Blue Lines by Massive Attack

Pros: Some decent vocals, Some intriguing lyrics, Musically interesting
Cons: Some of the rhymes are a bit stale, Short

The past few days, I have been getting a bit of a fix from the band Massive Attack. It's been a bad trip for me: the songs tend not to be like the lone song that made me intrigued with the group in the first place. As a result, I've been suffering ...

Pros: Brilliant music, electronica, vocals, etc...
Cons: ...

Trip-Hop as defined by music reference site allmusic.com is:

”Similar to (though largely vocal-less) American hip-hop in its use of sampled drum breaks, typically more experimental, and infused with a high index of ambient-leaning and...

Pros: Production, Arrangements, Moods, Vocals, Atmosphere, & Instrumentation.
Cons: None.

In the decade that introduced the world to house music and electronic music. The 1990s was truly a watershed moment for the genre as it moved away from the world of synth-pop and dance music. It was at this time during the late 80s and early 90s that ...

Pros: Sleek, groovy, dark. This is where hip-hop could've gone if brains had dominated.
Cons: Some guest vocalists work better than others. A couple tunes lose the mood.

Man, where was I when this band was happening? The weird thing about Massive Attack is that I don’t remember hearing anything at all about them back when they were releasing their most vital material (I’m working on the assumption here that their ...

Pros: The sound that spawned trip hop
Cons: Lyrics don't make the cut

People who bother to listen to trip hop often argue about who defined the music's sound. Names like Tricky and Portishead are often bandied about, but the roots eventually must be traced back to Massive Attack.

Massive Attack's first album,...

Pros: Genre defining sound, a masterpiece of a song
Cons: Tricky's vocals are a little too buried in the mix.

This is it, the album that defined trip hop and spawned Tricky's solo career. Released in 1991 on Virgin Records, Massive Attack's Blue Lines failed to make much impact on the U.S. charts, although their song Unfinished ...

Pros: Quality of sound, music, lyrics, etc.
Cons: it ends

Music is a mostly subjective experience. This makes it difficult to define and quantify what makes an album or song great. However, there are certain times and songs where this choice is made for you. Massive Attack's debut Blue Lines crosses many...

Pros: Original, variety of sounds, from strings to synths. Has four fracking vocalists, for god's sake.
Cons: "We've got the stamina...We don't give a damnina" and other such slipshod speakings.

"Have you listened to Blue Lines?" "Do you have Blue Lines? It's Massive Attack's Genesis." "So, what d'ya think of Blue Lines?" For a long time I just shrugged off these remarks and redirected the conversation to the latest Radiohead album or something. ...

Pros: Astonishing quality, revolutionary substance, no-holds-barred experiments
Cons: Maybe they could have included more tracks :)

What KIND OF BLUE from Miles Davis represented to Jazz music, BLUE LINES represented to Electronica (better saying, this album created what is called "Trip-Hop").
Apart from the "blue" in the title, these albums share a similar moody pace and that...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

I'd come to a stage when I was totally bored with music. I hadn't brought a CD for about two months and I was desperate for some new music. I walked into my local HMV and saw Blue Lines on sale for £6.99. I'd heard of Massive Attack and I knew they...

Pros: A timeless set of songs
Cons: Maybe it'll sound dated in 20 years, who cares!

An Italian, and a couple of Afro-Caribeans, living in Bristol, where a whole new scene is emerging, with the likes of Tricky, Portishead and Roni Size producing new beats. You produce your first album and name your band Massive Attack, only for George Bush senior to invade Kuwait. Hence the band became known (for a short while) as Massive (and I did have a copy simply named Massive till it was stolen - if you have one you have a rarity).

Like their other albums they use a female guest vocalist - this time soul singer Shola Ahma,who later went solo (maybe they'd have kept her?) What you have is slickly produced music that captures the early 90's. Their later albums are more sophisticated, btu this is where it all began.