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:
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
^ invaluable information -- an absolute quality post
― 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 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
my fav on this album is 'write about love'
― johnny crunch, Friday, 12 May 2023 11:13 (ten months ago) link