I Was Looking Back To See If You Were Looking Back At Me To See Me Looking Back At You

1991 spoilt us in many ways musically, not least with the release of Massive Attack’s Blue Lines, a real melting pot album. Dub’s basslines, reggae’s sound systems, hip hop’s rhythms, punk’s DIY attitude. Unfinished Sympathy gets all the plaudits (quite rightly, it’s an astonishing record) but Safe From Harm is a huge and brilliant song, led by the driving and tautest of basslines (sampled from Billy Cobham’s Stratus) and then overlaid with 3D’s paranoia rap and Shara’s vocals. The long version from the 12″ is has more of everything that’s good about this song.

Safe From Harm (Long Version)