MASSIVE ATTACK - Collected RARE ORIG 2006 Sealed 3LP

	£		139
	$		184

Product details

Label:                 Virgin Records ltd

Catalog#:         V3017

Barcode:          0094645446517

Format:            3 x Vinyl, 12’’ LP, Album, Compilation

Released:         27 Mar 2006

THIS IS THE STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION, FACTORY SEALED FROM NEW TRIPLE VINYL VERSION OF MASSIVE ATTACK – COLLECTED LP COMPILATION ON THE LEGENDARY VIRGIN RECORDS LABEL IN 2006

LP TRACKLISTING:

SIDE ONE

A1    SAFE FROM HARM

A2    KARMACOMA

SIDE TWO

B1    ANGEL

B2    TEARDROP

SIDE THREE

C1    INERTIA CREEPS

C2    PROTECTION

SIDE FOUR

D1    BUTTERFLY CAUGHT

D2    UNFINISHED SYMPATHY

D3    RISINGSON

SIDE FIVE

E1    WHAT YOUR SOUL SINGS

E2    FUTURE PROOF

SIDE SIX

F1     FIVE MAN ARMY

F2     SLY

F3     LIVE WITH ME

MEGA-RARE, Out-of-Print, strictly Limited Original 2006 UK 3-LP set pressed on Heavyweight Vinyl. Presented in a stickered deluxe tri-fold picture sleeve. A 14-track collection of their biggest hits including 'Safe From Harm', 'Teadrop', 'Unfinished Sympathy' and previously unreleased single 'Live With Me'. This vinyl set remains sealed from new in the original plastic keeping the cover and discs intact. An absolutely pristine copy

Collected is a "best of" album by British trip-hop collective Massive Attack, released on 27 March 2006. The album was preceded by the release of the single "Live With Me" on 13 March

Album review:

The first time I flew from Syracuse to Baltimore, I was sure I was going to die. Shoehorned into one of those two-engine propeller planes, surrounded by screaming kids, snow starting to fall, warnings of turbulence crackling over the loudspeakers, nothing looked good. I slid on my Walkman and tried not to move until the whole thing was over, but then something amazing happened. "Teardrop" came on, a rainy, depressive drum track giving away to a breathtakingly gorgeous two-note harpsichord line, shivery guitar bits floating in, Liz Fraser cooing angelically, everything building slowly and gently into a blissful haze while I stared out the tiny porthole window at the sun setting over a frozen forest. All of a sudden, everything was going to be OK.

Massive Attack's music brings back memories: not that crazy weekend you piled into a van and drove down to New Orleans for New Year's Eve, but those quiet and isolated instants, images that stuck in your mind for no reason, moments when your life started to feel like a movie. That's why Hollywood has been pillaging the group's catalogue for more than a decade, using its songs to score Sharon Stone humping a Baldwin in Sliver or Brad Pitt's mom's trailer burning in Snatch. "Teardrop" is Massive Attack's biggest-ever hit, the only time the group grazed the UK's top 10 singles chart, but more Americans know it as the theme to "House" than anything else.

Massive Attack have never been anyone's idea of a singles act, and that's what makes the idea of a best-of album a bit dodgy. The group has only released four proper albums over the past 15 years: one absolute must-have masterpiece, two excellent long-players of languidly existential mood-music, and one total piece of shit. Collected is sequenced for flow, not for chronology, even though any 14 randomly-selected Massive Attack tracks would flow together just fine. This means that music from that piece of shit, the band's recent 100th Window, is more difficult to avoid; the anemic IDM drums and imitation-Kid A processed vocals of "Butterfly Caught" sound even worse when sandwiched between relative masterpieces like "Protection" and "Unfinished Sympathy". A bonus disc of rarities rescues the crushingly claustrophobic electro-dub Mos Def collaboration "I Against I" from the Blade 2 soundtrack, but it's mostly given over to gloppy, dismal background fare, making it difficult to understand why it's here at all.

But a few inevitable stopovers in bullshit-land don't change the fact that Collected is a pretty incredible set of tracks; the group's fierce, creepy, paranoid fogscapes have aged better than the glassy boutique-music of any of their 90s trip-hop imitators. They've always fit better into the UK's Eno-PiL-Radiohead continuum of woozy pop experimentalists than into any loosely defined electronica scene anyway, and listening now, it's remarkable how they managed to combine so much disparate source-material into their expansively deep groove. The early masterpiece "Five Man Army" builds off the intricate, sidelong drum break from Al Green's "I'm Glad You're Mine", the same one Eric B & Rakim used for "Mahogany", layering on a relentlessly burbley bassline, an emaciated late-Specials guitar-skank, and a ghostly flute while Tricky, Daddy G, and 3D trade loose, free-associative rap verses and reggae vet Horace Andy's croon floats over the gaps.

Other tracks add glistening pools of flanged-out postpunk guitars and lushly romantic strings and lonely jazz-saxophone flourishes. A small army of female guest-vocalists are featured (ethereal Fraser, soulfully robust Shara Nelson, wistfully precise Tracey Thorn), but the tracks never lose their dusty menace. The main disc ends with a new song, "Live With Me", an itchy, ringing, gorgeous slow burn with a broken, smoky vocal from Chicago folk-jazz legend Terry Callier, and it shows that the group may not have utterly died with the abject failure of 100th Window. Collected may not be a substitute for grabbing the group's essential records, but you'll be happy to have it the next time you end up on a two-engine propeller plane.

— Tom Breihan - Pitchfork, March 27, 2006

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