The Blue Nile
The Blue Nile is an alternative/pop band from Glasgow, Scotland, known for their perfectionist work ethic and long gaps between releases.
The music of The Blue Nile is built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works have featured acoustic guitar more prominently. Despite the "coldness" often associated with the use of such electronic instruments, The Blue Nile has managed to create music that is deeply emotional Read Full BioThe Blue Nile is an alternative/pop band from Glasgow, Scotland, known for their perfectionist work ethic and long gaps between releases.
The music of The Blue Nile is built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works have featured acoustic guitar more prominently. Despite the "coldness" often associated with the use of such electronic instruments, The Blue Nile has managed to create music that is deeply emotional, and a lot of this has to do with the plaintive vocals of lead singer Paul Buchanan, whom critics have often compared to Peter Gabriel. The lyrics are often stream-of-consciousness descriptions of feelings and environments, which heighten the drama of the compositions, which are as much soundscapes as they are songs.
The band was formed when friends Buchanan and Paul Joseph Moore met Robert Bell shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in the late 1970s. Their debut album A Walk Across the Rooftops was the result of a request from the Linn Company to test a newly built recording studio!
The rare, later albums - which include acclaimed titles like Hats (1989) - have been released by the Scottish high end hifi company Linn and feature exceptional sound and production values.
The music of The Blue Nile is built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works have featured acoustic guitar more prominently. Despite the "coldness" often associated with the use of such electronic instruments, The Blue Nile has managed to create music that is deeply emotional Read Full BioThe Blue Nile is an alternative/pop band from Glasgow, Scotland, known for their perfectionist work ethic and long gaps between releases.
The music of The Blue Nile is built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works have featured acoustic guitar more prominently. Despite the "coldness" often associated with the use of such electronic instruments, The Blue Nile has managed to create music that is deeply emotional, and a lot of this has to do with the plaintive vocals of lead singer Paul Buchanan, whom critics have often compared to Peter Gabriel. The lyrics are often stream-of-consciousness descriptions of feelings and environments, which heighten the drama of the compositions, which are as much soundscapes as they are songs.
The band was formed when friends Buchanan and Paul Joseph Moore met Robert Bell shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in the late 1970s. Their debut album A Walk Across the Rooftops was the result of a request from the Linn Company to test a newly built recording studio!
The rare, later albums - which include acclaimed titles like Hats (1989) - have been released by the Scottish high end hifi company Linn and feature exceptional sound and production values.
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Tinseltown in the Rain
The Blue Nile Lyrics
Why did we ever come so far ?
I knew I'd seen it all before
Tall building reach up in vain
Tinseltown is in the rain
I know now love was so exciting
Tinseltown in the rain
Oh men and women
Here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
One day this love will all blow over
Time for leaving the parade
Is there a place in this city
A place to always feel this way
And hey, there's a red car in the fountain
Tinseltown in the rain
Oh men and women
Here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Do I love you ? Yes I love you
Will we always be happy go lucky ?
Do I love you ? Yes I love you
But it's easy come, and it's easy go
All this talking is only bravado yeah
Oh, Tinseltown
Tinseltown in the rain
Oh men and women
Here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Tinseltown in the rain
Oh men and women
Here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Tinseltown is in the rain
Tinseltown is in the rain
Tinseltown is in the rain
Tinseltown is in the rain
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Do I love you ? Yes I love you
Will we always be happy go lucky ?
Do I love you ? Yes I love you
But it's easy come, and it's easy go
All this talking, talking is only bravado
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Tinseltown is in the rain
Tinseltown is in the rain
Tinseltown is in the rain
Tinseltown is in the rain
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: PAUL GERARD BUCHANAN, ROBERT BELL
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Ronald Corvers
Getting tears in my eyes now I hear this after so many years. Melancholy in its most beautiful form.
Cameron Titus
@Dexter Dylan Instablaster =)
Dexter Dylan
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ally Sinclair
Yep , Scottish but worked in Africa for a few years...had this and their Hats album to hand "downtown lights" misted me a bit...🤫
Camille Anderson
Same 💯
Mark Billington
I'm listening to this now and crying
Yilaugh
I bought this EP (imported) in Berkeley, CA. It was 1984, and very few in the states had ever heard of, or by The Blue Nile. as soon as I got my grubby hands on the hot vinyl, i took it too the hifi stereo store were I was employed. Out of the wrapper, and straight on the platter. I dropped the needle on "Tinseltown in the Rain" at first all the employees (Music snobs all) stopped doing nothing, and began listening to that great opening riff as it churned (Plus the recording sounded fucking great. Man, the bottom was just amazing on those Big Boomers). But practiced indifference soon set in about a minute into the track, they began to turn their backs to the speakers (A universal display of rejection in stereo stores everywhere). But something funny was at work, because by the guitar break, i noticed out of the corner of my eyes, that bodies were moving in time. within a flash everyone in the store was dancing too that addictive beat...and digging it. Thanks Paul
Sam Hocking
For me, one of the standout 'sonic' gems of these times for sure. Sade - No Ordinary Love & Alexander O'Neal - Criticize very close too from purely sonic pleasure.
Patrick Galbraith
remember the club, Berkely Square? I was in the Navy and would drive from Mare Island to forget I was in and would go dance there . There used to be all these Dead Heads all over Berkely, hanging out waiting for Jerry to show up!
Eric Lindsey
Nice.