#41

Oh come on…there’s no way in this world that Mezzanine is better than Blue Lines!

#42

Outside of the albums, was always a “massive” fan of this banger from the Blade II soundtrack:

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#43

The Hymn of the Big Wheel?

#44

They seem like a GBOL as well politically etc.

Now I’ve said that someone’s clearly going to bring some sort of awful revelation about them into the thread aren’t they?

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#45

I’ll give them a 3 thank you very much

#46

I’ve got that on vinyl and I always used to get people asking about it if I played it when DJing.

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#47

Really difficult to separate for me (pitchfork 9.2 against 9.0 or something like that).

I just think that Mezzanine is the slightly better album as a whole (as opposed to Blue Lines which feels more like a collection of really good songs).

#48

Yeah they’re pretty sound I think. RDN is quite active in pro-Palestinian and anti-fash stuff I think.

#49

Not a single.

#50

Fucks sake I’m giving them a 3 but I’m preparing to be mildly irked when they end up above kanye

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#51

Blue Lines is one of my favourites of all time, so I guess I’m biased there.

#52

Wha? Wassis?

Bruno Brooks played it on the chart and everything!

:smiley:

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#53

They’re better than Portishead, so I’d like to think they’d come out ahead of them?

Easy 5 for me. Admittedly a little patchy in the 21st century, but then again Blue Lines is very possibly the greatest album ever recorded by a UK act, so impossible not to give them top marks. Protection / No Protection and Mezzanine are also really good records, and I reckon Heligoland is very underrated.

But where are the Mad Professor mixes of Mezzanine that were supposed to be out last year?

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#54

Here’s my best scorching critiques to get us going:

. Wish trip hop stuff would learn how to use a snare drum properly instead of this weak and puny side stick stuff.

. Fandom seem a bit gap yahr and ooo I take a lot of drugs

. Shit name

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#55

absolutely loved them when I was younger, haven’t listened to them for ages but they have to get a 4 just for being really great (even some of the post-mezzanine stuff is decent). Seeing them at Bestival absolutely blew my mind, they sounded huge.

#56

Ok. It is a fucking tune tbf.

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#57

More filler on blue lines

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#58

Has to be Unfinished Sympathy but I also fucking LOVE Safe from Harm. One of my fave album openers.

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#59

Can’t think of any that I’d skip. Never mind, I guess it’s just down to which I’ve listened to the most.

#60

Can’t argue with that.

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