MASSIVE ATTACK - BLUE LINES (1991) POLL

i just want to say that i'm particularly happy about that joke

I dunno, two things:

1) I can't think of someone saying "Shara Nelson" without it sounding like PTong saying it.

2) The lyrics to "Unfinished Sympathy".

I guess he's not going to be playing it again, ever.

'they should introduce her to andy kershaw' - radio 4 gag writer who's almost crushing it

Bizarre and quite sad. Let's just hope he's safe from harm now.

weird shit

and sad

looks like with that restraining order....

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2008/02/15/massiveattack460.jpg

the hunter got captured by the game

Despite this turn of events, Tong may still require protection...

*insert no protection jpg*

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first the riots, now shara nelson...

the main thing is that now pete is safe from harm.

I can understand the restraining order, of course, but it seems a bit off to give someone community service and a year community order for a manifestation of mental illness.

i mean a relatively harmless one.

Meantime, as DL just reminded me on Twitter -- Blue Lines is twenty years old this year. UK release was April 91, US release was this month, twenty years back. I remember reading a couple of things about it and snagging a copy used shortly thereafter, fell in love with it from the get-go...

Deluxe reissue on the way apparently, though no details yet.

This was the last of the "classic" MA albums I bought.

No love for Lately??? I use to think that song was sexy as hell. Whatever happened to Shara Nelson? She just disappeared after her first album.

I use to LOVE this album back in high school. "Five Man Army" was the only MA rapping song where they were attempting to actually rap. Hehe. I still dream that MA, Tricky, Shara Nelson, and Horace Andy would reunite and perform the entire album.

Whatever happened to Shara Nelson?

haha dude, read upthread 15 posts

the bassline on "lately">>>>>>>>>>>>>

Oh shit that's crazy!!!

the bassline on "lately">>>>>>>>>>>>>

One of the easiest basslines to learn too

i thought i'd posted here about the sad shara news but i guess i did it on twitter.

bob stanley wrote a really good piece in response - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/aug/23/shara-nelson - i didn't know he'd written for her/she'd sung on tiger bay.

So sad. Not the type of comeback I was hoping for. :(

Hopefully she will get back on her feet.

the bassline on "lately">>>>>>>>>>>>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDatbFGKa0g&feature=player_embedded

We wrote a song called One Goodbye in Ten together that I'm really proud of - Bob Stanley

and so he should be, what an incredible song that is.

If I had to rank everything on Blue Lines, it's like, I know Unfinished Sympathy would be 1st, but everything else would be tied for second place.

also that's really weird news about shara nelson that i had not heard before^

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZPmODHsmL._AA1500_.jpg

new remastered and er.. *remixed* edition on the way. package so far looks pretty thin compared to
say the Screamadelica reissue or recent 4 disc ultra-splurges but hey.

I'd order this if they had left off Hymn of the Big Wheel and Light My Fire. They both totally ruin an otherwise great album.

wtf "Hymn of the Big Wheel" is fantastic

and "Light My Fire" is on Protection

Hymn of the Big Wheel has some interesting things music-wise but the vocals feel too much like some sort of 'save the world and clap your hands' shit. I still wouldn't remove it from the record, though.

Are they reissuing Mezzanine and Protection too?

Ha, thought twice about Light my Fire but included it anyway. They're both scars on their respective albums. Really horrible decision to include them.

Including live tracks in studio albums always seemed like a bad choice to me. I can't think of any artist that has pulled it off right now.

By the end of Blue Lines they'd totally earned themselves a Hymn from the Big Wheel, reflective comedown that it is. Horace Andy's voice is beautiful, especially on the last verse when the beat drops out ("an acid drop of rain" etc).

Light My Fire on the other hand should've been cut. Heat Miser is a great last track, Spying Glass should start side 2. I always thought that's how the vinyl was, and Light My Fire was a CD bonus track.

nah it wasn't. i had the vinyl and it was present and correct
http://www.discogs.com/Massive-Attack-Protection/release/49880

Including live tracks in studio albums always seemed like a bad choice to me. I can't think of any artist that has pulled it off right now.

classic albums with (oddly enough) one live track on them.

Weird. It makes so much sense otherwise: both sides 21-22 minutes, starting side 2 with Spying Glass (way stronger track than Better Things), ending both sides with cinematic Craig Armstrong instrumentals...

Including live tracks in studio albums always seemed like a bad choice to me. I can't think of any artist that has pulled it off right now.

classic albums with (oddly enough) one live track on them.

― ┐(´ー｀)┌ (sic)

Cool thread! Had no idea that 'my iron lung' by Radiohead was a live track.

I'm intrigued by the idea of this being 'remixed'. wtf is that going to actually mean? I assume it wont be in the style of "[Starsailor song] (Two Lone Swordsmen Sounds Fuck All Like The Original Remix)" or anything.

ugh @ the reissue industry reaching my generation, money-spinning wheezes for nostalgia-addled old people with disposable income

NOSTALGIA IS THE EMPTIEST EMPTINESS FIGHT IT WHEREVER POSSIBLE

'intrigued' was a pejorative.

how dare people spend money on things they like, they should be ashamed

the first generation ever to be different from and better than all preceding generations!! somebody had better study these people

Money-spinning wheezes for nostalgia-addled old people with disposable income probably one of the few things keeping the music industry going right now. Releases like this always seem pointless unless the original mastering is really poor. Blue Lines certainly doesn't need it.

ugh @ the reissue industry reaching my generation, money-spinning wheezes for nostalgia-addled old people with disposable income

― lex pretend, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:48 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NOSTALGIA IS THE EMPTIEST EMPTINESS FIGHT IT WHEREVER POSSIBLE

― lex pretend, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:49 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

don't really get how you can have been party (often approvingly!) to numerous discussions on here about trip hop being in the air with ware/delilah/etc and then your best effort for this is some thick empty grandstanding. whatever man

oh have ware and delilah got on to their reissues already? i didn't realise that

possibly life might be more interesting and less ultra-linear than new music is new, good, old music is old, bad

indeed it is

I've been playing "Hymn of the Big Wheel" and "One Love" often.

This has to be one of my most-listened-to albums of the '90s, never got old.

They did a killer live version of Safe From Harm on MTV2 (Deborah Miller taking over on vocals)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7n9gMzMhZc