Music : Protection
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724383988327
Label: Virgin Records Us
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
Number Of Discs: 1
Publication Date: 1994
Publisher: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: January 24, 1995
Sales Rank: 1951
Studio: Virgin Records Us
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Bristol's Massive Attack released a classic with their first album, Blue Lines, but only those who were paying careful attention noticed; soon, they were overshadowed by the likes of Tricky and Portishead, who were colleagues. But not so after the release of Protection, which sported a massive hit and was just as critically acclaimed as their first album. (The hit was the title track, for which Everything but the Girl's Tracy Thorn lent her divine pipes--a move that made the act's name, and also presaged EBTG's move to the dance floor.) Eschewing the showmanship of their scene mates, Massive prefer subtler soundscapes and using a diverse range of vocalists (including Horace Andy, Nicolette, and Tricky) who give them a number of flavors and moods with which to work. Protection is an understated album with a rich palette; it reveals more of itself on repeated listens, growing better--and deeper--each time. --Randy Silver
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I really like most of this CD. I have no real complaints about it except for the title track and another one by the same vocalist. The lyrics are ridiculously boring and simple. It's really painful to listen to.
Save for those two tracks, this album is quite good. Like Mezzanine, it's got style, class and talent. Spyglass and Karmacoma are especially good. I gave it 3 stars, but I really think it deserves 3.5.
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Massive Attack have gotten a lot of praise, but most of it is either for their first album Blue Lines, or for their third album Mezzanine. Protection tends to get lost between those two. But in fact, it's Protection that's really the best Massive Attack album. I can listen to it the whole way through, and when it's over, I find myself wishing there was even more. I can't even remember the last time I bought an album that I could say that about.
Perhaps Protection doesn't have the same reputation as Blue Lines and Mezzanine because it doesn't have any "obvious" hits, deliberately powerful songs like "Safe From Harm" or "Angel." The biggest single here is "Protection," a long eight-minute rumination without any particular build-up or dramatic climax. The chorus isn't a pop chorus, either, because it doesn't repeat a hook. But nevertheless, the song is beautiful. The gentle mid-tempo rhythm steadily draws one into the mood of the song.
The lyrics in the album don't matter so much. Massive Attack were never known for being great poets. But the words do contribute to the mood. In "Protection," Tracey Thorn encourages "you" to take care of someone who needs help, which first means some girl, but later seems to become "you." The choice of words is good: "You can lean on me / And that's more than love, that's the way it should be" and "She's a girl and you're a boy / Sometimes we look so small." I really like Massive Attack's style of romanticism -- instead of ... Read More
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as usual, i order a cd like 'protection' for a song or two. then i get a great surprise.
in this case, it's the title track, with vocals by tracey thorn. thorn, along with lisa gerrard, dusty springfield, doris day, billie holiday, aretha franklin and a few others, has a uniquely gorgeous voice and styling that is immediately identifiable for so many things--a social scene, a certain era, a mood.
unlike the others, she has still to get her due and fame as a singer. here's hoping that people will use her and get her heard as much as the law will allow.
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A lot of people prefer blue lines over protection and I just don't understand that. I found protection to be great. Possibly one of the best CDs that Massive attack has ever released other than Mezzanine. Eurochild is mindblowingly amazing. Karmacoma, Better things, Heat Miser, weather storm and spying glass are also exceptional. The only reason I don't give this a 5 star rating is cause of the last track. A cover of the Doors, Light my fire that, to me, seems very pointless.
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Eleven years have pass since Massive Attack came out with this album, and when i listen to it, still sounding as fresh and new as that then it?s an amazing work , with the colaboration of the also amaizing Craig Armstrong, Tracy Thorn and Tricky .
I have always thought that melancholy it?s the ?nice?part of being sad, well this is the feeling in this CD . With sublime work on the piano made by Armstrong and the angel voice of Tracy Thorn (Everything But The Girl) this three guys made a classic album that is going to last forever , full of inovative sounds, vocals and deep feeling. While others reviewers think of it as a dark album (which really is , i?m not going to desagree) i think of it more as a beawtiful and melancholic album but no matter how we feel it, this is a most have!!!!
No matter what kind of music you like this is one of those albums that have something for everybody unless you like Paulina Rubio
If this album would not have included ?Lite My Fire? this could have been call PERFECTION instead of PROTECTION
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