Massive Attack - 'mezzanine'

holy shit but 'angel' is so good

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.

Hoos might now like Blue Lines better.

funnily enough, Blues Lines has nearly always been my *LEAST* favorite of the four albums...

Yeah same here. 'Mezzanine' totally owns the rest of their output. Great grea album.

Always found Mezzanine's desperate reach for "darkness" hilarious. 'Risingson' is classic, but it doesn't count.

All Mezzanine fans dislike Blue Lines.

This isn't true; I love both but love Blue Lines more.

Damn.

like the first three all about the same, if people can HANDLE that truth.

Passive Attack. They had a knack of shedding members in order, from most to least inspired. Mezzanine was horribly overworked and insubstantial. No songwriting skills whatsover. It was where their complete lack of humour and empathy was revealed for anyone who missed it before, but it was always a problem. Man, the pretentious 30-something airheads who inflicted 'Blue Lines' on every vapid dinner party ever held in Sydney in the early 90's. They were responsible for one of the worst gigs ever shoved sideways at an acritical fine dining crowd at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney some time in the early 90's. What a waste of $50. How did they hookwink so many people for so long? Easy. Shara Nelson - the only reason they mattered at all. All her songs with the band are classics, but what in the band's repertoire can hold a candle to 'Unfinished Sympathy'? The lyrics, the voice... and 'Safe From Harm'...words do not suffice, they really don't. One of the all time great soul singers. The Mad Professor and Horace Andy were no slouches either, but Shara Nelson WAS Massive Attack, and how shameful it is that her name has been erased from the history of this band. She hasn't been mentioned once in this thread. Unbelievable. Gobsmacked.

They should have quit right after Mezzanine. I mean, ffs, 100th Window? Way to spoil all the rest. Mezzanine was pretty good, not earthshattering goodness like Blue Lines was. But then BL wasn't really consistent, which, in my crappy memory, Mezzanine was. I don't know, BL and Protection seem so... patchy but in a way I really don't care.

Shara Nelson WAS Massive Attack

What? She was a great discovery, an instrument. Never would I say she was MA. This is crediting a singer too much. And also Unfinished Sympathy is great but it doesn't make/define MA.

ban moley :-D

I always like it when people (including this poster) accuse a band of crapnessdue to fanbase they had.

i mean, never before have i seen a post contrive to mangle good sense, argument, grammar and objectivity in such a spectacularly comprehensive fashion!

I still think of Blue Lines as flawless. Mind you, I was living in Bristol at the time, so may've been overcome by exotic clouds wafting out of St Pauls.

Protection has some dross and Mezzanine is, yes, humourless. 100th Window is just banal.

the title track (mezzanine) is fantastic. i'd always overlooked that song till recently. really nice hollow sound with perhaps the most subtle and effective methods of capturing mood on the entire record.

as i keep saying, group four is the band's masterpiece. yeah, i'm a sucker for progression.

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