This was a game changer in the early 90s. Bristol, a city known for its lefty politics, community spirit and diy ethos started a small 'revolution' in music with the likes of Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Roni Size among other which put this small city in the southwest of England on the spotlight everywhere around the world.

Pre-triphop, nothing really sounded like this in 91. Mix of hip hop, dance hall and poetry was the initial concept. Definitely the birth of triphop imo. Check Maxinquaye by Tricky. A pretty common conspiracy theory is that 3D is the artist Banksy, which is actually pretty credible if you read up on it. Great reaction.

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Blue lines, five-man army, and hymn of the big wheel are my favorite songs on here, I'm a huge, massive attack fan!

Loved this reaction, Mezzanine is a really good next step

Massive Attack has a pretty solid catalog. Yes, “Mezzanine” is probably their strongest effort but Blue Lines is right up there. “Unfinished Sympathy” really puts the album on another level on its own. It’s truly one of their best tracks ever. In another note, listening to this album, you’ve been introduced to Tricky, another amazing artist from TripHop. I’d heavily recommend his album “Pre-Millennium Tension” to react to. It’s very different from both Massive Attack and Portishead

Nice! Would love if you'd listen to their next album, Protection, historically underrated imo. You won't regret it! Their discog became a little more irregular after Mezzanine I think, although from their newer stuff I'd recommend The Spoils single and the ep Ritual Spirit.

Bro, love your content. You have great taste in music, but you know that already. Guilty music snob here... If you're into Massive Attack, you obviously stumbled onto Tricky, who was in Massive Attack, but has an awesome solo career. Emphatically suggest the 'MAXINQUAYE" album, his debut. keep up the good work...

Blue Lines is a really significant album. It blew my mind when I heard it in the 90s. Spent many a stoned afternoon in my halls of residence in Liverpool in 1991 listening to this.

What a masterpiece "Unfinished Sympathy" is, great reaction, i suggest you all their records, there is definitely not a bad one

If you appreciated this album and Massive Attack in general; please keep Tricky's debut album 'Maxinquaye' in mind. He's a co-founder of Massive Attack and has worked with some big artists. It came out around the same time as Trip Hop was peaking. It's a genius album.

Glad you enjoyed this one, it's a classic. Massive Attack albums are a must have, hope you do Mezzanine soon.

Also regarding the members, MA was born out of an artists' collective called The Wild Bunch (Geoff Barrow, funding member of Portishead, used to be there). Blue Lines had Robert del Naja, Daddy G, Mushroom and Tricky as the group's lineup, over the years some members left and others came in, but del Naja is a constant followed by Daddy G - also many guest vocalists as you said. This album is a classic for sure, but I agree the best part is the run from the title track to Unfinished Sympathy. Finally, you should listen to Portishead's Third from 2008, it's more representative of their overall sound I think.

Mezzanine just blows this outta the water, its by far the best Massive Attack album overall. One of the most perfect albums ever created, its a luscious labrynthian soundscape that extends infinitely outward into the emptiest reaches of black space

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Massive.

Blue Lines was a game changer for me, and a huge influence on electronic based music in the UK. And yeah - Unfinished Sympathy blew everybody away at the time and remains a personal favourite. I recall Peter Buck from REM has a story about coming off stage and hearing it playing in a backstage room and rushing in to ask what it was! As a long-time Massive Attack fan, this is still my favourite album of theirs. Although I recognise that Mezzanine is a masterpiece! This album also introduced me to Tricky Kid (now just Tricky), who's solo stuff is well worth checking out - particularly Maxinequaye.

Blue Lines is an early Trip Hop classic. Mezzanine is a stone cold classic period, regardless of genre.

great reaction! This is my fave Massive Attack album and probably my fave trip hop album along with Tricky's debut. If you love the Beth solo album but Dummy didn't quite click i'd suggest trying out Portishead's "Third" which was probably a bit ahead of its time on release but some consider it their best album

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brother man if you liked Unfinished Sympathy's cinematic orchestra touch and the name Moby doesn't ring a bell then I've just unlocked a new door for ya

What you have missed, are the whales, who singing background on "Hymn Of The Big Wheel". 😂

You should make a video on all your vinyls

feel like you need to do tricky maxinquaye

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Cool album. But Mezzanine is one of my favorite albums of the 90s.

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Check out, I sincerely think you will love this...Raised Fist "Get this right" it is so brutally beautiful, they got it right. Let me know what you all think. Meanwhile I'm going there after this

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I prefer Protection to Mezzanine. Doesn't seem to get much attention on YT.

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Blue Lines easily clears Mezzanine. Blue Lines, Dummy, Maxinquaye and Endtroducing are foundational trip-hop

I like this album. I don't love it. In "Massive Attack" terms, it kinda feels like a very teenage, we're figuring out what we're doing, effort. The cross-genre influences were the only thing that made this a stand out from the Brit club scene of the time. As an album, I give it a pass. There are a couple great tracks, but compared to "Protection" or "Mezzanine", which I think you can't put on and not just listen to the whole album, meh. Like NIN and Morphine and a lot of my other favorites from the 90s, the first album is like this, but by the time you get to the second or third, its just amazing.