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Massive Attack - Unfinished Simpathy

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Label:
Catalog#:
CDV 3126
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
06 Aug 1991
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Downtempo, Dub, Trip Hop

Tracklist

1   Safe From Harm 5:16 X
    Written-By - A. Vowles* , W. Cobham* , G. Marshall* , R. Del Naja*
2   One Love 4:48 X
    Written-By - A. Vowles* , C.J. Williams* , G. Marshall* , H. Andy*
3   Blue Lines 4:21 X
    Written-By - A. Thaws* , A. Vowles* , G. Marshall* , R. Del Naja*
4   Be Thankful For What You’ve Got 4:09 X
    Written-By - W. de Vaughn*
5   Five Man Army 6:04 X
    Written-By - A. Thaws* , A. Vowles* , C.J. Williams* , G. Marshall* , R. Del Naja*
6   Unfinished Sympathy 5:08 X
    Written-By - A. Vowles* , G. Marshall* , J. Sharp* , R. Del Naja* , S. Nelson*
7   Daydreaming 4:14 X
    Written-By - A. Thaws* , A. Vowles* , G. Marshall* , R. Del Naja* , W. Badarou*
8   Lately 4:26 X
    Written-By - A. Vowles* , G. Marshall* , G. Redmond* , R. Del Naja* , S. Nelson*
9   Hymn Of The Big Wheel 6:36 X
    Written-By - A. Vowles* , G. Marshall* , H. Andy* , N. Cherry* , R. Del Naja*

Credits

Artwork By [Art And Design] - 3d-del Naja And Michael Nash
Other [Blame] - Judy
Photography [Back Cover Photo] - Jean Baptiste-Mondino
Photography [Single Faces] - Eddie Monsoon
Producer - Jonny Dollar , Massive Attack

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Rated 5/5
Review by e-music Apr 04, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)
Just listened to that album again for the first time in about three years. It immediately got me again. A timeless masterpiece that deservedly entered several alltime-best-album-charts. The genre it defined (trip hop) is more or less dead by now, but Blue Lines survived. None of the protagonists (Massive Attack, Tricky, Shara Nelson) managed to reach this level of perfection ever again.

Someone wrote a whole book about John Coltranes "Love Surpreme". I wouldn't be surprised if on day there is a book about Blue Lines.
Rated 4/5
Review by DJPASQUEZ May 06, 2002
Probably the best, certainly the most important , album of the decade, Blue Lines defined the sound of Britain´s carcass after Thatcher had finished with it. Blue Lines was the first representation of a certain kind of syncretic Britishness that would define the island´s music for the next decade.