Search And Destroy: Belle And Sebastian

It's a filthy, funky, almost instrumental version of Your Cover's Blown.

Lazy Line Painter Jane: indie rock's "Don't Stop Believing"?

Could you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean.

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.

monica queen needs to release something new already. one day the world will discover how amazing her last record was.

i was unaware she'd done anything other than 77x

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

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

Cécile Aubry, author of the television show 'Belle et Sébastien', has died

What Stuart Murdoch was trying to do with God Help The Girl, Nick Krygovch has done better with his GIGI project. That is all.

http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/Belle_and_Sebastian_author_Cecile_Aubry_dies_at_81_P109189/

(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.)

saw their north american tour opener tonight and it was so <3

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.

I decree these albums my favorites!

definitely understand the argument for Dear Catastrophe Waitress at #1, it's the best arranged and best produced at the very least

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).

The Books EP has a special place in my heart and would crack my top 5 releases

What Stuart Murdoch was trying to do with God Help The Girl, Nick Krygovch has done better with his GIGI project. That is all.

Won't comment on what Murdoch was trying to do with God Help the Girl because potential libel suits

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

Didn't even realise there was a musical project but let's assume yeah

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.

was unaware of this movie, looks like torture

i've had that queued up to watch for two years

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 War
The Model
Don't Leave the Light on Baby (one of their best songs)
Nice Day for a Sulk
Women's Realm
There's Too Much Love

(i actually quite like some of the others as well. 'beyond the sunrise' is a good song but it sounds like it's from a different album/band altogether. but overall they're not quite the same caliber as the Stuart songs)

our rankings are exactly the same alfred! though i think v highly of girls in peacetime and would prob put it at no. 5

The Life Pursuit is also worth a mention. Would probably drop Arab Strap for that or Girls in Peacetime. Sinister is still my favorite.

karl malone otm

i listen to fold your hands, child all the time

Do they have a better song that is slower than “don’t leave the light on baby”? It’s their best ballad imo

it's a great song, and the album cover great, and the title is great, and imo "there's too much love" is their best song

“women’s realm” >>>>>>>>

I got off the wagon, sort of, at Fold Your Hands, but it's hard to remember why when actually listening to it. "The Chalet Lines" and "The Wrong Girl" are also quite respectable.

Letting the other members do songs diluted the power of their albums, but there were still plenty of tunes.

recently put some B&S songs on and they're a much, much better band than they were when I was 14, and I liked them when I was 14

Nobody’s Empire is incredible; possibly their best song IMO. The fact that it’s autobiographical helps I suppose.

"This Is Just A Modern Rock Song" forever

it's seeing other people and i don't love anyone obv

They're a great band, but at a certain point I just couldn't be bothered. Probably more me than them, or likely so. I'm sure having taken so much time away from them will make me appreciate them more. I think "The Life Pursuit" was the last one I heard, and looking at the track listing I liked it. Last two ... definitely haven't heard them.

I'll say this much about them. They might have been the last band, or at least one of the last, whose albums of the nascent internet era were passed around like samizdat. Tigermilk's reputation loomed as large as its elusiveness, and I remember getting an advance of Sinister that made me the envy of many. Or at least, you know, a few.

It's Electronic Renaissance you cretins

ease yr feet tho

step into my office, tho

this band has the most best songs

i want to make it clear that i don't think don't leave the light on baby is their best song, only their best slow song. and that i threw down the challenge of someone naming a better slower song than that by them, which went completely unanswered. as i understand it, this makes it the consensus ballad champion.

you're just a baby, tho

if i make a compilation of songs that end with the word "baby", those two have to be on it

prob not a popular favorite but i think my fav slow belle and sebastian song is “dress up in you”

I fondly remember certain slow songs from the early EPs. "Slow Graffiti" and "You Made Me Forget My Dreams", etc. (Though nowadays I probably pluck Push Barman... off the shelf most often, just generally, for all categories of B&S songs, so...)

Won't comment on what Murdoch was trying to do with God Help the Girl because potential libel suits

For the first time ever I'm interested in Belle & Sebastian.