... The true highlight is probably the title track, 'Protection', however, with its gentle harmonies supporting the floating vocals - really music that you can get lost in. If you bought Mezzanine and you're wondering what Massive Attack's older stuff is like, then you won't be disappointed either. ... Read review
Bristol's Massive Attack released a classic with their first album,Blue Lines, but only ... more
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Massive Attack's Protection album as raw material to create a completely new experience. Bits are added, dropped out, accentuated, run through sonic effects, drenched in reverb, turned inside out until the songs disappear and in their place emerge reborn textural soundscapes. No Protection gives a sort of discursive aural commentary on Protection's original songs, pointing out all the obscured details--the most minute percussive rings and beeps, the most mesmerising bass loops. --Roni Sarig
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Massive Attack'sProtectionalbum as raw material to create a completely new experience. Bits are added, dropped out, accentuated, run through sonic effects, drenched in reverb, turned inside out until the songs disappear and in their place emerge reborn textural soundscapes.No Protectiongives a sort of discursive aural commentary onProtection's original songs, pointing out all the obscured details--the most minute percussive rings and beeps, the most mesmerising bass loops.--Roni Sarig
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This is the studio work of London's prodigious dub godfather, Mad Professor, who takes ... more
Massive Attack's Protection album as raw material to create a completely new experience. Bits are added, dropped out, accentuated, run through sonic effects, drenched in reverb, turned inside out until the songs disappear and in their place emerge reborn textural soundscapes. No Protection gives a sort of discursive aural commentary on Protection's original songs, pointing out all the obscured details--the most minute percussive rings and beeps, the most mesmerising bass loops. --Roni Sarig
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Massive Attack'sProtectionalbum as raw material to create a completely new experience. Bits are added, dropped out, accentuated, run through sonic effects, drenched in reverb, turned inside out until the songs disappear and in their place emerge reborn textural soundscapes.No Protectiongives a sort of discursive aural commentary onProtection's original songs, pointing out all the obscured details--the most minute percussive rings and beeps, the most mesmerising bass loops.--Roni Sarig
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Advantages: Floating singing, great support, tunes you can get involved with Disadvantages: Lyrics still not amazing
...won't be disappointed either. Although Protection is less electronic than their next album, it still leans more towards drum-and-bass than anything else (apart from trip-hop, of course). Be prepared for more lyrics, however, and tunes more like 'Teardrop' than 'Angel'. I wouldn't rate this above or below the other MA albums, because all three are a necessary progression and each good in their own way. Buy them all and you won't be disappointed. more
Right, I presume that if you're reading this, you already own Blue Lines or Mezzanine. You should do. If you started with the former, then excellent, because this album leads on nicely from Blue Lines, still retaining a lot of the gorgeous vocals and chilled-out underlay, while progressing from the first album by becoming even less 'pop' and more electronic. Having said that, however, the stonking instrumentalism of 'Karmacoma' is perhaps one of the band's greatest moments. The true highlight is probably the title track, 'Protection', however, with its gentle harmonies supporting the floating vocals - really music that you can get lost in. If you bought Mezzanine and you're wondering what Massive Attack's older stuff is like, then you won't be disappointed either. Although Protection is less electronic than their next album, it still leans more towards drum-and-bass than anything else (apart from trip-hop, of course). Be prepared for more lyrics, however, and tunes more like 'Teardrop' than 'Angel'. I wouldn't rate this above or below the other MA albums, because all three are a necessary progression and each good in their own way. Buy them all and you won't be disappointed.
this is such a strong album. Not a week track on it. Its heavy rumbling dub makes it great for listening to in a crowd in a bar and in clubs, whilst its vocals and intricacies allow it to take on even stronger characteristics when listened to in private.
My personal favourite tune, not just off this album but in a top 10 of the 90's is Eurochild. It's gorgeous, round rumbley smooth bassline covered by a mellow piece of rap.
Its even got a cover ...
darrenwilliams99 27.06.2000
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Advantages: Incredible bass lines Disadvantages: An acquired taste
Granted this album is more of an acquired taste compared to the original Protection or even Blue Lines, however it does possess the very same chilled out mood throughout it. Remixes by the infamous Mad Professor known for incorporating sounds never used before, the album takes the bass lines of Protection to an entirely new depth. It has a classic timeless nature to it with some incredible dub sounds. Many of the tracks like Protection still have a very similar sound with small dark additions. For those of you who have enjoyed Protection and Mezzanine i would definately recommend a listen. A superb introduction into the world of dub music. After listening to this I went out searching for more Mad professor albums. ...
Advantages: beter than original, loads of classics Disadvantages: Anyone seen the Beatles???
Already owning the original 'Music Of The Millennium' and having enjoyed it a lot, I thought it would be worthwhile checking this new incarnation out. It certainly has all the makings of a "best songs ever recorded" album, with Queen, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, and all the other usual suspects APART FROM THE BEATLES!!!
Aside from this lack of the 'best band ever', the album is really quite goo, with only a few poor tracks, like 'Protection' by MassiveAttack, and a couple of others.
On the whole, this album contins the featured bands best work, rather than most popular, e.g. 'Don't Look Back In Anger', by Oasis, rather than 'Wonderwall', 'Under Pressure' rather than 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Angels' rather than 'Millennium', i could go on...
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Advantages: On the limmited edition it has all the music videos on it as well! An excellent touch I think! Disadvantages: The cover is the only downside that I have found, it looks nice now but after time it's going to be a bit scruffy as it's made like a hard back book with no plastic covering.
Collected is a true master piece and one that MassiveAttack should be proud of. It pulls together everything they have achieved over the years and pulled it together into one neat little CD. Also just for the added touch they have released a limited edition two disk version which includes all of their videos on CD 2 which I have found to make for an interesting viewing. The first CD includes all their great tracks such as Protection, Teardrop, Unfinished Symphony and Safe from Harm as well as some of their lesser known releases. I had always respected the work of MassiveAttack in the past though it wasn't until its release of collected this compilation CD that I had realized just how much they had accomplished. Fantastic stuff and great mind setting music! ...
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Product details
Title
Protection
Performer
Massive Attack
Genre
Electronic
Sub Genre
Trip Hop / Big Beat
Release Date
26/09/1994
Recomended Retail Price
14.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1994
Label / Distributor
Wild Bunch/Virgin / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Producer
Nellee Hooper
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Mixed
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
724383988327
Catalogue Number
WBRCD 2
Additional notes
Album Notes
Massive Attack: Mushroom, 3-D, Daddy G. Additional personnel: Nicolette, Tracey Thorn, Tricky, Horace Andy (vocals); Chester Kamen (guitar); Craig Armstrong (piano); Rob Merril (drums). Bristol's trip-hop pioneers crystallize their melancholic splendor on PROTECTION. It's a simmering shadow of a soundtrack to urban life, where dub, hip-hop, electronica and soul mesh into something quite singular. Imagine the chilling threnody of scene-mates Portishead allied with rough dancehall, club and South Bronx bass-beats, set ablaze by Mushroom, 3-D and Daddy-G's sour gaze into the millennial horizon. A host of fine guest vocalists help drive the vocal tunes, in turn making the instrumentals stand out all the more. It is a juxtaposition of cold and hot, alienation and unity, that informs PROTECTION. Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl steals the show with her sure, silky vocals on the title track, her voice a sweet fire that thrives in a frosty wind, just barely anchored by the entrancing swirl of wah-guitar, strings and phased keyboard drones. Old-school reggae favorite Horace Andy tears up "Spying Glass" with a haunting lilt over the house-dub beat. "Sly" evokes the icy landscapes of Bjork's late-'90s work, albeit with the warm gust of string passages. "Karmacoma" features fellow trip-hopper Tricky, adding further motion to the forward-looking pop vision of PROTECTION.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.106) - Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records". Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.79) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." New York Times (1/6/96, p.C16) - Included on Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums of `95 - "...full of loops, echoes, ghostly voices and the conviction that space is as important as sound..." NME (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #13 in NME's list of `The Top 50 Albums Of 1994.' Alternative Press (7/95, p.106) - Ranked #93 in AP's list of the `Top 99 of '85-'95' - "...PROTECTION return[s] Massive to their reggae roots...Thundering bass echoe[s] beneath percolating hip-hop beats and smooth soul grooves...Unlike that of increasingly cartoonish gangstas, Massive's might [is] no media pose..." Rolling Stone (4/6/95, p.64) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...this English dance-pop outfit...delivers brilliant body music that doesn't neglect the brain. Cool, sexy stuff, it smoothly fuses dub, club and soul, grounding its grace in sampled hip-hop beats..." Spin (2/95, pps.77-78) - Satisfactory - "...the dark depressive flipside to Soul II Soul's sunny, self-determining optimism. The beats are even slower, the grooves more contemplative than propulsive, the arrangements... influenced by METAL BOX-era P.I.L....The songs rarely allow for emotional release..." Vibe (2/95, p.88) - "...well couched in the sound-system ethic....PROTECTION is a weird piece of work that fits right into the defining mantra of British dance music...A surreal forging of dub, hip hop, soul, and random bugged-out elements..." NME (9/24/94, p.49) - 8 - Excellent - "...Rolling pianos, soft handclaps and a quiet little bass noodle: odd and very grown-up, but cinematically sexy..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Protection (album version)
2.
Karmacoma
3.
Three
4.
Weather Storm
5.
Spying Glass
6.
Better Things
7.
Euro Child
8.
Sly
9.
Heat Miser
10.
Light My Fire (live)
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