I know the guy who wrote it (xp)
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
btw i'm polling the AWATR/hats non-album tracks next :~O
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
i write a new book every daythe love theme for the wilderness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYr6djNfbQ
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
oh god the non-album tracks poll is gonna kill me (you should also include the peace at last b-sides imo just to kill me more)
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link
the little bridge starting at 3:15 of "automobile noise" that abruptly transitions into another verse is one of my favorite blue nile moments
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
Going with "Stay" as that's what hooked me when I saw the video on MTV (!) in 1984.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Tempted to go for the title track. I really could be happy picking any of these songs though.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
i want to check this out at some point
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Nile-Story-Allan-Brown/dp/1846971381
― nomar, Wednesday, April 26, 2017 2:37 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I got the kindle version and really liked it a lot. There are some moments in there that will really hurt you in your heart, though. And not in the way that making a choice for this poll hurts you in your heart.
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
voted rags to riches as that's the one I was singing most recently while cleaning the house
heatwave all day long. a masterpiece
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
i was wondering if you were a blue nile fan
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:53 (seven years ago) link
The title track. It's such a wondrous, beguiling piece of music.
― Austin, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
For the first decade of me loving this album it was "The Downtown Lights". For the second it was "Automobile Noise". As I embark on the third I think it's now "Rags to Riches".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
one day this love will all blow over
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Time... for leaving the parade.
― Tim F, Thursday, 27 April 2017 01:49 (seven years ago) link
Do I love you? YES, I love you! But it's easy come and it's easy go, and this talking - talking - is only bravado.
An all-time fave lyric.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 27 April 2017 01:51 (seven years ago) link
Correction. "All this..."
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 27 April 2017 01:53 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that's pretty much impossible. And 'Hats' would be even more so.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 27 April 2017 02:08 (seven years ago) link
Probable the boring choice, but "Tinseltown" for me.
― o. nate, Thursday, 27 April 2017 02:13 (seven years ago) link
"tinseltown" i think is in my top 3 (along with "heat wave" and "automobile noise") -- what's struck me recently is the dissonance between the tempo of the vocals and that of the keyboards -- the latter being significantly quicker -- i don't really have the music vocabulary to describe it properly but it's mesmerizing. it's almost proto-house
― k3vin k., Thursday, 27 April 2017 03:36 (seven years ago) link
and by keyboards i mean the percussion, i had "i love this life" stuck in my head as i was typing that
― k3vin k., Thursday, 27 April 2017 03:48 (seven years ago) link
"i have never heard, encountered, or read anything about this band anywhere but ILM."
you must not go to steve hoffmann forums either
I have to give Julian Lennon credit: he's where I heard about "hats' back when it came out; in some article he noted it as his favorite album at the time.
― akm, Thursday, 27 April 2017 03:52 (seven years ago) link
Completely impossible to choose. Today I choose Easter Parade.
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
Think the blurb's mentioned on one of the other BN threads, but bought _Hats_ unheard when released, because the cover looked cool and Phil Collins had a sticker quote recommending it. (Plus a memory of the as-yet-unheard AWAtR in the stacks of an admired art major friend.)
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 27 April 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
My Hats sticker had Peter Gabriel and Rickie Lee Jones quotes on it.
I'd always suspected that PG's "Red Rain" was heavily influenced by the Blue Nile, particularly his back-of-the-open-throat vocal sound. 3 years later, seeing Gabriel hyping Hats confirmed it, as far as I was concerned.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 29 April 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
HEAT WAVE
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 29 April 2017 08:04 (seven years ago) link
Heatwave
will i tell youwill you listenif i tell you, what will happen?
― k3vin k., Saturday, 29 April 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
Very cool album.
― Creames Fartpoop, Saturday, 29 April 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
i've listened to this about 20 times since starting this poll and i think i'm relatively comfortable, at least for now, with this order. every song is amazing in one way or another
heatwavetinseltown in the rainautomobile noisefrom rags to riches stayeaster parade a walk across the rooftops
― k3vin k., Monday, 1 May 2017 01:17 (seven years ago) link
D-40 otm
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 1 May 2017 01:20 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
so glad each song got a vote
― k3vin k., Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
"from rags to riches" -> "stay" -> "easter parade" -> "heatwave"
an entire lifetime of emotions in 20 minutes
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 May 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
easter parade just rocked me hard
― It's the Final Cluntdiwn (Spottie), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
OMG as if it is possible to pick a single best song from this LP
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link
yeah it’s “easter parade”. or “heat wave”. or “tinseltown”
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 04:02 (two years ago) link
or “rags to riches” or “automobile noise”
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_172cffdDJU
― It's the Final Cluntdiwn (Spottie), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 05:26 (two years ago) link
every time i hear "heatwave" i end up thinking i need to track down the late 80's paul schrader movie called heatwave that uses the song over the opening credits and must surely exist somewhere
― Clay, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 07:06 (two years ago) link
"Regret", collected on the remastered 2cd AWAtR, is the one that kills me. "It's 3:30 and I'm thinking of you. Regret."
Hoping 2022 includes a new Paul Buchanan album.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
same
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Thursday, 4 November 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link