Primarily Found On:

Batman Forever - OST

Also Found On:

N/A

First Released On:

6th June 1995

Duration:

04:06

N/A

Credits:

Written by William “Smokey” Robinson Jr.

Produced by Andrew Vowles, Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall

Extra Production by The Insects and Neil Davidge

Guitar by Danny Tomlin

Engineered by Oliver Jones

Mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent

Mix Engineered by Andy Bradfield and Jeremy Wheatley

Sampled:

The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game is a cover version of the original Smokey Robinson version produced in 1967.

Covered:

Several cover versions of The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game exist but all are based on the original Smokey Robinson song and not the Massive Attack recording.

Vocalist(s):

Tracey Thorn

Lyrics:

History:

The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game marks an important moment in Massive Attack’s history. It was he first time that Massive Attack and Neil Davidge would work together on a song. Neil Davidge was originally brought into Massive Attack studios as an engineer, after being introduced to them by Andy Allen (owner of Coach studios in Bristol, UK) but he was soon promoted to co-producer status, as the original producers intended for the song, The Insects, (whom Massive Attack had worked with before on Karmacoma and Eurochild) were forced to back out due to unforseen work commitments, after only a few days of work on the song. Neil Davidge was then drafted from engineer to being a producer to finish the song off in The Insects absense. As he had done a good job, producing the song and 3D saw him as someone he could readily communicate his musical ideas to, he was kept on by the band and became the co-producer of Mezzanine and beyond that an eventual member of the band in all but name.

Additional Info:

Even though The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game was produced especially for the film Batman Forever soundtrack album, it appears nowhere in the actual film itself.

The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game would be the last time Massive Attack would collaborate with either Tracey Thorn or The Insects. Two years later, it was hoped for that Tracey Thorn, might collaborate once again with Massive Attack on the Welcome To Sarajevo soundtrack. She had partly written a song called Blame, for Massive Attack to produce, but Massive Attack were unsatisfied with the song and ended up doing a completely new song called Wire with a new singer, Sara Jay, dropping the Tracey Thorn song completely.

Live Appearances:

The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game has never once been played live.

Quotes:

Neil Davidge on meeting Massive Atack for the first time when recording The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game - The first track was for the Batman Forever album, a track called The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game, featuring Tracy Thorn. The Insects started the track but were unable to finish it due to other commitments. I was introduced to the guys by Andy Allen, owner of the Coach House studios in Bristol [Focusrite - April 2003]