Blue Lines
Studio album by Massive AttackWikipedia
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Search complete. 24 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Blue Lines".
Sep 10, 2026
Nick GrimshawHOST
What's the debut album that you got We're obsessed with the debut album.
Annie MacmanusHOST
[sighs] I would say for me, Blue Lines, Massive Attack, was a huge-
Nick GrimshawHOST
Mm-hmm
Annie MacmanusHOST
... one for me in terms of formative-
Vernon KayHOST
This one's worth three.
Vernon KayHOST
After she first came to prominence on Massive Attack's album Blue Lines, the song Down That Road was the 1993 chart solo debut for a singer called Shara who?
Stuart PesterGUEST
who?Pass.
Stuart PesterGUEST
Sorry.
Nick KennedyGUEST
Yeah, you know.
Nick KennedyGUEST
And also flying in the face of the Blue Lines crowd as well is kind of a bit of a, you know.
Justin HamiltonHOST
Yeah.
Justin HamiltonHOST
Look, I felt it was actually quite punk in that it was a visual and aural assault.
GabeHOST
Funny that we just did a different one.
GabeHOST
This one's Massive Attacks Blue Lines.
GabeHOST
Blue Lines beat out competition from Cluster, 808 State, and B12.
GabeHOST
Beat it handily, by the way.
GabeHOST
And if you want to vote on epic showdowns like that, you got to join us over on Patreon.
DanHOST
Let's do it.
DanHOST
All right, some background.
DanHOST
1991's Blue Lines is the debut for Massive Attack, which at the time consisted of members Grant Lee, Daddy G. Marshall, Robert 3D Del Naja, Adrian Tricky Thaws, and Andrew Mushroom Vowels, along with a rotating cast of regular collaborators like Sharon Nelson, Horace Andy, and Nina Cherry.
LesleyHOST
would you have would i like it
KevinHOST
have a wee listen it's kind of crystal method with a bit of grunge in it it's actually to be fair pretty good six massive attack blue lines I think I said this previously but this is such a brilliant album but I just don't get to listen to it much it's like a good whiskey you know how good it is but it's best enjoyed sparingly
LesleyHOST
yes yes yes yes
KevinHOST
Side note, saw Massive Attack in the early 90s when they toured this.
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KevinHOST
like how that came about what if like the chances of that happening
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
oh no
KevinHOST
like to create a career like this at the time barrel was working as a studio assistant in coach house studios he was literally making tea and moving gear while watching massive attack make their classic blue lines i didn't write that i
LesleyHOST
would have just put watching
speaker_1ADVERTISER
[cackling]
Mark GoodierHOST
Unfinished Sympathy was the biggest single taken from the acclaimed 1991 album Blue Lines, by which influential Bristol-based band?
Sara MillerAUDIENCE
R.E.M.
Mark GoodierHOST
It was Massive Attack with Unfinished Sympathy.
GabeHOST
so for our next bonus episode coming next week, we put another random assortment of recent listener requests head-to-head.
GabeHOST
It was Cluster versus 808 State versus Massive Attack versus B12, and the winner was, maybe you could have guessed, Blue Lines by Massive Attack.
GabeHOST
I, you know, I thought that that would win, but then I'm almost always wrong.
GabeHOST
Were you surprised?
Michael CurtinHOST
In Bristol.
Michael CurtinHOST
Their original album, their initial album, Blue Lines, was fantastic music.
Michael CurtinHOST
album i i really only got introduced to them when i was over for leslie's over in england by leslie's niece at her mum's funeral and she'd mentioned them and uh and that this is the niece that's coming out and uh and i i thought oh i haven't i'll listen to them really i just can't believe it passed me by really massive attack yeah they were a name yeah because it is the sort of music i really like yeah and uh anyway
Barry GervaisHOST
um they've just been of course they've they've just been playing australia
AndreaHOST
And what was the name of the album? Can you remember?
speaker_11AUDIENCE
It's Blue Lines.
AndreaHOST
Blue Lines by Massive Attack, yes.
speaker_11AUDIENCE
I used to put that on and go to sleep to it.
AndreaHOST
Wow.