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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 01/15/2012 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#428): Blue Lines by Massive Attack
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Today's album of the day
Blue Lines by Massive Attack (View album)
Year: 1991.
Overall rank: 231.
Average rating: 79/100 (from 149 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Safe From Harm
2. One Love
3. Blue Lines
4. Be Thankful For What You've Got
5. Five Man Army
6. Unfinished Sympathy
7. Daydreaming
8. Lately
9. Hymn Of The Big Wheel
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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mooseboy101
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Location: Geneva 
- #2
- Posted: 01/15/2012 20:09
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Inb4 Naples says:
Best song: Unfinished Sympathy
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- Posted: 01/15/2012 20:33
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I've recently begun to favor Dummy over this, but I would still rate this as one of the best albums of the 90s. "Unfinished Sympathy" is absolutely beautiful and "Daydreaming" has some great rapping as well.
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CellarDoor
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Age: 40
Location: Marseille 
- #4
- Posted: 01/15/2012 20:38
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| mooseboy101 wrote: | Inb4 Naples says:
Best song: Unfinished Sympathy |
I thought it was "Safe From Harm", for that amazing sampled groove from Billy Cobham's "Stratus" (the album is "Spectrum").
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
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- Posted: 01/15/2012 20:50
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| CellarDoor wrote: | | mooseboy101 wrote: | Inb4 Naples says:
Best song: Unfinished Sympathy |
I thought it was "Safe From Harm", for that amazing sampled groove from Billy Cobham's "Stratus" (the album is "Spectrum"). |
I thought he was going to say 'One Love'  
Very fresh album. Ska & Trip-hop mixture that I don't think gets old. This is much better than their other albums. 
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RFNAPLES
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Age: 76
Location: Durham, NC, USA 
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- Posted: 01/15/2012 21:01
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cellar and hayden haven't been paying attention
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- #8
- Posted: 01/15/2012 21:21
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Be Thankful For What You Got is my personal favorite
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cartoken
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Age: 40
Location: Paris
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- Posted: 01/15/2012 21:41
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What ! The best song is by far Daydreaming. Actually it's the only good song on the album, the other tracks are either bad or average.
Massive attack is really a great band, and Mezzanine is just not less than a masterpiece, but blue lines sounds so below average now.. 40/100
Last edited by cartoken on 01/16/2012 08:34; edited 2 times in total
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Norman Bates
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Age: 52
Location: Paris, France
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- Posted: 01/15/2012 23:16
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| cartoken wrote: | What ! The best song is by far Daydream. Actually it's the only good song on the album, the other tracks are either bad or average.
Massive attack is really a great band, and Mezzanine is just not less than a masterpiece, but blue line sounds so below average now.. 40/100 |
That's because you prefer postpunk moods over soul music. Blue Lines is soulful as hell and is my favourite album from Massive Attack. This band has had an impeccable first three albums record, from soul/reggae vibes with hip hop beats, to more dub and orchestral-oriented pieces, to deliciously dark new wave... All first three albums are good, this one's still the best.
But in some way you please me, cartoken : I didn't think I'd see the day when someone would actually say that "Unfinished Sympathy" was not good. According to me this song is a masterpiece.
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