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