"i love your band, you must have heard the blue nile bc all of your melodic ideas sound influenced by the blue nile" - jessie ware/me
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
i like how matty's all what the fuck even was my existence before the blue nile arrived into my life. which is how we all feel.
― prolego, Friday, 23 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
fuckin SAME
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
the top comments underneath the youtube stream of hats right now are all versions of "matty brought me here i'm in love"
doing god's work
― prolego, Friday, 23 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
i got a little caught up in the whole lewis l'amour thing but then kinda realized you know if this guy could write songs and sing he would be the blue nile so why don't i pull out hats instead?
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
are those records worth it?
― goole, Friday, 23 January 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
the lewis ones?yeah kinda, interesting vibe i guess, and the story is cool
the blue nile records are the apex of some kinda 80s mournful staring out a lux apartment ennui
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
also recommended: escalator in an empty airport
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
driving Tom Cruise's parents Porsche in Risky Business around the empty freeways around downtown LA at 4am
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
crying with sandwiches tied to your feet in the absence of shoes
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 January 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
I've never actually listened to Blue Nile before, checking out 'Hats' - dumb name for an album - but this is pretty great. The Lewis stuff didn't grab me, but Gigi Masin reissue, which I loved, was mining a similar vibe (much more ambient obv.)?
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 24 January 2015 09:11 (nine years ago) link
'pretty great'
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
'never heard the apex of some kinda 80s mournful staring out a lux apartment ennui—just streamed on spotify though, decent!'
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
whoa thanks for the Gigi Masin reference, Wind is terrific!
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
lol deej u couldve pulled that trigger on a thousand godless vermin over the past week, why poor decent miko
― r|t|c, Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
"Hats- dumb name for an album " is killing me in fairness
― r|t|c, Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
tbh i think i confused miko with moka subconsciously
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 24 January 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
― prolego, Friday, January 23, 2015 9:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Some things about that interview:
1. My bf thought the interviewer was cute and did a good job (not sure how much the latter pronouncement was influenced by the former). This reminded me that the only people older than us at the last concert was a bear couple in their late forties holding hands and swaying.
2. I think Matt did a fairly good job of explaining their liminal / gateway status between boyband and serious project (which turrican was trying to lampoon upthread). I was worried that his definition of pop was going to veer rockist but I think he was thinking more broadly than his specific explanation necessarily comes across.
3. Would be fascinated to learn whether he wrote "fallingforyou" before hearing The Blue Nile for the first time or immediately afterwards.
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
tried watching some of that interview but tbrr i dont think i've ever made to the end of any sentence of his
on the plus side tho it did eventually lead me to find this EXCLUSIVE photo of matt and tay togeths omg
http://img1.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/i/s/isx2uh01onbiu20i.jpg?djet1p5k
― r|t|c, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link
lol so exclusive I am 403 Forbidden.
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
bah
http://i.imgur.com/mGHQwtO.jpg
― r|t|c, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
looooooooooool otm
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
haha yes
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 January 2015 03:35 (nine years ago) link
Damn, gotta work on my hyperbole round here!
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 25 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Srsly though Miko just block out a week of your life to listen to Hats and A Walk Across The Rooftops on earphones while walking through the city, preferably stepping across rain puddles.
― Tim F, Sunday, 25 January 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
I have to admit, I had it on Chromecast running the YouTube stream while I was cleaning the kitchen. This is no way to live.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 25 January 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
idk i listened to the lee gamble album like that during a 4am bout of insomnia, it seemed to me like the only plausible way to hear it (havent bothered again since) plus my hob was sparkling after
― r|t|c, Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-week-in-music-jessie-ware-is-still-pulling-all-the-strings-8970990.html
With Mercury and Brit nominations, Jessie Ware has had a stellar year. The singer is unveiling her latest song, written with the Blue Nile's Paul Buchanan, at the ASOS All-Nighter on 12 December 2013.
was this unreleased or..?
― r|t|c, Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
this song is an enjoyable bit of 1975 lite that's tiding me over in the drought
lisbon "native"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZGULuu1KOE
― uberweiss, Monday, 26 January 2015 07:59 (nine years ago) link
xpost: could it be "True Believers", which is the only unreleased song in the ASOS set online? It sounds like a Paul Buchanan song, too: http://youtu.be/skJp1zAvBFM?t=6m54s
― crispyben, Monday, 26 January 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
excellent work, thank you
― r|t|c, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Walk The Moon are such a fascinatingly appalling 1975 rip-off band I can't deal.
― Tim F, Friday, 13 March 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
thought they'd been around longer
― dyl, Friday, 13 March 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Appalling band rips off appalling band.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 13 March 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
still not as bad as ripping off alex in nyc though
― Tim F, Friday, 13 March 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
for serious though I find this such an amazing car crash of a song / video clip / everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCLY0Rlx6Q
― Tim F, Friday, 13 March 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
could swear i'd heard of walk the moon before the 1975 but never had an idea of what they sounded like, so i assume this is bandwagon-jumping
imo this song is fascinatingly evil
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 13 March 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
i know right.
There's a WTM album that predates the 1975 but IDK what I've heard sounds like they were more post-DFA meets Gypsy & The Cat or something.
They seem really Australian to me? Surprised to learn they're from Ohio.
― Tim F, Friday, 13 March 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
New album's been demoed.People wanting a fix, should listen to this, produced by Healy and the drummer from the 1975. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LPNesOJ9KQ
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Monday, 16 March 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
figured someone would share the japanese house song. it sounds really nice, chorus is kind of a mess though
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 16 March 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
probably bc they're pulling from the same palette but there are some 1975 vibes on the new jam city record
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:27 (nine years ago) link
Oooh is that out yet?
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:06 (nine years ago) link
listening to the first few songs in this thread and getting real confused by the comparisons i'm seeing. (a better james blake??) 3eb is kinda fair (not debut-level, though, at least not the good songs off that), but for the most part sounds like just about any american apparel model band...what am i missing? someone show me the finesse
i knew them before as the band beloved by k-pop queen ga-in (reason i checked this thread), though...so good for them.
― soyrev, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 06:48 (nine years ago) link
those songs probably aren't the most representative, especially of the EPs which is where that really nice late night Blue Nile vibe is strongest. see fallingforyou and Haunt//Bed for probably the best examples of that. i just wish his voice wasn't so yelpy, it can really clash with that, and sometimes the guitar tone feels just too thin?
― ufo, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 07:16 (nine years ago) link
Also "Me" which is not remotely yelpy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0xlyLwK7Q
― Tim F, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 11:57 (nine years ago) link
monotony: the jam city record is streaming here http://hypem.com/premiere/jam+city
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
iirc "a better james blake" was a comparison someone made while talking about "head.cars.bending" so i'd maybe listen to that one
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
i guess "chocolate" is a pretty accurate portrait of how the album generally sounds, but also not really, what with "talk," "menswear," "m.o.n.e.y."
think the comparisons in this thread are less confusing than representative of the breadth of music this band has recorded, and also the richness even within their relatively narrow john hughes-y stuff
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
wow Walk the Moon totally sound/look like the Hip™ for Basics version of The 1975
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link