― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
*runs for cover*
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
next time: me, hstencil, and shakey mo will karaoke it over "century of elvis".
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
(the above 's from the ile what-are-you-listening-to-today thread, though as to whether mark s did dig 'em or not... go figure)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Samson, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
The absolute worst B&S song is the duet that Isobel and Stevie sing on Fold Your Hands...I think it's called "Before The Sunrise". That song is painfully bad, I often think of it as being one of the worst songs I've ever paid to own a copy of.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 02:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Trina, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 05:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
I look forward to the *sound* of future B&S records, even if the songs might be a bit flimsy. I liked Storytelling quite a bit and I got the (perhaps entirely mistaken) impression that it was a Stevie-driven thing.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Do you like Bernard Sumner too?
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Or: the pinefox is to B&S as Roy Hattersley is to 'socialism'.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
I first heard it at THE VICAR'S HOUSE. (The Old Vicarage - it's just inside THE PHOENIX PARK.) It sounded surprising - as in: 'jeez, what's this - a new B&S record??'. It seemed to me to have arrived very suddenly.
It has some fine tunes. That comment looks blander than it should. It really does have one or two fine tunes.
Swearing should be banned from pop song titles, though.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
it also has samples of dialogue from the film. They are great, particularly the one about how great New Jersey is. Having heard these snippets of dialogue I feel that the best of the film has been extracted for me. Thanks B&S!
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
tigermilk = the first oneif you're feeling sinister = the 5000 spirits....arab strap = hangman's beautiful daughter
and after that will come a bunch more, none that are actually TERRIBLE but nothing essential or particularly inspired.
― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
B & S have become an easy target now that they are no longer making the same kind of music and having the impact that they had a few years ago, when they were as loved as deeply and pointlessly as any schmindie band had been for years.
They are what they are - an oasis of mostly gorgeous sweet, inoffensive and occasionally beautiful well-crafted pop at a time when there is little like it around, and they should be cherished for it.
ps: I think Stuart Murdoch ought to give up trying to combine management duties at Wimbledon with leading B & S - it's affecting his workload !
― darren (darren), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
this is worth emphasising - they have become such a kickarse big fun live band it's almost hard to believe, especially if you saw ye liveliest awfulnesse that was their gig in Dublin's Olympia (looooong gaps between songs, manifestly bad vibes onstage, Stuart smashing his guitar, etc.).
that said, Isobel leaving loses the band an air of entertaining onstage mentalism.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
A bit of 'Ashes To Ashes' at the beginning, too.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:36 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
― brandon, Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link
bastards! i just ripped off that same bassline. back to the drawing board.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 30 August 2003 05:04 (twenty years ago) link
Often referred to as the 'greatest Scottish band ever',
You could remove the word "Scottish" from there and you'd get no argument from me.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 10 November 2008 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
wit & sebastian
― ban or astroban? (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 10 November 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
it just strikes me as kind of ummmmmm that a band as derivative as Belle & Sebastian would be championed as the best specimen of anything
― ban or astroban? (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 10 November 2008 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
is there anyone ever who didnt like If You're Feeling Sinister?
― Kevin Keller, Monday, 10 November 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
yes kevin, there are many people in this world who don't like that album
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Monday, 10 November 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Probably most people, if you could play it for every person in the world.
― funky president (call all destroyer), Monday, 10 November 2008 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link
that's a good point
― Kevin Keller, Monday, 10 November 2008 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
That list of the best Scottish band upthread is a peyle of shyte, fer fooks sake. No BMX Bandits, no cred.
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Monday, 10 November 2008 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
surely most people would like the eps more than sinister
― psychgawsple, Monday, 10 November 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
or the life pursuit
― psychgawsple, Monday, 10 November 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I've found the best B&S album to play to someone whose never heard them is Dear Catastrophe Waitress.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 10 November 2008 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
That's because Dear Catastrophe Waitress is easily their very best album. (ducks & runs..)
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
This is straight up madness, as The Life Pursuit was pretty much the only thing by B&S worth hearing since If You're Feeling Sinister.
― Johnny Fever,
you are deaf
― akm, Monday, 10 November 2008 06:07 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ werd
― psychgawsple, Monday, 10 November 2008 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
whenever i'm in a record shop in glasgow and they're playing some unspeakable shite over the sound system, it always turns out to be belle and sebastian
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 10 November 2008 07:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw a review this morning, seemed to suggest that the christmas session was an extra on CD2..
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 November 2008 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I see what they've done...
The Belfast show was a christmas gig.
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 November 2008 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Their b-sides and EP collections feature their best work. Hooking up with Trevor Horn was a bad idea in the long run, but where else would they have taken their sound? Oh well, still have the early music.
― Cunga, Thursday, 13 November 2008 08:58 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJbIqiBNQX0
― call me king bubbles and sound like a sheik sheik (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Such a great live band. The audience is getting older and surlier though. Someone threw spitballs at me for standing & dancing when they played at a seated concert hall in Toronto last year :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the youtube that I posted is strangely amazing btw
― call me king bubbles and sound like a sheik sheik (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't stop watching it
― call me king bubbles and sound like a sheik sheik (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link