[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by Frunze

Girl, you just go and take a listen to ANY of the songs in Massive Attack's Blue Lines album, and you'll be speaking Urdu right there with us! The music is fabulous.

I am glad you interpreted my cryptic message correctly as a solicitation for a recommendation

[Frunze]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

I am glad you interpreted my cryptic message correctly as a solicitation for a recommendation

As long as speaking Urdu is not considered elitist, I think we'll be OK.

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by Frunze

As long as speaking Urdu is not considered elitist, I think we'll be OK.

Gonna have to give Massive Attack a pass. Not my thing.

Urdu on the other hand - that's a different story. We can speak Urdu whil riding the subway while wearing matching purple headphones in New York!

[Frunze]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

Gonna have to give Massive Attack a pass. Not my thing.

Urdu on the other hand - that's a different story. We can speak Urdu whil riding the subway while wearing matching purple headphones in New York!

No problem! And you know what - there will be there someone who understands. Nothing is impossible in the City.

LOVE the city.

Have you seen this movie called "The Last Seduction"? It is my absolute favorite movie of all time. The woman is having to stay away from the City for a while, but she loves it so much she changes her name to... my next pseudonym if I have to change names on this site!

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by Frunze

No problem! And you know what - there will be there someone who understands. Nothing is impossible in the City.

LOVE the city.

Have you seen this movie called "The Last Seduction"? It is my absolute favorite movie of all time. The woman is having to stay away from the City for a while, but she loves it so much she changes her name to... my next pseudonym if I have to change names on this site!

I tried chaning names, remember? You are gonna have to get a whole new IP address to go along with it or be a lot less obvious, such that Solaris (or one of his many incarnations) don't figure you out

[Frunze]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

I tried chaning names, remember? You are gonna have to get a whole new IP address to go along with it or be a lot less obvious, such that Solaris (or one of his many incarnations) don't figure you out

That's why God created Tor

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by Frunze

That's why God created Tor

that thing.... yeah.... that's the one I've been able to successfully avoid thus far, because never had an issue with funding.

[Frunze]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

that thing.... yeah.... that's the one I've been able to successfully avoid thus far, because never had an issue with funding.

Oh yeah, you're one of the very few lucky ones

[tzafir]

Originally Posted by Frunze

OK folks trying to figure out if anyone out there likes the early days of Massive Attack (two albums - Protection and Blue Lines). They drifted off into a muddled electronica after those, and the last couple of albums (Danny the dog etc.) were the hugest disappointment. The music is hip-hoppy, trip-hoppy, and otherwise very gorgeous, and although not from the US, the band took off here and some films used songs for soundtracks (Sliver, Hackers, recent show called House, etc.)

So what I am looking for is some bands similar to the early Massive Attack without being too contrived and pretentious, like Morcheeba, or way too electronic-like or trippy. Anybody got any recommendations?

Hi Frunze,

may I recommend the following:
Barry Adamson (for some considered the grandfather of trip-hop) - The Murky World of Barry Adamson
Archive - Take my head
Alpha - Pepper
Beth Gibbons (singer of Portishead)
Craig Armstrong - the space between us (producer of Massive Attack)
Goldfrapp - Felt mountain

also the first albums by Bjork have similar sounds

(and in any case, I would not describe the first two Morcheeba albums aas pretentious)