― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 4 October 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 30 May 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 30 May 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 30 May 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
These days I'm mildly addicted to Hymn of the Big Wheel, but I'll still happily listen to all of Blue Lines and Mezzanine. I bought 100W, listened to it a few times, and sold it to Easy Street... I just couldn't get into it. It fell really flat for me, and yeah- those Sinead lyrics were beyond dreadful. I played it in my friend's car once and spent most of the song apologizing for the lyrics.
― lyra (lyra), Monday, 30 May 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― rajeev (rajeev), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Teardrop is difficult to listen to, despite being brilliant. The BBC used it all over the place for years (still do), so it's a bit overexposed, for me. I like the second side of Mezzanine the best; again, it's probably overexposure to the songs on the first side. "Dissolved Girl" is amazing, particularly the bassline. In fact, that could go on that thread about songs that are great because of their basslines.
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
ABSOLUTELY. I remember people were dogging this song left and right when the album came out and I really didn't get it because it's so claustrophobic and pleadingly awesome.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Or he's Anakin S., with more limbs.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
xp
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― the next grozart, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― HI DERE, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― blueski, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― HI DERE, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― rps, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
holy shit but 'angel' is so good
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 July 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Best use of trip-hop in a prime-time crime drama. : )
I love mezzanine mostly because I first heard it on a low-fi, busted-out stereo system in a friend's econoline van. It was literally stuck in his cassette deck. I really liked that mix of it.
When I bought it on CD, it seemed too big and glossy, so I sold it. Then I bought it again because the songs are great.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 30 July 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Hoos might now like Blue Lines better.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 30 July 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
funnily enough, Blues Lines has nearly always been my *LEAST* favorite of the four albums...
― stephen, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah same here. 'Mezzanine' totally owns the rest of their output. Great grea album.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 08:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Always found Mezzanine's desperate reach for "darkness" hilarious. 'Risingson' is classic, but it doesn't count.
All Mezzanine fans dislike Blue Lines.
― Matthew H, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link
This isn't true; I love both but love Blue Lines more.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Damn.
― Matthew H, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
like the first three all about the same, if people can HANDLE that truth.
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link
really what is the deal with the "levels" bit? does it make any sense at all in the context of the show
― ufo, Saturday, 28 September 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link
Katherine yeah, it didn't really hit for me either.
― lost IDM classics (lukas), Saturday, 28 September 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
xp I assumed it was some sort of commentary on tim bergling's death, maybe?
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 28 September 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link
Maybe just hard to live up to the imaginative world that the original audio conjures
― calstars, Saturday, 28 September 2019 04:25 (four years ago) link
yeah
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2019 04:37 (four years ago) link