B&S is sometimes called the biggest swindle of the 90's. The last band to get that treatment was the La's ... Do you feel honoured ?
What? He's making it up! Has anyone here ever heard them them described as
Salut ! I'm not trying to pretend i'm an intellectual because i speak french, you know (cf jarkko's post). i'm french, that's all. well, nick asked a good question in his last post. he gave us interesting articles to read, too, which is cool. Thanks, nick. The same Nick also wrote : the
'biggest swindle of the 90s'? Is the interviewer mixing up Belle & Sebastian and the Mirror Group pension fund? Those crazy French! Or has it lost something in translation?
hum, i'm not sure, maybe "swindle" sounds weird to your english ears... but that's the way a french "journalist" used to describe b&s success a few months ago : he thinks b&s are not only *influenced* by the bands of the past like Love, Felt or the Velvet ; they have just *stolen* chords and melodies and tricks to become successful ; there's nothing original in them ; they haven't invented anything ; and the fact that they refuse to talk to journalist is a marketing strategy, you know. i think this journalist would like S. Wells. Maybe they're even friends. He's the kind of guy who writes, in each of his reviews, that "the new album of (insert any name here) is better than any record made by b&s". i've read this kind of "judgement" in 4 or 5 reviews, you know. i find it very funny. This guy likes Baxendale though. By the way, the baxendale album was released three weeks ago in France. can you believe it ? and it's excellent. you really should go and read the review by Alistair Fitchett on his Tangents site. i'm really jealous: i wish i could write like him. this text is fantastic, even more that the album reviewed. by the way, alistair, are you still alive on this list ? bien le bonjour chez vous Stéphane +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+