Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

Homegrove

Happy 30th. Released as a single on this date in 1991.

Pickles

Homegrove 1991 though eh? jeezo!

bosstrabs

Remember it well, I was the first person among my mates to have BSkyB and therefore MTV (not intended as a brag), so we used to sit round our house more than any other watching MTV inbetween sport when I was 11.

This and Smells Like Teen Spirit were the two memorable videos that were on heavy rotation on MTV Europe in 1991 (along with all the long forgotten cock rock and Italian pop).

seanc80

bosstrabs YES. Notable mentions for House Of Pain - Jump Around & RATM - Killing In The Name Of

Smallman1

Brilliant story Dave.

Keep’em coming.

bosstrabs

Smallman1 Brilliant story Dave.

Keep’em coming.

This is SophistiBANTS Smallman, you wouldn’t get it.

LT42

Brilliant album. Remember the MTV video well at the time too, was always fascinated by the people in it. Where was it filmed, Los Feliz or something like that?

bosstrabs

seanc80 House Of Pain - Jump Around

Good one.

bosstrabs

Lots of U2 too, during their brief ‘good’ period (The Fly/Even Better Than The Real Thing, then later came Numb and Lemon in 93)

Phil-McRackin

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

bosstrabs

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.

Millsy

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

seanc80

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.

Dan

Preferred Protection & Mezzanine over Blue Lines.

bosstrabs

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.

LT42

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.

Old-Dutch

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.

bosstrabs

LT42 LOL!

alistair

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

bosstrabs

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.”

LT42

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.

Dan

bosstrabs Prob yours tbf

LT42

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.