Massive Attack - Blue Lines
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Free Music Notes for Blue Lines
Free Music Review: They need six stars for this!
Hit: 5 Stars
Anybody reading millenial lists of albums/music/etc of the past 1000 years will have noticed this title sneaking into the top ten in several places. Considering that it was up against, to name but a few, Beethoven, the Beatles, Mozart and Mr Presley himself, this is a notable achievement. The album itself is nearly perfect, the only off bit being the final track, in my opinion. Blue Lines still sounds as fresh and contemporary today as it did when released in 1991. As the intervening years have seen the birth and death of acid jazz, trance, girl power, boy bands, the final whimper from Acid House, and currently the mainstream popularity and almost inevitable fall of Nu-metal, this timeless quality would seem to be the satisfaction of one of the first criteria of true greatness.
Go out and buy this; I genuinely believe that this album will still be being talked about in twenty, fifty and probably a hundred years, and will still be as popular then as it is now.
Free Music Review: Massive Attack have now become a kiwi's favourite... by far!
Hit: 5 Stars
My Music started off with the casual listening of local rock/ska/punk bands. I liked them for a while but I didn't find them to be quite enough for me. I bought Chemical Brothers album (Flick Yah self off yah self) and then Exit Planet Dust (chemical bro's) I then moved onto Moby (I like to score) I still love that album even after 1 1/2 years of listening. I then bought my first Massive Attack album - Protection, I absolutally loved it from the first time that I heard it! I just couldn't get enough, that was about 3/4 of a year ago. I then got given Mezzanie for christmas (3 days ago) I was absolutally outstanded by it! I then went and bought Blue Lines today (on a special) and I am now listening to it at the moment.. I really truely love it. The vocals of Shara Nelson in track 6 (unfinished Sympathy) and the faint background scratching are fabulous... I could live with this CD.. I don't think that I will be parting with this CD... ever. Thanks Massive Attack.Free Music Review: Amazon is f**** kidding me!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have written a review complaining about the Free Shipping in the US (broken cd cases, torn covers), but actually there seems to be a problem with PAID INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING too.
I bought Madonna's Give it 2 me single, Massive Attack - Blue Lines and Depeche Mode's Speak and Spell and all of them arrived with broken cases, I had to replace the cases for new ones.
Just to mention what I said in the other review: bought a box set and 3 CDs from HMV Japan and they arrived in more than perfect condition in Brazil, faster than Amazon!
I tried to buy from Amazon Japan, but guess what? The Fedex shipment is pretty bad as the parcel ALWAYS gets stuck in Customs and you have this long list of taxes that almost exceed the price of the product!
The Amazon shipment service (national and international) is a joke!!
5 stars for the CD tho. A very nice kick start effort by Massive Attack.
Free Music Review: Still setting the benchmark...
Hit: 5 Stars
Massive Attack -Blue Lines. I first heard this album about 2 months after it was released in 1991 when my sister bought a copy. I sat down and listened to the album from start to finnish, i loved it. No, i mean I LOVED IT! I knew from that moment that i was listening to a ground breaking album.To produce a volume of work of this quality and vision in 1991 was incredible when you consider some of the tosh that was floating around then. For it still to be great, fresh at every listen over a decade on, tells its own story. I still listen to this album at least once a week, i enjoy new music and have some other classics that rate up there, but this album makes me shiver with delight. It's a classic...end of story. Anyone who cannot see this may as well go grab a muti pack, discount bundle of Britney Spears & Robbie Williams albums and catch a first class ticket to musical hell.
Free Music Review: Original, fresh, and the beginning of Massive Attack's power
Hit: 5 Stars
Released in 1990, BLUE LINES was the first LP by Massive Attack, a trio from Bristol that had colloborated together before, with others, as the Wild Bunch. The nine tracks of BLUE LINES hit contemporary music in the gut, creating a new style that was more melodic than hip-hop but still retaining a beat. Combining the soulful singing of Shara Nelson, the rapping of Grant Marshall and Robert Del Naja, and the reggae crooning of Horace Andy, this album was something new and exciting.More than ten years later, it's still an surprisingly fresh album. "Safe From Harm" deserves radio play still. The dialogue rapping "Daydreaming" continually amazes me. "Unfinished Sympathy" has retained its excitement, and DJs like Sasha still spin it.
Massive Attack's first album, and just as good as the two since released.