MASSIVE ATTACK - Teardrop - How Was It Made? Ep 8
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2022
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In this video I'm looking at possible my favourite track of all time - Teardrop by Massive attack'
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Here are links to things I found useful when researching this track:
massiveattack.ie/info/teardrop
Accapella - • Massive Attack - Teard...
Ixi Music Video analysis - • "Teardrop" | MASSIVE A...
Lyrics - songmeanings.com/songs/view/4...
I was the guitarist on that album the noises were me... I used a cello guitar and walked backwards and forwards from the monitors to create all the long notes (and other noises). Thats what I'm good at.. Spike was given the full backing track... I know I was at the mixing stage in the studio, same with the whole album.
Yo Angelo! How are you doing?
How awesome ✊ Much respect and thanks for you contribution to such a memorable/magical recording 🙏
Wow man, what a claim to fame! :) Props! #iconic
@@andytuke8986 Hi Andy yes fine, bit old but fine, How are you?
OMG I missed this! That's fascinating! Thanks so much for commenting. Massive respect for your contribution to this amazing track (and album)
Mezzanine is Massive Attack's masterpiece. Up there with Portishead's self-titled and Recoil's Liquid. Absolutely sublime.
By an odd coincidence, I was present in the studio of our local campus radio station during their final broadcast in 1998. They were doing a listener-voted countdown of "Best songs of all time", were about to cue up the #1 which would be their last ever song and I distinctly remember the announcer saying (off air) "It's Teardrop", and everyone just sort of nodding like of course it is
Nice :)
It's not though. Protection is their best tune as well as the best video. Or Safe from Harm. Or gosh, Inertia Creeps? I'm a long-time Cocteau fan but I wouldn't put Teardrop in MA's top five, or Frasier's top 10.
@@lqr824 do you understand subjectivity? I'm asking. It's okay for folks to like different things. That's diversity. When we think something is better it doesn't make the first thing worse. It's just different. We can't really say others choices are wrong.
@@w_ll__4824 You said it especially in relation to a 1990s raised group of college goers at a surreal last broadcast in a dying stations last heartbeats were sonically relatable as such. You hear "[etc etc] after all, It's the 90s" as a common term that they would have understood. if you weren't there f you're antisocial masterclass of professional MA fandom and thx for sharing that great story "everyone nodded of course it is", incredibly relatable comment and factually accurate historic event from an eye/ear witness, easily in the top
A lot of noises on mezzanine may have come from Mark Stent who had a sample library from the sessions of Depeche Modes songs of faith and devotion. The album is full of drums, snares, noises and textures from that album.
yup yup!!
i has snare from when the levee breaks in Man Next Door, that has been also used in Never let me down again
Oh wow
Ah great knowledge! Thanks so much for sharing!
I don’t feel bad over reusing my Vengeance Essential house pack now ;)
@@GyuBeats mark Stent was the mixer on both albums. There's probably a lot of guitar scapes and textures processed with a system 100. Most of it happy accidents and probably impossible to recreate.
absolutely phenomenal song from a fantastic album. Mezzanine came out the same day as Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada. Both amazing albums.
Ah I didn't realise that! Yeah definitely!
I actually thought boards was too mainstream for me, then i found out i was being a hipster. now i just hate the haters. thx for reminding me of Boards :)
Ah thank you so much for the shout out, Gyu! Awesome breakdown - I can tell you love this track as I do. 🖤
So nice for you to comment on here! Thank you, I learned so much from your video, not least the actual chords. I thought I had figured them out but I was just playing 5ths, finding the correct ones meant a lot to me
wow. i'm so moved by this and taken aback by the coincidence of coming across this. i first heard this play when i was watching Grey's Anatomy while my partner was passed out stoned. stoned because he had recently been diagnosed with cancer and was nauseated from the chemo, so i had suggested brownies to help with the nausea. i ate some brownies too so he wouldn't have to do it alone. we were lying on the sofa at opposite ends with our legs intertwined around each other. i remember this song coming up as my face was pressed against his foot. at that stoned moment, my face pressed into his foot was my entire universe and it was all the love in the world that i could muster into his foot to make him live. gosh, i was so stoned. lol. this was almost twenty years ago. well, the cancer is back and now i come across this video. so, yeah, wow. i have no words.
Wow. SO glad to connect with you but so sad to hear about your partner. Making prayers for his full recovery
Love and light my friend to you and yours. x
the "understated bass" was a crucial part of the sound of trip hop
Please keep going with this series these are so amazing. I'm not even a producer but I could watch these all day.
Ah thank you! these vids mainly get shown to producers but I like to think they're interesting for people who just dig the music
I worked in the Music shop Music Connections just round the corner from Christchurch studio in Bristol when this was being made. Neil Davidge did an amazing job producing it but there were so many people involved from the Bristol music scene at the time which was just thriving, and I was lucky to witness some of it happening. We even got a shout out on the album cover
Amazing!
This was Mushroom's track until the whole Madonna fiasco.
Hey Andy, been a while! Rob from "the shop across the road". Hope all is well.
@@bobeschism9426 Rob! How are you doing!!!
@@andytuke8986 Hanging in there! We should catch up sometime
Very sorry, I had to pause the video and listen to the whole song because my brain couldn't handle only hearing snippets of this masterpiece. Great job as always
Fair play!!!
I'm so fortunate to have this song tied to an amazing time of my life, and not just the intro to HOUSE MD.
@angelobruschini4899 Love your comments Angelo, I remember seeing your live guitar rig in a magazine with the gorgeous PRS you had and the story behind it. Although your time on this earth came to and end the music you helped create will last forever...Rest In Peace
I first found you today via your Aphex Twin video and now this. I got to say I absolutely love your taste and content. Creators like you are why I love UA-cam.
Wow, thank you! :)
Absolutely love this tune. I remember blasting this out on my JBL control 5’s in my tiny halls room at uni. Around 2002.
Hi, Newton Faulkner did a (very good) cover of this, and the lyric you are stuck on says (on his version) 'You're stumbling in the dark' - another great video - thank you!!
their bass sound is much larger, thicker and noisier. Like they somehow managed to make low end rumble from samples work in the track where a lot of producers would filter it out. Like its this massive compressed slab of warm sound everything floats on. Their sound is just incredible.
I think their bass got an octaver on it.
I agree!
@@lamarthe_headcrab7687 The piano doubles the bass with octaves.
they EQ'd so much bass into their mixes; more than you would conventionally these days. the amount of speakers that rattled when "Angel" came on in the 90's...but they were Pro Tools pioneers... way ahead of the game, so nobody could tell them otherwise @jasonchambers6787
I've always completely misunderstood the lyrics for Teardrop! "Fearless are my prey" for example! Just shows we don't always associate a great song with lyrics, more the emotion and atmosphere. Mezzanine is such an incredible album. That scene emerging from Bristol around that time (including Portishead) was just amazing.
Ha ha. For 20 years I’ve been thinking it was “Fearless summer. Pray”. 😂
brilliant work - really love these videos of yours. Thanks!
Great look at this cool composition, and your video editing made it easy to listen to your comments, but also focus on the music tracks. Loved it!
Your smile at the beginning of this is so heartwarming. Way to feel the music!
I heard that first line as "love, love isn't fair". Great video as ever!
Yeah that's a good one!
"sigh , what is she saying !!"
That my friend, is Liz Fraser all over...., don't try and find out , just embrace the vocal of anything she sings
Yep
Just brilliant yet again. You never fail to deliver.
Fantastic work 🙏 thanks for sharing..
Amazing breakdown! Love the song too.
One of my all-time favorite songs, ever since I first heard it in the 90's. As an amateur producer, studying how my favorite songs were composed truly helps me understand how to achieve what I want to in my own music; thank you truly for this video. 👏🏾
Between this video and Ixi's I've learned so much about this entrancing song. So simple in many ways yet so deep in others.
Amazing job of recreating this!
Great recreation. These deconstruction/recreation videos are revealing, insightful and fun!
Your videos are so good and nostalgic for me. Please keep doing these. I’m loving them. Thank you good sir
Ok! Thank you!
Love it. thanks for the work.
Always look forward to these!!
Big up!
Another massive vid, keep these coming please they are great to watch the breakdown and you nail it. ❤
The "magical" part is... the crowds, the people, the time and the experience!
Thanks for doing this. This track is absolutely spellbinding. Beautiful in its simplicity and utterly captivating. That vocal is glorious. Another Massive Attack song I’d love to see deconstructed is Paradise Circus. Another incredible vocal over one the the most moving and yet seductive tracks I’ve ever heard. The final crescendo is mind blowing.
Love this. Such an amazing track thanks for showing how it’s made
Thanks!
Such a seminal track. A person's absolute favourite song/track usually has a lot of meaning to them, and it's obvious from your mannerisms and expressions throughout this video that Teardrop has a lot of meaning to you. Fantastic work, Guy!
Ah thanks Chris - it's really true
This was a Joy to watch, the track is a all time favorite for me that i awlays circle bac to. I learned a bunch from your video! Thanks for the indepth video!
That was really good - thanks! It's amazing the job Massive Attack did on the mix to get even more energy into it.
Yep
Another fantastic video and song breakdown. Love your choices of tracks to recreate. That end lyric is "you're stumbling in the dark".
Thanks :) Ah yes! Some of the lyrics I found were wrong but I did find more accurate ones after finishing recording.
Gyu, you are an absolute star. Thank you once again for your terrific breakdown. First rate YT content.
Ah thanks so much!
Mezzanine was such a jewel in their catalogue. Horace's Man Next Door is sublime.
Yeah man :)
That's a Daddy G production that one. I agree it's sublime and underrated
As an electronic music lover who has no idea about production techniques I find your videos fascinating.
Ah thanks! Nice to hear that :)
Amazing breakdown of one of my favorite songs of all time, this way one could appreciate even more all the work that goes into such a beautiful track, also the influence that you could just gain by trying to get close as much as possible to a masterpiece, it's a very fun and didactic experience! Thanks for this amazing video
Much appreciated!
Another great job, I learn so much from these. I know you run into occasional trouble with UA-cam re copyright (which is nonsense - but what can you do), but PLEASE don't stop doing what you do, it's so instructional and inspiring. Understanding in detail how these pieces are constructed actually makes them MORE magical!
Ah thank you!! Glad you think so - I agree :)
As I recall, Massive Attack purposely did not publish or explain the lyrics from this album, there was nothing in the CD or Tape cover, because it was all about how it felt, not the meaning, and it has never been officially published, so all written lyrics are, in fact, taken by ear. That might be BS, because I’m using memory here, but that is what I recall.
Ah that's cool!
Liz Fraser was famous for that (Glossolalia) in Cocteau Twins. Many of the words are probably made up.
Great video - AGAIN! Really appreciating these, particularly given the FSOL challenges…. Those 12 bar sections are interesting and your friend’s daughter has a great voice!
Ah thanks! Yes she does doesn't she :)
Brilliant! Mezzanine is one of my favorite albums. Brings back so many good memories.
Brilliant video, and superb work breaking down one of my favourite bands/tracks.
Many thanks!
Beautiful stuff, you are very talented. Love learning to appreciate classics all over again but in more depth.
I hope you can get round to doing analogue bubblebath in the future, I'd love to see it through your interpretation. Keep doing what you do.
Beautifully done
Perfect analysis of a mega super chill song of Massive Attack’s teardrop song & I do have the song in my collection! 🎵🔊🎵🔊
Another great video, keep them coming please sir 😎
awesome breakdown! possibly my favourite album of all time
Thank you Gyu!
This is just splendid
beautiful take on the original this mate. Enjoyed watching this. Well done
I love your videos - so in depth and informative and you dont drown the viewer in music theory and technical stuff !
fantastic !
Thanks! Really glad you think I strike a good balance - it's something I think about
@@GyuBeats You are humble in your presentation too. Am sure that apart from the music many of us enjoy your presence too.
Love your channel!
Always been my favorite ever tune. It is everything that music should be and should achieve in the listener. Absolute perfection from Massive Attack! Amazing to see it broken down like this.
❤️❤️❤️
Thank you mate! Amazing work. You really know what you’re talking about 🔥
Ah cheers!
This is the first video I've seen by you and I subscribed almost instantly.
Nice one!
Love it, mad respect
really great video - attention to detail on the sound design was great and refreshing to see someone acknowledging where it's impossible to get some of the nuances. Would love to see you do some Black Sands era Bonobo
I love music that trips up the mind. Alot of dub artists drop several bars of say kick or bass then drop them back in just when you aren't expecting even halfway through a pattern. Oddly your mind starts to fill the gaps and sometimes both your mind and the track add to each other. The last thing I want is to know what's coming. It's a mysterious journey that pulls me along always... stumbling in the dark.
Every track you deconstruct just happen to be one of my all time favorites. You do such a great job man. Really nice to hear your track as well, beautiful. Damn shame you lost the project. oh well, shit happens hehe. Maybe it was the Universe telling you it is done. Anyway fantastic job all round as ever. Turns out I had most of the lyrics right, apart from the stumbling bit. I had that as "it's totally internal" lol. Anyway, have a good one and again thanks for doing these, they are so fun.
Thank you! "it's totally internal" works really well tbh :)
Great Video! cant wait to get stuck into your other vids
🖤 love it🖤 great work 👏
Thank you! 😊
Fascinating, thank you
I always heard the lyric as "Feathers on my breath".
Dude ur videos r sooooo good. Please keep them coming.
Thanks! Will do!
Cool deconstruction ❤
This is excellent 🙌
Another stunning video. I bought the album on day one and Teardrop still stops me in my tracks. Until now I had no idea what the lyrics were so thanks for that. I’d love to know what the artists think of your efforts and would like to see you and them together on a video. Huge respect to you man.
thank you! Yeah that's my dream really
This song is absolute magic
Yep :)
goosebumps everytime..?? well who doesn't??..
Fabulous breakdown to a wonderful song. Oddly, I remember Coronation Street using this back in 2001 as the outro to a storyline when Sarah Platt was being groomed. Very powerful.
They do the same unpredictable thing with the claps in paradise circus- I live for it.
Another great video!
I would be happy just getting that beep to sound the same! Excellent job mate 👍😎👏
Hehe Cheers :)
amazing as always mate
Ah thanks!
very good and solid cover, good job 👍
i would be happy to see anyone cover anything else than teardrop or angel
Ah thanks :) I did do Protection...- ua-cam.com/video/e-n_q7put1s/v-deo.html
Massive Attack = God Mode!🙏
Superb break down..👏👏
Why thank you!!!
Dam, just found your channel and we have very similar music tastes ... from Ray Keith, to inner city .. and now this. I use this song (among a few others) to tune speakers or rooms or what ever I happen to need to get sounding right at the time. The high end on this with them harpsichord strings and that that crackle is something else .. sends shivers every time when it sounds how it should.
I put it on in the background when I was having some cuddle time with my ex, (it was the first time she came over mine), and she stopped randomly and was like "Is it raining outside WTF?!" (as it was in the middle of summer), but it was the sizzling crackle from this track played out of my studio monitors in my room lol. It really fills the air with an atmosphere this track, It never gets old either.
You did a fantastic Job recreating it btw, especially the drums and low end, that's almost identical, other than some dark arts mixing magic as you describe. ;)
Have you heard the Remastered version? It's really nice when the song gets going, but doesn't have the same impact when it initially builds imho.
I'm currently trying to recreate Cutslo by Ed Rush, Opticle and Fierce. I wanted to do my rendition rather than a faithful reproduction. It started as I accidentally made one of the bass sounds from it and got super hyped xD. Not sure if I'll finish it though as I need to be focusing on my own music really haha. Not sure I could get the last distorted reeseish bass anywhere near right, so probably wont try lol. It's fun to mess about with however. You can learn so much from doing exercises like this.
Dear God. That harpsichord sound . . . . . . . Sublime.
awesome video more trip hop please!!
It would be so interesting to get the feedback from the artist on how they did the piece.
Absolutely fantastic. Wowza and the guitarist even commented. Unbelievable.
Thank you!
Absolutely loved this. Took me right back to uni days and hearing it for the first time. Regarding that sound effect at the start. To me it sounds like plugging my guitar in at the body when I've forgotten to mute the amp. The jack going in suddenly vibrating the strings on an open tuning and getting connected to the amp, has a spring reverb quality to it too. Probably barking up the wrong tree, but it's what it makes me think of.
After reading your comment, I now hear guitars being plugged into amps as well. You might be onto something. If not the exact sound then at least something very close.
@@obbekjaer Yeah. It's a sound that feels familiar from the practice room. Big amp with the spring reverb dialled up, and when you push the jack home the click translates into the strings. Although this sounds more "tuned" then the fourths of the strings. Either an open tuning or it's been pitch quantized or something. Or maybe I'm just bonkers, however if anyone tries it, I take no responsibility for blown cabs when plugging into high gain equipment un-muted. I only know that sound because I'm a total muppet. 😆
Yeah i agree, i was thinking the same too..
Yeah that's a great thought - it very much could be that
@@GyuBeats good luck with the search! Also wanted to say these deep dives you've been doing have been so valuable. I've been bringing some of the techniques into my own mixes. I'm just starting out with production but these videos are great for my learning. Really appreciate it.
Great job as always mate!
Thank you! Cheers!
Back in 2003/4 I was studying music tech in Bristol and one of my tutors was a contemporary of Massive Attack from the local scene; somehow he had all the stems to Teardrop and set us the task of remixing it. I've still got the stems on a CD somewhere (but with no CD drive to open it)... though I'm pretty sure they're floating around online somewhere these days anyway!
Yeah you can find the story of how they got leaked in the comments here. I was in Bristol then, did you go to many free parties?
Thank you!!
Thank Christ Madonna didnt get near it - this was around the same time she was trying to recruit Aphex twin and he flat told her to piss off - trying to attach herself to the latest trend - There is no way this song would have the same reverence or gravity that it has, and has had with Madonna singing - massive bullet dodge imo - it would have been a sacrilege - You, on the other hand, have done an amazing job recreating it mate - fantastic - and probably with a professional mix and master engineer it would be a solid updated and modernised arrangement - I can hear it and would definately like to listen to it
Ah thanks for the kind words!
Well never know and can only assume. So let's not. We have what we have.
@@w_ll__4824 Well its more of an educated guess than an assumption but still only an opinion so definately up for debate - I think Madonna would have popified the tune - its not a pop tune and shouldnt be in that format and I dont think it would have lasted or been as memorable if it had taken that path and form - I could be wrong of course but thats the joy of it isnt it ?
Nailed it sir!
Why thank you!
Nice one, mate!
Awesome content and a fascinating insight into a stunning track.
I remember using this in a mix i done of my favorite chilled tunes where i somehow managed to lay the guitar intro off The Verves "Lucky Man' over the break of it and i must admit it sounds excellent!
OMG I love that track!!! One of the only two I really like on Urban Hymns - I love A Northern Soul though. I want to try that now :)
@@GyuBeats Thanks for the reply and please let me know how you get on with it!
Portishead as next please.
This will be a challenge for you! 🙂
Gyu these are amazing and so inspirational for my own producing!! Please do The Sea by Morcheeba next :)
I'd love to, that's a personal favourite. I'll see if it's doable
brilliant