I finally got a copy of Jonathon David today (whoo hoo?). Those that say that TYCCASI sounds like "I've been to paradise" Are certainly not wrong. It's a kind of a disturbing trend these days- bands releasing songs that, while not being exact copies of a classic song from the play list of a 1970's AM radio station, certainly evoke enough of their "spirit" to be a rip-off. Come to think of it that "something in the Silence" or whatever it's called does the same thing , I just can't quite pin down which song it is. And don't get me started on those "artists" that sing the chorus of some long ago song and then fill the rest of the three minutes on some oblique rap. God I sound so old. Artsy Deco mentioned that David Byrne-in his youth-looked like struan. Poor deluded child, the only thing that the young David Byrne resembled was some bizarre breed of poultry. Jo Perry said that her first B&S song was mayfly- the first one I heard was Expectations, and I was sold hook, line and speaker-the most monumental four minutes in the last few years. Belle and Sebastian=(Seventies AM radio+whatever it is in the water in Scotland that makes the bands so good) - (transmission loss and static + dumb disc jockeys) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+