Release Info
Originally released : 08-06-1991
Release date        : 02-27-2003
Album name          : Blue Lines
Artist              : Massive Attack

Ripped by           : SDGR406
Genre               : Trip-Hop
Label               : Virgin

Encoding Software   : Lame EOS
Quality             : --alt-preset standard

Tracks              : 09
Size of Files       : 58,7 MB

Track list

01  05:19  Safe from Harm
02  04:49  One Love
03  04:22  Blue Lines
04  04:10  Be Thankful for What You've Got
05  06:04  Five Man Army
06  05:08  Unfinished Sympathy
07  04:15  Daydreaming
08  04:27  Lately
09  06:37  Hymn of the Big Wheel

   Total time: 45:11 min
Release notes

The first masterpiece of what was only termed trip-hopmuch later, Blue Lines filtered American hip-hop
through the lens of British club culture, a stylish,nocturnal sense of scene that encompassed music from
rare groove to dub to dance. The album balances dark,diva-led club jams along the lines of Soul II Soul with
some of the best British rap (vocals and production) heard up to that point, occasionally on the same track.
The opener "Safe From Harm" is the best example, withdiva vocalist Shara Nelson trading off lines with the
group's own monotone (yet effective) rapping. Even more than hip-hop or dance, however, dub is the big
touchstone on Blue Lines. Most of the productions aren't quite as earthy as you'd expect, but the
influence is palpable in the atmospherics of the songs,like the faraway electric piano on "One Love" (with
beautiful vocals from the near-legendary Horace Andy).One track, "Five Man Army," makes the dub inspiration
explicit, with a clattering percussion line, moderate reverb on the guitar and drums, and Andy's exquisite
falsetto flitting over the chorus. Blue Lines isn't all darkness, either ?"Be Thankful for What You've Got" is
quite close to the smooth soul tune conjured by its title, and "Unfinished Sympathy" ?the group's first
classic production ?is a tremendously moving fusion of up-tempo hip-hop and dancefloor jam with slow-moving,
syrupy strings. Flaunting both their range and their tremendously evocative productions, Massive Attack
recorded one of the best dance albums of all time.

     - John Bush, allmusic.com

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