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Disc 1 – Radio Sessions: The State I Am In, Like Dylan In The Movies, Judy and the Dream of Horses, The Stars of Track and Field, I Could Be Dreaming, Seymour Stein, Lazy Jane, Sleep The Clock Around, Slow Graffiti, Wrong Love, Shoot The Sexual Athlete, The Magic of a Kind Word, (My Girls Got) Miraculous Technique
Disc 2 – Live in Belfast: Here Comes The Sun, Theres Too Much Love, The Magic of a Kind Word, Me and the Major, Wandering Alone, The Model, Im Waiting For The Man, The Boy With the Arab Strap, The Wrong Girl, Dirty Dream 2, Boys Are Back in Town, Legal Man
― DavidM, Saturday, 20 September 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
INTERESTING though wait a miute not all the Peel session tracks are on here - even I can tell that.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 20 September 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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Trying to make a mix for a male friend who I think needs some B&S in my life. Anything missing?
My Wandering Days are Over ExpectationsShe’s Losing ItLazy Line Painter JaneDog on WheelsSeeing Other PeopleMe & the MajorGet Me Away from Here, I’m DyingIf You’re Feeling SinisterLe Pastie de la BourgeoisieMayflyIs It Wicked Not To Care?Dirty Dream Number TwoThe Boy With the Arab StrapLegal ManFamily TreeStep into My Office, BabyIf She Wants MePiazza, New York CatcherWhite Collar BoyThe Blues are Still BlueTake Your Carriage Clock and Shove It
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 May 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
NB I didn't put things like The Boy Done Wrong Again because he's got this idea that they are a sappy folk band, I'm trying to show him they know how to have fun.
well my favorites include:
The State That I Am In, Electronic Renaissance, String Bean Jean, A Summer Wasting, Ease Your Feet In The Sea, Beautiful, Simple Things, Sleep The Clock Around, I'm a Cuckoo, Big John Shaft, Jonathan David, Storytelling, Photo Jenny, This Is Just a Modern Rock Song, Slow Graffiti, Pocketbook Angel
I don't like these ones as much: Dog on Wheels, Mayfly, Legal Man (I know it's harder rock), White Collar Boy (I know it's harder rock), Family Tree, The Blues are Still Blue, Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It
But Finefinemusic, their lyrics are mostly sappy. If I cared at all about the lyrics being sappy though I wouldn't be listening to Belle and Sebastian in the first place. I don't care. The only time the lyrics bother me is when something awkwardly stand out like in The Model when he sings "it was the best sex she ever had". If it wasn't for that line it would be a great song.
― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Friday, 22 May 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
btw, 'God Help The Girl' soundtrack by Stuart has leaked
― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Friday, 22 May 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
If you're trying to prove that they're not a sappy folk band, "Stay Loose" or "Your Cover's Blown" would be ideal, I think.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 22 May 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
God Help The Girl
After the success of the most recent Belle And Sebastian album, "The Life Pursuit", band leader/singer/songwriter Stuart Murdoch decided to pursue his dream of writing a rock musical scored for female singers. After auditioning vocalists via Internet contests, he made his choices and, with all members of Belle And Sebastian backing him up, recorded this breathtaking record. It combines the strengths and feel of early Belle And Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, which draws equally on musicals, 60s girl groups, 80s indie, and most of all, classic pop.
― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Friday, 22 May 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
of the ones I mentioned the least folky are: Simple Things, Sleep The Clock Around, Electronic Renaissance, Slow Graffiti
― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Friday, 22 May 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
xxxp I respectively disagree, I think they tread a nice line of sinful and repentant.. "A sharp suit and a clip-on tie, a big arrow pointing to my fly," "She said you ain't ugly, you can kiss me if you like.." "Saint Theresa's calling her, the church up on the hill is looking lovely," etc. I like their sappy stuff but I don't think it's nearly as infectious and easy to approach as the poppier stuff... I've never really given Storytelling a listen and I see you've mentioned a few songs from there, will check them out -t hanks!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 May 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
jaymc I forgot about YCB, that's a great one but maybe too disco-y for this dude (likes include: Public Enemy, Propoghandi, Gwar) - might stick it in anyway. Never heard Stay Loose! Now I am intrigued.. as well as this God Help the Girl compilation I never heard of, wow!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel that you aren't going to impress him by playing the hardest or most electronic Belle and Sebastian songs. I would stick with the best ones that aren't annoying or boring (Legal Man is annoying. And this guy probably won't like Belle and Sebastian anyways.. so it really doesn't matter.
― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
We were cottaging this weekend and he was into The Blues are Still Blue, which is one you don't seem to like. Legal Man annoying? Or fantastic? I seem to love the stuff that you don't.. but I wouldn't consider any of it hard rock! :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd limit the length of the mix to about 30 or 40 minutes. 74 minutes of B&S is just too much.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you love the ones on the list I made? (maybe you can download them and play em all back to back) Btw, all the songs that I didn't mention on your mix are really good.
― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
what would you trim? I can't bear to edit it down.. this is just going to be a .zip file that I email to him, I am too lazy to make him a mix CD, my computer sucks balls.
I can cut Piazza since that's on the Juno sdtrk and his fiancee plays that frequently. Just wanted to give him a good retrospective than taking my chances and saying "just go get If You're Feeling Sinister"
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah, for sure I love those songs! I am pretty much in love with B&S' entire 1990s output, gave up around Fold Your Hands and have been recently convinced to listen to their newer stuff, hence not knowing any of Storytelling.. never heard Pocketbook Angel, though, is that on ST?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Pocketbook Angel is a rare demo track. Storytelling isn't so good but the title track and Big John Shaft are pretty excellent (and a couple other songs are pretty good).
I already told you what I would trim though
― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Pocketbook Angel was a pre-Tigermilk one that turns up on various sharing sites and that, I don't think it's ever been released. From that era, I like Hurley's Having Dreams, but it wouldn't win you any "they're not twee" arguments.
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I would add Dress Up In You, just because it's lovely. And lose Family Tree, it's awful. It's the one everyone I knew used to use as the excuse to go to the bar during gigs.
― ailsa, Friday, 22 May 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL fair enough ailsa, I stuck it in as an afterthought because I keep getting that "My family tree goes back to the romans" line stuck in my head lately and I think it's kind of cute. I'm much more Stuart than Isobel any day of the week though. I wish B&S were touring so I could just take him to a concert with me, he's a great dancer and I know it'd win anyone over. SO GOOD live.
Sorry Mulvaney the trim q was an xp to f hazel!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Wandering Alone and Storytelling are the hits from that album. Cover (version) is one of my personal faves that isn't sappy. God Help The Girl is a real winner I think. There's an ILM thread on it already.
― everything, Friday, 22 May 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Cover (version)?
― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
nevermind, it's a song off of Books that I don't remember
― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Friday, 22 May 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a filthy, funky, almost instrumental version of Your Cover's Blown.
― everything, Friday, 22 May 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Lazy Line Painter Jane: indie rock's "Don't Stop Believing"?
― Cunga, Saturday, 12 September 2009 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Could you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Saturday, 12 September 2009 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Another song about a small town girl living in a lonely world, taking the mid-night trainbus going anyywwhere, but for the scarves and majored-in-English set. The genre's own fists in the air, stadium anthem.
― Cunga, Saturday, 12 September 2009 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
monica queen needs to release something new already. one day the world will discover how amazing her last record was.
― keythkeythkeyth, Monday, 14 September 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i was unaware she'd done anything other than 77x
― suzi cointreau (electricsound), Monday, 14 September 2009 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i finally got all my B&S things on the computer and was actually shocked as to how much some of the early tracks make me cringe
LLPJ still sounds good tho
― suzi cointreau (electricsound), Monday, 14 September 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
To finish our yearlong celebrations of 10 Years of ATP, we are thrilled to bring back the event that started it all. In 1999 Belle & Sebastian curated The Bowlie Weekender, the event that became All Tomorrow's Parties, and this December they will return to headline and curate Bowlie 2.
The festival weekend will run from the 10th - 12th December at Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead featuring around 40 bands picked by Belle & Sebastian. The first exciting set of line-up additions will be confirmed on Monday at the general on-sale.
info here: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/bowlie2.php
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Cécile Aubry, author of the television show 'Belle et Sébastien', has died
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
What Stuart Murdoch was trying to do with God Help The Girl, Nick Krygovch has done better with his GIGI project. That is all.
― Craigo Boingo, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/Belle_and_Sebastian_author_Cecile_Aubry_dies_at_81_P109189/
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
(Not that I am sure what they were respectively trying to do, but I agree that GIGI is somehow spectacularly successful, and more so to me than GHTG.)
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
saw their north american tour opener tonight and it was so <3
― maura, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
http://athousandflowers.net/2015/03/30/weekly-wanker-049-stuart-murdoch/
Article itself is kind of weirdly intent on proving a single point, but I never thought I'd read about rape and death threats from B&S fans.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 08:02 (nine years ago) link
I decree these albums my favorites!
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 November 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
definitely understand the argument for Dear Catastrophe Waitress at #1, it's the best arranged and best produced at the very least
― ufo, Friday, 23 November 2018 06:06 (five years ago) link
i agree on the top 5 but for me it goes Tigermilk (classsikkk), Barman (has Lazy Line Painter Jane so), DCW (good), Sinister (big statement, slight songs), Strap (an album by a band).
― rip van wanko, Friday, 23 November 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
The Books EP has a special place in my heart and would crack my top 5 releases
― Clam up, seal dick (fionnland), Friday, 23 November 2018 08:30 (five years ago) link
― Clam up, seal dick (fionnland), Friday, 23 November 2018 08:31 (five years ago) link
Won't comment on what Murdoch was trying to do with God Help the Girl because potential libel suits
― Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 November 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link
far be it from me to assume that the libel you had in mind would extend both to ghtg the musical project and ghtg the movie
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 November 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
Didn't even realise there was a musical project but let's assume yeah
― Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 November 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
that Gigi album does indeed rule, I still listen to it a lot. I do like the string arrangement on the title track of GHtG a lot, though.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 23 November 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
was unaware of this movie, looks like torture
― rip van wanko, Friday, 23 November 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
i've had that queued up to watch for two years
― akm, Friday, 23 November 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
i think Fold Your Hands Child is pretty fantastic if you cut out most of the songs that Stuart doesn't sing lead
I Fought in a WarThe ModelDon't Leave the Light on Baby (one of their best songs)Nice Day for a Sulk Women's RealmThere's Too Much Love
― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 November 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link