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* [[BSOD Song]]: "False Flags."

* [[Creepy Monotone]]: The aforementioned "Butterfly Caught."

* [[Sampling]]: Also frequently. The original version of ''Mezzanine'''s "Black Milk" led to a lawsuit from Manfred Mann, whose Earth Band song "Tribute" was used as a base without permission - Del Naja explained that they were led to believe that their sample fell within "fair use" limits and were surprised to discover they had sampled the entire song; later releases on ''Collected'' retitled the song "Black Melt" and replaced "Tribute" with a different sample.

* [[The Oner]]: The video for "Unfinished Sympathy" is one of the earliest music videos to use this technique, with vocalist Shara Nelson walking down a Los Angeles street. It was later paid homage to in [[The Verve]]'s "Bitter Sweet Symphony" with Richard Ashcroft in London.

* [[Protest Song]]: Massive Attack has occasionally veered into more political territory since ''100th Window'', whose title is itself an allusion to a book on Internet security and privacy. "False Flags" mentions riots in Europe, while "Atlas Air" is about the alleged CIA extraordinary rendition program. ''Heligoland'''s working title was ''Weather Underground'', in reference to the radical organization.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: Most notably, ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' uses an instrumental cut of "Teardrop" as its theme. In addition, the band's songs are [[wikipedia:Massive Attack discography#Media usage|commonly used]] in media, even though not neccesarily for theme tunes.

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