Blue Lines

My wife has been a huge MA fan for forever, so I know all this tracks pretty well. My issue with it, and trip-hop in general, is thats no real highs and lows. Its all pretty much right the middle and very samey sounding.

Ze proberen zo hard om het bijzonder te laten klinken maar het lukt gewoon niet

3/1001 :: Massive Attack - Blue Lines Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ❌ Rating: 2 Fav Tracks: ——— I’m here to tell you I tried. It wasn’t the first…could be the last. Thing is “Massive Attack” is such a great name. But I want them to be a 90’s post hardcore band or something and they are far from that. I like Portishead but maybe Trip-Hop isn’t my thing. I know there are people that love this album but this vibe is not for me. You folks like this?

did not like this

Some of the beats are nice but the vocals throughout are really terrible

Really struggle to see where this album fits in among a general audience. It’s electronic but not the kind you’d play in a club. It’s rap, but with no real political or gang connection, and no drive or passion behind the lyrics. It’s lowkey and lo-fi for much of the album, but not so much so to become an album of passive listening (I couldn’t listen to this while I relax/study). I simply did not enjoy it. There was too much going on for it to feel like I could just groove to it in the background, but far too little going on to reward an in depth, proper listen. Vocals were fine but boring and repetitive by the end. Rapping was awful; sounded like they just picked the first guys walking by the studio to lay down some bars who’d never rapped before in their lives. Songs were far too long. Nothing catchy, nothing memorable, just a waste of time. Safe from Harm (5/10) One Love (4/10) Blue Lines (3/10) Be Thankful for What You’ve Got (5/10) Five Man Army (3/10) Unfinished Sympathy (5/10) Daydreaming (3/10) Lately (4/10) Hymn of the Big Wheel (3/10) 3.9/10

Trash

Massive shit

Lasted almost two minutes of the first song before I had to turn it off

Meh. It’s not bad. It’s just, nothing.

Fine but I don't like trip hop

Well that was.. boring? I’m not really sure how else to describe this record. The entire time I spent listening to it, I just couldn’t wait for it to end. I found most of the lyrics to be uninspired and predictable, any hooks were mediocre at best, and everyone playing and singing and rapping sounded almost as bored as me. 1*

I listened to two songs fully, then skimmed the rest of the record. Yep. I hate everything about this. I don't like synthetic pop music as a rule, but add vapid technical show-off lyrics, and drench it all in 1990s mainstreem cool.... ick ick ick. 0 stars or one if I must.

so many of these are just stressful to listen to. I get that people can really enjoy them, but its just not for me

Massive piece of 💩. Its like a long running SNL 🍆in a🎁 vibe.

Not good. Annoying and british

Nisu mi nimalo napeti, baš nimalo. Eventualno prva pjesma mi ima par dobrih trenutaka, ovo ostalo mi je strašno dosadno, lejm melodije, wannabe rep većinu albuma. Ne leže mi jbg. 1/5, 1.5/10

Nope

Like the world’s longest elevator ride or a walk through a strip mall. The whole thing is just so uninspired to me. Like if easy listening was a bit too intense for you, put on this album. Yeah this is the 2nd massive attack album I’ve heard and I just hate their music.

The attack? Massive. A very memorable band name. I feel like I haven’t heard one note of their music and I know that name so well. I wonder if they’ll be cool and aggressive. Or at least assertive. Or at least not terrible. Only one way to find out. DJ, spin this puppy up. Massive attack is about to make .0000004 cents off of this user. Oh god. The vocals and record scratches. This thing is shit. And it doesn’t pick up. Let’s hope it’s an intro, because we have attacked nothing. These are joke vocals right? The elevator reggae mixed with whatever these vocals are make this one of the most horrible songs I’ve ever heard. That’s a low bar. The cool Godzilla horn stabs take it out of that gutter, but the passage with the vocals? Absolute bottom of the barrel. If I’m going to hold 50 year old divorced white women to task for doing terrible vocal jazz on instagram after discovering polyamory, these guys need to be slammed for this too. It’s not that bad but it’s not that good! Gangster Whitewalls would’ve made me turn this off, but I have to remember the project. Digging the scene with a gangster lean. Remember the project. Remember the project. Remember the project. All my loyal readers will remember the SpongeBob movie and the scene in which the king takes off his crown, and that one fish screams BALD BALD BALD, until he puts it back on. Replace “BALD,” with “WHITE,” and it is echoing throughout my head throughout this album but apparently there is a black guy in the band. So I’m wrong. But this fucking abominable Shaggy tribute makes me want music to be done. Remember Biggie Cheese though? He was good. This has 143,000,000 + plays at press time. No words can accompany a statistic like that. I feel embarrassed listening to this. University project levels. Caterwaul over this dumb beat. This is sounding more and more like a prank. How much can we get away with type of thing. How does this emanate from your soul like music should? This is nothing. I can get behind a hymn to Big Wheel. The hapless Spider-Man villain who was unable to pilot his large wheel and crashed into the sea. Any sort of hymn or even a somber maritime dirge to him would be appreciated. However, here we are listening to an atrocious song that has nothing to do with poorly received comic book bad guys or even good music. Another failure, this time where the eagles fly, on a mountain high. An abhorrent, wretched mess from start to finish. I felt myself cringing at the rapping that would be more home appearing in the home videos of an upper middle class white family’s Christmas party 2001. Every song was a skip and while there were moments of alright rhythm sections, any foray into lyricism or vocalization took this album, along with my screaming carcass, past the gutter into the core of the earth, where I was scalded for all eternity and forced to observe life through a molten hourglass. Hell is real. 0-0.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Thinking about Big Wheel and also Biggie Cheese at one point. That was fun.

Not for me. The name of the band is an apt description of what my eardrums withstood.

Sadly just not my thing and I couldn’t get through it!

Day two! Massive Attack. It felt like some of the tracks dragged on for quite a bit, especially 'Five Man Army'. I liked the beginning of that one but I thought the song was over when I had 2 minutes to go. 'Daydreaming' was honestly downright cringe. There was a one song though that I caught myself bopping to, that being 'Be Thankful For What You've Got'. So it wasn't all bad. But still, 1/5.

Meh

“Plan to go to America when I get Visa card. But gettin a Visa card nowadays isn’t hard.”

Scheisse...

Considering this to be Massive Attack's music is absurd. https://open.spotify.com/track/2KvUzdKxcvGEHYcUgb9Nkc

This was awful. Horrible voice.

1 seems harsh, but I really didn't enjoy anything on this album. The rap wasn't interesting, the singing was underwhelming, and the music was boring. I'm just glad it wasn't too long.

I really tried. I just hate music like this. I think trip hop might me my most despised genre, even over jazz.

Another DNF.

This album mostly feels like background music. Maybe I'm missing something, but this really isn't for me. It was difficult to listen to and keep interested.

could i write poetry to this? n

1 star. Nothing worth noting here.

Please no more trip-hop. This is terrible. The lyrics are completely juvenile. I don't need a genius songwriter for everything I listen to, but this is painfully bad. The tracks drag on, there's nothing interesting about them, especially not for the length that they run. It would be fine if this was on in the background, I guess, but I could choose many things better.

Sounds like a 90s movie soundtrack, not in the good way

Hidasta ja tasapaksua trip-hopmaisella tavalla, sävytettynä joko ärsyttävän ekspressiivisellä laululla tai jutustelulla, joka ei johda mihinkään. Jollain tapaa minun täytyy olla väärässä?

Cool but not my genre

No no no

This is the second time I’ve listened to an entire album of English Trip Hop—the first one being Connected by Stereo MCs, also via this exercise. I know Massive Attack has some mainstream recognition, at least insofar as you sometimes hear them talked about outside of England, but I tell ya, if someone had put on Blue Lines and told me it was another Stereo MCs record I wouldn’t have known any better. I’ve heard Two Albums A British Psylocibin Enthusiast Must Hear Before They Die, and I’m all good now.

Best song: Be Thankful For what you've got Vibes: Vintage small british underground dance club

Meh, also felt like moody dark restaurant music. Liked it a little but really tired in me quickly. 1.5

Meh

I mean it was a 2 but the lyrics are a .5

Never again

Electronic music never hits the spot for me, and this was no exception.

Before listening: Alright, I'm totally ignorant on this one. I've heard of Massive Attack but I couldn't tell you anything about them - their popular songs, where they're from, what genre they're in. I think from memory they're kinda like new punk from the 80s; but they could be a do wop band and I wouldn't know. I'm really looking forward to this one. After listening: I just ... don't get it. What genre are they? I understand eclectic music, but are they rap, reggae, or soul or what? I liked some of the tracks here but most of them I was like what the hell? I do feel The Gorillaz kinda copied their style, so there's that I suppose.

Like fortsatt ikkje Massive Attack

Overall -it’s giving 90s flick movies -this entire album feels like someone accidentally spilled lyrics over hold music -it’s albums like this that make me wonder who the fuck let this get made -imagine the confidence you have to have to release 9 5 minute songs, like turn off his mic -this album made me like angry Safe from Harm -it’s already feeling like a no One Love -absolutely not -these lyrics are absolutely ridiculous -THESE LYRICS ARE RIDICULOUS -this is awful Blue Line -ok -no Five Man Army -this is ok -hate the ending

Wow, this is REALLY bad. Amazing that this band developed so much that they could produce an album good as Mezzanine.

Did not like the different guest singers.

The best thing on here was the first track, everything else was either boring or just not my thing. The first track was at least kind of groovy. 1.5/5

to be fair everyone was wankered in the 90's but all the rest of ye's dont have that excuse!

Did not like it,

Blech...1991...Why is everyone so obsessed with electric bass and keyboards...because that's what's new and hot at the time. Trip hop is such an aspirational title for this. I kinda get the trip part but hop? more like weird jazz or reggae. The lyrics are pretty forgettable as well which is kinda where I'm at on this one...1991 a time I'd rather forget.

Like they couldn’t settle on a sound… in any singular song. Some beats would sound okay then it swapped quickly to sound like jargon

i just don't like massive attack.

I'm in disbelief that this album was labeled as one the greatest albums of all time. I feel like I'm Mr. Skinner saying "Am I so out of touch? No! It's the children who are wrong." This album is just not good... To me, of course... Apparently it's well received by a lot of critics... It is a conglomeration of genres that are on the lowest rung on my musical taste ladder. I'm sure as their career evolved, they got better? Maybe? I mean, apparently this album is amazing.. So could they get better than that? Ha! They've been around awhile... I'm sure I heard something by them in HMV but I wouldn't know how to pick them out from any other artist of the same genre. To me it's very generic and nothing screams to me that this song or album is. Massive Attack. I don't know.. I could keep pushing my opinion on this album. But we all know music is subjective... So my opinion only matters to me.. And with that, this album was a massive disappointment. 1/5

Meh

Never been a fan of Massive Attack. Their lilting/dragging style makes me search for the 'skip' button every time they come up in a shuffle. Pass.

Not my cup of tea

I think this album probably really benefits from a chronological listening, because as is, separated from its contemporaries, it just kind of falls flat for me. But the review says this is the first "trip hop", so congrats for that. By fall flat, I don't mean that it's bad, just, for the most part, uninteresting. There are flashes of brilliance, though, like the guitar riff in Be Thankful For What You Got. Hymn of the Big Wheel was probably my favorite song.

Did not enjoy at all. Moments where I thought it could have a cool section but changed or got worse immediately

Very 90s. Not in a good way

complete trash compared to their later stuff, talk about growing pains

Not a fan of this one. Their Mezzanine album is better tho.

Garbage

massive attack of boredom. I gave it a chance but was pretty underwhelmed. The album took me back to my younger days when I first heard it as some music does, but unfortunately I relived that mood of being kind of unimpressed for the most part...

I hadn't heard of this album or Massive Attack before this, so going in fresh. Unfortunately, this is the first 1/5 I've had to give here. The whole thing is just very dull to my ears, an electronic beat with some English blokes occasionally attempting to rap on top of. I listened to every second of it, but couldn't wait for it to be over a couple of tracks in.

Reading the Wiki one might think that you would be on the yellow brick road to audio nirvana not plodding into some sparse English flat in 91 the only yellow here is a brummy git named Steve who has pissed himself on the couch after shooting too much golden brown between his toes. Just like Steve I won't be back.

Did not age well. Flaky and outdated. Kitch in some aspects. It is a no in 2022. I guess it was good then…

Like fortsatt ikkje Massive Attack

Not my type of music. Might need more listens.

nah, not my type of music

Whoof. Where's the house theme song?

Almost had to choose did not listen because I nearly fell asleep. Boring.

...boring

Not really my thing. Tried to get through it but didn't enjoy.

adjacent to something i would really like

Didn't enjoy this one at all. Vocals really killed it for me.

This feels like nothing.

I liked the first song but not the rest. Reggae/funk/rap

Oh cool a band named Massive Attack with a fire warning symbol from the early 90s, this will be a fun pop-punk or alt rock album! NOPE, this is very slow lo-fi electronic R&B/Reggae/Hip-hop with some weak drum machine beats, Bri'ish rapping, or very high falsetto singing like they're trying to sound like Prince but doing a terrible job. This would probably be a 2 if the branding of the album gave me a heads up of what to expect, but it's a 1 because I was excited for some 90s rock and then had to listen to whatever the hell this was.

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Bah, que baita bosta...

massive attack to my ears seriously wtf?

This is just not my thing. The instrumentals are fine but the tracks just draaaaaag. It genuinely felt like "One Love" was ten minutes long. Everything gets very repetitive to the point it's annoying.

Not for me. Boring, every song drags and little variation. Somehow enjoyed it less than lady in satin

pretty boring tbh

This one is lame

Alguém deve gostar, esse alguém não sou eu

Not my genre of music at all

.

This has ruined my day

Not my favorite. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

old, definitely trippy for it's time. little disjointed but at least it was short

Melodic, classic. Varied. Andrea likes this a lot. Bittersweet symphony a timeless banger.