"Gardiner, Stuart" <Stuart.Gardiner@ntu.ac.uk> wrote:

if you go waaaaay back to the first month of Sinister, you'll find an intense discussion about whether B&S will ever get to be as big a band as The Cardigans (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199708/msg00130.html). Yes, really.

Even funnier is reading through the replies to that. Or this particular gem of clairvoyancy:

Well, what I meant by "as big as the Cardigans" was mainly: MTV popularity (buzz clips, reports by Loder on the possibilty of a >Tigermilk reissue, etc.) and radio popularity ("coming up this hour we've > got Bush and the new one from Belle and Sebastian 'I Just Love Buses'").

Bush have, apparently, dropped off the face of the earth and are currently masquerading as a simian American President (they take turns, you know), while our dear B&S have an ode to their car. On the single... For whatever its worth, I love the first and third tracks, and I like the instrumental bits of ILMC (don't like the verses that much) but... I don't know, maybe something's wrong with me, but it didn't make me *feel* what something like Mary Jo made me feel. Am I incapable of being touched by a song anymore, or do these songs just not affect me as much? I was worried. I put on Mary Jo, and I was worried. Then the chorus hit, and I got that....that Feeling inside, and I knew it was okay. Also, someone criticized Boy Done Wrong Again, and I couldn't disagree more. It's so beautiful, so emotional that once I fell in love with it (granted, it took a few listens), it was pretty much the only thing I listened to for a week or so. It's easily one of my favourite B&S songs. To put it in the same sentence as Beyond the Sunrise is just...*shudders*. Well, anyways, I'm off. Mike K -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+