Massive Attack - The First Really Famous Band in the Nineties

The first really famous band to come out of bristol, doing this british synthesis of hippop, soul, house and techno, was massive attack. By 19 97 main stream music culture had been forced to accept that jungle wasn't just noise. Thet would their expression in jon gl in, drummand bas in, the free party scene. It played a really important role, yet completely ignored by the ideologues of white ta rock. But we're over that nowyea ha, ha ha. There's no question who won the cultural battle over whether m c culture, rat and raga beads were more important than no galiga. As we survey the cultural waste