Will It Last - The Blue Nile Mix

1. Let's Go Out Tonight (Hats, 1989)
2. A Walk Across The Rooftops (A Walk Across The Rooftops, 1984)
3. Headlights On The Parade (Hats)
4. Stay (AWATR)
5. Soul Boy (High, 2004)
6. The Downtown Lights (Hats)
7. Regret (b-side "Tinseltown In The Rain" 12" single, 1984)
8. Because Of Toledo (High)
9. Easter Parade (AWATR)
10. Halfway To Paradise (b-side "The Downtown Lights," 1989)
11. I Would Never (High)
12. O Lolita ("Happiness" CD maxi-single, version 1, 1996)
13. Family Life (Peace At Last, 1996)
14. Tinseltown In The Rain (AWATR)
15. Happiness (PAL)

Thanks, Phil! I was just listening to "Hats" today at work.

And I just listened to it yesterday at work! We're sending Karmic royalties to the Blue Nile.

Why hasn't somebody like Wes Anderson used a Blue Nile song in a movie and gotten them some actual monetary royalties?

always been interested in this band from the few songs Ive heard - thanks.

There's a 1990 documentary about The Blue Nile called Flags & Fences which I've never seen. Supposed to have live performances and good interviews. I'll look around. Maybe I can find it streaming somewhere or downloadable.

Nice, Phil! I LURRRRRRRRVE this band. "Easter Parade" is such an understated yet powerful song.

When I was downloading rarities, there was one that was supposedly David Sylvian & The Blue Nile.

It wasn't. It was some off-key z-grade Erasure-sounding group.

If that was Sylvian, it wasn't good.

But you can't count on every filesharer to get the artists right on a tune.

I did find the instrumental version of "Automobile Noise" though. Called "Saddle the Horses." Pretty cool.

whoa Lord Frost, nice one! dl'ing now.

It's a shame that (if I remember right) two of the songs are at 128 kps, but that's all I could track down at the time. Listened to all the tracks and they sounded fine, though.

Want to do an Aztec Camera mix but have misplaced my Knife and Stray cds. That won't do. Will have to locate them.

gonna git me this whens I gets home 2-nite.

If you don't have it, try to find the song "Breaking the Rules" from the Robbie Robertson album Storyville--the Blue Nile's the backing band.

this is the best mix i've downloaded from Obner yet. good shit spoony love from up above.

i had no idea Blue Nile were this freakin good.

yeah they're sick. criminally underrated.

srsly.

"Let's Go Out Tonight" could be one of the best songs i've ever heard. Has such a Roxy Music vibe....subtle and sullen.

Spoon, i owe you bigtime. This has been on repeat for the past hour.

Yeah I've been looking for that because I've got 13 tracks for a Vol 2 mix, including the Peter Gabriel/Richie Havens/Paul Buchanan track from Ovo.

I'll zip and sendspace the second mix after I find it.

hey Frosting, can you upload "Hats" by any chance (the entire album)??

Yeah, I'll do it by tomorrow.

brilliant, thanks!

Make Tomorrow: The Blue Nile Mix, Vol 2

1. From Rags To Riches (A Walk Across The Rooftops, 1984)
2. Sentimental Man (Peace At Last, 1996)
3. Saturday Night (Hats, 1989)
4. Automobile Noise (AWATR)
5. Seven A.M. (Hats)
6. Easter Parade (with Ricky Lee Jones, "Headlights On The Parade" single, 1989)
7. Stay Close (High, 2004)
8. Heatwave (AWATR)
9. Saddle The Horses (instrumental version of "Automobile Noise" from "Stay" remix single, 1984)
10. Broken Loves (High)
11. Breaking The Rules (from Robbie Robertson's Storyville, 1991)
12. God Bless You, Kid (Peace At Last)
13. Everybody Else (High)
14. Over The Hillside (Hats)
15. Make Tomorrow (Peter Gabriel, Paul Buchanan, Richie Havens & Iarla Lionaird, Ovo, 2000)

Steve, notice the Robbie track is on the second mix, plus the Ricky Lee Jones track and the Gabriel Ovo performance.


Snakes On The Nile!

Bump for polly girl.

Will have to upload Hats tomorrow, Dalen. As a somewhat drunken individual highly annoyed with the Red Sox right now, I'd probably screw it up. You don't accidently want a burn of Cats, probably.

no worries homie. listened to your mixes today at work, and i can't believe i have never discovered The Blue Nile.

appreesh!

Thanks for these. Blue Nile... one of the greatest, most unrecognized bands. I've seen them live twice... and like Peter Gabriel, his voice seemed impossibly better live. I was just slightly diappointed in the last "Happy at Last" or whatever it was called. Scots should be melancholy.

Dalen, here's Hats:


6 of the 7 tracks were on the mixes, all except "From A Late Night Train."

That version of "Easter Parade" with Rickie Lee Jones I put on one of the mixes was a b-side to "Headlights On The Parade."

I'll look around for the b-side singles to "Downtown Lights." Those were "The Wires Are Down" and "Halfway To Paradise."

And the b-side to one of the "Saturday Night" maxi-singles had a piece called "Our Lives" which had 3 parts to it ("Lost"/"Bolivia/"New York"). I'll see if I can find those too, if you want to create a sort of expanded version of Hats.