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
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.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
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
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 22 July 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
sometimes wonder why the Hats thread isn't just always on the front page.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 13 September 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
mods, make it so
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 September 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
official album of ilm
― ciderpress, Monday, 13 September 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
Hats belong on top naturally
― Evan, Monday, 13 September 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
Re-reading this thread always makes me feel happy
― Tim F, Monday, 13 September 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 07:01 (two years ago) link
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
― Clay, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
one of us!
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 September 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link
I find it hard to imagine jogging to any song apart from "Downtown Lights" but more power to you!
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 12:48 (two years ago) link
Thought that was Jordan:The Comeback.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link
great album for a walk in the rain
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 09:21 (one year ago) link
a walk across the raindrops
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 09:31 (one year ago) link
this such a great comedown album
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 1 January 2023 21:03 (one year ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 1 January 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
i found a mint condition copy of this on cassette at a record store in london last week, made me very happy
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 1 January 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
one of us! one of us!
― k3vin k., Monday, 2 January 2023 00:18 (one year ago) link
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
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 2 January 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
otm
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Monday, 2 January 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 2 January 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
may I direct you to his solo album
― k3vin k., Monday, 2 January 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
Caution: challops ahead.
"I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner would make a pretty good Blue Nile song.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 06:15 (one year ago) link
No.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:17 (one year ago) link
even if you stripped it down enough i don't think it'd be restrained enough
― ufo, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:27 (one year ago) link
I can hear it but lyrically no.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
Do we have a thread for songs that could be off Hats?
― bain4z, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link
'The Lady in Red' :0
― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 13:06 (one year ago) link
― J0rdan S., Sunday, January 1, 2023 4:03 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Whenever I listen to Hats it's the album plus "Saturday Night" two more times
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3vuy0QJ0BA
oh man
― ufo, Saturday, 20 January 2024 12:01 (three months ago) link
^^ had a surreal moment when that came on the radio in a cafe near Sagrada Familia while the sun was setting circa 1999. looking at Gaudi's architecture bathed in a golden glow while this unfamiliar slooooow version of a familiar song played, it felt like my brain was melting.(being slightly tipsy didn't help.)
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 20 January 2024 12:10 (three months ago) link
Is that a marimba? For someone who nails the late night lethargy of the song, adding that is like throwing in slide whistle or a saw. It's a 10, but ...
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:29 (three months ago) link