# Music Recommendations from Massive Attack Fans Wanted

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 21, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations-from-massive-attack-fans-wanted/230361 "2004-02-21T12:08:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Uncivil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ccd318/32.png) [@Uncivil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncivil)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations-from-massive-attack-fans-wanted/230361/21 "2004-02-24T19:53:38Z")

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To be honest, I never really thought “trip-hop” was a genre, more of a lazy catch-all label used by the music press. Do Massive Attack & Portishead really have that much in common (other than Bristol)?

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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations-from-massive-attack-fans-wanted/230361/22 "2004-02-24T22:31:25Z")

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Ooh, lots of good stuff mentioned in this thread. A couple more:

- **Thievery Corporation** , “Richest Man in Babylon”
- **Hooverphonic** , “A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular” and “Blue Wonder Power Milk”
- **Supreme Beings of Leisure** , self-titled

… and some other stuff you might like, if you like Massive Attack:

- **Arling & Cameron** , “We Are A&C” and “All-In”
- **Death in Vegas** , “Scorpio Rising” and “The Contino Sessions”
- **Black Box Recorder** , “Passionoia”

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**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations-from-massive-attack-fans-wanted/230361/23 "2004-02-25T11:11:18Z")

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> _originally posted by Uncivil_  
> To be honest, I never really thought “trip-hop” was a genre, more of a lazy catch-all label used by the music press. Do Massive Attack & Portishead really have that much in common (other than Bristol)?

Well, maybe, but that would just completely undermine my rant, wouldn’t it? 😉

I’m going to claim a tenuous connection in that both Portishead and Massive Attack (and most other bands lumped in the trip hop genre) combine hip hop rhythms with dark, cinematic soundscapes.

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**Author:** ![Uncivil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ccd318/32.png) [@Uncivil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncivil)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations-from-massive-attack-fans-wanted/230361/24 "2004-02-25T12:57:10Z")

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Sorry to derail your rant. Although if you want something you can rant about to your heart’s content, try listening to “Barbie Girl” by Aqua. An aural atrocitry. 😉

True, they have a bit in common, they are both very atmospheric. But Massive Attack were heavily influnced by Jamaican Dub, which Portishead doesn’t have a trace of. And Portishead are heavily Jazz influenced, unlike Massive Attack.

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