This is one of my top five albums, From the very first moment I heard the opening notes, I was hooked. Gone. I'm still stunned by it. And it came at a time when I was bored by music. I couldn't find anything to be amazed by. Everything new, or new to me, was just, well that's ok.
Then I heard the song Mid Air on that time-travel romcom movie About Time, and was just gooone on that song. It didn't take me long to find the Blue Nile.
This album changed my life. Changed my musical listening. It completely opened me up to all those 80s bands that were uncool when I turned 13, back in 1990. (Go ahead, start counting).
It made me revisit The Cure, which I now count as in my top 10, New Order, Joy Division obvs, Talk Talk (holy crap THAT band), Pixies (yeah, I know), REM, Dead Kennedys,
But all that came later. First, there was the Blue Nile's back catalogue. And, at the same time I found Swans.
Now I'll read the piece.
Honestly, I am just so disappointed and sad for all these women and Mandy Moore. I've loved his music for a very long time. I still remember the the first time I picked up New York and listened to it. I'm just so sad, esp for these women who have been treated so horribly, so badly.
Amen, Chris. This is one of the best things I've read on Christian music. As someone who grew up in the church, and still goes - and worked in Christian radio for years - I despair at times of what I see as an increasingly safe industry. For a time in the 90s and into the early 2000s, there was clear experimentation ... but I no longer see that. Lauren Daigle isn't my scene/sound but you've made me curious and I'll read the piece you mentioned immediately.
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