as i keep saying, group four is the band's masterpiece. yeah, i'm a sucker for progression.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
How shocking that Shara Nelson hadn't been mentioned on a thread about Mezzanine, an album she didn't appear on!
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Title track is the essence of the album.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, agreed
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Only realised the other month that Inertia Creeps is about shagging.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
And a damn sexy song about fucking it is, too.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
other Massive Attack songs about shagging:
Home Of The Whale
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:23 (4 hours ago)
-- Trayce, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:28
Cosign the latter 1000%, didn't realize the former!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Moley, please stop inflicting your pretentious 30-something posts on this thread.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't agree with Moley, but does anyone other than 30-somethings listen to Massive Attack?
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― 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