Massive Attack - Mezzanine [HQ]

Massive Attack - Mezzanine LP 1998
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Massive Attack is a collaborative music production duo from Bristol, UK. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be progenitors of the trip hop genre.

DJs Grantley "Grant" Evan Marshall (a.k.a. Daddy G or "G"), Andrew "Andy" Lee Isaac Vowles (a.k.a. Mushroom or "Mush") and graffiti artist-turned-MC (later turned-singer) Robert Del Naja (a.k.a. 3D or "D") met as members of DJ/MC partying collective, The Wild Bunch. One of the first homegrown soundsystems in the UK, The Wild Bunch became dominant on the Bristol club scene in the mid-1980s.

Massive Attack started as a spin-off production trio in 1988, with the independently-released song, "Any Love", sung by falsetto-voiced singer-songwriter Carlton McCarthy, and then, with considerable backing from Neneh Cherry, they signed to Circa Records in 1990 -- committing to deliver six studio albums and a "best of" compilation. Circa became a subsidiary of, and was later subsumed into, Virgin Records, which in turn was acquired by the now Terra Firma-owned majority

Style

Massive Attack's style is often thought of as being experimental. The duo have talked of how they have a different creative approach to each album and "avoid the obvious." Some of their most noted songs have been without choruses and have featured dramatically atmospheric dynamics, conveyed through either epic distorted guitar crescendos, lavish orchestral arrangements (such as swelling, sustained strings or flourishes of grand piano) or prominent, looped/shifting basslines, underpinned by high and exacting production values, involving sometimes copious digital editing and mixing. The pace of their music has often been slower than prevalent British dance music at the time. These and other psychedelic, soundtrack-like and DJist sonic techniques, formed a much-emulated style journalists began to dub "trip hop" from the mid-nineties onwards,though in an interview in 2006, G said, "'We used to hate that terminology [trip-hop] so bad,' laughs. 'You know, as far we were concerned, Massive Attack music was unique, so to put it in a box was to pigeonhole it and to say, "Right, we know where you guys are coming from. - Wikipedia

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[fealty01]

I hope to God, nobody comes on to this video posting comments of wanting to have sex to this song. It's really irritating. It'll just be another song cheapened by mention of love-making. You know this is the only music video of mezzanine that there hasn't been somebody talking about fucking. I hate that. Music is sublime. It isn't a mood/fucking song.

[enmicabeza]

I agree w/ de quantity of dislikes

[fealty01]

Check it out on my channel. Peace out.

[fealty01]

So far, I've made a response video and it's the best I could make. This response video is for all those who are responding negatively to my comment that I made seven months ago.

[danblaze83]

@ISLaughTyI America is stupid because of that one asshat? Way to not generalize or anything like that.

[danblaze83]

@fealty01 umadcuzucantgetlaidbro?

[ISLaughTyI]

@fealty01 fuck you. Take that keyboard and shove it far up your ass. You come in bitching about people commenting about fucking and how they shouldn't mention it, and the first thing i read from your comment is mentioning it when you say "I hope to God, nobody comes on to this video posting comments of WANTING TO HAVE SEX TO THIS SONG" You sir are the prime reason I know America is stupid.

[v6nj6]

I heard this song, and I jizzed in my pants...

[squiddv]

if I were having sex with this song, it would be a threesome with god.

[1todomuch]

i think, this is really good down tempo and wonder why all the other albums pale in comparison to this one. but, i'm an oddball anyway. i pray to God the madness stops!

[mikedmc121]

if i was having sex to this song id have to up the tempo :P

[HakuSelphir]

@fealty01 I would fuck this song sideways.