The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights

Stereo Audio Added. This is i believe the official video for this single. There is another different video already posted on youtube. I remember phoning up for this video to be played on the video jukebox of some foreign channel in the 90s and waiting up for ages till it came on, and then taping it. Worth watching just for the powder blue volvo p1800, the best car that volvo have ever made. The same as the Saints car (but his was white).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The
• Blue
• Nile
• Downtown
• Lights
• Paul
• Buchanan
• Hats

[Gandor83]

love these 80s classic ballads, never heard of the band before though

[jezzyby47]

@Gandor83 - They are the world's most 'prolific' songwriters. 4 albums in 30 years. We are all still waiting for the 5th. Check out their stuff.

1. A walk across the rooftops - 1983.

2. Hats - 1989 (This track was on Hats)

3. Peace at last - 1996.

4. High - 2004

[Vispateresa3]

I have the vinyl of "Hats", I used to listen to it a lot in the 80s. The music is sublime, and the video too. Bravo to the director, who captured the meaning of the song: the pain of lost, or unrequited, or ending love. I especially like the "meeting bit", where different people look for their loved one.

The only low point of the video, that actually makes me cringe, is the 80's look of the girl: heavy make up, tan and pale blue jeans. Apart from that, a perfect video for a perfect song. 

[jezzyby47]

@Vispateresa3 - It's an 80s song, and an 80s video. What look did you want her to have?

[Vispateresa3]

@jezzyby47 Right: it's an 80s video, but the song doesn't belong stricly to the 80's. It could have been written in any other period. It's an immortal song (this is why it aged so well). And this is why the 80's look of the girl is a bit out of place. Hope I made myself clear. Ciao

[jezzyby47]

@Vispateresa3 - There are lots of songs that are timeless. You make the video at the same time as you make the song, to promote it. Therefore it would have to be 80s influenced. The video director could have done it in a style of a different era i suppose, but most do it in the style of the time that the song was wrote in. In this case it was 80s. Although it did have a 60s car in it.

[ripples01]

What Annie lennox a better version? No offense but this is one of the near perfect bits of music wriiten and sung.

I defy anyone to listen to this in the early hours of morning and not be moved. Sometimes I have to stop playing this song, as I think I might cry, because of how good it is (as is the rest of Hats)

Im sure it would make a great track in a movie and give it the fame it deserves

[softairsnipero]

Thumbs up if Scoutthedoggie was here!

[JackieP1978]

@Vispateresa3

I think hats is my fave album of all time.Nothing else makes me feel like that album.I like all Blue Nile but hats for me was just so much.I loved it then and love it now.It will always sound great.

[MrCassavius]

my kind of music, my kind of atmosphere, my kind of band

[djdudemanhey]

Like a fine red wine.....this was my best closer song in the early 90's. Man it brings back mamories....er memories

[Catriona5z]

My friend's dad is in this video!!

[ghicaccatta]

i know another official video clip....but this is offical too!!!!

[ba1428]

Didnt go to see them in Boston at the Paradise in 88? Passed by the sign, kept driving. I was a 24 yr old shithead. Mistake of my life(among many others)

[RUSHEBOY]

Aint this just Fabulous! it breaks me down beyond words with emotion.

[TheMaisie80]

This is my favourite band, I think they are fabulous....I have all the above mentioned CDs( I am also from Glasgow) living in Yorkshire since the early seventies.....thanks for posting this...