Who else takes other people’s lyrics, gets Martina Topley-Bird to sing them, and calls it their own other than Tricky? On a debut no less!
No Tricky LP is outstanding, but they always have a few pearler tracks on them. Maxinquaye’s hits are the tracks that borrow:
Overcome uses lyrics from Massive Attack’s Karmacoma.
Black Steel uses the first verse from PE’s Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos.
Hell Is Around The Corner samples Hayes’Ike’s Rap II which you would have heard first on Portishead’s Glory Days.
Tricky later covered Siouxsie & the Banshees’ Tattoo, The Cure’s Lovecats and XTC’s Dear God.
Who else has done this? Someone else’s lyrics with new a style and music…
