Massive Attack "Teardrop" | One Song Podcast - Full Episode
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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Love is a verb, love is a doing word: And this week on One Song Diallo Riddle and LUXXURY are not short on things to say about Massive Attack’s trip-hop anthem, Teardrop. Join the fellas as they trace the group’s history from curious kids to electronica pioneers, take a look inside the song’s haunting melody, and the “voice of God” vocal supplied by Elizabeth Fraser.
Come for the teardrops on the fire, stay for the breakdown one of 90s pop music’s greatest what-ifs: What would it have been like if, as one of Massive Attack’s producers intended, Madonna had sung the track.
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Also, you guy's musicology knowledge is mind-blowing... PLEASE do a Portishead episode 🥺😎🥺
I came up in the 80s and 90s. I only know this as trip hop.
Was very sad when it mostly died out in the early 00s. There have been some spiritual successors coming out for the last decade. Missio, two feet, phantogram, purity ring and a bunch of others with a smaller number of stand out tracks per artist.
These sound different, but they’re as close to trip hop as I’ve found.
Two Feet - Go F Yourself
Missio - Twisted
Purity Ring - Repetition
Phantogram - When I’m Small
Hermitude - Midnight Terrain
Rosenfeld - Do It For Me
Erotic Cafe, Syndel - Waxx
Chloe Black - Waterbed
There’s a quick little playlist for what sure sounds like modern trip hop to me.
It seemed like this got a decent number of thumbs up for how new the channel is. I figured I'd throw some more tracks out there for anyone looking for new music of this type:
* Stephen - Crossfire
* Johnny Rain - Roll with the Ocean
* UNEQUAL, Son Little, DSARDY - Step Ahead
* Brandyn Burnette - Down
* SpectraSoul, Madi Lane - Say What
* Stileto, Kendyle Paige - Cravin'
* L'FREAQ - Moonlight
* ACER SPADE - OVERDOSE
* Pour Vous - Comfort
Late to the party, but I never identified Trip Hop as being “white washed” Hip Hop; it was inherently different. As a child of the 90s (2000 grad), I always identified Trip Hop as “the Bristol sound”, with other acts either from Bristol or Bristol-adjacent… Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Thievery Corp, Sneaker Pimps… the sound wasn’t so close to hiphop, as much as it was a blend of electronica and hiphop, creating a new sub sub sub genre. Especially as many of these acts were incestuous, much like the Broken Social Scene/Feist/Do Make Say Think cross-overs, this was very much a racially diverse genre. I dunno… maybe there’s an underpinning that I missed at the time.
I think you are missing that this is a particularly UK-centric perspective - those are (with the exception of Thievery Corp) UK bands.
I completely agree that from a UK perspective, Trip-Hop back in the day was about "bands from Bristol" and was exactly as you describe. However, once you add in a lot more US artists that got lumped into it- then it makes more sense.
@@douglasrouxel1761 Ah, yes. That makes total sense. Thank you for the clarification.
This bothered me while they were talking about it too, but I think the other commenter who replied to you nailed the distinction. Also it's interesting to know that the genre name wasn't self-adopted, like Massive Attack didn't like it
Madonna has a song featuring Massive Attack from 1995 “I want you”
Wait wait but Madonna and Massibe Attack DID make a song together: a cover of “I want you” by Marvin Gaye - and it’s fantastic.
I loved this video so much! I was born the year this song came out and my parents were deep in the UK trip rave scene. I honestly thought Massive Attack was mainstream music growing up because it was on an official CD and not a tape of one of their mates sets. This song feels so deeply nostalgic that it instantly makes me feel like I’m a kid sat in the back of mums car again. Such a great song!
Love how much music knowledge you guys have and good insight on the history around it too
These are such enjoyable shows. Thanks for posting. Also subscribed to the podcast.
Shout out to Other Music! I loved that shop. I used to got there on my lunch break every paycheck and go on a little buying spree. Usually 4 or 5 albums. And I always made sure I would buy something that I didn't know based only on the cover art. I found all kinds of amazing music that I never would have encountered that way. Senor Coconut was probably my best discovery using that method. I still listen to them today.
I bought Mezzanine based entirely on the album cover, and thank goodness I did! I listened over an over for a few years, and then during my first trip to the UK in 2003, I saw that MA was playing Brixton Academy like five nights in a row, but every show was sold out. It's still one of my life's biggest regrets that I didn't go camp out at the gates to try to score a last-minute ticket.
I just found your show last night, and your channel was an easy instant subscribe. Can't wait to dive into your back catalog!
Massive Attack rulezzzz - Unfinished Sympathy, Safe From Harm, Paradise Circus, I Against I, and the mesmerizing Protection ft. Tracey Thorn!
Plus Mad Professor's remix of Protection - totally mind blowing 🤯
My two favorite M. A. songs are definitely, Teardrop and Protection.
This deserves more comments. Love this song. 🎵. The space makes this song.
Wow, so much insight and deep knowledge.
House MD
Huge Massive Attack fan. I was lucky enough to finally catch them live at Moog Fest in 2010. I also immediately thought of hearing it at Criminal Records when Diallo mentioned possibly hearing Teardrop at Turtles in Atlanta. If I wasn’t at Criminal then it may have been at Satellite Records, but I was definitely in Little 5 Points when I heard it.
Also, did you guys not do an episode on Outkast - Ms. Jackson??? Or was that just a snippet from another show?? Because I definitely can not find a complete episode about Ms. Jackson.
Thanks to both for sharing the insight and loving opinion. Much appreciated
Incredible, love that this is on UA-cam now. I first heard the song from the original Assassin’s Creed commercial and have been hooked since.
I had a similar experience at Criminal Records in Atlanta around 1998 -- heard amazing music playing over the store speakers, asked them what it was: The K&D Sessions. It's still one of my favorite albums ever.
In 2000, I heard it playing in my local record store. I was instantly hooked. I agree that the term "trip hop" is ridiculous. One of my favorite groups.
If you guys like Elizabeth Fraser, I'd suggest checking out Frazey Ford (September Fields or Azad for instance).
Bristol isn't that small... for perspective 500k isn't much smaller than San fran for example that I'd 700k. For both the broader metro area is more people. Anywho, I'm intrigued by this point re trip hop. It never occurred to me this was a problematic term because it was a new genre that came out of the multi cultural melting pot of the area. Also see the history of two tone. Anywho I think brits probably see this differently. Interesting to hear a US reaction to it though
Should also add the Windrush scandle was a recent thing. Nothing to do with finishing buildings. Also a lot of that generation did service jobs - quite famously bus drivers
Bristol is a proper city, that feels bigger than it probably is. I’m from a smallish town (Blackburn), I went to University in Bristol, and it felt huge, for the last 22 years I’ve lived in the tiny city of Bath, next to Bristol, after a stint in the mega city of London. Bristol feels nearer to London than it does Bath or Blackburn.
I think Ramin Djawadi took inspiration from this song for the opening theme to Westworld. It has that same kind of piano sound.
Diallo, we played it A LOT at Criminal Records!
Cinematic music is mentioned and that should remind us how important Walter Stern's video spot is in this success story.
The “Hammond” stem sounds like interpolation from Art of Noise “Beatbox.”
Shout out Pratt Pits for putting me on to teardrop back in the day. As soon as the site would load, teardrop would play. Personally I thought teardrop was a popular song until I saw this, it could just be my bias
Plug 1 is DEFINITELY a guitar plug with some distortion and echo.
I love the comments complementing the level of knowledge.... The video: reading the Wikipedia page of Massive Attack
It’s likely that Elizabeth Fraser also wrote the melody (like the lyrics) so it’s hard to imagine what Madonna would have done.
That producer Nelly Hooper must have been involved with Bedtime Stories😮 edit: yup, just looked it up.
Great song. How do you get those isolated tracks? vocals etc?
Honestly the AI Ariana really makes me want her to cover the song.
Bristol is the 8th largest city in the UK, it's very cosmopolitan, in no way is it a small isolated town
The band with a member named +Mushroom+ shied away from the term "Trip-Hop"? Interesting..lol.
Trip Hop was created by Tricky - who is black!
I am not sure what Tricky, Daddy G, Shara Nelson, Horace Andy, Mushroom think about this white washing thing...