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- Original Release Date: 20 Feb 1995
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Play | 1. Overcome | 4:30 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. Ponderosa | 3:30 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Black Steel | 5:40 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Hell Is Round The Corner | 3:47 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 5. Pumpkin | 4:30 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. Aftermath | 7:38 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. Abbaon Fat Tracks | 4:26 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. Brand New You're Retro | 2:54 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Suffocated Love | 4:53 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. You Don't | 4:39 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 11. Strugglin' | 6:32 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 12. Feed Me | 4:03 | £0.89 |
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The thing that really sets this album apart from anything else produced in the last 10 years (including Tricky's other albums) is the lyrics. Like reading Shakespeare or listening to the ramblings of a drunk it takes a while to make sense of the words and realise just how much wisdom there is lying beneath:
"You feed me lies, distortion - the English disaster"
"I was raised in this place, now concrete is my religion"
"We're hungry, beware of our appetite"
I could try writing paragraph after paragraph about the different meanings I take from these lyrics and why I think they show us how ugly and scary an institution modern British culture can be, but I could never get the point across the way Tricky does. You know when you hear a tune and it's so good that you're convinced you've heard it before? Well that's how I feel about the words on this album - they sound like they were just waiting for someone to say them.
It's not just the lyrics either - the music creates the paranoid mood the lyrics evoke and the lyrics describe the dark lonely places the music takes you to, making it almost impossible to seperate the two. The beats are disjointed and messy - but never just for the sake of it. The chopped up ideas and phrases and the layering of different vocal parts on every song takes you to the twisted place the narrator is living in.
"You feed me lies, distortion - the English disaster"
"I was raised in this place, now concrete is my religion"
"We're hungry, beware of our appetite"
I could try writing paragraph after paragraph about the different meanings I take from these lyrics and why I think they show us how ugly and scary an institution modern British culture can be, but I could never get the point across the way Tricky does. You know when you hear a tune and it's so good that you're convinced you've heard it before? Well that's how I feel about the words on this album - they sound like they were just waiting for someone to say them.
It's not just the lyrics either - the music creates the paranoid mood the lyrics evoke and the lyrics describe the dark lonely places the music takes you to, making it almost impossible to seperate the two. The beats are disjointed and messy - but never just for the sake of it. The chopped up ideas and phrases and the layering of different vocal parts on every song takes you to the twisted place the narrator is living in.
8 years down the line and this album still sounds ahead of the game - phrases like trip-hop and chilled-out are deceptive (even insulting), save them for baby food music like morcheeba. I rank this album up there with all the classics - astral weeks, the stone roses, dylan, marley. I just hope time proves me right!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I really like this album. I'd first heard Tricky on the Massive Attack/ Protection CD and from hearing that, felt it was worth taking a chance on his solo album - what a lucky guess.. Seriously, if you want something dark and metallic, kind of fresh out of the furnace sounding, balanced with well thought-out lyrics and haunting vocals this will work for you. It has (for me anyways) a good balance of emotional tones in the different pieces, without resorting to repetition, although this does crop up in a very interesting way for those who already own Massive Attack's Protection album. The two albums, side by side, seem like two interpretations of a singlular theme; the cut-and-pasting of voices and lyrics between the two albums opens another perspective from which to appreciate tricky's work on this album. End result: on it's own feet 'tis a memorable album, side by side with Massive Attack's Protection it offers a deeper and intriguing statement. But then you might just like it for the beats..
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I only got this album recently but wish I'd bought it sooner; it's beautiful...I expected its general dark, paranoid theme but was surprised at how varied it was both musically and lyrically. And the vocals are amazing! Anyone into Massive Attack etc should definitely give it a go...
Most Recent Customer Reviews
brilliant absolutely
I usually listen to jazz, english and irish folk, robert johnson, derek bailey, debussy and van der graaf generator but to paraphrase the words of another great bristolian... Read more
Published 3 months ago by M GREGG
Enjoying this
Have been more aware of Tricky cos of Martina Topley Baird, but through Last.FM his songs kept being added to my list of choons and am glad they did. Good perchase.
Published 12 months ago by Newcastle 73
My favourite, and first, album by Tricky
Yeah, this is good. I don't think there's a weak track on this album. As always, Tricky sounds almost asleep when he's actually part of the track - often you get other folk... Read more
Published on 11 May 2007 by D. Martin
Maxinquaye
Every generation has music that defines their era and in the mid-nineties it was the output of Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead that has the greatest resonance. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2007 by Demob Happy
Still moves me
I bought this album in March 95, and it still holds. Keep coming back to it, every now and then. Just have to hear "Overcome" or "Pumpkin" in another context, and I think: yes,... Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2007 by mettest
A classic album that should have been a major influence.
I remember getting this album on the day it was released and being absolutely bowled over by it's inventiveness and originality. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2006 by Si Thorpe
Just Buy Massive Attack Instead
I cant say i was completely surprised by the overall rating of 4 + half stars awarded to this album, it being considered 'a classic' and all. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2006 by Mr. B. W. Alexander
Best Album of 90's
I don't normally write reviews, but was sitting at the computer, decided to put some music on and came accross this album in my collection. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2005 by "steve_jones75"
A masterpiece
One of the best albums of the 90s, certainly Tricky's finest and one of my top 10 albums of all time.
Dark, brooding and full of menace both musically and lyrically. Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2004 by John E. Davidson
the runt of the litter
This must be one of the worst (and most over-rated) albums of its era. An article in the Wire compared it to the great black music of all time - don't believe it, it's badly put... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2004
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