Skip to content. Like this: Like Loading More Stories. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Well, in this issue at This City Knows, we pick on three ground-breaking videos of their own time — blasts from the pasts. Moreover, some intriguing stories lurk behind how these three videos were produced. It was Dan Kneece, best known for his film Blue Velvet from , who operated the Steadicam, and this person was one of the main reasons why the band filmed the video in none other city but Los Angeles.
The video of Unfinished Sympathy follows Nelson walking down a pavement, quite careless about the surrounding. The first sequence of the video portrays a gang, and that is a real gang that is there by accident. This was filmed in a single continuous shot and it was all according to a plan of movement created by video director Baillie Walsh. Other band members, 3D and Daddy G can also be seen randomly walking somewhere behind Nelson in other sequences of the video. The video concludes with Nelson walking past down the camera and off down the road in the distance.
Originally, the end was supposed to be enclosed with an overhead shot of Los Angeles. As a very young child, I would somehow keep thinking that it is New York in the video. It would just give me the feeling that yes, I belong there, in the video, on those streets.
Bjork at a live performance in , photo credit. Slow motion and fast motion effects add up to the overall aesthetics of the video. The video received very good reception and was heavily rotated on MTV channels. Then he called up, a little later, with something he thought was even better, basically to get a truck and drive up and down Manhattan as long as the light would last.
As the video progresses, first 3D having finished making a call on a public phone booth and then Daddy G pushing a cart can be seen walking several paces behind her, slightly out of focus.
At the end of the video, Nelson walks past the camera and off down the road into the distance. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Some internet websites list the famed Hollywood director David Lynch as being the director of the video for Unfinished Sympathy. However this rumor started, it is false; as David Lynch has never had any affiliation with Massive Attack.
User reviews 1 Review. Top review. This is such a wonderfully rich, utterly classic tune that's more than a song to me, it's more like a little life anthem in music that runs over five glorious minutes.
It's got such a stark true to life real quality about it, there's nothing pretentious or that doesn't need to be there in the video, it's just a lone woman coolly walking down a long street, not bothering anybody and ain't nobody bothering her, until she finally turns a corner and vanishes from sight - but there's such a deep, profound raw kind of everyday beauty and resonance that comes out of everything around her, as well of course as her beautiful moving vocals which are complemented by the music and video so well, without her voice I don't think Unfinished Sympathy would have turned out so magnificent as it did.
I love the grittiness of the strip that she walks on, the area looks like if has a lot of old stories to tell, and it kind of follows one person's story, as she goes on her way and eventually turns a corner and leaves the picture, and who'd ever remember she was there or ever notice she'd gone It's so incredibly heart-wrenching around the 3.
It is played on nearly every show from every tour like clockwork and is always at the end of each setlist — typically the penultimate song played.
The exception to this however was on the and tours, when Deborah Miller was unavailable for the entire tour and was replaced by singers Hazel Fernandez from Jamiroquai and Yolanda Quarty from Phantom Limb for those respective tours. The strings heard on the song, for live performances are normally synthesized electronically. Only on the and tours, when Massive Attack had a dedicated violinist s , on all their shows was this not the case.
Craig Armstrong would also on a few select dates in , provide a string orchestra conducted by himself to further add to the live performance of the song. He would later go to state that Unfinished Sympathy was his favourite song of all time. Included on all single releases. Paul Oakenfold Instrumental Mix — The instrumental version of the Paul Oakenfold Mix is exactly that, an instrumental without any vocals but otherwise the same.
Nellee Hooper Instrumental Mix — The instrumental version of the Nellee Hooper Mix is exactly that, an instrumental without any vocals but otherwise the same. Instrumental — The instrumental version of the regular version of Unfinished Sympathy is exactly that, an instrumental without any vocals but otherwise the same, except that the last minute of the song is cut off unexpectedly.
It appears primarily on their release Infinity. It is not credited officially by Massive Attack.
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