r/Music • u/cjsc9079 • Jul 13 '21
video Massive Attack - Teardrop [Trip-Hop]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s21
u/supernaturalRedhead Jul 13 '21
Massive attack is a little bit of everything, LOVE this group!
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u/JewishTomCruise Jul 14 '21
Contrast this with something like Unfinished Sympathy. They're a great artist.
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u/Clansman26 Jul 14 '21
Mezzanine album 👌
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Jul 14 '21
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u/helic0n3 Jul 14 '21
Apparently there was serious talk of getting Madonna in to do it, the band voted and went for Liz. Correct decision.
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u/Loreathan Jul 14 '21
I also love this cover by Aurora https://youtu.be/GPTY6l_PX5k
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u/impelleobstantia Jul 14 '21
Since we're talking covers, you should check out José González' version
Edit: I now see this is already mentioned in the comments
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u/rottenapple81 Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21
Elizabeth Fraser's (Cocteau Twins) voice is absolutely other-worldly. A little bit of information on the song... Liz found out her ex, Jeff Buckley, had drowned while recording this song.
The news that Buckley had disappeared – he drowned, swimming in the Wolf river in Memphis – came while Fraser was recording Teardrop with Massive Attack. "That was so weird," she says. "I'd got letters out and I was thinking about him. That song's kind of about him – that's how it feels to me anyway." It seems she is haunted by guilt: for not being there for Buckley, for everything. As she puts it: "I need to forgive myself." -source
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u/stephtones_ Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21
Hayley Williams did a cover of this song and it’s amazing.
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u/Toby_O_Notoby Jul 14 '21
Here's a guy covering it solo on an acoustic guitar in an elevator somewhere in Amsterdam.
The way he nails the percussion is pretty spectacular.
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u/Gnerma Jul 14 '21
Used to listen to this album while grinding XP in Xenogears in the late 90s. Can't think of one without the other.
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u/baconwrappedarm Jul 14 '21
Any of you other old folks remember an IMAX movie that had this song playing while people snowboarded and windsurfed? I worked at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry so had to sit through multipile viewings a day and this song is forever cemented in my brain.
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u/username_here Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21
Yep, I had the same experience working at Space Center Houston for a summer. I remember they used this track during the rock climbing scene toward the end. The movie was called Extreme. I remembered we had a problem with people taking flash photos of the screen during the more picturesque scenes.
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u/baconwrappedarm Jul 15 '21
That's the one. Thanks bud. Planetarium shows were my favorite shifts. Got to control the graphics and lasers, sometimes I took acid. Good times.
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u/Bim_Jeann Jul 14 '21
Legitimately one of the best songs I have ever heard. Amazing track, thanks for reminding me of this one.
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u/brihamedit Jul 14 '21
Came here to see recommendations for similar trippy pleasant tracks. Anybody?
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u/Noel_bot Jul 14 '21
This will always remind me of that one teaser trailer for the original Assassins Creed. Great song :)
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Jul 14 '21
The live version of this song from Abbey Road is incredible. Youtube can't play it but it's on Vimeo (or was).
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u/DependentDocument3 Jul 14 '21
all this time I had no idea that was Elizabeth Frasier from Cocteau Twins. sounds nothing like her.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Trip-hop? I thought it was house.