Primarily Found On:

Blue Lines

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1st June 1991

04:26

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Written by Grant Marshall, Andrew Vowles, Robert Del Naja, Jonathan Sharp, Shara Nelson, G. Redmond, L. Brownlee, J. Simon, F.E. Simon

Produced by Grant Marshall, Andrew Vowles, Robert Del Naja and Jonathan Sharp

Recorded and mixed at Coach House Studios, Bristol

Mix engineered by Bryan Chuck New

See Blue Lines info section for further credit details by clicking here.

Lately uses a sample from the song Mellow Mellow Right On by Lowrell. It appears primarily on their 1979 single release of the same song Mellow Mellow Right On. It is credited officially by Massive Attack. The majority of Lately is based on this sample.

Apart from this aforementioned sample, Lately also uses a sample from the song Joy by Isaac Hayes. It appears primarily on his 1973 release of the same name, Joy. Massive Attack had already sampled Isaac Hayes before on Blue Lines on the song One Love. They would years later, go on to sampled him again on Exchange.

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Shara Nelson

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Lately was one of the the first four songs produced for Blue Lines, with the other three songs being Be Thankful For What You’ve Got, Any Love (2) and Safe From Harm. Of these four songs, 3D at the time felt that the best of the material produced to be Safe From Harm, finding that that the other three songs, including Lately were a bit too retro and soft.

Lately has never once been played live, at least not since the 1994 soundsystem tour, but because details of this tour are quite vague and sketchey, it is unknown rather Blue Lines was played or not. Even if Lately had been played during this year, it would have been without Shara Nelson, as she had left Massive Attack in the hiatus between Blue Lines and Protection.

Shara Nelson on the ad-hoc nature at which Lately (and the rest of Blue Lines) was created - “It’s all sort of pulled together into a ball when we work together. Tracks like Daydreaming and Lately best exemplifies that approach we take” [Rage Magazine - May 1991]