Excuse the cheesy subject line, it was sorta a spontaneous brainstorm that probably came back when I was in high school and did those academic quiz competitions where they would have answers to a category of question by stringing two names together. Like "The second President of the United States and a comedic actor that used to be on Saturday Night Live" To which you would answer John Adamsandler. Anyway my point being, while listening to Get Me Away from here, I'm dying and We rule the school I noticed some remarkable similarities between these songs and the Pachelbel Canon. So to assuage my curiosity and considering I have just been let out of the nursery recently (in fact this is my first post) I looked back in the archive and found that although We Rule the School has been discussed before to the point of naming it a variation on the Canon, I didn't find that there has ever been any corellation on this list between Get me away from here... and the Canon. The melody of Stuart's voice in that song sounds very close to the fast part in the Pachelbel Canon, the one with all the sixteenth and 32nd notes if you've ever seen the violin part to Canon. Anybody else agree or am I just hearing things? Anyway this being my first post and all just a little introduction--I'm a 19 year old student from Maryland and I go to University of Maryland. I was introduced to the lovely Belle and Sebastian just this past June by a friend of mine who just happens to be a member of this list, Steve C. The first album I heard was TBWTAS and my fave song to this day is still the first one I ever hear, It could have been a brilliant career. The closest I've come to seeing B & S live in any part or form is seeing Looper in DC about month ago. I also had the privilege of meeting several people on the list at that show which persuaded me to join the list as they were a very nice bunch of people. A Little comment about that show although it is a month later, hey I just got my voice: I have to admit I just went to that show to see the bassist from B & S but I really liked the distinct sound of Looper and how their images on the screen so perfectly meshed with their sound and I have become hooked on Looper ever since then as well (a sidenote to a sidenote-that DJ that played before Looper in DC was about the worst act I have ever seen especially since he appeared to think he was performing in a strip club and he felt a need to fondle some girl that was in the front row that couldn't have been more than 16, by the way she's on this list I say Bravo! you handled what must have been a really uncomfortable situation with some how grace and dignity, if I was a girl and some sweaty random guy clad only in his underwear pulled me up on stage and started groping me I would have kneed him in the nuts.) Well sorry if I started to ramble on their, I tend to do that even discounting the whole first post thing. Oh and another thing, can anybody tell me why it seems to be a foregone conclusion on this list that IYFS is B & S's best LP? I mean I agree that it flows very well but to me TBWTAS just has so much more variety and innovation musicly. Just a sinister newbie's curiosity. Todd +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+