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

I had a dubbed cassette version that had been passed around and was of questionable fidelity, it was written up in high praise by either Jenny Toomey (or Franklin Bruno?) in Puncture Magazine and I put out some ISOs. The Matador crew hooked me up.

It was Jenny Toomey's article circa 1997. Franklin's piece came out later, around the time they toured NYC for the first time around Sinister. I remember FB made a note that SM changed the TSTIAMI lyric from "turning tables round in Marks & Spencer" to "Sears & Roebuck" lol.

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Normally wouldn't care but my boys Frontierer got in again!

the boy done wrong again

been one of those days eh

first cup of coffee tasted like washing up

Hey this may be a dumb question but did anyone here see the 1 hour Pitchfork doc on the making of If You're Feeling Sinister? It's stellar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4de-RHHLCBA

Okay, time to run through the EPs perhaps?

yee

you be the driver

Sorry, slight technical issues. I'll skip the intended image...

Part Two: EPs

27 ballots received. As with albums, voters submitted ranked 5 selections. Scoring was a simple 5,4,3,2,1.

Any release with 3 to 5 tracks was eligible.

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9. How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 1) (December 2017)
Points: 2
Votes: 2
#1 Votes: 0

Er, "5 ranked selections" rather.

Again, this list includes everything that received a vote.

i watched the sinister doc and it is really excellent!

the artwork for the 3 Human Problems EPs is their very worst imo. if you're going to feature monochromatic randos, at least give them enough space to do something interesting for the camera!

*lines up all 3 EPs*

"but you don't understand, now there are TWELVE monochromatic randos doing nothing!"

It's not great. I believe the cover stars were fans, so it may have involved more more deliberation than their average cover!

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8. Legal Man (May 2000)
Points: 10
Votes: 5
#1 Votes: 0

Where it all started going wrong.

Where it all started going wrong groovy.

judy and her dream of dickslaps

this is not my favorite B&S EP

I dug the title track. But the others were their first to actually feel like B-sides to me.

I was listening to Push Barman a few days ago and I realized that the Legal Man single is all garbage. If I had actually bought it at the time I woulda been pissed.

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7. I'm Waking Up To Us (November 2001)
Points: 24
Votes: 8
#1 Votes: 2

Sorry, that's actually 3 first-place votes. I can respect that position. All three tracks are possibly a tad under-rated. (Or under-heard?)

agreed. voted for two of these on my traxx poll and the third barely missed the cut.

5. (TIE)

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Jonathan David (June 2001)
Points: 32
Votes: 14
#1 Votes: 0

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Books (June 2004)
Points: 32
Votes: 12
#1 Votes: 3

A tie on total points, at least. The former was on more than half of ballots. The latter received several first-place votes. Pick your own winner if you wish.

judy and her dream of dickslaps

ha

a lot of people who don't like "winter wooskie" itt

you're all wrong

jonathan david is my vote for the best non-classic single. "carriage clock" AND "middle distance runner"???? my god

^ Yeah, what he said.

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4. This Is Just a Modern Rock Song (December 1998)
Points: 67
Votes: 20
#1 Votes: 6

^ Yeah, what he said.

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this isn't me correcting you angrily or anything, it's extremely not a big deal and hard to figure out even from context, but for future notice i go by they/them

Oh, indeed! I was in furious agreement about Jonathan David! :)

And then I didn't even read that properly. Now I have!

books was my number 1 and all three original tracks made my top 12 (i do love cover (version) too, consider it lumped in with your cover's blown)

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3. 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light (October 1997)
Points: 75
Votes: 23
#1 Votes: 6

Books was my number one, Jonathan Davis my number two, Modern my number three. I really love the first two EPs but they each strike me as one stellar song with a couple good ones and a bad one.

Incidentally, I think the tracks rollout shall start at #60, because:

(i) everything has >10 votes out to around that point
(ii) there's an interesting mix of stuff between 50 and 60
(iii) more opportunity to annoy ILM's unbelievers than with 50

i think 369 seconds of light is easily the best of the first three eps, ok i guess they’re all hits so it doesn’t matter

Oh Nag can you also disclose which album track from pre-hiatus didn't get a vote (assuming it didn't in the final ballots)? That's been bugging me.

369 was my #1 too, even though the lead track (or at least the one that got a promo video) was probably my least favourite of that era.

I'll disclose right now which track missed out, because it's probably more of a technical thing than a quality thing: "Act of the Apostle II." Some votes for "AotA" might have implied support for both parts.

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2. Dog on Wheels (May 1997)
Points: 77
Votes: 24
#1 Votes: 4

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1. Lazy Line Painter Jane (July 1997)
Points: 84
Votes: 25
#1 Votes: 5

These last few kept swapping places right up to yesterday. There ultimately wasn't a huge amount it.

"IN it."

369 was my favorite too. couldn't decide which songs from it to put on my tracks list, ended up with Beautiful and Put the Book Back on the Shelf but it could have been any of the four