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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelVir, Virgin Records now Virgin EMI Records
UPC0602557009606
eBay Product ID (ePID)6046054525
Product Key Features
FormatRecord
Release Year2016
GenreDance
ArtistMassive Attack
Release TitleBlue Lines
Dimensions
Item Height0.17 in
Item Weight0.68 lb
Item Length12.41 in
Item Width12.23 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks9
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Safe from Harm 5:16 1.2 One Love 4:48 1.3 Blue Lines 4:21 1.4 Be Thankful for What You've Got 4:09 1.5 Five Man Army 6:04 2.1 Unfinished Sympathy 5:08 2.2 Daydreaming 4:14 2.3 Lately 4:26 2.4 Hymn of the Big Wheel 6:36
Number of Discs1
NotesLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Blue Lines is the 1991 debut album by English trip hop group Massive Attack, released on their Wild Bunch label through Virgin Records. A highly-influential album, Blue Lines featured breakbeats, sampling, and rapping on a number of tracks, but the design of the album differed from traditional hip hop. Massive Attack approached the American-born hip hop movement from an underground British perspective and also incorporated live instruments into the mixes. It features the vocals of Shara Nelson and Horace Andy, along with the rapping of Tricky Kid. Blue Lines proved to be popular in the club scene, as well as on college radio stations. In a contemporary review of Blue Lines, Dele Fadele of NME hailed the album as "the sleekest, deadliest, most urbane, most confounding LP 1991 has yet seen", writing that Massive Attack "put current changes on the dancefloor in perspective and map out blueprints for what must surely come next" and that "after Blue Lines the boundaries separating soul, funk, reggae, house, classical, hip-hop and space-rock will be blurred forever."