― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Sean, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
'Hats' consolidated the debut, practically down to the track listing, but suffered from having Phil Collins' recommendation stickered to the front. 'Saturday night' was an epic transfiguration of the commonplace, a pop Les Parapluis du Cherbourg, and the kind of song Brett Anderson would like to write in his Scott Walker moments if a) he had clue and b) a few thousand years in which to try.
The last lp - Peace at last? - is very disappointing. The cinemascope sheen was replaced with acoustic guitars, the singing had all gone a bit Michael Bolton, and yes the sleeve was terrible. Maybe this is what happens when you go out with Rosanna Arquette. It seemed to bear out all those who'd had them pegged as some MOR monstrosity, a Dire Straits in waiting. A couple of songs - 'Family Life', 'Tomorrow Morning' - might be worth downloading, but the rest of it is a bit bleh.
― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
My favorite performance by Mr. Wossname who is the singer is actually his turn on the version of "Let's Go Out Tonight" -- I think that's the song -- on Craig Armstrong's first album.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Melissa W, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Recommendations... A Walk Across The Rooftops has "Tinseltown In The Rain" which is one of my favourite love songs ever, but Hats is the better album, with about five perfect songs on it. Amazing how similar they are though, despite the six-year gap (there's your big difference to Talk Talk - these guys stumbled upon a vision of perfection early on and stuck with it).
― Tim, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
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― Billy Dods, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Dr. C, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Tim, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― XStatic Peace, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
the second is all concerned with the death of love/getting older/etc. eg - 'i'm tired of crying on the staiiiirs...'
it's kind of a godfather/godfather part 2 deal. and all they're bestheard back to back
― piscesboy, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Juan M., Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
(okay truthfully I can see the connection at least with Bark Psychosis, but it always seemed to me that The Blue Nile represented the "other half" of BP's source material). Hats multiplied by Spirit Of Eden = Hex.
― Tim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― hamish, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 00:16 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:52 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 11:09 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
one) 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.
two) I don’t like American Music Club, John Cale, Talking Heads, Rickie Lee Jones or The Cars either.
three) Men in American books tend to wear hats.
four) Katy (my girlfriend) was in a philosophy class and, as the hush of young students began to stifle and choke, the teacher, by way of gesture, mentioned the best class he ever had occurred when Paul Buchanan, ‘you probably haven’t heard of him’, suggested they talk about love.
five) No-one has registered the scientific unproveability of ‘love’ in song more heart-rendingly than Paul Buchanan: singing “how do I know you feel it?”, just moments from loss, or the frustrated ‘I can only tell you’ of “do I love you? YES I love you!”
six) 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.
seven) Such compassionate pop. During Hats, the band’s lives were fragmenting and none of them felt they had any support around them, it would have been so easy to become insular and dismissive of others in such a situation.
eight) Below a peat sky, her hair is scraped through with coral orange and tickles of grey, and a smell of moist pollen sewn into the webs of her fingers. Scotland’s inability to say Carl strains a last laugh out from her, smoke knuckles through our hair, as the aftertaste of other men places her lips and her eyes’ slow moulder.
nine) You will like them. A Walk Across the Rooftops is a deeply emotional water, Buchanan a child lost in the weave of a Frank O’Hara poem. Hats refuses Don Paterson’s cycnicism of romance and insists on the transcendental of the ordinary and of the journey, the pressure difference.
!) I think romanticism suggests this sense of wilfully not having it all, leaving that one bit back, the whole, the mysterious ‘last’ that can never be reached, romanticism is the journey to try and attain that that you’re purposefully denying yourself. I have never listened to their third record, I most probably never will.
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 15:30 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 15:40 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 15:45 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 15:50 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 15:59 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:05 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:01 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:10 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
or it could be a disaster too i suppose.
''(Haha, Julio, that's where I nicked my structure, but I guess it was alright cos I think he nicked the turn from the X Y Zedd post on the 'What if Punk Never Happened?' thread).''
I just thought i had seen something like that. but yr post is triffic in its own way.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:45 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:50 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Yes! "If You're Not The One" works in exactly the same way as the peerless "Tinseltown In The Rain" ie. a "generic" love song rendered strange and fascinating by the force and peculiarity of its emotional over-investment.
Although Cozen you should really check out that there new Coloma album which is almost self-consciously an update of The Blue Nile for the post-glitch generation. As with The Blue Nile it's svelte literary studio-pop that feels like all the sound-politics have been surgically removed (eg. this is click-pop only because, well, why not if it sounds good? cf. Schneider TM's "The Light 3000") so I imagine that in a decade or so it'll have that same lovely timeless-datedness as TBN's first two albums have. It's very much like A Walk Across The Rooftops in particular. Much better than their first album.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:14 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:19 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
I saw him on 'today with des & mel'.
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:47 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 27 March 2003 04:14 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:13 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― hamish (hamish), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:29 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:50 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
I figured out why I like Daniel Bedingfield earlier. Or one aspect. I remembered something Frank Kogan said to me about how he really liked the way that I wasn't scared to be overwrought when the usual rock-crit approach is to come across all Ed Casual (hehe, what's Frank's e-mail address again?). I suppose I see a lot of myself in Daniel. All thing considered, a juxtaposition of poets might be in order:
Everywhere he saw his own image, -his perfect face...
When he rode out of the city, the peoplegathered to admire him: a ribbonof faces, fixed on this one faceand haunted by its indifference. They said:'as beautiful as a painting', and wefeel a chill cast across these yearsfor we know there is another paintingthat does not hang in any gallery
- John Ash
I like you so much I'm acting stupid I can't play the game I'm all intense and alive I'm losing control of my heartI'm not supposed to be this nervousI should play my hand all cool and calm I can't breathe I'm losing control of my heart
- Daniel Bedingfield
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:49 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:06 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:08 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:13 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
I was trying to think of more music from the eighties that fits into this area of explicitly emotional quasi-dance pop, but I couldn't get far beyond The Hounds of Love. Any ideas?
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 10 April 2003 00:44 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 10 April 2003 01:09 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Associates surely fit this description.
But Tim is OTM regarding Tinseltown being a lost dance classic, I certainly remember hearing it in clubs in Dundee in the mid-80's. Apparently they had some of their work from Hats remixed by Oakenfold (or some other name remixer), but they nixed it on hearing it. Now that I'd like to hear.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 10 April 2003 07:32 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― jean bowman, Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:51 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Where did the up and happy songs go, then? Left to rot as demos?
― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 10:11 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― jean bowman, Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:05 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
I don't think I'd have the bare-faced gall to actually talk to the man though.
It feels a bit criminal to actually listen to the Blue Nile at this time of year though, like I'm going to shatter the mood.
― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:12 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
1. The only track I know is 'I Love This Life', which the Nipper gave me. The Nipper is right about it.
2. Cozen's big post above is indeed good, and indeed structurally resembles one of mine. But no, I didn't take my own structure from anyone else.
3. Whether or not the Bedingfield link is apt, I don't think 'emotional overinvolvement' etc is necessarily the key to 'If You're Not The One': what woke me up to that track was simply the rare quality of its tune.
― the pinefox, Monday, 21 April 2003 09:20 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
yes
― niels, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 06:18 (one year ago) Permalink
The Blue Nile are far too rare a thing--but that mix was my best shot at gathering the closest things I know. Glad you guys are digging it!
― Soundslike, Thursday, 27 April 2017 02:09 (one year ago) Permalink
can someone (brad?) give me a list of some blue nile rarities i'm missing out on? all i've got is pretty much what's on spotify
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:35 (one year ago) Permalink
Look for the download comp 'birthday cards and silent music'
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:46 (one year ago) Permalink
I got this album some years back and promptly forgot--but it's one of the few things that almost has that Blue Nile feeling (in moments, anyway):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4mFypXa-I0
Also,
sequel please mr soundslike― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Friday, April 21, 2017 3:55 PM (two months ago)
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Friday, April 21, 2017 3:55 PM (two months ago)
Working on a sequel, probably honing in on something like '86-'94. . .
― Soundslike, Sunday, 25 June 2017 05:23 (one year ago) Permalink
Maybe this doesn't quite have the BN vibe, the drums are little too busy, but I feel like it could've come from the same era as Hats (it actually came out in 2015).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWW4wySZz8E
― Pheeel, Sunday, 25 June 2017 09:05 (one year ago) Permalink
It's Immaterial sounds interesting, apparently they recorded in the same studio and w/ same producer as Blue Nile. And I gather from youtube comments that there was some dispute between them and Blue Nile because of some uncleared samples?
― niels, Sunday, 25 June 2017 10:41 (one year ago) Permalink
should i listen to more it's immaterial if i liked that and the blue nile?
― k3vin k., Monday, 26 June 2017 21:34 (one year ago) Permalink
apparently their discography is very ecclectic
― niels, Monday, 26 June 2017 22:15 (one year ago) Permalink
'driving away from home' is perfect and a balearic classic, couldn't really get into the rest of that album.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 26 June 2017 22:48 (one year ago) Permalink
Song is a lovely album and very much in the Blue Nile wheelhouse.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:05 (one year ago) Permalink
so uh......
does Mid Air not have its own thread?
― k3vin k., Saturday, 1 July 2017 16:39 (one year ago) Permalink
It should, it is the third best album of Paul buchanan songs and a rare inhabitant of the same zone as the Mark Hollis album
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 1 July 2017 19:27 (one year ago) Permalink
Wait what, how did I miss the existence of this for five years?! And comparisons to 'Mark Holis,' which might have been my favorite Talk Talk record over the last 16 years? Oh, goodness. . .
― Soundslike, Saturday, 1 July 2017 22:05 (one year ago) Permalink
And, at the suggestion of a couple folks upthread and your positive response, I finished a direct sequel to 'The Dawning' mix (for which The Blue Nile were the keystone and catalyst). Blue Nile isn't on there themselves, but I'd like to imagine their influence is, and certainly their spirit. Moving the period forward a few years to '85-'95, going a little deeper into the dream state--I gotta say I'm really pleased with how it turned out and I hope you guys will be, too.
https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/musicophilia_00_various_-_evensong_1985-1995_2017_cover.jpg?w=1536
'Evensong' (1985-1995)
Part I 01 [00:00] It’s Immaterial – New Brighton” (Song, 1990) 02 [05:31] Tears for Fears – “The Working Hour” (Songs From the Big Chair, 1985) 03 [12:06] Tortoise – “His Second Story Island” (Tortoise, 1994) 04 [14:14] Michael Brook & Pieter Nooten – “Searching” (Sleeps With the Fishes, 1987) 05 [17:07] Shelleyan Orphan – “One Hundred Hands” (Helleborine, 1987) 06 [21:29] Stina Nordenstam – “A Walk In the Park” (Memories of a Color, 1991) 07 [24:54] Sade – “Pearls” (Love Deluxe, 1992) 08 [29:38] Massive Attack – “Protection” (Protection, 1994) 09 [37:26] The Cure – “The Same Deep Water As You” (Disintegration, 1989) 10 [46:19] Depche Mode- “Waiting For the Night” (Violator, 1990) Part II 11 [52:41] Evelyn Glennie – “Light in Darkness” (Light In Darkness, 1991) 12 [55:59] R.E.M. – “Sweetness Follows” (Automatic For the People, 1992) 13 [60:21] The Innocence Mission – “Medjugorje” (The Innocence Mission, 1989) 14 [61:53] Disco Inferno – “Second Language” (Second Language EP, 1994) 15 [66:52] Slowdive – “Rutti” (Pygmalion, 1995) 16 [76:53] Rain Tree Crow – “Cries and Whispers” (Rain Tree Crow, 1991) 17 [79:26] Bark Psychosis – “Pendulum Man” (Hex, 1994) 18 [82:37] Peter Gabriel – “Mercy Street” (So, 1986) 19 [88:27] Low – “Sunshine” (I Could Live In Hope, 1994) 20 [91:35] Portishead – “Roads” (Dummy, 1994) 21 [96:44] Hector Zazou & Bjork – “Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu” (Songs From the Cold Seas, 1994) [Total Time: 1:40:43]
01 [00:00] It’s Immaterial – New Brighton” (Song, 1990) 02 [05:31] Tears for Fears – “The Working Hour” (Songs From the Big Chair, 1985) 03 [12:06] Tortoise – “His Second Story Island” (Tortoise, 1994) 04 [14:14] Michael Brook & Pieter Nooten – “Searching” (Sleeps With the Fishes, 1987) 05 [17:07] Shelleyan Orphan – “One Hundred Hands” (Helleborine, 1987) 06 [21:29] Stina Nordenstam – “A Walk In the Park” (Memories of a Color, 1991) 07 [24:54] Sade – “Pearls” (Love Deluxe, 1992) 08 [29:38] Massive Attack – “Protection” (Protection, 1994) 09 [37:26] The Cure – “The Same Deep Water As You” (Disintegration, 1989) 10 [46:19] Depche Mode- “Waiting For the Night” (Violator, 1990)
Part II
11 [52:41] Evelyn Glennie – “Light in Darkness” (Light In Darkness, 1991) 12 [55:59] R.E.M. – “Sweetness Follows” (Automatic For the People, 1992) 13 [60:21] The Innocence Mission – “Medjugorje” (The Innocence Mission, 1989) 14 [61:53] Disco Inferno – “Second Language” (Second Language EP, 1994) 15 [66:52] Slowdive – “Rutti” (Pygmalion, 1995) 16 [76:53] Rain Tree Crow – “Cries and Whispers” (Rain Tree Crow, 1991) 17 [79:26] Bark Psychosis – “Pendulum Man” (Hex, 1994) 18 [82:37] Peter Gabriel – “Mercy Street” (So, 1986) 19 [88:27] Low – “Sunshine” (I Could Live In Hope, 1994) 20 [91:35] Portishead – “Roads” (Dummy, 1994) 21 [96:44] Hector Zazou & Bjork – “Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu” (Songs From the Cold Seas, 1994)
[Total Time: 1:40:43]
Download or stream it here at Musicophilia
― Soundslike, Saturday, 1 July 2017 22:10 (one year ago) Permalink
Yeah I haven't been at a proper computer yet this weekend but I can't wait to download your new mix!
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 1 July 2017 23:36 (one year ago) Permalink
04 [14:14] Michael Brook & Pieter Nooten – “Searching” (Sleeps With the Fishes, 1987)
Love this song/album
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 1 July 2017 23:38 (one year ago) Permalink
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Saturday, July 1, 2017 3:27 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah only one listen in, but highs are extraordinarily high
― k3vin k., Sunday, 2 July 2017 01:23 (one year ago) Permalink
title track in contention for his best song ever
― k3vin k., Sunday, 2 July 2017 01:24 (one year ago) Permalink
Thanks for the mix and the link! Judging from the song list, you really captured a specific late-night city summer vibe
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 2 July 2017 13:28 (one year ago) Permalink
― k3vin k., Saturday, July 1, 2017 4:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Saturday, July 1, 2017 7:27 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Done.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 2 July 2017 21:59 (one year ago) Permalink
the third it's immaterial album got shelved by the label in the 90's but it's due for release maybe later this year. this track off it definitely has blue nile-ish qualities but there's just no way his voice is ever going to compare to paul buchanan >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ivUuv3D04
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Sunday, 2 July 2017 22:12 (one year ago) Permalink
that's where bark psych falls a bit short for me too. His voice is nice but that's about it.
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Monday, 3 July 2017 00:21 (one year ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6XssIfW9W8
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 July 2017 05:42 (one year ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrSherco12/search?query=paul+buchanan+OR+blue+nile
have fun with this guys
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 July 2017 06:08 (one year ago) Permalink
Anyone heard the Lowland Hundred? Little group out of Aberystwyth that it's just dawned on me have elements of the Blue Nile about them (stately, nostalgic - albeit nostalgia filtered through a mining of the remote past - kinda naked). Under Cambrian Sky is a brilliant record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEX9FeBmkSs
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:20 (one year ago) Permalink
2xpI was at that show! (Liss Ard). It was magic. Never knew there was video. Thanks for posting.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 17:27 (one year ago) Permalink
jealous! i hope he tours again at some point. i'd go anywhere to watch
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 July 2017 19:26 (one year ago) Permalink
Wow. Just stumbled across this duet version of Easter Parade with the great Rickie Lee Jones, followed by Buchanan and co joining in with a version of Jones's Flying Cowboys. Not a collaboration I would've ever expected, but it totally works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_172cffdDJU
― Pheeel, Thursday, 6 July 2017 18:20 (one year ago) Permalink
^wow!!!
― k3vin k., Sunday, 16 July 2017 15:10 (one year ago) Permalink
The Blue Nile-scored Govan Ghost Story linked in the article - for completists maybe, but I've had .wav files on my PC for years of the sound cues the three members did for this. Been interesting to hear dialogue snippets and wonder what the full scene depicted. Just an hour long.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Saturday, 29 July 2017 01:40 (one year ago) Permalink
I haven't seen appropriate love for this unreleased track, "Meanwhile": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxRc3ecDqIY.
― Pataphysician, Saturday, 29 July 2017 13:37 (one year ago) Permalink
http://thequietus.com/articles/24718-shirley-manson-garbage-interview-favourite-albums?page=13
shirley manson on a walk across the rooftops is a nice wee read
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 June 2018 19:22 (eight months ago) Permalink
oh man she fuckin nailed it
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 8 June 2018 19:28 (eight months ago) Permalink
― k3vin k., Friday, 8 June 2018 19:29 (eight months ago) Permalink
also what a great set of records she picked
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 8 June 2018 19:29 (eight months ago) Permalink
That's a great read. She says lovely things about Sulk by Associates too. She has excellent taste.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:00 (eight months ago) Permalink
I think I was the only person on ILX who fell head over heels for the first Pure Bathing Culture lp. The second one was not much cop, but now they have decided to cover the whole of Hats! Not sure I want to hear Ben Gibbard singing, but the rest of the album might be good.
https://www.stereogum.com/2000973/pure-bathing-culture-ben-gibbard-saturday-night-the-blue-nile-cover/premiere/
― Stevie T, Thursday, 14 June 2018 19:47 (eight months ago) Permalink
ben gibbard also did a bandwagonesque cover album.
ben gibbard, leave my treasured glasgow/lanarkshire music alone you vandal
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 14 June 2018 20:40 (eight months ago) Permalink
By the way: one of the things that justifies file-sharing for all time is that I was finally able to get hold of a copy of their first (?) ever song 'I love this life'. And it's turned out to be my favourite song of theirs.― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:45 AM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fifteen years later I just heard this for the first time and think I agree: it has a vibrancy to it that they never again showed much interest in conveying. Even the Joe Jackson synth bass is excellent.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 23 July 2018 01:38 (six months ago) Permalink
it's so good
― k3vin k., Monday, 23 July 2018 02:03 (six months ago) Permalink
xmas eve so you can listen to family life
Tomorrow will be ChristmasWe'll be singing old songsAnd light up the treeGod and all the mercyAnd say all your prayersFor little old me
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 24 December 2018 21:43 (one month ago) Permalink
a truly soul-crushing song
― k3vin k., Monday, 24 December 2018 21:50 (one month ago) Permalink
I really love this one too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1MN94bark4
first (?) ever song 'I love this life'. And it's turned out to be my favourite song of theirs.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUl0oeYNLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOw8SS00Pis
― Soundslike, Friday, 28 December 2018 01:19 (one month ago) Permalink
*sigh*
always so nice to be reminded how amazing the blue nile is after having forgotten for a month or two.
― macropuente (map), Friday, 28 December 2018 01:41 (one month ago) Permalink
Wow. Maybe this made the rounds in 2016 and I missed it, but Paul Buchanan does a goosebumps-inducing take on Bowie's "I Can't Give Everything Away" with an orchestral arrangement that's very unusual and well executed. At 58:33:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRL3QBMBEJ0
(Also does "Ashes to Ashes" earlier)
― Soundslike, Friday, 28 December 2018 02:09 (one month ago) Permalink
I adore his solo album and have not heard anything about whether there will be another one. I certainly hope so
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 December 2018 02:13 (one month ago) Permalink
i’ve heard a lot about whether there will be another one
almost as much as i’ve heard about whether there’ll be a new scritti politti record lol
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 28 December 2018 04:26 (one month ago) Permalink
xpost i posted about that proms at the time, buchanan's performances are by miles and miles the highlight, completely amazing
i need to try to figure out how to isolate those bits from the one long track I downloaded
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 28 December 2018 18:47 (one month ago) Permalink