June 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Sweethearts of the Rodeo
by Vicki Rider 07 Jun '00

07 Jun '00

Hi-- So I called Tower Records to see how much FYH woyld cost: Clerk: Belle and what? I don't see it on the new release board. me: Belle & Sebastian. They're new album's supposed to come out tomorrow. You have other stuff by them. Clerk: Can you spell that? me: B-E-L-L-E A-N-D-S-E-B-A-S-T-I-A-N Clerk: Uhhh, lemme check . . .nope, nothing. [!] me: Thanks anyway. So I went to the indie record shop across the street and payed $3 more (question--do english keyboards have a pound sign over the 4 instead of a dollar sign?hmm) It's: Lovely. I like "Nice Day For A Sulk", a little sixties-y pick me up after "Chalet Lines". After listening to the new album, I'm forming a question in my mind: Are Belle & Sebastian dabbling in country? Evidence: guitars on "I Fought In A War" are twangier than usual. hmm "Beyond the Sunrise" cowbell and twangish (is that a slide guitar??)guitars at the beginning of "The Wrong Girl"-->"I went lookin' for my darlin' Not that that's bad thing. Whatever they're doing it's great. On the first listen it shocked me a little, maybe because I didn't fall immediately in love with it like Arab Strap. This one took a few listens to hook me. It also gave me the distinct feel of summer (just like Arab Strap's feel of fall, and Sinister's feel of spring). Also listened to Jesus & Mary Chain's "Psychocandy", a very nifty album indeed. Well, @@@@@@@@@@@@happy listening:-)@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Ciao! Rachel W. "You're trying much too hard to make your world seem like a dream."-Felt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: dafter than daisies (no subject)
by Kev 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Hello Sinister, So this is how it happens - tired alone and drunk with nothing much to say but somehow craving an audience. Hey look at me boys and girls I'm great really, honest. There are some things, and they follow -- BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - released a new album and the first song makes me cry. It's probably just because it uses the same keyboard type thingy (and I'm a bit shallow), but "Don't Leave the Light on Baby" sounds an awful lot like the Joni Mitchell song Woodstock. It's my favourite song on the album, even if just for the sentiment and delivery of "It's been a bloody stupid day", which I just wish I'd thought of saying because it applies to 95% of mine. STUART DAVID IS A SLACKER - well maybe, but y'know, it's not his job to please you. If seeing a concert is so important to someone then I can only assume that a re-evaluation of priorities is in order. People are what matters, an hour of live music, while heartlifting, beautiful and all the rest is wonderful, it's just not as important. But maybe that's just me. Anyone? BOY WITH A BASS GUITAR - somebody help me. I would have replied to Sophie privately(as I'm sure many did) only I was scared that she'd reply I'd fall helplessly in love. Mails like that (and others too numerous to mention) are the reason that this list is so important. SINGLES NOT ON ALBUMS - Loooove it. Although the only band that comes to mind is New Order, who did a lot of that sort of thing (and of course Joy Division before them) if not exclusively. I always think that singles kind of punch nesses holes in albums - Oh yeh the next one is the single - and it kind of devalues the songs that weren't singles, if you see what I mean. Probably that's rambling enough. The shadows of obscurity (and possibly even a red wine and cider sick bowl - well maybe) are calling. Love in great big vases Kev (in a bliss of ignorant haze) x ===== http://www.lost-cat.org.uk/regularchickens/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: this town really drags you down
by FoxInASnow＠aol.com 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Actually that's not true at all, it's just what i was worrying as i walked to the record store. See, when Arab Strap came out, Repo Records sold out of it before i got there, and for some reason Borders Books & Music hadn't gotten their shipment yet (i think it was the day after a postal holiday and it had gotten delayed) and so i had to wait till the next day. So of course i feared the worst. I marched straight to the boy at the counter and demanded to know if there were any copies of flappyclap left, wich there were, so i gave him my $13 and left oh so much more cheerfully. It's a delicious record, of course - i had all the songs already thanks to a most courteous friend, but i needed to have the artwork too, and the lyrics and the nice little story inside the front cover. By the way, thanks to all you wonderful people who helped me out regarding the Clientele. I have seen the error of my ways and will listen to any and all mix tapes studiously. I seem to have accidentally brought the poetry parrot upon myself. Err, it wasn't exactly an accident, as i DID kind of offer to take him. Whoops. I realized after i pressed the send button that i don't even read any poetry ever, i just know what all the terms mean because that's what English majors do best. So i'll have to find something nice, and find someone to pass him off to when i'm done, cos he and my cat are getting into all kinds of trouble. He's teaching my cat naughty words, and my cat is teaching him to beat up on strangers. Anybody want a bird? Jess. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Nice day for a Belle & Sebastian-fan
by Alexander Bartilson 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Hi, bought the album when the shops opened yesterday. Have listened to it a few times now and I thought I'd just post some thoughts and reflections. If your not interested now is the time to press delete. "I fought in a war" Great song. Made me think about WW II and D-day. Noticed that the girl on the cover is holding a book called "I fought in a war". This may be a well-known book, but I haven't heard of it. Someone of you have probably read it. One thing, is there one or two girls on the cover. Can't really decide whether it's a mirror or not. The text on the left book is reversed so... "The model" A classical B & S track. Wonderful. Can't help smiling when I hear "It was the best sex she ever had" and "The girl next door who's famous for showing her chest"... "Beyond the sunrise" Nice duet with Isobel and ehhh...Nick Cave? The song is probably the most surprising song on the album in my opinion. "Waiting for the moon to rise" So this is Sarah. Love her voice and the track. "The chalet lines" A direct punch in the stomach. With lines like "I missed my time, I don't think I could stand, to take the test, I'm feeling sick, fuck this, I've felt like this for a week" I just wonder how there's possible to put so much emotion into a song. "Family tree" I'm one of those who thinks Isobel's voice is lovely so of course I think this track is great. Waiting with eager for the new Gentle Waves album. " On the whole this is a fantastic album. Absolutely brilliant. And you can quote me on that. Well that's all for now. Might return later with more comments. Till then... ///alexander PS. Boys and girls, stop that monkey business now, and tell me who the gorilla is! DS. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: i'm waiting with hope and joy because probably on friday 'fold your hands...' will arrive on friday :)
by keshi＠libero.it 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

hi!!! CarsmileSteve said: >Can anyone else think of another band who steadfastly refuse to release >tracks off albums as singles? Richard Colburn will answer to your question (ehm no he isn't here but I read the answer on an interview he did in Italy): Led Zeppelin. talking about the interview it was a three pages interview, really interesting they talked about the new album and as cover of the magazine there is a photo of Stuart Murdoch I am ill, I have a cold and this is normal, but it's not normal if you think that is summer and here is terribly hot (I used to think that it was a winter illness) hmm...someone said something about moomins... I simply love them. and then the other day I was watching television and I saw the moomin's cartoon!!! :) I was really happy because I waited for 12 years to see it, now I'm joyful and proud and I love the world for it. well I leave bye bye francesca +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Music 365's review of FYHCYWLAP
by Jason Andreas 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Yet another damning one, folks. Why does everyone think they're smug??? ******************* Jeepster JPRCD010) Long awaited fourth album from the cardie-wearers is no great step forward... Hating Glasgow cuties Belle & Sebastian is now so commonplace that everyone to the left of, and including, Steps has joined in. Not that they care. Having achieved a remarkable level of success entirely on their own terms - never talking to the press, hardly ever performing live, and turning down most offers made to them, even those in good faith - there's absolutely no reason for them to make any concessions to the horrible outside world. (They didn't balk at the chance to appear on TOTP with current single 'Legal Man' last week though, and its summery idiocy was a rare treat juxtaposed with the usual endless succession of manufactured singer/dancers. They sure ain't been to no stage school). That single isn't present on this album, presumably because its mood is so at odds with the essentially downbeat nature of the rest of the material. And let's be honest here, 'Fold Your Hands Child...' (title allegedly lifted from graffito spotted by mainman Stuart Murdoch, possibly in a friend's lavvy) is a drab bastard of a disc. It doesn't start too badly. 'I Fought In A War', all minor keys and windswept strings, is a fine opener, soon transporting the listener to B&S land, but only the beautiful, if entertainingly pathetic 'Don't Leave The Light On Baby' and the countrified 'The Wrong Girl' come anywhere near matching it. The crappy 'Beyond The Sunrise' is as feeble a Lee Hazlewood copy as can be imagined, the shoddy 'Woman's Realm' (and that is a stinker of a title) could be by any one of the burgeoning numbers of B&S copyists out there, while the much commented-on 'Chalet Lines', Murdoch's necessarily downbeat description of a rape (and charmlessly described on the press release as 'quite slow and sad') is vocally almost unintelligible. Several hundred plays later, the other songs leave no impression. Not that it'll matter. The Belleshitters will lap it up, while the doubtful will remain unconverted. But the interested rather than fanatical will be dismayed that nothing matches classics like 'Lazy Line Painter Jane', 'Boy With The Arab Strap' or just about anything on 'If You're Feeling Sinister'. To accuse Belle and Sebastian of artifice is obviously a pointless exercise - their entire career to date rests on it - but this half-hearted tribute to Love's 'Forever Changes' (thirty three years old and sounding better than ever) won't even be the best string-laden, over-arranged record from a Glasgow combo this year (thank you, Delgados). Smug, detached, and noticeably underwritten, this is a serious disappointment. ** [2 out of 5] Steve Jelbert --Jason Andreas If nice guys finish last, then I'll never finish at all... ICQ: 45821217 AIM: RadioJase +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B&S breaking and entering
by samwaltonyeah＠hotmail.com 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Hi there all. So those pesky scottish kids are up to everything shobiz nowadays eh? Top 20 singles, press conferences, breaking into top BBC soap sets.... Anyway, here's a article from nme.com: love, Sam.x BELLE & SEBASTIAN were almost arrested following their appearance on 'TOP OF THE POPS' last week after breaking into the set of top BBC soap 'EASTENDERS', nme.com can reveal. The Scottish group, whod been on the show performing their number 15 hit Legal Man, went to go and find the mythical Albert Square after hearing it was near the Top Of The Pops studios. Substantially fortified with alcohol from the BBC bar, Stuart Murdoch, Chris Geddes, Sarah Martin and Richard Colbourn from the band found a gate saying No Entry that was open and wandered in. Unfortunately, a security guard saw them larking around the Queen Vic and the car lot, grabbed them and rang the police, believing them to be common or garden trespassers. By a strange coincidence, TOTP presenter Jamie Theakston and producer Chris Cowey were just being driven home as the group were grabbed. The pair instantly spotted their predicament, stopped the car, and managed to persuade the studio guard that the trespassing hoodlums were in fact slightly squiffy BBC guests. A spokesperson for the band told nme.com: "I think they were quite lucky. Its not the sort of thing theyd usually do and they almost got into real trouble over it. Theyd just been celebrating a bit too much as theyd had such a wonderful time on the show." The band, who also revealed today that the gorilla who invaded their set on TOTP was in fact their sound engineer Tony Douggan in a suit, are also celebrating going straight into the Canadian sales charts at number four with their current single. Their spokesperson laughed: "Theyre completely dumbfounded, but so chuffed, as theyve never even played live there before. But then theyve never played Norway either and theyre doing really well there too." Belle & Sebastians new album Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant was released on Monday through Jeepster. ---------------------- News story sent courtesy of nme.com (http://www.nme.com) Check out the daily news, reviews and the new e-cards of classic NME covers and our random quotes feature which stretches back to 1977. Generated by NME ( http://www.nme.com ) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Whoops!
by #M. P. 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

I can't belive I did a premature SEND! I thought only drunkards and idiots did that. Lost my momentum completely now. Anyway, I did want to make one point about the "laziness" of Looper though. One of the things that I love about B&S, and by extension Looper, is that they refuse to let it become a job. It may be dissapointing sometimes as a fan, but it seems to me a little unfair to place such high expectations on people just because they have something you want. If you look at what Stuart David has accomplished in the last couple of years, he can hardly be accused of being lazy. And anyone who thinks that touring isn't hard work hasn't done it, I'm pretty sure. Show business is business, and boo to that world, I say. I'll shut up now, especially since I haven't got since I haven't got IT yet. It's several hours before I get out of the office and into the...rain/subway Matt ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The Haughtiness of the Mediocre Rocker
by #M. P. 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Is it just my tastes, or has the recording industry hatched a massive plot to relieve us all of our wallets this month? I'm not just talking about the 50 track Ultimate Doo Wop collection due out today either. If you're none too happy about the marketing of Legal Man, check out Clientele, managing to recycle tracks off of TWO previous singles for their scrumptious e.p.! Despite my fondness for the band, I wondered if they qualified as fey (even before it was used to describe B&S), but I was suprised to find that the Dictionary thinks it's 1) Scottish for DOOMED; marked by a foreboding of death or calamity 2) able to see into the future, and only 3) a) precious b)unconventional or campy so once again, the English language has managed to completely confound me. I don't think it's been mentioned on the list, but Clientele will be playing Saturday at the Fez in NYC ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: fold your hands
by Matthew Ward 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Hey kids. Went to Best Buy early today (got there at the crack of 10:45), but after it opened, so I missed the joy of hunting down the guy with the cart that puts the new cds out. Anyway, there were 7 copies, filed nicely with Legal man, I grabbed mine, which later turned out to have a slightly cracked case (damnable luck), but anyway, I escaped the monument to consumerism to unwrap and put it in my car and start listening to it in my car while I ran a couple more albums. Anyway, seems to be a good one. No official opinion yet (I still haven't made up my mind about Arab Strap, you know), but nothing seems to be a radical departure from the normal stuff. I do like the harpsichord, I must confess, though. On the US release, there's this insert on glossy paper that covers the top, top front, and top bac kof the cd. The top has the title and barcode, the front is a duplicate of the front cover, and the back is a tracklisting and also has the US discography. I assume Matador added this, and that it's not in the UK, since it lists only US releases (LLPJ box set, for example). Anyway, happy US release day to everybody! Ward P.S. I've been having slight problems with Outlook being bitchy, I apologize if this message has been sent multiple times. It said it didn't send. I swear. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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