kevin you need that dolby album, it is perfect
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
listening now!
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
btw, did we know this?? (from AMG review)
The Blue Nile's debut album has a rather fascinating genesis. Scotland's Linn Electronics wanted a demo track to demonstrate the fidelity and versatility of their new 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
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
I knew that but I probably learned it from AMG
― akm, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
thats awesome
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
yes
― niels, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
Look for the download comp 'birthday cards and silent music'
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
should i listen to more it's immaterial if i liked that and the blue nile?
― k3vin k., Monday, 26 June 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
apparently their discography is very ecclectic
― niels, Monday, 26 June 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
'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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
so uh......
does Mid Air not have its own thread?
― k3vin k., Saturday, 1 July 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
― 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 (six years ago) link
title track in contention for his best song ever
― k3vin k., Sunday, 2 July 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
― 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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6XssIfW9W8
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 July 2017 05:42 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
jealous! i hope he tours again at some point. i'd go anywhere to watch
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 July 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
^wow!!!
― k3vin k., Sunday, 16 July 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
oh man she fuckin nailed it
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 8 June 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
― k3vin k., Friday, 8 June 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
also what a great set of records she picked
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 8 June 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
it's so good
― k3vin k., Monday, 23 July 2018 02:03 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
a truly soul-crushing song
― k3vin k., Monday, 24 December 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link