I dunno, but I'll take any excuse I can to repost this image:
http://i39.tinypic.com/24g7rm0.jpg
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
never not funny
― BLACK METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL!
― skip, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
First B&S thread I've ever clicked on and I hit the jackpot.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
dying @ that cover, ilxor
― markers, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Glad this thread is off to an entertaining start.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
at least the start is entertaining if not the record.
― Zeno, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay we just need BeeOK for the full set I think
― 'ray Clamence (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"In an effort to promote the record in a fun, DIY style, Murdoch is urging fans to take pictures or video of themselves writing "Belle and Sebastian Write About Love" or just "Write About Love" around their own city or town. He set up a Flickr group and everything. And, because he's Stuart Murdoch, he added, "remember to use chalk or at least something non-permanent!" No B&S graffiti bombing plz."
― Zeno, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
totally
― Zeno, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone have access to some film-quality gore effects so we can send in pictures of people spelling out "Belle and Sebastian Write About Love" in entrails
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I second this emotion.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The B & S facebook page thread about this is as excruciating as you would expect. I could have gone to a recording of a promotional TV show about this today, but I went to work instead.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
just want to say that despite all the surrounding gooeyness i don't think these guys are actually capable of making a bad record
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i should get my wife some chalk and let her do some twee graffiti
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Tweefiti?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
gratweetiti
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
btw the fake b&s cover was done by ken c after i gave him the idea, he did a great job.so kudos to ken c!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Would agree with this. But by God do they need a slap for encouraging people to be so slappably mimsy.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Ailsa, I believe you're the one who first suggested that B&S, despite their obvious talent, have this habit of encouraging their fans' worst traits. Once (when I was a wee lad of, oh, OK, I was already 30), I disagreed vehemently. Now I see it as an impediment to my overall enjoyment of the band.
― we wanted lime (mike a), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
just be thankful none of their fans get their knitting out during a gig ;)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
but... what do we write about when we write about love
― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw a pre-show knitter at the jackson browne show the other week. didn't seem like such a bad idea!
― hobbes, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Writing about love is like dreaming about horses.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― we wanted lime (mike a), Wednesday, August 11, 2010 7:06 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
what the hell does this mean
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it means he agrees with her now
― kshighway61 revisited (electricsound), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i understand that but i don't think i understand anything about the rest of it
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
have you met any B&S fans?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
have i met people who like one of the most popular indie bands of the last 15 years? sure have.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Have any of them been the ultra twee insufferably cutesie types?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
no
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i've never been *quite* sure why this type of fan elicits such negative responses, unless it has something to do with the alleged wimpiness factor?
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
so B&S thinks the things that might have worked back in 1996, will work again in 2010?someone is naive - the band, the fans or both of them.
― Zeno, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know, is this just a problem in the uk or something? the twee stereotype is so fucking played and despite having met a million hipsters of various stripes i have found no one who actually fulfills it.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
do b&s fans from '96 still like the '10 version of the band?
i thot they all listened to very truly yours and the motifs these days
― kshighway61 revisited (electricsound), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Quite possibly? It certainly does exist in Glasgow.xp
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg
neil hannon's finest moment tbh.
― Spikey, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I've nothing against them per se, but I can see how they would be annoying if you came across them a lot.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
btw this write the album title and take a picture thing if done by any other band would be treated as a straightforward viral marketing thing--like, welcome to 2010 fellas
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
no and noxpost to electricsound
― Zeno, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't really think of a single popular band that doesn't end up encouraging the worst traits of their hardcore fans
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
in other words, annoying people are annoying
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf is rong with people who knit - winter isn't that far away and the tories are making everything, presumably including heating, uber expensive
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man. This thread wins because someone posted the My Lovely Horse clip. <3 <3 <3.
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Thursday, 12 August 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, i got nothin'
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 August 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
excited about this, can't wait for new stuff
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 August 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, I was a huge fan in '96 and will still stan for the first four albums hardcore. Wasn't as big a fan of the last two but saw them when they toured for both those albums and they were incredible live.
BTW, I have no idea who those two bands you mentioned are and I don't think I'm one of the annoying twee types people are talking about although I have met some and yes, they were British.
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Thursday, 12 August 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh and I've already bought tickets to see them in October so I guess I'll probably buy this album eventually so I'm not totally in the dark.
i liked the last few albums and i'm excited for this one. not like jumping out of my chair excited, but b&s don't really inspire much in me besides quiet muted happiness
― Mordy, Thursday, 12 August 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
on first listen i thought this record was really disappointing
norah jones one was kind of the best song, altho i don't really like her voice at all
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
my wife loves norah Jones; I think she's dull as dishwater.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
so maybe i should explain to Jordan why i posted that info. the post right before that was talking about Sarah Martin singing on the first track. she might be but they only credited two outside singers. also when i looked up the info i thought it was interesting that the album was called Belle & Sebastian Write About Love and not simply Write About Love.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
invaluable information -- an absolute quality post― J0rdan S., Monday, September 20, 2010 8:21 PM (53 minutes ago)
― J0rdan S., Monday, September 20, 2010 8:21 PM (53 minutes ago)
^ invaluable information -- an absolute quality post
― markers, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Although it hurts my heart to say it, I have not been as shockingly disappointed with an album since 'The Hunter.' Disastrously, 'I'm Not Living In The Real World' is not a Blondie cover. This album is inexplicable.
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope I am missing something and my opinion changes.
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I was wrong. I forgot about 'Aerial.'
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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ilx i <3 u
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
jeff tweedy
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
found this somewhere:
Belle & Sebastian Write About Love (also known informally as Write About Love) is the upcoming eighth studio album by Belle & Sebastian, slated to be released on October 11, 2010 on Rough Trade in the UK and on October 12, 2010 on Matador Records.
1. "I Didn't See It Coming"2. "Come On Sister"3. "Calculating Bimbo"4. "I Want The World to Stop"5. "Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John" (Featuring Norah Jones)6. "Write About Love" (Featuring Carey Mulligan)7. "I'm Not Living in the Real World"8. "Ghost of Rockschool"9. "Read the Blessed Pages"10. "I Can See Your Future"11. "Sunday's Pretty Icons"
― the milagro-beanfield war criminal (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
featuring norah jones, you say?
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
the singer
― the milagro-beanfield war criminal (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
invaluable lite jazz
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
waiting for norah jones to be featured on a cee-lo green song. dynamite vocal combo imo.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
f--k you (featuring norah jones)
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
What a non-event this album is on first listen; it should have been called Belle & Sebastian Write Innocuously About Love. Hookless, heartless and bland. I thought the last record was okay, and I loved Dear Catastrophe Waitress, but this is just there. It's not offensively bad - it's just nothing. Aural pap that fills up 40-odd minutes.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
The first few tracks are quite decent and then it flatlines big time. "I'm Not Living in the Real World" is like some horrible combination of the worst tendencies of New Pornographers and Stephin Merritt. "The Ghost of Rockschool" is a spot-on '90s throwback sonically but the emotion just isn't there. Thumbs up for Side A though.
― skip, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
intro to title track was stolen from the refrain of "BAD GIRL" from hong kong cantopop sensation anita mui from 2:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllfYE5jpDY
― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
They were on Jimmy Fallon last night. With Questlove drumming!
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, 30 September 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
they did "write about love". it didn't sound any better live
― I'm a Grizzily Bear Now (CaptainLorax), Friday, 1 October 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
here it is:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Cg2eOHPVk
― Bee OK, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Write About Love"'s beginning nicks the Byrds' "The World Turns All Around Her."
― Cunga, Monday, 4 October 2010 08:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I really like "I Want the World to Stop"
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/06/130382972/belle-and-sebastian-s-business-plan-a-taqueria-in-glasgow
rock stardom w/ murdoch- a road bike and a tacqueria.
― my stomach is full of anger. and pie. (Hunt3r), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
He's been talking about opening up that taqueria for years. I think it's just a pipe dream.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
The first few tracks are quite decent and then it flatlines big time.
― skip, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:29 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yep. Only a couple memorable tracks, and they're both before the 15-minute mark. The guest spots add basically nothing.
The problem is the songwriting; it's in line with what Murdoch gave us on the God Help The Girl project, which is to say it's extremely bland. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the drop in quality, considering The Life Pursuit was the best thing he'd done in a decade.
― Indexed, Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
belle and sebastian write about YOU.
times are gettin' tough out there in need-someone-to-actually-pay-for-music land.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 October 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Gotta be honest, I thought this would finally be the one where P4k turns on them, but I guess not.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 11 October 2010 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm a dedicated fan, but this isn't deserving of an 8.2 at all....I fear they may have become one of Pitchfork's select infallible few, that will get strong reviews no matter what.
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Monday, 11 October 2010 06:31 (thirteen years ago) link
still apologising for The Boy with the Arab Strap
― Spikey, Monday, 11 October 2010 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i really like that one that sounds like 'knives out' by radiohead.
― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm currently listening to the one that sounds like the overture from The Who's Tommy
― Cunga, Monday, 11 October 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda dig "I Didn't See It Coming" -- that's the only thing I've heard off of this so far.
― tylerw, Monday, 11 October 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
on the first few listens, I actually really like this! Also, the songs from it they play live work really well.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, 15 October 2010 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder whether I should never hear this and continue forever to imagine it's very good.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 16 October 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it's better than life pursuit which i hated. saw them live last night, new songs were all really good live. nice return to form. at this point Ijust expect b&s to play their instruments very well and in a very stylized fashion and not be awful, and this succeeds.
― akm, Monday, 18 October 2010 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
liked that the stevie song rips off lyrics from lady sov.
― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this record quite a bit; it's really by-the-numbers but at least it isn't bad like Life Pursuit.
― akm, Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Everett True Non-Review
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Sundays Pretty Icons (the closing track) is a wonderful song
― Daniel Giraffe, Sunday, 23 January 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Richard X remix of "I Didn't See It Coming"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZZlcS50qzw&feature=youtu.be
― Gukbe, Friday, 17 June 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Bob Stanley should sue.
― everything, Friday, 17 June 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to this album for the first time in a long time and it’s not nearly as disappointing as I recall it being at the time. No, it’s not among their best work but the drop-off in quality is not as steep as I remember it being. Most of the first half is really great. The Norah Jones duet is still a bit of a low point (not because of her, it’s just a little sappier and on the nose than typical B&S). The second half of the album is not bad at all, it’s just a bit average for a band 15 years intro their career.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 12 September 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
Don't really care for this album but 'I Didn't See It Coming' is a favourite, one brilliant track is more than you get on most albums.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 12 September 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
"Come On Sister" is as good as any of the good songs on the first 3LP/4EP golden era.
This whole run is some of Stuart at his most melodically daring:
"Don't touch meIf you touch me you could never go backFaithCome on, sister have a drinkHave a seat at the barTell me all about your menAnd your hopesAnd the hours of your life"
When I was on tw@tter ages ago, Stuart tweeted that he forgot how to play the song and he had to watch this youtube cover (the only cover of it on youtube) to relearn it and he was really impressed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7N69Iikoo
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 May 2023 03:48 (eleven months ago) link
seconding that. easily the highlight of this album + one of their best.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Friday, 12 May 2023 04:15 (eleven months ago) link
my fav on this album is 'write about love'
― johnny crunch, Friday, 12 May 2023 11:13 (eleven months ago) link