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Mon 21 Jun 2010 – Massive Attack
That was so fucking awesome.

Sorry to everyone who was in the first line and had to endure my headbanging. Namely, the guy to my right side who didn't move a finger the whole concert (except when his jersey fell on the floor), and the guy to the left side, who was hitting on the girl immediately next to me on my left side, who seemed to enjoy the concert more than him and danced. (Seriously, he seemed to start moving only because he was jealous that she and I were dancing so much. Well, she was dancing, I headbanged myself into drunk-like state. Or maybe that was the passive weed smoking? I dunno.)

Martina Topley-Bird was a "warm-up" "band", but, needless to say, she was an event on its own.

I don't know her songs, so her setlist is a mystery to me, and I didn't tweet like a retard after every song, but I'm pretty sure this was our setlist (copy/pasted from somewhere):

1. United Snakes
2. Babel
3. Risingson
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:o

20. Sub Focus
First song I heard: Flamenco
Song that made me fall in love: Airplane
All time favourite: Follow The Light
Current favourite: Splash

19. Foo Fighters
First song I heard: All My Life
Song that made me fall in love: The Pretender
All time favourite: Let It Die
Current favourite: Come Alive

18. Armin van Buuren
First song I heard: Serenity
Song that made me fall in love: Control Freak
All time favourite: Hold On To Me
Current favourite: Hold On To Me

17. Digitalism
First song I heard: Zdarlight
Song that made me fall in love: Zdarlight
All time favourite: Jet Set
Current favourite: Jet Set

16. Aivolävistys
First song I heard: Rajoittamasta elämääni
Song that made me fall in love: Vitut siitä
All time favourite: Vitut siitä
Current favourite: Nuorallatanssija

15. Celldweller
First song I heard: Switchback
Song that made me fall in love: Switchback
All time favourite: The Last Firstborn
Current favourite: Symbiont

14. Oforia
First song I heard: Northern Lights (G.M.S. Remix)
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Sat 20 Feb – Massive Attack @ Guadalajara

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Cinco meses.

La espera fué de cinco meses para que sucediera. Miles de gritos en el shoutbox del evento, cientos de personas llamándose unos a otros nombres como "troll" o "muérdeme ahí donde ya no te amo más". Miles de pesos gastados (por mi no, cuando menos). Y por fin, sucedió. Robert del Naja y Grant Marshal por fin llegaron a guadalajara, emocionaron, gritamos, gritaron, y por fin, sucedió.

Es posiblemente positivo que no haya sucedido hace cinco meses. Analicémoslo. Si hubieran venido a un solo show, posiblemente hubiera habido más música de Blue Lines, de Protection, del bellísimo Mezzanine, y posiblemente nada o poco de Heligoland. Un show posiblemente no tan impresionante, tal vez algo del años pasado. No hubiera habido tanta expectativa, y por supuesto, no hubiera sido tan genial que hubiera pasado. Hubiera. Bla bla.
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Tue 20 Oct – Massive Attack, Martina Topley-Bird

Finfin oppvarming med Martina Topley-Bird. Særlig stas med hennes bruk av Loop Station.

Under de første fire låtene med Massive Attack var det på grensen til bra, men jeg sliter ofte litt når jeg hører nye sanger for første gang live.
Men så ble det jo helt enormt bra.
Kult at Daddy G er tilbake. Utrolig kult med en skjelvende Horace Andy som gliser med to tomler opp. Og overraskende når Shara Nelson plutselig dukker opp til Safe From Harm. En utrolig fet versjon av den sangen for øvrig.
Martina Topley-Bird slet litt med Teardrop, men gjorde ellers en fin figur.

Her er det jeg tror de spilte:

Flat of the Blade
Hartcliffe Star
Babel
Girl I Love You
Risingson
Red Light Means Go
Future Proof
Mezzanine
Teardrop
Angel
Psyche
Safe From Harm
Inertia Creeps

Ekstranummer:
Splitting the Atom
Unfinished Sympathy
Atlas Air

Ekstranummer 2:
Karmacoma

Score 5,750 - 5,001

This is the section of the 'My Personal Best Albums Ever'-journal where I discuss the albums with a score between 5,750 and 5,001. You'll find some information about these albums, including my personal highlights. I'll try to eventually review every album in this list. I hope you will enjoy reading this all, but first I'll give you some links to the other parts of this journal.

The main article: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights
Score 7,000 - 5,751: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (1)
Score 5,000 - 4,701: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (3)
Score 4,700 - 4,401: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (4)
Score 4,400 - 4,201: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (5)
Score 4,200 - 4,000: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (6)


Reviews & Highlights

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St Germain - Tourist (2000)
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Music Suitable to be the Soundtrack to a Downtown Area

With all of these “greatest *insert genre here*” lists being posted all over Last.fm, I thought I might try something a little different; something that would get people thinking about broadening their horizons, while still allowing them to hear the same kind of music they enjoy listening to, in terms of mood and tone.

These are all very atmospheric albums that convey to their listeners the imagery of a city – more particularly, the downtown area of a dirty city after dusk – whether the lyrics actually reflect that imagery or not. These albums will instill a sense of darkness, pity, and paranoia amongst a multitude of other rather uncomfortable feelings but despite the unpleasant feelings, you’ll find yourself answering the beckon call of those majestic city lights off in the distance…

You peer into the windows of 24-hour coffee shops full of hip, artsy college kids reading poetry, convincing themselves that they know the meaning of life. …

So, Massive Attack are my top 10th listened band (tied with New Order), and I feel weirdly obliged to say that this is almost solely due to one album: Mezzanine.

Now, this isn't to say I dislike their other albums. Blue Lines is a really solid album, and 100th Window has a couple of especially good tracks, like Future Proof, Small Time Shot Away, and Antistar. I never really liked Protection that much, as it feels like an inferior clone of Blue Lines.

But when I feel the need to crank up some Massive Attack, I always just turn to Mezzanine. Something about it appeals to me immensely. Is it the dark, fractured guitars that pop on several tracks? Is it the rather dark and sexy vibe the album has overall? Maybe it's the fact it starts with one hell of a one-two-three-four punch with Angel, Risingson, Teardrop, and Inertia Creeps: after those four standouts, the album continues to be seductive and alluring.

This is but one symptom of the fact that I need some more "trip-hop" in my library. …

in no particular order:

Cat Power - Lived in Bars
Coldplay - High Speed
Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (acoustic version)
Deftones - No Ordinary Love
The Fumes - Atlanta Rising
Mark Lanegan - One Hundred Days
QOTSA - Like a Drug
Massive Attack - Future Proof
Nine Inch Nails - Beside You in Time
Silverchair - Steam Will Rise
Stars Of Track And Field - Lullabye For A G.I. / Don't Close Your Eyes
Air - Alone in Kyoto
Explosions In The Sky - Memorial
Doves - Firesuite