Complete List Of Massive Attack Songs From A to Z

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Massive Attack emerged from Bristol’s Wild Bunch sound-system collective in 1988, bringing together Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall, Andrew Vowles, and Adrian Thaws. Their earliest recordings joined hip-hop production, dub bass, soul vocals, post-punk atmosphere, and sampling into music that felt both intimate and cinematic.

The 1991 debut Blue Lines established that identity through “Safe from Harm,” “Five Man Army,” “Daydreaming,” and “Unfinished Sympathy.” Vocalists Shara Nelson and Horace Andy were essential to the record’s emotional range, while Tricky’s presence connected the album directly to the wider Bristol scene.

Protection followed in 1994 with Tracey Thorn, Nicolette, Horace Andy, and Tricky among its voices. The title track, “Karmacoma,” “Sly,” and “Weather Storm” moved the group into more spacious and reflective territory. Mad Professor transformed much of the album into the 1995 dub remix set No Protection.

The group’s third album, Mezzanine, arrived in 1998 and became its darkest and most commercially successful studio statement. “Angel,” “Risingson,” “Teardrop,” “Inertia Creeps,” “Black Milk,” and “Group Four” combined distorted guitars, deep electronic rhythms, and performances from Horace Andy, Elizabeth Fraser, and Sara Jay.

After Vowles left the group, Del Naja led the recording of 100th Window, released in 2003 with vocals from Sinéad O’Connor, Horace Andy, and Damon Albarn. Massive Attack and Neil Davidge then composed the score for the film Danny the Dog, released in North America as Unleashed.

The 2006 collection Collected paired familiar singles with “Live with Me,” featuring Terry Callier, and a second disc of rarities that included “False Flags,” “Silent Spring,” “Black Melt,” “I Against I,” and “I Want You,” the group’s collaboration with Madonna.

Heligoland arrived in 2010 with Tunde Adebimpe, Martina Topley-Bird, Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Guy Garvey, and Horace Andy. “Pray for Rain,” “Splitting the Atom,” “Paradise Circus,” “Girl I Love You,” and “Atlas Air” continued Massive Attack’s reliance on distinctive guest voices without weakening the identity of the group’s production.

The 2016 Ritual Spirit EP brought together Roots Manuva, Azekel, Young Fathers, and Tricky. It was followed by “The Spoils” with Hope Sandoval, “Come Near Me” with Ghostpoet, and the limited release “Dear Friend” with James Massiah.

In 2020, Massive Attack issued the three-part audiovisual project Eutopia, combining music with Algiers, Saul Williams, and Young Fathers and statements about the climate emergency, tax havens, and universal basic income. The project extended the group’s long-running use of visual design and live production to address political and social subjects.

Massive Attack returned in April 2026 with “Boots on the Ground,” a collaboration with Tom Waits. The recording became the group’s first newly released music since Eutopia and continued a catalog built from studio albums, soundtrack cues, dub reconstructions, limited singles, remixes, and collaborations.

Complete List Of Massive Attack Songs From A to Z

0–E

“The Academy” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Angel” – Mezzanine (1998)
“Angel (Angel Dust)” – Mezzanine 20th-anniversary edition (2018)
“Antistar” – 100th Window (2003)
“Any Love” – Any Love single (1988)
“Atlas Air” – Heligoland (2010)
“Atlas Air (Jneiro Jarel’s Lavender Remix)” – Atlas Air EP (2010)
“Atta’ Boy” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Babel” – Heligoland (2010)
“Baby Boy” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Backward Sucking” – No Protection with Mad Professor (1995); based on “Heat Miser”
“Be Thankful for What You’ve Got” – Blue Lines (1991)
“Better Things” – Protection (1994)
“Black Melt” – featuring Elizabeth Fraser; Collected deluxe edition (2006)
“Black Milk” – Mezzanine (1998)
“Blue Lines” – Blue Lines (1991)
“Boots on the Ground” – with Tom Waits; single (2026)
“Bullet Boy” – Collected deluxe edition (2006)
“Bulletproof Love (Christoff Berg Remix)” – Splitting the Atom EP (2009); alternate version of “Flat of the Blade”
“Bumper Ball Dub” – No Protection with Mad Professor (1995); based on “Karmacoma”
“Butterfly Caught” – 100th Window (2003)
“#CLIMATEEMERGENCY” – with Algiers and Christiana Figueres; Eutopia audiovisual EP (2020)
“Collar Stays On” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Come Near Me” – featuring Ghostpoet; single (2016)
“Confused Images” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Cool Monsoon” – No Protection with Mad Professor (1995); based on “Weather Storm”
“Danny the Dog” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Daydreaming” – Blue Lines (1991)
“Dead Editors” – featuring Roots Manuva; Ritual Spirit EP (2016)
“Dear Friend” – featuring James Massiah; limited single (2016)
“Dissolved Girl” – Mezzanine (1998)
“The Dog Obeys” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Eternal Feedback” – No Protection with Mad Professor (1995); based on “Sly”
“Euro Child” – Protection (1994)
“Everybody’s Got a Family” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Everything About You Is New” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Everywhen” – 100th Window (2003)
“Exchange” – Mezzanine (1998)
“Exchange (Mountain Steppers Dub)” – Mezzanine 20th-anniversary edition (2018)
“(Exchange)” – Mezzanine (1998)

F–J

“Fake the Aroma” – Help (1995)
“False Flags” – Collected deluxe edition (2006)
“Fatalism (Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi Remix)” – Heligoland Japanese edition (2010)
“Five Man Army” – Blue Lines (1991)
“Flat of the Blade” – Heligoland (2010)
“Four Walls” – with Burial; single (2011)
“Future Proof” – 100th Window (2003)
“Girl I Love You” – Heligoland (2010)
“Girl I Love You (She Is Danger Remix)” – Heligoland extended edition (2010)
“Group Four” – Mezzanine (1998)
“Group Four (Security Forces Dub)” – Mezzanine 20th-anniversary edition (2018)
“Heat Miser” – Protection (1994)
“Home of the Whale” – featuring Caroline Lavelle; Massive Attack EP (1992)
“Hymn of the Big Wheel” – Blue Lines (1991)
“I Against I” – featuring Mos Def; Blade II soundtrack (2002)
“I Am Home” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“I Spy” – No Protection with Mad Professor (1995); based on “Spying Glass”
“I Want You” – with Madonna; Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye / Something to Remember (1995)
“Incantations” – featuring Horace Andy; Collected deluxe edition (2006)
“Inertia Creeps” – Mezzanine (1998)
“Inertia Creeps (Floating on Dubwise)” – Mezzanine 20th-anniversary edition (2018)
“Joy Luck Club” – featuring Debbie Clare; Collected deluxe edition (2006)

K–O

“Karmacoma” – Protection (1994)
“Lately” – Blue Lines (1991)
“Light My Fire” – Protection (1994)
“Live with Me” – featuring Terry Callier; Collected deluxe edition (2006)
“Man Next Door” – Mezzanine (1998)
“Metal Banshee (Mad Professor Mix One)” – Mezzanine 20th-anniversary edition (2018)
“Mezzanine” – Mezzanine (1998)
“Montage” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Moving Dub” – No Protection with Mad Professor (1995); based on “Better Things”
“Name Taken” – 100th Window (2003)
“One Love” – Blue Lines (1991)
“One Thought at a Time” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Opening Title” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)

P–T

“P Is for Piano” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Paradise Circus” – Heligoland (2010)
“Paradise Circus (Breakage’s Tight Rope Remix)” – Heligoland extended edition (2010)
“Paradise Circus (Burial Remix)” – with Burial; single (2011)
“Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)” – Heligoland extended edition (2010)
“Polaroid Girl” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Pray for Rain” – Heligoland (2010)
“Pray for Rain (Tim Goldsworthy Remix)” – Heligoland deluxe edition (2010)
“A Prayer for England” – 100th Window (2003)
“Protection” – Protection (1994)
“Psyche” – Heligoland (2010)
“Psyche (Van Rivers & the Subliminal Kid Remix)” – Splitting the Atom EP (2009)
“Radiation Ruling the Nation” – No Protection with Mad Professor (1995); based on “Protection”
“Red Light Means Go” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Redlight (Clark Remix)” – Atlas Air EP (2010)
“Right Way to Hold a Spoon” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Risingson” – Mezzanine (1998)
“Risingson (Setting Sun Dub Two)” – Mezzanine 20th-anniversary edition (2018)
“Ritual Spirit” – featuring Azekel; Ritual Spirit EP (2016)
“Rush Minute” – Heligoland (2010)
“Safe from Harm” – Blue Lines (1991)
“Sam” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Saturday Come Slow” – Heligoland (2010)
“Silent Spring” – featuring Elizabeth Fraser; Collected deluxe edition (2006)
“Simple Rules” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Sly” – Protection (1994)
“Small Time Shoot ’Em Up” – featuring 2D; Collected deluxe edition (2006)
“Small Time Shot Away” – 100th Window (2003)
“Special Cases” – 100th Window (2003)
“Splitting the Atom” – Heligoland (2010)
“The Spoils” – featuring Hope Sandoval; single (2016)
“Spying Glass” – Protection (1994)
“Superpredators” – Risingson single / The Jackal soundtrack (1997)
“Sweet Is Good” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Take It There” – featuring Tricky; Ritual Spirit EP (2016)
“#TAXHAVENS” – with Saul Williams and Gabriel Zucman; Eutopia audiovisual EP (2020)
“Teardrop” – Mezzanine (1998)
“Teardrop (Mazaruni Dub One)” – Mezzanine 20th-anniversary edition (2018)
“Three” – Protection (1994)
“Trinity Dub” – No Protection with Mad Professor (1995); based on “Three”
“Two Rocks and a Cup of Water” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)

U–Z

“Unfinished Sympathy” – Blue Lines (1991)
“United Snakes” – False Flags / United Snakes single (2006)
“#UNIVERSALBASICINCOME” – with Young Fathers and Guy Standing; Eutopia audiovisual EP (2020)
“Unleash Me” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)
“Voodoo in My Blood” – featuring Young Fathers; Ritual Spirit EP (2016)
“Weather Storm” – Protection (1994)
“What Your Soul Sings” – 100th Window (2003)
“Wire (Leaping Dub)” – Mezzanine 20th-anniversary edition (2018)
“You’ve Never Had a Dream” – Danny the Dog / Unleashed soundtrack (2004–2005)