Massive Attack - Blue Lines - RARE Original Vinyl LP album 1991 (Censored cover)
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Massive Attack - Blue Lines - RARE Original Vinyl LP album 1991 (Censored cover).
A must have for all Massive Attack fans -a collecters edition of the magnificent Blue Lines album.
Forced to shorten their name and remove the word 'Attack' from the Blue LInes album to avoid being blacklisted by Radio One during the Gulf War. The record company, Circa, had to reprint / retitle the album. The special editions included this additional envelope type sleeve.
Massive Attack .....
Blue Lines is generally considered the first trip hop album although the term was not widely used before 1994. A fusion of electronic music, hip hop, dub, '70s soul and reggae, it established Massive Attack as one of the most innovative British bands of the 1990s and the founder of trip hop's Bristol Sound.
Music critic Simon Reynolds stated that the album also marked a change in electronic/dance music, "a shift toward a more interior, meditational sound. The songs on Blue Lines run at 'spliff' tempos – from a mellow, moonwalking 90 beats per minute ... down to a positively torpid 67 bpm
The font used on the cover of the album is Helvetica Black Oblique. Del Naja has acknowledged the influence of the inflammable material logo used on the cover of Stiff Little Fingers' album Inflammable Material
Cameron McVey (credited at the time as 'Booga Bear') and his wife, Neneh Cherry provided crucial financial support and in-kind assistance to the early careers of Massive Attack, (also Portishead and Tricky) during this period, even paying regular wages to them through their Cherry Bear Organisation. In 1988, 3D had first helped out Neneh Cherry by co-writing her single "Manchild". She would return the favour on Blue Lines by helping to co-write and provide backing vocals on Hymn Of The Big Wheel
Blue Lines featured breakbeats, sampling, and rapping on a number of tracks, but the design of the album differed from traditional hip hop. Massive Attack approached the American-born hip hop movement from an underground British perspective and also incorporated live instruments into the mixes. It features the vocals of Shara Nelson and Horace Andy, along with the rapping of Tricky Kid.
According to Acclaimed Music, a site which uses statistics to numerically represent critical reception, Blue Lines is the 37th best-received album of all time, and third best-received of the 1990s. In 1997, Blue Lines was named the 21st greatest album of all time in a "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. The following year, Q readers placed it at number 58 in its list of the "100 Greatest Albums Ever", and in 2000, the album was voted at number 9 in the magazine's poll of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever".
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