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First Unveiled On: 20th April 1998

Length: 05:29

Versions/Remixes:
Scream Team Remix – A remix credited to equally Primal Scream and Brendan Lynch working beneath the name Scream Workforce. Massive Attack would repay Primal Scream the remixing favour on their Exterminator keep track of in 2000. Appears on all single releases.

Mad Professor Mazaruni Vocal Blend – British isles dub producer and very well recognized Significant Assault remixer puts his very own style down on this particular remix. Incorporated only on the promo and 12″ one releases, until finally the arrival of the Singles 90/98 Box Set in which this remix was provided on CD.

Mad Professor Mazaruni Instrumental Mix – Very similar to the vocal blend, apart from the vocals, even though continue to present(irrespective of becoming billed an instrumental) are utilised far more as echo results all through the music, common to a good deal of the Mad Professor’s repertoire. Seems on all solitary releases.

Edit – A truncated edition of the song for radio playback. Trims off a great deal of the beginning and conclusion of the music. Provided only on promo releases.

Credits:
Written by Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall, Andrew Vowles and Elizabeth Fraser

Developed by Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall, Andrew Vowles and Neil Davidge

For the Collected model of the track, supplemental credits are:

Remastered by Mike Marsh at the Exchange and Tim Youthful at Metropolis Mastering.

Sampled:
Jazz piano player Les McCann’s song “From time to time I Cry” was sampled for Teardrop. It seems mostly on Les McCann’s 1972 launch Levels. It is not credited formally by Massive Attack.

Protected:
Teardrop has been coated many moments by many artists normally only as a stay effectiveness. Artists which have performed Teardrop reside are Elbow, Incubus, Jamie Cullum, Jose Gonzalez and Our Girl Peace. The most modern cover is from 2007 by English singer/songwriter Newton Faulkner. There are also a large amount of novice singers covering this track, as can be evidenced by undertaking a research for this sort of handles on YouTube.

Maybe the most noteworthy include of Teardrop is by Massive Attack them selves, as Teardrop is sampled on the Substantial Assault music, Bullet Boy.

Vocalist(s):
Elizabeth Fraser

Lyrics:

Like, really like is a verb
Appreciate is a undertaking word
Feathers on my breath
Light impulsion
Shakes me helps make me lighter
Feathers on my breath
Teardrop on the fireplace
Feathers on my breath

Nine night time of make any difference
Black bouquets blossom
Feathers on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Feathers on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my

Water is my eye
Most devoted mirror
Feathers on my breath
Teardrop on the fireplace of a confession
Feathers on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Feathers on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my breath

You might be stumbling in the darkish
You might be stumbling in the dark

Historical past:
Teardrop started existence as a straightforward harpsichord riff plucked by Neil Davidige just one April day in 1997. Mushroom who was the initial in the band to listen to this solitary riff, took an quick liking to it and he and Neil Davidige set to further more operate on it adding sombre piano chords and beats. The doing work title for it at this time was “No You should not”. Mushroom’s (whose attachment to the tune was pretty superior) number one particular choice for vocalist for the track was none other than Madonna, who Huge Attack experienced previously labored with back again 1995 on “I Want You”. Having said that, each 3D and Daddy G who experienced both of those now heard the early demo of the music at this phase, experienced yet another vocalist solely in brain, Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins. In the two versus just one split, at some point Mushroom lost out even while not before sending the backing track for Teardrop to Madonna who was apparently in love with the track and was unhappy when the rest of Huge Assault knowledgeable her that they now had a vocalist for the tune. This is just one of the quite a few occurrences a single could cite for Mushroom’s gradual disliking for Large Attack and of program, gradual departure from the band in 1999.

Elizabeth Fraser wrote and sang the lyrics for Teardrop shortly just after popular singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, her boyfriend at the time experienced perished in a drowning incident. Some speculate that the lyrics for Teardrop were reflective of her mood at the time and might even subtlety be about Jeff Buckley’s demise.

Supplemental Data:
Teardrop was the very first one introduced to endorse Mezzanine, even though it was not the to start with one launch from the album, what with Risingson getting launched approximately a yr in advance of in the summer time of 1997.

The producers at the rear of the 1999 Academy Awarding winning film “American Magnificence” had meant to use Teardrop as the most important musical topic to accompany the movie. Large Attack objected to the song’s use in the movie soon after looking at a quick synopsis of what the film was about. After viewing the completed movie, 3D would later on remark on how it was a mistake to deny “American Beauty” the use of Teardrop, when the film turned into the major crucial accomplishment of 1999 at the box office.

Dwell Appearances:
Teardrop was to start with performed dwell at the Olympia in Dublin, Ireland on 15th April 1998. For the the greater part of dates on the 1998/1999 tour, Elizabeth Fraser was not readily available because of to the actuality that she was pregnant at the time. She did nonetheless put in a memorable appearance at the Royal Albert Corridor gig in June 1998. Her vocals on Teardrop for this tour, have been completed as a substitute by Debbie Miller. On the 2003 and 2004 tour, Liz Fraser was nonetheless not existing, and now her vocals ended up substituted with Dot Allison’s. For the 2006 tour Elizabeth Fraser would at last return to accomplishing stay and singing her vocals for not only Teardrop but the other Liz Fraser tracks on Mezzanine, and proceeded to do the total tour with Substantial Attack.

Rates:
3D on Teardrop – “It is a second of light reduction from some of the other times of the album genuinely. It was fairly a uncomplicated keep track of musically to create and we were not certain what to do with it” [ChannelV TV – June 1998]

Mushroom on the option of Liz Fraser over Madonna for vocalist – “It seems excellent now” [Q Magazine – January 1999]

Daddy G on the bust-up with Mushroom throughout the creating of Teardrop – “At the time, it appeared like an act of treachery” [Q Magazine – January 1999]

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