― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 21 August 2004 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Saturday, 21 August 2004 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 21 August 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bluefox, Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link
wow, what a bizarro compilation that would be. i'm off to soulseek to find out...
― zappi (joni), Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
rod stewart doing 'downtown lights'!!!
― zappi (joni), Sunday, 22 August 2004 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw those two campish, scottish "interior" "decorators", in a doorway, with a newspaper, near charing cross, earlier, today, and I said something to them and then I had to wait around, so I went into starbucks and gerard kelly and elaine c. smith were in there and so were those guys.
where is paul buchanan and has he got tuberculosis.
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
the two interior decorators are called justin and colin and I sat next to them one day, in tribeca, they demanded, no, they asked could their scrambled eggs be done a little more creamy, they were a 'touch' dry last time. they nattered and gossiped. scarlet, it's not her name, from river city did too.
one day jed didn't introduce me to paul buchanan but now you've told me that I'll definitely buy that single. I love this life.
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw them and realised it was them, as I passed, and I slowed and I took a step back and the dark haired one looked up, from the newspaper they were reading, and smiled and said "hi...!" and I waggled my finger and said ""yous guys are famous" and I didn't wait for any response and I continued on my way.
it definitely could have sounded like an insult, I promise.
I should have just gone with fanny--it has never let me down, in the past.
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 13 September 2004 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 13 September 2004 09:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble.... (Bimble...), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link
It's a bit sad how much Daniel Bedingfield let us all down, considering the lofty points of comparison he received in this thread.
If I became a big successful crooner I would totally be on a mission to make "Saturday Night" a canonical favourite.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I bought it when it came out cuz i read a review that said that the members didn't know how to play any instruments and were just winging it. it really made me want to hear it. rufus, my three year old really digs it! i've been playing it since i bought it. that says something. i like pretty much everything they have done. even the last album.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes Strongo, I always want one of the guys on the Idol shows to do Blue Nile songs. But I think they're all too long and full of instrumental passages, and cutting those out would cut out the hearts of these songs (e.g. what would "The Downtown Lights" be like without that awesome Edge guitar climax?). Plus there's probably not enough obvious vocal dynamics.
But I do think it would be amazing nonetheless.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
cookie & I are going to see p buchanan sing, at the end of may
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes. It's on Medusa. The Blue Nile also worked on "Diva" with her. I remember I saw them all drinking in the Trongate with her once when they were recording together. I was thinking "Wow, I'm drinking in the same pub as The Blue Nile and ANNIE LENNOX!". Just then about 100 people came from the theatre next door and she started to get recognised, so they buggered off.
― everything, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Monday, 1 May 2006 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Monday, 1 May 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 1 May 2006 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Monday, 1 May 2006 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link
The Blue Nile leave me strangely cold. All the elements are there: memorable tunes, engaging electronic productions, Buchanan's sultry voice. For all intents and purposes, this is a band I ought to worship — one that clearly many people do.
Yet I don't. I haven't listened to either record in a while now, but every time I do, I sort of shrug and can't figure out the empty feeling they leave me with.
But as I think about it, I wonder if it's something's amiss with their aims. Fans rave about The Blue Nile's "passion" and "intensity." And while I can at least embrace the idea that doesn't always signify Aretha-like caterwauling, there's a def. sense that they mistake simplicity for transcendence, which has the effect of producing banality. Particularly on Hats, which trades early 80s futurism for late 80s MOR (not in and of itself an unworthy proposition), there are moments that must have made Phil Collins feel positively vindicated.
I mean, as craftsmen I respect The Blue Nile — they make a flawless, perfectly executed product. But as artists, they seem burdened by a complete lack of self-awareness.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
In re: Blue Nile, dare I bring up Cousteau's first record, which I love almost as much as kittens?
― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Saturday, 7 October 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
on the other hand, I've listened to Peace At Last this morning and it made me weep like a child several times. I think I can say I adore that album.
― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Monday, 9 October 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bassment Jacks (Bimble...), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 05:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― R_S (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Where is My Bloody Valentines band?!?
― Venga (Venga), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Nile US and Canadian 2007
dates just added
Feb 13 Atlanta Variety Playhouse
Feb 15 Alexandria Birchmere
Feb 16 Philadelphia World Cafe Live (WXPN Studios)
Feb 17 New York Concert Hall-NY Society/Ethical Culture
Feb 18 Boston Paradise Rock Club
Feb 20 Montreal Le National
Feb 21 Toronto Mod Club
Feb 23 Chicago Black Orchid Showroom
Feb 24 Minneapolis Fine Line Music Cafe
Feb 27 San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Mar 01 Los Angeles Avalon
Mar 02 Anaheim House of Blues
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 October 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 28 October 2006 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 28 October 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link