Explore Massive Attack’s Mezzanine (in 5 Minutes)

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Massive Attack’s third full length Mezzanine was a noise-laden reinvention for the Bristol trip-hop pioneers. Mezzanine is a contrarian masterpiece that still sounds like the discovery of a new kind of darkness.
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Explore Massive Attack’s Mezzanine (in 5 Minutes)

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  • @FUTABA-kg
    @FUTABA-kg5 жыл бұрын

    Insane album. It sounds like an odd mutant straight out from a dangerous bio lab. It's dark, horrifying, monstrous, brutal, and beautiful.

  • @grittyshaker
    @grittyshaker6 жыл бұрын

    One of the greatest albums of all time

  • @grittyshaker

    @grittyshaker

    6 жыл бұрын

    William James We can agree to disagree.

  • @brianwarner308

    @brianwarner308

    6 жыл бұрын

    that's prolly your best bet

  • @osufan77

    @osufan77

    6 жыл бұрын

    I don't know what they're smoking, this is one of the best albums ever. Most critics would have it in a top 100 somewhere.

  • @r7coo

    @r7coo

    5 жыл бұрын

    grittyshaker The....

  • @Magneira

    @Magneira

    5 жыл бұрын

    William James sure but like a rolling Stone is the best music of all time. Yes this is one of the best albums of all time my friend.

  • @madonna_rocket
    @madonna_rocket5 жыл бұрын

    This album does NOT sound 20 years old.

  • @Djavo1

    @Djavo1

    Жыл бұрын

    24!!!

  • @r7coo

    @r7coo

    Жыл бұрын

    26 bro

  • @Yakura66

    @Yakura66

    11 ай бұрын

    It's timeless

  • @chmelys

    @chmelys

    7 ай бұрын

    it does have the 90s sound and vibe tho

  • @danielfelipegonzalezocampo3418
    @danielfelipegonzalezocampo34186 жыл бұрын

    Avant Garde + Downtempo + Darkwave + 1998 = STUNNING. Their Majestic Massive Attack.

  • @anacosta6181
    @anacosta61816 жыл бұрын

    Finally! This, my friends, is one of the greatest albums of all time.

  • @bleachhouse1090
    @bleachhouse10906 жыл бұрын

    The Cure - Disintegration, Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream, R.E.M. - Automatic For The People, Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible, Suede - Dog Man Star, Blur - 13, Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure, Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion and Joy Division - Closer will all be great to see

  • @mistapeper1283

    @mistapeper1283

    2 жыл бұрын

    haha depeche mode album, yes it is so good and dark

  • @rabit818
    @rabit8186 жыл бұрын

    I like listening to Mezzanine during winter. Dark and brooding music.

  • @osufan77

    @osufan77

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it's a "fall/winter" vibe album for sure.

  • @Helaw0lf

    @Helaw0lf

    5 жыл бұрын

    I would use it and 100th Window when taking on the challenges of Diablo I & II.

  • @mattrob5422

    @mattrob5422

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or a dark winter night in Berlin

  • @paulgreen2401

    @paulgreen2401

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's also good at night, on a mountain bike.

  • @nikolademitri731
    @nikolademitri7316 жыл бұрын

    I was always partial to Portishead, where trip hop is concerned, but it’s an undeniable fact that this album is a fucking masterpiece, and holds up beautifully to this day. ✌🏼

  • @temporarilyblond
    @temporarilyblond6 жыл бұрын

    An unforgettable classic that will stand time like few others. I listen to this album after 20 years and it still gives me chills like the first time I heard it. A masterwork.

  • @rogeriocardoso1773
    @rogeriocardoso17736 жыл бұрын

    Mezzanine is one my favorite albums of all time. I remember being a teenager and watching "teardrop" for the first time on MTV and getting completely blown away by its beauty!

  • @popival6267
    @popival62675 жыл бұрын

    Possibly my fave album of all time,I never get tired of it a masterpiece

  • @TheJAMESTAIT10
    @TheJAMESTAIT105 жыл бұрын

    This album and Portishead dummy are awesome albums, both out of Bristol, was lucky enough to see mass attack back in 98/99

  • @NessRhyme
    @NessRhyme2 ай бұрын

    Between them, Portis & Burial. literal perfect music

  • @ianpavelvegacruzmoz
    @ianpavelvegacruzmoz6 жыл бұрын

    The best album of all the trip hop/bristol sound and totally a classic, also a timeless album

  • @sudevsen
    @sudevsen6 жыл бұрын

    luv ya luv ya luv ya luv ya

  • @PaddyArdill
    @PaddyArdill6 жыл бұрын

    Inertia creeps is the best song on this record, what a track

  • @mrotaveria
    @mrotaveria6 жыл бұрын

    its been 20 yrs omg

  • @anacosta6181

    @anacosta6181

    6 жыл бұрын

    Martin Rotaveria and it still sounds fresh

  • @hayleylongster4698

    @hayleylongster4698

    6 жыл бұрын

    anne bcleyn it does!!!

  • @osufan77

    @osufan77

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'll never forget the day I heard it in a bookstore and had to have it, fall of 98

  • @Fr3nchFrise

    @Fr3nchFrise

    3 ай бұрын

    25* 😭

  • @lazy_gamer_dad
    @lazy_gamer_dad6 жыл бұрын

    This album is perfect.

  • @lalala36914
    @lalala369146 жыл бұрын

    🎵 You’re not my eater I’m not your food 🎵

  • @chetkayeable
    @chetkayeable6 жыл бұрын

    Hey it's Banksy! love your art fella.

  • @israelalvarez4884
    @israelalvarez48845 жыл бұрын

    Masterpiece, thank you Pitchfork

  • @mattrob5422
    @mattrob54224 жыл бұрын

    This album changed my life

  • @the_emmo
    @the_emmo6 жыл бұрын

    YESSS! I've been waiting this for too long and now it's here!

  • @getthoseskills4451
    @getthoseskills44513 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting this dark masterpiece. Love the Bristol sound other darker trip hop artists like Tricky, Portishead, Unkle, DJ Krush, Forest Swords, Allflaws

  • @phantommagnolia
    @phantommagnolia6 жыл бұрын

    Angel, best music video ever

  • @osufan77

    @osufan77

    6 жыл бұрын

    All the videos from this album are sooooo good.

  • @CopeLtda2
    @CopeLtda26 жыл бұрын

    Pitchfork taking the gold once again.

  • @rodawallace
    @rodawallace6 жыл бұрын

    Gawd I still love this record.

  • @RapidBlindfolds
    @RapidBlindfolds2 жыл бұрын

    i've always loved the production but now i turn on the rolling lyrics feature with spotify and have a newfound appreciation for the lyrics. reminds me of early surrealist automatism

  • @phototristan
    @phototristan6 жыл бұрын

    One of the best albums of the 90's for sure.

  • @Degtyannikov100
    @Degtyannikov1006 жыл бұрын

    one day there will be arcade fire's funeral, i believe

  • @gurukutungumokotochongo8057
    @gurukutungumokotochongo80576 жыл бұрын

    One of the top 10 albums of all time. In my humble opinion.

  • @chillhard430
    @chillhard4303 жыл бұрын

    Bought this CD on sight just by looking at the cover when it was released, was not disappointed.

  • @shaykitoffe6411
    @shaykitoffe6411 Жыл бұрын

    GREAT solid classic record

  • @halolime117
    @halolime1174 жыл бұрын

    This album screams The Matrix

  • @SanskarWagley
    @SanskarWagley6 жыл бұрын

    Love this album

  • @UncleJimsBand
    @UncleJimsBand5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the insights. I love the album but knew almost none of this deep and messy background.

  • @toods8178
    @toods81786 жыл бұрын

    love this album

  • @Welcome2TheUnknown
    @Welcome2TheUnknown2 жыл бұрын

    this album still sounds new!!

  • @alessandroraeli7677
    @alessandroraeli76776 жыл бұрын

    I listen to this album from May to September ; Discontinuously - almost every day; Every year from 2008.

  • @ilham1908
    @ilham19086 жыл бұрын

    Fav records ❤️

  • @chmelys
    @chmelys2 жыл бұрын

    i remember listening to this and the chemical brothers in my dads car when i was little.. good old times :)

  • @saintaudio
    @saintaudio5 жыл бұрын

    One of the greatest music band of all time

  • @chrissvitreoushumour
    @chrissvitreoushumour6 жыл бұрын

    great stuff, still gotta listen to this album please do In The Aeroplane Over The Sean next!

  • @antoniohall-rodriguez5533
    @antoniohall-rodriguez55336 ай бұрын

    if mezzanine came out today, it woulds still be ahead of its time

  • @alexandreribeiro597
    @alexandreribeiro5976 жыл бұрын

    Great! Love this album and this episode was so nice. I'd like to see episodes on Jesus And Mary Chain's Psychocandy, Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade and The Beatles' White Album. Cheers, everybody!

  • @mossymoose8920
    @mossymoose89206 жыл бұрын

    Slint next please.

  • @luckydc
    @luckydc5 жыл бұрын

    masterpiece

  • @bloop9042
    @bloop90425 жыл бұрын

    Idk why I could never get into this album, everything about it makes it seem like it’d be right up my alley but the only song I like off it is exchange

  • @Deckardpr
    @Deckardpr6 жыл бұрын

    GRACIAS!!!!!!!

  • @hayleylongster4698
    @hayleylongster46986 жыл бұрын

    Also love is a doing word.

  • @orchidcut
    @orchidcut28 күн бұрын

    Classic album

  • @makudonarudokairu
    @makudonarudokairu5 жыл бұрын

    Their "Unleashed" soundtrack is actually one of my favorites too.

  • @sudevsen
    @sudevsen6 жыл бұрын

    What else to listen to triphop other than Portishead,Gorillaz and Massive Attack?

  • @anacosta6181

    @anacosta6181

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sudev Sen Tricky is definitely one of the best in the genre, he worked extensively with Massive Attack. Check him out if u haven’t yet

  • @the_emmo

    @the_emmo

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sudev Sen Listen to «Psyence Fiction» by UNKLE, «Entroducing...» by DJ Shadow, and «Maxinquaye» by Tricky. Have fun

  • @the_emmo

    @the_emmo

    6 жыл бұрын

    anne bcleyn Exactly.

  • @natalietamar

    @natalietamar

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sudev Sen Absolutly must listen to Tricky. Also, early Morcheeba too (Skye Edwards on vocals -- especially the albums Who Can You Trust? and Big Calm). Goldfrapp (Alison Goldfrapp did vocals on Tricky's first album, Maxinquaye), Portishead, Everything But the Girl (especially the album Walking Wounded).

  • @how_am_i_not_myself

    @how_am_i_not_myself

    6 жыл бұрын

    Broadcast...and Sterolab....Sneaker Pimps! and Beth Gibbons and Rustin man (lead singer of portishead) If you want newer, try Braids - Deep in the Iris...kinda closer to bjork then just trip hop...there is also Tei Shi's first two EP...I got more if you'd like

  • @randallpinkfloyd4857
    @randallpinkfloyd48576 жыл бұрын

    Never heard of this album until I got the notification for this video. Pitchfork kicks ass!!!

  • @osufan77

    @osufan77

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lucky you, I wish I could go back 20 years and experience this album for the first time again. Jealous.

  • @randallpinkfloyd4857

    @randallpinkfloyd4857

    5 жыл бұрын

    TrippingInDenver lol same way I feel about all my favorite bands

  • @ulisessantana8893
    @ulisessantana88936 жыл бұрын

    Please do a brief history of new wave

  • @hayleylongster4698
    @hayleylongster46986 жыл бұрын

    This album is fucking wonderful

  • @illmortalquotes4118
    @illmortalquotes41185 жыл бұрын

    I love dissolved girl

  • @cheffffffffffffffffffff
    @cheffffffffffffffffffff5 жыл бұрын

    this album slaps

  • @bed5471
    @bed54715 жыл бұрын

    Please do Unknown Pleasures or Plowing Into the Field of Love next

  • @rudy24286
    @rudy242866 жыл бұрын

    Lol, just listened to this last night

  • @IAmASharpedo
    @IAmASharpedo5 жыл бұрын

    Possible suggestion for the future: Surrender by The Chemical Brothers?

  • @joejustice6985
    @joejustice69855 жыл бұрын

    *MADVILLAINY* *MADVILLAINY* *MADVILLAINY*

  • @willoconnor2317
    @willoconnor23175 жыл бұрын

    leave it to p4k to only talk about the singles

  • @isobel64

    @isobel64

    4 жыл бұрын

    cant believe Group 4 was ignored

  • @rayhoodoo847
    @rayhoodoo8475 жыл бұрын

    This video should be 5x longer

  • @danielfelipegonzalezocampo3418
    @danielfelipegonzalezocampo34186 жыл бұрын

    Humble Request : Talk Talk's Laughing Stock / This Mortal Coil's It'll End In Tears / Jeff Buckley's Grace

  • @Rubberfooted
    @Rubberfooted6 жыл бұрын

    Do Spoon’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Flaming Lips’ Yoshimi, or Steely Dan’s Aja next please!!!

  • @cheezoncrack1
    @cheezoncrack13 жыл бұрын

    Houses teardrop Intro is how I discovered massive attack as a kid

  • @hinkhall5291
    @hinkhall52912 жыл бұрын

    Oof can you imagine Madonna singing Teardrop? Bullet dodged.

  • @gustavttt4148
    @gustavttt41486 жыл бұрын

    o, yes, o thy great, o yes.

  • @nxxxxzn
    @nxxxxzn6 жыл бұрын

    Had no idea it was the cocteau lady!

  • @uuuuugh
    @uuuuugh6 жыл бұрын

    Angel vocal melodies follows more or less the same style as you are my angel written by horace andy himself.

  • @nicolasrivera3032
    @nicolasrivera30326 жыл бұрын

    Please make of these next (if i don’t mention a specific artist or album it’s more likely that there’s a video about it): Air-Moon Safari (1998) Aphex Twin-Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992) The Avalanches-Since I Left You (2000) The Band-Songs from Big Pink (1968) Bloc Party-Silent Alarm (2005) Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago (2007) Bright Eyes-I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005) Broken Social Scene-You Forgot It in People (2003) Burial-Untrue (2007) The Byrds-Fifth Dimension (1966) Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band-Trout Mask Replica (1969) Cocteau Twins-Heaven or Las Vegas (1990) The Cure-Disintegration (1989) Depeche Mode-Violator (1990) Dire Straits-Brothers in Arms (1985) The Feelies-Crazy Rhythms (1980) The Flaming Lips-The Soft Bulletin (1999) Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes (2008) Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention-Freak Out! (1966) The Fugees-The Score (1996) Funkadelic-Maggot Brain (1971) George Harrison-All Things Must Pass (1970) Ghostface Killah-Supreme Clientele (2000) Godspeed You! Black Emperor-F#A#Infinity (1997) Gorillaz-Demon Days (2005) Gram Parsons-Grievous Angel (1974) Grizzly Bear-Yellow House (2005) Have a Nice Life-Deathconsciousness (2008) J Dilla-Donuts (2006) Jean-Michel Jarre-Oxygène (1974) Jeff Buckley-Grace (1994) The Jesus and Mary Chain-Psychocandy (1985) John Coltrane-Ascension (1968) Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures (1979) Kate Bush-Hounds of Love (1985) Kid Cudi-Man on the Moon: The End of the Day (2009) The Killers-Hot Fuss (2004) Lou Reed-Transformer (1972) Lucinda Williams-Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998) M.I.A.-Kala (2007) Madvillain-Madvillainy (2004) Manic Street Preachers-The Holy Bible (1994) The Mars Volta-Deloused in the Comatorium (2003) Marvin Gaye-What’s Going On (1971) Mercury Rev-Deserter’s Songs (1998) The Microphones-The Glow Pt. 2 (2001) Miles Davis-Bitches Brew (1970) Minutemen-Double Nickels On the Dime (1984) Moby-Play (1999) Modest Mouse-The Lonesome Crowded West (1997) Mogwai-Mogwai Young Team (1997) Mos Def-Black on Both Sides (1999) Nas-Illmatic (1994) Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998) New Order-Power, Corruption and Lies (1983) Nick Drake-Pink Moon (1972) The Notorious B.I.G.-Ready to Die (1994) Of Montreal-Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2005) OutKast-Aquemini (1998) Panda Bear-Person Pitch (2007) Paul Simon-Graceland (1986) Primal Scream-Screamadelica (1991) Queens of the Stone Age-Songs for the Deaf (2002) R.E.M.-Automatic for the People (1992) Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine (1992) Ride-Nowhere (1990) The Roots-Things Fall Apart (1999) Sex Pistols-Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977) The Shins-Oh, Inverted World (2001) Sigur Rós-Ágætis Byrjun (1999) Silver Jews-American Water (1998) Slint-Spiderland (1991) Slowdive-Soulvaki (1993) Sly & the Family Stone-There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971) The Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) Soundgarden-Superunknown (1994) Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen, We’re Floating in Space (1997) Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life (1976) The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses (1989) Sublime-Sublime (1996) Sunny Day Real Estate-Diary (1994) Swans-Soundtracks for the Blind (1996) System of a Down-Toxicity (2001) Talk Talk-Laughing Stock (1991) Tom Waits-Rain Dogs (1985) A Tribe Called Quest-The Low End Theory (1991) The Verve-Urban Hymns (1997) Weezer-Weezer (1994) The Who-Tommy (1969) Wire-Pink Flag (1977) Wu-Tang Clan-Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993) XTC-Skylarking (1986) Yo La Tengo-I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1995) The Zombies-Odessey and Oracle (1968)

  • @christopherhau3974

    @christopherhau3974

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nicolas Leonardo I think they not just make a video of Slowdive’s Souvlaki, they actually made a oral documentary as a part of their classic series.

  • @pedrogilberto2014

    @pedrogilberto2014

    5 жыл бұрын

    Christopher Hau They did one for The Lonesome Crowded West as well.

  • @hijackcloud9
    @hijackcloud95 жыл бұрын

    Do Portishead

  • @Asapyo93
    @Asapyo936 жыл бұрын

    do Silent Alarm & Hot Fuss!

  • @kaisamsa

    @kaisamsa

    5 жыл бұрын

    Josue Aguilar they only do good albums

  • @pedrogilberto2014
    @pedrogilberto20145 жыл бұрын

    Do Heaven or Las Vegas next

  • @lynnpehrson8826
    @lynnpehrson88265 жыл бұрын

    Does this guy have to yell? Also this is basically just the wiki

  • @ThatOneGuy7550
    @ThatOneGuy75505 жыл бұрын

    Do Unwound or SWANS

  • @denizhanozyurek
    @denizhanozyurek2 жыл бұрын

    I knew there was some Turkish influence on Inertia Creeps.

  • @mattwilkinson2261
    @mattwilkinson22615 жыл бұрын

    Hey why dont you do one on Americana by the offspring?

  • @arne_robot
    @arne_robot5 жыл бұрын

    Who is the rapper shown in the reddish image close to the end? I know him, but I can’t get to his name. Thx!

  • @meow-zg2fk
    @meow-zg2fk5 жыл бұрын

    Do Grotesque (After The Gramme) By The Fall.

  • @funkylama9003
    @funkylama90036 жыл бұрын

    jo

  • @MrFreeman626
    @MrFreeman6265 жыл бұрын

    Siamese Dream pls

  • @doomsdaydanceparty7646
    @doomsdaydanceparty76465 жыл бұрын

    Heaven or Las Vegas soon hopefully?

  • @thesuperj2511
    @thesuperj25116 жыл бұрын

    I fucking love massive attack and im 16

  • @briankim3472
    @briankim34726 жыл бұрын

    * Creeping *

  • @liamwilliams6319
    @liamwilliams63193 ай бұрын

    100th Window wasn't critically panned??

  • @skoots6303
    @skoots63035 жыл бұрын

    They were just called Massive at one point 😂😂😂

  • @TheGouravJena
    @TheGouravJena6 жыл бұрын

    House

  • @joaquinlr6345
    @joaquinlr63455 жыл бұрын

    When Pills n trills and bellyaches ?

  • @linuscontinental2223
    @linuscontinental22235 жыл бұрын

    >noise laden Why can’t pitchfork use buzzterms in contexts where they actually apply

  • @brandonburroughs7128
    @brandonburroughs71286 жыл бұрын

    Woah didn’t know they did the title music to the show House lol

  • @discomfortzone

    @discomfortzone

    5 жыл бұрын

    Brandon Burroughs they didn’t. Technically the show used a Massive Attack song for their title music. :)

  • @natashatercera8536
    @natashatercera85365 жыл бұрын

    i remember as a teenager when i listened to this album the lineup to this band always confused me. and i thought horace andy was a lady!

  • @samginno5330
    @samginno53306 жыл бұрын

    Didn't fucking play in MADRID THO

  • @Yourveryowncarrot
    @Yourveryowncarrot5 жыл бұрын

    Do literally anything by Joy Division

  • @georgestevens2937
    @georgestevens29376 жыл бұрын

    Can you guys do a Childish Gambino album?

  • @mitchellhughes5180
    @mitchellhughes5180 Жыл бұрын

    This guy sounds like he’s four

  • @gnarfish1
    @gnarfish1 Жыл бұрын

    masterpiece

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