From A Midnight Train - A Blue Nile top ten (plus the rest)
A few years ago I was asked of I'd like to write a Top Ten of The Blue Nile for the excellent getintothis.co.uk. I went a little further that I needed to. Spent two days writing about genius and love. It was a popular piece. Well received. And the website is no longer there. So, for posterity and all that, I thought the piece may as well sit here: (The Youtube links all seem to work, just no idea how to turn them into embedded links on here) From A Late Night Train: The Blue Nile’s top ten fifteen tracks The concept is easy, isn’t it? ‘How do you fancy doing a top ten for The Blue Nile?’ Sound. Well, it’s Hats plus Stay and Tinseltown In The Rain plus one and we’re sorted. Job done. Take ten minutes and the only argument will be whether I put Tinseltown at number one. Which we all know I’m going to. It’s not that easy, it’s not that obvious and no, I haven’t. Tinseltown may well be one of the greatest songs ever written by human beings (spoiler here: it is), a ...