Week 37: 50 Albums That Changed Music

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This week's entry is for which I have no opinion because I've never heard it and the genre isn't one that I would generally consider my cup of tea. Massive Attack - Blue Lines (1991)

Obliterators of rap's boundaries, Massive Attack pioneered the cinematic trip hop movement. After graduating from one of Britain's premier sound systems, the Bristol-based Wild Bunch, Andrew 'Mushroom' Vowles and Grant 'Daddy G' Marshall joined forces with graffiti artist 3D. Massive Attack's debut LP spawned the unforgettable 'Unfinished Sympathy' and remains a modern classic. Without this...no Roots Manuva, no Dizzee. In fact, there would be no British urban music scene to speak of.

No Roots Manuva? No Dizzee? Egads man! Where would we be without those stellar purveyors of Brit rap?! What does a graffiti artist have to do with music? Is graffiti 'gangsta' art? And why do these guys always need a pseudonym/nickname?

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