well, yes. breakbeats. Sort of like Arab Strap, Looper is. A nice little story, but i much >preferred hearing Stuart's stories whilst being backed by an instrumental version of >a future Belle & Sebastian song. Oh well, I hope he's using this side project to get >all his break-beat urges out of his system. I hope they don't creep into the new B&S >album at all. That would be so trite. That is one thing that made all the Belle & Sebastian recordings so special up to this point. They seemed so unaffected by >trends. There was a certain purity. I mean everybody uses breakbeats these days.

that was part of a message i sent to a fellow listee. He encouraged me to send it the list, fair warning to anyone who might be expecting things like melody and hooks, or the some of the best lyrics of this decade. But now I see the titles of the upcoming album, and my fears grow stronger...maybe they were future Belle & Sebastian songs..... 7. Spaceboy Dream 8. Dirty Dream #2 very similar to the songs on the Looper 45. Democracy, I guess. I just hate to have to use the skip button on my cd player. Something I was hoping never to do with Belle & Sebastian. They were my last hope for a perfect band. Electronic elements had been featured in songs past, but they were few and far between, and had a certain warmth to them, and something that Looper is sadly lacking. Its just left me cold, sorry. I know what some of you are thinking....I'm just some loser who hangs in my room worshiping old Byrds records, reading MOJO, and wishing I lived in the sixties, etc., etc. And your right, well not really. I wouldn't want to live in the 60's. I probably would have gone crazy like my dad. But if you had been out with me last night, you would have found me in some bar in the East Village, watching some fellow spin drumnbass, and enjoying it. I guess, its that lowfi electronics are all over American indie music these days. And most of it sucks. No passion what so ever. I'd hate to have these evil American influences sully my favorite band. No ambition. Hardly trying. Watching Belle & Sebastian last September in NYC, I was in constant shivers. Everything they did was perfect. (It happened to be a good night for them. Not shambolic at all.) It actually reminded me of a classical recital. I just don't see how lowfi electronic beats and loops can do to make the songs more interesting or powerful or soulful. But who knows, maybe they'll surprise me, they have always come through in the past. I'll shut up now, sorry to bore you with my opinions. rather cranky today. lack of sleep. too much drumnbass. love Carrick ps Why, when flying home from London on Virgin Atlantic last March, I heard Modern Rock Song on there little radio show? Why do they get a nice recording of it and not the rest of us hapless fans? _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------