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  • @iximusic
    @iximusic  23 дні тому +80

    For song & album requests and to support my channel and musical projects, please consider joining my Patreon (I can't monetize my videos): www.patreon.com/iximusic 🙌 You can also commission me to analyze your original music or do a piano cover. 🎹 And I teach private & group lessons, do film/video game scoring, and music transcriptions 🎶 TIPS: www.buymeacoffee.com/iximusic 💄Many of you asked about Portishead - check out this Dummy listening party free on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/portishead-party-62816321

    • @romainroger734
      @romainroger734 21 день тому +2

      "Closer to the 100th window ..." take care 😉! Great song like many others from MA ...

    • @CalumCarlyle
      @CalumCarlyle 20 днів тому +3

      21:50 "trip hop" is probably the genre you want, for this kind of thing.

    • @RussJohnsConnects
      @RussJohnsConnects 19 днів тому +1

      Trip hop love it

    • @covox7074
      @covox7074 18 днів тому +2

      I would love to see your take on Still Life by Gazelle Twin

    • @MtLeboMP
      @MtLeboMP 12 днів тому

      MA's "Angel" underneath Jason Statham's monologue in Snatch is ...as another posted... one of the best uses of this 1998 track in a soundtrack (27 other times collectively in film, tv, and commercials, and/or events).

  • @briandavidgregory
    @briandavidgregory 25 днів тому +557

    This whole album is just amazing

    • @hilmarkoerner2603
      @hilmarkoerner2603 25 днів тому +11

      wanted to write the same! I remember this was on continuous play for weeks when I discovered it. Mesmerizing! Oh god, the nuances in every little sound....It's creeping on you ...
      my favorite on the album is 'Man Next Door'

    • @palpytine
      @palpytine 25 днів тому +6

      As are all their albums. Most especially the tracks with guest female vocalists.

    • @James-J-J-J
      @James-J-J-J 24 дні тому +3

      Massive Attack are amazing. Love them!

    • @rabbithole1227
      @rabbithole1227 24 дні тому +3

      @@palpytineyes… RIP Sinead O’Connor. What Your Soul Sings is one of my favorites.

    • @weedanwine
      @weedanwine 23 дні тому

      Yup Incredible

  • @otdewiljes
    @otdewiljes 25 днів тому +484

    Before 'Netflix and chill' there was 'Mezzanine and chill'.

    • @MyNameIsBucket
      @MyNameIsBucket 24 дні тому +15

      And Enigma before that...

    • @jackbadger3976
      @jackbadger3976 24 дні тому +5

      there was never any chill...

    • @rideitalia
      @rideitalia 24 дні тому +6

      “Chill”, like an animal…

    • @gcolombelli
      @gcolombelli 24 дні тому +19

      Portishead live at roseland is a great one also.

    • @rip0v
      @rip0v 23 дні тому +3

      iykyk

  • @theshakyproject2971
    @theshakyproject2971 24 дні тому +245

    This album and Portishead's Dummy are what turned me on to Trip-Hop. I first heard Teardrop on a Pure Moods compilation CD. Then Sour Times in the film, Killing Time. I didn't know what that sound was called, but I needed to ingest all of it. From there, it was Bjork, Sneaker Pimps, Tricky, DJ Shadow, Morcheeba, Hooverphonic, Goldfrapp, etc. I couldn't get enough.

    • @JDsHouseofHobbies
      @JDsHouseofHobbies 22 дні тому +4

      YES!!!

    • @EdgyNumber1
      @EdgyNumber1 22 дні тому +3

      A pair of interesting compilations you should check out, 'Fused' and 'Wired' featuring not just trip-hop but a lot of break beat music that was going on about that time. There was heck of a lot of fusion in different types of music back in the mid-late 90's.

    • @cliffhughes6010
      @cliffhughes6010 22 дні тому +7

      I'm a child of the 1960s who grew up with The Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Hendrix, Led Zep, Motown etc.
      But the 1990s with Massive Attack and the other bands you mention, not forgetting Radiohead, is the only era that compares.

    • @EdgyNumber1
      @EdgyNumber1 22 дні тому +3

      @@cliffhughes6010 Honestly, there was just so much going on in the 1990's particularly in the UK where everyone was just mixing everything up and creating new genres and subgenres, whether it was rock based, electronic based... or a mixture of the two. The music you describe of your youth is awesome too, some great names in there. Of the early Motown stuff I was always addicted to the tunes with the heavy use of that gorgeous detuned (upwards) bass guitar they used in a lot of their recordings.

    • @albertrobles2498
      @albertrobles2498 21 день тому +2

      I also had that Pure Moods cd.

  • @spyrule
    @spyrule 15 днів тому +23

    Legitimately, one of the best single albums ever made. pure sound scape

  • @bobseashols517
    @bobseashols517 24 дні тому +220

    This album is 28 YEARS OLD yet seems just as good today.

    • @JH-lo9ut
      @JH-lo9ut 23 дні тому +7

      Can you give me something as good as this, but made in the last decade?
      (This is both a rhetorical question and and actual request.)

    • @bobseashols517
      @bobseashols517 23 дні тому +9

      @@JH-lo9ut Tool.

    • @iximusic
      @iximusic  23 дні тому +22

      I have a few recs! Kiasmos (self titled), Om Unit - Threads, SOHN - Rennen, MADANII & LLUCID - Sober, Deftones - Ohms, Metric - Art of Doubt

    • @scaberouswretch3673
      @scaberouswretch3673 22 дні тому +11

      It’s 26 years.
      Album was released on 20th April 1998.

    • @sickenideon
      @sickenideon 22 дні тому +1

      Yeah it's from 1998 so will be 26y in a few

  • @rw9207
    @rw9207 19 днів тому +71

    28 years young and still punches as hard as the day it hit like a chilled out freight train!

    • @MrArchie800
      @MrArchie800 18 днів тому +2

      No no no!! Was that really 28 yrs? Fuuuuuuuuuuuu#k!!!!!!!!

    • @gabrielhunter3351
      @gabrielhunter3351 17 днів тому +1

      Seriously!! ?It can't be....😱 Hahaha

    • @rw9207
      @rw9207 17 днів тому +1

      @@gabrielhunter3351 Yes f***ing seriously! lol

    • @marijnr
      @marijnr 16 днів тому

      2024-1998=26

    • @rw9207
      @rw9207 16 днів тому

      @@marijnr Thanks for the correction, Captain Pedantic. I'm sure this will change the outlook to my entire day.... or the 10 seconds why I type this.

  • @stopmikeandjim3196
    @stopmikeandjim3196 25 днів тому +130

    This album is the audio equivalent of Vantablack. It's so dark it seems to suck the light out of the room

    • @pulykamell
      @pulykamell 23 дні тому +2

      Your second sentence is exactly how I’ve been describing this album since I first heard it.

    • @good_king_guitarman1334
      @good_king_guitarman1334 22 дні тому +2

      Listen to it in the dark, then it becomes an experience.

    •  19 днів тому

      Nah, the equivalent of Vantablack is The Black Hit Of Space. It didn't just go to number one, it went into minus figures.
      ;-)

    • @d3j4v00
      @d3j4v00 18 днів тому +1

      I dig the poetry of your sentence but i can't perceive it as dark at all. It's so warm and full and uplifting, like being the golden yolk of an egg.

  • @HelderP83
    @HelderP83 25 днів тому +210

    And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how you start a video.

    • @mleg7104
      @mleg7104 24 дні тому +4

      Exactly! - Thanks to Ixi for the uninterrupted run from start to finish, that allows us to fully appreciate this glorious track. Obligatory!

    • @SaumBodhi
      @SaumBodhi 23 дні тому +1

      Yes

    • @crow-dont-know
      @crow-dont-know 23 дні тому +5

      This will often flag the video for copyright violation, so you have to be careful

    • @emulus4000
      @emulus4000 17 днів тому

      @@crow-dont-know She literally put in the description that due to copyright laws, she can't make money from the video. She knows what she's doing

    • @thumper1747
      @thumper1747 17 днів тому +1

      Wasn’t this used in Snatch?

  • @CrashTestPilot
    @CrashTestPilot 17 днів тому +13

    My favorite memory of this is, a bunch of us laying out on the floating dock watching the stars on mushrooms.

  • @jamestaggart2663
    @jamestaggart2663 15 днів тому +12

    Everyone who grew up in the 90s had 3 albums on CD, without fail:
    1. Fat Boy Slim - You've come along way
    2. Prodigy - Fat of the Land
    3. Massive Attack - Mezzanine

  • @benedictnothing
    @benedictnothing 25 днів тому +136

    The singer is Horace Andy, a proper roots reggae guy from back in the 60s who works a lot with Massive Attack and plays live with them, and weirdly this song is a cover/rework of one of his old songs. You should hear his original (You Are My Angel); it's great but feels weird when this is the version you're most familiar with.

  • @chimpana
    @chimpana 24 дні тому +34

    I was at university in Bristol when this was released. Same time Banksy was starting to put his stuff all over town, and Portishead were doing their thing. Great music scene in the city at the time.

    • @IanMcCausland
      @IanMcCausland 22 дні тому +5

      same time as Banksy eh?... maybe the same ? 🙂

    • @shortsightedfarseer4350
      @shortsightedfarseer4350 19 днів тому

      Same for me. Friend had a really good hi-fi setup, I remember driving into town to buy this when it came out and going back to his to listen to it. We just looked at each other with our jaws on the floor when this kicked in.

    • @bsmith6646
      @bsmith6646 3 дні тому

      ​@@IanMcCauslandha!

  • @leaningtower73
    @leaningtower73 25 днів тому +184

    The whole Mezzanine is for me one of the best albums of all times along with Sergent Pepper's, Dark Side of the Moon, Nevermind, Violator, Ok Computer.
    What a masterpiece that blends electronic music, soul, dark industrial, trip hop, new age!

    • @danielhenderson3753
      @danielhenderson3753 25 днів тому +1

      Agree!

    • @echambers1112
      @echambers1112 24 дні тому +6

      That is a hell of a list.

    • @JimmySchwietert
      @JimmySchwietert 23 дні тому +8

      Add Air's Moon Safari. Brilliant album

    • @neobscura
      @neobscura 23 дні тому +2

      Reading this makes me happy because that's how I feel about it but I never voiced it in fear of being judged "are you serious now ?".

    • @basslightyeah
      @basslightyeah 23 дні тому +5

      Hell yes! The final minutes of Group Four are such a phenomenal full circle moment, similar to Eclipse on Dark Side of the Moon

  • @aristideau5072
    @aristideau5072 14 днів тому +34

    hands down the 90's really had the best music ever

    • @CB-nd9ki
      @CB-nd9ki 9 днів тому +1

      In this genre I have to agree, early 90's though

    • @user-hg3iv5hy3s
      @user-hg3iv5hy3s 8 днів тому +1

      Yes the trip hop bunch was 🔥
      Even some acid jazz and early drum n bass

    • @user-hg3iv5hy3s
      @user-hg3iv5hy3s 8 днів тому +2

      Oh wait and then the avant- pop and folk was good too
      Bjork
      PJ Harvey
      Jeff Buckley
      Boards of Canada
      Tricky
      Tori Amos (golden Era)
      Michele NDegeocello

    • @vocecaiunocontodomalakoi7541
      @vocecaiunocontodomalakoi7541 6 днів тому

      @@user-hg3iv5hy3s Also the metal scene, black and death metal expanding, alternative, groove metal with pantera, industrial getting bigger, avant garde acts, neurosis started post metal, sludge and stoner getting bigger than ever, so much great stuff

    • @user-hg3iv5hy3s
      @user-hg3iv5hy3s 6 днів тому

      Oh how could I forget Pantera!!
      Now I need to go listen to Planet Caravan

  • @rld1982
    @rld1982 25 днів тому +82

    I always feel like this song is the sound of inevitability

    • @theshakyproject2971
      @theshakyproject2971 24 дні тому +10

      "Goodbye, Mr. Anderson." :)

    • @gearoidosullivan356
      @gearoidosullivan356 24 дні тому +1

      It does have a sense of foreboding alight. I love the slow build of the intro.
      If you're not familiar with it, you should check out FOREST SWORDS - PANIC. it is a bit more upbeat, but also uses that low bass to create an unsettling feeling building up.

    • @glacieractivity
      @glacieractivity 23 дні тому +1

      Thank you, my friend. I have been searching for a word for some decades.

    • @antdujar
      @antdujar 20 днів тому +1

      It’s funny, because “dissolve girl” is in the first matrix movie when neo wakes up from his desk to Morpheus’s message. But this song could easily be Agent Smith’s theme of inevitability 🤘🏽

    • @miked1869
      @miked1869 15 днів тому +1

      @@theshakyproject2971"my name... is NEO!"

  • @wradar
    @wradar 20 днів тому +21

    This song’s pairing with the arson scene in Snatch is A+ musical and cinematic direction. (TBH, the whole soundtrack rocks.)

  • @neptunethemystic
    @neptunethemystic 19 днів тому +26

    That bassline bleeds all over the drums like the nectar straight from the flower of aphrodiate herself! 🌺

  • @Sonsequence
    @Sonsequence 22 дні тому +19

    One of my sound engineering teachers played this to the class and explained that he uses it to test the bass response of any sound system he works with.

  • @DaveBloodstream
    @DaveBloodstream 24 дні тому +39

    Being using this song as an alarm tone on my phone for the past 10 years or so... Doesn't matter how little you have slept, this song never makes me wake up in a bad mood, and the way it builds up is great to not get totally shocked out of slumber. I really recommend it

    • @Audio_Simon
      @Audio_Simon 22 дні тому +3

      What? Why not "wake me up before you go go" lol 😅

  • @Roymunson_
    @Roymunson_ 23 дні тому +30

    Horace gets away with limited notes because his delivery flirts with the home location of each note. Sometimes sharp, sometimes flat, sometimes oscillating between both over a single held note. So he may sing "around" 3 notes but the performance uses like a dozen microtones that make it hypnotizing. Always reminded me of a very beautiful Mongolian chant in the way the notes modulate and avoid staying in one place for too long.

  • @NowellValeri
    @NowellValeri 24 дні тому +46

    First time I heard this song my life changed. My girlfriend of the time didn't think Mezzanine was all that great. So I stole her CD and never gave it back. I still have it 😂

  • @MagnusMFX
    @MagnusMFX 25 днів тому +45

    Immediately from the bassline, serotonin kicked in for me

  • @DeeNimmin
    @DeeNimmin 15 днів тому +8

    "It prowls" Perfect.

  • @horseenthusiast1250
    @horseenthusiast1250 25 днів тому +66

    The whole album is simply AMAZING. I really need to get the cd. It's a weird way to describe it, but this song sounds like liquid velvet to me. Or the comfortable disquiet of being in your pajamas at noon, knowing you're not leaving your little apartment anytime soon, and looking out past the curtains at a foggy day already half-over.

    • @realraven2000
      @realraven2000 24 дні тому +1

      Also check out protection. It will blow your mind.

    • @neobscura
      @neobscura 23 дні тому +1

      That's a way better description than I came with but that's it. The bass support the whole thing but the drums and all the guitar ambiance just slide over it like texture, very controlled texture. It's a must have imo. It's their best album, the second closest to that feeling is 100th window on SOME tracks, but it doesn't feel as genuine somehow.

    • @realraven2000
      @realraven2000 23 дні тому

      @@neobscura 100th window is also amazing, kills me every time. I think a lot is owed to the way Massive Attack uses "clashing" harmonies or modes (on top of having really memorable textures). "What your Soul sings" is the most amazing composition of that decade imho; Sinead O'Connor + Massive is just a killer team all around.

    • @neobscura
      @neobscura 23 дні тому

      @@realraven2000 There are some great songs on it, but I felt like it was just Robert Del Naja flexing. It felt "overworked" for lack of a better word. Idk I'm not good at explaining it but it felt so far away from Mezzanine which was a cohesive, organic masterpiece.
      To me it boils down to two sentiments: Mezzanine was an oppressive deep sound with expertly placed tickling sound while 100th window felt like something with less soul and an overwhelming amount of "tick and tss". I suck at descriptions I know. Mezzanine was nourishing, 100th was all texture.
      "Sinead O'Connor + Massive is just a killer team all around." I've to agree on this though, it's one of the few songs on this album to hit the mark.

    • @annettecorbett9842
      @annettecorbett9842 23 дні тому

      I love this description! (Especiakly since I am actually in my PJs right now, looking out on a misty mid afternoon)

  • @educostanzo
    @educostanzo 25 днів тому +67

    This is the album I always pick to test headphones and speakers. The sound is crystal clear, one of my favorite productions ever
    A ton of dub influence on this one too, with all the weird delays and accents, what makes total sense having Horace Andy on the vocals

    • @cyclonasaurusrex1525
      @cyclonasaurusrex1525 25 днів тому +1

      How did I never think of this? Great idea!

    • @TheOriginalHairyDave
      @TheOriginalHairyDave 25 днів тому +3

      Me too. It's been my go to bass tester for 25 years.

    • @horseenthusiast1250
      @horseenthusiast1250 25 днів тому +3

      Hey, same! That, or Björk's "All Is Full Of Love" if I'm short for time (amazing range in the version that's got the bassy beat! Between that beat and the shimmering instrumentals, it really tests the high and low end of the speaker's range). Right now they're all telling me that my Victrola record/cd/tape player kinda has shit speakers :( but my new headphones and my shower speaker work great!

    • @stevecarter8810
      @stevecarter8810 24 дні тому +3

      Yeah, it's like British dub reggae at its core, with elements from rock, indie and hip hop adorning the surface

    • @Intermernet
      @Intermernet 22 дні тому +3

      A couple of other recommendations:
      Skylined (part 2 of The Narcotic Suite) from Music For The Jilted Generation by The Prodigy is the ultimate bass response test. There's a bass synth that fires every 4 bars from near the beginning of the track. It plays one note that descends rapidly below the threshold of human hearing, and pushes speakers to destruction.
      Derezzed (Glitch Mob remix) from the Tron Legacy - Reconfigured album. Remixes of Daft Punk's soundtrack to Tron Legacy. It has an amazing frequency distribution with just the right mix of crisp high-end, hard transients and heavy bass to really test any speakers or headphones.

  • @alejandroprc
    @alejandroprc 23 дні тому +22

    The sound of the baseline building up at the beginning and the first kick, rimshot, and hi-hat…sonic perfection. One of the best song intros IMO.

    • @GavinHewitt
      @GavinHewitt 19 днів тому

      Most of it comes from the incredible brain of Neil Davidge

  • @jdblueemerald
    @jdblueemerald 18 днів тому +7

    Mezzanine, in my opinion, is one of the best 20 albums of all time. Pure genius at work in it.

  • @spamfilter32
    @spamfilter32 24 дні тому +13

    This song is an incredible example of minimalism and how powerful that can be in music.

  • @LikeWhatever
    @LikeWhatever 23 дні тому +33

    They tapped into something special when they made this album. Protection is up there for me as well.

    • @zazenit
      @zazenit 16 днів тому +1

      Also No Protection - Mad Professors dub version is magical

    • @Gee-xb7rt
      @Gee-xb7rt 14 днів тому

      Have you heard Everything But the Girl"s album from last year, Fuse? It's very good.

    • @LikeWhatever
      @LikeWhatever 13 днів тому +1

      @@Gee-xb7rt One or two songs, not the whole thing yet. I liked what I heard.

    • @Gee-xb7rt
      @Gee-xb7rt 13 днів тому

      @@LikeWhatever just on another thread with someone trying to defend Grimes, lol. Don't want to sound mean, or like "kids these days" but I don't get a lot of what passes as music these days.

    • @LikeWhatever
      @LikeWhatever 13 днів тому

      @Gee-xb7rt I don't get a lot of it either. There's good stuff to find but sometimes you have to search for it.

  • @MolloyPolloy
    @MolloyPolloy 17 днів тому +7

    I saw massive attack perfrom this in the Olympia theater in Dublin the year the album came out. Stunning.

  • @ChuckWasHere
    @ChuckWasHere 24 дні тому +43

    R.I.P. Angelo Bruschini. This song would be nothing without his playing.

    • @kadinnui2282
      @kadinnui2282 23 дні тому +4

      I don't understand how he is not talked about among guitarists. It's nothing complicated, I know, but come on! All his work with MA is just so perfect.

    • @ericclemens8420
      @ericclemens8420 21 день тому +5

      Absolutely. Let's pay tribute to Angelo Bruschini who died last year, who "reinvented the electric guitar" in this piece.

  • @Mfleshwound
    @Mfleshwound 25 днів тому +27

    Important to note that they pull all this off live perfectly

  • @KenJustken
    @KenJustken 23 дні тому +8

    These are my words for this song: Hopeful, ominous , breathy, contentious. You are great.

  • @qwqwqwqw99
    @qwqwqwqw99 21 день тому +11

    I used to play this album a lot for my passengers when i was a lyft driver. Most people didn't care but once in a while someone would really feel it.

  • @Ryan_Q3L
    @Ryan_Q3L 24 дні тому +12

    I worked at the Camelot Music store in my local mall.... when this album came out I played it over the loud speakers in the store. I turned it up really loud and when that first high-hat and drum hit, everyone in the store freaked. I was hooked.

  • @matthiaskoehler1504
    @matthiaskoehler1504 2 дні тому +1

    I had the privilege to hear and see this live in Hamburg Germany at 2001 or 2002, I don`t remember.
    The most impressive Live Act I ever experienced!

  • @florabee9283
    @florabee9283 21 день тому +6

    I was being re-calibrated at a ketamine clinic and they said I had to bring my own music. I chose Mezzanine. I'm healed now

  • @miracleofsound
    @miracleofsound 23 дні тому +4

    Love your vids! Mezzanine is one of my favorite albums of all time. Such a thick, dark, beautiful atmosphere from start to finish, a masterpiece :)

  • @danielhenderson3753
    @danielhenderson3753 25 днів тому +24

    The major 2nd in the bassline is what I would call "profound". A similar effect as when the sharp 4th hits in the whole note scale. And the bass guitar pulls the attention away from the 2nd note to de-emphasize it. In my experience getting away with those dissonances is all about emphasis and balance. A brilliant choice. The drums are so inspired. I like a nice layered beat. Huge snare and a click resembling a rimshot but even tighter.

    • @CedricJustice
      @CedricJustice 24 дні тому +1

      Oh, hi, Daniel! Also, that bass is detuned to C. That makes it even more profound.

    • @blehblehbleh86
      @blehblehbleh86 24 дні тому

      I was going to say the exact same thing.

  • @Amathene
    @Amathene 25 днів тому +12

    Absolutely one of the greatest songs on one of the greatest albums ever.

  • @elmostachojuanoh
    @elmostachojuanoh 23 дні тому +22

    The fact that as a 1st time listener of the piece, you allowed youself and the video to just start with the whole song is very much appreciated, thanks!

    • @iximusic
      @iximusic  23 дні тому +5

      It was not my first listen, sorry for any confusion! This is an excerpt from a listening party on my Patreon but I'm glad people are enjoying the lack of spoken intro. Maybe I'll do that in future videos!

    • @elmostachojuanoh
      @elmostachojuanoh 23 дні тому +5

      @@iximusic Oh sorry for my wording, i meant i appreciate it myself as someone who is actually listening for the first time*
      Glad you are considering keeping it, since it is great for accesibility and an incentive for viewers to blindly click on any analysis, and it fits with your pacing too!

    • @davebox588
      @davebox588 19 днів тому

      ​@@iximusic please, no intro. I always skip through those anyway. Being able to listen to the whole track before the analysis makes this for me the second best analysis I've seen on YT (best was recreating "Clubbed to Death" {Rob Dougan} from scratch.)

  • @bsmith6646
    @bsmith6646 3 дні тому +1

    Saw them live when this came oit at the old London Arena..what a gig, what an album!

  • @mylivetubetv
    @mylivetubetv 6 днів тому +1

    We just had the producer / co-writer of Massive Attack on our show and he told us the history of how this song began as a cover of a specific song by The Clash.
    Good to see this song featured here.

  • @veerchasm1
    @veerchasm1 19 днів тому +10

    Mezzanine is probably my favorite album from the 90’s

    • @rogerbrook9081
      @rogerbrook9081 16 днів тому

      Leftism is THE album form the 90s, though this is a close second

  • @Luemm3l
    @Luemm3l 24 дні тому +3

    this song is iconic, brings back so many memories, it was in movies, series, video games, but the whole vibe is city at night, you are striving alone through the conrete jungle... there is nothing over UK trip hop, bands like this, Portishead and a lot of others more... just musical magic to me.

  • @davidellis5141
    @davidellis5141 25 днів тому +12

    Teardrop with Liz Fraser ( Cocteau Twins ) on vocals is as good ! The album is essential 👌

  • @surferdjnj
    @surferdjnj 24 дні тому +7

    So for a while Massive Attack was everywhere but people didn't realize it. The beginning of Inertia Creeps was used in a Victorias Secret ad campaign, Teardrop is the opening credits for House the American TV show with Hugh Lorie, Angel was used in the TV show The West Wing, the episode where Zoe Bartlet gets kidnapped. There were a few more commercials that sampled their music but not remembering right now.
    Great video choice!!!

    • @iximusic
      @iximusic  24 дні тому +3

      Dissolved Girl was in The Matrix!

    • @pkpmendez3
      @pkpmendez3 23 дні тому +1

      And this song was always playing in the episode of West Wing when Zoey Bartlett gets kidnapped. The music was perfect for the scene.

  • @jonmatthews721
    @jonmatthews721 6 годин тому

    Took me years to appreciate this album, but probably now in my top 5 albums

  • @sharpphilip
    @sharpphilip 25 днів тому +10

    Their Mezzanine anniversary tour not long before Covid blew my mind. 😮
    Lots of memories of being a moody 19-year-old with this in my car CD player…

    • @seanparker5595
      @seanparker5595 24 дні тому

      I saw the OG tour in 1999, or thereabouts, in Australia. Pretty amazing concert.

  • @adamweston4152
    @adamweston4152 7 днів тому +1

    I discovered this song through watching a UFO video and ever since that moment I automatically think of UFO's when I hear this song, it's such a hauntingly powerful track.

  • @seanrichards9569
    @seanrichards9569 24 дні тому +5

    Horace Andy recorded a couple of versions of this song in Jamaican studios over the early / mid 70’s then later on I believe he redid it a couple of times. Angel is a phenomenal track, and production spot on, but the vocal performance absolutely REQUIRES understanding the historical context, and I’d humbly argue the best vocal take is the earliest version he did with Bunny Lee, which was also released as various dub plates mixed by the great King Tubby. Production for its era is fantastic and the performance absolutely phenomenal.

  • @djdksf1
    @djdksf1 24 дні тому +4

    I was lucky enough to catch MA doing their 20-year Mezzanine retrospective tour in SF a few years back. Fantastic band with most if not all the original vocal talent present. This record somehow keeps getting better with age. It's both baroque and intricate while still having a minimalist bearing overall. Just stunning. When it came out I remember playing almost nothing else for weeks (well, maybe a bit of Underworld or Orbital as chasers.)

  • @aaronalbores3999
    @aaronalbores3999 23 дні тому +6

    This was my introduction to Massive Attack, back in the day. I just listened to the intro and i was already hooked. Why is that that i never felt this song as threatening or dark? I just thought of it as mysterious, hypnotic and deep. Very, very, very deep. It steals your attention, then it slowly pumps energy into you with that amazing bass sound and groove, and then it breaks into a new powerful groove forcing you to release that energy by moving your body to the rythm. For me, at least, this is an absolute masterpiece. The grooves, the ambiguity of the scale and the voice, the minimalistic use of the notes of the scale, the sound design, the slow pace in which it evolves and grows from a heartbeat into a heavy song... Few songs can make me feel that way. And the guitar... oh god...

  • @JD-xo2wz
    @JD-xo2wz 24 дні тому +4

    This album was the only one that never left the CD changer in the trunk. One of the most pristine recordings ever made.

  • @rikiba851
    @rikiba851 24 дні тому +6

    Horace Andy was an accomplished Reggae artist in his own right, before Massive Attack employed his voice to such great effect (and I think this was the greatest and most iconic use of his voice). For his own reggae stuff, a favourite of mine was always 'Hey There Woman' from his 'In the Light' record. Definitely worth a listen if you never heard it.

  • @cameronscarth3136
    @cameronscarth3136 23 дні тому +1

    You always dig out my old faves!!! love hearing your take

  • @codytaylor942
    @codytaylor942 24 дні тому +1

    Love your album/ song selections, love your insights and expertise. Fine work you do on your channel.

  • @Wolvenamsterdam
    @Wolvenamsterdam 22 дні тому +1

    I've been a fan of Massive Attack since the first album and this song and album are absolutely mesmerizing! Yet I really just now discovered new things through your reaction. I've seen some videos of you before and your breakdowns are so full of passion for the music and really amazing to watch. Thank you for this ❤I'm a fan!

  • @graham8436
    @graham8436 22 дні тому +3

    Did anyone else see them perform this album live during the 25th anniversary tour?
    Unforgettable experience.

  • @sadiesadiekistrose4072
    @sadiesadiekistrose4072 19 днів тому +3

    I love the way you listen, feel & breakdown one of my favorite tunes from a favorite album. As a musician and producer myself I greatly appreciate your you!

  • @gonesavage
    @gonesavage 22 дні тому +2

    One of the best recordings of all time. Thank you ixi.

  • @ja9nge
    @ja9nge 12 днів тому +1

    Two days ago I stumbled across your channel. And I totally stopped stumbling. Your way of going deep into these compositions and sharing the details is simply transfixing, if I were a tornado I’d stop spinning and simply sit down and listen to you serving these tunes on a plate, beautifully deconstructed.
    You give me a refreshed interest in re-listening to the masterpieces you decipher. THANK YOU👏

  • @righteouswhippingstick
    @righteouswhippingstick 20 днів тому +1

    somehow you always pull from my music collection of favorite stuff... super compliment for us both ❤

  • @bladetj
    @bladetj 20 днів тому +1

    One of my favourite tunes. So mysterious, dark and engaging. The production is insanely good.
    Great take thanks

  • @fuzexi
    @fuzexi 20 днів тому +1

    I loved listening to you talk about the music, it’s like an intelligent conversation, deep and refreshing.

  • @alsosean
    @alsosean 18 днів тому +1

    Nicely done video and analysis! I heard this album end to end many, many years ago when I was out playing pool with friends while in university and I was completely blown away by it. Bought the album a few days later. Complex and simple with lots of dramatic space. Just amazing stuff. It’s stayed as one of my favourite albums. Mad love for their work. Cheers!

  • @ClownWorld242
    @ClownWorld242 19 днів тому +2

    This track paired with the scene in "Snatch" is absolute magic. Every time I listen I see that scene.

  • @epob4961
    @epob4961 23 дні тому +1

    Great analysis. I haven't listend to this with big headphones on in ages. Glad I did!

  • @alastairwinner
    @alastairwinner 18 днів тому +2

    I love the bass line in this song. So simple but with some unique syncopation. The production on all their songs is insane especially listening on headphones. You feels like you are totally emersed and surrounded.

  • @AJSTITAN14
    @AJSTITAN14 18 днів тому +2

    Such a dope record. This was in heavy rotation for us along with Maxinquaye, Portishead, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Aquemini, everything by Morphine and an endless stream of acid and house techno for the late late nights.

  • @luthoskendar5255
    @luthoskendar5255 23 дні тому +1

    Absolutely love this song! Really informative video reviewing the song, thanks for what you do :)

  • @Heylel444
    @Heylel444 21 день тому +5

    That drum track sounds eerily like a slowed down version of Beastie Boys' "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun".

    • @Forgottenson3934
      @Forgottenson3934 18 днів тому

      Yes! Which seems to appear later in Leftfield’s track called Life

  • @pinewavestudio
    @pinewavestudio 23 дні тому +1

    This record is a complete masterpiece. I'd love to hear your breakdowns on the rest of the tracks!

  • @Sumphuka
    @Sumphuka 7 днів тому +1

    Live this nearly knocked me off my feet (I really was very inebriated). They really go at the guitar solo and it builds and builds too a brutal attack on he senses over about 5mins.

  • @PianoDentist
    @PianoDentist 25 днів тому +6

    I remember when Blue lines came out - amazing! This album was a good evolution of Massive Attack.

  • @klors
    @klors 25 днів тому +4

    The stairs in my student house used to have wood panel walls that resonated to the bass part and shook the house… loved it, and seeing them gig this album was immense

  • @aphexx100
    @aphexx100 6 днів тому +1

    very good suggestion from yt. best to close todays busy day with some chill analysis of the tunes i loved and chilled to back in the day.
    subbed and liked. thank you!

  • @tombeluzi
    @tombeluzi 18 днів тому +2

    yup, still got the same goosebumps when listening to this album after 20+ years.

  • @devilsmap
    @devilsmap 24 дні тому +9

    I first listened to Mezzanine while reading Neuromancer when the album came out and it made such a great soundtrack for the story. I had never heard of trip hop before then, so I'll forever associate the music with cyberpunk.

  • @gapster77
    @gapster77 19 днів тому +4

    Bristol’s best!
    Incredible Catalogue of Work 👌🏻

  • @1967AJB
    @1967AJB 18 днів тому +1

    Just stumbled across your channel. I’m in my late 60s but love this track/album/band too. I was introduced to them by their lighting director for the Mezzanine tour, who worked on some of my jobs. He was in awe of the band and was giddy he got the job. He was David Bowie’s LD too so that speaks volumes about Massivd Attack! Nice channel, you have an old man subscription :)

  • @SoundProtocols
    @SoundProtocols 24 дні тому +1

    Please continue to post. Very unique channel! We love the content ❤

  • @Ambisinisterous
    @Ambisinisterous 12 днів тому +1

    the drum part is a sample from the Incredible Bongo Band's "Last Bongo In Belgium" - in much the same way as Daft Punk (but with a completely different aesthetic), MA build a lot of their sound from inspired use of samples

  • @aldo34
    @aldo34 24 дні тому +6

    Big Massive fan since Blue Lines. Sadly Angelo Bruschini who played the guitars on this track passed away late last year. This is a masterclass in tension building and layering.

  • @user-sf3os2xb9d
    @user-sf3os2xb9d 20 днів тому +1

    This was the analysis that I didn’t know I needed! Thanks for your insight and commentary. I first heard this intro in an Addidas commercial for the World Cup Competition, I think 1998. I was already a massive Massive Attack fan. This song has such a sense of foreboding and brooding…it does take you on a trip. I’ve got to hear some of your NIN reviews. Keep it going.

  • @paulomotorides
    @paulomotorides 8 днів тому +1

    i still have this album just amazing

  • @soakedbearrd
    @soakedbearrd 20 днів тому +1

    I like your descriptions, they are colorful, unique and intuitive.

  • @DeborahBeeuwkes
    @DeborahBeeuwkes 18 днів тому +1

    Love the analysis! You describe that haunting feeling you get from the track perfectly. It's funny, because the video clip that goes with this song is a perfect representation of the sentiment. I was properly afraid while watching the video for the main character (who is one the band members). The ending is very surprising. :) Would receommend to watch it.

  • @Happyclappy674
    @Happyclappy674 12 днів тому +1

    I'm from Bristol UK. Massive Attack are from Bristol. This album I played when I was pregnant a lot. My son is 25 now. Great Album.

  • @IanMcCausland
    @IanMcCausland 22 дні тому +5

    the mash up of dub and metal it feels like a bomber coming over the horizon to bomb your heart, drop its ordinance and move on.

    • @Strafuzz
      @Strafuzz 22 дні тому +1

      Stealth Bomber

  • @IIWerdoxII
    @IIWerdoxII 22 дні тому +1

    Thank you I was not expecting some Massive Attack today, brings back so much memories. This channel is amazing !

  • @moc119
    @moc119 19 днів тому +1

    Excellent breakdown.
    I really enjoyed this 👍

  • @alexm7310
    @alexm7310 9 днів тому +1

    Used to devastating effect in the West Wind - goosebumps ❤

  • @sisoid
    @sisoid 23 дні тому

    Спасибо за твои видео! Не то чтобы узнаю много нового, но подборка треков всегда отличная и заставляет поностальгировать.

  • @modusvivendi1442
    @modusvivendi1442 10 днів тому +1

    Can't believe it's been already 26 years ago i first bought this killer album.

  • @1995ssc
    @1995ssc 25 днів тому +19

    Massive Attack: How to make a killer song with 2 chords and a 3 note melody...

    • @praetentious2925
      @praetentious2925 25 днів тому +1

      That’s what it’s all about, right?! Awesome stuff

    • @fromchomleystreet
      @fromchomleystreet 24 дні тому +2

      It’s a weird psychoacoustic effect, that when you play your imagined bassline (with the minor second), and then switch to the actual bassline (with a major second), both in isolation of any other context, my brain hears you switching from minor to major - despite the fact that no third is being played, and despite the fact that a major second doesn’t imply either major or minor. I guess it’s because flattening ANY note in a scale darkens the tonality, not just the third, and the thing we CALL the major/minor distinction is just the one particular iteration of that phenomenon that specifically pertains to the third.

  • @neguchi666
    @neguchi666 24 дні тому +4

    Ixi, you rock!
    That thing about Horace Andy's voice cracking at the end of phrases is something that I hear a lot of reggae singers do, and I wish I could listen to more of dub/reggae, but the genre is so heavily laden with religiosity that I, personally, have a hard time with it and can barely listen to any.
    I always thought of this song as a super simple one, which it perhaps technically is -- but it's music, so it being simple makes it not simple at all :D. Maybe I'm nuts or maybe you all know exactly what I mean.
    Anyway, keep on rocking, Ixi!

    • @neguchi666
      @neguchi666 24 дні тому

      I forgot to mention how important I think these breakdowns are, even or especially for seemingly simple songs such as this one! Thank you!

  • @matteightytwo
    @matteightytwo 8 днів тому +1

    And Dissolved Girl is the most underrated track of all time

  • @TheOriginalHairyDave
    @TheOriginalHairyDave 25 днів тому +9

    If you're interested in something else that feels like some enormous plodding creature, try giving Lustmord's new album, "Much Unseen Is Also Here" a listen.
    The first track, "Behold A Voice As Thunder" is literally supposed to convey the sense of a titanic being approaching.

    • @horseenthusiast1250
      @horseenthusiast1250 25 днів тому +2

      Damn! Just two minutes in and I'm already absolutely digging it. Thanks for the recommendation!