Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Label: |
Virgin – CDV 3126 |
---|---|
Format: |
CD
, Album
|
Country: |
UK |
Released: |
|
Genre: |
Electronic |
Style: |
Downtempo |
Tracklist
1 | Safe From Harm | 5:16 | |
2 | One Love | 4:48 | |
3 | Blue Lines | 4:21 | |
4 | Be Thankful For What You’ve Got | 4:09 | |
5 | Five Man Army | 6:04 | |
6 | Unfinished Sympathy | 5:08 | |
7 | Daydreaming | 4:14 | |
8 | Lately | 4:26 | |
9 | Hymn Of The Big Wheel | 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
- Producer – Massive Attack
Other Versions (5 of 117)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recently Edited
|
Blue Lines (LP, Album) | Circa | WBRLP 1 | Europe | 1991 | ||
Recently Edited
|
Blue Lines (LP, Album, Stereo, Sonopress Pressing) | Virgin | WBRLP 1, 211 316 | Europe | 1991 | ||
Recently Edited
|
Blue Lines (CD, Album, Stereo) | Wild Bunch Records | WBRCD 1, 261 316 | Europe | 1991 | ||
Recently Edited
|
Blue Lines (Cassette, Album) | Circa | WBRMC 1, 411 316 | Europe | 1991 | ||
Recently Edited
|
Blue Lines (CD, Album) | Wild Bunch Records | WBRCD 1 | Europe | 1991 |
Recommendations
Reviews
-
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".
-
Edited 20 years agoJust 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.
-
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.
Release
See all versions
Data Correct
Data Correct
For sale on Discogs
Sell a copy
2 copies from $3.21