i haven't gotten to the new tracks yet but man, high sure is a great album
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
i love how propulsive "broken loves" and "she saw the world" are, it felt new for them
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
yeah those are a couple of my faves. the propulsive-ness of “she saw the world” kind of anticipates “buy a motor car”
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 17 June 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
i can’t believe i have “new” blue nile music to enjoy nor can i believe it’s so good. “i” just knocked me flat today
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
yeah I just want to retract all my reservations about “i”
― k3vin k., Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
Just got the vinyl reissue of High in the mail. It sounds fantastic. The title track still kills me.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
also thanks to all of this I just discovered the track Paul Buchanan wrote on Jesse Ware's Glasshouse, Last of the True Believers, which is wonderful, but I really wish he was 'featured' on more than one line repeated twice in the last 30 seconds. I guess he cowrote it though and it sounds like it.
― akm, Friday, 19 June 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
lol that would contradict the credits i was given when i reviewed the record but then again there were a lot of holes in those credits
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
It might be recency bias but I'd even say this 'Song' album is better than any Blue Nile album that is not Hats..
Sorry, who's this by?
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Friday, 19 June 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.allmusic.com/album/song-mw0000886575
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 19 June 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
Ah right, thanks. I remember that one hit single they had in 1986. Slightly strange but really good.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Saturday, 20 June 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
ok well I'm not positive he cowrote it, but in an interview i found she said she wrote it with him:
https://www.iheart.com/content/2017-11-09-interview-jessie-ware-shares-track-by-track-breakdown-of-glasshouse
"Track 11. "Last Of The True Believers" featuring Paul Buchanan
"I wrote after my first record and it was a song that I wrote this with this amazing guy called Paul Buchanan, who is from this cult band of the 80's called The Blue Nile. They're a Scottish band. I managed to get in the studio with him, and we wrote this song, and it was in demo form, and I loved it.
I started to play it when I was doing my American tour because I toured the Devotion record so much, and my last ever tour was in the States. It was a six-week tour. It was amazing, one of my favorite times, and I never do encores, because I think they're annoying, but I did do an encore and so I had to backtrack on what I'd said. I don't think we went off stage though, because I think that's naff. We started doing this, and it's nothing. I've never done that before. We had a demo. We didn't do it how the demo is and we kind of learned it, and I felt like I was in a real band. I didn't feel like I was dictated by the album track. It was just this idea, and people really liked it. Pitchfork put it up. It became this thing that was on the Internet, and people asked me, 'Are you gonna put it on your second record?' I didn't, and it didn't make sense to put it on the second record.
My sister reminded me of this song, because she adored it, so I got my friends (and) they're in a band called The Maccabees, who are really good friends of mine from school. They're massive fans of The Blue Nile. I asked Hugo if he'd like to produce it, and he did, and he brought it to life. He brought it back to life, and I'm really, really happy that it made it onto this record. It fits this record so much more than the second record."
so this doesn't mention that he sang on it, so maybe he didn't? It kind of doesn't sound like his voice.
― akm, Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
he def sings on it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
but i'll take jessie's word for it! again the credits for that album were a mess
Paul does sing on the track, but not as much as I expected based on having a feat. credit.
― michaellambert, Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
Does anybody know the story of "Young Club"? It haunts me. From the sound of it, I would take it to be post-'Hats' but pre-'High,' but really don't know, and kind find anything about it. But it's just so, so, so fucking good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvcd0ADqu94
― Soundslike, Saturday, 20 June 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
Another post of it, sounds slightly differently sourced?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dmbIfI7EdU
― Soundslike, Saturday, 20 June 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
'Young Club' is indeed a track from the Hats sessions. It's on the B-sides and Rare CDr
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 20 June 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
Damn, wish it had been included in complete/quality form with the 'Hats' deluxe, then...
― Soundslike, Saturday, 20 June 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
still getting knocked out by "i" on a daily basis
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 1 July 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
Do I remember right that there is a collection of b-sides and whatnot that has not been rounded up on these reissues? Anybody got a link? I fell in love with this band due to seeing this thread repeatedly bumped for a while and I'm trying to hunt down everything I can.
It's weird that Peace At Last Deluxe is the CD that is hardest to find. I thought that was the one that was less loved?
― Cow_Art, Monday, 12 October 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
not sure if this has been posted in another thread on here, but even if so deserves a repost - fantastic quality live show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItoUZunua4&list=PLwXOGPZXptBCsQGmwc55lb5YgzZzcpAhT&index=10
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItoUZunua4
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Beautiful and melancholy short film of Paul talking about Tinseltown in the Rain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFoMUAmDGCI
― that's not my post, Saturday, 24 October 2020 06:01 (three years ago) link
@KenSweeney, were you aware this track was re-mixed/re-released for download last month? You're usually my first source for anything The Blue Nile related! https://t.co/xd28FgSDtr— Brad (@ballskwok) August 27, 2021
― k3vin k., Saturday, 4 September 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
wowee.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 4 September 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
absolutely lush.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 4 September 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
PJ Moore and Co, eight track new album coming soon. Herald article here.
First track, "Need to Believe", available for download, along w/ album pre-order, at PJ Moore's site.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
ooh good find!
― k3vin k., Saturday, 9 July 2022 10:05 (one year ago) link
There's obvs a hefty wodge of a-Ha in there too, but am I alone in hearing the Blue Nile's 'I Love this Life' in Harry Styles' 'As It Was'?
― Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 9 July 2022 12:42 (one year ago) link
little piece in Tribune
Forty years ago, Glasgow band The Blue Nile released their first single. Their work was rooted in Glasgow itself, and the changes wrought by the shock of Thatcherism. https://t.co/j6VoGHLErq— Tribune (@tribunemagazine) July 16, 2022
― nxd, Sunday, 17 July 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
good piece and the live recording linked is immense
― ufo, Monday, 18 July 2022 04:01 (one year ago) link
yo!
― k3vin k., Friday, 12 August 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
if any nileheads are up for it paul buchanan is selling a remastered 2LP 10th anniversary edition of mid air https://store.paulbuchanan.com
― Clay, Friday, 12 August 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
still waiting for my preorder to arrive!
― k3vin k., Sunday, 21 August 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
PJ Moore has a new band:https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23031729.founding-member-blue-nile-pj-moore-teams-new-project-album/
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
Interestingly, only the single is available on streaming (Apple Music, anyway). It sounds good--very Blue Nile, as one would expect.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
You can listen to another track on their website (and buy the album there)
https://www.pjmooreandco.com/music-1
― groovypanda, Thursday, 3 November 2022 06:43 (one year ago) link
this song from last year by Nigel's project Quiet City featuring vocals by Pat was incredible
Quiet City - Due North (Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYDC2zY3wM
― flopson, Thursday, 3 November 2022 06:59 (one year ago) link
I honestly don't know if I can think of a single artist/band whose first single (a-side and b-side taken together) is more perfectly fully realized, and totally sui generis. I've never heard pure joy captured more wonderfully and without any mawkishness in music than with "I Love This Life," and the world-weary wisdom and old-soul sadness of "The Second Act" is so moving (and rather shocking coming from a 25-year-old). And to think--they got *better* for the next decade, seems impossible.
OTM, I just fell hard for this single, "The Second Act" even more than the A-side. It's so elegantly sad and makes me wish they had spent more time using a more primitive drum machine.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
“Drownin’ in The Blue NileYou sent me ’The Downtown Lights’I hadn’t heard it in a while”
(Rumoured to be a new Taylor Swift lyric)
― piscesx, Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:43 (two months ago) link
the rumors are true
― ivy., Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:45 (two months ago) link
Taylor Swift brought me here
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:05 (two months ago) link
You scenester
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:09 (two months ago) link
CAMEL graciously acknowledging their influence on the BLUE NILE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD7JwGvGtYk
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:14 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7r2EM-NsMo
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:44 (two months ago) link
matty did it 🥹
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 18 April 2024 21:33 (two months ago) link
ill camel jawns thanks qualmsley
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2024 21:47 (two months ago) link