Search And Destroy: Belle And Sebastian

btw, 'God Help The Girl' soundtrack by Stuart has leaked

If you're trying to prove that they're not a sappy folk band, "Stay Loose" or "Your Cover's Blown" would be ideal, I think.

God Help The Girl

After the success of the most recent Belle And Sebastian album, "The Life Pursuit", band leader/singer/songwriter Stuart Murdoch decided to pursue his dream of writing a rock musical scored for female singers. After auditioning vocalists via Internet contests, he made his choices and, with all members of Belle And Sebastian backing him up, recorded this breathtaking record. It combines the strengths and feel of early Belle And Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, which draws equally on musicals, 60s girl groups, 80s indie, and most of all, classic pop.

of the ones I mentioned the least folky are: Simple Things, Sleep The Clock Around, Electronic Renaissance, Slow Graffiti

xxxp I respectively disagree, I think they tread a nice line of sinful and repentant.. "A sharp suit and a clip-on tie, a big arrow pointing to my fly," "She said you ain't ugly, you can kiss me if you like.." "Saint Theresa's calling her, the church up on the hill is looking lovely," etc. I like their sappy stuff but I don't think it's nearly as infectious and easy to approach as the poppier stuff... I've never really given Storytelling a listen and I see you've mentioned a few songs from there, will check them out -t hanks!

jaymc I forgot about YCB, that's a great one but maybe too disco-y for this dude (likes include: Public Enemy, Propoghandi, Gwar) - might stick it in anyway. Never heard Stay Loose! Now I am intrigued.. as well as this God Help the Girl compilation I never heard of, wow!

I feel that you aren't going to impress him by playing the hardest or most electronic Belle and Sebastian songs. I would stick with the best ones that aren't annoying or boring (Legal Man is annoying. And this guy probably won't like Belle and Sebastian anyways.. so it really doesn't matter.

We were cottaging this weekend and he was into The Blues are Still Blue, which is one you don't seem to like. Legal Man annoying? Or fantastic? I seem to love the stuff that you don't.. but I wouldn't consider any of it hard rock! :)

I'd limit the length of the mix to about 30 or 40 minutes. 74 minutes of B&S is just too much.

Do you love the ones on the list I made? (maybe you can download them and play em all back to back) Btw, all the songs that I didn't mention on your mix are really good.

what would you trim? I can't bear to edit it down.. this is just going to be a .zip file that I email to him, I am too lazy to make him a mix CD, my computer sucks balls.

I can cut Piazza since that's on the Juno sdtrk and his fiancee plays that frequently. Just wanted to give him a good retrospective than taking my chances and saying "just go get If You're Feeling Sinister"

oh yeah, for sure I love those songs! I am pretty much in love with B&S' entire 1990s output, gave up around Fold Your Hands and have been recently convinced to listen to their newer stuff, hence not knowing any of Storytelling.. never heard Pocketbook Angel, though, is that on ST?

Pocketbook Angel is a rare demo track. Storytelling isn't so good but the title track and Big John Shaft are pretty excellent (and a couple other songs are pretty good).

I already told you what I would trim though

Pocketbook Angel was a pre-Tigermilk one that turns up on various sharing sites and that, I don't think it's ever been released. From that era, I like Hurley's Having Dreams, but it wouldn't win you any "they're not twee" arguments.

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I would add Dress Up In You, just because it's lovely. And lose Family Tree, it's awful. It's the one everyone I knew used to use as the excuse to go to the bar during gigs.

LOL fair enough ailsa, I stuck it in as an afterthought because I keep getting that "My family tree goes back to the romans" line stuck in my head lately and I think it's kind of cute. I'm much more Stuart than Isobel any day of the week though. I wish B&S were touring so I could just take him to a concert with me, he's a great dancer and I know it'd win anyone over. SO GOOD live.

Sorry Mulvaney the trim q was an xp to f hazel!

Wandering Alone and Storytelling are the hits from that album. Cover (version) is one of my personal faves that isn't sappy. God Help The Girl is a real winner I think. There's an ILM thread on it already.

Cover (version)?

nevermind, it's a song off of Books that I don't remember

It's a filthy, funky, almost instrumental version of Your Cover's Blown.

Lazy Line Painter Jane: indie rock's "Don't Stop Believing"?

Could you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean.

Another song about a small town girl living in a lonely world, taking the mid-night trainbus going anyywwhere, but for the scarves and majored-in-English set. The genre's own fists in the air, stadium anthem.

monica queen needs to release something new already. one day the world will discover how amazing her last record was.

i was unaware she'd done anything other than 77x

i finally got all my B&S things on the computer and was actually shocked as to how much some of the early tracks make me cringe

LLPJ still sounds good tho

To finish our yearlong celebrations of 10 Years of ATP, we are thrilled to bring back the event that started it all. In 1999 Belle & Sebastian curated The Bowlie Weekender, the event that became All Tomorrow's Parties, and this December they will return to headline and curate Bowlie 2.

The festival weekend will run from the 10th - 12th December at Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead featuring around 40 bands picked by Belle & Sebastian. The first exciting set of line-up additions will be confirmed on Monday at the general on-sale.

info here: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/bowlie2.php

Cécile Aubry, author of the television show 'Belle et Sébastien', has died

What Stuart Murdoch was trying to do with God Help The Girl, Nick Krygovch has done better with his GIGI project. That is all.

http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/Belle_and_Sebastian_author_Cecile_Aubry_dies_at_81_P109189/

(Not that I am sure what they were respectively trying to do, but I agree that GIGI is somehow spectacularly successful, and more so to me than GHTG.)

saw their north american tour opener tonight and it was so <3

http://athousandflowers.net/2015/03/30/weekly-wanker-049-stuart-murdoch/

Article itself is kind of weirdly intent on proving a single point, but I never thought I'd read about rape and death threats from B&S fans.

I decree these albums my favorites!

definitely understand the argument for Dear Catastrophe Waitress at #1, it's the best arranged and best produced at the very least

i agree on the top 5 but for me it goes Tigermilk (classsikkk), Barman (has Lazy Line Painter Jane so), DCW (good), Sinister (big statement, slight songs), Strap (an album by a band).

The Books EP has a special place in my heart and would crack my top 5 releases

What Stuart Murdoch was trying to do with God Help The Girl, Nick Krygovch has done better with his GIGI project. That is all.

Won't comment on what Murdoch was trying to do with God Help the Girl because potential libel suits

far be it from me to assume that the libel you had in mind would extend both to ghtg the musical project and ghtg the movie

Didn't even realise there was a musical project but let's assume yeah

that Gigi album does indeed rule, I still listen to it a lot. I do like the string arrangement on the title track of GHtG a lot, though.

was unaware of this movie, looks like torture

i've had that queued up to watch for two years

i think Fold Your Hands Child is pretty fantastic if you cut out most of the songs that Stuart doesn't sing lead

I Fought in a War
The Model
Don't Leave the Light on Baby (one of their best songs)
Nice Day for a Sulk
Women's Realm
There's Too Much Love

(i actually quite like some of the others as well. 'beyond the sunrise' is a good song but it sounds like it's from a different album/band altogether. but overall they're not quite the same caliber as the Stuart songs)

our rankings are exactly the same alfred! though i think v highly of girls in peacetime and would prob put it at no. 5

The Life Pursuit is also worth a mention. Would probably drop Arab Strap for that or Girls in Peacetime. Sinister is still my favorite.

karl malone otm

i listen to fold your hands, child all the time

Do they have a better song that is slower than “don’t leave the light on baby”? It’s their best ballad imo