It's Electronic Renaissance you cretins
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 24 November 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
ease yr feet tho
― lowercase (eric), Saturday, 24 November 2018 04:06 (five years ago) link
step into my office, tho
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 November 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
this band has the most best songs
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 November 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 24 November 2018 04:17 (five years ago) link
prob not a popular favorite but i think my fav slow belle and sebastian song is “dress up in you”
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 November 2018 05:05 (five years ago) link
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...)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 24 November 2018 06:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 November 2018 07:57 (five years ago) link
BradNelson - Dress Up In You is one of my faves of the Life Pursuit
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 24 November 2018 08:39 (five years ago) link
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?
― calzino, Saturday, 24 November 2018 08:52 (five years ago) link
Certainly he latter I'm assuming, dish the dirt someone.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 November 2018 09:08 (five years ago) link
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?)
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 November 2018 09:14 (five years ago) link
I wasn't joking about the Riefenstahl influences!
― calzino, Saturday, 24 November 2018 09:18 (five years ago) link
“We Rule the School” is the best slow song. It’s their mission statement!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 24 November 2018 09:29 (five years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Saturday, 24 November 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Saturday, 24 November 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
Alfred’s album rankings are mine exactly.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 24 November 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
One of his best songs. Life Pursuit is top 3 for sure.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
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
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
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
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
Is there a best-of album? They could have a doozy. I’d be happy to assemble one for them.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub
thanks!
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 November 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
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
― rip van wanko, Friday, November 23, 2018 6:44 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This, but FYHCYWLAP before or after Sinister
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 24 November 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
strap is the best
― brimstead, Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
dirty dream no. 2 is one of my top 5 songs by them
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
i somehow agree with everything people are saying in this thread. where's turrican?
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
I've probably told this story before, but the first time they ever played Chicago they sold-out a moderately sized club. When my friend who worked there showed up to say hi, he thought the show had been canceled because it was dead quiet, the audience was so enraptured. This was right when Arab Strap came out. The same friend gave me a copy of that night's concert poster signed by everybody in the band, which I have hanging up in the basement. Somewhere around that time we ended up with a girly Belle and Sebastian shirt so tiny no adult human could possibly fit it. Both my kids took turns wearing it as they got bigger, though I don't think either knows who the band is or what they sound like.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
i love the stories about how much mystique there was around them in the early days. i wonder if it's possible for something like that to happen again. i imagine not, as a lot of it was driven by scarcity.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
this was my favorite shirt in high school, and then someone STOLE it!
https://i.imgur.com/g1jH79k.jpg
either that or i barfed in someone's front lawn and they took it from me as payment, who knows
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:21 (five years ago) link
I wish I could love B&S like I used to. Absolute my favourite band from 96 onwards, but moved to Glasgow etc.
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
I got off the wagon at Life Pursuit which I still don't like very much and it seemed such a let down and I still don't care for it for whatever reason. I've liked the subsequent post-reunion (kind of) albums to varying degrees; certainly more than LIfe Pursuit but TBH nothing after CAtastrophe Waitress ever seemed very memorable to me. They were incredible life this year though, it'd been some years since I'd seen them and I'd forgotten how good they can be.
― akm, Sunday, 25 November 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
They good.
I saw the film, its OK. I liked it a lot but its certainly not for everyone.
― Mark G, Monday, 26 November 2018 08:02 (five years ago) link
always thought Ever Had A Little Faith off the 2015 album really stood out among the recent albums—wistful, small, well crafted, with that classic strumming guitar touch that they mostly abandoned after Life Pursuit. Ghost Of Rockschool also comes to mind for the same reasons.
― austinb, Monday, 26 November 2018 08:24 (five years ago) link
This is Just A Modern Rock Song all the way. Women's Realm is up there, Too Much Love, Sinister, Stars of Track and Field, The Model, Fox in the Snow.
I could go on and on, which has surprised me as I've not really listened to them in two years.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 26 November 2018 10:05 (five years ago) link
i really love the "push barman to open old wounds" collection. marx & engels, a century of fakers, the state i am in, so many great songs.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
yeah, that's a great set of songs. similar to the stereolab ep collection, Oscillons from the Anti-Sun, in the pleasing way it offers well-known songs alongside relative obscurities, and yet it all flows well
― Karl Malone, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
barman was the first b&s record i bought, in high school, mainly off the enthusiastic pfork review. probably the best introduction to them i could've gotten, disc 1 has all the mystery and sweetness of the early records and disc 2 has many of the best examples of their playfully-arranged full-of-personality later sound
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
they're almost my vote for best band to listen to when you're sick
they're also*
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
My only gripe with Push Barman is the inferior version of The State I Am In
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
oh lord that's a great call xp
― macropuente (map), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
i actually think barman has the superior "state i am in," but it's the first one i heard
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
this is my fear, that people will hear that version and get used to it, for some reason this seems terribly wrong
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
arab strap was the first one i heard and all i've needed despite attempts to connect w/ the others, even if some of them are p good
― marcos, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
xp at the time that's how most people would've heard it (as I did) because Dog On Wheels came out before Tigermilk was reissued. tbh I can't remember what the difference is
I didn't much like The Boy With The Arab Strap when it came out and I never listened to anything they did after that, did I miss anything? Oh, actually I did buy the Legal Man single. But that's it.
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
i think the life pursuit is kinda exhausting as an album but on an individual song basis it’s still p great
this is very otm, and i love that album
― twin sinema (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
I still have that one! Didn't even make my top 3 B&S shirts tho, which is probably why it has remained in remarkably good nick.
1. Study At Stow with Belle & Sebastian (still got, faded)2. BELLE & SEBASTIAN SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE CLYDESIDE HUNT SABOTEURS (still got, faded)3. A Legal Man era skinnyfit ringer (STOLEN! by someone who was prolly only in it for the shirt, but I'd be too old and fat for that now anyway).
Whilst looking for those just now I also found the Bowlie Weekender one with Julie Driscoll, and "Rod And Emu: Welcome To Cambersands", presumably acquired at the same festival which, whilst maybe peripheral at best, still take me down memory lane to when this band was MY LIFE...
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
Going to rep for the Richard X remix of ‘I didn’t see it coming’, which turns something charming and messy into a neon lit eurodisco stomper.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
Favorite band ever. I stayed with the all the way through Girls in Peacetime, but I've got a special place in my heart for all the stuff they released while they were still mysterious and wouldn't do photo shoots or interviews.Sinister > Arab Strap > All the early EP's > Tigermilk > The Life Pursuit > Storytelling > Dear Catastrophe Waitress > Girls in Peacetime > Fold Your Hands > Write About Love
In Pitchfork doc on If You're Feeling Sinister, Stuart says that he knew, at the time he was writing them, that this was going to be his best batch of songs ever.
― enochroot, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
Storytelling is a great listen! And Arab Strap is underrated imo
I didn't realize anybody listened to the Gigi record, that's nice!
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link