Which songs do we love most from B&S ? Send me your TOP 10 and I'll
do my finest John Peel impression and compile the subsequent chart.
However, due to the fact not everyone has TIGERMILK, I'll do two charts,
one INCLUDING TIGERMILK and one NOT INCLUDING TIGERMILK.
Send your top tens either to this site or email me privately. I'll post
the results ASAP. Here's my top 10 which includes Tigermilk:
1. String Bean Jean
2. My Wandering Days are over
3. Mayfly
4. A Century of Evis
5. We Rule The School
6. The State I am in
7. She's Losing it
8. Mary Jo
9. Judy and the dream of Horses
10. A Century of Fakers
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Katrina:
>Unfortunately, i have just heard from our pluggers, and B&S didn't make
>onto TOTP.
Sigh - maybe next time.
I've just had a thought:
Those f****rs Aqua were on Richard & Judy last week (For our non-UK
friends
R & J present a totally awful daytime TV chat & tat show).
- In with a bullet at no.2.
Ash were also on R & J some time ago and then charted with 'Oh Yeah'.
- Top 20 it I believe.
Imagine our Heroes on Richard & Judy with 'Modern Rock Song'
- TOTP here we come!!!
Sends shudders up my spine.
I apologise for my temporary loss of sanity.
Byee!
Paul <plaird@ndirect>
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For further gross waste of bandwidth (and time!), my top 10.....
The State I Am In
We Rule The School
Me and the Major
Fox in the Snow
Photo Jenny
She's Losing It
String Bean Jean
Century of Elvis
Seeing Other People
Seymour Stein
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Stuart M
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We saw Jeepster's Snow Patrol (was Polar Bear) here in NYC this past weekend.
Charming boys with youthful energy, rosy cheeks, good jokes, lots of bounce.
The obvious comparison is Ash. Couple of poignant moments, like the chorus
to 100 Things (100 Things we should have done in bed but we never got the
chance to try it) which is basically a flawless piece of teenage i-miss-you
lamentation, and then there was singer Gary's graciously suave moves during
Mogwai's set on the short girl with the Audrey haircut. The boy is going to
break hearts.
Q: Has anyone heard the Bitter Springs album yet? Addison Brothers and It's
Business are both brilliant singles.
wider than a mile,
n.
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For what it's worth, here's my top 10 (inc Tigermilk):
1. The State I Am In
2. Pocketbook Angel
3. String Bean Jean
4. Judy and the Dream of Horses
5. A Century of Fakers
6. Expectations
7. If You're Feeling Sinister
8. Put the Book back on the Shelf
9. My Wandering Days are Over
10. She's Losing It
Interesting Fact: The author of the book on the front of LLPJ is John
Polkinghorne, who was until a few months ago was President of my College
in Cambridge. So, I've had breakfast with a B&S icon.
Mark
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> for what its worth, I reckon
> its a stronger EP than LLPJ.
Yes, I think it is. LLPJ was really one great song and three
fillers (I don't understand the people who put "Forget My Dream" in
their top ten) whereas this one has four strong songs, including "La
Pastie..." which sounds like B'n'S getting bolshie! Which has to be a
good thing! I don't think the EPs are worse than "Sinister" though,
as some people seem to: I love "Dog On Wheels". Haven't heard
"Tigermilk" so can't say much about that... except is there anyone
who'd kindly tape it for me? I could offer to pay for tape, postage
etc or send you something I like in return.
cheers
Dazza
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> The Oxford/Cambridge Yah Hooray Henry types don't exist. Well not in
> Cambridge anyway (except possibly Peterhouse College, but they don't
> count).
Hmmm.
Dazza
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>From the Melody Maker, October 18th 1997:
Hello wee Karn. This is Bel. I like the Angel Orensanz. He
gave me two souvenir T-shirts for free! Angel owns the very
pretty synagogue where we played and he's a sculptor like
you. He is tall and twinkly and around 50 years of age. The
Angel Orensanz Arts centre is quite rusty and untidy and
unsafe.
It is pastel green and gold. They are looking for money to
restore it. Before Angel took over it was an unofficial home
for punks. They must have had fun listening to the Sex
Pistols and swinging from the balconies.
New York is tall and generously proportioned with many
poised, civilised and elegant people. Our hotel is even
worse, I think it's the music television mecca of the city.
It is 'delicately' lit for night vampires and I'm often
walking into things. The doorman's budgies are dead and
their shoulders are artificially very high. In Scotland, I
rented "Annie Hall" with a friend. Everything seemed so much
better then. Maybe soon I'll have less MTV, more Central
Park. I hope so.
Anyway, here's Mick...
(mick'll be here tomorrow)
andy
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It was a day much like yesterday: in fact, it probably was yesterday.
Strange reports had reached Simon's ears; Stuart Murdoch, the singer from
Belle & Sebastian (Neal and Simon's favourite band), had apparently been
seen playing football! How could he? He must stop this strange behaviour at
once! As people whose destinies had been shaped by the fact that neither of
them could kick a football to save their lives, Neal and Simon had hoped
that Stuart too would similarly be a kindred spirit in this department. But
no. He disappointed them, but, they hastened to add, only in this
department.
Simon hoped that Belle & Sebastian would be impressed. He liked to think
they had had real value for money from him because he was on the 'Stone
Immaculate' mailing list, and because of this he had been able to convert
dozens of people to the worthy cause of B&S.
Simon had also heard from some of the lucky few who'd been to see Belle &
Sebastian perform live that Stuart was quite an attractive fellow. Simon
was thrilled to discover this for himself when he'd seen a recent photo of
Stuart in the NME.
At that same time Simon was in pursuit of a charming-sounding guy who'd
mentioned his love for Belle & Sebastian in a personal ad. Consequently, as
the band could be contacted through the magic of cyberspace, Simon wondered
if it might be worthwhile leaving a message for this mysterious young man
on the band's website. The message read:
'If you are 31 and live in NW London, and hate parsnips, then why the fuck
haven't you written to me, you bastard?!.'
For reasons best known only to Simon and himself, Neal had known about the
Union Chapel gig only after it had happened! How sad for him! Then he'd
discovered, much to his increasing annoyance, that they had gigged in New
York - Neal's favourite city after London. He desperately hoped that Belle
and Sebastian hadn't been there from the 22nd of August through to the 29th
because he was there then! Neal wondered whether they would play anymore
gigs in New York that year because he was going back there again for
Thanksgiving. Had they loved Manhattan the way that he did, he thought to
himself. And whereabouts in Manchester had they had scheduled to play later
that year, and when precisely; he knew it was sometime in December, but no
more than that.
Neal was concerned that Belle & Sebastian were troubled by inquiring fans -
he hated to think he might be a bore, even though he was never being
boring. He had bought the '3 ... 6 ... 9' 12" on vinyl recently and had so
looked forward to getting home to play it loudly. When he did he was not
disappointed.
Good God, he thought, I'm thirty years' old and haven't behaved like this
oh, for some 12 years, since those heady Smiths days. How pathetic!
But he knew they both adored them.
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It's a bit of a shame that 32 isn't high enough for TOTP. It would
have been pretty unbelievable seeing Sturt fluff his lines on
national TV. At least we're safe from the Chris Evans' of this world
claiming to have discovered them, for a while.
Anybody know what songs could be involved on the forthcoming EP or
album(sorry Katrina), and am I right in thinking "The Lonliness of
the Middle Distance Runner" was planned for the current EP ?, if so
why was it dropped ?.
Finally, the excellent Ballboy are playing here in Edinburgh tomorrow
night, (Tues. 21st, 9pm at Potterow). I'd definitely recommend
going to see them.
Nathan
"And he said unto them,
there's nothing in here for your pot"
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