UKNY For April 2: Blue Lines Turns 25
Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall and 'Blue Lines' (photo courtesy of Virgin/EMI, PR)
The swift passage of time is startling, especially when it comes to looking back on remarkable albums that remain as influential today as they were when first released. Massive Attack's seismic debut, Blue Lines, marks its 25th anniversary next week, April 8, and its sensual, simmering menace, roiling anxiety, rain-soaked gloaming, sociopolitical jabs, and deft, jittery dissection of hip-hop, post punk, and soul became the template of an entire genre tagged (much to the group's bemusement) as trip-hop.
Tonight's UKNY at 11 is devoted not only to that Bristol masterpiece, forged by the trio of Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall and former member Andy "Mushroom" Vowles, but the artists in their sphere, some cohorts in the soon-to-implode Wild Bunch collective, and their collaborators on Blue Lines too, like Neneh Cherry, Tricky, Shara Nelson, Horace Andy and more.
Out late or in bed early? You can catch up to UKNY on demand as of Monday in the FUV weekend archives up to two weeks after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Massive Attack, “Daydreaming,” Blue Lines
2. Tricky, “Christiansands,” Pre-Millennium Tension
3. Shara Nelson, “Pain Revisited,” What Silence Knows
4. Massive Attack, “Hymn of the Big Wheel (Nellee Hooper remix),” Blue Lines – The Remixes
5. Neneh Cherry, “Peace in Mind,” Homebrew
6. Portishead, “It Could Be Sweet,” Dummy
7. Massive Attack, “Unfinished Sympathy,” Blue Lines
8. Smith & Mighty, “Walk On,” The Three Stripe Collection
9. Alpha, “Rain,” Come From Heaven
10. David Bowie (feat. Massive Attack), “Nature Boy,” Moulin Rouge soundtrack
11. Massive Attack, Tricky and 3D, “Take It There,” Ritual Spirit EP
