The Blue Nile: C or D?

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:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 July 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I finally got the Coloma album today. I'm not entirely sold on all of it, but 'Welcome To Arcadia' is the best four minutes of pop I've heard all year.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, now I'm sold on it.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha Ricky that was exactly how it happened for me too.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

"What do you say when three years into a relationship the only things holding you together is the fear of breaking the ties you?ve built in the outside world as a unit? When an offer of tea is the only lull in the silence? ?Let?s go out tonight?, one last time, meet up with the ghost of your happiness, it can be the same again, you will dance, for one night, oh to bed the same different woman every night, and leave the relationship strafed with cigarette burns and headaches in, alone."

This feels terrifyingly prescient in light of recent of events. If I can be specious for a moment.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

god they are classic. hats is just really beautiful. i want the world to be this beautiful.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i think if i had had this record in high school i would have killed myself. i dont know how to explain.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The juncture between the beauty present in that record and that present in your life? I got into The Blue Nile when I was sixteen and it felt a bit like that.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 22 December 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Like, "Do I love you?? YES I love you!!" feels even more bittersweet if the person you're singing it about is only imaginary.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 22 December 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

... shouted from imaginary rooftops in an imaginary city.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 22 December 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

hard to say. it was just a very very emotionally intense time (as it was for most) and maybe the album would have pushed me over the edge. the person wasnt imaginary, just the potential for a relationship. i met someone when i was sixteen who knew more about me than i did.

the city doesnt have to be imaginary. any city is good when the street lights are reflected in puddles on the sidewalk.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

pavement.

; )

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

the three times i can remember hearing the Blue Nile on the radio
1. 'tinseltown in the rain' in a chipshop in Maryhill. i'm 15 and its the first time i've heard them. i strain to hear who its by.
2. 'downtown lights'. i'm 20 and driving home after splitting up with someone, it comes on my battered car radio and i finally fall in love with 'hats' (which i hadnt been to impressed with).
3. 'saturday night' in a cafe/bar near the gaudi cathedral in barcelona a couple of years ago. i suddenly feel very homesick.

― zappi (joni), Monday, 22 December 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Maryhill! i live there!

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

haha point of shame: i followed p4ul buch4nan (de-googlable to protect myself, wince wince) home the other night.

still utterly classic. i only wish someone else would make music this good sometime soon, i thk i might've worn out my copies of hats and rooftops.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

now that's funny!

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I only just spotted Cozen's O'Hara pastiche.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Such a great band, so many bad ideas.

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-two years ago)

I thought their 80s albums were great, but they should have kept to that New Romantics influenced sound, as the more organic 90s album was somewhat ill-advised.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Btw. Speaking of Talk Talk, isn't David Sylvian a natural reference too?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooops. I didn't mean it was a bad idea. I thought it was kinda cool. I only wanted to reference Hamish's post cos I didn't think of them as innovators until I read his remark.

― youn, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

WAART is innovative, edgy, and hard to categorize. Hats sounds like there's a layer of importance missing — like quality.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 25 December 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

That said, AMG says this about WATRT (apologies for the incorrect acronym above), which I've never heard:

"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-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Revive! New album (_High_) out 8/31.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hasn't this been out for a while already and everyone agreed it was shit?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Promos have been circulating for a while, and there should be samples up on various websites. From the BN Yahoogroups list, I'd say it's been a bell curve of mostly praise. Only a few have said it's shit, though I wouldn't expect a fan list to destroy a new effort.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

... the story I most like is Paul being kept awake by people some might say were winos singing on hot summer nights and he went to the kitchen, made them sandwiches, then went to the park, got to know them and and joined in.

-- jean bowman ( ... ), April 23rd, 2003.

That's a great story.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

4 posts and no Cozen!

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Would he not consider that an insult?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's hoping!!

― the bellefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

> Scotland's Linn Electronics, makers of the famous LinnDrums
> rhythm boxes

*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 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure I'll ever be completely bonkers over The Blue Nile but they do have a real nice soft spot in my heart. Anyone here heard the first single I Love This Life/The Second Act? Or the track they did with trumpet player Chris Botti called "Midnight Without You"? I like these a lot.

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 20 August 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 August 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

New Blue Nile Album

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the link, Scott. Your words at the bottom of it made the few worries I had disappear.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Linn Records the label had everything to do with Linndrums, though, dude.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 21 August 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Stylistically, you mean?

― Palomino (Palomino), Saturday, 21 August 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I mean that Roger Linn funded the first Blue Nile Album.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 21 August 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

So we agree then, he had nothing to do with the LinnDrum.

― Palomino (Palomino), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh.

― the bluefox, Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, you're right, I'm wrong -- Linn Drum = Linn Electronics = Roger Linn = Southern California; Linn Records is a Scottish company.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the hi-fis.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Their songs have been covered by a diverse array of talent – Tom Jones, Isaac Hayes, Melanie C, Michael McDonald, Julian Lennon, Zucchero, Joe Cocker, Chris Botti as well as the aforementioned Lennox and Stewart.

wow, what a bizarro compilation that would be. i'm off to soulseek to find out...

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.psiron.demon.co.uk/discography_covers.htm

rod stewart doing 'downtown lights'!!!

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 22 August 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I love you, paul buchanan.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

me too, paul buchanan.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

on my way home from a disappointment, I thought I'd drop in and see a friend and buy the junior boys record, since I have listened to it quite a lot, and I saw the new blue nile single!! I don't know what it's called and it sounds a little guff, on first listen, but it has the A- and B-sides of the first single, on!! two of my favourite ever songs.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

that was a question.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

paul buchanan is interviewed in the edition of the record with ally c and lucy's pic in, that supplement.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I think they live together.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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