anyone like them? i only have mezzanine and they have a new one out called 100th window. i've heard from other people that's it pretty good, and i want to know if others had heard it so i can find out if it's worth getting.

 

they're official site is awesome, looks cool, check it out. :D

I only have Mezzanine too...that's a great CD....i'm gonna check their site... :)

don't have any cd of them, but i like their music

esp. 'tear drop' , the video is good too

the video for "Teardrop" is cool...kinda freaks me out though... :?

lol same here :D

I know this thread is old, but I've got Mezzanine and Blue Lines (which is awesome) .. 100th window is good, but after they released it I saw them at Brixton Academy and they really disappointed :huh:

 

Did any of you guys get 100th Window?

teardrop is one of the most beautiful songs... i love it :D

"love, love is a verb, love is a doing word.."

 

:D

Hmm ... I just hafta listen to it again now ... how about Unfinished Sympathy? That's one of my alltime faves by Massive Attack ...

yeah.... okit's hard to choose between the 2!

 

they have some great... if somewhat abstract... videos! :stunned: :D

Anyone a fan of their music?

Oh yeah.

they're pretty nice

Yes ma'am :)

Yay. I love all of you.

:heart:

I love massive attack!! :heart:

Teardrop is one of my favourite songs ever and I think mezzanine was the first album I bought which actually made me appreciate music :)

^ Ditto, I absolutely love Teardrop. It's a classic :D

...and Angel, also a nice song.

Youuuuuuu are my angel...come from way above...to bring me loooove :heart:

Massive Nights

 

 

Massive Attack

Roseland Ballroom

October 3

 

Stage props by Coldplay, wardrobe by Sprockets

 

Everyone OK out there?" asked Robert del Naja from the Roseland stage. "Well, that's good, because this next one's about my homicidal ex-girlfriend's mum who's a crackhead."

 

Massive Attack's music isn't built for mass adulation. They're studio creatures, and their psychedelic dread symphonies work on grooves and eerie sonic details, not hooks or personality. Emaciated robo-skank guitars, mumble-coo vocals, muffled breakbeats: It's interior-space music, and it doesn't leave a lot of room for showmanship. The British group is regularly credited with creating trip-hop, whatever that means, and hardly ever sounds anything like rap. But Massive Attack's spiritual descendants aren't the legions of politely glassy boutique music non-entities that sprung up in their wake. They have more in common with the damp, woozy, intuitively psychedelic rap scenes of Memphis and Houston, places where beats reflect drugs and depression, not ecstatic release.

 

As a result, the idea of a Massive Attack live show feels counterintuitive; this music's not made with any sort of communal experience in mind. So their recent three-night stand at the the Roseland did the only thing that makes sense: turned the usual live spectacle into a darkly tactile experience, the lights showing more character than the actual people onstage. The anonymous black-clad backing band worked up its fog-swept grooves in front of a wall of blinking lights apparently left over from the last Coldplay tour, while del Naja and Grant Marshall, the group's only remaining core members, stood off in the shadows, only visible in silhouette. The former nervously played master of ceremonies all night, dancing around like a boxer, incoherently mumbling his minimal stage patter, and disappearing into the wings whenever he introduced one of the night's guest vocalists (reggae vet Horace Andy, Cocteau Twin Liz Fraser). Marshall, towering over his partner whenever he was onstage, hardly acknowledged the crowd, murmuring his raps into the middle distance.

 

The only bits of actual performance came from the guests: Andy's amazing old-man dancing, Fraser rocking the flowing white dress. The music did most of the work. The backing band made the wise decision to stick largely with faithfully re-creating records like 1998's Mezzanine and only making a few minute changes: a great extended drone-squall guitar solo during "Safe From Harm," an ill-advised industrial throb on the gorgeously hopeful Andy showcase "Hymn of the Big Wheel." The replicas weren't perfect—the ethereal harpsichord chimes on "Teardrop" sounded somehow wrong coming out of an acoustic guitar—but their decade-old basslines still filled the air, loud enough to vibrate chest cavities. And the group pulled maximum mileage out of its few big-rock moments, marking the fuzz-guitar hammer fall of "Inertia Creeps" with an explosion of strobes and muddily connecting "Safe From Harm" to the outside world with a string of LCD-screen infographics about the Iraq war. But Massive Attack are about tension, not release, and their paranoid, languid sprawl worked live because they didn't work too hard.

 

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0641,breihan,74665,22.html

Massive Attack are amazing

They're Dubya's favourite group!!:rolleyes:

I agree to that review Ian,

 

From Swindon tonight (makes note never to tackle the Magic Roundabout again) some beautiful epic music but the band didn't interact with the audience that much, the biggest plus was the wonderful light show and the wall of lights behind the band with facts about random stuff. Quite a few guest vocalists on some of the songs, which was good. Overall, as a sound experience it's a comparison to Explosions in the Sky's 70 minutes long set at this years End of the Road, another band which doesn't say a lot.

 

And bugger, I'm signed in under the awards account...

 

who cares? :P

Seen them about five or six times spread across Japan and the UK. One of my top five all-time music acts and also live experiences, they are stunning. Of course there will be zero interaction with the crowd, that is not at all what they're about. They are all about intense, beautiful, angry, edgy music, and do that style better than anyone else I have ever seen.

 

AWESOME band :)

 

Oh, and also spent Christmas night 2000 (think it was) seeing Mushroom (Andy Vowles) spin drum and bass in a tiny bar in Osaka, Japan - cracking night, and he's a really lovely fella (even if he was more interested in talking to my then-girlfriend after the gig than me :P)

 

If anyone likes Dub and hasn't heard the Mad Professor remix of Protection - 'No Protection' - (and further remixes of singles from Mezzanine) then check them out - great stuff too.

 

:)

the female singing 'Teardrop' was the girl from Cocteau Twins right?