the blue nile: hats

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.

No.

even if you stripped it down enough i don't think it'd be restrained enough

I can hear it but lyrically no.

Do we have a thread for songs that could be off Hats?

'The Lady in Red' :0

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

― 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3vuy0QJ0BA

oh man

^^ 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.)

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 ...

an aside: atmospheric slide whistle new fav micro-genre

"it's the poor man's pedal steel"

sorry. as you were.

but yeah, didn't know about this cover. pretty reminiscent of his classic sidelong makeovers of burt bacharach.

ofc i had to look it up and it originates as a b side from a uk only single. nice.

2024 - could this be the year the long-rumored complete second Paul Buchanan album releases?

new song — Paul Buchanan - Mid Air (The Blue Nile)