Massive Attack - Protection

I dunno, 'Teardrop' is an immaculately produced, beautiful piece of music, but I find 'Protection' far more affecting overall, it's a little more grounded. 'Teardrop' is more something I admire.

it helps that I prefer Thorn's voice to Ms. Cocteau's.

SHIT! SHIT! I should've voted for Sly! Can I change my vote? How did I forget about that??

Oh I never really got on with Tracey Thorn's voice all that much TBH. Since I first heard EBTG as a teen she just sounded so down and dreary. Actually she's someone I admire more than I enjoy, so fancy that Alfred.

I don't like Tracey Thorn because she sounds like Dido.

that's impossible. she was there first. so maybe dido sounds like tracey thorn but not the other way roud. which is not true anyway as dido has got such a clean, uninteresting voice whereas tracey thorn's clear and warm voice really grips me whenever i hear her i am paralysed like a deer in the headlight of a car and then i have to listen to the words she sings.

Sly!

Sad I didn't vote Sly.

this thread is bringing back some bad memories.
i recommended heat miser for background music once and they thought it was an original song by me, credited me, then someone got mad thinking i was taking cred for massive attack's stinking work

voted: heat miser

Protection. Could listen to it forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE-Xn37A1sc

Voted 'Better Things', but I can't actually remember most of these from their names alone and I'm too lazy to dig out the CD, so I might actually prefer something else.

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the title track may be the boring vote but it is the safe vote, and who does not need to feel safe

well i've leaned on you for years,
now you can lean on me.
that's more than love,
it's the way it should be

"Weather Storm" over "Karmacoma" and "Eurochild" cause no one else is gonna vote for it ("prove me wrong, kids. prove me wrong.")

I love Karmacoma but title track really is actually the best here and also thanks for reminding me to dig this album back up

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Cool, glad Sly did so well

who the fuck voted for 'light my fire'???

DJP?

Don't all be boring and vote for the title track plz

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just bein real

surprised Sly did so well! I thought it was one of those first album singles which are fairly big at the moment but that no one remembers years down the line.

there's such a distinctive hush over this entire album

you know what rules, is No Protection

Heh, seriously.

Would've voted for 'Karmacoma', I think, but I haven't heard this album in like 15 years.

does anyone know the story behind Vivien Goldman's writing credit on "Sly"?

From this piece by Goldman:

Years later, after the band had released Blue Lines and were preparing the album that became Protection, I visited Bristol to collaborate with them, eventually co-writing the track "Sly." Sample-based songwriting in those pre-digital days could be laborious. I bought a child's Casio keyboard to help fill the gaps, which came in handy for "Sly," but the process often involved someone getting on their bike and cycling down to the second-hand record shop to try and locate half-remembered grooves that might be just right to fulfill the elusive conception of a song.