this is wrist slitting music..make no mistake. no hope here. cover always reminded me of freddie kruger, a really awful cover that indicated nothing of the music within. it was a band, after all. Signed by WB, who gave the carte blanche, they spent hundreds of thousands for ok songs.. and they were never heard from again. Without restrictions they went..Hollywood.. (Paul Buchanan & Rosanna Arquette ) a poverty of humility and a loss of aspiration, they lost their focus and broke up.
this unknown band makes me remind somehow the sound of go-betweens, specially in the theme bachelor kisses. please have a look and tell me later. its a great ambiance that these guys had create that only rare skilled bands can do it.
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Well, not Ambient in the sense Brian Eno intended. When someone invents a genre with a clear and original vision it's rather lazy to use their term for something that's merely slow and ethereal.
Can't really see how the word masterpiece is appropriate here either.
At best it's a pleasant but dull conventional track.
The lyrics quoted below as 'second to none' don't rhyme properly, don't scan properly, and don't really make sense. If not second, perhaps fourth or fifth?
@mustafa1name You're a top ten asshole. I usually don't find it necessary to dig into another's background on the internet as I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU, but I just had to look up your music taste. Music is highly subjective but I think I wouldn't be to far off from the consensus to call your taste that of a faggot. No offense to my homosexual friends.
You however are correct on the ambient title. I will change this just so I never have to hear another thing about Brian Eno. Enjoy the track, or don't.
Blue Nile, Hall & Oates & Simply Red would probably make up the soundtrack of my life growing up (im 19). Hall & Oates when i would listen and sing-along....badly....with my dad. Simply Red when i would dance around the room with my mum and Blue Nile, when i would just sit with both of my parents and take in how beautiful the music was. Can't get any better than that :)
At times like this I wish I had the nimble skills of a professional music critic so that I could describe this "Life Changing" music.
Some people only need a 'Beat";and their gone with the groove.
When I first heard this awesome work in 1989 I was sitting in a public library with a stack oFnew CD's and that's when I discovered I needed to be moved on a deeper level by music to the point of having a emotional release!
The BlueNiles' Hats blew my mind to another shore. THANKS PAUL!!!
"Hats" was one of the best birthday presents I ever got! I was 14 year old in 1989! And I still have the cassette to this day at the age of 36...The first track I heard was"Downtown Lights",but this opening track is soooooo BEAUTIFUL! And,I fell in love with the whole album...It's still and will remain....a TIMELESS CLASSIC!!!
halfway to paradise was the programme...with the blue nile and ricky lee jones ... not one of my favourite versions RLJ was alittle insensitive with her vocal singing over PB.
@tinseltown1 well, i disagree. and i suspect you ought to spell her name right if you are going to comment. it was one of the best performances i have seen. the blue nile chose her, they loved her singing and worked with her in the US as well. singing over? you mean the harmony? I find it hard to imagine anyone could upstage Buchanan, and if she is anything, she is sensitive. Do you know where that performance is?
One of the most underrated and underplayed groups IMO. I could listen to this record every day, or preferably night since this music evokes a nighttime urban landscape for me. Such great melody and tension. The way Buchanan moves the melody over the chords is masterful. Truly great.
@bluggdr Totally agree with the night-time vibe. If you watch some of the (very rare) daytime live performances on YouTube (e.g. Electric Picnic, Glastonbury) it just doesn't feel right. Best heard at night, in an indoor venue with excellent acoustics OR, even better, on your iPod on the last train home from Glasgow Queen St. after a few beers!
There is a point in most poeples lives when sorrow gets hard to comprehend. Look no further for solice, it is here and now, with this masterpiece of emotional genius.
iainpd1963 the emotion the feeling wont get better than the blue nile pauls voice conjures up a deep love that you thought would last for ever four classic albums let you relive those precious days and bring comfort when your true love has floundered and gets washed along the sea shore broken amongst the rocks listening to the blue nile will mend your broken heart and also let new love flourish and stay strong .
@WillCrazie thanks for your comment the blue nile have been the soundtrack of my many adventures in life since i first heard stay it was radio 1s simon bates record of the week way back in 83 thank you mr bates
Fantastic, thanks for putting this on, truly great band, I met PB after the Dublin show, very modest and sincere person, as well as being a great musician!
Stars in your eyes, don't explain. The memories come flooding back. This has to be one of the best bands ever. Paul Buchanan's voice is truly sublime. Lyrics second to none. "Can't go on and I can't go back, don't feel so matter of fact. I tried and tried to make good sense, what's the good? you try it all again. So nice to see that there are some other fans out there also. Music like this will never be mainstream, and I guess we should all be thankful for that.
I've been waiting this track to be uploaded here for a long time! Thank you so much.
I remember when I heard this song for the first time, I immediately thought these guys were truly amazing, I was surprised I had never heard of them before though.
I guess a lot of musicians borrowed ideas from Paul & Co, including King Crimson, Talking Heads, even Prefab Sprout and Steve Hogarth's Marillion...!
Anyway, obscenely underrated, like Sylvian/Japan IMHO.
The blue nile are like a magical secret that only a few of us know, lets keep it that way. I want to think of them as something very personal, even private
The awesome "Blue Nile" Music at it's very best!
bobby08ify 2 weeks ago
This vid is a favorite on Ukraine
gordoncraig410 3 weeks ago
music on, looking out the back door trying to see the Northern Lights( shame it's foggy and wet) ach well the music's good!
59nazareth 1 month ago
this is wrist slitting music..make no mistake. no hope here. cover always reminded me of freddie kruger, a really awful cover that indicated nothing of the music within. it was a band, after all. Signed by WB, who gave the carte blanche, they spent hundreds of thousands for ok songs.. and they were never heard from again. Without restrictions they went..Hollywood.. (Paul Buchanan & Rosanna Arquette ) a poverty of humility and a loss of aspiration, they lost their focus and broke up.
MrBusterfoot 1 month ago
This video is a favorite on Niamey
damianfloyd1129 1 month ago
this unknown band makes me remind somehow the sound of go-betweens, specially in the theme bachelor kisses. please have a look and tell me later. its a great ambiance that these guys had create that only rare skilled bands can do it.
srursomau 2 months ago
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Well, not Ambient in the sense Brian Eno intended. When someone invents a genre with a clear and original vision it's rather lazy to use their term for something that's merely slow and ethereal.
Can't really see how the word masterpiece is appropriate here either.
At best it's a pleasant but dull conventional track.
The lyrics quoted below as 'second to none' don't rhyme properly, don't scan properly, and don't really make sense. If not second, perhaps fourth or fifth?
mustafa1name 3 months ago
@mustafa1name You're a top ten asshole. I usually don't find it necessary to dig into another's background on the internet as I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU, but I just had to look up your music taste. Music is highly subjective but I think I wouldn't be to far off from the consensus to call your taste that of a faggot. No offense to my homosexual friends.
Woffar 3 months ago
@Woffar Incredible my friend!
bobby08ify 2 weeks ago
@Woffar Absolutely Awesome!!!
bobby08ify 2 weeks ago
@mustafa1name
You however are correct on the ambient title. I will change this just so I never have to hear another thing about Brian Eno. Enjoy the track, or don't.
Woffar 3 months ago
Blue Nile, Hall & Oates & Simply Red would probably make up the soundtrack of my life growing up (im 19). Hall & Oates when i would listen and sing-along....badly....with my dad. Simply Red when i would dance around the room with my mum and Blue Nile, when i would just sit with both of my parents and take in how beautiful the music was. Can't get any better than that :)
bigandy59 8 months ago 17
great comment, sounds like a cool family
echo680 7 months ago
At times like this I wish I had the nimble skills of a professional music critic so that I could describe this "Life Changing" music.
Some people only need a 'Beat";and their gone with the groove.
When I first heard this awesome work in 1989 I was sitting in a public library with a stack oFnew CD's and that's when I discovered I needed to be moved on a deeper level by music to the point of having a emotional release!
The BlueNiles' Hats blew my mind to another shore. THANKS PAUL!!!
88Habitrabbit1 10 months ago 3
"Hats" was one of the best birthday presents I ever got! I was 14 year old in 1989! And I still have the cassette to this day at the age of 36...The first track I heard was"Downtown Lights",but this opening track is soooooo BEAUTIFUL! And,I fell in love with the whole album...It's still and will remain....a TIMELESS CLASSIC!!!
TheMonolith75 11 months ago
halfway to paradise was the programme...with the blue nile and ricky lee jones ... not one of my favourite versions RLJ was alittle insensitive with her vocal singing over PB.
tinseltown1 11 months ago
@tinseltown1 well, i disagree. and i suspect you ought to spell her name right if you are going to comment. it was one of the best performances i have seen. the blue nile chose her, they loved her singing and worked with her in the US as well. singing over? you mean the harmony? I find it hard to imagine anyone could upstage Buchanan, and if she is anything, she is sensitive. Do you know where that performance is?
MrBusterfoot 1 month ago
Does anyone have the video of Paul Buchanan and Rickie Lee Jones
singing Easter Parade on Scottish tv in 1989?
MrBusterfoot 11 months ago
ME AND MY WIFE FELL IN LOVE TO THIS AMAZING SONG IN 1989 , STILL PLAY IT EVERYDAY, YOU CANT GET BETTER!
colinr28071 11 months ago 3
FANTASTIC, loved it from birth and still do, FANTASTIC
1daylonger 1 year ago
One of the most underrated and underplayed groups IMO. I could listen to this record every day, or preferably night since this music evokes a nighttime urban landscape for me. Such great melody and tension. The way Buchanan moves the melody over the chords is masterful. Truly great.
bluggdr 1 year ago 2
@bluggdr Totally agree with the night-time vibe. If you watch some of the (very rare) daytime live performances on YouTube (e.g. Electric Picnic, Glastonbury) it just doesn't feel right. Best heard at night, in an indoor venue with excellent acoustics OR, even better, on your iPod on the last train home from Glasgow Queen St. after a few beers!
mikerankine 1 year ago 3
@bluggdr quite agree, very well put
echo680 7 months ago
this is prob my fave on HATS just so laid back
jellobefore 1 year ago
Beautiful music, a bit sad too.
bidib 1 year ago
For all The Blue Nile fans, their unofficial page is on Facebook, just look for The Blue Nile!
TheBlueNilePage 1 year ago
Sublime, truly sublime
caleywontdie 1 year ago
Good jams.
When I croak...This is the End. By the Doors. Cause, that's what It'll be...
Give you another 5 stars.
Thanks.
NWOrDREGS 1 year ago
Nice One
Thank you
Ken
shamanizing 1 year ago
sublime, speechless
Duke1966 1 year ago
What a band man the whole album is lovely WHERE DID THEY GO ANYONE KNOW :)
M1STYWORLD 1 year ago
@M1STYWORLD, look for 'The Blue Nile - Meanwhile', their 2006 masterpiece, still unreleased -> watch?v=OW1Rl0pEvGc
modifiedcontent 1 year ago
There is a point in most poeples lives when sorrow gets hard to comprehend. Look no further for solice, it is here and now, with this masterpiece of emotional genius.
llewepacnomis 1 year ago
I will eat my clipped toenails if somebody honestly dislikes this. It is just absolutely impossible.
jimmyshitstain 1 year ago 2
iainpd1963 the emotion the feeling wont get better than the blue nile pauls voice conjures up a deep love that you thought would last for ever four classic albums let you relive those precious days and bring comfort when your true love has floundered and gets washed along the sea shore broken amongst the rocks listening to the blue nile will mend your broken heart and also let new love flourish and stay strong .
iainpd1963 1 year ago
@iainpd1963 thats a beautiful summing up of The Blue Niles songs and Pauls voice,ty!!
WillCrazie 1 year ago
@WillCrazie thanks for your comment the blue nile have been the soundtrack of my many adventures in life since i first heard stay it was radio 1s simon bates record of the week way back in 83 thank you mr bates
iainpd1963 1 year ago
blue nile are genius and soundtrack of my life and couldnt wish for a better counterpoint
johnla7 1 year ago
que hermoso escuchar esta musica en el silencio de la noche.
Unaimunariz 2 years ago 3
The man has the best goddam voice in the business. End of.
elspeff 2 years ago 4
Fantastic, thanks for putting this on, truly great band, I met PB after the Dublin show, very modest and sincere person, as well as being a great musician!
millmount1 2 years ago
Stars in your eyes, don't explain. The memories come flooding back. This has to be one of the best bands ever. Paul Buchanan's voice is truly sublime. Lyrics second to none. "Can't go on and I can't go back, don't feel so matter of fact. I tried and tried to make good sense, what's the good? you try it all again. So nice to see that there are some other fans out there also. Music like this will never be mainstream, and I guess we should all be thankful for that.
mybookfacetube 2 years ago 17
This is the most amazing......the most sadest song.....and yet the most beautiful song ever produced.........WOW !!!!!
peterbluepeter 2 years ago 3
thanks for this....10 stars from me...only a few know about Blue Nile in the US, and only those few who can truly appreciate.
dirtay75 2 years ago 2
love this song best song on the hats album . i have told my family when i die i want this played at my funeral
p262shp 2 years ago 7
I agree until I hear Saturday Night, then Saturday Night is my favorite until I hear this song again...... profound, simple lyrics.
Woffar 2 years ago 2
timeless.
JnrRumble 2 years ago 2
what an amazing track , so beautiful
bobtherelevator 2 years ago 5
G R E A T !!!
I've been waiting this track to be uploaded here for a long time! Thank you so much.
I remember when I heard this song for the first time, I immediately thought these guys were truly amazing, I was surprised I had never heard of them before though.
I guess a lot of musicians borrowed ideas from Paul & Co, including King Crimson, Talking Heads, even Prefab Sprout and Steve Hogarth's Marillion...!
Anyway, obscenely underrated, like Sylvian/Japan IMHO.
mirzamarco 2 years ago 3
same, noone seemed to upload this for some reason
electricguitar66 2 years ago
The blue nile are like a magical secret that only a few of us know, lets keep it that way. I want to think of them as something very personal, even private
SharpeyCol 2 years ago 4