Tim H!O!P!kins wrote:
I can't believe that no-one has noticed that the recorder solo on 'The Boy With The Arab Strap' is a dead ringer for part of the banjo line in Flatt and Scruggs' "Salty Dog Blues", only slowed down. Also that the story read out on "Spaceboy Dream" is a direct lift from chapter twenty of "The Brothers Karamazov", only with the words changed. Talking of Spaceboy Dream, has anyone noticed the similarity between that and the D.A.F. classic 'Kebab Traume'? It's uncanny.
I'm so glad someone finally said it! Those bastards in B&S! Plagarists! And everyone seems to be completely content with letting them get away with it. "Spaceboy Dream" is a complete rip-off of a) all spoken word songs and b) anything with a funky beat. "It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career" is just "Mrs. Robinson" with different words, melodies and music. A wicked wanky bagpipe solo? That's been done before. "A Summer Wasting"? It's just "Sweet Home Alabama" with a few twists. "Chickfactor" is pratically a remake of "Fuck Tha Police" and it's only a matter of time before Alice Cooper sues for what they did to "Schools Out" on Tigermilk. Seriously...Yes, a lot of B&S's bits sound like other songs, but this has always been one of the appealing things about the band...that they sound like re-discovering a song that you hadn't heard in years. And I can even see why people think the beginning of The Boy...does sound a bit like "Spirit In the Sky". But...If anything on the new album sounds like anything else, it sounds like (gasp!) Belle and Sebastian. The melody to the title track sounds like the melody on "Electronic Renaissance" and "...Brilliant Career" is fairly similar to "...Track and Field". But I think we can forgive B&S for sounding like themselves, hm? ~Reid, who is perfectly aware that Tim was joking. -- "I try to be nice to at least one person a day. Today isn't your day. Tomorrow isn't looking very good either." -chalkboard in the window of Pepper's Pizza +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+