Hey everyone,
Hope you're all doing fine today. Today is a good day, as I recieved my
copy of Tigermilk from lovely Andy this morning. I've just copied down
the tracklist from the web site, and I'm about to go home and listen to
it. Now I'll be able to know about all the Tigermilk tracks that are
mentioned on the list.
Oh well, not really interesting I'll grant you, but a big thing for me.
Thanks again to Andy...
Well, according to the Chart Show this morning, Cornershop is number
one on their chart. I know it's different to the Radio 1 chart, but
surely 'Brimful...' Will be number one on that aswell... Cool, I say,
and, of course, a million times better than Celine 'Why the long face'
Dion Dublin...
Oh, yeah, and if any of you saw the Chart Show, how cool were the
dancing syringes in the new Dandy Warhols vid? Great song as well, I
reckon...
Anyway, I'm rabbiting now, so keep well, and I'll see you soon
Seems to me like this list is expanding all the time. This is fantastic
See ya,
GIDEONxxxx
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Hello,
That Peter Miller bloke wrote:
>Yesterday I went to the pictures and I saw a film and it was really good.
Are you after my job?
>I heard it on the grapevine that McTaggart has been pounding the Glasgow
>beat, and the mean old piddly pooh hasn't shown us his ink polaroids yet,
>and neither has Keith.
Here's a couple ...
It's Saturday night in Edinburgh. We see three fresh faced young
bucks striding masterfully along Lothian Street. On our left, Keith
Watson, his rippling muscles teasingly hidden under his trademark polo
neck, is brushing aside a bevy of beauties with the merest shrug. In
the centre is Tag, his mind inexplicably wandering to thoughts of
ultraviolet pornography. On our right, Chris Leonard is leading the
other two in a David Bowie Medley with his resonant baritone, causing
passing drunken rugby fans to weep openly.
It's earlier that same evening, the scene is a table in an Indian
restaurant. Chris Leonard, the master raconteur, is holding court to
a rapt audience, Tag and Keith have their backs to the camera, so we
can only assume that their faces have the same saucer-eyed expression
as the young lady to Chris's right. It's almost as if Chris has
uttered the word 'gism' at an inoppurtune moment. Further down the
table El Presidente Honey is smoking a fine cigar, whilst
ruminating of the nature of religion with the ravishing Linda (the
first lady) and a strangely familiar man. Paul looks dead classy, la.
>Belle and Sebastian content: What do we have to do to join in the bunfight
>tomorrow? Just turn up in the sinister room, or is it more complicated? I've
>got a brand new nickname for the occasion.
You should have a brand new nickname for every message. Get over it.
>Northy, nice to see you back again.
I too was fooled briefly, but there were a few giveaway clues. Northy
would never write only one letter at a time, his useful snake like
symbol was not used, and there was a certain 'humour' to that mail.
Like many great thinkers of our time, Northy was a deeply serious
young man, who saw little to be flippant about in this evil modern
world where communists, drug users and the homeless are allowed to
roam the streets without being shot, and wealthy princesses like Lady
Di, the Princess of Hearts, are cut off in their prime, only to be
cruelly ridiculed. He really felt that injustice deep in his soul. I
hope the sick hoaxer is as guilt ridden as he or she should be. Oh
God, how I miss him.
Will that do?
Love,
Tag xx
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Even if you
are not
intrested in biscuits nad k80's TV
listen anyway....
the last time I can remember talking about things
like this a lot (though some people would say I do it all the time)
was when I first came to University. And my friends also did a
lot of it before we left University.
Okay here comes the wanky bit...
I think this happens amongst any group of people than need to
reaffirm the fact that they have the same cultural roots and past...
We talk about these things not really to remeber them but just to
confirm that other people remember them. So when We are about to
leave or have just entered a social group we to it a lot to reafrirm
or create links. Its a relief to know people think like that/ watched
that programme...Since *we* dont have my much face to face contact we
do it too... The weird thing is that in the nineties the cultural of
childrens TV and stuff is a repeated one. Those cartoons weren't new
when we watched them. We weren't first to eat those bars. So this
kind of talk now can break down generation gaps too. And this stuff
is still being repeated.
Basically this is a kind of conversational pop music.
It provides the same thrill of community and shared discovery. It
unites poeple in the smae way...
The Hanah-Barbera theory of Infinitly Self Perpetuating Cultural
Hegemony (hemogeny?) Explains All....
If you made it this far thanks. If you skipped down to this bit read
the rest. Its more interseting than my usual stuff I think.
love
neil H
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" despite myself at times
well i have felt
not in the mood for any of this..."
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All this talk of the eighties has reminded me of a couple of singles I
absolutely loved as an infant. Granted they may not have been the most
groundbreaking releases of the decade , but I distinctly remember
spinning these beauties on my Sesame Street portable record player.
The first was a song called Japanese Boy, by Aneka - an oriental beauty
(or so I reckoned) who, in all my innocence, I believed to have lost her
beloved baby son when she warbled 'he's my Japanese Boy, ooh-ooh I miss
my Japanese Boy (etc)'. Little did I realise it was a sordid and
spiteful tale of an eastern love-rat. My illusions were further
shattered when it was revealed in Scottish tabloid the Daily Record that
Aneka, this exotic, mysterious beauty, was in fact from a town 2 miles
from my own, was more likely to be found gracing the folk clubs of Fife,
and was in reality blessed with the rather less mystical title of Mary
Sandeman.
And then there was Bright Eyes. Forgive me, this one was actually late
seventies, but let's not become entangled in pedantics. I remember it
clearly. That Sunday afternoon I had enjoyed my first ever (and perhaps
only) experience of personal fulfillment - I had, all on my own, removed
the stabilisers from my bike and had sped down my street in a blaze of
two-wheel glory. My mum and dad, who were still together then, had gone
out and left me with the next door neighbour so I had no-one to share my
pride with, aside from my friend Jennifer who was reluctant to celebrate
due to the constraints of her tricycle.
Anyway, Karen, who was looking after me, knew what to do. I had
instructed her to call me in when the charts were on, regardless of what
I was doing. I remember her lifting me onto the kitchen worktop while
she turned up the top 10 countdown.
10 minutes later, my mum and dad returned. I was sat in Karen's kitchen
sobbing quietly, and they assumed I'd been a little over zealous on my
stabiliser-free bike. Karen, however, was sniggering into her cola, and
explained that I had actually broken down because Art Garfunkel's Bright
Eyes was number one in the charts and I couldn't contain my joy because
I loved it so much. I was four. How sad is that?
Sorry for rambling - that was way too long. I promise to shut up if
everybody promises to be happy again.
Love Nicola xxx
--
Nicola M
Stip / Blue Music
www.stip.demon.co.uk
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Dear Jim'll Fix It,
While we are waiting for the new releases, could you please fix it for the cd
pressing plants to run off a few copies of Tigermilk for those of us without
Ā£160 to spend on vinyl.
Thankyou very, very much.
Yours hopefully,
Andrew Nicol (aged 8 and a half)
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:: Greetings fellow Sebastatrons and fella Belle-bots ::
By golly and by gum! Christgau has done it again!! Mad-boy Genius!
Robert Christgau of NYC's notorious Village Voice has printed his
"Consumer Picks" for this month and guess what?
tha's right, Belle and Sebastian's IYFS passes muster and scores a
whopping A Minus! He raves on about Stuart Musgrave's foppishness and
twee lyrics (to paraphrase).
Waitaminute...
Stuart MUSGRAVE?!!?
(slaps forehead)
*sigh*
Well here's to Stuart Musgrave and the gang--congrats!
francisco
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'ello. Well, I too am a new one here. My nickname for years now has been
Silent Kid (even my mum has taken to calling me that...)but ever since i
picked up Sinister, I've been dreaming of the beauty of being mayfly. but
one can't just change their names on whim, can they? but in dreamland i am
allowed to do whatever i please.
hmm...perhaps i judged the High Llamas prematurely...i'm actually enjoying
this song i have of theirs on this sampler. I saw them open for Stereolab
and wasn't too blown away, but i'm beginning to suspect now that the sound
system of the crummy venue fooled me...
Anyhow, I joined the list thinking it'd be a good place to learn about news
of the band and trade info/music with others, yet i seemed to have stumbled
on quite a social scene here. oh, and how you all are working so hard to
convert others and draw them in..hehe...My proudest moment was the other
day when i sat some of my "hardcore/punk" listening friends down on the
waves of Le Pastie de la Bourgeousie, and they really loved it, and one
wanted a copy of the song and wanted to borrow Sinister!
Andy S.: yer page is very exhausting and clever.
brad: i found yer dream to be very beautiful. the way belle and
sebastian's spit was all rainbow colored.....
Have you all not seen Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown? Oh, its funny, cuz
when i first heard Robert Forster was gonna be in it I thought it was the
Go Betweens fellow, which caused all sorts of chaos...ah, but I've seen the
film and Tarantino places very opposite actors in a playpen and must expect
them to have chemistry. They all try to play and get along, but you can
see that they are out of their elements and at times its rather awkward.
Yummycats@aol: oh yes, i did see that parody of davy and goliath!
Goliath's voice was even more ridiculous than ever. Possibly the funniest
thing i've ever seen on there.
Yes, I used to watch the Belle and Sebastian cartoon and the little Prince
religiously...I was a cartoon fiend. Possibly still am...
Well, I'm quite a nomadic little soul, and currently am living in Atlanta
(looks like it may be ending in some months...), but if any of you are in
this area of the states, please get in touch. I'm very alone with my
musical tastes and open mind at this suffocating college.
Thanks for reading this rather long rambling.
Love,
*mayfly* (won't you aid my dreams?)
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But he doesn't understand and he doesn't try
He knows there's something missing and he knows it's you and I
We're the younger generation, we grew up fast
All the others did drugs
They're taking it out on us
They're taking it out on us
---Belle & Sebastian
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I'm just new to this list thing whatever but I've been a huge fan of
b+s for about a year now. I discovered them about a week after they played
the QM and not going to that is one of the biggest mistakes of my
life. Apart from the music, which was the soundtrack to last
summer for me I find it dead exciting living in the same city as b+s
and experiencing things in everyday life that apear in their songs
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Has anyone else noticed that the photographs on the dog on wheels
cover where taken in the kibble palace at Glasgow botanic gardens. I
might be wrong but it looks very like it to me.
Also in century of elvis when it talks about being near a park and
seeing foxes. Does anyone know which park? I suspect it might be the
botanic gardens again because it looks more likely to have foxes in
it than kelvingrove. Does anyone else have any idea?
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Bah, a new job and I'm not getting enough time to waste hours joining
in the list anymore. And I'm very scared of installing an IRC program
on my PC. An element of disharmony seemed to creep into the list
whilst I was been away. Just all close your eyes and dream of horses
in the Czech Republic, the first flush of Spring and games of kick the
can in Kew Gardens and you'll soon feel much, much better. Another
thing I recommend doing next time the sun is shining is starting your
day with the session version of 'Lazy Line Painter Jane' at top
volume, windows wide open. The neighbours won't complain.
I know it's too late for questions to the band, but I've got one that
maybe you lot are better equipped to answer anyway. I just thought I'd
step back from it all a minute and ask whether or not I'm being
hopelessly blinkered in thinking that Belle And Sebastian really have
inspired the most fanatical, excited following of anyone in years.
And if I'm not, do you think the band _know_ that they have? It must
be very hard for anyone who suddenly 'makes it' in any way for the
first time in their life to be objective about just how successful
they are. I know they're not selling out two-week residences at
Wembley Stadium just yet, but it strikes me that it _must_ all explode
fairly soon. Or is it just that they are extraordinarily appealing to
a certain section of the population and its just that that section
happens to consist of us and all our friends? I just get so excited
when I hear of converts like that Wall Street analyst brother in law
someone mentioned a while ago. It's the sheer perversity of things
like that that thrills me. I'd have little interest if it were just
some sell-out businessman with a vaguely 'indie' student past who buys
Oasis CDs. It's the thought of people who don't really listen to
contemporary pop and rock at all but hear this peculiar band from
Scotland and find themselves hooked almost in spite of themselves. I
never got all this stuff about them being charming in an amateurish,
lo-fi way. I know they can be that at times (I was there on Friday
night in Manchester) but when I put on 'If You're Feeling Sinister'
for the zillionth time, I'm still struck by how musically
accomplished, immaculately arranged and yes _well-produced_ it is.
"Nobody writes em like they used to so it may as well be me" - oh the
utterly warranted cockiness. They'll never storm the world with a
4-track demo of 'Hurley's Having Dreams' (much as I love it) but I
think its extraordinary how they lost none of that charm, and added a
whole lot more, when they made such a 'proper' sounding album.
I know I'm ranting, but I think rants (nice rants anyway) have their
place alongside biscuit/bar tomfoolery. I still haven't decided
whether SM was taking the piss with that. Was it really Danny Baker
in disguise? [For our non-UK friends, Danny Baker is an old man who
wrote for the NME in the 1970s and is now part of the Chris Evans
media mafia that took trivial male conversations out of the
popular-culture obsessed clever-clever ghetto and turned them into a
mass media industry. A bit like Tarantino films without the violence
and good soundtracks. The original perpetrators of such mental
masturbation then saw themselves for what they were and became a bit
embarrassed with the whole thing. This may have inadvertently led to
last year's abortive 'new seriousness' movement in UK indie music.
The problem with which was, of course, that most people who like to
act all serious and troubled are not deep or artistic but just boring.]
But having said all that, it is still fun to talk about biscuits and
bars and children's TV. Just don't let it take over your life. Or
you'll end up calling a Danny Baker phone-in. I should divulge at
this point that I am a regular listener to Danny Baker's Sunday
morning GLR show. But I like to pretend that it's only to hear Laurie
Pike talking. Shall I stop now?
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