but does anyone other than 30-somethings listen to Massive Attack?
i am 29. IN YOUR FAAAAAACE.
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
but does anyone ever listen to that Earthling album now?
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
No way. I wasn't in America at the time.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Moley, please stop inflicting your pretentious 30-something posts on this thread.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all.Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
BEATING HORACE ANDY AT A GAME HE WASN'T EVEN BOLD ENOUGH TO PLAY
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― mh, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
alfred is having a wack attack.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I JUST ATE TRAIL MIX
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
what about femme boys?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you'll have to run a grammar check first.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
And Femme? Are you femme? Would you like to characterize yourself by some other unflattering stereotype on this thread if not?
― humansuit, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:03 PM
GET BUCK ALFRED GET BUCK
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
PROTECTION
TRACEY THORN YO
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 19 July 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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"
― akm, Saturday, 19 July 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Mezzanine is my fave too, and i loved the 1st 2 when they came out but this album is just perfect.
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 19 July 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
1998
― am0n, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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 verblove 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"
― jed_, Saturday, 17 July 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i missed a full stop there after lyrics.
― jed_, Saturday, 17 July 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
cool find, i never knew what that last line was.
ugh this album is so good. i think my fav is "dissolved girl."
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 18 July 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
man "Teardrop"
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2013/11/01/massive-attack-may-release-mad-professors-lost-dub-version-of-mezzanine/
THIS HAS TO HAPPEN.
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Saturday, 2 November 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
they released one or two of the 'unreleased' ones via the web or exclusive mixes, iirc. so a fair number are out there...
― mh, Saturday, 2 November 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/massive-attack-reissue-mezzanine-as-dna-spray-paint-yes-you-read-that-correctly/
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 19 October 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
Ah that's a bummer, US tour dates postponed, reschedule announcement next week for fall.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 March 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 8 March 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
Huh. Guess we'll see.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 March 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
Yeah my friend said it was dull as ditchwater.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 8 March 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
Bummer. Sounded very exciting on paper
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 8 March 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
i have not heard good things about this tour otherwise I might be trying to go
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 March 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
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.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 9 March 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
Ticket prices for DC were really high. Made me hesitant
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
posts on facebook about the current north american tour thus far seem pretty positive?
I'll be heading out tomorrow night!
― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, 9 September 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah, the show here Saturday was, frankly, the best concert by anyone I've seen this year, and I did not expect to type that before seeing it. The posts just upthread, so not the case with what we experienced. My girlfriend's thoughts on it were more deep than I could convey and she's only shared them with a close circle, but I'll echo her in that it was an astoundingly good meditation on audience expectation, transforming the 'band plays classic album' approach, nostalgia in general and much more. Now granted, I've never fully dived into Adam Curtis's work, so what may seem truly striking to me when it came to their visuals may simply be run of the mill for others. But it was crucial to the whole experience, and the sense that it was being regularly updated too was key. Meantime, having never seen them live before either, this may also be their s.o.p., but their aggressively anti-star/showmanship approach worked a treat for me -- all the musicians lurking at the back of the stage, del Naja only coming up front for a few vocal turns, otherwise ceding the space to Horace Andy, Liz Fraser et al. (So wonderful to finally see him live, so great to finally see her again for the first time in 26 years.) No intros, no encores, but also, to expand on an earlier point, no simple playing through of the album at all -- I knew about the Bauhaus cover but none of the others, and it was a fascinating reclamation/reintepretation project with the resequenced album choices. I was properly amazed/amused by them actually playing "10:15 Saturday Night," then doing "Man Next Door" and not simply using the Cure sample but replicating it live at the slower pace. But the gut check time was the Pete Seeger cover and how it was used, staged and presented.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 September 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
Wait, Liz is touring??? Oh brother, I'll be in the corner crying.
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Monday, 9 September 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
She sure is.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 September 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
It was really good. the venue and the crowd were not. I had to retreat to the balcony to get away from apparently newly-returned burners who were pissing me off almost everywhere I went on the floor.
I liked the performance a whole lot, and I liked the films; but my wife didn't and I know some others who found them overly heavy-handed and obvious at times.
― akm, Monday, 9 September 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
Venue was great, crowd was as well as could be expected in a near-stage general admission area, and the show was requisitely intense. The humorous bits of the visual play were a little less tongue-in-cheek and more blunt, and the harsh bits pretty harsh, but it gelled.
The ending with two displays on either side reminded me of an optometrist doing the “look to the center, can you see the figures to the top and bottom? And now?” Only it wasn’t letters or hands, but war and surveillance
Band and Liz were top notch!
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
why must the nyc show be on a thursday
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link
oh shit, that's tonight? oh well.
I saw them on what most have been their previous tour and, like Kraftwerk live (and then some), it was much more impressive than I might have imagined. I want to say when I saw them the guest vocalists (like Fraser) appeared and disappeared as needed.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee)
Saw them do this in London and definitely had moist eyes during Teardrop, appropriately.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
so gutted to have missed this during their European tour
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link