Ten Favorite Blue Nile Songs
(The Blue Nile is my favorite so-called “sophisti-pop” band. I regard their complete, admittedly very short studio discography—four albums spaced across thirty years, plus a solo album by their frontman Paul Buchanan—as a treasure. Here, in order of preference, are my ten favorite tracks they’ve recorded.)
Family Life
Let’s Go Out Tonight
Mid Air [by Paul Buchanan]
From Rags to Riches
The Downtown Lights
Saturday Night
Tinseltown in the Rain
From a Late Night Train
Broken Love
Because of Toledo
— December 2, 2021