The Blue Nile: C or D?

Where is My Bloody Valentines band?!?

Nile US and Canadian 2007

dates just added

Feb 13 Atlanta Variety Playhouse

Feb 15 Alexandria Birchmere

Feb 16 Philadelphia World Cafe Live (WXPN Studios)

Feb 17 New York Concert Hall-NY Society/Ethical Culture

Feb 18 Boston Paradise Rock Club

Feb 20 Montreal Le National

Feb 21 Toronto Mod Club

Feb 23 Chicago Black Orchid Showroom

Feb 24 Minneapolis Fine Line Music Cafe

Feb 27 San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

Mar 01 Los Angeles Avalon

Mar 02 Anaheim House of Blues

good god how did i go this long w/o hearing this band

!!

:D

i've listened to A Walk Across Rooftops today. love them so

gff otm

Peter Gabriel should hang his head in shame

funny that both these guys dated Rosanna Arquette...

god this stuff is just amazing... jess is right, above, every element is deeply suspect but the whole thing just works and works and works

When local Hi-Fi manufacturer Linn Electronics heard their music, the company offered the band money to record a track that would showcase the sonic range of the company's high-end audio equipment.[2][3] Linn was so pleased with the result, they formed their own record label in order to release The Blue Nile's debut, A Walk Across the Rooftops, in 1984.sample (help·info) Buchanan later commented that during that time Linn was not really a record company, and The Blue Nile was not really a band.[1] Although it received positive reviews, it sold modestly.

^^ incredibly loveable

paul buchanan has a great ear for melody

do i love you??

YES I LOVE YOU!!!

All this talking - this talking - is only bravado.

SO classic. Almost envious of those just now discovering this band, and really happy that folk immediately fall for them.

Search out the b-sides, too: "New York Man", "Wish Me Well", "O Lolita", and my favorite, "Regret", which guts me every listen. "It's 3:30 and I'm thinking of you."

Is there a place
in this city
a place
to always feel this way?

Timely thread. I accidentally dragged the record needle across side B of my copy of Hats a couple of days ago. Seems mainly okay though.

Please, please, please does anyone have a copy of 'St. Katherine's Day' they could share? It's impossible to find.

"the wires are down" also a fantastic b-side. love this band so so much

actually yeah, where was this band hiding when i was in high school?

I really can't see The Blue Nile appealing to high school students in any decade!

you don't think teenagers find songs about falling in love and wanting to leave home appealing? maybe musically you have a point but i bet some of my sad-sack emo-loving friends would've liked "let's go out tonight" at the least

Please, please, please does anyone have a copy of 'St. Katherine's Day' they could share? It's impossible to find.

Original Blue Nile demo, inc. "St. Katherine's Day" is now up on slsk. *whistles*

no i was 16 when TINSELTOWN...floored me for the first time one night. perfect teenage album the debut is.

I fell in love with A Walk Across The Rooftops when I was fifteen. That was in 1998.

I have just acquired the first two LPs, at last, and have been listening to them over and over and over again all week. I feel that I am finally in a position to understand almost everything on this thread.

Though right now at this very moment I am listening to early Prefab Sprout.

Maybe it's a good thing, that Dot to Dot never did make a cover, of I Love This Life.

Simply the most amazing music ever made.
― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, March 24, 2003 7:16 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i had hats on my computer at one point but i deleted it because i never listened to it. kinda wish i had it again since everyone is raving about it

i'm listening to the samples of Hats on amazon, and i'm starting to remember why I deleted this... it sounds like bad late 80s soundtrack music! the first album sounds a lot better, based on these 30 second previews.

Some nice songs. What would you even call music of this ilk? It's pop, but like, dressed up nice.

You won’t like them. A Walk Across The Rooftops contains slap bass, trite lyrics on the debris of relationships, pans from (yawn) Coppola’s One From the Heart into (yawn) Paris, Texas, sung by Springsteen impersonating Sinatra. Hats has two white reggae tracks, gated snares, repeated use of the word ‘baby’, yes, is ‘lush’, ‘cinematic’ and MOR. Annie Lennox and Rod Stewart have covered their songs. Phil Collins endorses them.

You won't get your money back, you know.

which two tracks are "white reggae"??????

I'd have to listen and think about it.

Maybe none?

I think he meant "Considering A Move To Memphis" and "I Am The Resurrection."

Maybe.

Oh, wait a minute, those aren't on Hats.

I have to think again, now, about what I meant, to say. I don't think I meant 'Over The Hillside', 'Downtown Lights' or 'Headlights oan the Parade'.

I don't really think white people shouldn't play reggae, any more than black people, shouldn't. If Jamaicans can do it, why not Scots?

Champion Doug Veitch to thread.

Butch Cassidy Sound System to thread

WTF is wrong with 80s soundtrack music???

cozens post is great

from rags to riches is the really key song I think--"I have hope and good intentions" is their facebook about me and "I am in love... I am in love with a feeling" is sort of everything they've ever sung in just a couple words

WTF is wrong with 80s soundtrack music???

nothing; it's bad 80s soundtrack music that I don't care for. The second I heard it, it instantly reminded me of something you'd hear on those soft rock stations that they play in dentist's offices ("Downtown Lights"). it just sounded like very generic and AOR music from that era. admittedly, i haven't given this much time, but off the cuff, I'm kind of surprised by how much people like this.

ban shushtari.

Srsly though, "very generic and AOR music" is such a boring criticism it's not even worth engaging with.

Max OTM, "Rags To Riches" is a pretty amazing song. And production too! That and "Automobile Noise" are total next level, secret hidden kingdom score 1000 points god control material.

why do people advocate banning for every goddamn perceived transgression on this board? it's not a healthy discursive climate.

anyway, i already stated that i hadn't given it much time. that was my immediate impression. sorry if you didn't like it.