I like 100th Window; I never find the right time to listen to it, however, and as soon as I do, I'm sure it'll be one of my favourites.
― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Too bad. Your loss, man!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 2 October 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 2 October 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I've several Massive Attack live bootlegs that I play pretty often. They did a great extended Group Four when Mezzanine was current, very potent.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 2 October 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 2 October 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
-- latebloomer (posercore24...), October 2nd, 2004 8:35 PM.
I realise that texture is an extremely important factor in music, but if an artist concentrates solely on texture at the expense of other elements the music can slip very easily into self-indulgence in my opinion. That's all.
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 3 October 2004 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 3 October 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
best alex in mainhattan post ever!
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Sunday, 3 October 2004 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link
The parrot's dead now, and I haven't played the album in years.
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Sunday, 3 October 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
I love the first two as well. 100th Window is OK, but haven't listened to it much. Mezzanine may be darker, but I don't quite get the goth thing! It surprises me that the general feeling is that it's not up to scratch. I tend to think the first few tracks are the worst (overexposure most likely).
― Keith Watson (kmw), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 3 October 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sansai, Monday, 4 October 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
The first four tracks of Mezzanine are fucking incredible, really atmospheric and powerful and dynamic too, but after that I switch off completely.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
to describe MA as 'dire and embarassing' makes no sense to me. Ronan's complaint seems to boil down to taking offence to them being labelled as dance music when you can't dance to it. if that's true then i agree it is stupid but you can hardly blame the band for this. one man's 90s is another man's heaven. one man's boring is another man's hypnotic/mesmeric/sublime/dreamnoize...
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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 (sixteen years ago) link
― the next grozart, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
― HI DERE, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
― and what, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:02 (sixteen 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
Wait, Liz is touring??? Oh brother, I'll be in the corner crying.
― 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
Also saw this last Saturday. Group Four was all time live with Liz. Holy shit guys
― octobeard, Friday, 13 September 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
This was as good as something of this sort could be, imo. They sounded great, and despite the facile Banksyness of the visual/textual content it had a lot of poignant moments, like when Liz sang "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" against a backdrop of war footage - I choked up. The Bauhaus cover was fabulous and exhilarating.
― Turangalila, Sunday, 22 September 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link
Wait Liz is singing Risingson?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 22 September 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link
Nope.
― Turangalila, Sunday, 22 September 2019 05:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah just checked the setlist, she does a Pete Seeger cover then. It’s fucking awesome they’re doing covers of some of the samples within the album.
Is Bela Lugosi’s Dead sampled in Mezzanine?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 22 September 2019 05:45 (four years ago) link
despite the facile Banksyness of the visual/textual content
Well, Banksy IS in the band
― Vinnie, Sunday, 22 September 2019 07:53 (four years ago) link
This was super good
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Sunday, 22 September 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
feel like I short-changed Horace Andy who probably never needs the shout out, but deserves it
― mh, Monday, 23 September 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
I... am not really sure whether I liked this or not. something wasn't totally clicking, and I'm not sure what -- it wasn't the visual (heavy-handed but I was more or less expecting it to be), I don't think it was the arrangements (although it was a bit disappointing dissolved girl was playback, and I... wouldn't necessarily have put "levels" on the setlist). the energy felt 75% maybe?
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 28 September 2019 03:53 (four 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