Could we please be objective cause the other POLLS are queuing up behind us - Artist Poll #94 - Belle & Sebastian - RESULTS

this has some incredible highs but it's way more inconsistent than the first two and DCW

I was surprised to find myself not voting for TABBYWARS, but though I like most of the tracks and it's sequenced well, I just don't go back to it, in the end it was shunted out by The Life Pursuit

The Boy with the Arab Strap #1's Unite!

What is TABBYWARS?

I've never liked Boy with the Arab Strap, kind of mystified by the high placement. Girls in Peacetime and The Life Pursuit deserve to be higher.

will concede that 'it could have been a brilliant career' is an incredible way to start a record

xp ufo
I think The Boy with the Arab Strap is their most consistent album so...

For a lot of people (myself included), it was their first real exposure to the band, which counts for a lot.

I tend to think a lot of the post-two-classics albums from B&S are about equal to each other, they all have some really good, some good, quite a lot of mundane, and a few questionable numbers. Which is partly why it's a great band to poll imo. The later albums are also just less known / familiar.

TWATTYBUS was my highest ranked conventional album (Barman was #1) after a cold scientific calculation of the raw number of favourite tracks on each. Didn't feel quite right somehow, but I went with science anyway.

these acronyms are killing me lol

TWATTYBUS!

TUBBYBEERS has a couple classics but also a lot of riff raff.

I didn't vote in the albums poll but don't get the distaste for FYTCHYWALLOP

did anyone ever ask the Glaswegians from the band Arab Strap what they thought of this album title? (or "Space Boy Dream," which deliberately cribs their whole deal)

they're from Falkirk, not Glasgow, my bad

i thought they were supposed to have been annoyed by it because people kept thinking it was a collaboration?

When questioned about it, Arab Strap's leader/singer, Aidan Moffat, said "They have a sense of humour." Malcolm Middleton, the band's instrumentalist, added, "Because Arab Strap is quite an interesting name. The words go well together. That's why we chose it as a band name. We're friends with them, but there's a limit to putting someone else's name on an album. They're taking away something from us." He also mentioned that the album had been confused as a collaboration between the bands

I didn't vote in albums, I had to hustle to get tracks in. But no controversy here.

Nor here, I suspect:

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Tigermilk (June 1996)
Points: 116
Votes: 38
#1 Votes: 7

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If You're Feeling Sinister (November 1996)
Points: 159
Votes: 38
#1 Votes: 20

Tigermilk has IDLA which is super classic. SM really HIOOTP with that one.

GOAT

20 #1 votes out of 40 total. That's what politicians call a "mandate"

Ha! I just looked on eBay to see how much original copies of Tigermilk were going for these days, and the actual stuffed animal from the album cover just sold for $18,500. LOL fans.

BBCODTV

I am one of the two non-Sinister-voters, who are you, other misfit?

LOL @ enochroot.

Being in a silly timezone I will pause at this point and endeavour to resume with EPs on Thursday morning, AEDT. (so...probably not before 8PM Wednesday, GMT.)

Stoked for this!

I can't see the images!

I had Arab Strap at #1! (I don't objectively think it's the best but I can't shake the feeling of what it did to me at the time.)

Easy Chinaski, I thought we had an agreement we'd be objective.

Fallen at the first (tartan) hurdle.

Your favorite between sinister v tigermilk comes down to which one you heard first, I’d guess.

No, I heard Sinister in full before I heard Tigermilk

I voted Sinister but not Tigermilk. Heard Sinister first FWIW.

Fold Your Hands was the album that rose the most in my estimation while re-listening, though not enough to place top 5.

I think I first heard Tigermilk, Sinister and Arab Strap within the same week or month

52 ballots! wtf this band isn't *that* good

incorrect

but seriously has anyone else put out as many deftly crafted pop songs in the last quarter century?

they’re that good

they're grrrrrrrrreat!

Shall we post our albums votes then?

I actually had (have!) a cassette taped from the original Tigermilk vinyl release by Pam from Chickfactor, beat that, hipsters.

speaking of chickfactor, solo stevie jackson then the softies was probs the best show i saw last year

52 ballots! wtf this band isn't *that* good

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This is like the second or third ILM poll I’ve ever voted in!

I... didn't know you could vote for MC Push Barman for LPs!

that one I never bought since I already had the EPs

push barman was the only two cd's in my car for a good year

I've never actually owned Push Barman. It arrived today.

I am one of the two non-Sinister-voters, who are you, other misfit?

I've only just worked out that the backing vocals at the end of Play for Today are 'author, author'. I've been singing 'up your jumper'.

And it bears repeating: what a fucking great song.

I though it was something like "up the mountain"

I totally think it is 'up the mountain' but other days I hear 'author author' - both have resonance. Anyway, what a song and would probably be my number one if I were to vote today.

Let's fill the glass and light to share the sun
The backstage of your life.

The lyrics on the sleeve are "author author" but my ears refuse to hear it as anything but "up the mountain".

The backstage of your life.