- Protection (album)
Infobox Album | Name = Protection
Type =Album
Artist =Massive Attack
Released =September 26 ,1994
Recorded =Wild Bunch Studios ,London
Genre =Trip hop
Length = 48:57
Label = Circa/Virgin
Producer =Massive Attack andNellee Hooper
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:l1ug6jp871e0 link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=massive+attack link]
*"Rolling Stone " Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/massiveattack/albums/album/322083/review/6067499/protection link]
Last album = "Blue Lines "
(1991)
This album = "Protection"
(1994)
Next album = "No Protection"
(1995)"Protection" (1994) is
Bristol -basedtrip-hop collectiveMassive Attack 's secondalbum .ound
"Protection" was featured in the top ten of "
Rolling Stone " magazine's 'Coolest Albums of All Time List,' calling it "great music for when you're driving around a city at 4 am," due to the 'chill out' nature of the album. Like most of Massive Attack's albums, the music often defies quick categorization, ranging from R&B (title track, Sly) to hip hop/rap (Karmacoma, Eurochild) toreggae -tingedsynthpop (Spying Glass) to classical-influencedelectronica instrumentals (Weather Storm, Heat Miser). This album in particular has a heavy use of string instruments (or at least synthesizers imitating string instruments) compared to otherMassive Attack albums, although certain tracks before and after have featured strings, like "Unfinished Sympathy " and "Live with Me".Paul Evans of "
Rolling Stone " gave the album four of five stars calling it "Cool, sexy stuff, it smoothly fuses dub, club and soul, grounding its grace in sampled hip-hop beats."It is also listed in the book '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'.
The track "
Karmacoma " featured vocals fromTricky , and the video was directed byJonathan Glazer . The song also features a sample from the track "Dream Time in Lake Jackson" byThe KLF , which can be found 2:00 minutes in.DJ
Mad Professor remixed the album in 1995 under the name "No Protection".Track listing
#"Protection" (Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Thorn) – 7:51
#"Karmacoma" (Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Tricky/Norfolk/Locke) – 5:16
#"Three" (Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/Suwoton) – 3:49
#"Weather Storm" (Vowles / DelNaja / Marshall / Hooper / Armstrong / Harmon / Napoleon /Lloyd /Murray) – 4:59
#"Spying Glass" (Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/Andy) – 5:20
#"Better Things" (Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Thorn/Watt/Brown) – 4:13
#"Eurochild" (Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Tricky/Norfolk/Locke) – 5:11
#"Sly" (Vowles, Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/Suwoton/Goldman) – 5:24
#"Heat Miser" (Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/de Vries) – 3:39
#"Light My Fire" (live) (The Doors ) – 3:15Personnel
*Massive Attack - Producer, Mixing, Programming, Artwork
*Nellee Hooper - Producer, Mixing
*Marius De Vries , Andy Wright, The Insects,Nick Warren - Programming
*Robert "3d" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall,Tricky ,Tracey Thorn ,Horace Andy , Nicolette - Vocals
*Craig Armstrong - Piano
*Chester Kamen - Guitar
*Rob Merril - Drums
*Mark "Spike" Stent - Mix Engineer
*Jim Abiss - Mix Engineer
*Jeremy "Jim Bob" Wheatley - Additional Engineering
*Al Stone - Additional Engineering
*Mike Marsh - Mastering
*Michael-Nash Assoc. - Artwork
*Matthew Donaldson,Jean Baptiste Mondino , Eddie Monsoon -Photography
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