Composer Reacts to Massive Attack - Risingson (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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So I figured out that Massive Attack song that I had heard before -- Girl I Love You. And yes, now I know it doesn't have a female singer😅. But my only previous experience with it was hearing it 2-3 times a days, every day through department store speakers so I wasn't getting the best listening experience for it.
It's not a female voice, that's Andy Horace, a reggae performer from Jamaica.
Late reply, but if you want some massive attack songs with pretty creepy female vocals, 'Black Milk' and 'Group Four' from the 'Mezzanine' album are actually incredible songs. Group Four in particular really hits those crescendos you might have felt were missing from 'Risingson'.
I was convinced you were referring to Angel which is a very menacing song of impending doom!
Welcome to trip hop. Totally laid back and chill. These guys are the masters of the genre in my opinion. Countless times in a "smokey" room or nights driving with windows down and just feeling the vibe. This song plays better when listened in the context of the whole album, but it's actually my favorite track by them. A good change of pace from the usual intense and heavy things I listen to.
Massive Attack is not trip hop. Trip hop is Massive Attack
Massive Attack is not trip hop. Trip hop is Massive Attack
BLACK MILK is one of my favorite tracks of all time. Saw them at the sold out Hollywood Bowl.
Black Milk is the SHIT🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽 just cruising with that song and having my whole car knock to the bass ... 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤 shit was immaculate
Black milk is a genre all of its own
Check out this whole album by them. It's called Mezzanine. Their song Inertia Creeps has a little more variety, but this is the kind of mood they bring in general. To be honest this is how trip hop goes.
Inertia Creeps seconded. Whenever I introduce friends to Massive Attack, I start them off with Inertia Creeps. No other song quite like it.
@@immaculatetoilet Strangely, it reminded me of Eulogy by Tool. Totally different themes lyrically, but musically they have this similar erie vibe.
@@gSWG3R They definitely channel the same uneasy but chill feeling for sure.
100th Window is an album that better represents such an ambient atmosphere, Inertia Creeps is unique song on Mezzanine
one of the best albums of all time
Mezzanine is a 10/10 album, which you may be doing yourself a disservice having started with Risingson. Being track two, you're missing the punch from Angel (track 1) and the release you were looking for in Teardrop (track 3), which is a song about and dedicated to the passing of the late Jeff Buckley. This is one of those LPs that begs for front to end listening. Such a lasting impact, and many musicians even name-drop MA as one of their favorite acts which I can guarantee is because of this album.
They're also a revolving door of musicians. Their LP, Heligoland, features a handful of tracks from the vocalist of Elbow, and Damon Albarn of Blur/Gorillaz, among others. Earlier LPs featured Tricky, another great trip-hop artist. Mezzanine in particular has at least 3 different vocalists throughout its length.
No it didn't feature Tricky. Tricky was a full time member of MA who just went solo. I think he kinda had a falling out with them as well. Don't know the details. But I do know the remaining 3 members had a very bad falling out with another member. There were 4, then there were 3. So I'd guess that you don't need to look too far for the culprit.
Mezzanine defined a generation. And continues to play a big role in music lover's explorative musical experience.
Trip hop genre doesn’t really have riffs like you would have in any other genres. It’s a chill mood kind of genre (and not everyone’s cup of tea)... from the lads from Bristol.
That just shows you music is subjective just like eating sashimi (or miso)... you either like to eat raw fish or you don’t.
Bristol massive!
Toy-like people make me boy-like
Toy-like people make me boy like
They're invisible, when the trip it flips
They get physical, way below my lips
I love this tune. Embodies a grimey club/house party scene so well
Teardrop is the one you know, it's from the same album that this song was from. Trip hop is a weird genre, and this entire album is kinda full of that tense but chill feeling, it's great atmosphere for... doing just about anything.
You mean Teardrop, it's one of their biggest hits. Wonderful song, sung by Liz Fraser.
No you also know teardrop, from the House MD show. I think the track you're thinking of will either be black milk or protection.
As somebody who really digs complex and dynamic music (BTBAM is one of my all time favorites), I also love Massive Attack... but for totally different reasons. This kind of heavy vibe light complexity music is what I use when I need to feel crwtively inspired - the heavy atmosphere allows my mind to go in all sorts of crazy directions.
Damn, I love this track.....always have
I really love this song. The music is chill and tense at the same time as you brilliantly noted. And the interchange of voices is really cool, too. It lingers, it's not dull)))) it's low ley, not dull))))
Trip Hop Kings 🇬🇧
I would suggest Group Four from the same album. There you will find most of the things you were looking for in this track.
These guys, Portishead, and Morcheeba pioneered trip hop. Massive Attack are the absolute king's.
The song you're talking about at the start is called Teardrop.
Massive pioneered trip hop along with Tricky.....Portishead took trip hop to Morricone after Massive and did great things...Morcheeba were not leaders but followers.
@rob a yeah I felt like Morcheeba just jumped on at the end, for me the foundation of trip-hop is Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky in the UK, and Dj Shadow stateside
One of my favorite tracks from one of my favorite albums of all times.
Love Massive Attack and Portishead. Listening to them with good headphones or good speakers/subwoofer is quite the experience. Spent a good month or so obsessed with them. Wish there was more music out there like them, but most other trip-hop I've heard just doesn't have the same vibe. As other have said, that combination of tension and chill delivery is strangely hypnotic: I call it Anxiety Groove, and nobody does it quite like Massive Attack. Portishead can be just as atmospherically engrossing but in a different way. If they were soundtracks I think Portishead would be like sci-fi noir, while Massive Attack is more psychological thriller/horror.
When the synth drops it feels MASSIVE. I saw them live shortly after they released this album and it was something spectacular, one of the best concerts I´ve ever seen and the one that technically sounded better.
Masterpiece of an album. Engineering and sound designing alone are still above almost anything till today.
o_O
This was *so* weird hearing a single track from the "Mezzanine" album out of context!... this is truly an album which is worth setting aside an hour to listen thru *as an album* ,& that's something I still do on the regular. There are precious few albums from 20-odd years ago which I still regularly listen straight thru, so that's high praise. I've spent more money than I can really justify on proper HiFi kit over the years, but this is one of the stand-out pieces which gives said HiFi a healthy workout! I thoroughly recommend a dimly lit room with no distractions, relaxing with maybe a glass of red in hand, & letting this album wash over you.... it can be *quite* the transcendent experience. ;)
Thank you.Really.Thank you.
Love my 90's trip hop as well as metal and alternative. I agree with the others who have said that the song you can't remember is probably Teardrop - in my opinion their best tune. It'd be interesting if you checked out some Portishead too if you're not already familiar. Maybe 'Roads' or 'Over'. If you were in the UK it'd be virtually impossible not to have heard some Massive Attack or especially Portishead, as they both still get used on TV quite regularly, despite being 25 year old tunes. Or if you feel like venturing even further from your channel's usual music into '90's electronica, some of the early Prodigy such as 'Voodoo People' , 'Break and Enter', or 'Wind it Up'.
My favourite Massive Attack track. That bassline is so sick! 😎
The Massive Attack song you mentioned at the beginning might be Group Four or Dissolved girl, from the same album Mezzanine. Banger album
I have this album. I love the groove.
Glad you’re covering less ‘proggy’ stuff too. So many other aesthetics to explore. I’d love to hear your thoughts on musicians like Spencer Krug, Sons of Kemet or Colin Stetson, as random examples.
Such an epic album.
This is why we like it!
They definitely defy my expectations of a new album.
This whole album is amazing. You would almost certainly recognise the songs angel (from several films I can think of) and teardrop (covered by loads of different people). Dissolved girl is in the matrix so you might recognise that too. Try a bit of Portishead for a slightly different take on trip-hop as well. You were definitely digging thay groove!
As many have said, the song you're blanking on could be Teardrop, but by the description I would venture to say it's Angel, another good one. I find that a lot creepier than Teardrop at least.
I forget about them for years on end, then go back and dive deep. The song that jogs my memory is always Unfinished Sympathy. What a song! And one of the truly iconic music videos.
I see this as actually slow rolling unification of writing and production started off by guys like Brian Wilson but really it's been happening since the advent of music recording technology. You really can't understate how important dub and dancehall was for this either but Artists like Massive Attack, my personal favorite The Prodigy and other early 90s electronic and hip hop acts are where they became totally indistinguishable from each other. What really happened was the ability to do this became available technologically at the everyman price point.
I feel like you missed this one, failing to approach the song on its own terms but rather expecting something else entirely and something quite specific by the sound of it. Not a criticism, just an observation. I'm really fascinated by the review actually, it made me think about all the stuff I've dismissed on first listen and never returned to. I think it would be a cool idea for you to revisit this song after further listens (without the music video, preferrably). I'm not a Massive Attack fanboy, but in my opinion this song is extremely well-composed and absolutely crushing.
It is amazing how well their sound has stood the test of time. The whole album is truly a one complete entity. A Masterpiece.
The song you're thinking of may be Teardrop. Elizabeth Fraser is the singer
If you want to check something from them that is very dynamic, but keeping the tone and mood of this song take a look at 'Future Proof'. It may even be the song you heard, at first I thought that the singer was a woman with very deep voice.
Trip hop is about the ride. You'll get a variety of rhythms and timings, but whatever you get is going to be a journey of shifts and syncope.
Yeah most of massive attack songs that I've heard were really moody listens with very little to no dynamic work... and I think that's a good thing! The album from which this song comes from is often dubbed as a prime example of a nightwalk/drive music. Very atmospheric, tense, it always keeps you on your toes. This "sitting in a bubble" serves a purpose of not loosing the set mood. Really good stuff imo, but probably not for everyone.
That one Massive Attack song you're talking about is Teardrop, I think. It has a creepy music video with a female lead (I believe it's a singer of Cocteau Twins actually). It's probably their most popular song.
The song you're looking for could also be Dissolved Girl. It also features Elizabeth Frazer on vocals.
The song title isn't familiar but I'll check it out and see.
@@CriticalReactions It's probably either Teardrop of Dissolved Girl, but I think it's most likely Teardrop since it's their most popular one.
Oh yeah, Teardrop is a wondefully magical song - love it! (But couldn't have pinpointed it to Massive Attack on my own...)
Teardrop was used for the theme music for that one show, House M.D.
So it's most likely that, but could be Black Milk or Dissolved Girl. No female vocals, but Angel was in the movie Snatch during the burning caravan scene.
Mezzanine as an album is fantastic regardless. One of my top albums of all time. It never gets old.
I'd bet the song you are thinking about is Angel. It was also covered by Leprous!
I want to hear your reaction to 'Group Four'.
There's a lot of people saying the song you know from Massive Attack, but can't recall the name, is this that or the other thing. In reality, female vocals with a creepy atmosphere is like 50% of their songs. The song you're thinking of could just as likely be from the album Heligoland which had Hope Sandoval, of Mazzy Star fame, as well as the amazing Martina Topley-Bird providing vocals, amongst others.
Should you decide to revisit this album, I'd recommend Group Four. Has a great groove, like Risingson, but will also provide the release you were looking for.
And, if you made it this far, a request- Eggdog by Beak. Beak features Geoff Barrows, from Portishead, and does moody, experimental electronic-rock stuff. This song, Eggdog, has some of my favorite drumming, ever. The "Live on KEXP" might be the best version for first time listeners.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
How about you do a reaction on "Maggot Brain" by the Funkadelic (Eddie Hazel)? That sounds like your kind of music with loads of texture.
The female vocal song you’re thinking of is almost certainly on this album... if not Teardrop, then maybe Angel
These are the 2 I thought of as well :)
they're very original
The song he's talking about is the song after this one on Mezzanine (the album). Teardrop-
EDIT: Ooops, just read your comment. Never mind. Teardrop is the song most people recognize.
You need to appreciate dub to get Massive Attack.
group four is the most amazing song in this album
Waiting for Godot was reviewed as, 'nothing happened. Twice.' 😉😸🏴🙏
Some people say 3d is banksy.
This music is smoking a joint in the dark, looking out the window at the night.
you should listen angel to get that energy
that's why it's called trip hop
a lot of people think the lead in angel is female...
Is the song Teardrop?
Mezzanine is a masterpiece
"..in every moment of this song I was expecting some sort of release.." well, in a real everyday life it is not "Hollywood" kind of mentality, sensibility and situations alike, there are alternative approaches to music and art itself across the world..way different than Hollywood one, art is not "mathematics", cheers
Exactly, I wasn't saying it as a negative but simply stating what the song was doing. It was purposefully controlling the listener by leaning into typical musical expectations and subverting them. This song wouldn't work as well if sooooo much music out there didn't release tension often and creates these unconscious expectations in people.
@@CriticalReactions Fair enough
The one song you know: I guarantee it's either Teardrop or Angel, tracks 3 and 1, respectively, on Mezzanine, the greatest chillout album of all time. This song's on there too.
Sorry, Massive Attack, despite the name, don't really do big energy releases. Not on this album anyway.
Their name definitely set me up for a bit of a disappointment 😅
Not very familiar with them. Did enjoy this song and the dissection of it. Massive Attack will always spark my interest when I'm exposed to them even if I might not go after them (in a while at least).
Realising they did Teardrop and that I've actually got interested in investigating them further from another song I take back not wanting to go after them in a while.... 😁
@@progperljungman8218 Mezzanine is a superb album.
Very much not for me this one. Just really boring and uncomfortable to listen to. Definitely affects emotions though, got me pretty tense despite my indifference.
Btw, this is THE most incorrect, bad taste, poor reaction ive yet seen. Anyone who can't appreciate MA is tasteless, stuck in one particular genre and too ruined by the garbage that passes for music today. You call yourself a composer. Well ill guarantee you never make 1% of the mark MA have made. Sorry but i do not value your opinion.