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  • Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

Nick Warren played it at Cream Birthday…3rd or 4th. Grown men in tears. Me mainly because I lined some scallys pockets with £50 for some Non Bio Daz

    Phil-McRackin Grown men in tears. Me mainly because I lined some scallys pockets with £50 for some Non Bio Daz

    LOL.

    I’ve heard Norman Jay play it, without mixing it into any of the other records, or indeed bothering to mix any of his records at all. Only decent thing he did all night.

      It’s stood the test of time imo. Still a great track despite all the plays.

      Yea Ive never really been blown away by Unfinished Symphony as much as others have or indeed as much as other tracks even from around that era. I was never a Massive Attack fan in general either.

      Preferred Protection & Mezzanine over Blue Lines.

        Dan Preferred Protection & Mezzanine over Blue Lines.

        Wondered how long before this incorrect post would rear its head.

        Go and sit in the corner with Jonaattyn ‘Ibiza Disc 2’ Mongwater.

          Saw them live in Brixton Academy about 15 years ago. Whilst they were good, I can’t say I was blown away.

          Not like I was to Underworld in the same venue the year before.

          Dan Agreed, great albums although I do have a soft spot for Blue Lines also. They’re all pretty much timeless albums.

          And Dave can fuck off, with his Emo haircut and suicidal poems to his ex girlfriends.

              Howells played it as an end of the night lights on track at the End during his residency

              LT and Dan are the type of people who would say “yeah, Massive Attack were good but the standout album of that genre/era, to me, was Morcheeba’s Big Calm.”

                Great track as it is I wouldn’t be happy if that was dropped as a last track. Give me beats for the final furlong you pompous twat.

                bosstrabs I laughed hard at that because I used to pal around with a fella who would say exactly that, just as he tapped his joint into the ashtray and passed it on shaking his head. What a fucking cunt he was.

                  In all seriousness, Maxinquaye was actually the genre’s standout album.

                    bosstrabs Dummy was clearly the genre’s stand out album, maxinquaye was a great album too, though very, very, very disappointing live (Though Black Steel tore the place apart if I’m honest)

                      Massive Attack are dreadful live.

                      All political grandstanding with not a wrecking ball in sight.

                      S to the werve.

                        Dummy was no way as good as Maxinquaye, or Blue Lines.

                        dummy was just under 45 mins so you could fit it onto each side of a 90 min cassette for the walkman. Edit, just checked and it was 49, maybe the tapes were a bit longer than 45!

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