Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

Music video by Massive Attack performing Unfinished Sympathy.

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Music

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• Massive
• Attack
• Unfinished
• Sympathy

[isohave]

I never heard this before until today- WOW! Was listening to a Madonna song, I wnat you which Massive Attack produced and was led to this. It makes me realise just how much crap we get nowadays, this moves me, makes me want to dance, makes me think, feel and I just cant stop listening!!! I am gonna get the album this track is from called Blue Lines

[liveyourlife901]

this is my favorite song of all time. everything about it, her voice, the range of instruments is just heaven. i can close my eyes and think about my childhood and just life in general. i literally tear up whenever i hear this. so beautiful.

[opreanu]

@isohave The duo are considered to be progenitors of the trip hop genre. Their debut album, Blue Lines was released in 1991, with the single "Unfinished Sympathy" reaching the charts and later being voted the 10th greatest song of all time in a poll by The Guardian.

[opreanu]

@isohave omg.. i envy you, cuz you'll gonna be blown away.. Listen to massive attack, it's all heart !

[MrMarcoc74]

Stuff the critics to this song - top film clip and top song! Beats the shit u hear these days -  IM SEXY AND I KNOW IT - I WORK OUT - crap!

[DaSmooth]

@metro222 - make something better or stay one of those funny idiots out there posting ignorant remarks... :-)

[IgeSmallz]

@metro222

As for your critique of the video - well, for one the song works just as powerfully if indeed not more so without it (hundreds of thousands if not millions, of people could testify to that). Maybe it's supposed to convey that the world around her doesn't matter at that point in time cos of the anguish she's feeling. People from various walks (ahem) of life feature not "wineos" and it still makes a change from the formulaic videos of then and now. Over 2 decades old and still LOVED.

[IgeSmallz]

@metro222

And the strings... If you ain't feeling the strings over the understated yet still brilliant beat there's little hope of you 'getting' the musical majesty of this TUNE.

Your lyrical analysis wasn't very thorough before calling them stupid. Take "How can you have a day without a night? You're the book that I have opened..." That conveys a depth to the emotion of heartache, and does so using metaphoric expression - unlike your limited interpretation 'oh my - I'm so sad'

Still more...

[IgeSmallz]

@metro222 This song still IS very popular and in many people's opinions always will be.

The drum loop may not be as complex as say, much of Aphex Twin's work, simplicity doesn't mean it can't be good or even great. To say it contains "just a usual loop" misses out on the intricacy of the production and all that goes into the mix of the song. Bass line, vocals, samples, scratching and much more, are, (in my humble opinion) blended to near perfection...

More critique of your critique to follow

[libi691]

and Los Angeles, thanks.In America I have never been so I just guessed.

[aa1975x]

@libi691 LA obvs