Maxinquaye (Deluxe Edition)
Tricky's debut, Maxinquaye , is an album of stunning sustained vision and i… Read Full Bio ↴Tricky's debut, Maxinquaye , is an album of stunning sustained vision and imagination, a record that sounds like it has no precedent as it boldly predicts a new future. Of course, neither sentiment is true. Much of the music on Maxinquaye has its roots in the trip-hop pioneered by Massive Attack , which once featured Tricky and after the success of this record, trip-hop became fashionable, turning into safe, comfortable music to be played at upscale dinner parties thrown by hip twenty and thirtysomethings. Both of these sentiments are true, yet Maxinquaye still manages to retain its power; years later, it can still sound haunting, disturbing, and surprising after countless spins. It's an album that exists outside of time and outside of trends, a record whose clanking rhythms, tape haze, murmured vocals, shards of noise, reversed gender roles, alt-rock asides, and soul samplings create a ghostly netherworld fused with seductive menace and paranoia. It also shimmers with mystery, coming not just from Tricky -- whose voice isn't even heard until the second song on the record -- but his vocalist, Martina Topley-Bird , whose smoky singing lures listeners into the unrelenting darkness of the record. Once they're there, Maxinquaye offers untold treasures. There is the sheer pleasure of coasting by on the sound of the record, how it makes greater use of noise and experimental music than anything since the Bomb Squad and Public Enemy . Then, there's the tip of the hat to PE with a surreal cover of "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," sung by Martina and never sounding like a postmodernist in-joke. Other references and samples register subconsciously -- while Isaac Haye s' "Ike's Rap II" flows through "Hell Is Around the Corner" and The Smashing Pumpkins are even referenced in the title of "Pumpkin," Shakespear's Sister and the Chantels slip by, while Michael Jackson's "Bad" thrillingly bleeds into "Expressway to Your Heart" on "Brand New You're Retro." Lyrics flow in and out of consciousness, with lingering, whispered promises suddenly undercut by veiled threats and bursts of violence. Then, there's how music that initially may seem like mood pieces slowly reveal their ingenious structure and arrangement and register as full-blown songs, or how the alternately languid and chaotic rhythms finally compliment each other, turning this into a bracing sonic adventure that gains richness and resonance with each listen. After all, there's so much going on here -- within the production, the songs, the words -- it remains fascinating even after all of its many paths have been explored (which certainly can't be said of the trip-hop that followed, including records by Tricky). And that air of mystery that can be impenetrable upon the first listen certainly is something that keeps Maxinquaye tantalizing after it's become familiar, particularly because, like all good mysteries, there's no getting to the bottom of it, no matter how hard you try.


Track Listing - Disc 1
Track Number Sample Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Overcome Marcella Detroit / S. Fahey / Detroit Nix Tricky 4:30
2 Ponderosa Bernstein / Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 3:33
3 Black Steel William Drayton / Carlton Ridenhour / Ridenhour / Sadler / Shocklee Tricky 5:40
4 Hell is Round the Corner Isaac Hayes Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 3:47
5 Pumpkin Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 4:31
6 Aftermath Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 7:39
7 Abbaon Fat Tracks Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 4:27
8 Brand New You're Retro Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 2:54
9 Suffocated Love Barratt / Richard Barratt/Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 4:53
10 You Don't Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 4:39
11 Strugglin' Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 6:39
12 Feed Me Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 4:04


Track Listing - Disc 2
Track Number Sample Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 She Devil Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 6:25
2 Ponderosa Bernstein / Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 4:28
3 Slick 66 Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 4:17
4 Overcome Marcella Detroit / S. Fahey / Detroit Nix Tricky 2:38
5 Brand New You're Retro Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 4:49
6 Black Steel William Drayton / Carlton Ridenhour / Ridenhour / Sadler /Shocklee Tricky 5:58
7 Aftermath Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 5:04
8 Just For the Hate of It Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 4:30
9 Overcome Adrian Nicholas Thaws Tricky 2:53
10 Black Steel William Drayton / Carlton Ridenhour / Ridenhour / Sadler / Shocklee
Tricky 6:00
11 Overcome , Marcella Detroit / S. Fahey / , Detroit Nix , Tricky , 3:25
12 Hell is Round the Corner Isaac Hayes Tricky 5:43
13 Black Steel William Drayton / Carlton Ridenhour / Ridenhour / Sadler / Shocklee
Tricky feat: Jose Maria / Kidd Rasta 3:56
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Maxinquaye (Deluxe Edition)
Tricky Lyrics


Abbaon Fat Tracks Fuck you in, tuck you in, suck you in "Can you…
Aftermath For once, there's someone for he, for she For once, there's…
Black Steel I got a letter from the government the other day Opened…
Brand New You're Retro We know, yes we know I set my ego on fantastic. Still,…
Feed Me (Tricky raps in the background throughout Hey you, so what c…
Hell Is Round the Corner I stand firm for our soil (a source) Lick a rock…
Overcome You sure you want to be with me? I've nothing to…
Ponderosa The place where, the place where The place where, the place…
Pumpkin Pumpkin You're hollow kid More how I'm to do Let the heart g…
Strugglin' In hell I'll be lost in the layers of weakness All…
Suffocated Love It's too good It's too nice She makes me finish too quick Is…
You Don't Look, you don't know what I'm going through And I don't…


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