Song · Belle & Sebastian
“The Blues Are Still Blue” by Belle & Sebastian
From the album The Life Pursuit (2006)
“The Blues Are Still Blue” by Belle & Sebastian appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2022 and 2025. It was first released in 2006 on the album The Life Pursuit. Its best result is #144 on The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,685 indie & aaa song of all time.
Belle & Sebastian pulled "The Blues Are Still Blue" from The Life Pursuit, their seventh studio album, as its second single, and Rough Trade put it out on 3 April 2006. Tony Hoffer produced it and engineered with Todd Burke, Tony Doogan mixed, and the writing is credited to the band as a whole, which on paper means Stuart Murdoch, Stevie Jackson, Sarah Martin, Chris Geddes, Richard Colburn, Mick Cooke and Bobby Kildea.
It reached 25 on the UK Singles Chart, and in Australia, where it came out as an EP, it climbed to 43 in June 2006, the only time the Scottish band has cracked the top 50 there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 792 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2024 | 144 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 792 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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