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

I didn't forget but hadn't time

one of the more minor tracks on Tigermilk but that means it's still really quite good

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59. If You Find Yourself Caught in Love
From Dear Catastrope Waitress (2003)
Live at Glastonbury, 2015
Points: 157
Votes: 9
#1 Votes: 0

the whole end section of this one is a delight

Is this one Stuart's coming-out-as-a-christian song?

noh, we always knew..

I recognised all the religious metaphors from my Catholic upbringing, but imagined he was just using them as a source of vivid imagary, right up to this point.

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58. I Want the World to Stop
From Belle and Sebastian Write About Love (2010)
Original promo video
Points: 158
Votes: 11
#1 Votes: 0

My Tigermilk choices were a bit more arbitrary than those for other albums. In retrospect I should maybe have picked I Don't Love Anyone, just on the basis of how often I've found myself singing it since relistening to the album.

All songs in the countdown so far have started with the letter I. How long can this carry on?

Love Sarah Martin's vocals on Caught in Love, especially the 'give up your will' bit. The simple village girl verse is far more embarrassing than anyone's religion though.

I think some of Write About Love is very much in the same vein as their early stuff. I Want The World To Stop probably is my favorite 2010’s B&S next to I Didn’t See It Coming

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57. The Blues Are Still Blue
From The Life Pursuit (2006)
Original promo video
Points: 168
Votes: 13
#1 Votes: 0

^ I was generally avoiding front covers for this bit, as we've seen a lot of them already, but then I saw this charming TBASB promo CD cover.

Can I put in the first "too low!" here?

Too high!

That will be my last piece of carping about my dislike of The Life Pursuit. Sorry.

the blues rock thing they do on this one really does nothing for me

I'm generally down with The Life Pursuit but I seem to get the least mileage out of the Bolan-esque bits.

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56. I Fought in a War
From Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (2000)
Live at Glastonbury, 2004
Points: 177
Votes: 13
#1 Votes: 0

Wish I'd voted to drive the Blues higher. It's such a festival of sweet supporting details and goofy vocal tics. But then I'm in the minority who think that Side A of TLP is the best sequencing they ever did. Weird that people don't like its big pay-off moment.

I like I Fought in a War a lot but it does have one fatal flaw: the implausible concept of Stuart Murdoch having fought in a war.

Fold Your Hands - so many good songs jumbled up with some very bad songs. I Fought In a War serves as a promising intro though.

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55. Put the Book Back on the Shelf
From 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light (1997)
Youtube audio track
Points: 178
Votes: 12
#1 Votes: 1

...incorporating "Songs for Children" on record. Though I don't think anyone made any reference to that section on ballots.

Also: too low!

yes, a serious "too low!" now, a top 5 for me easily, such a joy from start to finish this one

I mentioned Songs for Children!

Yes, I see you did! I guess I meant that no-one highlighted it as the main attraction or indicated that they were voting principally for SFC. :)

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54. I Know Where the Summer Goes
From This is Just a Modern Rock Song (1998)
Live at Bowlie Weekender, 1999
Points: 179
Votes: 13
#1 Votes: 0

I'd have voted for PTBBOTS anyway but the SFC coda pushed it way up my ballot.

one of many very lovely songs that didn't quite make my ballot. the This Is Just A Modern Rock Song EP is definitely my favourite EP - it's so delightful the whole way through while even Lazy Line Painter Jane has an oddity like A Century of Elvis on it

good morning!

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53. Beautiful
From 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light (1997)
Youtube audio track
Points: 181
Votes: 10
#1 Votes: 0

Arguably a bit much seventies knitwear in this section. Definitely a lot of too-low-ness as well.

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52. Ease Your Feet in the Sea
From The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998)
Youtube audio track
Points: 187
Votes: 11
#1 Votes: 1

a longtime ex had an interpolation of this as her email so I couldn't in good conscience give it any points

Image not necessarily related to this particular song, but they seemingly spent more than a little time in Hyndland Parish Church in '97/'98.

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51. Is It Wicked Not to Care?
From The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998)
Original promo video
Points: 206
Votes: 12
#1 Votes: 0

good song for singing at home because you can just adlib freely, ie "is it wicked not to care about the vacuum in the air \\ and how the shampoo in the bathroom's beyond compare?"

Must try this.

Quoting the name of this track got me blocked from Lena Dunham's Twitter.

what?!

She posted a pic of her book Is It Evil Not to be Sure? and I replied "Is It Wicked Not To Care?" and was immediately blocked.

That promo video of Isobel singing the song to a stuffed lion might be the most B&S thing I've ever seen.

What does Isobel mean by "counting acts"? She uses the phrase in both IIWNTC and The Gate.

XP: Innit. I fiddled around trying to capture suitable frames for ages this week. :)

I've just remembered when Isobel turned up to a cafe I was in with that cuddly lion.

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50. Dress Up in You
From The Life Pursuit (2006)
Unidentified TV footage
Points: 209
Votes: 10
#1 Votes: 0

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