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classic, i guess; search everything pre-98 (including live shows around the time of "angels..."), destroy almost evrything since?

― toby, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Good question. If we haven't done him yet, about time we did. Classic for me on the strength of "Maxinquaye" and "Pre Millennium Tension" alone. Tricky is one of the few musicians who make me think hard about words and their context in song.

I also own "Nearly God" but haven't played it much. I thought everyone hated "Angels..." (not heard myself). However, I've read enough good things about "Juxtapose" that it is on my list of things to buy if ever I see it going cheaply.

― Jeff W, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Maxine quaye is absolute classic. Have only heard the singles off the other ones, and they're not bad at all. 4 Real, Broken Homes and Trickykid are all outstanding. May invest in some post-Maxinequaye material soon. Any recommendations?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Maxinquaye never in fact did much for me outside of a couple of the singles -- Pre Millennial Tension remains my favorite in comparison, more focused, more interesting, whatever it is there's something going on.

That all said, I have since realized that the Notorious B.I.G. essentially trumped him with "Suicidal Thoughts."

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Maxinquaye and PreMillenium Tension are classics, after that there's a sharp dropoff. Angels With Dirty Faces lacked a certain something, the other releases have lacked alot. Attempted collaborations with hip-hoppers and alt-rockers have largely been either negligible or regrettable (even "Broken Homes" isn't half of what it should have been). I think he's got another classic in him, but I'm not holding my breath.

― J Blount, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My experience with Tricky is odd in that "Angels with Dirty Faces" was the first record I heard by him, giving me the impression that he was fucked up and unlistenable, but got away with it. I grew to really like its dismalness and when I dug up his earlier work, it seemed mild to me. I'd still recommend his first two albums... certainly over his last two. "Juxtapose" really should have sounded different, considering all the hype that Muggs and Grease were working to make it Tricky's definitive hip hop piece.

― Honda, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Classic. Toby is pretty accurate, but nobody has so much as mentioned the wonderful early stuff with Massive Attack. Obvious, but needs including.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two years pass...

i actually love juxtapose. some classic songs on there.

― splooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 3 October 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

listening to my evil is strong, i cant help think tricky could have been the black tom waits.

― splooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

haha - i said much the same thing on the "real gone" thread splooge except that i was thinking of "Ponderosa" - if only they had made a record together in the mid-90's.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

it could still be done, but i think tricky is too far gone now (exactly where i dunno) to make a really great record with anyone anymore.

― splooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

tricky was such a prick with me, we were talking about music and smoking together for a few minutes in the Cadbury in Bristol (his sister works there, it was Xmas eve), then his friends turned up and he switched into a evil-tricky mode and asked 'who da fuck i waz' and offered to 'kick my fucking head in'.

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

weirdo (tricky, not you).

― splooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

You sure Guy Ritchie wasn't following the friends with a camera?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

sometimes i worry that dizzee is gonna pull a tricky on us

― Symplistic (shmuel), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

anyone heard the new album?

― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 20 July 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link

i heard it shrouded in a cloud of very mysterious tricky smoke. i was unmoved

― Fer Ark, Sunday, 20 July 2008 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link

shit sxkunk alert

― Fer Ark, Sunday, 20 July 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link

one listen, needs more i feel. hardly maxinquaye part deux.

― Upt0eleven, Sunday, 20 July 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Just tossed all my Tricky shit into the yearly sell pile... I can't even bear to listen to Maxinquaye or Pre-Millennium Tension anymore, it all just sounds so insufferably dull and lifeless, stoned out of its mind and worse off for it.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 3 September 2010 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link

Saw Tricky open for Devo a couple years ago and it was possibly the biggest example of AWFUL opening act + INCREDIBLE headliner that I've ever seen.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 3 September 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link

This has become my favorite Tricky tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6175vubQ-4E

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 September 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

is the new one any good or is that a dumb question?

― akm, Friday, 1 October 2010 07:14 (fourteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

This article makes a pretty good case for why Tricky fell so far from grace after Maxinquaye:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun07/articles/classictracks_0607.htm

It wasn't really him doing much of the music.

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 19 May 2011 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Except that Pre-Millennium Tension is the masterpiece.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 19 May 2011 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Well, "Tricky Kid" is anyway...

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 19 May 2011 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link

Christiansands

― akm, Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:57 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

new album is being hailed as a return to form, although i've heard that one before. anyone heard it yet?

― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Thursday, 30 May 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link

I listened to the first half on Spotify; it was really really really good

― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link

new singles pretty good too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQmQc2HBDk

― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link

I dont know if its on purpose but that video looks very low budget and not in a good way.

― Moka, Friday, 31 May 2013 07:06 (eleven years ago) link

new album is being hailed as a return to form, although i've heard that one before.

every tricky album since PMT, lol

anyone heard it yet?

yes, and it's not good

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 31 May 2013 09:41 (eleven years ago) link

Due to unforeseen US Visa issues preventing from him entering the country, Tricky is postponing his upcoming US tour dates in support of his new album False Idols. The rescheduled dates will take place in October, when Tricky is in the US to play Treasure Island Music Festival and Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit.

― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 June 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link

God dammit, I just bought tickets for the Philly date this afternoon :(

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Friday, 7 June 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link

There's a track on it called Nothing's Changed which I really have a soft spot for.

― Doran, Friday, 7 June 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link

I rated the "time 2 dance" single from a couple of years ago. Not mindblowing but nice, breezy but still tricky-y

― too busy s1ockin' on my 乒乓 (wins), Friday, 7 June 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Happy 30th Anniversary to Tricky’s debut album Maxinquaye, originally released February 20, 1995.
https://albumism.com/features/tricky-debut-album-maxinquaye-album-anniversary

I was 24 at the time, remember buying it first day of release.

― djmartian, Thursday, 20 February 2025 12:59 (yesterday) link

Hi DJ M!

― rainbow calx (lukas), Thursday, 20 February 2025 23:17 (yesterday) link

Hi DJ M!

― rainbow calx (lukas), Thursday, 20 February 2025 23:17 (yesterday) link

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