Final Track]

Will have to give that a listen. Pray For The Rain and Atlas Air are brilliant.