30 years today since Unfinished Sympathy came out, and it's only really just occurred to me that the greatest dance single of all time has a pun for it's title. Anyway, who fancies joining me to look at what makes up this track..? Of course you do
The topline was a song written by Shara Nelson before the Blue Lines recording sessions. They developed it with her for the LP. Massive Attack met her in the 80s through Adrian Sherwood who'd recorded various tracks with Shara, like this one
Side note: Shara also worked Jah Wobble on his electro-funk-dub LP Neon Moon with Ollie Marland. Here's opening track Love Mystery
Enjoying @laurent_fintoni's musical highlights of the past decade but as someone who kinda made their name with a remix LP in 2010, I feel like I need to give the art of the remix LP a bit of a nod here, so here's a few which influenced me way before the 00s...
@laurent_fintoni 1982. League Unlimited Orchestra - Love & Dancing. Synth-pop classics, twisted, decomposed and dubbed by Martin Rushent and gang whilst the Human League were off being pop stars