tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161538.post7443112686548474262..comments2023-09-23T15:53:32.202+01:00Comments on SongsWithoutWhich: "Stay"Alessandro Vitellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04530297519259498586noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161538.post-60348162762663933582013-02-11T16:04:47.223+00:002013-02-11T16:04:47.223+00:00Great post, yet again. I do love The Blue Nile alb...Great post, yet again. I do love The Blue Nile albums, few of them that there are, but I have to say for pure sonic 80's delights I find Prefab Sprout albums the finest, especially Steve McQueen. The 'Nile comes in a close second...Uncle Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570327775449916376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161538.post-57593428454203824272013-02-11T13:20:48.764+00:002013-02-11T13:20:48.764+00:00When I first saw the title it made me think of Bow...When I first saw the title it made me think of Bowie’s classic song from the equally classic album, ‘Station to Station.’ I’d like to think I knew a thing or two about music, I mean I used to have more than 1,000 albums and gods knows how many singles. I was wrong about the song but more alarmingly way off beam with the band Blue Nile. I thought they were a nineties band. I had, much to my shame, no idea they were one of those techno type bands from the much maligned eighties.<br />I have to say I like the eighties. A decade often decried by muso’s and the intelligentsia but what the hell do they and who cares anyway?<br />As for us Brits doing fey better than anyone else, I think you are right. It strikes me as being a little like Siegfried Sassoon, rather detached from it all while still observing with a despairing eye.<br />This is another fine article. I am so glad you are keeping it up so to speak.<br />Russell CJ Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00519621428036481426noreply@blogger.com