Tricky Maxinquaye
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Willie
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November 2nd 2010


20212 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It was awesome. It had just rained the day before and the entire place was one huge mud pit. I remember the Tool vocalist calling the crowd "a bunch of fucking children" they wouldn't stop throwing mud. The punk rock-looking Prodigy vocalist rolled in the mud during their show.

qwe3
November 2nd 2010


21836 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

haha holy shit that sounds brilliant. tricky and tool + the mud sounds like a winning combination for some reason, esp. if tricky was doing his earlier stuff

Willie
Moderator
November 2nd 2010


20212 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, they were touring for Pre-Millenium Tension (it might have been Angels)

qwe3
November 2nd 2010


21836 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

chambered have you heard this album?

qwe3
November 2nd 2010


21836 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

nvm i AIMed you aye

Willie
Moderator
November 3rd 2010


20212 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

You've never heard this? You've been missing out.

MassiveAttack
November 3rd 2010


2754 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

everyone does that.

aok
April 1st 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

anyone get into martina topley-bird? her voice is amazing and i was wondering whether her solo stuff was worth it

Gyromania
April 5th 2011


37016 Comments


This album blows my mind! "Abbaon Fat Track" is outstanding.

aok
April 5th 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

i love the cover of 'black steel' but it's such an amazing album through and through

omnipanzer
April 5th 2011


21827 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yah, I think this while respected is all to often overshadowed by Mezzanine.

aok
April 5th 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Mezzanine might be my favorite album ever, but this is both incredible and rather different as well. And this was actually released 3 years before Mezzanine

omnipanzer
April 5th 2011


21827 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I know it was but in terms of "best trip-hop album" I don't think this gets enough love. I like to listen to them both equally for very different reasons.

aok
April 5th 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

a couple weeks ago i finally realized this wasn't just a worse version of mezzanine though and it was wonderful. I like this even better than 'Dummy' I gotta say. Crazy that all 3 of those bands came from Bristol in the early 90s

MassiveAttack
April 5th 2011


2754 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

uhhh...Worst version of Mezzanine? Mezzanine is kinda guitar driven, something that wasn't done by Tricky or even MA at the time of that release. Maxinquaye is more claustrophobic and dirty, dark and crude lyricism that does wonders. It probably wouldn't of worked well with MA, where the emphasize at the time was more so on soul and rnb collaborators. Also, Tricky was at one time part of MA, so some of his material actually went in with the his collaboration with MA on Protection.

aok
April 5th 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

yea -- it's definitely NOT a worse version of mezzanine at all. i didn't get this album at all the first time i listened to it.



love tricky's verses on 'daydreaming.' he's only featured on a total of 5 massive attack songs (daydreaming, five man army and blue lines + karmacoma and eurochild) so i don't know how much of a member he really was...

MassiveAttack
April 5th 2011


2754 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

MA have a lot of contributors during the 90s. Some people considered him a member during the early 90s since he worked with them for awhile. Collaborator would be a better word, much like Horace Andy contributes on a lot of their work.

aok
April 5th 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Horace Andy's vocals on Angel --> all i can say is wow...

MassiveAttack
April 6th 2011


2754 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yea he is pretty great. "Inertia Creeps" remains to be my favorite Mezzanine track though. Its not the strongest on the album, but still my favorite.

aok
April 6th 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Inertia Creeps and Angel are always battling it out for me. Might be personal attachment to the buildup on angel, but it always does squeeze ahead for me.



but also, tricky's fucking amazing and more people need to realize this fact



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