The Blue Nile: C or D?

dammit you guys i have zero money to spend on recreational stuff right now and you all just keep talking this stuff up.

off to start a new thread: THE BLUE NILE RULES

I’m just sitting here listening to “here come the bluebirds” and trying to keep it together

― k3vin k., Tuesday, June 16, 2020 5:07 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

<3

'I' and 'Bluebirds' are plain amazing imo. What a gift.

i haven't gotten to the new tracks yet but man, high sure is a great album

i love how propulsive "broken loves" and "she saw the world" are, it felt new for them

yeah those are a couple of my faves. the propulsive-ness of “she saw the world” kind of anticipates “buy a motor car”

i can’t believe i have “new” blue nile music to enjoy nor can i believe it’s so good. “i” just knocked me flat today

yeah I just want to retract all my reservations about “i”

Just got the vinyl reissue of High in the mail. It sounds fantastic. The title track still kills me.

also thanks to all of this I just discovered the track Paul Buchanan wrote on Jesse Ware's Glasshouse, Last of the True Believers, which is wonderful, but I really wish he was 'featured' on more than one line repeated twice in the last 30 seconds. I guess he cowrote it though and it sounds like it.

lol that would contradict the credits i was given when i reviewed the record but then again there were a lot of holes in those credits

It might be recency bias but I'd even say this 'Song' album is better than any Blue Nile album that is not Hats..

Sorry, who's this by?

https://www.allmusic.com/album/song-mw0000886575

Ah right, thanks. I remember that one hit single they had in 1986. Slightly strange but really good.

ok well I'm not positive he cowrote it, but in an interview i found she said she wrote it with him:

https://www.iheart.com/content/2017-11-09-interview-jessie-ware-shares-track-by-track-breakdown-of-glasshouse

"Track 11. "Last Of The True Believers" featuring Paul Buchanan

"I wrote after my first record and it was a song that I wrote this with this amazing guy called Paul Buchanan, who is from this cult band of the 80's called The Blue Nile. They're a Scottish band. I managed to get in the studio with him, and we wrote this song, and it was in demo form, and I loved it.

I started to play it when I was doing my American tour because I toured the Devotion record so much, and my last ever tour was in the States. It was a six-week tour. It was amazing, one of my favorite times, and I never do encores, because I think they're annoying, but I did do an encore and so I had to backtrack on what I'd said. I don't think we went off stage though, because I think that's naff. We started doing this, and it's nothing. I've never done that before. We had a demo. We didn't do it how the demo is and we kind of learned it, and I felt like I was in a real band. I didn't feel like I was dictated by the album track. It was just this idea, and people really liked it. Pitchfork put it up. It became this thing that was on the Internet, and people asked me, 'Are you gonna put it on your second record?' I didn't, and it didn't make sense to put it on the second record.

My sister reminded me of this song, because she adored it, so I got my friends (and) they're in a band called The Maccabees, who are really good friends of mine from school. They're massive fans of The Blue Nile. I asked Hugo if he'd like to produce it, and he did, and he brought it to life. He brought it back to life, and I'm really, really happy that it made it onto this record. It fits this record so much more than the second record."

so this doesn't mention that he sang on it, so maybe he didn't? It kind of doesn't sound like his voice.

he def sings on it

but i'll take jessie's word for it! again the credits for that album were a mess

Paul does sing on the track, but not as much as I expected based on having a feat. credit.

Does anybody know the story of "Young Club"? It haunts me. From the sound of it, I would take it to be post-'Hats' but pre-'High,' but really don't know, and kind find anything about it. But it's just so, so, so fucking good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvcd0ADqu94

Another post of it, sounds slightly differently sourced?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dmbIfI7EdU

'Young Club' is indeed a track from the Hats sessions. It's on the B-sides and Rare CDr

Damn, wish it had been included in complete/quality form with the 'Hats' deluxe, then...

still getting knocked out by "i" on a daily basis

Do I remember right that there is a collection of b-sides and whatnot that has not been rounded up on these reissues? Anybody got a link? I fell in love with this band due to seeing this thread repeatedly bumped for a while and I'm trying to hunt down everything I can.

It's weird that Peace At Last Deluxe is the CD that is hardest to find. I thought that was the one that was less loved?

not sure if this has been posted in another thread on here, but even if so deserves a repost - fantastic quality live show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItoUZunua4&list=PLwXOGPZXptBCsQGmwc55lb5YgzZzcpAhT&index=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItoUZunua4

Beautiful and melancholy short film of Paul talking about Tinseltown in the Rain.

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

@KenSweeney, were you aware this track was re-mixed/re-released for download last month? You're usually my first source for anything The Blue Nile related! https://t.co/xd28FgSDtr

— Brad (@ballskwok) August 27, 2021

wowee.

absolutely lush.

PJ Moore and Co, eight track new album coming soon. Herald article here.

First track, "Need to Believe", available for download, along w/ album pre-order, at PJ Moore's site.

ooh good find!

There's obvs a hefty wodge of a-Ha in there too, but am I alone in hearing the Blue Nile's 'I Love this Life' in Harry Styles' 'As It Was'?

little piece in Tribune

Forty years ago, Glasgow band The Blue Nile released their first single. Their work was rooted in Glasgow itself, and the changes wrought by the shock of Thatcherism. https://t.co/j6VoGHLErq

— Tribune (@tribunemagazine) July 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItoUZunua4

good piece and the live recording linked is immense

yo!

if any nileheads are up for it paul buchanan is selling a remastered 2LP 10th anniversary edition of mid air https://store.paulbuchanan.com

still waiting for my preorder to arrive!

PJ Moore has a new band:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23031729.founding-member-blue-nile-pj-moore-teams-new-project-album/

Interestingly, only the single is available on streaming (Apple Music, anyway). It sounds good--very Blue Nile, as one would expect.

You can listen to another track on their website (and buy the album there)

https://www.pjmooreandco.com/music-1

this song from last year by Nigel's project Quiet City featuring vocals by Pat was incredible

Quiet City - Due North (Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYDC2zY3wM

I honestly don't know if I can think of a single artist/band whose first single (a-side and b-side taken together) is more perfectly fully realized, and totally sui generis. I've never heard pure joy captured more wonderfully and without any mawkishness in music than with "I Love This Life," and the world-weary wisdom and old-soul sadness of "The Second Act" is so moving (and rather shocking coming from a 25-year-old). And to think--they got *better* for the next decade, seems impossible.

OTM, I just fell hard for this single, "The Second Act" even more than the A-side. It's so elegantly sad and makes me wish they had spent more time using a more primitive drum machine.