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

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Voted for I Didn't See It Coming, easily the best thing on that Write About Love, have not heard that remix before, not bad but not a patch on the original IMO

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link

i thought "i didn't see it coming" would show up somewhere in the top 30, that's where that sort of late career highlight often falls, but i guess this band really just has too many good songs

ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link

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48. Jonathan David
From Jonathan David (2001)
Original promo video
Points: 221
Votes: 12
#1 Votes: 0

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link

ok I'm gonna have to stop myself from saying "too low!!" every time

resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link

"beautiful" is prob my biggest "too low," i love everything about that song

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link

I have swung a few times between love and hate for this one, the harmonies in last minute or so are perfection, but afraid I find everything about the vocal/lyric sort of embarrassing for some reason.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link

glad people voted for "ease your feet into the sea" which fell off the edge of my ballot

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link

Obviously know the song and album but I still had to look up "Ease Your Feet," which I did not recognize by title alone.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link

looks like a lot of the ones people big-upped on the voting thread are placing around now...

big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link

I was the #1 vote for "Didn't See it Coming". Easily my most listened song by them over the past...ten years? Perfect vocals!

john. a resident of evanston. (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link

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47. Photo Jenny
From Lazy Line Painter Jane (1997)
Live at Bowlie Weekender, 1999
Points: 228
Votes: 16
#1 Votes: 0

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link

Just noticed it, but it sounds like Photo Jenny quotes "Wichita Lineman" with that guitar line at about 2:30?

enochroot, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link

Didn't make my 30 but the way he sings "Get some fish and chips / La la la la la / What's on the box? 'Man about the house' with Paula Wilcox" is hard to beat.

Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link

Now this I expected to be much higher. Think perhaps the twee name / subject matter distracts from quite how good it is.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link

I've no idea what comment he's making about gender or sexuality in this song. Or really anything about what he's getting out apart from wanting a photo of Jenny.

Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link

love this song, also fell off of my ballot

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link

I Know Where the Summer Goes is too low! Delicious melancholy.

Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link

the most obvious reading of 'photo jenny' to me is that it's from the perspective of a trans woman but it's not the clearest narrative

ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link

it's 1995, the girls are just friends

J. Sam, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link

I love this one.

Didn't make my 30 but the way he sings "Get some fish and chips / La la la la la / What's on the box? 'Man about the house' with Paula Wilcox" is hard to beat.

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I think out of all their songs this is the B&S moment that pops into my head most frequently.

Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link

the girls are holding hands
don't be a fool
it's 1995, the girls are just friends

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link

b&s, my favorite weirdly religious but also weirdly super gay band

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link

glad people voted for "ease your feet into the sea" which fell off the edge of my ballot

It was my number one.

Didn't make my 30 but the way he sings "Get some fish and chips / La la la la la / What's on the box? 'Man about the house' with Paula Wilcox" is hard to beat

Agreed.

the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link

it feels a little weird that "straight to the point of boring" man stuart murdoch wrote so many songs with very queer narratives, but i guess i appreciate it?

ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link

I suppose it fits in with his self-styled ME origin story, but so much of his songwriter self is vicarious - the effete voyeur too afraid to touch the ground lives through the experiences of others.

Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link

dress up in you was my #6. the least life pursuit-y track on life pursuit.

i had it at #8. a little shocked at how low it is. i love the life pursuit, but this song kind of towers over the rest of the album.

J. Sam, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link

loving the images! voted for these so far, of which the first and last two are, as they say, too low:

If You Find Yourself Caught in Love
The Blues Are Still Blue
I Fought in a War
I Know Where the Summer Goes
Beautiful
Dress Up in You

devvvine, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link

xps That's such a bland point. I guess it's a rejoinder to folk who I've heard say his whole schtick is appropriative and sinister.

Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link

I thought it was well put.

Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link

You're a star now / I am fixing people's nails

frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link

And you've suddenly made me think of Stuart Murdoch in this era as a Harvey Darger like figure with his Story of the Vivian Girls.

Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link

"Dress Up In You" is one of their most convincing character studies.

resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link

have had 2 show up, Is it wicked not to care and I know where the summer goes.
somewhat surprised by the former.

campreverb, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link

Henry Darger, I mean!

Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link

Not Harvey Danger?

Vinnie, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link

i've got a boyfriend
i've got the feeling that he's seeing someone else
he always had a thing for you as well

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link

That's what was infecting it in my brain, Vinnie!

Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link

"I am sick and I'm not well"

Mark G, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link

This lip dub brought "The Blues are Still Blue" to my attention and ensured a spot on my ballot. Wonder if the staff or the students chose the song? Laundry as a metaphor for romantic befuddlement works for me on it's own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-1BFWWkcU

eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link

I wonder if the Darger thing does hit home in some ways. As in the music is always about the outside, yet Murdoch was always too self-aware to truly be outside anything.

Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link

Didn't manage to vote for "Photo Jenny," how could I not have? Expect i'm gonna have this feeling a lot.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link

i'm waking up to us this poll

Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link

so far i voted for...

i don’t love anyone
i want the world to stop
i fought in a war

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.

so otm. also, let me say without evidence that i fought in a war led directly to the decemberists

Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link

"Photo Jenny" was my #5. I'm amazed people are confused by the subject matter! But I agree with Chinaski's reading as SM's allegory for defeating ME (going out of the house) as coming out as trans.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link

Just catching up. My 3 was I Don't Love Anyone. I thought that would be much, much higher.

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link

that lip dub made me happy, thanks bendy

big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link

yes that was nice

Dan S, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link

Jonathan David is too low!!!

the one on this list so far that I most regret not voting for is I Didn't See It Coming

Dan S, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link

My overall thoughts after a deep Belle and Sebastian immersion for this poll: their faster ones are much better than their slow ones.

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link

funny, I was thinking about that too, but my feeling ultimately leaned to the opposite

Dan S, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link


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