Robert McTaggart wrote:

I don't know what to make of all this. As a new arrival to the list, I'm slightly bemused by all this heated political debate on the subject. Surely, a little patience is required, I'm confident it'll come out in its entirety in one place, no crazy bsides, extra CDs for the select few. I have a certain degree of faith in the group.

All this fuckin elitism about how it can't come out in the original sleeve, well that's for the purists only. The important thing is that we have beautiful new songs like 'Modern Rock Song' or 'Slow Graffiti' (or is it one f two t's, I can never remember) to look forward to. 'Tigermilk' is great, but we can wait...

As for ripping off bob Dylan, or whatever the pastie may mean, yeah yeah...all I know is that like the Go B's, the Pastels or hell, the Shangri-las, they're one of the few groups whose lyrics combine the astral and the apparently banal and can fit into any emotional situation the incurable romantic may find himself in. 'Seeing other people' may be a gay anthem, but it means something altogether different and altogether more personal to me. And that dear friends is their beauty....

Goodnight young lovers xxx

thank you for putting us back on a straight path, we were wandering abit weren't we. i think it's bloody important that we have people remind us occasionally about why we're on this list. none of us could really care for much else than tigermilk be re-issued, belle and sebastian to continue writing and releasing fragile but special songs, and this whole thing of love. why do we so easily forget this? what is it about e-mails that can twist your intentions and create a flame? whatever, i don't need the answers. i just need reminding of the way i feel when i listen to 'sinister' or a bad recording of the radio sessions, or anything else they do. as the duke always says 'keep the faith', well, given the chance i think we all will. david kitchen - feeling somewhat fragile because the hot water has now broken, along with the computer, cd player and one of our windows. everything seems to fall to bits when you're suspended 200 feet high over west london, but at least we've still got Belle and Sebastian. :) -- ******************************************************************** http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/Belleandsebastian.htm mailto:bluesoda@totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------