Massive Attack "Protection" Rare ORIGINAL UK Vinyl 1st Press Ex / Ex

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This is the original UK vinyl release of the classic Massive Attack album "Protection".

The record and inner and outer sleeves are all in excellent condition. There are just a few light scuffs on the edging of the outer sleeve. Please check images for detail and if you'd like further pics feel free to ask.

I'm gutted to be selling it but I need to offload some records as I'm saving with my partner for a deposit on a house.

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 categorisation, ranging from R&B (title track and "Sly") to hip hop/rap ("Karmacoma" and "Eurochild") to reggae-tinged synthpop ("Spying Glass") to classical-influenced electronicainstrumentals ("Weather Storm" and "Heat Miser"). The album follows Blue Lines structurally, to the point that the font used on the cover of the album is the same, Helvetica Heavy Italic.

Paul Evans of Rolling Stone gave the album three and a half 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 the second and last Massive Attack album listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Rolling Stone ranked it at number 51 in its list of the "100 Best Albums of the Nineties".[6]

Tricky again appeared on the album, rapping on the tracks "Karmacoma" (whose video was directed by Jonathan Glazer, and which featured a sample from The KLF's "Dream Time in Lake Jackson" at the 2:00 minute mark) and "Eurochild" (which featured samples from Startled Insects' "Cheetah" and Liquid Liquid's "Lock Groove (In)").

1. "Protection" (sampled "The Payback" byJames Brown) Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Thorn 7:51 2. "Karmacoma" Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Tricky/Norfolk/Locke 5:16 3. "Three" Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/Suwoton 3:49 4. "Weather Storm" (sampled "It's Time for Love" by Pieces of a Dream) Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/Armstrong/Harmon/Napoleon/Lloyd/Murray 4:59 5. "Spying Glass" (sampled "Chapter 3" byJoe Gibbs & the Professionals and "Shaft in Africa" by Johnny Pate) Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/Andy 5:20 6. "Better Things" (sampled "Never Can Say Goodbye" by James Brown) Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Thorn/Watt/Brown 4:13 7. "Eurochild" (sampled "Cheetah" byStartled Insects) Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Tricky/Norfolk/Locke 5:11 8. "Sly" (sampled "Africa Talks to You 'The Asphalt Jungle'" by Sly and the Family Stone) Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/Suwoton/Goldman 5:24 9. "Heat Miser" Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/de Vries 3:39 10. "Light My Fire" (live) (sampled "Light My Fire" by Jackie Wilson) The Doors 3:15

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