Massive Attack - 'mezzanine'

How shocking that Shara Nelson hadn't been mentioned on a thread about Mezzanine, an album she didn't appear on!

Title track is the essence of the album.

yeah, agreed

Only realised the other month that Inertia Creeps is about shagging.

And a damn sexy song about fucking it is, too.

other Massive Attack songs about shagging:

Home Of The Whale

Only realised the other month that Inertia Creeps is about shagging.

-- Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:23 (4 hours ago)

And a damn sexy song about fucking it is, too.

-- Trayce, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:28

Cosign the latter 1000%, didn't realize the former!

Moley, please stop inflicting your pretentious 30-something posts on this thread.

I don't agree with Moley, but does anyone other than 30-somethings listen to Massive Attack?

Yes. I'm not even 30 yet, and when it came out, the album was massively popular amongst early 20-somethings. Why? Because it was a classic album, and you knew it right away, that's why. BIG HOOS is also 21 if I remember from other threads, so yes.

but does anyone other than 30-somethings listen to Massive Attack?

i am 29. IN YOUR FAAAAAACE.

but does anyone ever listen to that Earthling album now?

hen it came out, the album was massively popular amongst early 20-somethings. Why? Because it was a classic album played in every Gap in America, and you knew it right away, that's why

No way. I wasn't in America at the time.

I lump this album with Garbage's Version 2.0, also released that summer: call it Fisher Price goth. Both sleek, determinedly (even laughably) forbidding, bought by lots of femme boys.

I lump this album with Garbage's Version 2.0, also released that summer: call it Fisher Price goth. Both sleek, determinedly (even laughably) forbidding, bought by lots of femme boys.

Moley, please stop inflicting your pretentious 30-something posts on this thread.

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BEATING HORACE ANDY AT A GAME HE WASN'T EVEN BOLD ENOUGH TO PLAY

I'm twenty-six and had never even been in a Gap store until a year or so ago, it must have been those cocktail parties I was at in my late teens.

alfred is having a wack attack.

I JUST ATE TRAIL MIX

I'm twenty-six and had never even been in a Gap store until a year or so ago

Ditto. I didn't run with a mall-friendly peer group back then.

what about femme boys?

The fact that your favorite femme boy likes Mezzanine doesn't constitute the universe of all Mezzanine lovers. Please consult your femme boy Mezzanine Venn Diagram before posting in the future.

The fact that your favorite femme boy likes Mezzanine doesn't constitute the universe of all Mezzanine lover

I'll remember this when it's time to make slogans on T-shirts.

I think you'll have to run a grammar check first.

BIG HOOS is also 21 if I remember from other threads, so yes.

-- humansuit, Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:05 PM (2 hours ago

21 in 8 days, good memory though!

And Femme? Are you femme? Would you like to characterize yourself by some other unflattering stereotype on this thread if not?

I JUST ATE TRAIL MIX

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:03 PM

GET BUCK ALFRED
GET BUCK

Would you like to characterize yourself by some other unflattering stereotype on this thread if not?

I'll let you do it. Thanks for the offer.

PROTECTION

TRACEY THORN YO

I'm going to burn it to CD and blast my neighbors!!

*evil grin*

i do think this is their best album by far, for exactly the reasons marcello derides it, "ploddy bass and pseudo-goth drums"

Mezzanine is my fave too, and i loved the 1st 2 when they came out but this album is just perfect.

1998

this version of teardrop with martina doing the singing is interesting becasue you can hear all the lyrics i'd never been able to work out the opening lines before:

"love, love is a verb
love is a doing word."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-m_gVcUZ8&feature=player_embedded#!

also the closing lyric seems to be "no [or you're] stumbling in the dark/ stumbling in the dark"

i missed a full stop there after lyrics.

cool find, i never knew what that last line was.

ugh this album is so good. i think my fav is "dissolved girl."

man "Teardrop"

http://www.factmag.com/2013/11/01/massive-attack-may-release-mad-professors-lost-dub-version-of-mezzanine/

THIS HAS TO HAPPEN.

they released one or two of the 'unreleased' ones via the web or exclusive mixes, iirc. so a fair number are out there...

https://pitchfork.com/news/massive-attack-reissue-mezzanine-as-dna-spray-paint-yes-you-read-that-correctly/

Ah that's a bummer, US tour dates postponed, reschedule announcement next week for fall.

Friend saw them in London last week and said it was lifeless and pretty boring. Not sure what excuse they're using for postponing, but I wouldn't be surprised if these don't actually get rescheduled.

Huh. Guess we'll see.

Yeah my friend said it was dull as ditchwater.

Bummer. Sounded very exciting on paper

i have not heard good things about this tour otherwise I might be trying to go

massive attack have always been a big deception in concert. i saw them a couple of times in the early nineties and it was always dull. somehow their music is not made for live shows. i love the albums though even 100th window.

Ticket prices for DC were really high. Made me hesitant