Special Cases

"Special Cases"
Single by Massive Attack featuring Sinéad O'Connor
from the album 100th Window
Released24 February 2003 (2003-02-24)[1]
Length
  • 5:09 (album version)
  • 3:46 (radio edit)
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Robert Del Naja
  • Neil Davidge
Massive Attack singles chronology
"Inertia Creeps"
(1998)
"Special Cases"
(2003)
"Butterfly Caught"
(2003)

"Special Cases" is a song by English trip hop group Massive Attack featuring vocals from Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor, who also co-wrote the track. It appears on Massive Attack's fourth full-length album, 100th Window, and was released as the first single on 24 February 2003.

The single reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart, number 19 in Greece, number 22 in Italy, and number 46 in Ireland. "Special Cases" is the group's only song to chart in Canada, where it reached number 25 on the Canadian Singles Chart. Despite being one of the band's higher-charting singles, it did not appear on their 2006 singles compilation, Collected.[2] Two separate music videos were made for the song.

  1. ^ "New Releases – For Week Starting 24 February 2003: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 22 February 2003. p. 31. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Massive Attack – Collected". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 March 2021.