Massive Attack 'Collected' Poll

vote for yr fav. & may the best song win!

"Protection" all the way... with a second thought for "Safe From Harm"

this is fucking impossible

'Teardrop' - it's not down to the Massives either

going through a tricky phase at the mo' so if i were to vote it'd be for intertia creeps. but i'm not gonna.

by which i mean, all are great tracks and impossible to decide b/w, as iterated by Hoos

Yeah, this is really hard. Karmacoma, maybe?

"Five Man Army" by five miles.

"Protection"

somehow never realized this was out.

Yeah, this is really hard. Karmacoma, maybe?

Possibly my least fav. song on the whole thing, but that's probably just me.

like my first instinct is to vote for teardrop cause its the first MA song i ever heard when i was like 12 or whatever and it fucked up my world, but then there's inertia creeps and unfinished sympathy and five man army and safe from harm and fuuuuck

"live with me" may be my favorite on here, actually. gets more incredible with each listen.

why aren't singles Daydreaming, Be Thankful and Special Cases on this?

Of these, probably Angel.

(but I prefer Group Four)

"Unfinished Sympathy."

[Karmacoma is p]ossibly my least fav. song on the whole thing, but that's probably just me.

Look how nicely I formated that quote. Here's the response I meant to add:

It's not just you, Stephen...

pretty much impossible. 'safe from harm' is the only one that i have performed live (keys).

yay Paul

"Protection" !!!!!!

"Protection" is A+ would listen again

i can't get a vote for Hymn of the Big Wheel? Protection it is...

hmmmm 'risingson' i guess. best encapsulates for me the moody quality this band often has

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WAU

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have never even heard protection

the album or the song

no protection is fucking awesome tho and deserves its own poll

I might've voted for Unfinished Sympathy if I had known it was going to get so few clicks. Overplayed as it is, it remains a magnificent piece of work.

Yeah this whole "voting for the 1 TRACK you like the most" thing is so unfair.

I voted for Protection, but Unfinished Sympathy would've been my number two, as they are the only Massive Attack songs I really care about. Both are brilliant tunes, but only one of them has ever brought me to tears, so I had to choose that.

So I put this together.

As much as Unfinished Sympathy is magnificent, I heard The Big Wheel for the first time in ages the other day, so I'd probably plump for that as my favourite. Nice list.

I missed the crucial bit, ffs! ...heard The Big Wheel and it dropped me right back into some pretty intense times from that period, so probably...

Protection def my 1st choice with Unfinished Sympathy a close second. US goes perfectly with El Perro Del Mar's "Walk On By" St. Etienne Remix, as it quotes the lyrics.

Alfred you could have included at least a song from heligoland or ritual union ep. Every song they've done with Horace Andy including Everywhen and Girl I Love You are great except that terrible Doors cover.

'Risingson'!

Best thing they ever did: "Black Milk"

Ranking these people and their wonderful music..

your evaluation of protection is unbelievably wrong

Nevertheless, I'm grateful for it producing "Protection."

I love 100th Window on a level on par with the previous three these days. I need to give Heligoland a proper shot.

so do I

I loved "Splitting the Atom" as the theme to the very doomed series LUCK

I forgot how great "Live With Me" is, truly one of the best "singles tacked onto a best-of" ever

I wish these guys were more prolific so I didn’t miss them so much, even their “bad” songs sound good to me.

Heligoland was a slow grower - but it's now my fave along Mezzanine.

Wow, you must really hate 'Pre-Millennium Tension' to not even list it.

No Protection is worth a listen too

Maybe its #4? (xp)

oh wow it's about a month and a half until I see the Mezzanine anniversary tour :O

PMT falls apart in its second side, "Lyrics of Fury" aside.

Yeah, I really disagree with that assessment. I think "Sex Drive," "My Evil is Strong," "Bad Things" and "Piano" just feel weak by comparison, because the first six tracks - "Vent" through "Ghetto Youth" are such an amazing run, but the whole album is ridiculously strong and cohesive. It sustains a very ugly, enervated mood and provides no relief or catharsis. I love it. It and Mezzanine are the two absolute keepers from this whole body of work IMO.

The first side is his most concentrated work; I can listen to "Tricky Kid" on loop for hours.

The PMT tour in 1997 was fucking wild. He played in almost total darkness. I saw the NYC date - Jeru the Damaja opened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDjdaIVZdLg

saw that tour too, in atl, think he also had his back to us?