the blue nile: hats

Ha! Future could prob rap his way through a lot of Blue Nile songs. I can see that.

"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

Yeah. The repeated "than I want it to" echoing off in the mist seems quintessential to the record.

haha, maybe I'll get around to it someday - don't particularly like the bass sound

“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

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

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.

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...

7 am is top 2 song from the album to me & the one that best transcends its setting

bass sound makes it!!

other being “saturday night”?

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)

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, 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

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

hats is the record to listen to during and following a breakup. mid air is revisiting those feelings years later

Good to hear it is somewhat amicable, god speed Jim <3

“saturday night”, “lets go out tonight”, and “from a late night train” are in my top 10 paul buchanan songs

― 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)

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

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 riches
easter parade
heat wave
let’s go out tonight
from a late night train
saturday night
family life
mid air
half the world
cars in the garden

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.

Because of Toledo is great

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

"Seven AM" is my least favorite song on the album. :(

Every person dissing 7am is objectively wrong

Trotsky wrote something similar in Literature and Revolution.

Seven AM is my least favourite on the album but it's still great

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, Monday, October 3, 2016 11:23 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

7am is great and i’m pretty sure there’s an Andy K post somewhere that establishes this conclusively.

one of the songs has to be the 7th best!!

no its the best actually

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

7AM is straight robert palmer, apart from the funky guitar break which is automatic by the pointer sisters iirc. these are not criticisms though

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.

wow this is......really good. i hadn't heard of it at all until this week.

xp otm, classic post

hats!

http://www.glasgowist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/BlueNileTrio.jpg

woo CAD!

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

hats!

http://www.glasgowist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/BlueNileTrio.jpg

― 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

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.

NB. real fans do not look down on the downtown lights

they look up

the way Downtown Lights builds and builds and I'm tired of crying on the staiiiiiirs

again:

in love we're all the same
we're walking down an empty street

^^^^^^^^ otm

uh brad...did u know the universe was creating content esp for u???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_172cffdDJU

lol yeah that's one of my favorite videos on youtube

same

Gorgeous.

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

Full album covered by Pure Bathing Culture for Turntable Kitchen, with Ben Gibbard guesting on two tracks. Subscription-based, but available to non-club members, the black vinyl is $25 + $5 s&h, for U.S. folk, and includes digital.

Nice Stereogum write-up of Hats, also.

For the 'things that sound a bit like Blue Nile': I think Epic Soundtracks has aesthetic similarities anyway, but his Good Things album seems particularly apposite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joz9SigJ6eg