.. whereas ... ?
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 September 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
who is the girl singing on this?
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the actress Carey Mulligan (An Education).
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Thursday, 9 September 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Leakage. Magiska.
― SourPatchCorpse, Sunday, 19 September 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
happy happy joy joy
really looking forward to this.
― Bee OK, Monday, 20 September 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
single's terrible but...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snailu0RnLg
― piscesx, Monday, 20 September 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
that image ilxor posted upthread is still totally classic
http://i39.tinypic.com/24g7rm0.jpg
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Monday, 20 September 2010 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
norah jones is on the album. haven't made it to her song yet. oh, it's started now, it is very norah jones so far even with stuart singing. eh, was monica queen not available? when will monica queen release another record? her last was marvelous. the belle and sebastian record for your mom and dad?
― keythhtyek, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I can actually imagine Murdoch having a solo hit someday within Norah's adult-alternative market (or whatever it's called now). It'd be a one-off like with Edwyn Collins' one-hit wonder.
― Cunga, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a pleasant record, i am sure everyone here will despise it but whatever. it fits them, for where they are now- hanging with hollywood starlets and norah jones. who sings on the first song? is it Sarah Martin?
― keythhtyek, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it's Sarah Martin singing on the first track.
The whole thing feels really slight and understated. I can't remember one of Stuart's melodies, the title track feels like a God Help the Girl leftover, Stevie's one contribution doesn't play to his strengths. I have only played it once, so I could very well change my mind about all of this, but it sounds almost as if there's nothing to really dig into, like they consciously shied away from everything that made their last two records so good to make a record that would sound like a Belle and Sebastian tribute band (and one that didn't understand the appeal of anything the band did after Fold Your Hands Child, which is the only record that seems as weak as this one, and they at least took risks with that).
― rope (lloydwabbitt), Monday, 20 September 2010 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
here is the tracklisting:
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"
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
invaluable information -- an absolute quality post
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
don't worry, i will be posting a lot less...soon.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope that isn't so. i like the individual album-threads you set up. anyway, up to you, obv., but i hope you stick around.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
just in case anyone in this thread missed the tracklist
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
if belle & sebastian do ever record a disc called vengence rising, i hope norah jones will sing on it.
norah jones is so cool.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:30 (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
i should get my wife some chalk and let her do some twee graffiti
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:53 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Tweefiti?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:55 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
gratweetiti
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:56 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark
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:
― 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