Who are these people that prefer "The Life Pursuit" to "Dear Catastrophe Waitress", and why?

TLPB&S is consistantly boring.

hay i fixed that one again, the second time

<3<3 'the life pursuit' <3<3

recently realized how much latter day B&S sounds like late 70s/early 80s Kinks, lyrics/music/everything

can't believe it's been 4 years since these guys have released an album.

there's a new one on the horizon right?

DCW has greater highs, but TLP is more consistent.

The idea of B&S releasing an album in 2010 is kind of hard for me to get my head around.

The needless hair splitting in the thread title is hilarious.

DCW has greater highs, but TLP is more consistent.

it is more consistently rubbish, certainly. I re-listened to all my B&S stuff recently, and I was really stunned by how bad TLP is. Even the songs that are a bit better than the others would only count as filler on another B&S album.

I get the idea that a lot of B&S fans do not like DCW that much, but this might be more a factor of thinking they stopped being any good after IYBS.

I remember when DCW, being rather surprised by how good it was. I wish they had stopped then, it would have made a nice late career highlight and finisher.

DCW had a lot of nonsense on it though. TPS has some proper tunes - Dress Up In You is one of their better ballads, the Act Of The Apostle tracks are great too. And To Be Myself Completely is the best song by that one guy who isn't Stuart.

Love TLP, only intermittently engaged by their back catalogue. I'm in a more upbeat phase right now though, so as soon as I go back to mopey music I'm sure I'll begin to prefer Tigermilk etc. But since its release I'm always glad to hear a track from TLP crop up on shuffle but I can't say the same for DCW.

"Dress Up In You", "Sukie", "White Collar Boy", that other T-rex one, what was it, oh yeah, "Blues are Still Blue", "Another Sunny Day", to a somewhat lesser extent "Frog" and "Apostle I & II"... love 'em. This record feels to me like (not sounds like) one of the Smiths' better albums; I retrieve similar pleasures from it. I do recall there were a couple of stinkers on it, though.

I like TLP but I'm pretty sure it's my least favorite B&S album (BWTAS being the most favorite, obv)

TLP is the only B&S i still think to put on these days. i tried listening to sinister a few weeks ago and i just couldn't relate to it anymore.

Neither album compares well with their earlier albums, but TLP is such a dog of an album.

raises hand, i love The Life Pursuit always puts me in a good mood.

Who are these people that think any one LP that came out after 'The Boy with the Arab Strap' is the best Belle and Sebastian LP as opposed to those before and including TBwtAS?

People that focus on lyrics more than the music?

I think this may be true as I love lyrical construction and wordplay and TLP ranks high for these in my very blinkered tastes.

DCW has greater highs, but TLP is more consistent.
This is the correct take. I love them both equally

I don't think I'd listened to either since the poll a couple of years ago. A ridiculous track-by-track showdown after such a hiatus suggests that it might be a tie for me. I barely had to think at all to select a winner in each match, and the more annoying bits of each record are neatly eliminated, lol. A compilation of the victors could even be their best LP. Sorta. Maybe.

THE LIFE PURSUIT                 DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS              WINNER
Act of the Apostle 1+2           Step into My Office, Baby              TLP - 
Another Sunny Day                Dear Catastrophe Waitress              TLP - 
White Collar Boy                 If She Wants Me                         - DCW
The Blues Are Still Blue         Piazza, New York Catcher                - DCW
Dress Up in You                  Asleep on a Sunbeam                    TLP - 
Sukie in the Graveyard           I'm a Cuckoo                            - DCW
We Are the Sleepyheads           You Don't Send Me                      TLP - 
Song for Sunshine                Wrapped Up in Books                     - DCW
Funny Little Frog                Lord Anthony                           TLP - 
To Be Myself Completely          If You Find Yourself Caught in Love     - DCW
For the Price of a Cup of Tea    Roy Walker                             TLP - 
Mornington Crescent              Stay Loose                              - DCW

Both albums are maybe a song or two too long but a compilation of the best of both would beat even Sinister

In my head DCW is my favourite, but looking at the two tracklistings it's very very close

And man, TLP sounds BIG today. It kinda rocks. Those horns at the end of "Sukie"...

"mornington crescent" and "dress up in you" are probably among my 5 or 10 most played B&S songs

Dress Up In You is definitely a career highlight.

Very keen on To Be Myself Completely as well. Maybe my favourite non-Murdoch song?

DCW has greater highs, but TLP is more consistent.
This is the correct take. I love them both equally

this is pretty much where I'm at in theory, but the reality is that I only ever listen to a few songs off either of them these days.

Very keen on To Be Myself Completely as well. Maybe my favourite non-Murdoch song?
Yeah, that's definitely my favorite Stevie Jackson song