The Blue Nile: C or D?

fave b-side right now is oh lolita

the use of "let's go out tonight" in six feet under is really brilliant. the exact sort of band i'd expect in that show.

I played this at record club last week...

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/the-blue-nile-hats-round-45-toms-selection/

i still can't stand them. and i have tried. and tried. and tried. the music is quite ok actually but the singer simply sucks. i am not sure if i should envy all you people who love their music or if i should pity you. maybe i should just accept the fact that tastes are different...

Liking or disliking a voice is such a personal thing and very hard to see past - my Achilles Heel as far as voices go is Daniel Rossen from Grizzly Bear. Pretty innocuous but sets my teeth on edge.

Do you feel similarly about Peter Gabriel's voice as Paul Buchanan's is not that dissimilar?

i have always loved peter gabriel's voice. trespass was one of my first albums. i don't think their voices are similar at all. buchanan's voice to me sounds sleepy and bored. whereas gabriel just sounds perfect, his voice is vivacious and astute.

I played this at record club last week...
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/the-blue-nile-hats-round-45-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Monday, February 4, 2013 4:14 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did you write that, yugi? really excellent...blue nile and edward hopper have become so intertwined in my mind that i can't see or hear one without thinking of the other-i work in a museum that has several great hoppers and my dream concert would be blue nile playing in a room full of hoppers

Cheers. You're spot on with the Hopper reference, although I always pictured a Scottish city - US cities are just not wet enough!

are they from glasgow or edinburgh? i love blue nile enough to add scotland to list of places to visit (although i'm sure it's a great place anyway!)

glasgow. trying to get my head around PB sounding like he is "sleepy and bored". and failing.

yeah, they obv haven't heard Over the Hillside!

I get world-weary from Paul Buchannan's singing but not sleepy and bored...

I'm surprised there hasn't been any reviews of the remasters in American outlets. At least that I know of.

OK, I finally have Mid Air! First listen in progress now; I'm five tracks in. This is pretty radical stuff! We are almost in Mark Hollis / Richard Youngs territory here!

Cozen's posts halfway up the thread are some of the greatest I've ever read on here.

EASILY some of the most amazing music ever made.

"Let's WALK In The COOL EVENING NIGHT..."

...er, light. even so.

Has there ever been an album more fitting (in every sense) of a Q 5-star review than Hats?

I am trying to avoid hyperbole but this album contains some of the incredibily fucking stunningly beautiful music I have ever heard.

I was flicking through a recent copy of Uncut in an airport the other day. They had an article on these guys and graded their albums.

A Walk Across The Rooftops 10
Hats 10
Peace at Last 7
High 8
Mid Air 9

I actually think they got the ratings spot on.

it's blue nile weather

we're laughing, isn't it good to feel this way

That song just came up on shuffle earlier today, I have no problem putting it in my top ten songs of all time.

WHY IS IT ROLLING DOWN UPON THE YOUNG AND THE FOOLISH

THE

aero OTM

upon the young and foolish

:)

Your profile name is very appropriate right now.

why hasn't a country singer covered "Because of Toledo" yet?

Has someone at least identified all the missing tracks from the "deluxe" reissues?

Don't know if this is comprehensive, but here, from the Super Deluxe Edition website:

- the instrumental version of Heatwave
- Saddle The Horses, the instrumental version of Automobile Noise, which came in a standard and an extended version
- the extended single remix of Stay
- Halfway To Paradise, from The Downtown Lights single
- the Clearmountain mix of Headlights On The Parade
- Headlights On The Parade with Rickie Lee Jones
- Our Lives, from the Saturday Night single
- the live version of Seven AM, from the Saturday Night single

peace at last was reissued! the bonus disc is really interesting!

- Headlights On The Parade with Rickie Lee Jones

Surely, you meant EASTER parade — unless there's a seriously juicy b-side that I'm missing?

I'm not sure I'll ever be completely bonkers over The Blue Nile but they do have a real nice soft spot in my heart. Anyone here heard the first single I Love This Life/The Second Act? Or the track they did with trumpet player Chris Botti called "Midnight Without You"? I like these a lot.

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, August 20, 2004 3:35 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ten years later i heard this 'midnight without you' track. really great! a great mellow evening slow jam.

I like The Blue Nile very much, but the only album I'm totally crazy about is 'Peace At Last', which puts me at odds with received wisdom on the 'canon', I guess. plus "Stay Close", the... closer from 'High'.

Stay Close and the title track are the two centrepieces of that album for me

Man I always forget how good "Sentimental Man" is.

I've been pulling out Peace At Last for the first time in a decade and realising I've always underrated it. Possibly all the MOR I've gotten into in the meantime has made its aesthetic concerns more appealing to me.

I went through a nice little Peace At Last phase recently too. "Soon" is my jam.

peace at last rules. parts of it are a little simultaneously unformed and overwrought but uh "family life" tears me apart

Easily the weakest Blue Nile album for me but still a solid album. The last three songs are all really wonderful. Just saw it's getting a vinyl reissue next week. Will probably pick it up as the original goes for crazy amounts.

_Peace at Last_ weaker than _High_? The latter feels the least cohesive of the four releases, but for me, they're all worthy of esteem. At the time, I wanted _Hats II_ and the acoustic guitar was jarring, but now I'd say it's the one I've played the most.

Also, PaL has the best b-sides. "New York Man", "Wish Me Well", "O Lolita"... fantastic. And agreed on "Family Life". On the list of songs like "This Woman's Work" that I can't listen to at work, due to watering eyes.

_Peace at Last_ weaker than _High_?

yeah i kinda think so, high is magnificent if a little disjointed

thread inspired me to listen to peace at last while walking to work this morning and it really nicely accompanies snowfall. "holy love" still truly bizarre

Always hated Holy Love. Seems like a demo that really shouldn't have made the album.

"Tomorrow Morning" is a cousin of U2's "Promenade", wispy blurs of God and other lovers

speaking of high

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qveEW3P0sfg

torn up about how beautiful that song is

Yeah "Stay Close" is definitely the main highlight of High, such a beautiful closer. Right up there as one of the best tracks of their career imo.

To me it's all about Stay Close and the title track for me with that album. Sort of exactly where I would expect the Blue Nile to be at that point.

in love we're all the same
we're walking down an empty street