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

I don't love the later stuff but this song is great. Good arrangement and playing, really highlights what a strong band they had become at this point

don't know if this is a Challop but Dear Catastrophe Waitress is a significantly better album than Boy with The Arab Strap

chocolate on the boil, steamy windows when we met

xp think most would agree here

The playing on TLP is so good that I felt compelled to look up whether or not they'd brought in any session players and was surprised to find they hadn't

TOO LOW!!!

Stevie's guitar just sings on it. I rated it at #13

yeah i'm not here for the TLP slander. Another Sunny Day stands up to any melody in their catalog and it fits comfortably in the middle parts of my ballot

Fantastic song. 'The referee's giving us fuck all'.

I'd even say TLP is better than Arab Strap. I'm not saying I don't like Arab Strap it's just got a good bunch of unmemorable or annoying songs amongst the good stuff

i realize this is kind of sacrilege on a B&S thread, but does anyone else get kind of burned out on the horn+piano instrumental passages that features on so many of their songs? after the 100th time of hearing it they all kind of blur together

that's half of my problem with a song like "Dress Up In You", tbh. it's all very nice but when the trumpet comes in again it's just exhausting

you are correct that is sacrilege

Yeah, I never get tired of the trumpet. Though I guess Mick Cooke left the band a few years ago, so there should be less of it in the future?

I was just thinking that re the next entry. The trumpet solos, for instance, are good in themselves but they've inserted them in a similar fashion across quite a number of songs.

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42. My Wandering Days Are Over
From Tigermilk (1996)
Live at KCRW
Points: 257
Votes: 16
#1 Votes: 0

Fantastic song. 'The referee's giving us fuck all'.

An unlikely complaint from a(n alleged) Rangers fan tbh.

it's not even just the fact that the trumpet features so prominently. it's that they all have the same kind of style. you know what i'm talking about.

Belle & Sebastian trumpet solo time!

Derp, derp, derp-y dah dah!
(da) derp, derp, derpy doodle doop-y dah!
Derp, derp, derp-y dah dah!
(da) derp, derp-ah doop-y do-daaah!

sorry

I really wanted to vote for My Wandering Days Are Over but the "disenchanted pony" part is a bit too twee even for me. The rest of it is amazing though.

'louvre doors' appears in too few songs.

i love My Wandering Days Are Over but it didn't my ballot. possibly due to this trumpet solo. i should really try to explain what i dislike about it, probably

I really wanted to vote for My Wandering Days Are Over but the "disenchanted pony" part is a bit too twee even for me. The rest of it is amazing though.

The trumpet solos are what I'm here for tbh

You are not alone, Karl Malone.

The trumpet (nor tweeness, LOL XP) wasn't enough to stop me from voting for 'Wandering' however.

Oh god, the trumpets invariably make me weak at the knees.

I'm enjoying Karl's trumpet tirade. I can't get on board with it but it's hard to argue against.

the trumpet solos usually just follow the vocal melody, don't they? Idk, it's usually my favorite part of the B&S songs where they show up, including "My Wandering Days Are Over," my #5

Always remember "you said it was a living hell / you said you were in hell" - he sounds so shocked, like it was a throwaway comment but he has taken it really fucking seriously.

Could really find a, er, banging vid for 'Wandering'. I'm trying not to duplicate what's on Spotify where possible, but that vid's a bit tepid tbh.

I'd never thought of it that way. I'll remember that next time I listen. Xpost

Ah shit I meant to come back to ILX for this and now that I've sat down to do it it's already done!

welcome back, Gukbe!

seems like Gukbe should at least get a little fanfare for their return, and actually i do have a pleasant melody that could work...*reaches for trumpet*

lol

Corrected link for There's Too Much Love at the Barrowlands

Belated tooOOOOoo low for this and 'It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career' (my #4 - though I did have suspicions it would not crack top 30)

Whoops, thanks for that.

I have to do some actual boring daytime stuff for a bit but I'll resume countdown within the next couple of hours, probably at a fairly leisurely pace.

this is the first real "too low" for me. I think it's one of their classics, trumpet solo and all. I like how ridiculously over the top the chorus lyrics are. He was very much about establishing their brand in the early days, and this establishes the hell out of it.

Love the trumpet. Imagine if they had gone full-kazoo instead!

this is the first real "too low" for me. I think it's one of their classics, trumpet solo and all. I like how ridiculously over the top the chorus lyrics are. He was very much about establishing their brand in the early days, and this establishes the hell out of it.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, December 13, 2018 5:53 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. tooooo loooooow

My Wandering Days Are Over... what a song. I'm surprised it's so low. The opening lines pop into my head on an almost weekly basis. 'I'm tired of looking after Michael and the rest of them...'. The verses are especially brilliant although the chorus maybe takes the wind out its sails slightly
I'm kicking myself that I didn't vote

'disenchanted poney' otm. I was going through a few B&S guitar tabs, doing covers for myself in the kitchen, and when it came to this song and that bit I just couldn't carry on through the song.

I'm Waking Up To Us is too low. I LOVE that song. So funny.

Always remember "you said it was a living hell / you said you were in hell" - he sounds so shocked, like it was a throwaway comment but he has taken it really fucking seriously.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, December 13, 2018 9:38 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh but during this bit I welled up slightly while singing it and couldn't catch my breath for the stupid 'poney' section, which is actually the reason I probably had to stop playing

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41. Seymour Stein
From The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998)
Stevie Jackson solo in NY
Points: 258
Votes: 14
Number Ones: 0

this is one of the nothingy songs on Arab Strap I was talking about

i like all of these songs

I don't think of this song as nothingy. besides the greatness of the song itself, the piano, organ, guitar, handclaps, and syncopation in the outro to this - and the sound of the airplane taking off - always get to me

This is the song the record store guy who looks like me in High Fidelity plays, and for that reason I can never play it in front of anyone again

:) I had forgotten about that scene!

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40. Piazza, New York Catcher
From Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
At Lollapalooza Berlin, 2015
Points: 271
Votes: 19
#1 Votes:: 0