A Walk Across the Rooftops [Import]

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Available again at a lower price. Deleted in the U.S., the Glaswegian trio's acclaimed 1984 debut album. Contains seven tracks, including 'Tinseltown In The Rain' and 'Stay'. Standard jewel case.

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A Walk Across the Rooftops [Import]

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THE best debut album bar none.....
brilliant 1983 blue nile debut.
One of the best songs ever heard
Brilliant
Pretty darn good, but...

A Walk Across the Rooftops
The Blue Nile
Manufacturer: Caroline
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Hats
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ASIN: B00000I3JM
Release Date: 2001-03-27

Tracks:

A Walk Across The Rooftops
Tinseltown In The Rain
From Rags To Riches
Stay
Easter Parade
Heatwave
Automobile Noise

Album Description

Available again at a lower price. Deleted in the U.S., the Glaswegian trio's acclaimed 1984 debut album. Contains seven tracks, including 'Tinseltown In The Rain' and 'Stay'. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Their 1984 Debut Release. Includes the Minor UK Hit Single "Stay". The Gorgeous "Easter Parade" is a Glimpse of their Atmospheric Signature Sound that was Later Fully Realized on their Acclaimed Second Release 'hats'.

Customer Reviews:

THE best debut album bar none............2007-06-01

A Walk Across the Rooftops....on graduation day....

1983. Still timeless, beautiful, melancholy. IMHO the best debut album of all time. Still sounds incredible. A must have for any serious appreciator of pure emotional songwriting.... The follow up HATS is also a must have. The 3rd album Peace at Last (1996) has some gems (Family Life, Happiness), and their fourth album, High, is in my view their weakest to date BUT... having said that, the bar was raised IMPOSSIBLY high with the first two albums.....

Overall.... essential music for any collection. A welcome cup of coffee on a rainy afternoon.....

brilliant 1983 blue nile debut........2007-02-26

this is extraordinary elegant, sophisticated pop music. with its synthesized sounds, strings, electronics, and other exotica, much of this music would fit easily on early brian eno albums. highly creative, this recording also sports much in the way of big bass and drum sounds; however, it is the singer that really gives this its classic feel. the vocals are stunning, emotionally charged and full of yearning. just a great, great cd. don't miss this or any of the other 3 blue nile recordings; they are all outstanding.

One of the best songs ever heard.......2007-01-09

TINSELTOWN IN THE RAIN is for me one of my best 10 songs ever if not the first. Abosolutely a work of art. Moving and gorgeous. The rest of the album is one of my favorites by far. Together with HATS, both are those records I would take to a dessert island.
cheers

Brilliant.......2006-08-08

I am not going to go on too much at length about The Blue Nile and A Walk Across the Rooftops other than to say I first heard it in 1984 and to this day I still consider it one of the most brilliant albums I have ever heard. If you have any musical intelligence, you will recognize it immediately.

Pretty darn good, but..........2006-06-04

Ever since I first heard The Blue Nile, about seven years ago, I was hooked. Paul Buchanan's voice was one of the most special I'd heard in a long time. Yet, as amazing as I found "A Walk Across the Rooftops" to be, they never did anything remotely as powerful as their album "Hats". As a matter of fact, it may very well be one of the best albums ever recorded, one of those proverbial albums to take with you to a desert island...

Just because of that shortcoming, I cannot give this one more than four stars. It's pretty good, yes, but "Hats" is where you need to start if you are going to dig into The Blue Nile's music.

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A quiet, passionate masterpiece
It started Something
Modern Art
Modern Art
Modern Art

A Walk Across the Rooftops
The Blue Nile
Manufacturer: A&M
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

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General | Rock | Styles | Music
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Peace at Last
High
Hats
Hats

ASIN: B000008DKG
Release Date: 1993-01-04

Tracks:

Walk Across the Rooftops
Tinseltown in the Rain
From Rags to Riches
Stay
Easter Parade
Heatwave
Automobile Noise

Customer Reviews:

A quiet, passionate masterpiece.......2004-01-13

Supremely original and uncategorizable pop music from this artistic Glasgow, Scotland trio. At first impression this beautifully produced 20-year-old but ageless debut's sound is more ambient, atmospherically textured and stark than their excellent followup "Hats." "A Walk Across the Rooftops"'s evocative soundscape sometimes call to mind the Cocteau Twins and Rain Tree Crow (the 1990 album by David Sylvian and the reformed Japan.) But repeated listening brings to the fore the passion of Paul Buchanan's soulful and unforgettable dawnbreaker vocals and tactile and poetic urban-detailed lyrics. (Glasgow, its buildings, streets and people, seems to be an almost spiritual influence.) A sense of romantic yearning and loneliness on songs like "Easter Parade," "Tinstletown in the Rain" and "Stay" call to mind (of all things) 'Only the Lonely'-period Frank Sinatra. It's difficult to overpraise this record. It might be appreciated by fans of Kate Bush, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, Nick Drake and David Sylvian.

It started Something.......2003-10-24

I first heard this album in 1994, one year after its release. It was a different sound than could be found at the time. It had some special characteristics that I'd never heard before.
The Blue Nile, from Glasgow, Scotland, made up of four men who wanted more from being musicians than the fame that pop music had brought many of their contemporaries, made this masterpiece on a low budget, using Studio downtime.
The result was a collection of edgy, harsh but mysterious tracks, still loaded with craft and melody, and a voice that drew its character more from Sinatra than Le Bon.
Its starts with the title track "A Walk Across the Rooftops". A combination of street sounds, synth orchestra and bass guitar, which breaks noisily into the red.
"Tinseltown in the Rain", which time would prove to be writer Paul Buchanan best, reaches heights I had never before experienced. Its piled higher and higher with rhythm, texture, emotion, and a driving sense of urgency..I will listen to this song forever.
Each of the tracks seems to transport you to another place and time, I can still remember my first journey's. Side two takes you to melancholy Sunday afternoons in the spring. "Easter Parade", and you can hear and smell those quiet, yet colourful days..I could feel the morning dew.
I recommend this album to you.

Modern Art.......2003-05-08

There are guitars here that sound like U2 in Joshua Tree four years before U2 started sounding like that. There are songs here that rival Tears for Fears before that band became a band. I contend that in a deep undergroud somewhere and sometime in the early '80s, blokes from other bands got together, heard some songs off Walk Across the Rooftops, figured out which ones they could copy to make a career; then executed their plan. Almost every song on this CD is different and begins with a random modern art type song that seems fragmented, but integrates beautifully and keeps your interest. The second song is the one that sounds like Tears for Fears. It is so well done you'll want to play it over and over. This is not experimental music; it is art uniquely conveyed, each song its own entity ranging from pure pop modern art to blues, jazz and rock. If you are student of music, this will surely satisfy your thirst for the unique.

Modern Art.......2003-05-08