the blue nile: hats

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

sometimes wonder why the Hats thread isn't just always on the front page.

mods, make it so

official album of ilm

Hats belong on top naturally

Re-reading this thread always makes me feel happy

This was posted on the C or D thread in case anyone missed it (re-released this year and available on streaming services)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOJ9QcVXZzE

i listened to hats tonight knowing it might be my last late night jog of summer and i can't imagine listening to it at, like, 6pm in the coming months. it's been the first album i've confidently called my favorite album ever made since probably high school, and i only discovered it in 2018, and it's an album i've actually listened to less this year as i've been consciously trying to revisit old favorites while doing my new favorite activity of "moving my body", but damn if isn't the greatest thing ever made every time i go back to it

one of us!

I find it hard to imagine jogging to any song apart from "Downtown Lights" but more power to you!

official album of ilm

Thought that was Jordan:The Comeback.

great album for a walk in the rain

a walk across the raindrops

this such a great comedown album

i wish there was a 12 min long mix of “saturday night”

the final two minutes of "headlights on the parade" rivals anything on this album for me

i found a mint condition copy of this on cassette at a record store in london last week, made me very happy

one of us! one of us!

this has become one of those albums I don't actually have to listen to to get killed by it, I just have to think about it

otm

I tend to want more "From a Late Night Train" and "Family Life" from this band rather than the usual lite funk, though I guess one of the things that makes those tracks special is that they are uniquely spare.

may I direct you to his solo album

Caution: challops ahead.

"I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner would make a pretty good Blue Nile song.