I fell asleep listening to Hats last night and woke up to track 6, 'Seven A.M.,' and thought this must be a precursor to Stereolab's mutation of Neu!'s motorik sound. I'm listening to it again now and not really hearing it. Maybe I was dreaming, or confused. Okay, now it's coming on.
― youn, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 02:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 02:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 02:08 (twenty years ago) link
― youn, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 25 December 2003 08:17 (twenty years ago) link
"The Blue Nile's debut album has a rather fascinating genesis. Scotland's Linn Electronics, makers of the famous LinnDrums rhythm boxes, wanted a demo track to demonstrate the fidelity and versatility of their new digital recording console and tapped a struggling local trio, the Blue Nile, to provide it. Their effort was a deliberately disjunctive song called "A Walk Across the Rooftops." To demonstrate the recording equipment's dynamic range and clarity, the song was arranged most peculiarly, with vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, and full string and horn sections all appearing, but never at the same time. Linn liked the song so much that they formed a record label and bankrolled the recording of this full album."
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 25 December 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm saving my judgment until I hear it. It'll be hard to top _Hats_ in my book, but I'm not expecting them to set a new watermark. I'm just looking forward to setting up my own vibe with the record, and replaying the earlier albums for contrast & comparison.
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
-- jean bowman ( ... ), April 23rd, 2003.
That's a great story.
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link
As I lately said to JtN, I fear that the Blue Nile may actually be worse than I want them to be.
I blame RJG's car.
― the bluefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
*wince*
Totally incorrect. Linn the hi-fi systems manufacturer has absolutely nothing to do with the long-defunct drum machine manufacturer of the same name. What lazy journalism.
― Palomino (Palomino), Friday, 20 August 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 20 August 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 August 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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