Massive Attack - Protection


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Label: Wild Bunch Records, Circa Records Ltd.
Catalog#: WBRCD 2, 7243 8 39883 2 7
Format: CD, Album
Country:Europe
Released:1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Trip Hop
Credits: Artwork By - Massive Attack , Michael Nash Assoc.
Engineer [Additional] - Al Stone , Jeremy "Jim Bob" Wheatley*
Engineer [Mix] - Jim Abiss* (tracks: 9) , Mark "Spike" Stent* (tracks: 1 to 8) , Nellee Hooper (tracks: 10)
Mastered By - Mike Marsh
Photography - Eddie Monsoon , Jean Baptiste Mondino , Matthew Donaldson
Producer, Mixed By - Massive Attack , Nellee Hooper
Programmed By - Andy Wright , Insects, The , Marius de Vries , Massive Attack , Nick Warren
Notes:℗ © 1994 Circa Records Ltd. The copyright in this recording is owned by Circa Records Ltd.
LC3098.
UK: WBRCD2. F: PM527.
BIEM/STEMRA. Made & printed in Holland.

Recorded at Wild Bunch Studios, London, UK and at Massive Attack and Antenne Studios, Bristol, UK.
All tracks mixed at Olympic Studios, London, UK, except "Eurochild" at Larrabee West, Los Angeles, USA and "Light My Fire (Live)" at Wild Bunch Studios, London, UK.
Mastered at The Exchange.

Weather Storm contains the sample It's Time for Love performed by Pieces of a Dream.
Better Things contains the sample Never Can Say Goodbye performed by James Brown.
Light My Fire (Live) contains samples from Light My Fire performed by The Young Holt Trio.
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Tracklisting:

1   Protection (7:52)
    Vocals - Tracey Thorn
  Written-By - Vowles* , Marshall* , Del Naja* , Thorn*
2   Karmacoma (5:18)
    Vocals - 3D , Tricky
  Written-By - Vowles* , Locke* , Marshall* , Del Naja* , Norfolk* , Tricky
3   Three (3:49)
    Vocals - Nicolette
  Written-By - Vowles* , Marshall* , Hooper* , Suwoton* , Del Naja*
4   Weather Storm (5:00)
    Piano - Craig Armstrong
  Written-By - Vowles* , Murray* , Napoleon* , Craig Armstrong , Harmon* , Marshall* , Lloyd* , Hooper* , Del Naja*
5   Spying Glass (5:23)
    Vocals - Horace Andy
  Written-By - Vowles* , Marshall* , Andy* , Hooper* , Del Naja*
6   Better Things (4:21)
    Guitar - Chester Kamen
  Vocals - Tracey Thorn
  Written-By - Vowles* , Thorn, Watt* , Marshall* , Brown* , Del Naja*
7   Eurochild (5:07)
    Vocals - 3D , Tricky
  Written-By - Vowles* , Locke* , Marshall* , Del Naja* , Norfolk* , Tricky
8   Sly (5:27)
    Arranged By, Conductor - Craig Armstrong
  Other [Fixer] - Isobelle Griffiths
  Vocals - Nicolette
  Written-By - Vowles* , Marshall* , Hooper* , Suwoton* , Del Naja* , Goldman*
9   Heat Miser (3:41)
    Drums - Rob Merril
  Piano - Craig Armstrong
  Written-By - Vowles* , Marshall* , De Vries* , Hooper* , Del Naja*
10   Light My Fire (Live) (3:15)
    Vocals - Daddy G , Horace Andy
  Written-By - Doors, The
User Reviews:
Kybosh, Apr 15, 2006

When the bassline and kick drum start off in Protection, I get the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. Tracey Thorn has never sounded better than on that track, its an absolute, certified masterpiece in my opinion, and Ive got effing high standards!!!!

I love this album ,its one of those albums that EVERYONE who considers themselves "into" music should own...I hate that phrase, but its a fact, this album is that good. Its like medicine, hear it and it heals you, its music for the soul going beyond background chatter to fill a room at a dinner party, this draws you in like a drug.

The incredible thing is that IMO Massive Attck made numerous other great albums in Blue Lines and Mezzanine which whilst not being as great as this in my opinion are truly brilliant albums in their own right. What a talented group of musicians, what a shame that the trio have broken up and seem beyond reconcilliation.

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