Liz Fraser recorded this song a few days after her friend Jeff Buckley died. She wrote the lyrics as a stream of consciousness to express the loss she felt.
@@umdesch4 Eh, lots of the time it is actually english, it is just how she pronounces it, where she puts the emphasis, etc. If you listen to Frosty The Snowman and Winter Wonderland, or practically any song where you know the lyrics, you can see how she changes the emphasis and the pronunciation to make normal English words sound different. She doesn't make it up entirely like Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance... Even some things that sound made up, are later found to be interesting things, like reading a list of butterfly species in Latin, as lyrics, lol. At least for this one, there are discernable lyrics. But for a song like Bluebeard, the lyrics are obvious and out there, and yet when she sang it live, she was all over the place.
And, at least we have the duet they did did ‘All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun’. I wish they’d stayed together. I imagine that talent their children would have had.
I love Massive Attack, was really into it in the nineties, but still love them today. The beat obviously mirrors the human heart beat...and as others have said, it is hypnotic, haunting, & beautiful. Great choice.
@@Grandmasterfanji yeah man I had a tune on a mixtape when I was a kid. Was called Mexico.....something, can't remember the name now. Was mint tho. will check those other tunes out, thanks 😎. Yeah I love trip hop n all the many spin off artists/genres
@@Grandmasterfanji will do. Much appreciation my fellow muso 😎 my fave hip hop artist are pharcyde, Wu tang and tribe called quest. Top era for tunage!
The vocals are by Elizabeth Fraser. She’s from this ambient goth band called Cocteau Twins, who invented a genre called dreampop. Dreampop’s gothic rock / darkwave on antidepressants.
She was close friends with Jeff Buckley who died shortly before this song was made and it is said to be in his memory. Jeff Buckley and his father Tim Buckley were both phenomenal music artists who died young. Cocteau Twins covered Tim Buckley's etherial "Song to the Siren". Tim had a remarkable change in style in his career from aetherial folk to dirty funk.
@@mykleb1616 If he did, I missed it and it must have gotten blocked! There isn’t a Cocteau Twins reaction on YT from him right now. I hope he’ll check them out though! (Again, if that’s the case.)
@@adymode Omg yes. The song they did together "All Flowers in Time" is one of my favorites. What an incredible combo. Rest in Peace Jeff Buckley. One of the greatest for sure.
Love love love Massive Attack... great beats, and they were such a breakthrough in music for many of us listening to them in the 90s. Try another great hit of theirs called "Protection" next!!!
This is one of my favorite songs (I have many). Massive Attack went through a few stages in the process of this song. At one point, they considered Madonna for the vocals on this but they ended up choosing Elizabeth Frazer, who felt a more personal connection to the lyrics as she recently lost Jeff Buckley, who was her former partner and still extremely close to. She felt to lyrics spoke very well about his passing and dedicated the song to him. Massive Attack would later work with Madonna on another track, a cover of a Marvin Gaye song, “I Want You”. Definitely check it out. It’s one of their best, both Massive Attack and Madonna
Beautiful. Still sounds as fresh as it did when it came out twenty-three years ago. If you'd like more in this meandering road... please do try Cocteau Twins (Carolyn's Fingers) or Portishead (Glory Box). Great reaction vid as usual :)
One of my favourite songs of all time ❤️❤️ I was 6 when it was released but had the pleasure of seeing massive attack with liz Fraser on vocals live in 2019. They were an absolute force to be reckoned with musically.
I love the diversity of the genres JV is willing to react to. Just everything. The open-mindedness is refreshing. The entire universe of music is so damned huge!
Tricky and Portishead are also from Bristol too. What a beautiful little hub of Innovation. I'm from Manchester, we have that too. But can't we please swap, we'll have trip hop n you can have Oasis 😂 like pretty please!!
@@jasonhebron he was in his early career, then he left in the friendliest dispute ever about being able to use profanity 😂 Then tricky made mint albums solo, like Maxinquaye, angels with dirty faces And pre millennium tension. Very much a legit artist himself n one of my faves.😎
Thanks for reacting to this song, means a lot to me!🙏🤗 This is sung by Elizabeth Fraser, former singer of Cocteau Twins, one of the best singers in the World in my opinion. She wrote this, being inspired by a french philosopher's work, his Name was Gaston Bachelard. As she recorded the Song in the studio, she found out that her ex boyfriend, singer Jeff Buckley (you probably remember him singing "hallelujah") died. She said, she had thought of him even before, read old letters from him and was thinking about him, writing and singing the lyrics and that it's really about him. I saw Massive Attack live in 2018 and Elizabeth Fraser singing this live and it was the only concert I ever cried at, that's how beautifully she sang. I recommend, you check out the Song "Song to the siren" by This Mortal Coil, which is also sung by her. This is probably her most well-known Song after Teardrop, but any cocteau twins you'll react to, i'll be happy about too:)
@@yasminm7157 I had only found out a few years ago too, in 2017. And since I was Born in the 90s, that was the first time I found out about Cocteau Twins, which was one of the best things that could happen to me🥰 Even though I only found out about her/them a few months back, it felt like a life long dream come true to see her live🥲
Hearing "Teardrops" for the first time back then this was exactly my thought, but having no internet at the time the revelation that it's not Harriet had to wait until buying "MEZZANINE" some time later.
Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins is the singer. If you want to get blown away listen to any of the songs. Early Twins and especially from Heaven Or Las Vegas. Her vocals are ephemeral. She wrote the lyrics and was famous for not being able to understand her singing. Her bandmates would be asked if they knew what she was singing and they would shrug their shoulders and just say she was the lyricist.
The singer is Liz Fraser from Scottish band The Cocteau Twins. They were at the forefront of an art/indie period of music but have, as a relevant music, lasted to this day. Decade before trip hop :) In my work the entire Massive Attack album Mezzanine would play then the entire Miseducation of Lauren Hill would play...on repeat...1998, what a year.
Great track Takes me back to vacations in Ibiza, leaving Pacha nightclub, sitting on the Bora Bora beach in the early hours watching the sun come up, chewing my face off from the MDMA and smoking a phat blunt to come down. The perfect song to drift off too
One of the really good things about this channel is that some of us hear new music right along with you. This song was really haunting and beautiful. Have you heard the group London Grammar yet? I love their song, "Hey Now" and I found it because it was featured in a perfume commercial. I hope you check it out.
I definitely suggest you check out - 1. 'Angel' by Massive Attack (which is very different from Teardrop and Unfinished Sympathy); and 2. 'Roads' by Portishead, which is an incredibly haunting track. Portishead, like Massive Attack, is another group as part of the 'Bristol Sound'.
Beatles vs Massive Attack/Golden Teardrops This is a fantastic mashup of two great songs, Golden Slumbers by the Beatles and this song, Teardrop by Massive attack. Must Hear Good!
Hi Jay 😁 The band's 3rd album went beyond trip hop to become a creative reference everywhere in April 1998 - Mezzanine is Massive Attack's greatest work, but it can't be considered a trip hop album - even when it comes to the group who created the trip hop. Robert 3D Del Naja even discussed with Andrew “Mushroom” Vowles during the design of the disc. 3D advocated a more grooved approach, looking for a kind of intensity that escaped the structure of a genre that was starting to get addicted. Therefore, there is a more elaborate work of mixing, vocal extensions and even long pauses, so that the drama was as organic as possible and the influences more comprehensive. It's trip hop because it has the Massive Attack signature. But it's also hip hop, jazz, reggae, post-punk, progressive… A major spat arose just as the band was about to decide what to do with "Teardrop." 3D, G and Davidge were delighted when Liz Fraser, lead singer of the Cocteau Twins, sent in her demo of the song - the result became the classic version we know today, with Liz operating like the emotional hand of an enigmatic clock, aiding Massive Attack to take her first song to the UK Top 10. Peace ✌️
Portishead is definitely the other big name in trip-hop that you have to check out. There's also Sneaker Pimps, though only their first album with Kelli Ali on vocals is worth listening to, though Ali's solo albums are great. In a more modern vein, there's London Grammar, The Still Corners and The Paper Kites, all of wihch operate in a similar chill/trip-hop/dream pop space.
"The Spoils" is one of their greatest tracks! A Masterpiece. The angelical voice of Hope Sandoval, the heartbreaking lyrics, the beats, the strings... all this take it to another level. And the music video is very beatiful and enigmatic too. You should watch it!
This is a piece of music that you just allow to wrap you in a soft, gentleness and slowly rock you like a baby into a state of stillness and peace and love.
They always used to play this song in my favorite club (a rockclub actually) at the end of the night, when the majority of people were gone and only a few dancers were left on the dancefloor, some fog included.. it was magical! I loved it and I still love this song.
I've been recommending Portishead for you in your live streams and will keep on with those below. Check out their songs "It Could Be Sweet", "Numb", or "Glory Box"
Every time I hear this tune I think of Ibiza 90's, early hours overlooking the sea as the sun is rising as you are gradually coming down from the night before, absolute classic. Without doubt my go to reaction channel, great job Jayvee.
It was written for her close friend/ lover, Jeff Buckley who died tragically. She admitted to being guilt stricken for not being there always for him. The lyrics are tremendously deep and the line ‘Nine night of matter’ is argued to refer to the Jamaican multi day wakes.
One thing about this music is that it is good background or just chillin quietly, music, because for me most of the time music is hard and faced paced which is what I love. But there is a whole underground subgenre of this type of music that is there but you have to dig a little to get to it and Massive attack is a good start;; it's great if you love to relax, smoke a little and chill to the beat - that's it
This is such a beautiful, moving track. Another of theirs, Paradise Circus, is the most beautiful, seductive song I've ever heard. The way Paradise Circus crescendos at the end gives me goosebumps every time. Massive Attack are amazing.
@jayveetv you have to imagine that this came out in a time when Music videos really mattered and no one ever knew that it was possible to create 3D-Forms in a way they did. The first time seeing this video was unbelievable. I had goosebumps and couldnt believe that this was even possible to see
Ahhh Elizabeth Fraser had the voice of an angel. If you want more check out the band she was in, The Cocteau Twins. They are pretty unconventional but made the most beautifully lush and moody music I’ve ever heard. Oooh and she is also on a track called The Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil.
The video was state of the art when it came in 1998, showing a baby in womb was mind-blowing. I never got the song but for some reason it's seen as iconic.
Her voice is considered to be an instrument in its own right. “The voice of God” or “The voice of the risen God”. She is the voice behind Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil and also Lament for Haldir (Lord Of The Rings) Fraser herself states that she also used foreign language words without knowing what they meant - the words acquiring meaning for [her] alone as [she] sang them. You should react as well to Song to the siren. a master piece,
PORTISHEAD!!! Then Everything But The Girl. The lead singer also collaborated with Massive Attack. Try "Missing" as an entry point, but you really can't go wrong with any of their discography.
yah, i'm betting it was running near the low end of requests, us weirdoes know good stuff. if some of the other commenters checked our suggestions out, they'd reach list top in moments.
Lol seriously I didn't think anyone else listened to or knew of Massive Attack besides me bc they were never on the radio or anything when I was growing up in the 90's. I found my people! 🙌
The guest vocalist on here is Liz Fraser. I recommend you check out her former band, Cocteau Twins. A great starting point is ‘Iceblink Luck’. The title is as odd as it’s lyrics, but that’s how Fraser wrote, in a stream of consciousness style. You’ll not be disappointed.
Ohh, the vocalist is the lead singer of Cocteau Twins. I see ppl asking you to react to Carolyn's Fingers... I think I already ask for it a few weeks ago! lmao Now you have another motive! :D
I am very surprised you have not yet heard any music from "MARILLION".... You really need to check this band out with classic albums such as "Misplaced childhood"...."A script for a jesters tear"..."Best of both worlds"....The list goes on you will love the world class guitarist steve rothley!.
Thanks for reacting to this, Jay!!! Love this song. You should check out Portishead songs ‘Roads’ ‘The Rip’ and ‘Only You’. Another gorgeous Massive Attack track featuring Liz Fraser is ‘Black Milk’ 🙌🥰
Elisabeth Fraser's lyrics are typically hard to understand, but her voice is so ethereal and amazing, it doesn't matter. She is a legend as part of the band The Cocteau Twins. She is not a full-time member of Massive Attack, but they work so well together. The entire "Mezzanine" album is fantastic, one of the best albums of the 90's in my opinion.
I did a photo shoot with Liz Fraser many years ago when she was the singer in the Cocteau Twins ... I was always captivated by her beautiful voice .. worth checking out "Pearly Dew Drop Drops' and "Song of the Siren" a Tim Buckley song which is both haunting and breathtakingly beautiful ... a song goddess...
Liz Fraser recorded this song a few days after her friend Jeff Buckley died. She wrote the lyrics as a stream of consciousness to express the loss she felt.
most of the time noone can understand liz fraser
@@astroboirap Well, to be fair though, that's at least partly because the lyrics to most Cocteau Twins songs were in a made up language anyway. LOL!
@@umdesch4 Eh, lots of the time it is actually english, it is just how she pronounces it, where she puts the emphasis, etc. If you listen to Frosty The Snowman and Winter Wonderland, or practically any song where you know the lyrics, you can see how she changes the emphasis and the pronunciation to make normal English words sound different. She doesn't make it up entirely like Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance... Even some things that sound made up, are later found to be interesting things, like reading a list of butterfly species in Latin, as lyrics, lol. At least for this one, there are discernable lyrics. But for a song like Bluebeard, the lyrics are obvious and out there, and yet when she sang it live, she was all over the place.
And, at least we have the duet they did did ‘All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun’. I wish they’d stayed together. I imagine that talent their children would have had.
Would make a good backstory, but sadly that's not how this song came to be. :/
I'd really recommend that you check out Portishead. The singer has a unique voice. I'd also suggest that you might enjoy Moby
yes! portishead!!
Both good choices. And I agree about Beth's voice
I think the react to "Moby - Disco Lies" would be fun! lmao
Yes!! Moby is great!!! Yess!!
Glorybox would be a great first listen
Mezzanine is a fantastic album, I highly recommend listening to the whole album.
I love Massive Attack, was really into it in the nineties, but still love them today. The beat obviously mirrors the human heart beat...and as others have said, it is hypnotic, haunting, & beautiful. Great choice.
What a privilege to hear it with you. I love this one.
Tricky, Portishead and massive attack. The core of trip hop.
Try some Portishead next. Gig at Roseland New York is truly truly epic!
Hip Hop group New Kingdom had an influence on Trip Hop too, check out the song 'Cheap Thrills' or 'Half Seas Over'
@@Grandmasterfanji yeah man I had a tune on a mixtape when I was a kid. Was called Mexico.....something, can't remember the name now. Was mint tho. will check those other tunes out, thanks 😎.
Yeah I love trip hop n all the many spin off artists/genres
@@drummonkey9291 Mexico or Bust, it was on the album 'Paradise Don't Come Cheap', check out their debut album 'Heavy Load' too, it's excellent!
@@Grandmasterfanji will do. Much appreciation my fellow muso 😎
my fave hip hop artist are pharcyde, Wu tang and tribe called quest. Top era for tunage!
@@drummonkey9291 That's funny, I'm wearing the 'Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde' T-Shirt right now😮
The vocals are by Elizabeth Fraser. She’s from this ambient goth band called Cocteau Twins, who invented a genre called dreampop.
Dreampop’s gothic rock / darkwave on antidepressants.
I believe he's reacted to a Cocteau Twins song before awhile back. (I wanna say Cherry Colored Funk) been waiting for him to get back to them. Lol
One of the greatest vocalists of all time. Truly special.
She was close friends with Jeff Buckley who died shortly before this song was made and it is said to be in his memory. Jeff Buckley and his father Tim Buckley were both phenomenal music artists who died young. Cocteau Twins covered Tim Buckley's etherial "Song to the Siren". Tim had a remarkable change in style in his career from aetherial folk to dirty funk.
@@mykleb1616 If he did, I missed it and it must have gotten blocked! There isn’t a Cocteau Twins reaction on YT from him right now. I hope he’ll check them out though! (Again, if that’s the case.)
@@adymode Omg yes. The song they did together "All Flowers in Time" is one of my favorites. What an incredible combo. Rest in Peace Jeff Buckley. One of the greatest for sure.
"Angel" and "Karmacoma" (both by Massive Attack as well) are good.
The video for Angel is awesome too
The Spoils is great
Angel is probably my favourite
Protection too...
Massive Attack just needs to be experienced. Close your eyes and lose yourself. They sound best at 3am
And a MASSIVE spliff.
And watching the sunrise ❤️
Still popping pills at 3am🤫😜🤯
YES! When you're still spangled and enjoying a spliff with your mates. Good times ♥️
I used to listen to mezzanine front to back in the dark 🖤
The whole album, Mezzanine, is absolutely brilliant. But also check out Protection, the full 7m50s album version.
Agreed 100%
Totally agree!
I was lucky enough to see them when they were touring this album. Best gig I've been to.
Totally agree, still listen to both all the time.
Mezzanine is fantastic.
Walter Stern, the director of the video, also directed videos for two songs you've done: The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" and Prodigy's "Breathe"
Bittersweet Symphony is gorgeous.
Love love love Massive Attack... great beats, and they were such a breakthrough in music for many of us listening to them in the 90s. Try another great hit of theirs called "Protection" next!!!
Definitely "Protection"!!! Oh boy, this video....
I'm amazed Protection seems to be really forgotten in comparison to anything off Mezzanine, it's so lovely and the video's fantastic
Protection is great!
The Mad Professor remix “No Protection” is excellent. To be listened after Protection of course!
Protection, deffo
If you want some classic Trip Hop then listen to Portishead 'Glorybox' or 'Wandering Stars', some of the best!
Definitely, Portishead are so good, the live set in New York is amazing
100%
This is one of my favorite songs (I have many). Massive Attack went through a few stages in the process of this song. At one point, they considered Madonna for the vocals on this but they ended up choosing Elizabeth Frazer, who felt a more personal connection to the lyrics as she recently lost Jeff Buckley, who was her former partner and still extremely close to. She felt to lyrics spoke very well about his passing and dedicated the song to him.
Massive Attack would later work with Madonna on another track, a cover of a Marvin Gaye song, “I Want You”. Definitely check it out. It’s one of their best, both Massive Attack and Madonna
Beautiful. Still sounds as fresh as it did when it came out twenty-three years ago.
If you'd like more in this meandering road... please do try Cocteau Twins (Carolyn's Fingers) or Portishead (Glory Box).
Great reaction vid as usual :)
2nd that, first 2 Portishead albums - whole new triphop world for Jayvee to explore 💝
@@cemoihonay Exactly.
Tricky... Lisa Gerrard... This Mortal Coil... 4AD ;)
Would love to see some CT reactions!
Dead Can Dance!
One of my favourite songs of all time ❤️❤️ I was 6 when it was released but had the pleasure of seeing massive attack with liz Fraser on vocals live in 2019. They were an absolute force to be reckoned with musically.
Your next Massive Attack song should be Protection. Tracy Thorne songs on it and she has a great, unique voice.
czcams.com/video/z8C4tQvMUkI/video.html ♥️
YES! The full album version, not the shorter music video. Link: czcams.com/video/u2kOR5YcIQU/video.html
Yes Tracey Thorn has a wonderful voice
YES YES YES. I also love the Brian Eno remix too... it’s sublime.
The "No protection" remix album is great to.
I love the diversity of the genres JV is willing to react to. Just everything. The open-mindedness is refreshing. The entire universe of music is so damned huge!
Listen to "Angel". Good golly, that song...it's terrifying, but so, so awesome. Obsessive, dark, crawling, and the bass is something else.
Massive Attack are Bristol’s trip hop legends 🖤🖤
They are more than a band !! They are a whole movement and art
My home! This city stole my heart 21yrs ago Such special souls here and creativity and love xxx
Tricky and Portishead are also from Bristol too. What a beautiful little hub of Innovation. I'm from Manchester, we have that too. But can't we please swap, we'll have trip hop n you can have Oasis 😂 like pretty please!!
@@drummonkey9291 Tricky is one of the band members of Massive Attack…
@@jasonhebron he was in his early career, then he left in the friendliest dispute ever about being able to use profanity 😂
Then tricky made mint albums solo, like Maxinquaye, angels with dirty faces And pre millennium tension.
Very much a legit artist himself n one of my faves.😎
This was the beginning music for the TV series “House” from 10-15 years ago.
I never legit heard the whole song. Only the intro to the TV show (HOUSE M.D)
Curiously enough, for copyright reasons, it was only used in some countries.
Thanks for reacting to this song, means a lot to me!🙏🤗 This is sung by Elizabeth Fraser, former singer of Cocteau Twins, one of the best singers in the World in my opinion. She wrote this, being inspired by a french philosopher's work, his Name was Gaston Bachelard. As she recorded the Song in the studio, she found out that her ex boyfriend, singer Jeff Buckley (you probably remember him singing "hallelujah") died. She said, she had thought of him even before, read old letters from him and was thinking about him, writing and singing the lyrics and that it's really about him.
I saw Massive Attack live in 2018 and Elizabeth Fraser singing this live and it was the only concert I ever cried at, that's how beautifully she sang.
I recommend, you check out the Song "Song to the siren" by This Mortal Coil, which is also sung by her. This is probably her most well-known Song after Teardrop, but any cocteau twins you'll react to, i'll be happy about too:)
A little interesting fact: Song to a Siren was originally written and performed by Jeff Buckley’s father Tim Buckley. 🤍
Yes please
In all these years I never knew it was Liz Fraser singing on this! I used to love Pearly Dew Drops by the Cocteau Twins from back in the 80’s.
@@yasminm7157 I had only found out a few years ago too, in 2017. And since I was Born in the 90s, that was the first time I found out about Cocteau Twins, which was one of the best things that could happen to me🥰 Even though I only found out about her/them a few months back, it felt like a life long dream come true to see her live🥲
@@jonnasanders I know, they Kind of found each other because of it😍
PLEASE listen to Massive Attack 'Angel ' next, incredible song that apparently sounds like a dopamine hit feels
Love love is a verb,
Love is a doing word,
Fearless on my breath.....💞
One of my favourite tunes ever!
I miss House. One of the all-time greats.
Theme song to medical drama “House”
And part of almost finale episode of "Prison Break".
Listen to The Sundays "This is how the Story Ends" for a similar sweet voice. It's a great song that captures the soul, like this one.
Hearing "Teardrops" for the first time back then this was exactly my thought, but having no internet at the time the revelation that it's not Harriet had to wait
until buying "MEZZANINE" some time later.
@@hyperfex Jill Cunniff of Luscious Jackson is another singer with this kind of sweet voice, especially for the song Ladyfingers.
@@xanajak Thanks, I even knew Luscious Jackson back then, but Harriet Wheeler seemed very likely to me as a guest singer for Massive Attack.
The deeper cuts off this record hit just as hard. It's a gorgeous album. Worth your time. In any case, thank you for the video.
Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins is the singer. If you want to get blown away listen to any of the songs. Early Twins and especially from Heaven Or Las Vegas. Her vocals are ephemeral. She wrote the lyrics and was famous for not being able to understand her singing. Her bandmates would be asked if they knew what she was singing and they would shrug their shoulders and just say she was the lyricist.
This is a GORGEOUS song. Massive Attack is an incredible band and their sounds are amazing!!
Try "Angel" from the same album "Mezzanine"... an epic song!
I have that album since it came out... i love it!
The singer is Liz Fraser from Scottish band The Cocteau Twins. They were at the forefront of an art/indie period of music but have, as a relevant music, lasted to this day. Decade before trip hop :) In my work the entire Massive Attack album Mezzanine would play then the entire Miseducation of Lauren Hill would play...on repeat...1998, what a year.
Haven't heard this in years, forgot how much I loved it, have it on one of my old playlists. Must dig it out there will be some great songs on it.
Great track
Takes me back to vacations in Ibiza, leaving Pacha nightclub, sitting on the Bora Bora beach in the early hours watching the sun come up, chewing my face off from the MDMA and smoking a phat blunt to come down. The perfect song to drift off too
You'll dig Tricky my friend. Ex-Massive Attack. 'hell is around the corner' - and- public enemy cover 'black steel'....
Love you for doing Massive Attack. What a song to start my day with 💜
You should listen to Protection next. Awesome Massive Attack song with Tracey Thorn on vocals
"Angel" by Massive Attack should be next. :D
One of the really good things about this channel is that some of us hear new music right along with you. This song was really haunting and beautiful. Have you heard the group London Grammar yet? I love their song, "Hey Now" and I found it because it was featured in a perfume commercial. I hope you check it out.
Awesome song
He definitely needs to do some London Grammar.
Nice, love Massive Attack. Morcheeba is another great triphop group. 👋😎
Worth checking out massive attack tunes like
Angel (1 of the greatest vids of all time)
Daydreaming
Safe from harm
Karmacoma
Five man army paradise circus risingson . . And the list goes on
Angel is also one of the greatest songs of all time. :)
I definitely suggest you check out -
1. 'Angel' by Massive Attack (which is very different from Teardrop and Unfinished Sympathy); and
2. 'Roads' by Portishead, which is an incredibly haunting track. Portishead, like Massive Attack, is another group as part of the 'Bristol Sound'.
The beat, double beat, is that of the baby and the Mother's heartbeats.
Check out, 'Portishead' their tracks, Sour Times, Glory Box, and many more.
I love this song. It just really gets me. Not sure why. The beat? Yes. Her voice? Yes. The production quality? Absolutely!
Beatles vs Massive Attack/Golden Teardrops
This is a fantastic mashup of two great songs, Golden Slumbers by the Beatles and this song, Teardrop by Massive attack. Must Hear Good!
Gotta try a bit of Portishead, would compliment this nicew.
For more good trip hop listen to "6 Underground' by Sneaker Pimps.
I second that’
Wish I could give you more thumbs up, so many people have no recollection of that track for some reason.
I love this song
@@johnlocke9437 💯
Tune.
The style is referred to as "Trip Hop" - stuff that people tended to chill out to after getting back from the club in the early hours!
You found out about Massive Attack. British industrial music, along with Portishead, Tricky. Bjork all a bunch.
Singer is Elizabeth Fraser from Cocteau Twins….listen to Carolyn’s Fingers for a start 👍
Yes😍
Hi Jay 😁
The band's 3rd album went beyond trip hop to become a creative reference everywhere in April 1998 - Mezzanine is Massive Attack's greatest work, but it can't be considered a trip hop album - even when it comes to the group who created the trip hop.
Robert 3D Del Naja even discussed with Andrew “Mushroom” Vowles during the design of the disc. 3D advocated a more grooved approach, looking for a kind of intensity that escaped the structure of a genre that was starting to get addicted. Therefore, there is a more elaborate work of mixing, vocal extensions and even long pauses, so that the drama was as organic as possible and the influences more comprehensive. It's trip hop because it has the Massive Attack signature. But it's also hip hop, jazz, reggae, post-punk, progressive… A major spat arose just as the band was about to decide what to do with "Teardrop." 3D, G and Davidge were delighted when Liz Fraser, lead singer of the Cocteau Twins, sent in her demo of the song - the result became the classic version we know today, with Liz operating like the emotional hand of an enigmatic clock, aiding Massive Attack to take her first song to the UK Top 10.
Peace ✌️
This song is fire.🔥 Never get tired of it.
Thanks for choosing it! 👌💕
Portishead is definitely the other big name in trip-hop that you have to check out. There's also Sneaker Pimps, though only their first album with Kelli Ali on vocals is worth listening to, though Ali's solo albums are great.
In a more modern vein, there's London Grammar, The Still Corners and The Paper Kites, all of wihch operate in a similar chill/trip-hop/dream pop space.
Love Sneaker Pimps, and Chris Corner’s following project, IAMX
"The Spoils" is one of their greatest tracks! A Masterpiece. The angelical voice of Hope Sandoval, the heartbreaking lyrics, the beats, the strings... all this take it to another level. And the music video is very beatiful and enigmatic too. You should watch it!
This is a piece of music that you just allow to wrap you in a soft, gentleness and slowly rock you like a baby into a state of stillness and peace and love.
Watching your reaction to this is great. It's very different than almost anything else you've reacted to.
They always used to play this song in my favorite club (a rockclub actually) at the end of the night, when the majority of people were gone and only a few dancers were left on the dancefloor, some fog included.. it was magical! I loved it and I still love this song.
Such a beautiful song. Magnetic and haunting.
I love thousands of songs over my life and this one is top shelf. The song is from a very unique album. There is nothing quite like it.
I've been recommending Portishead for you in your live streams and will keep on with those below. Check out their songs "It Could Be Sweet", "Numb", or "Glory Box"
Massive Attack Lately Absolutely brilliant
Every time I hear this tune I think of Ibiza 90's, early hours overlooking the sea as the sun is rising as you are gradually coming down from the night before, absolute classic. Without doubt my go to reaction channel, great job Jayvee.
The beat mimics a heartbeat
It was written for her close friend/ lover, Jeff Buckley who died tragically. She admitted to being guilt stricken for not being there always for him.
The lyrics are tremendously deep and the line ‘Nine night of matter’ is argued to refer to the Jamaican multi day wakes.
The singer is Elizabeth Fraser who sung for Cocteau Twins, a trippy 80's band you should try.
Also, give "Porcelain" by Moby a shot, mate.
Love this. Another nice, trippy one is "Hooverphonic - Inhaler".
At last someone watched this video!!!!! A baby in womb singing just about to be born is the best video anyone could think of
One thing about this music is that it is good background or just chillin quietly, music, because for me most of the time music is hard and faced paced which is what I love. But there is a whole underground subgenre of this type of music that is there but you have to dig a little to get to it and Massive attack is a good start;; it's great if you love to relax, smoke a little and chill to the beat - that's it
ah my student days of 1998 getting stoned, with my housemates listening to music ..good times
Looking forwards to more Triphop on this channel :)
This is such a beautiful, moving track. Another of theirs, Paradise Circus, is the most beautiful, seductive song I've ever heard. The way Paradise Circus crescendos at the end gives me goosebumps every time. Massive Attack are amazing.
@jayveetv you have to imagine that this came out in a time when Music videos really mattered and no one ever knew that it was possible to create 3D-Forms in a way they did. The first time seeing this video was unbelievable. I had goosebumps and couldnt believe that this was even possible to see
This song was the opening theme to the TV show ‘House’ (2004-2012)
Ahhh Elizabeth Fraser had the voice of an angel. If you want more check out the band she was in, The Cocteau Twins. They are pretty unconventional but made the most beautifully lush and moody music I’ve ever heard. Oooh and she is also on a track called The Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil.
The video was state of the art when it came in 1998, showing a baby in womb was mind-blowing. I never got the song but for some reason it's seen as iconic.
This song is amazing, close your eyes and it transports you to another place.
Such a beautiful song.................
This band is from my hometown Bristol
The live performances of this are so so good
Her voice is considered to be an instrument in its own right. “The voice of God” or “The voice of the risen God”. She is the voice behind Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil and also Lament for Haldir (Lord Of The Rings)
Fraser herself states that she also used foreign language words without knowing what they meant - the words acquiring meaning for [her] alone as [she] sang them.
You should react as well to Song to the siren. a master piece,
The beat is a heartbeat. Classic 90s English music.
PORTISHEAD!!!
Then Everything But The Girl. The lead singer also collaborated with Massive Attack. Try "Missing" as an entry point, but you really can't go wrong with any of their discography.
I love this song , it’s stunning ⭐️
Portishead's first 2 albums are masterpieces: Dummy & their self titled album.
yah, i'm betting it was running near the low end of requests, us weirdoes know good stuff. if some of the other commenters checked our suggestions out, they'd reach list top in moments.
Lol seriously I didn't think anyone else listened to or knew of Massive Attack besides me bc they were never on the radio or anything when I was growing up in the 90's. I found my people! 🙌
@@1paradox i wanna see him watch goldie.
@@felderup dood... old school jungle favorite!!
so delighted to watch you digging the sound. All time fave.
I LOVE this song, a classic... thank you, I'm happy you enjoyed ! ;)
The guest vocalist on here is Liz Fraser. I recommend you check out her former band, Cocteau Twins. A great starting point is ‘Iceblink Luck’. The title is as odd as it’s lyrics, but that’s how Fraser wrote, in a stream of consciousness style. You’ll not be disappointed.
Ohh, the vocalist is the lead singer of Cocteau Twins. I see ppl asking you to react to Carolyn's Fingers... I think I already ask for it a few weeks ago! lmao
Now you have another motive! :D
This video won Best video in the MTV europe music awards in '98... You know, when MTV was about music and was good.
Have loved this song since I first heard it many years ago. Another "Massive" song from them is "Angel". The official video is a must.
I am very surprised you have not yet heard any music from "MARILLION".... You really need to check this band out with classic albums such as "Misplaced childhood"...."A script for a jesters tear"..."Best of both worlds"....The list goes on you will love the world class guitarist steve rothley!.
Five Man Army by Massive Attack. One of my fav's from Blue Lines, their debut album from 1991.
Thanks for reacting to this, Jay!!! Love this song. You should check out Portishead songs ‘Roads’ ‘The Rip’ and ‘Only You’. Another gorgeous Massive Attack track featuring Liz Fraser is ‘Black Milk’ 🙌🥰
If you like this check out Zero 7- Destiny, in the Waiting Line are good starters
Man I used to love Zero 7, Summersault and In the Waiting Line are my faves! Who knew Sia would go on to be so massive!
@@S-T-E-V-E Give it away is actually my fave! They are great!
@@S-T-E-V-E Somersault is my fav too
@@amoelle5771 They're still in my car mix tape to this day!
@@amoelle5771 so underrated Zero 7 love them
This is one of those songs you put on a 2-hour loop and go driving at night with the windows down and volume up ...
Elisabeth Fraser's lyrics are typically hard to understand, but her voice is so ethereal and amazing, it doesn't matter. She is a legend as part of the band The Cocteau Twins. She is not a full-time member of Massive Attack, but they work so well together. The entire "Mezzanine" album is fantastic, one of the best albums of the 90's in my opinion.
TY 4 variety! I never heard this! I love your reviews.. like surprise gifts 🎁
I did a photo shoot with Liz Fraser many years ago when she was the singer in the Cocteau Twins ... I was always captivated by her beautiful voice .. worth checking out "Pearly Dew Drop Drops' and "Song of the Siren" a Tim Buckley song which is both haunting and breathtakingly beautiful ... a song goddess...
Dayum this song takes me back to the last year of high school those were the days!