- Vinyl (23 July 1996)
- Format: Import
- Label: Warner Bros / Wea
- ASIN: B000002MWK
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Happiness |
| 2. Tomorrow Morning |
| 3. Sentimental Man |
| 4. Love Came Down |
| 5. Body and Soul |
| 6. Holy Love |
| 7. Family Life |
| 8. War Is Love |
| 9. God Bless You Kid |
| 10. Soon |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Pop careerists might be excused for regarding The Blue Nile, the Scottish pop trio helmed by singer and songwriter Paul Buchanan, as suicidal: In a business where timing is all, the Nile have managed to squeeze out just three albums in 15 years, supported by only two major concert tours. Why, then, should we care about their music? The answer lies in their deeply emotional, often epic albums, which have made them darlings among a cult as noteworthy for its high-profile peer membership as for its evanescence. Buchanan is a brilliant writer and singer who can channel Sinatra's elegant aloofness and Al Green's ecstatic whisper while remaining staunchly rooted in his Scottish identity, and his songs trade in the mundane details of daily life while reaching for epic scale in their emotional settings. Peace At Last juxtaposes pop splendour and soulful grit in a unique and powerful mix that extends from their two earlier, now out-of-print classics. The trio's lustrous synthesized orchestrations and clipped, largely mid-tempo grooves give Buchanan's reveries an expansive sweep that only makes sense after you've heard it. --Sam Sutherland
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is nothing like Hats or Walk Across The Rooftops. Those albums were beautiful and sad but this one is uplifting, Church on Sunday music. If you haven’t heard The Blue Nile then you’re in for a treat but be prepared for Paul Buchanan’s heartbreaking vocals. You could argue this album isn’t as good as the last two but when the group spend seven years on a record then you really have to give the music time to grow on you. This album shows another side of The Blue Nile equally fantastic and lovingly made. This band is something very special and all their albums worth buying.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I had found The Blue Nile on a sampler some years ago, bought "Hats" and a "Walk Across The Roof Tops" and kind of marked them down as "good but needs time and space to enjoy them" and filed them away at the back of the CD collection. A few years later my partner of the time bought "Peace at Last", and if there's one album that ever hit an emotional chord, it is this one.
There's not too many words that do justice to "Happiness". It is extremely uplifting and heartbreaking at the same time. But that's the beauty of this whole CD. The whole thing is like a freeze frame on someone's life. The songs lend themselves to looking at what might be, is everything going to work out for the singer?
If you have not got this in your CD collection then buy it. It forms a great reference point for what one group can achieve and allows you to compare how other artists treat the same issues. Outstanding!
There's not too many words that do justice to "Happiness". It is extremely uplifting and heartbreaking at the same time. But that's the beauty of this whole CD. The whole thing is like a freeze frame on someone's life. The songs lend themselves to looking at what might be, is everything going to work out for the singer?
If you have not got this in your CD collection then buy it. It forms a great reference point for what one group can achieve and allows you to compare how other artists treat the same issues. Outstanding!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a wonderfully mellow experience altogether! The opening number "Happiness" is one of those songs that immediately chills you out and takes you somewhere a whole lot calmer. Acoustic and rhythm guitars are prominent during the stronger first half and drive some great tunes, "Love Came Down" and "Body and Soul" being standouts. The second half is perhaps a little too wondering, but nothing ever outstays its welcome. As for those awaiting Blue Nile's fourth album, they should meanwhile check out band member Nigel Thomas's "Quiet City - Public Face, Private Face", a very impressive debut that features involvement from most of Nile's other members
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
BEST AT LAST but "Every ones doing it"
YES every ones doing it. Yes this is a great album , but not as good as the other three . Roof tops and hats are albums of their era's . Read more
Published 11 days ago by roymoorings
Allmusic site wrong again: Absolutely brilliant
What were critics thinking about when they gave this one short shrift? The allmusic site gives this just it's 'average' mark - three stars. What nonsense! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Simon Turner
A slight dip in quality
I'm a huge fan of The Blue Nile, but this album was quite a departure from their sublime first two albums 'A Walk Across The Rooftops' and 'Hats'. Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2009 by The Bookworm
Time for another from Blue Nile as good as this one
Easy to forget how old this LP is now but yet somehow it doesn't sound particularly dated - not to these ears anyway. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2009 by Baz
The Blue Nile and Paul Buchanan's Masterpiece !
As I have name checked this album as one of my all time favourites via my other reviews I thought I may as well conclude the job by reviewing this album at long last. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2008 by SMc
Peace at last
Title song is great, but the best song in the collection, one of the best I know, is "Family Life". Beautiful, sad, fragile, magnificent. Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2007 by Kevin Sloane
Mature and graceful third album by the worlds greatest band
The Blue Niles third album came as a bit of a shock after the bruise blue opulence and full blooded romantic vistas of the glorious "Hats". Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2006 by russell clarke
A guide to adult life
"A Walk Across The Rooftops" is a story of teenage infatuation and the discovery of dating. "Hats" tells the tale of heartbreak, growing up and finding the right girl. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2003 by Matt Sephton
Reflective and complex songs.....
This is "The Blue Nile's" first and last album for "Warner Brothers" would you believe they dropped them! Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2003 by Milt Ingarfield
THE MOST SENSUAL ALBUM EVER!
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER HEARD A BLUE NILE ALBUM. I HAVE MET WITH THE BAND ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS AND HAVE FELT BAD FOR NOT LISTENING TO THEIR MUSIC. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2000 by k.skene@theseed.com
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