pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Translation: "Wahhh, why can't I have influence on people that can make up their own minds?"

it's a far more exciting and absorbing record.

― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), 10. januar 2018 17:50 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're so pathetically bad at this.

your ability to absorb information is deeply impoverished

xp

i think their stock has risen a little but not a great deal

Yes, so Brad is annoyed that I won't (and don't - and I've already explained why) take his opinions seriously, and Frederik is doing his usual predictable Scrappy Doo routine.

None of this having anything to do with the perception of the Blue Nile beyond these forums, of course.

UFO kinda OTM but I feel that it just feels that way because a couple of people got into those records on this forum and were heavily vocal about it.

Or because Pitchfork just published a 'sunday classic' review of them. You're literally discussing them on the pitchfork thread. How dumb are you?

hey everyone, i just went out into real life and took some readings. turns out that the stock of blue nile has risen, but only by 34 points, which hovers on the edge of stastistical significance. i repeat, blue nile's stock is up by 34 points over the last decade in the real world.

Well, objectivity has spoken. Discussion closed.

this argument is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Smart enough to realise that Pitchfork in the big scheme of things - even though it's obviously made a name for itself - still only speaks for a very small percentage of people on the planet, Frederik.

you know what i'm bullish on? eastern sounds by yusef lateef. keep hearing people mention it. and you can even get 50 bucks for the 70s reissue now. did pitchfork write about it?

I think we should settle this Blue Nile matter as we do all others, by checking Youtube views and Spotify streams, and then divining how many of them were Sincere

the hats reissue was largely ignored by the press in 2013 and i'm not sure that things have changed that much since then (t's nice p4k cares about them now) but i would like it if they had

lol scrappy dane

blue nile owns the zone u bums

also, kinks village green mania shows no sign of abating. people still REALLY want that record. the price just keeps going up and up for old copies. it's nuts.

"sir, your product is The Blue Nile records"

i do feel bad for that destroyer guy because he obviously likes a lot of really talented artists and it must be hard to never reach that level and want to so badly. kinda like all those people who wanted to be the beach boys and who nobody listens to anymore.

The fact that this thread is still discussing the Blue Nile is one of the most ILM things I've ever seen.

kaputt is better than everything that influenced it (though i know thats controversial), and he doesn't seem too fussed about that sort of thing really. in interviews for the last two albums he's seemed fairly bewildered that he got so much attention for kaputt but also doesn't really care if it happens again

he might say that in an interview, but his haircut says "it's hard"

you namecheck The Blue Nile for a certain vibe because the closest analogues (Avalon et. al.) just aren't really that close.

― Tim F, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 10:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on one hand it's hard to imagine Blue Nile existing without Roxy Music's influence, but you're right that Avalon doesn't quite do the same thing, there's a certain louche quality to Ferry despite moments that are very heartbreaking, whereas Blue Nile seems entirely sadness and ennui (no fun disco times)

also, Avalon is a great record and definitely has its own magic quality, but it's also a ROXY MUSIC album, so it's pretty impossible (for me at least) not to view it in the larger context of "This is a phase in the evolution of ROXY MUSIC an iconic rock band", whereas Blue Nile just emerged fully formed with Walk Across the Rooftops, and when I first heard them (Hats) it all felt sort of mysterious like "where did these guys come from?"

kaputt is better than everything that influenced it

― ufo, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 11:45 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*closes tab*

hey everyone, i just went out into real life and took some readings. turns out that the stock of blue nile has risen, but only by 34 points, which hovers on the edge of stastistical significance. i repeat, blue nile's stock is up by 34 points over the last decade in the real world.

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 12:24 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IDK man have you checked 538 recently? Things are turning around!

RealClearPolitics has Hats' silk bathrobe despair averages +10 over three months ago

The Blue Nile hasn't really hit me yet. I think that particular gloomy 80s soundscape is just not really my thing. I really like Mid Air a lot though!

the gloom comes for everbody eventually iirc

even turrican, though he be full of bile and blue nile denial

I love all sorts of other gloomy soundscapes though ftr

Gloom has always been my joint and it's precisely what this album is missing.

a gloom at the top

'Missing' more than 'lacking', really, as it fails to attain its goal.

xp

well it’s not really the gloom that crushes me on hats tbh - as the old cliche goes, it’s the hope

Win Butler responds to Trump's disparaging comments about Haiti

Mad Libs has gotten weird

feel like this happened before

Honestly that Pfork profiled the daughter of one their major brand partners is low key amazing. https://t.co/USfN8g0HN8

— David Turner (@_davidturner_) January 16, 2018

not surprising and yeah certainly not unprecedented. p4k is just Rolling Stone now. Schreiber will try to play gatekeeper as Jann has done, although without a Hall of Fame, not sure how successful he will be.

I'm predicting her actual album will end up scoring somewhere in the 5.something range.

I remember during the Chillwave boom there was the band Small Black that consisted of some guys that worked for Pitchfork.tv

lol i was going to post that youtuber then i clicked on it and read "singer & songwriter" in the kicker and went on my way

must be nice to have that Converse money

wonder if that's why her shoes are curiously cropped out in that photo

That song is good imo

sounds a lot like maria minerva

isnt this also a testament to youtube stardom being a rich kid pursuit

I haven't heard a note of this but I'm liking the idea of a third Paul brother trying to make a go at making an outsider house tape for Orange Milk

p4k is just Rolling Stone now.

"now"

i'm all for anybody making a go at outsider house

P4k won't be rolling stone until they give every hype album 3 1/2 stars

I can't see P4k truly becoming Rolling Stone, because they don't have a legacy act like a Bruce Springsteen or a U2 that they will give a high rating to regardless of an album's content. They are a little more concerned with hyping the new. Most bands that have been around for a while tend to get stuck in that 6-7.9 range.

they don't have a legacy act like a Bruce Springsteen or a U2 that they will give a high rating to regardless of an album's content.

Radiohead of course

I guess that's true, despite King of Limbs getting 7.9.