- Awesome Music:
- The Burial remixes of "Paradise Circus" and the previously unreleased "Four Walls" are just amazing, though it's not clear yet whether this signifies that he'll be remixing the entirety of Heligoland or just those songs.
- Massive Attack's performance at Glastonbury 2008
. An epic version of "Angel", and "Unfinished Sympathy" is given a great treatment. Also includes an awesome unreleased song, "All I Want".
- Epic Riff: Massive Attack have a solid track record of loading their songs with Epic Riffs.
- "Atlas Air" has one of the most memorably catchy riffs known to man.
- The climax of "Group Four" begins with an epic guitar riff.
- "Man Next Door" has an epic bassline.
- The heartbeat-like bass drum and solemn piano riffs of "Teardrop".
- Epileptic Trees: A fairly popular one concerning Robert del Naja is that he’s also Banksy. There are some visual similarities between their artwork, and Goldie (DJ) referred to Banksy by the name “Rob”, though del Naja isn’t the only possible “Rob” he could’ve meant.
- First Installment Wins: Their debut album Blue Lines is seen as one of the greatest albums of all time, and its track "Unfinished Sympathy" is commonly hailed as one of the greatest songs of all time.
- Genius Bonus: Heligoland is named after a German archipelago that has previously been a Danish and a British possession.
- Growing the Beard: Their third album Mezzanine is a fairly popular choice for their best album, due to its Darker and Edgier shift towards Alternative Rock, with harsher beats and grungy guitar riffs.
- Song Association:
- The group received immense recognition from "Teardrop" being used as the theme song for House (quite fittingly to boot; its heartbeat-esque rhythm would perfectly complement a medical show). It was also used in the trailer for the original Assassin's Creed.
- Although not to such significant following, "Paradise Circus" was similarly the theme for Luther.
- Sweet Dreams Fuel:
- "Weather Storm", a wonderfully chill and melancholy track which sounds like one of the gentler songs from the Silent Hill 3 soundtrack.
- Also, the "Exchange" tracks from the otherwise dark and brooding Mezzanine.note However, the last few seconds of the first "Exchange" are repetitive and dissonant, in order to transition into the following track.
- Tear Jerker: "Teardrop", in spades. Makes it worse when you know Elizabeth Fraser was recording the song when she learned of her friend and former lover Jeff Buckley's passing. Really hits the heart strings.
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