At a 1993 Lollapalooza appearance in Philadelphia, the band stood onstage naked for 15 minutes with duct tape on their mouths and the letters PMRC painted on their chests in protest against censorship by the Parents Music Resource Center. Refusing to play, they stood in silence with the sound emitted being only audio feedback from Morello and Commerford's guitars. The band later played a free show for disappointed fans.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
otm
RATM are one of these bands I dislike in theory but then when I hear them, they def got the head nodding beats and riff
they are completely ridiculous but also sort of amazing for how dumb and ludicrous and shameless the whole thing is
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
(full disclosure: i wore a parental advisory warning tshirt from like 1992 to 1996 until it fell apart)
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
Oh hell yeah, was gonna say that stunt will forever make rage CLASSIC
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 December 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
Xp Nevermind & Rage s/t we're recorded at the same studio lol
― billstevejim, Monday, 18 December 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
xp didn't see the previous posts, so i assumed the stunt you were talking about was when the bass player climbed the set of the VMAs and wouldn't come down.
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 December 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
hey, that stunt ended hunger
― President Keyes, Monday, 18 December 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Tvt18aI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/dHlmGRM.png
― Karl Malone, Monday, 18 December 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
I wish any VMAs moment from this decade was half as interesting as that one.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
“Black Mirror” Season 4 Out Now on Netflix: Watch
― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
Journalism lives
― President Keyes, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
haha, this is the end
― niels, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
finally a place where i can find netflix news
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 December 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
It's like an episode of Black Mirror, right
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 29 December 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
what if yer music site was part of a multimedia conglomerate
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 December 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
For like 1 full second I thought that was a joke post.
― billstevejim, Friday, 29 December 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
It’s a miracle Pitchfork managed to ascend to what it is now. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7618-come-pick-me-up/
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Shit, cat
― flappy bird, Sunday, 31 December 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-blue-nile-hats/
Oh my god this review is beautiful
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 7 January 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
that's a really great review, except the score is too low
― ufo, Sunday, 7 January 2018 10:38 (six years ago) link
i actually blurted out "what the fuck" when I first saw it but complaining about a pitchfork score just feels so trite
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 7 January 2018 10:44 (six years ago) link
though a higher score could've gotten more people to check them out :(
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 7 January 2018 10:45 (six years ago) link
Good review. Does seem a weirdly conservative score.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 7 January 2018 10:52 (six years ago) link
I blurted out "wtf" but only cause they didn't assign it to brad
― Simon H., Sunday, 7 January 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Hmm. Never really thought of Nile Rodgers when I listen to the Blue Nile.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 January 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
Who is responsible for the last few years of millennial interest in/knowledge of the Blue Nile?
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 7 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
Like I def lived through the Hats era of MTV and the first time I remember hearing their name was via J0rdan S.
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 7 January 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
the 1979 def helped
― Simon H., Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
The Blue Nile are to Millenials what Talk Talk were to my generation
I don’t know how or why but it’s most jazz school grads around age 30 I know who listen to them, take cues from them
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
Who is going to be the aging No Doubt type band that scores a huge hit covering a Blue Nile song?
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
My sister (who has lived in Leeds for 15+ years) and her partner (who is a born and bred northern Brit), both big music nerds, claimed to have never heard of the Blue Nile the other week.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
Louise Burns had a good, very loyal, cover of Downtown Lights on her 2017 album, wasn't a hit though
I came across the album at a record market, bought it on recommendation from a collector (who more or less only listens to 80s indie), ofc I fell in love with it as soon as I put it on
― niels, Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
I feel like Destroyer's Kaputt had something to do with it.
― J. Sam, Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
I thought for sure Brad had reviewed it.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
i discovered them due to a comparison to kaputt somewhere
― ufo, Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
Lol, yeah, the question made me immediately think of Kaputt.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
Millennial here. I first heard of it from a Q Magazine "Greatest British Albums" list ca. 2000, liked the cover and description, found a used copy a few years later. That Q issue is a millennial touchstone, I think.
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
Kaputt? I thought we all agreed that Al Stewart was the touchpoint.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
Al Stewart makes much more sense than Kaputt
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
Uncut, Q, Mojo, etc have been revisiting Hats regularly for the past 20 years
― Frozen CD, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
I'm 25 and never heard of The Blue Nile until so many posters put Hats on their top 5 favorite albums thread i made in ~September 2016. Still baffled, have NEVER encountered them anywhere other than ilx.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 January 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
i'm 41 and had never heard of them until the 1975 thread here on ilm
― alpine static, Sunday, 7 January 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, January 7, 2018 11:27 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
We don’t have those anymore, right
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Sunday, 7 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
I mean the closest analogue is probably *gulp* Maroon 5 and even they probably couldn’t/wouldn’t put a hip cover in the top40
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Sunday, 7 January 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
― niels, Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:35 (six hours ago)
So did Bic Runga (well, late 2016)!
― etc, Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
Billboard notes the existence of a one-page A&M ad in Billboard in late '89 promoting the thing, complete with Phil Collins endorsement. I remember seeing it at the time and thinking that's a considerable expense for an album I didn't hear at all. Annie Lennox covered "The Downtown Lights" on 1995's platinum Medusa; this might've been the first exposure of ILXers parents to the Blue Nile idk
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
Yeah i pretty much never hear of the blue nile anywhere other than ilx. in fact, this p4k review is only the second time the Blue Nile's been tagged on the site
Did dan bejar specifically say kaputt was blue nile-influenced? I thought the story behind that one was that it was influenced by the likes of steely dan's gaucho and roxy music's avalon
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
In my late teens – sometime in 2002 or 2003 – I discovered Talk Talk and Bark Psychosis while exploring post-rock on Allmusic. The Blue Nile was tantalisingly listed among the influences (or 'similar artists', can't recall which).
I was absolutely baffled by the praise for Hats when I first heard it. Perhaps I should try again, though my opinion of adult contemporary hasn't really changed since.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
Doesn't sound like any A/C I've heard. I'm not a fan (yet) but it's way too intense.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
also a millennial, first heard about it here, but more generally saw it popping up in discussions about sophistipop next to tears for fears, prefab sprout, EBTG, Sade. not sure if i've seen it noted specifically a lot, but they're definitely back ~in the conversation~
― austinb, Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link