Good choices. The Blue Nile, with only four albums, have a pretty perfect discography. Each album is excellent. "Piano in the Dark" as well...with Joe Esposito on background vocals!
Great batch of songs! I was a Kirsty fan the second I heard a 7" of There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis that a friend brought back from a trip to the U.K. in junior high, and a year or two later he came home with her cover of A New England. I remember interviewing Billy Bragg seven or eight months after she died, and it was still a raw nerve when I brought it up, and I had a hard time keeping it together.
The first time I ever heard Kirsty was when she did her cover of "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" for the soundtrack of SHE'S HAVING A BABY. I was so instantly taken by her voice that I immediately started scouring record stores for her stuff, but at the time it was damned near impossible to find anything of hers stateside, so it was a few more years before I was able to fully immerse myself in her music. I'm so fortunate that I was able to see her live in 1992 when I took a trip to the UK as my college graduation present. She was on the bill for the Fleadh festival at Finsbury Park. Her version of "Train in Vain" was just fab.
I saw The Darkness in Austin in 2004 which might be the coolest thing about me.. what a great time! Will check out this song/album 🤘🏻
Good choices. The Blue Nile, with only four albums, have a pretty perfect discography. Each album is excellent. "Piano in the Dark" as well...with Joe Esposito on background vocals!
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Steve Hogarth (of Marillion) bases his entire schtick on the singer from The Blue Nile
Great batch of songs! I was a Kirsty fan the second I heard a 7" of There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis that a friend brought back from a trip to the U.K. in junior high, and a year or two later he came home with her cover of A New England. I remember interviewing Billy Bragg seven or eight months after she died, and it was still a raw nerve when I brought it up, and I had a hard time keeping it together.
The first time I ever heard Kirsty was when she did her cover of "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" for the soundtrack of SHE'S HAVING A BABY. I was so instantly taken by her voice that I immediately started scouring record stores for her stuff, but at the time it was damned near impossible to find anything of hers stateside, so it was a few more years before I was able to fully immerse myself in her music. I'm so fortunate that I was able to see her live in 1992 when I took a trip to the UK as my college graduation present. She was on the bill for the Fleadh festival at Finsbury Park. Her version of "Train in Vain" was just fab.