Are you talking about Mid Air or did the new one come out?
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
yeah mid air
― Heez, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Went with 'The Downtown Lights' but holy hell what a ridiculously difficult choice.
― Austin, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
i should go back & listen to this again. i remember not being bowled over when tim got me to listen to it years back, but "saturday night" was instantly stunning
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 October 2016 03:06 (seven years ago) link
i am gonna have to think about it but this album has one of music's greatest one-two punches. so much so i often just play "hillside" and "downtown" on repeat.
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
sort of worried that "let's go out tonight" isn't getting its due
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 October 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
on first listen i think it might be my fav
― savvinesslessness (map), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
the first lines got me. heavy springsteen vibes.
― savvinesslessness (map), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 04:36 (seven years ago) link
Seven AM cos the last 2 minutes are the best sounding recording of anything ever. so much going on
stoppp, go, stopppp, go, cos i .. doontknoooow
― Spottie, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 06:23 (seven years ago) link
(Saturday Night is probably really my vote but I didnt want to jump on the wagon)
― Spottie, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 06:24 (seven years ago) link
the springsteen connection feels explicit on high oddly enough, it's one of the few records that's ever reminded me of tunnel of love. "i would never" has the kind of stately delivery of "tougher than the rest" and the same melancholic shadow to its lyrics
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
I want to like this record a lot but right now I'm having trouble getting past the particularly dated 80s instrumental arrangements/ingredients and relentlessly gloomy vibe. Or maybe not the right kind of gloomy (I normally love gloominess). This is probably a problem I have with certain 80s stylings. I love late Talk Talk and Gigi Masin etc. so maybe I should stick to looking for a way to check out Mid Air in its entirety instead.
― Evan, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
great to hear this new release getting some attention, thanks Tim
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
*cough cough* perenially ignored thread on a v nice Blue Nile-influenced contemporary band that i started: vesuvio solo
― flopson, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
hayy i'm falling in love and this record is perfect for it, sue me. i think "over the hillside" is my fav now. religious. this record reminds me of the terence davies film distant voices still lives in its liturgical qualities and the production sounds like what the film looks like too i think.
majorly otm
― savvinesslessness (map), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
hayy i'm falling in love and this record is perfect for it
i got to do this once and i'm guessing few future experiences will measure up to it
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
Terence Davies parallel otm
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
xp honestly though i am really into this album atm i don't feel like it's going to be among my all-time favs or anything. i.e. i think that moodymann dj-kicks is actually a better treatment of "life and love" as a subject just because it's so much more varied. but as an intense and focused worshipful pop kind of thing this record is super good.
― savvinesslessness (map), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
I've had this for years and always had a weird kind of magnetic repulsion relationship with it - as if it were a symbol of age and sophistication to which I wasn't ready to submit. It's clearly right in a particular arc of mine, too: widescreen, impossibly romantic, committed, staring out of windows, that sort of secular longing for a bright beyond... Anyway, thanks to this thread and the five albums thread I've dug it out again and, though I do have some issues with the production, well, I guess I'm finally old and (un)sophisticated because it's just about all I need right now.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
have been devoted to blue nile since high school but the process you just described resembles what as happened to me with Peter Gabriel's Us. It was the corniest dadrock to me when it came out and now as a frightened weak early-middle-ager I find it incredibly moving
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
This album is like a grand expression of tenderness without having the release of touching
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
^^^
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
I seem to run through the chords to "Let's Go Out Tonight" every time I pick up my guitar these days.
― spastic heritage, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
can i just btw
I love the meticulous productions of Talk Talk and David Sylvian's solo work, but I've never got on with The Blue Nile. I can't deny that the production on this record is great, but whenever I've listened to it I've often found my attention wavering very quickly. 'Let's Go Out Tonight' is a great example of a song that I switch off from long before the end.― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Monday, October 3, 2016 2:32 PM (two days ago)Sing To God is on four, btw, and unlike Hats, stuff actually happens in it, so if you're a fan of stuff happening, check it out― imago, Wednesday, October 5, 2016 2:13 PM (one hour ago)
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Monday, October 3, 2016 2:32 PM (two days ago)
Sing To God is on four, btw, and unlike Hats, stuff actually happens in it, so if you're a fan of stuff happening, check it out
― imago, Wednesday, October 5, 2016 2:13 PM (one hour ago)
yes everyone is lining up correctly― supreme problematics (D-40), Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:26 AM (one year ago)
― supreme problematics (D-40), Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:26 AM (one year ago)
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 5 October 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
let's go out tonight
― akm, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
I would like to hear a good vinyl rip of this album
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
:)
without going into too much detail i am also falling in love, and concomitantly (slowly) falling out of love with another person, a situation about which i have strong but mixed feelings, and maybe it's just bias but this record seems to pretty perfectly reflect those feelings. "let's go out tonight", for example, has this palpable supplication that can be read from either perspective. it's the only song i've listened to in the past 24 hours
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 5 October 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
i pray for love / coming out alright
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 5 October 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
I didn't really rate Saturday Night very highly until I heard some of the live versions on Youtube. Maybe that's one of the songs on the album that suffers most from the 80s production sound on the album, which I generally find fitting or neutral on the other songs on the album.
― Pataphysician, Thursday, 6 October 2016 04:10 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
I read the Nileism book in the time since this poll got started. Thought it was quite good. There are a few moments in there that really hurt my heart.
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
listening to this now for the first time. it seems like something that would reward multiple listenings - it's not grabbing me at first, really
― Treeship, Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
First album is more immediately striking, this one is more demure
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
I seem to have more of these micro-epiphanies at the moment, where I listen to an album intensely for a few days, or a week, then don't listen again for maybe a month, six months. I can't decide if it's my age, my own listening habits (I'm streaming a lot at the moment) or evidence of some wider trend.
That is my not very original, or very interesting, thought for the day.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 October 2016 07:11 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 14 October 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
good results!
my current rankings SN = LGOT > DTL > HOTP > OTH > 7am > FADT
― k3vin k., Friday, 14 October 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Tuesday, October 4, 201
This is a terse, beautiful description of late '80s Bryan Ferry albums.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 October 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
it may shock Brad that I still haven't finished a second listen.
Alfred between this and Lovesexy you are seriously letting down 1989
― Tim F, Friday, 14 October 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
Do Blue Nile fans enjoy David Cassidy's "Romance"?
― Tim F, Friday, 14 October 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
alfred get it together
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 14 October 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
Sorry -- too busy listening to It's Better to Travel.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 October 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
We listened to the first two tracks of this last night after I told him "I think I'm falling in love with you" and he said the same thing. He loves "Saturday Night". Also I found a copy of the first record on this trip.
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Monday, 31 October 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
<3
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 31 October 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
awwww....love that!
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 31 October 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
aw
― k3vin k., Monday, 31 October 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
that is so extremely sweet map
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 31 October 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
beautiful!
― art baengels (monotony), Monday, 31 October 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
😊
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Monday, 31 October 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
<333
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 09:57 (seven years ago) link