His solo album is really, really, really good
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 29 January 2015 05:39 (nine years ago) link
From a left-side comment on PB's official Facebook page.
"The current update for Paul's new album is that more than a dozen songs have been selected for recording, which will take place during January through to March, therefore, Newsroom Records would be looking for a commercial release for late June/early July 2015."
Couldn't find a homepage for Newsroom Records, which figures as this review mentions it's his own independent label.
Keep an eye out for a pre-order opportunity, as the _Mid-Air_ ltd. edition included a second disc of music (mainly instrumental versions, but also three non-album tracks), and in a nice package.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
Listening to Mid Air right now. Dumbfoundedly.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
moving tomorrow. to relax ive drank a couple beers and im listening to hats in between two big speakers smoking weed amongst a room full of boxes. just the best band.
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 1 August 2015 07:16 (eight years ago) link
I'm apparently in the minority when I say that I find PEACE AT LAST to be terrific. Yeah, the lyrics are a bit too heavy handed andreligious for my taste, but it's just as melodic and gorgeous to my ears as its 2 predecessors. A great album to take along for a night run.
― beamish13, Monday, 5 October 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Very nice hr interview of the band by Ken Sweeney.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
iirc, and i probably said this in the 1975 thread, jessie ware is the person who told matt healy to listen to the blue nile
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
also thank you for sharing this!!!!
there's a blue nile app?????
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
zuh??
― nomar, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
well now i have to listen to The 1975 more
So welcome. Such a personal favorite band, anyone still to discover them, hope they have a similar impact.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
yeah "hats" is without a doubt a top 5 record for me now and i just discoverd it a couple of months ago
― k3vin k., Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
my best vinyl find was a $1 copy of Hats
― nomar, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
only parts of the new record and the more shapeless songs on their initial eps really recall the blue nile—in the case of the older songs it's v much by accident, but they share a romanticism with the blue nile, a deference to a bigger feeling both melodically and lyrically, the sense that they've made room in their music for this feeling, even as the 1975 specifically describe mostly sack-of-shit anarchic hedonistic permanent teenager stuff. see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3JJxS0gNkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMzAHUFCXmQ
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
wow this interview is amazing
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q8xoRcnDC4
Matthew Ryan and Neilson Hubbard's Strays Don't Sleep track, "For Blue Skies", reflects BN influence and does them credit. His talk of fandom here has me wanting to check out his other work. Have owned the SDS album for years, but never followed him up.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XRhFaYEBig
Continuing the geek flag flying, Ken Sweeney the interviewer released two fine albums as Brian. He's also been name-dropped and appeared in "Father Ted".
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
― k3vin k., donderdag 15 december 2016 20:29 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Exactly the same here. Found out through here.
Thanks for sharing the interview Scampering!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 16 December 2016 08:16 (seven years ago) link
it took me two years to fall in love with "sentimental man" but wow am i ever in love with "sentimental man"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 16 December 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
my man
― Tim F, Friday, 16 December 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
Peace at Last is phenomenally underrated. Perfect music for late night jogging
― beamish13, Friday, 16 December 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
i think my homework over spring break is to get into the third album
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 March 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
i love the blue nile and have never gone back to the third album because i suspect it is forever tainted for me by the fact that my dad is a fan of the band and bought and played the hell out of that cd when it came out and i thought it was awful and corny as hell at the time - i was 12
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 16 March 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
i mean having a refrain on the opening song of an album that is
now that I've foundpeace at lasttell me jesuswill it last
is a bit much
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 16 March 2017 22:12 (seven years ago) link
it's very dated in a way none of the other albums are
― akm, Thursday, 16 March 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
It's definitely a step down from the first two albums, but there's some really great stuff on Peace At Last. I think the main problem is that some of it sounds a bit unfinished. Holy Love sounds like a demo that might well be the worst song they ever did. God Bless You Kid is a great tune but it goes on two minutes longer than it should. Soon, Happiness, War Is Love and Family Life are my favourites. Family Life is kind of a blueprint for Mid Air. Overall, High is a much more satisfying listen.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 16 March 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
family life is good
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 16 March 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
Peace At Last is one of my all-time fav albums. I've never yet been able to get into any of the other albums quite at the same level. I adore PaL from my heart and soul, and am regularly moved to tears any time I choose to listen to it anew. Its imperfections are just perfect to me. A "human(e)" album, that's how I would describe its appeal to me in a nutshell.
― Max Florian, Saturday, 18 March 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
i love "broken loves" now
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 22 March 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
my fav song on high that's not "stay close"
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
um...."christmas"
― k3vin k., Thursday, 23 March 2017 02:54 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/rte-radio-1/in-search-of-the-blue-nile
have we talked about this? i thought we did somewhere. matty from the 1975 apparently makes an appearance
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 11 April 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
yeah, it was posted in this thread back in december. it's a great listen
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
This is wonderful, thank you for sharing Kevin K. Those first two records and the singles. . . nothing else really approaches that sound and feeling.
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
https://m.soundcloud.com/louise-burns/downtown-lights-1
― niels, Sunday, 16 April 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
am i reaching if i say AWATR-era buchanan has some jonathan richman in him?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 19 April 2017 02:15 (six years ago) link
i was doing a facebook music quiz thing and wanted to name a walk across the rooftops as my favorite post-punk record so
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 03:43 (six years ago) link
god i don't know how i never fell in love with the first album til last night but it is just so perfect in its own way
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
it's peerless.
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
It's one of those albums that paints a full-color mental picture with every song.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
why is it rolling down on the young and foolish
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
Also subtly inventive: "Rags to Riches" sounds like pop produced by Steve Reich; "Automobile Noise" makes me think of David Sylvian or Kate Bush circa Hounds of Love.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah it's quite experimental when you get over how fucking beautiful it is.
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
With latter Talk Talk, they were doing truly amazing stuff on another level from 99.9% of even the other best popular music, like the Blue Nile's first two records (and singles). But I always imagine Talk Talk might've been. . . a little self-serious, even if they totally earned it like few others. So it's amazing to hear the Blue Nile guys, who, while they're not falsely modest, don't give the impression that making this higher-plane music was anything but what basically came naturally. I mean, they suffered in some way for their music, I guess; but they just seem like regular people more or less--in that audio documentary, he speaks like areal pop artist in that he felt he was (and he was) expressing the universal, only belatedly recognizing the specificity of his individual experience, too. Just wonderful.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 20 April 2017 01:12 (six years ago) link
I do kinda have to flog this mix here, because it was very much inspired by the feeling the Blue Nile give, and I think people who like them would almost surely dig the mix:
https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/musicophilia_00_various_-_the-dawning_1981-1989_cover.jpg?w=1536
Various – ‘The Dawning’(1981-1989)Part I01 [00:00] The Blue Nile – “Over the Hillside” (Hats, 1989)02 [05:00] Heaven 17 – “Let Me Go” (The Luxury Gap, 1983)03 [09:16] Hot Gossip – “Morale” (Geisha Boys and Temple Girls, 1981)04 [12:18] Dif Juz – “The Last Day” (Extractions, 1985)05 [16:13] Tears for Fears – “Start of the Breakdown” (The Hurting, 1983)06 [21:03] Mick Karn – “Tribal Dawn” (Titles, 1982)07 [25:12] Thomas Dolby – “The Flat Earth” (The Flat Earth, 1984)08 [31:34] Peter Gabriel – “Zaar” (Passions, 1989)09 [35:56] Nona Hendryx – “Off the Coast of Love” (Skin Diver, 1989)10 [40:23] Cocteau Twins – “Lazy Calm” (Victorialand, 1986)11 [44:34] Talk Talk – “I Believe In You” (Spirit of Eden, 1988)Part II12 [50:40] Comsat Angels – “After the Rain” (Fiction, 1982)13 [54:31] King Crimson – “Two Hands” (Beat, 1982)14 [57:48] Bel Canto – “Without You” (White Out Conditions, 1987)15 [61:43] Scott Walker – “Dealer” (Climate of Hunter, 1984)16 [66:33] Scritti Politti – “Absolute” (Cupid & Psyche ’85, 1985)17 [70:53] Arthur Russell – “This Is How We Walk On the Moon” (Another Thought, 1984)18 [75:34] David Sylvian – “Orpheus” (Secrets of the Beehive, 1987)19 [80:20] Durutti Column – “Love No More” (Vini Reilly, 1989)20 [83:06] Kate Bush – “Never Be Mine” (The Sensual World, 1989)21 [86:42] David Byrne – “Ghosts” (The Knee Plays, 1985)22 [89:54] Colin Newman – “I Can Hear You” (Commercial Suicide, 1986)23 [94:16] This Mortal Coil – “Ivy and Neet” (Filigree & Shadow, 1986)24 [99:04] Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Of All The Things We’ve Made” (Dazzle Ships, 1983)[Total Time: 1:42:27]
Part I
01 [00:00] The Blue Nile – “Over the Hillside” (Hats, 1989)02 [05:00] Heaven 17 – “Let Me Go” (The Luxury Gap, 1983)03 [09:16] Hot Gossip – “Morale” (Geisha Boys and Temple Girls, 1981)04 [12:18] Dif Juz – “The Last Day” (Extractions, 1985)05 [16:13] Tears for Fears – “Start of the Breakdown” (The Hurting, 1983)06 [21:03] Mick Karn – “Tribal Dawn” (Titles, 1982)07 [25:12] Thomas Dolby – “The Flat Earth” (The Flat Earth, 1984)08 [31:34] Peter Gabriel – “Zaar” (Passions, 1989)09 [35:56] Nona Hendryx – “Off the Coast of Love” (Skin Diver, 1989)10 [40:23] Cocteau Twins – “Lazy Calm” (Victorialand, 1986)11 [44:34] Talk Talk – “I Believe In You” (Spirit of Eden, 1988)
Part II
12 [50:40] Comsat Angels – “After the Rain” (Fiction, 1982)13 [54:31] King Crimson – “Two Hands” (Beat, 1982)14 [57:48] Bel Canto – “Without You” (White Out Conditions, 1987)15 [61:43] Scott Walker – “Dealer” (Climate of Hunter, 1984)16 [66:33] Scritti Politti – “Absolute” (Cupid & Psyche ’85, 1985)17 [70:53] Arthur Russell – “This Is How We Walk On the Moon” (Another Thought, 1984)18 [75:34] David Sylvian – “Orpheus” (Secrets of the Beehive, 1987)19 [80:20] Durutti Column – “Love No More” (Vini Reilly, 1989)20 [83:06] Kate Bush – “Never Be Mine” (The Sensual World, 1989)21 [86:42] David Byrne – “Ghosts” (The Knee Plays, 1985)22 [89:54] Colin Newman – “I Can Hear You” (Commercial Suicide, 1986)23 [94:16] This Mortal Coil – “Ivy and Neet” (Filigree & Shadow, 1986)24 [99:04] Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Of All The Things We’ve Made” (Dazzle Ships, 1983)
[Total Time: 1:42:27]
Download:
https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/post-post-punk-the-dawning-1981-1989/
― Soundslike, Thursday, 20 April 2017 01:20 (six years ago) link
Oh I never noticed that one! That looks great and I'll totally DL it.
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 April 2017 01:40 (six years ago) link
good stuff
― niels, Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
That radio piece was really nice. Forgot that for a short while they were booked a show to play here, back in ... 2007? What was that all about?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 April 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
The Dawning mix is now on my player, gonna listen to it the rest of my workday. psyched.
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 April 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link