Search And Destroy: Belle And Sebastian

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

it's a great song, and the album cover great, and the title is great, and imo "there's too much love" is their best song

“women’s realm” >>>>>>>>

I got off the wagon, sort of, at Fold Your Hands, but it's hard to remember why when actually listening to it. "The Chalet Lines" and "The Wrong Girl" are also quite respectable.

Letting the other members do songs diluted the power of their albums, but there were still plenty of tunes.

recently put some B&S songs on and they're a much, much better band than they were when I was 14, and I liked them when I was 14

Nobody’s Empire is incredible; possibly their best song IMO. The fact that it’s autobiographical helps I suppose.

"This Is Just A Modern Rock Song" forever

it's seeing other people and i don't love anyone obv

They're a great band, but at a certain point I just couldn't be bothered. Probably more me than them, or likely so. I'm sure having taken so much time away from them will make me appreciate them more. I think "The Life Pursuit" was the last one I heard, and looking at the track listing I liked it. Last two ... definitely haven't heard them.

I'll say this much about them. They might have been the last band, or at least one of the last, whose albums of the nascent internet era were passed around like samizdat. Tigermilk's reputation loomed as large as its elusiveness, and I remember getting an advance of Sinister that made me the envy of many. Or at least, you know, a few.

It's Electronic Renaissance you cretins

ease yr feet tho

step into my office, tho

this band has the most best songs

i want to make it clear that i don't think don't leave the light on baby is their best song, only their best slow song. and that i threw down the challenge of someone naming a better slower song than that by them, which went completely unanswered. as i understand it, this makes it the consensus ballad champion.

you're just a baby, tho

if i make a compilation of songs that end with the word "baby", those two have to be on it

prob not a popular favorite but i think my fav slow belle and sebastian song is “dress up in you”

I fondly remember certain slow songs from the early EPs. "Slow Graffiti" and "You Made Me Forget My Dreams", etc. (Though nowadays I probably pluck Push Barman... off the shelf most often, just generally, for all categories of B&S songs, so...)

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

For the first time ever I'm interested in Belle & Sebastian.

BradNelson - Dress Up In You is one of my faves of the Life Pursuit

I'm guessing Stuart was trying to combine the "whiter than translucent" extreme indie-twee aesthetic with some Riefenstahl influences, and maybe try and creep on some young actor?

Certainly he latter I'm assuming, dish the dirt someone.

I looked at a trailer and it appears to be the worst film in the history of cinema. Also Glasgow appears to have no Scottish people (a bit like Edinburgh) and no ugly or old people (whither Belle & Sebastian?)

I wasn't joking about the Riefenstahl influences!

“We Rule the School” is the best slow song. It’s their mission statement!

lol that movie also has Radcliffe + Maconie acting in it, proof that some of these ten-a-penny euro movie festivals will put their garlands on any old shit!

There’s a little bit of a creeper vibe to me when an artist over the age of (say) 30 is super into romanticizing/identifying with misfit teens.

Alfred’s album rankings are mine exactly.

prob not a popular favorite but i think my fav slow belle and sebastian song is “dress up in you”

One of his best songs. Life Pursuit is top 3 for sure.

i think the life pursuit is kinda exhausting as an album but on an individual song basis it’s still p great. only b&s album i’ve never really warmed to is write about love, which has some jams anyway

dress up in you is incredible. i agree with brad about the life pursuit--it's a harder album to "settle into" than the others

Is there a best-of album? They could have a doozy. I’d be happy to assemble one for them.

Alfred’s album rankings are mine exactly.

― Mr. Snrub

thanks!

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).

― rip van wanko, Friday, November 23, 2018 6:44 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This, but FYHCYWLAP before or after Sinister

strap is the best

dirty dream no. 2 is one of my top 5 songs by them

i somehow agree with everything people are saying in this thread. where's turrican?