October 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: misheard lyrics - about an arguement
by Sam Norman 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

I have just spent the last 45 minutes argueing with someone that the words to Get me Away... are in fact "photogenic you know" rather than "photogenic eunochs" he claimed that the eunochs were a reference to Blackadder. I was wondering if there are any other funny misheard lyrics that might loghten my boredom? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Shit.
by kenny 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

If that message, came up on everyones email. Sorry, I made the age old mistake of sending his mail to you all, Sorry if it did, ignore me if it didn't. Anyway back to almost buying a crap album purely for the cover, (in reference to the Jenifer Love Hewitt album) I was up in London so I thought that I would pop into the hugest HMV and see what they had. I found "Let the Snakes...." by Felt (sorry this is really stupid but are all the felt albums purely instrumentals?) and bought it for £6 because of Stu M's tshirt at Sheperds bush. I was paying for it at the counter and I saw an album lying there. It was so funny I nearly bought it........... It was by a bloke called something like Alexi Lalas, he played for Usa in the 94 world cup, he was the one with the dodgy goatie. There he was on the cover stroaking his beard, I burst out laughing and the poor girl behind the counter just didn't have a clue. Oh the album was called GINGER, just in case you were wondering. Jake +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sorry Honey
by kenny 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

Dearest Honey, I owe you a huge apology because I openned my sarcastic mouth (for you see I have many mouths, and I am now using the grovelling one) without thought of who would get upset. I didn't mean it but the list weren't to know and I have now learnt my lesson. And I promise only B&S out of me on the list from now on. I love the music too, blah blah blah, and would now love to move on and forget about this whole sorry incedent. Have you already got your name down on Duke's "I'll do you a session tape" list? If not may I please do you a copy when I get with as the smallest gesture of apology. Love Jake +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Hoboken the sky with diamonds
by Corpora Arenacea 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

I would take offense to the New Jersey comments if they were not true. It is no coincidence that it costs nothing to take the George Washington Bridge from New York =to= New Jersey but it costs four (or more, who knows by now) dollars to go the other way, i.e. to get out of NJ..... it should be free if you're going to Long Island, though, imhuo. And yes, Bayonne, New Jersey has the highest incidence of obesity in these United States. On the other hand I got that fact out of Mad Magazine eight years ago so it might be a bit fishy/out of date. The only Northern Soul comp I could find around here was "Northern Soul Spectrum" (on Kent) about a year-plus ago which has a ton of tracks, some of which are godly, most of which I don't care about, but I don't know if it gets any better because it's not as if these things are exactly radio classics around here. I just have nothing to compare against. There are entire major labels built around you fancying someone on a record sleeve. I, myself, almost bought the Jennifer Love Hewitt album (!!) yesterday before catching myself thinking of rubbing on the Neutrogena with fresh young JLH ditties in my head, at which point I screamed and dropped my pants and ran home and threw on the ugliest Prolapse song I could find. Whew! By the way, do not listen to Miss Wise. Folks like her are in fact only about .0000001 percent of the U.S.'s population. The rest of us are all on line to appear on Springer et Lake. The only thing I've ever ordered from TV was "Too Hot for TV" and I am counting the seconds until I get to share with the rest of the affiliated universe that "It's either me or the dog or your mother.... choose me or lose me!" Oooh, I could use a makeover too.... hey, do you all know that 95% of Jenny Jones makeovers involves putting Goth teens into the cutest little =cardigans=?? (By the way, I'm of the opinion that that, and not the A-Team, is the most brutal show on Earth - you're ugly so we'll change everything you like about yourself). Aren't we all the well-adjusted ones. I feel like a dork. I convinced my sister to lose fifty pounds by telling her she could be bitter about the way the race regards fat people or play the game while she's young because she's not going to change it. I mean, she was really bitter. Now I just make cracks about how skinny she is. "You may have no ass, but you got a big f-'in mouth!" She can't win but she sure does hook up a whole lot more. Oh, and she smiles, because she knows better. I don't think you'll ever really paint the fat-person bitterness streak out of her, the loneliness of the no-distance runner. God she's hot now. We should get it on, live, on television, I say. Heh heh. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: the boy with the bearded yak
by rob b 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

Hello all! it's been a long time since i last posted, at least a couple of months or so. since then there has been much going on in the world of belle and sebastian - i won't give my opinion on each little detail because that will bore everyone. just to say that the new album is, as expected, simply gorgeous. favourite track?... ooh, most of them. we bought it in florence this summer, during a month long trip around europe - one thing that's puzzling me though.. it doesn't seem to start quite right; it's as if stuart starts mid-sentence, with 'stroke at the age of 24', no sign of 'he had a...'. is that the same with everyone's cd, or just the virgin europe released ones? i was in my local record market the other day, and guess what i stumbled across? Yes, a copy of Tigermilk! BUT, it was on CD! at £14.00 - i thought "hmmm..." and went up to the stall-owner and asked him about it. he said something along the lines of "oh yeah, we had a stack load of them in - that's the last copy, they've been going like hot cakes." the cover wasn't quite like the original - it had 4 pictures of the original record sleeve in multicolour, and there were bonus tracks after the album, which were the 2 radcliffe / lamarr sessions. i remember someone else mentioning something like this - how widespread is it? 'cos as the band get bigger, people pay more attention to them, giving an ideal market for illegal copies... but you know all this already. i just hope it gets its proper release soon. what i found quite amusing as well, was that on the actual cd itself, it said something about rights to the producers and that you shouldn't copy, lend, broadcast, or in any way infringe the copyright laws. seems a touch hypocritical to me! anyway, onto happier things. the salako gig! wow, i hope to be there if it's at all possible. anyway, i won't clog up your inboxes with any more meaningless drivel, so shall leave you in peace and get back to work! byebye rob x ------------------------------------------------------------------------- + / \ St Theresa's calling her | O | The church up on the hill _______| _ | Is looking lovely / / /\ | __| \/. But it doesn't interest /_/\_//_/||##| ;\|/' The only thing she wants to know __|_||_|||_||##|_____|_ Is how and why and when and where to go If you're feeling sinister... Belle and Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Keep that cardigan on, young lady (but you can keep nibbiling if you like...)
by Michael 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

>You're supposed to be >just having fun and dancing nude on the coffee table. > Oh and you could all do with >following the shining example of some on this list, meeting a fellow >list member (either gender will do, stop being picky), whipping off >your clothes and further putting up the number of sordid Sinister >liaisons that I'm filling in on my wallchart, and that make me very >proud Just what kind of list is this? What would our mothers think if they knew the kind of depravity we were being encouraged to take part in? Well, if we must. I don't have a coffee table, but I'll do a little nude dance in my room tonight. As for getting nudey and putting up the number (never heard it called that before) with a list member - well, the only list members I've actually met are Local Hero Kevan and Basingstoke Boy Neil. Kevan has a lovely girlfriend who just about puts up with his CD addiction, but I can't see her being happy with him being another notch Honey's wallchart, and as for Neil... Well look, I'm sorry for being picky, but I like my sordid liaisons to be with girls. As I said before, tall, elegant, rich girls. Michael 'ItsNoWonderI'mSingle' Barrett +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: O Lucky Man!
by poetryplace2 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

YINGLUCK I was gone but now I'm back. I've actually been working double shifts at work, in order to repay the gambling debts incurred during Oooon's visit a while ago. She's a demon at that Boggle, I'm telling you. I still owe her all my wages until easter and the liver of my first-born son. First things first: THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE PHONE CALL This Friday (16th October) sees an extra-special episode of the Social at the Poetry Caff, because we have managed to get top antipodean popsters The Lucksmiths to play, fresh from supporting B&S in Europe. For those of you who haven't yet had the pleasure to hear them, they are a fabulous, shimmering pop confection, full of smiles and similes, subtleties and subtitles. They are the loveliest thing I have heard all year. To state the bleeding obvious, if you drew a line between The Go-Betweens and Belle & Sebastian, The Lucksmiths would be dancing around on it, without a safety net, carrying a funny-looking umbrella. To miss this show you would have to be a damned bloody fool with the aesthetic sensibilities of a packhorse. IMHO, of course. Doors open 7.30. Entry £3. The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St, Covent Garden, London WC2. BASHO STREET KIDS Thankyou to everyone who entered my fabulous haiku competition. After much deliberation I have decided upon three winners, who each receive a goody bag of stuff from my sack of books. The first winner is the ineffably lovely Miss Erin who charmed me with this entry: Why does Isobel wear vile capri pants? To hide blue veins, blue, blue veins The second winner is the mysterious Jennifer Phillips-Bacher: love tools abound here simple souls introduced to my english cock cage The third winner is Mr John Johnston for this effort: Mr Sparkly Orange Loves things Scandinavian Hates us being twee. And finally, for sheer persistence, we have a special prize for Adrian Evans, who sent me about 20 entries... If all the winners send me their postal addresses, I will turn up naked on their doorsteps. Only joking! I will send you your prizes. FOR THE LOVES OF CHEESES I read with interest the debate about Scandinavian cheese. While I have no reason to doubt McTaggart's recommendations, I would like to warn you away from Norwegian Brown Cheese, which has a consistency midway between peanut butter and putty. A MAN COULD LOSE HIMSELF IN LONDON! LOSE HIMSELF! Megan was going on about some song about Julie Christie. There are a couple of others: firstly it is widely thought that the "Terry and Julie" in Waterloo Sunset are Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, who were starring in some Polanski version of Thomas Hardy at the time. Secondly, Stephen Duffy's song "Julie Christie", despite being recorded by an ex-member of Duran Duran, is a thing of loveliness. thankyou for having me Trousers xxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: It's another love P.O.P.
by Keith Watson 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

>PPS: Does anybody know anything about Andy Gibb? I know he's dead, but >that's all. Poor Keith must be working very hard on his Twisted Wheel book, >because he has so far failed to point out that I had a Teddy Pendergrass >song all along, courtesy of Keith. "Love TKO" it's called, how very Keith!. >I like Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes, that song's a Procter and Gamble >production, isn't it? Oh yes, Teddy Pendergrass, Love TKO, what a class track, he rules on that one, it's ace. Whilst on the subject of Teddy Pendergrass, it reminded me of what Tag said about how Limahl used to be shacked up with the only other world's leading authority on popular music (the other being the Duke), Paul Gambaccini. Can anyone confirm this? I was pleased to have the Captain Birdseye's a woman myth blown out of the water, although admittedly I've been thinking about that, and I'm now convinced that the old Captain Birdseye, was in fact a sheep! I've got a cracking selection of albums with me at work today, Stormbringer, by John and Beaverly Martin - as recommender by the lists very own Martin Coneeeeely, although I don't know if he's still on the list, Blaxploitation 1, A Grand Love Story, by Kid Loco - featuring a cracking Captain Beefheart sample from the great "Further than we've gone", goes down in my book as the most odd sample source I've ever heard. The Three EP's by the Beta Band, which is miles miles better than 4 Big Speakers, by Whale, showing once and for all, that 3 is a better number than 4. It's a magic number after all. I got the best of the Orb - U.F.Off, which is top too, and contains numerous ace mixes that I haven't heard before, like for example, the OOBE (Pool Mix), which in a charming ambient manner contains nothing but the sound of pool balls being knocked into pockets. It's all getting a bit hairy on the list of late, and as Reid wisely and funnily pointed out, Insults are insulting, which is very true, so lets just pack it up now shall we, I'm a lover not a fighter, so let's all just make up our differences and have a pop concert instead. Which brings me on to - the next big list get together. We've fucked all the plans over properly and decided just to have a big party in Glasgow - over New Year. In fact, it'll probably be a New Year party, followed by a subsequent party the night after - which is a Saturday, albeit probably a quiet Saturday. So chaps, it's Glasgow at New Year, be there or be somewhere else. We'll work out an actual venue in a bit, but that's really irrelevant, we're all hoping to have a real weekender job at Butlins sometime next year, and if that happens, hopefully we'll get the news out in plenty of time. I've been wondering of late what the update on the Duke's book is - Mr.Fitchett - do we have the word on this? When's it coming out? I think you should change the title to "Young and Foolish (but right)". I'm looking forward to reading it. I miss young Timothy H!O!P!kins. Can't he just go and buy a computer and get an internet account at home? Cheers, Keith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Little Bobby: A Ventriloquist's Tale
by PJMiller 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

BB: How yer diddlin'? Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to tell you about my days as a disc jockey in the early days of the famous Schoooooom club in London. I'm sure you've all heard of it.. LB: (knock knock!) Let me out! BB: Oh I'm terribly sorry ladies and gentlemen...no I will not let you out, Little Bobby, you ruined it last time! Now where was I? Oh yes, the Schooooooooom club. Dancing was a popular activity there even before I discovered so-called "house" music... LB: (knock knock!) Let me out! BB: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen...will you be quiet, Little Bobby, you have to go and spoil everything I do, don't you? Let me see...ah yes, one day I was playing a house record when I accidentally spilled some toothpaste on it, thus inadvertently, inadveeeeeeertently inventing acid hou... LB: (knock knock!) Let me out! Let me out! BB: What now! You're ruining me anecdote! I'm sorry ladies and gentlemen, but I'm going to have to let him out of the suitcase. I do apologise... LB: Thank fuck for that, you rotten bugger! Thou shalt not call fat people "fat" on the list - "chubbily challenged" is an appropriate alternative. Fifty people with eating disorders on the list? I've got a seafood disorder, me - when I see food, I disorder it! Aaaargh! Gerroff, ya big fat bugger, I'm not going back in that suitcase, ya scouse twat, bleeeeurgh, I'll scream and scream and scream until I make meself sick! (muffled) Let me out! Let me out! I'm sorry about that, back to business: 1. Someone (I think it was PJ, but it may have been Duncan) said they listened to the 'Black Session' ("Le rock... Le soir...C'est Lenoir!" - how cool is that slogan? Is it also a jingle, my French chums?) on FM. Sorry to to come over all 'hey can anyone burn me a CD-R' audio bore, but is this true and if so, will we people who request one from our allotted representative get a copy from the FM or the AM broadcast? That was from Nick Dastoor. I sahll now provide him with a kind of answer, politely and pleasantly, as is the required manner of going about things on our beloved list: Yes, Nicholas, twas me who showed off about hearing it on FM, crystal clear, bell-like and beautiful. However, due to a strange unearthly high pitched whine, I felt compelled to press the little "mono" button, but it still sounded great. Mono rocks, everybody knows that. I taped it, but I haven't offered to tape it for all and sundry for two reasons: 1) PhiLiPPe seems to have it covered and he's got two more songs than me. Mine's got the news on, which is no bad thing in my opinion, because "Monica Lewinsky" is an even more attractive proposition in French, the language of love. 2) I am a bastard, a bugger, and a cad. I'm sending one to a once prominent listee, because I love him and want to marry him, but that's all so far. I'd be only too happy to do it for anyone who really needs it, and unlike PhiLiPPe, I'd be prepared to accept huge wads of cash in return. I'm very slow, as my tape recipients know only too well, so don't hold your breasts. Nick again: 2. Was this 'session' really a very long session, or was it just a recording of the Paris concert? If it was the concert, can everyone stop calling it a session (including evil Lenoir) as it's confusing my tiny mind. It was like a special concert for the radio, with an audience, comments from Bernard during the gaps between the songs (lengthy as ever), and lots of communiction between Murdoch and Bernard, along the lines of: SM:- are we on? BL:- Yes, you are on. And that song with a funny name was indeed taken "au grand galop", a bit like a psycho synth pop version of The Flashing Blade, in fact. I'M GOING NOW BYE! Peter PS: It's about time we had a European Tour Diary from Stuart Lee Murdoch, dontcha think? PPS: Does anybody know anything about Andy Gibb? I know he's dead, but that's all. Poor Keith must be working very hard on his Twisted Wheel book, because he has so far failed to point out that I had a Teddy Pendergrass song all along, courtesy of Keith. "Love TKO" it's called, how very Keith!. I like Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes, that song's a Procter and Gamble production, isn't it? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The State to come all over
by Nick Dastoor 13 Oct '98

13 Oct '98

>The Dog on Wheels version sounds like a passionless dirge, with flat, >naked production. It sounds like it was performed in a workman like way >by crappy session musos.. I like this naked production idea. Are all Belle and Sebastian records produced this way? Dirty devils. Sebatian said: >>Because it was.Save for the boy stuart, Belle and Sebastian were not >>in the building on that occasion, as it says in the sleeve notes. I've decided I don't believe the story that the EP was from pre-band days. I prefer to think that the band all turned up but George Martin said none of them were good enough except Stuart and the pretty boy with the kilt, so the session musicians were called in. Actually, I like both versions. The Dog on Wheels one has that lovely bit where Stuart's voice cracks on the line "she was not impressed" and also a nice flamenco feel. For those of you think there aren't enough posts to make you sigh these days, search the archives for the word 'moments' using the 'Search Subjects and Authors Only' and 'Search all Months' options. jessica wrote: >People mention this song "Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner" quite >frequently around these parts, and it makes me sad that i have no idea >what they're talking about. Actually, a lot of other song titles bounce >around here which are altogether unknown to me, too. So, um, i was >wondering if i could take this opportunity to see whether there is >anyone on this list who has songs not appearing on any of the 3 albums >or EPs or the BBC sessions who would be willing to make a tape for a >lonely little American girl? The terrible bit of it, though, is that i >don't have a lot to offer in return, other than my undying gratitude. Which I made this young boy sigh. Jessica sounds not just lonely, but also lovely. If no one over in America can help out, I will. As long as she doesn't mind that I've taped over the intro to 'Loneliness of the middle distance runner' in a horribly backfired attempt to make a back-up copy. Whoever it was who wanted the two songs identified from the concert the other night - in case no one has answered your plea they are 'Slow Graffiti' and 'Loneliness'. Oh, all right then: 'Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner'. Or HERBERTLOMDIRGE, as it is not known for short. To anyone else who is scared of asking about all these new songs, have a look at the end of Keith's nicely prepared FAQ at http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/hypermail/1998-month-09/0915.html Since then, 'Wrong Love' has been renamed 'Wrong Girl', Stuart David has written another new song 'Paper Boat', and Stuart Murdoch has written (or, as suggested by the strange "I've heard this before" spooky phenomenon" noted by two listees, stolen) a song called 'Lord Anthony'. Keith doesn't mention the Isobel solo songs (4?) that appeared on the Web (now only one left to hear) in the theatre at Stuart and Karn's Treehouse page (http://home.clara.net/treehouse/) They aren't really Belle and Sebastian songs, but then neither were the Stow College demos. Keith also can't spell 'loneliness' or 'graffiti', but we will forgive him because he's terrific in all other ways. He's like that kid at school who was good at everything and made it worse by being nice too. Bastard. I hate him. The great cover art poll turned up this amusing fact: >5) The boy with the arab strap ( no votes , nobody voted for this >cover) Tee hee. Chris smells. Right, enough tomfoolery and helpfulness. I have some questions of my own: 1. Someone (I think it was PJ, but it may have been Duncan) said they listened to the 'Black Session' ("Le rock... Le soir...C'est Lenoir!" - how cool is that slogan? Is it also a jingle, my French chums?) on FM. Sorry to to come over all 'hey can anyone burn me a CD-R' audio bore, but is this true and if so, will we people who request one from our allotted representative get a copy from the FM or the AM broadcast? 2. Was this 'session' really a very long session, or was it just a recording of the Paris concert? If it was the concert, can everyone stop calling it a session (including evil Lenoir) as it's confusing my tiny mind. 3. 'Loneliness..' is indeed a lovely song. One of my favourites, and if you don't have it, then possibly ask me (swap for a live tape or an appalling recording of 'Rhoda' anyone...?) but certainly go to http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/hypermail/1998-month-07/0831.html and read the lyrics. Oh yes - I was supposed to be asking another question. Stuart's fussiness with this track and its consequent no-show to date reminds me of a little bird telling me all about his generally obsessive streak when it comes to recording. Apparently, part of the delay on TWATTYBUS appearing was his insistence on none of the tracks being compressed prior to the final mixing stage. Or something. Can anyone tell me what this means from my garbled non-muso retelling? Could it partly explain why the records sound so wonderful? 4. Did 'Lisa helps the blind' become 'Beautiful', or is it a differnt song? 5. Apart from 'Le Pastie..', were any other early Stuart Murdoch demos ever played on local radio in Scotland? That'll do. A final observation: On Philippe's review of the Black Session on the Radio France site, it says the version of 'Poup�e de cire, Poup�e de son' was played "au grand galop". Sometimes, French is best. Nick xx _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? 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