7 AM is a great song!!
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
whats crazy is the sound of that song could be like ... a 2017 rap song
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
Ha! Future could prob rap his way through a lot of Blue Nile songs. I can see that.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
"seven am" is awesome, "each time i fall for you / it hurts me a little bit more / than i want it to" is a central moment on the record
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
Yeah. The repeated "than I want it to" echoing off in the mist seems quintessential to the record.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
haha, maybe I'll get around to it someday - don't particularly like the bass sound
― niels, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
“seven AM” is probably the only song from their first two records that I don’t truly love. but that doesn’t mean it isn’t good, or that I won’t love it some day
“from a late night train” has with some time emerged for me as the real tearjerker and centerpiece of the album
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
I'm going through a relationship break-up right now and this album is just on constant repeat*. just perfect.
*i also listen to this album a decent amount when I'm not going through a break-up to be fair.
let's go out tonight and from a late night train are my 2 faves on the record, 7am my least favourite but it's still p great. i really like the baseline but I'm not so keen on some of the keys
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
Shit got real... I'm sorry to hear that Jim, and I truly hope you'll be ok.
Having said that, yeah, it's probably the best break-up music out there. But especially when you're not experiencing one.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
yeah I was in the middle of a breakup when I got into this band, it’s really the perfect music for that. for better or worse...
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
7 am is top 2 song from the album to me & the one that best transcends its setting
bass sound makes it!!
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
other being “saturday night”?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
Blue Nile could've done me a world of... something, if it had been around when I had my break-ups. Only discovered them 5, 6 idk years ago (in true 'where have you been all my life' fashion)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:37 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thanks for the kind words, I'm doing well, it's been a slow-motion breakup so I've been through the whole 7 stages of grief thing and it's ending amicably.
back to the topic actually saturday night actually might be in my top 2, not sure which song it would usurp though
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
sending good vibes your way, jim
“saturday night”, “lets go out tonight”, and “from a late night train” are in my top 10 paul buchanan songs
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
hats is the record to listen to during and following a breakup. mid air is revisiting those feelings years later
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
Good to hear it is somewhat amicable, god speed Jim <3
― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 10, 2018 9:57 PM (sixteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ha yeah, same here! Don't think we've ever done a Blue Nile POX (would be extremely hard)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
High from 96 is pretty great, they did a pretty remarkable job of sticking to their lane and not getting bogged down in 90s stuff
― Keak da Sneaky Dianne (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
my paul buchanan POX is pretty heavily weighted toward the first 2 albums and mid air, and I’m not including non-album tracks, even though things like “I love this life” and “regrets” and “christmas” and “st catherine’s day” etc etc etc are right up there
from rags to richeseaster parade heat wavelet’s go out tonight from a late night train saturday night family life mid airhalf the worldcars in the garden
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
It's an infallible selection. Kudos for including Half the World.
Mid Air is a masterpiece. I'll have a good long think about my POX.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
Because of Toledo is great
― Keak da Sneaky Dianne (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
yeah high is a good record. I know it’s only a matter of time until I totally fall for it. “toledo”, broken love, she saw the world, stay close, all really good
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
"Seven AM" is my least favorite song on the album. :(
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
Every person dissing 7am is objectively wrong
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 11 January 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
Trotsky wrote something similar in Literature and Revolution.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 January 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
Seven AM is my least favourite on the album but it's still great
― ufo, Thursday, 11 January 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
Seven AM cos the last 2 minutes are the best sounding recording of anything ever. so much going onstoppp, go, stopppp, go, cos i .. doontknoooow― Spottie, Monday, October 3, 2016 11:23 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
stoppp, go, stopppp, go, cos i .. doontknoooow
― Spottie, Monday, October 3, 2016 11:23 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Spottie, Thursday, 11 January 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
7am is great and i’m pretty sure there’s an Andy K post somewhere that establishes this conclusively.
― Tim F, Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
one of the songs has to be the 7th best!!
― k3vin k., Thursday, 11 January 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
no its the best actually
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 11 January 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
its kind of wild to me that ppl think its relatively bad, it always struck me as a standout, compositionally the most unique record on the album
does make sense that the track to stand out the most would be most divisive
― niels, Thursday, 11 January 2018 06:04 (six years ago) link
7AM is straight robert palmer, apart from the funky guitar break which is automatic by the pointer sisters iirc. these are not criticisms though
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 11 January 2018 07:24 (six years ago) link
there's an album called hats?!?!
fuck all of you who like it
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Wednesday, February 8, 2012 6:13 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Love this album to bits obv but this sometimes pops up in my head and never fails to make me chuckle.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 11 January 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
wow this is......really good. i hadn't heard of it at all until this week.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 January 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
xp otm, classic post
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 January 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
hats!
http://www.glasgowist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/BlueNileTrio.jpg
― piscesx, Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
woo CAD!
― k3vin k., Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
gave this album a listen last night for the first time ever
let's go out tonight is my favourite on it
rest of the album sounds like a grower
7am does sound different but that warbly bass is fun as a pre-dnb/electronica/trap thing
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
― piscesx, Thursday, January 11, 2018 9:10 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
excluding the hat paul's outfit there is definitely something i would wear
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
i also just listened to this for the first time this week! i like the whole thing but man "the downtown lights" is a killer song. i'm assuming the real fans look down on it because it's clearly the "pop hit" of the album but it is so good.
― na (NA), Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
NB. real fans do not look down on the downtown lights
― Tim F, Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
they look up
the way Downtown Lights builds and builds and I'm tired of crying on the staiiiiiirs
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
again:
in love we're all the samewe're walking down an empty street
^^^^^^^^ otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
uh brad...did u know the universe was creating content esp for u???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_172cffdDJU
― Keak da Sneaky Dianne (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
lol yeah that's one of my favorite videos on youtube
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
same
― k3vin k., Thursday, 11 January 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
Gorgeous.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 11 January 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
I too checked out this album for the first time this week. Bit embarrassing it took so long given how many times I've seen them namechecked in threads of other bands I love (like the 1975). Great stuff
― Vinnie, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link