Blue Lines
Occupation
- Vocals: Robert Del Naja
- Vocals: Grantley Marshall
- Keyboard: Andrew Vowles
- Keyboard: Johnny Dollar
- E -Bass: Paul Johnson
- Vocals: Tricky
- Vocals: Horace Andy
- Vocals: Shara Nelson
- Vocals: Tony Bryan
- Backing Vocals: Mikey General
- Conductor: Will Malone
Blue Lines is the debut album by the British trip-hop band Massive Attack. It was released on April 9, 1991 on the label Virgin Records. In the UK, Blue Lines quickly developed into a major commercial success, where it came to number 13 of the album charts. In other countries, the sales figures were at first rather miserably. Meanwhile, however, Blue Lines is one of the most innovative albums of pop history, as well as the founder of the so-called Bristol sound and thus the first trip-hop album ever. Stylistically, it blended elements of hip-hop, electronica, soul and reggae, and thus created a then unique sound. The criticism took the album to positive. So Blue Lines landed in 2003, for example, on the list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone ranked 395th
Three singles were released from the album. Already on 15 October 1990 saw Daydreaming that but not the UK Top 40 reaching. The second single Unfinished Sympathy, published on 11 February 1991, after all space reached 13 Safe From Harm came on 28 May of the year on the market, rising in the UK at # 25