Mark wrote: >Maybe you'd be happy if they recorded the next LP by placing a walkman in >the corner of a big room instead of spending a few days in a 'professional' >(oh my god!..) studio and using 'professional (here we go again...) >equipment with a 'professional' engineer. For my part, I'd be happy if it sounded good:-). Some of my very fave records ever are recorded on what you, no doubt, would consider dreadful equipment. So who cares? >And then they could release it on >cassette only without bothering to master it because they've got lives to >lead and they just do things for themselves - fuck the people who funded it >by buying the last record. Now I'm starting to get worried...Belle and Sebastian should do exactly what they feel like doing. If a tape only release is what they wanted, for whatever reason, then they should get right on with it. Although Belle and Sebastian obviously operate within a commercial medium, it's important to remember that this is art...they must do it for themselves! If not, who are they doing it for? For some nameless public who 'deserve' a 'service'? As for 'fuck the people who funded it by buying the last record', those people bought the last record because they wanted a copy of the last record. We were not making a long-term investment in the career of a band. If we don't like the next record, we don't buy the next record. Where's the problem? Why is that 'fucking' those who bought the last one? I hate it when folk in the music industry apply some kind of moral pressure for a band to be 'good', which inevitably equates with 'professional'. And the same people seem to get cross when a band does something which seems to sit unhappily with a standard music industry career path. The whole point with taking chances and doing things differently is that the results are going to be a little variable. Doing the unexpected inevitably means that someone won't like the result. >Duke, I think you'll find yourself in a minority here. Sorry mate Proud to be in a minority, as ever, tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------