I haven't been into Massive Attack for too long, probably a couple of years now. "Mezzanine" was my very first MA album. I bought it because I heard nothing but good things about this group as well as this album. The rest is all history. I have their other three albums ["Blue Lines", "Protection", and "100th Window"]. I think of all the MA albums I own, "Mezzanine" resonates with me the most. The music is dark and foreboding, lyrically and musically. The cd starts off with the dark sounds of "Angel". I particularly love that songs for the dark, slow, hip hop beats mixed with the haunting vocals. The choices in samples is astounding, if not refreshing. Normally I loathe the use of samples but Massive Attack is able to use samples and manipulate them into a totally different sound than what the original artist intended. My personal favorite songs off "Mezzanine" has to be "Man Next Door" and "Teardrop". Those songs are simply amazing. I recently put in "Mezzanine" into my cd player for the first time in months, and amazingly enough it still holds up very well in today's current music scene. I really think that "Mezzanine" set a standard for the whole genre of trip hop music. It is one of the best albums in that genre as well as one of the best albums in general to come out in the past decade or two.