Massive Attack – Blue Lines

Name: Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Rating: 4.47 (225 reviews)

Tracklist

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

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	Title (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

ggggreenisaac Oct 11, 2023
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 Apr 4, 2005
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 May 6, 2002
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.