The Blue Nile - a walk across the rooftops album flac

A Walk Across the Rooftops is the debut album by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released on 30 April 1984 on Linn Records in the UK and on A&M Records in the US. Although the album was released to little fanfare and was not a big hit on its initial release, it slowly accumulated fans and sales through word of mouth as the years passed, and by the time the follow-up Hats was released in 1989, A Walk Across the Rooftops had sold 80,000 copies. It continued to gather praise when reissued in 2012.

Undaunted by this setback, the trio continued to play gigs around Glasgow, starting to write their own songs alongside the cover versions they were playing. Having no drummer and with limited musical ability, particularly in Buchanan's guitar playing (he later admitted that "we could play a little, but I was the worst by a long way"), the newly formed Blue Nile adopted an atmospheric, electronic approach primarily out of pragmatism. In June 1996, seven years after Hats, the Blue Nile released their third album, entitled Peace at Last. The album displayed a marked difference in style to the first two records, with Buchanan's acoustic guitar work more to the fore.

The Blue Nile's debut album has a rather fascinating genesis. Scotland's Linn Electronics wanted a demo track to demonstrate the fidelity and versatility of their new recording console and tapped a struggling local trio, the Blue Nile, to provide it. Their effort was a deliberately disjunctive song called "A Walk Across the Rooftops. Linn liked the song so much that they formed a record label and bankrolled the recording of this full album. The seven lengthy tracks on A Walk Across the Rooftops all follow the model of the opener, with Paul Buchanan's rich voice at the center of near-symphonic arrangements that manage to sound lush and incredibly austere at the same time. The tempos are deadly slow, with the most upbeat track, "Tinseltown in the Rain," barely rising above a graceful saunter, and the inventive arrangements make extensive use of empty space.

Band Name The Blue Nile. Album Name A Walk Across the Rooftops. Wydawcy Linn Records. Styl muzycznyNew-Wave. Zarejestrowanych posiada ten album0. 1. A Walk Across the Rooftops. 2. Tinseltown In the Rain. 3. From Rags To Riches.

1984’s A Walk Across the Rooftops remains unique in its fusion of chilly technology and a pitch of confessional, romantic soul that ‘alternative’ types would usually shy away from for fear it wasn’t ‘cool’. It was always (at least) two things at once: in the years since, its peerless power to affect has accrued multiple layers of rueful resonance. People tend to flag up The Blue Nile’s Scottishness, as if geography and accidents of birth were responsible for artistic vision; but surely, again like Hopper, the dreams and tears here are universal. The city streets, cars, rooftops, rain, couples and love documented and expressed so delicately throughout the seven songs are potentially everywhere, any time, caught up in this big rhythm. This is why the band stood out then and hover above now; both everymen and angels.

Fortunes change for Sheffield's electronic pioneers The Human League in 1980 and Glasgow's The Blue Nile make an album often used to demonstrate the best HiFi systems in 1984. Johnnie and David Hepworth conclude this final series of Long Players series with a look at two more classic albums. One from 1980 changed the fortunes of a Sheffield electronic band and gave us some of the most played tracks in the world (more than 89 million this site streams for Don’t You Want Me alone). Johnnie describes A Walk Across The Rooftops as something which should be heard in its entirety with your full attention, despite the fact that this was the start of the era of taking music with you on the move.

I walk across the rooftops I follow a broken thread Of white rags falling slowly down Flags caught on the fences. I am in love, I am in love with you I am in love, I am in love with you. I walk across the rooftops The jangle of Saint Steven's bells The telephones that ring all night Incommunicado. The traffic lights are changing The black and white horizon I leave the quiet redstone And walk across the rooftops. I walk across the rooftops On graduation day To find independence, yeah