'This reminds me of the Matrix'. Funny you should say that, Dissolved Girl off this album is what Neo is listening to near the start of the movie when he wakes up at his computer
When this came out the UK was going through an electronica stage. Portishead had released a follow up album to their critically acclaimed debut album, Teardrop was playing on the radio, Fatboy Slim was number one after a Chemical Brothers hit and Leftfield was in the album chart (the Prodigy at number one with Fat Of The Land!) with Leftism. Golden Eye, Leon and trip hop. I miss the 90's
if you haven’t yet, you should definitely look into portishead’s album “dummy”! it’s from the same scene, but if i were to describe it, while mezzanine feels like a dark back alley in the matrix, dummy feels like a smoky bar in a noir film you might also recognize their lead singer beth gibbons from the kendrick track “mother i sober”
Yes I can’t wait to dive into portishead ima start the year off with them! Because I have to finish people’s discographies rn and listen to 2024 albums too!
I'm 54 years old, and this is my all time favorite album EVER. I love Trip-Hop. I'm sad that nobody even knows what that is anymore, and I have to define it. I want more, wish we had more, but will revel in "the old days." Morcheeba, Portishead, geez, could on and on. So I guess I'm an old broad, and yes, I will continue listening to my favorite music.
Many of us know. Maxinquaye - near perfect album - just celebrated an anniversary and Tricky released a reissue. Keeping the trip hop club small it's part of wath makes it so special!
Massive Attack are leaders in the genre known as "Trip Hop". Other notable Trip Hop acts include Tricky, Portishead, Thievery Corporation, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Tosca, Sneaker Pimps, Nightmares On Wax, Mr. Scruff, Cinematic Orchestra, Bonobo, etc. All very stoney and cinematic. Specifically, the song *Teardrop* is about the news of Elizabeth Frazers's ex-boyfriend, Jeff Buckley, dying while they were recording the album. 😢
@@JaKarTV Ex-boyfriend. They'd been broken up for a few years when he passed away (drowning accident, if I remember correctly). Jeff Buckley also dated Courtney Love at one point. Professional Widow indeed!
The thing to understand about this music is the place it comes from and the influences on it. Bristol,where the band is from , is in a very rural area and even though it’s a city it’s quite laidback and slow. The sound sort of reflects that. It also has a large West Indian population, so reggae and dub were massive there and that feeds into the sound along with hip hop but hip hop that’s been slowed down. Add a touch of cinematic soundtrack and you have Massive Attack. I’d also recommend going back and listening to it again after a spliff. It’s a stoner album I think
Haha, kids these days. This is '98. Five years after the internet dropped. Seven years pre-UA-cam. We didn't have access to a billion videos, streams, tiktoks, video games. No netflix, no social media. Attention spans were longer. We had a different approach to entertainment and passing time. This is pre-smartphone and pre-iPod. You put your album on and let it play. How artists made music and how we listen is completely different.
I owned a mobile phone when this came out man. And already had computers with Intel 286, 386, 486 and Pentium II. I had to load Windows 3.11 from floppy discs. And I had to choose between internet or the landline telephone... I'm a dinosaur.
Mezzanine is one of the very few albums I can listen to from beginning to end without skipping a single track. It's been a firm favourite since it was released. Pure class.
Every single rap fan ever on first listen to trip hop says the exact same thing 'I wish I could get someone to spit over this track.' It's funny it's so universal, but it's so true. All the atmospheric, downtempo beats make for sick rap tracks. You should check out Tricky. His solo stuff tends to lean more that way.
So glad you got around to it!! If you like Elizabeth Fraser's vocals that much, perhaps you should listen to her former band Cocteau Twins's album "Heaven or Las Vegas." An album full of her beautiful voice supported by absolutely gorgeous music. It's dream pop. Very heavenly stuff.
@@JaKarTV Haha. So you had no idea that's her on Mezzanine?? That's so funny and cool. Btw, I have to say as someone who has been listening to that band for like 15 years, it is weird (but awesome) how I guess social media has made them a thing now amongst Gen Z
@@JaKarTV Haha too funny. I can only assume social media did that because all of a sudden over the past year reactors have been getting CT requests and it's all for Heaven or Las Vegas! Can't be a coincidence. Also, did you delete my other comment? 🧐 In it I suggested you approach music listening in a different way than you're used to so you can enjoy more different kinds of music.
Great reaction! I love to see reactions from this album because most people don't know how much it is perfect, even if a bit dark. Trip-hop was knew for its hypnotic sound that was influenced by Jamaican Dub. Horacce Andy (vocal in track Angel; Man next door +), is from Jamaica and he is a very respected artist there for Dub and Reggae. It's just one of my fave albuns! Blue lines is also another great album to discover.
Love that you mentioned the train, I was riding around the tube trains in London listening to this heaps when I had a trip over there a few years back, still haven’t been over to their home town and creation point of trip-hop Bristol but next time I’m in the UK I wanna try catch some live music there. Also my pfp is from their debut Blue Lines and that’s quite the album too, very different from this but imo equally as good, one of my fav albums along with Mezzanine.
Yes, I was doing some trippy shit to this! If you're into exploring more trip-hop, I'd highly recommend Morcheeba 's first 2 albums Who can you trust? and Big Calm - classics from the same era.
This band was ONE of the artists responsible for that “Bristol Sound”, named so because of the area of Britain these artists originated from. Other trip hop artists worth checking out would be Portishead, Goldie, Sneaker Pimps, Tricky, and Morcheeba.. A very underrated genre of music, for sure. Early era The Prodigy, is an outfit that came on the scene a little later on, but had a definite impact on Trip Hop and EDM. ENJOY THE 🐇 🕳️!
Back in the day "Man Next Door" didn't stand out to me. However, when I learned that it's a cover of a reggae song from the 60's and that the drum sample is from Led Zeppelin, my appreciation increased greatly.
If you want to go deeper into the 90s Bristol underground scene you should check out Portishead, Tricky & Roni Size. This whole scene was big into Es and trips. From Wikipedia "The Bristol underground scene is a cultural movement in Bristol, England, beginning in the early 1980s. The scene was born out of a lack of mainstream clubs catering for the emergence of hip hop music, with street and underground parties a mainstay. Crews formed playing hip hop in disused venues with sound systems borrowed from the reggae scene: City Rockers, 2 Bad, 2 Tuff, KC Rock, UD4, FBI, Dirty Den, Juice Crew, Rene & Bacus, Soul Twins, KC Rock, Fresh 4, and the Wild Bunch were among them. These names were the precursors to the more well known names that came from this scene.[1] It is characterized by musicians and graffiti artists. The scene was influenced by the city's multiculturalism, political activism, and the arts movements of punk, reggae, hip hop, hippies and new age.[2]"
When this came out it definitely opened up an even darker side to them. It’s a masterpiece. Maybe a switch from the more soulful tracks of earlier albums. A little dirtier. A little heavier. But undeniably them, and a stone cold classic. And yes, rhymes with “bean” or “seen”. What genre? Trip hop.
This is a stone cold classic. Great listen all the way through. Liz Fraser's voice is like the breath of God, however all the vocalists on this 100% nail it.Check out their first album Blue Lines, waaaay ahead of it's time.
This will seem like a bit of a left field suggestion, as this artist didn't break outside of the UK, but please check out SBTRKT by SBTRKT. Dope producer, a close and early collaborator of Sampha who's featured on four tracks on this album. Some of the best R&B/UK bass/dub 2step music ever.
They are pretty amazing live, much much heavier, some songs become straight up heavy rock during some of the breakdowns… but yeah, as others on here have mentioned, DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing or Private Press are both ridiculously good. TripHop was what was called ‘sofa surfing’ music, it has more in common with Jazz and psychedelic rock than dance floor tunes.
Hey JaKar, have you ever listened to SWANS? They're an experimental rock band known for their intense and often lengthy compositions, so I don’t think you would necessarily like it or want to listen to it because their albums are like 2 hours long and songs go up to 30 minutes. But for me personally, their music feels unlike anything else; it just moves you to another place. But again, I don’t really expect you to react to it or anything-maybe check it out in your free time if you ever feel like challenging your taste. Some of the best music out there, in my opinion.
Hey fam na I never have ! Remind me in the future ! Have a lot of albums to do rn 😅but wowww 2 hrs long & 30 mins sheeshhhh!!! I might have to listen in my own time 💀🔥
I had my CD player with 30 second skip protection walking around feeling tripped out with no chemical assistance. It's called trip hop. The music is the trip. Also, the lyrics are up for debate, we listened to whatever we heard back in the day. I don't care what the Official ones are, there's so much more without subtitles! Love love isn't fair, love is a doing word I'm fine with but the "Feel the sun rise, pray" is my big one. I danced all night back then, never did any drugs. Not even religious. "Tear drop on the fire, fade". Having a subbed video makes the whole experience wrong.
People will call it trip hop, but that does not mean much, its really "Bristol Sound". This album sounds like walking through the centre of Bristol ,all the different musical influences, you will hear coming from windows if you walked through St Pauls in the centre of Bristol. Their other albums, to a lesser degree, but this album in particular...it actually sounds like the city , its hard to explain. But trip hop to me(I am from Bristol and a musician for context) , you have the Bristol thing, and then people like Morcheeba and Sneaker Pimps who are not from Bristol but I guess were influenced by the Bristol bands , because when you really break it down, the Bristol bands are all very different(Portishead, Tricky, Massive attack, Smith & Mighty), but they have common threads , which are basically Dub and Hip Hop and some rockmetal influence (excl Smith & Mighty, although they do have the dub/hip hop influence) I would say almost by copying the Bristol bands, Morcheeba and Sneaker Pimps lost what it was really about and its some what a caricature of what the Bristol bands were doing, because it did not organically spring out of a geographical scene. As good as both are, they are trying to recreate something they can never fully do, because the bands they are emulating were organic products of the Bristol environment, also the atmosphere of the city is very much reflected in likes of Portishead, Tricky, Massive attack, Smith & Mighty, where as Sneaker Pimps and Morcheeba dont have that. If you are not from Bristol then maybe none of this matters, but if you are the 4 groups from Bristol I mentioned hit different, and hit on a deeper level. But the point of me saying this is to kind of highlight the genre "trip Hop" is quite vague, and really contains many different sounds and approaches, instruments, decks etc, to me the genre does not mean much(as in the label), there is the Bristol 90's sound and the bands that copied it (all music in the 90's Bristol scene, even the metal has Dub/hip hop aspects running through it at this time)
Your favorite rappers are Kendrick and Soul? Soul so underrated. See this why I fw you. Oh and Mezzanine is an all time favorite of mine, glad you found it.
_ You know? In MA web the lyrics of 'Teardrop' says "Feathers on my breath". The singer is Elisabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil). _ Horace Andy is a living reggae legend. _ The list of colabs with invited singers is long and includes: Damon Albarn, Sinnead O'Connor, Madonna, Bowie... _ I attended a gig this summer and I can swear is one of the best shows I've ever watched AND a direct visual political speech putting the finger in the eyes of Biden, Putin, Satanyahu, Elon... _ _ They are highly compromised with ecology, against wars and abuses of power. _ Songs by Massive Attack are never long, could last for a decade and they will be all right. _ They sample a lot and they do some covers as well. _ Robert Del Naja, the white guy, is an artist who paint, photograph and do graphic design _ Some of us want to believe that he is the mind behind a band of street artists working under the name Banksy. You should check out to Tricky. That's the OST of a shared joint.
You're gonna listen to this again walking through the city at night after smoking a blunt and it will hit different, I guarantee it. Sitting behind a desk, yeah many tracks have more filler than necessary.
What I's doin i. 98 with this album: Blunt n walk...bus rides...fuckin'...blunt n brew or booze...goin to bed...playin video games on mute (any combo of these things)
you need to listen to nicki minaj's "the pinkprint". im telling you right now that this album will change your perspective on her. it's her most vulnerable album to date and it's sooooo good. i promise, give it a chance!
These albums were NEVER an analytical headphone listen for me...rather listen on big hifi system, unhurried...you gotta let that sub-bass breathe, move some air and you just melt into the sofa on an idle Sunday 😁👌 I tell you, that's how you gotta experience the likes of their album Blue Lines. And a deeper level...whack on Portishead's album 'Dummy' 🔥 (Personal experience: A few occasions listened to Blue Lines on the sofa with lady friend to chill...when it gets to the track 'Lately'...clothes coming OFF to that hot slow vibe. Tried and tested results from the lab...do what you will with this intel 🤔😁)
I mean no hate by this, but I feel like you bounced off this album hard because you had expectations for what it would be and did not take it for what it is. You fairly consistently criticized it for not being something that it just isn't.
No no no, no 3 minutes songs :). They are not meant to entertain. Check drum'n' bass too, Goldie "Timeless", in case you haven't. Check Love and Rockets "Deep deep down" (10 minutes) 😁 Check Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (great rock'n'roll band)
Not depth in the lyrics? Massive Attack makes multi layered lyrics, its like a drug rush in poetry. I love them and I respect you taste of course, but been a fan of them so long and they has always been my comfort from the song Safe From Harm year 1991.
It is such a shame that you struggle to listen to music that isn’t full of lyrics. It means you’re finding it hard to feel the music and need to be guided by words as to what to think. So sad. Unable to get into a zone and just feel the music. And it’s down to the music you grew up listening to and surround yourself with throughout your life. And my guess is, it’s songs that are all about the words (however awful they may be) and not about the music. The instrumentation. It’s just a sign of the times and it’s such a shame. People have no attention spans, no focus and no imagination these days. I’m not old I’m in my 30s but thankfully my parents always got me listening to music, rather than just trashy ‘popular music’. Classical music would go completely above your head wouldn’t it? You would have literally no idea how to process the music. So sad.
i think you're reading way too much into that, and even if you weren't, this shit sounds condescending as fuck. don't talk down to people like that, it's off putting
It's a great album alright, but I personally prefer the first two ones, Blue Lines and Protection. They're far more enjoyable imo, I've always found Mezzanine to be a bit too gloomy for its own good. Props on pronouncing the umlaut in Björk btw 👍
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It is pronounced Mezzanene, as in the ene from polythene.
'This reminds me of the Matrix'. Funny you should say that, Dissolved Girl off this album is what Neo is listening to near the start of the movie when he wakes up at his computer
Yooo I had a feeling!!
When this came out the UK was going through an electronica stage.
Portishead had released a follow up album to their critically acclaimed debut album, Teardrop was playing on the radio, Fatboy Slim was number one after a Chemical Brothers hit and Leftfield was in the album chart (the Prodigy at number one with Fat Of The Land!) with Leftism.
Golden Eye, Leon and trip hop.
I miss the 90's
the best age
if you haven’t yet, you should definitely look into portishead’s album “dummy”!
it’s from the same scene, but if i were to describe it, while mezzanine feels like a dark back alley in the matrix, dummy feels like a smoky bar in a noir film
you might also recognize their lead singer beth gibbons from the kendrick track “mother i sober”
Yes I can’t wait to dive into portishead ima start the year off with them! Because I have to finish people’s discographies rn and listen to 2024 albums too!
The reggae vocalist is Horace Andy. He’s been singing with them since the very beginning but is a very accomplished artist in his own right.
This album is like a fever dream. Wildest beats with surreal and gentle vocals. Puts me in a trance.
Woww a fever dream is spot on!
Portishead's debut album, Dummy, is another album you absolutely have to check out!
That’s highhhh on my list trust me I can’t wait !!
This album is all about atmosphere, currently replaying it for some weeks and getting to know it better
@@SPACEDOUT19 atmosphere wowww okay I gotta listen while driving and stuff
@@JaKarTV yes its very nocturnal, even better at night
@@JaKarTV with a glass os Scotch or some weed
I wonder what JaKar would think of DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
@@streetsurgery hmmmm who knows 👀👀
He’d think it’s pretty much the greatest shit ever, which it is
@@JaKarTV If you are gonna do DJ Shadow it has to be UNKLE
I'm 54 years old, and this is my all time favorite album EVER. I love Trip-Hop. I'm sad that nobody even knows what that is anymore, and I have to define it. I want more, wish we had more, but will revel in "the old days." Morcheeba, Portishead, geez, could on and on. So I guess I'm an old broad, and yes, I will continue listening to my favorite music.
Many of us know. Maxinquaye - near perfect album - just celebrated an anniversary and Tricky released a reissue. Keeping the trip hop club small it's part of wath makes it so special!
Same
you are a genius man.
It's my favorite album of all time too and I'm just 18. I also love Morcheeba and Portishead and trip-hop in general. So at least I will remember
Massive Attack are leaders in the genre known as "Trip Hop".
Other notable Trip Hop acts include Tricky, Portishead, Thievery Corporation, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Tosca, Sneaker Pimps, Nightmares On Wax, Mr. Scruff, Cinematic Orchestra, Bonobo, etc. All very stoney and cinematic.
Specifically, the song *Teardrop* is about the news of Elizabeth Frazers's ex-boyfriend, Jeff Buckley, dying while they were recording the album. 😢
No wayyy that was her ex husband wow insane smh
@@JaKarTV Ex-boyfriend. They'd been broken up for a few years when he passed away (drowning accident, if I remember correctly). Jeff Buckley also dated Courtney Love at one point. Professional Widow indeed!
FYI it's pronounced "MEZZ-AH-NEEN."
Kay, that out of the way, kick back and enjoy one of the best albums ever.
Aye good lookin 🤞🏽 & Yupp tune in 🔥🔥
@@JaKarTV More like mezz•uh•neen
The thing to understand about this music is the place it comes from and the influences on it. Bristol,where the band is from , is in a very rural area and even though it’s a city it’s quite laidback and slow. The sound sort of reflects that. It also has a large West Indian population, so reggae and dub were massive there and that feeds into the sound along with hip hop but hip hop that’s been slowed down. Add a touch of cinematic soundtrack and you have Massive Attack. I’d also recommend going back and listening to it again after a spliff. It’s a stoner album I think
Haha, kids these days.
This is '98. Five years after the internet dropped. Seven years pre-UA-cam.
We didn't have access to a billion videos, streams, tiktoks, video games. No netflix, no social media.
Attention spans were longer. We had a different approach to entertainment and passing time.
This is pre-smartphone and pre-iPod. You put your album on and let it play.
How artists made music and how we listen is completely different.
I owned a mobile phone when this came out man. And already had computers with Intel 286, 386, 486 and Pentium II. I had to load Windows 3.11 from floppy discs. And I had to choose between internet or the landline telephone...
I'm a dinosaur.
Greatest album of the 90s... so far ahead of its time... so underappreciated.
Trust me, this album got all the appreciation from everyone I ever spoke to about it. It's the sleeper hit of the last century
It's actually critically acclaimed, very appreciated and loved
Maybe not greatest...it's in the mix...but hey...subjectivity
Mezzanine is one of the very few albums I can listen to from beginning to end without skipping a single track. It's been a firm favourite since it was released. Pure class.
❤yeaaas!! I love so much MASSIVE! My favorite band!!!❤❤❤
yea, its chill music, ultimate chill out music, no rush. innovators.
I love that facts!
6:37 The Matrix literally used dissolved girl in the film. Great pickup on that vibe
Every single rap fan ever on first listen to trip hop says the exact same thing 'I wish I could get someone to spit over this track.' It's funny it's so universal, but it's so true. All the atmospheric, downtempo beats make for sick rap tracks. You should check out Tricky. His solo stuff tends to lean more that way.
Here's one of my faves of his (even if he did arguably steal the beat from Portishead)
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So glad you got around to it!! If you like Elizabeth Fraser's vocals that much, perhaps you should listen to her former band Cocteau Twins's album "Heaven or Las Vegas." An album full of her beautiful voice supported by absolutely gorgeous music. It's dream pop. Very heavenly stuff.
@@ijustneedmyself wowwww you know what that’s crazy because I loveee cherry coloured funk! I’m listening to that album tomorrow bet 😱
@@JaKarTV Haha. So you had no idea that's her on Mezzanine?? That's so funny and cool. Btw, I have to say as someone who has been listening to that band for like 15 years, it is weird (but awesome) how I guess social media has made them a thing now amongst Gen Z
@@ijustneedmyselfnaaa I didn’t even put it together 😅😂 & wow really social media did that recently ?! This trip hop is so different
@@JaKarTV Haha too funny. I can only assume social media did that because all of a sudden over the past year reactors have been getting CT requests and it's all for Heaven or Las Vegas! Can't be a coincidence. Also, did you delete my other comment? 🧐 In it I suggested you approach music listening in a different way than you're used to so you can enjoy more different kinds of music.
Thank you. Really. Thank you.
I gotchu Ofcourse 😎🙏🏾
“Teardrop” is a classic song!
Yooo I can see that for sure now!!
Great reaction! I love to see reactions from this album because most people don't know how much it is perfect, even if a bit dark. Trip-hop was knew for its hypnotic sound that was influenced by Jamaican Dub. Horacce Andy (vocal in track Angel; Man next door +), is from Jamaica and he is a very respected artist there for Dub and Reggae. It's just one of my fave albuns! Blue lines is also another great album to discover.
The sublime male voice is Horris Andy. Legend!
Wowww 🔥🔥
Love that you mentioned the train, I was riding around the tube trains in London listening to this heaps when I had a trip over there a few years back, still haven’t been over to their home town and creation point of trip-hop Bristol but next time I’m in the UK I wanna try catch some live music there.
Also my pfp is from their debut Blue Lines and that’s quite the album too, very different from this but imo equally as good, one of my fav albums along with Mezzanine.
So cool fam! In that environment headphones on this album gotta go crazy 🔥🔥
legends. Gotta check if you've done portishead yet, if not. The album 'dummy' is a must
Yess I can’t wait ! Towards end of the year 🔥🔥
Great album, cool choice to react to!
@@streetsurgery that’s real fam 🔥
You should definitely check out their first album Blue Lines, it’s much more concise and hip hop themed, think you’d enjoy it more
Yes, I was doing some trippy shit to this! If you're into exploring more trip-hop, I'd highly recommend Morcheeba 's first 2 albums Who can you trust? and Big Calm - classics from the same era.
It's an atmospheric album. There's can't be 3 min tracks. You need to chill and come down.
When u said it reminds u of Trip Hop and the matrix, I couldn't agree more. They literally have one of their songs in the first matrix movie.
Awesome album❤
The whole Bristol scene was banging back then....any tips on new music would be appreciated
btw one of the main trio - Robert del Naja - is who everyone's pretty sure is Banksy
and ya we was doin acid and ecstasy to this
LCD Soundsystem, This is Happening next 😂
sound of silver is my personal fav
@@oldchucks what’s this?! 👀👀
@@archocystosyrinx you love it ?! 👀
Oh yeah, amazing album and more up beat, I'd love to see a reaction to anything LCD Soundsystem
I think sound of silver is a better way to being introduced to the band, but he definitely need to listen do both eventually
This band was ONE of the artists responsible for that “Bristol Sound”, named so because of the area of Britain these artists originated from. Other trip hop artists worth checking out would be Portishead, Goldie, Sneaker Pimps, Tricky, and Morcheeba.. A very underrated genre of music, for sure. Early era The Prodigy, is an outfit that came on the scene a little later on, but had a definite impact on Trip Hop and EDM. ENJOY THE 🐇 🕳️!
We were definitely faded listening to this!
Yoo I bet 😂🔥
Back in the day "Man Next Door" didn't stand out to me. However, when I learned that it's a cover of a reggae song from the 60's and that the drum sample is from Led Zeppelin, my appreciation increased greatly.
If you want to go deeper into the 90s Bristol underground scene you should check out Portishead, Tricky & Roni Size. This whole scene was big into Es and trips.
From Wikipedia
"The Bristol underground scene is a cultural movement in Bristol, England, beginning in the early 1980s. The scene was born out of a lack of mainstream clubs catering for the emergence of hip hop music, with street and underground parties a mainstay. Crews formed playing hip hop in disused venues with sound systems borrowed from the reggae scene: City Rockers, 2 Bad, 2 Tuff, KC Rock, UD4, FBI, Dirty Den, Juice Crew, Rene & Bacus, Soul Twins, KC Rock, Fresh 4, and the Wild Bunch were among them. These names were the precursors to the more well known names that came from this scene.[1] It is characterized by musicians and graffiti artists. The scene was influenced by the city's multiculturalism, political activism, and the arts movements of punk, reggae, hip hop, hippies and new age.[2]"
When this came out it definitely opened up an even darker side to them. It’s a masterpiece. Maybe a switch from the more soulful tracks of earlier albums. A little dirtier. A little heavier. But undeniably them, and a stone cold classic. And yes, rhymes with “bean” or “seen”. What genre? Trip hop.
This is a stone cold classic. Great listen all the way through. Liz Fraser's voice is like the breath of God, however all the vocalists on this 100% nail it.Check out their first album Blue Lines, waaaay ahead of it's time.
Definitely ahead of their time for sure !! I’m shocked by that!!
this album is greatttt
@@divaexperimental a pioneer for sure !
This will seem like a bit of a left field suggestion, as this artist didn't break outside of the UK, but please check out SBTRKT by SBTRKT. Dope producer, a close and early collaborator of Sampha who's featured on four tracks on this album. Some of the best R&B/UK bass/dub 2step music ever.
They are pretty amazing live, much much heavier, some songs become straight up heavy rock during some of the breakdowns… but yeah, as others on here have mentioned, DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing or Private Press are both ridiculously good. TripHop was what was called ‘sofa surfing’ music, it has more in common with Jazz and psychedelic rock than dance floor tunes.
The vibes on this album give off Fight Club and The Matrix at the same time idk why. Fucking classic.
Yooo so true 🔥🔥
they were in the soundtrack of the matrix!! good music
Woww I knew it!!
You gotta do love spirals downwards - Flux album
notification got me cheesing
@@skoogadoo Yoo that’s mad dope lmao
Portishead and Tricky is also very good
Portishead is up next for sure!
Hey JaKar, have you ever listened to SWANS? They're an experimental rock band known for their intense and often lengthy compositions, so I don’t think you would necessarily like it or want to listen to it because their albums are like 2 hours long and songs go up to 30 minutes. But for me personally, their music feels unlike anything else; it just moves you to another place. But again, I don’t really expect you to react to it or anything-maybe check it out in your free time if you ever feel like challenging your taste. Some of the best music out there, in my opinion.
Hey fam na I never have ! Remind me in the future ! Have a lot of albums to do rn 😅but wowww 2 hrs long & 30 mins sheeshhhh!!! I might have to listen in my own time 💀🔥
This is a top tier album for night driving.
Yoo I can see that!!
I had my CD player with 30 second skip protection walking around feeling tripped out with no chemical assistance. It's called trip hop. The music is the trip.
Also, the lyrics are up for debate, we listened to whatever we heard back in the day. I don't care what the Official ones are, there's so much more without subtitles! Love love isn't fair, love is a doing word I'm fine with but the "Feel the sun rise, pray" is my big one. I danced all night back then, never did any drugs. Not even religious. "Tear drop on the fire, fade". Having a subbed video makes the whole experience wrong.
People will call it trip hop, but that does not mean much, its really "Bristol Sound". This album sounds like walking through the centre of Bristol ,all the different musical influences, you will hear coming from windows if you walked through St Pauls in the centre of Bristol. Their other albums, to a lesser degree, but this album in particular...it actually sounds like the city , its hard to explain.
But trip hop to me(I am from Bristol and a musician for context) , you have the Bristol thing, and then people like Morcheeba and Sneaker Pimps who are not from Bristol but I guess were influenced by the Bristol bands , because when you really break it down, the Bristol bands are all very different(Portishead, Tricky, Massive attack, Smith & Mighty), but they have common threads , which are basically Dub and Hip Hop and some rockmetal influence (excl Smith & Mighty, although they do have the dub/hip hop influence)
I would say almost by copying the Bristol bands, Morcheeba and Sneaker Pimps lost what it was really about and its some what a caricature of what the Bristol bands were doing, because it did not organically spring out of a geographical scene.
As good as both are, they are trying to recreate something they can never fully do, because the bands they are emulating were organic products of the Bristol environment, also the atmosphere of the city is very much reflected in likes of Portishead, Tricky, Massive attack, Smith & Mighty, where as Sneaker Pimps and Morcheeba dont have that.
If you are not from Bristol then maybe none of this matters, but if you are the 4 groups from Bristol I mentioned hit different, and hit on a deeper level. But the point of me saying this is to kind of highlight the genre "trip Hop" is quite vague, and really contains many different sounds and approaches, instruments, decks etc, to me the genre does not mean much(as in the label), there is the Bristol 90's sound and the bands that copied it (all music in the 90's Bristol scene, even the metal has Dub/hip hop aspects running through it at this time)
Your favorite rappers are Kendrick and Soul? Soul so underrated. See this why I fw you. Oh and Mezzanine is an all time favorite of mine, glad you found it.
@@dutchmastah07 Soul is tooo underrated!! I fw you too brodee 💯👏🏽
Dude, I've listened to any Jack White album, he's phenomenal.
Wowww I never have yet ! I keep hearing great things !
@@JaKarTVDude you won't regret it, he's very talented
Funfact : Teardrop is the intro of House M.D!!
Wowww no way!!
Lol, one of these tracks, Dissolved Girl, IS in The Matrix. Knock, knock Neo scene
@@Theinfamouskira Lmaoo aye I had a feeling!! Such a classic!
Are we gonna introduce our man to "Portishead " I think so
Yuppp 😏
Teardrop is the opening credits theme to House M.D.
I’m loving that song a lot more now!!
_ You know? In MA web the lyrics of 'Teardrop' says "Feathers on my breath". The singer is Elisabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil).
_ Horace Andy is a living reggae legend.
_ The list of colabs with invited singers is long and includes: Damon Albarn, Sinnead O'Connor, Madonna, Bowie...
_ I attended a gig this summer and I can swear is one of the best shows I've ever watched AND a direct visual political speech putting the finger in the eyes of Biden, Putin, Satanyahu, Elon... _ _ They are highly compromised with ecology, against wars and abuses of power.
_ Songs by Massive Attack are never long, could last for a decade and they will be all right.
_ They sample a lot and they do some covers as well.
_ Robert Del Naja, the white guy, is an artist who paint, photograph and do graphic design
_ Some of us want to believe that he is the mind behind a band of street artists working under the name Banksy.
You should check out to Tricky. That's the OST of a shared joint.
It's kyliey M not björk
Bro you should react to albums Lateralus by Tool, and L’enfant Sauvage by Gojira🔥
Tool is on my list when I finish off deftones!!
if u ain't done this yet u gotta react to panchiko's album d>e>a>t>h>m>e>t>a>l im getting into it myself it's really good
You're gonna listen to this again walking through the city at night after smoking a blunt and it will hit different, I guarantee it. Sitting behind a desk, yeah many tracks have more filler than necessary.
What I's doin i. 98 with this album: Blunt n walk...bus rides...fuckin'...blunt n brew or booze...goin to bed...playin video games on mute (any combo of these things)
Mannn that’s the vibe see this gotta be the vibe for it !!
Listen to Ojerime - Bad Influence its a dopeeeeeeeee
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House M D
yo are you planning on reacting to more suicideboys albums in the future? those were my fav videos of yours im ngl
@@imbatts yea Wednesday Ima do their Houston album 🔥👀
@@JaKarTV bet that, i got notis so youll see me there fs
@@imbattsthat’s love fam ! Eternal grey next up
11:15 pause 😂
Aww man 💀
you need to listen to nicki minaj's "the pinkprint". im telling you right now that this album will change your perspective on her. it's her most vulnerable album to date and it's sooooo good. i promise, give it a chance!
These albums were NEVER an analytical headphone listen for me...rather listen on big hifi system, unhurried...you gotta let that sub-bass breathe, move some air and you just melt into the sofa on an idle Sunday 😁👌 I tell you, that's how you gotta experience the likes of their album Blue Lines. And a deeper level...whack on Portishead's album 'Dummy' 🔥 (Personal experience: A few occasions listened to Blue Lines on the sofa with lady friend to chill...when it gets to the track 'Lately'...clothes coming OFF to that hot slow vibe. Tried and tested results from the lab...do what you will with this intel 🤔😁)
I mean no hate by this, but I feel like you bounced off this album hard because you had expectations for what it would be and did not take it for what it is. You fairly consistently criticized it for not being something that it just isn't.
I respect that fam ! Yea a different setting thjs album can definitely hit me differently!
Massive Attack is all about the atmosphere. If you're looking for deep lyrics you're bound to be disappointed.
No no no, no 3 minutes songs :). They are not meant to entertain. Check drum'n' bass too, Goldie "Timeless", in case you haven't.
Check Love and Rockets "Deep deep down" (10 minutes) 😁
Check Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (great rock'n'roll band)
Timeless +1
Not depth in the lyrics? Massive Attack makes multi layered lyrics, its like a drug rush in poetry. I love them and I respect you taste of course, but been a fan of them so long and they has always been my comfort from the song Safe From Harm year 1991.
I respect that for sure I appreciate your insight 💯🙏🏾
You should listen to Tricky Maxinquay
Can you react to I Prevail, True Power
Somehow it Still sounds futuristic 🤷
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It is such a shame that you struggle to listen to music that isn’t full of lyrics. It means you’re finding it hard to feel the music and need to be guided by words as to what to think. So sad. Unable to get into a zone and just feel the music. And it’s down to the music you grew up listening to and surround yourself with throughout your life. And my guess is, it’s songs that are all about the words (however awful they may be) and not about the music. The instrumentation. It’s just a sign of the times and it’s such a shame. People have no attention spans, no focus and no imagination these days. I’m not old I’m in my 30s but thankfully my parents always got me listening to music, rather than just trashy ‘popular music’. Classical music would go completely above your head wouldn’t it? You would have literally no idea how to process the music. So sad.
i think you're reading way too much into that, and even if you weren't, this shit sounds condescending as fuck. don't talk down to people like that, it's off putting
A lot of the longer tracks back then where built for mixing. The tail end allowed the less talented to do it easier
It's a great album alright, but I personally prefer the first two ones, Blue Lines and Protection. They're far more enjoyable imo, I've always found Mezzanine to be a bit too gloomy for its own good.
Props on pronouncing the umlaut in Björk btw 👍
Ayeee I finally said her name right! Lmao & yes veryyy gloomy hmm
Seminal album.
Not having the shocked/surprised pic on the thumbnail made me click. But dont play dumb, it takes two seconds to google the pronunciation.
Listen to Reanimation by Linkin Park already
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