Massive AttackBlue Lines

Label:

Virgin – CDV 3126

Format:

CD , Album

Country:

UK

Released:

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Downtempo

Tracklist

1 Safe From Harm
Written-ByR. Del Naja*
5:16
2 One Love
Written-ByH. Andy*
4:48
3 Blue Lines
Written-ByR. Del Naja*
4:21
4 Be Thankful For What You’ve Got
Written-ByW. de Vaughn*
4:09
5 Five Man Army
Written-ByR. Del Naja*
6:04
6 Unfinished Sympathy
Written-ByS. Nelson*
5:08
7 Daydreaming
Written-ByW. Badarou*
4:14
8 Lately
Written-ByS. Nelson*
4:26
9 Hymn Of The Big Wheel
Written-ByR. Del Naja*
6:36

Credits

  • Artwork [Art And Design]Michael Nash (3)
  • Other [Blame]Judy
  • Photography By [Back Cover Photo]Jean-Baptiste Mondino
  • Photography By [Single Faces]Eddie Monsoon
  • ProducerMassive Attack

Other Versions (5 of 117)

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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Blue Lines (LP, Album) Circa WBRLP 1 Europe 1991
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Blue Lines (LP, Album, Stereo, Sonopress Pressing) Virgin WBRLP 1, 211 316 Europe 1991
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Blue Lines (CD, Album, Stereo) Wild Bunch Records WBRCD 1, 261 316 Europe 1991
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Blue Lines (Cassette, Album) Circa WBRMC 1, 411 316 Europe 1991
Recently Edited
Blue Lines (CD, Album) Wild Bunch Records WBRCD 1 Europe 1991

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Reviews

  • ggggreenisaac's avatar
    ggggreenisaac
    I'm convinced this album was mastered with the polarity reversed. I came to this conclusion after listening with headphones and noticing some tracks sound weirdly distant/flat. It's not so apparent on the tracks with big arrangements (Unfinished Sympathy, Be Thankful) but is rather glaring on the sparser ones (particularly Blue Lines). When ripped and inverted in a program like Audacity the tracks have just that bit more punch to them, and generally sound "right".
    • e-music's avatar
      e-music
      Edited 20 years ago
      Just listened to that album again for the first time in about three years. It immediately got me again. A timeless masterpiece that deservedly entered several alltime-best-album-charts. The genre it defined (trip hop) is more or less dead by now, but Blue Lines survived. None of the protagonists (Massive Attack, Tricky, Shara Nelson) managed to reach this level of perfection ever again.

      Someone wrote a whole book about John Coltranes "Love Surpreme". I wouldn't be surprised if on day there is a book about Blue Lines.
      • Subliminal_Guy's avatar
        Subliminal_Guy
        Probably the best, certainly the most important , album of the decade, Blue Lines defined the sound of Britain´s carcass after Thatcher had finished with it. Blue Lines was the first representation of a certain kind of syncretic Britishness that would define the island´s music for the next decade.

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