Fold Your Hands Child, You Look Like A Peasant

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I like "Nice Day for a Sulk"

lofl

i like every song

Fold Your Hands Child Say Yeah

a few duds, yea, but i love this album. i'd rather listen to it than tigermilk..

I used to own this and can't remember anything about it besides "The Model," "The Wrong Girl," and the title lines of "Nice Day" and "I Fought In The War." Definitely used to put it on from time to time, I guess it just never really stuck. It was the only one of theirs that I ever owned, though, so I didn't really come as a fan trying to unpack its mysteries.

Dear Catastrophe Waitress was playing in a shop the other day and sounded really good to me, wonder if I should check that out...

Dear Catastrophe Waitress and The Life Pursuit (<--especially this one) have turned into my favorites, with Sinister and Tigermilk and the Lazy Line Painter Jane single being the only other ones I'd bother to continue owning.

This album rules and is dope and great as well. “Too Much Love” obviously should have crushed this poll followed by “The Model” because this album is all about the joyful, unrestrained strings.

I should go back to this one. It's never the one I reach for if I get the inclination to revisit B&S

There are more dud tracks than usual but the jigjs, especially the two tracks I mentioned, are sublime

*highs, not whatever i types with the j’s

I think The Model was one of the first songs I ever heard by this band. Too Much Love is one of their greatest songs. I like Woman's Realm too. It's just very patchy and starts a bit like it's going to be some sort of mad concept album and a break from the past before going into slightly-uncomfortable tweeness. That said I think the preceding album is also really patchy.

Really? I don't consider Arab Strap patchy, unless you find all of their records patchy (which I could see). For me FYHCYLLAP def is their first really uneven album. Dear Catastrophe Waitress was their last good album imo.

Life Pursuit >>>>> DCW

^^ It's got 'Funny Little Frog' so nah

"Roy Walker" and "Piazza, New York Catcher" are considerably more headsmacking

and "Dress Up In You", "Another Sunny Day" and "Mornington Crescent" all might make my B&S POX

Yeah there's a lot on Arab Strap I love (Sleep the Clock and the title track) and a lot I just don't really enjoy much at all.

DCW is maybe my favourite even though the first two albums are objectively better. Life Pursuit is really really great but a little bit too long. After that, I have no idea because for me B&S was a bright-burning obsession with me for just a short period in the mid-2000s.

'Dress Up In You' is indeed fantastic

You know what else is great? the B-side 'Desperation Made A Fool Of Me'.

"Roy Walker" and "Piazza, New York Catcher" are considerably more headsmacking

― Simon H., Tuesday, January 9, 2018 2:15 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Among my faves of that record!

Never really got the love for Pizza Catcher. Chacun son gout I guess