Ask people what their favorite Pet Shop Boys album is, and their answers will vary--but ask people what the most important Pet Shop Boys album is, and 9 out of 10 West End girls will say Very. The snide ambiguities that churned behind prior PSB posturings were ripped away on this release, with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe finally pulling more than punches. Self-awareness is one of the major themes on Very, with "Yesterday When I Was Mad," showing the band could send up themselves as well as their friends and lovers; meanwhile, "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Type of Thing" both carries one of the Boys' best melody lines and serves as one of their most literal confessions. There's also a more threatening, foreboding tone to the record as set by the opening "Can You Forgive Her" and the closing Village People cover, "Go West." Originally an anthem leading gay men to San Francisco's promised land, the Pet Shop Boys' version is delivered from the beleaguered trenches in the war against AIDS. The results are as ominous as they are brilliant. --Steve Gdula, Amazon's Editorial Review

1991年的处女作"Blue Lines"的问世，犹如平地一声雷，其梦幻迷离的鼓点、城市化的歌词内涵、精良的制作让Massive Attack毕露出音乐家素质的锋芒，这张专辑更是Bristol Hip-Hop运动的蓝本作品！人们已经把这三位带有一份神秘色彩的音乐人视为传奇人物了！同时"Blue Lines"在当年还成为音响器材的试音唱片。
Trip-Hop起源于９０年代英国Bristol一地，在欧洲不断面临美国Hip-Hop侵入的冲击之时，英 国的DJ们即开始将Hip-Hop发展成自己的风格，他们将Hip-Hop的速度降慢（较为down tempo），强调沉重缓慢的鼓声及Bass，抽掉Hip-Hop中的Rap，以及Sample些老旧唱片，于是 形成了所谓的Bristol Hip-Hop（Trip-Hop之前身，当时尚未有Trip-Hop这个名词）；而９１年推 出首张唱片《Blue Lines》的Massi00ve Attack则带动了这一波Bristol Hip-Hop运动（人们称之"First Coming Of Bristol Sound"，Bristol Hip-Hop时期的风格并不是那么地刻意要营造黑暗诡谲的气 氛），至于真正Trip-Hop兴盛的关键时期则是在９４、９５年Massive Attack推出第二张唱片《Protection》，以及Portishead和Tricky的掘起；从Portishead女主唱Beith Gibbson颓废、慵懒的唱腔加上６０、７０年代老旧唱片的sample（甚至唱片的杂音），到Tricky喃喃自语般愤世嫉俗的低沉声音，将Bristol sound营造出了一种迷幻抽象、黑暗诡谲的新环境；于是便有杂志将他们这种音乐型态称之为"Trip-Hop"（人们称这段时期为"Second Coming Of Bristol Sound"） P.S.事实上Massive Attack，Portishead，Tricky彼此间有着微妙的关系。Massive Attack的三位成员和Tricky原都是"The Wild Bunch"（1982年由Nelle Hooper主导的团体）的成员，所以Massive Attack歌曲中常有Tricky的参与；而Portishead的成员Geoff Borrow则曾在Massive Attack《Blue Lines》中参与制作。

Howyoudoin" by the late great RSW represents everything that was right about early 90's electronica. Strictly formulaic & predictable genres hadn't quite taken hold yet, and rampant experimentation was the norm among these newfangled electronic artists. RSW was one of the most difficult to pin down, as they dabbled in big beat, rap, trance, dub and house, often with an underlying punk rock aesthetic. Mute. 2001.

99% is the third studio album by British electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto. The album peaked at No. 6 on the CMJ Radio Top 150.

Primal Scream are a Scottish rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie. The band's current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes, Martin Duffy, Simone Butler, and Darrin Mooney.