Hats (lost unreleased songs from The Blue Nile album; 1984-1989): Difference between revisions

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Album cover.

Status: Lost

Hats was The Blue Nile's second album, often regarded as their best. The album had a troubled, particularly lengthy production that lasted 5 years. Released in 1989 to nearly-unanimous praise, the band would never match this album's quality.

Given that the album took 5 years to finish, it may come as little surprise that it had many unfinished tracks-reportedly an entire album's worth. Many of the unfinished and scrapped tracks either came from the band not having enough ideas to expand a song or they simply didn't feel that it was good enough for the album.

The original unreleased tracks have never surfaced and Paul Buchanan has never elaborated on what became of them. When the album was remastered and re-released in 2012, many fans anticipated the second disc containing the missing tracks, but it didn't. Little is known about any of the scrapped songs.

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-[[File:71yeU3WOteL. AA1500 .jpg|thumb|300px|''Hats'' album art.]]
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-'''''Hats''''' was The Blue Nile's second album, often regarded as their best. The album had a troubled, particularly lengthy production that lasted 5 years. Released in 1989 to nearly-unanimous praise, the band would never match this album's quality.
+|title=<center>"Hats" Unfinished Tracks</center>
+|image=71yeU3WOteL. AA1500 .jpg
+|imagecaption=Album cover.
+|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
+}}
+''Hats'' was The Blue Nile's second album, often regarded as their best. The album had a troubled, particularly lengthy production that lasted 5 years. Released in 1989 to nearly-unanimous praise, the band would never match this album's quality.
-Given that the album took 5 years to finish, it would probably come as little to no surprise that it had many unfinished tracks. What many people don't know about this, though, is that the album had actually been completed before the tracks were thrown out in exchange for a more ambitious musical direction.
+Given that the album took 5 years to finish, it may come as little surprise that it had many '''unfinished tracks'''-reportedly an entire album's worth. Many of the unfinished and scrapped tracks either came from the band not having enough ideas to expand a song or they simply didn't feel that it was good enough for the album.
-These tracks have never surfaced and Paul Buchanan has never elaborated on what became of them. When the album was remastered and re-released in 2012, many fans anticipated on the second disc containing the missing tracks, of which it didn't. Little details are known about any of the scrapped songs.
+The original unreleased tracks have never surfaced and Paul Buchanan has never elaborated on what became of them. When the album was remastered and re-released in 2012, many fans anticipated the second disc containing the missing tracks, but it didn't. Little is known about any of the scrapped songs.
 [[Category:Lost music|Blue Nile 'Hats' (lost album tracks; 1980s)]]