Sinister: The Boy With the Arab Strap
Kids, You know, the title of the new album. I really wonder if it will be a BIG MISTAKE. I mean, its a bit RUDE isn't it? OK, so it fits with the cover, but I'm just wondering about the possible consequences. This is what I think will happen: Sept.10 1998 : Parents of boy scouts 'taken up the hills' by Murdoch discover lewd title and inform Scout Leader. Stuart is sacked as scout helper. Sept. 11 : Church Hall Commitee discovers album after an insinuating piece in the Glasgow W.I. quarterly . Stuart is suspended as Caretaker Sept 12 : Parents of young B&S fans discover new album appearing in their teenagers bedrooms and are outraged. Sinisterines forced to unsubscribe from inappropriate mailing list. Only over twenty-fives remain. Sept 13 : Group of rubber fetishists descend on the Church hall and elect Stuart as their new S&M cult leader. Sept 15: Church Hall commitee threaten Stuart and Richard with eviction. Sept 16: 'Madame' Cecile Aubry discovers title and is disgruntled. Immediately demands band change name forthwith despite Isobel offering prized toy lion as concession. Sept 17: Band change name to '1975' after year in 'the state I am in'. Sept 18: Faced with eviction, stuart decides to change album title to just 'the boy' and Church hall committee withdraw eviction notice. Sept 19: Hoards of teenyfans confuse '1975' with 911, east17, level42, 5ive, and hanson(?) and record sales rocket. sept 20: Stuart becomes national pop celeb and featured on the O-zone and bluepeter. sept 21: Daily Mail discovers Stuarts 'shady' past including lascivious leather trousers and runs full 3 page spread on corrupting influence. sept 22: Sinisters mail server shut down 'obscene' mailing list. Honey goes into hiding. sept 23: Church hall commitee, all avid Daily Mail readers, spontaneously evict Stuart and Richard from church hall. Sept 24: Gay rights group 'Outrage' 'outs' Stuart. sept 25: Stuart moves in with Mark Owen. sept 26: Stuart and little Mark collaborate on new side project. sept 27: all original B&S fans now dissullusioned , claiming stuart has sold out. sept 28: Stuart sells out. sept 29: Rest of original B&S join Buddhist colony in Milton keynes. And all in one whirlwind month readers!!!!!! We must warn stuart before it is too late, so don't delay, print out and post to Stuart today. susannah. xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
With all this justifiable excitement about TBWTAS, let's not forget the other all-time classic album coming out in the next fortnight (what with the Salako and UNKLE albums as well, this has to be the best month for new releases I can remember...). I refer of course to the Divine Comedy. Thanks to one very kind soul I've heard it, so I thought some of you might like to know what it's like. Basically it's more like Casanova than the last mini-album. It's not quite as varied unfortunately, and there's nothing quite as wonderfully off-the-wall as ...Sleepless Night on it; but having said that it does contain a delightfully silly Wagnerian opus about wanting to live in Sweden... National Express does what most songs fail to do - be happy and cheerful without sounding corny and contrived. It's also very catchy, surely a Top 10 single before long. The other stand-out track for me is Sunrise, all about the Northern Ireland peace process, which makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end it's so powerful and motivating. A couple of the songs could have done with being a minute or so shorter, but that's a minor quibble when faced with such expansive orchestral arrangements and, as expected, great lyrics ("If the Lord had meant me to live in LA, I'd have been born with a machine gun" for example...). I'm not sure at first listen that it quite comes up to the standard of Casanova, but it is undoubtedly an extraordinarily good album. Don't be put off if Generation Sex is starting to irritate you, it's by far the poppiest thing there; and you have to applaud anyone who can get a hit single all about the public's hypocrisy after Diana died... Just my tuppence worth... The Hungover Git (Still desperate for somewhere to stay for the gigs...) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
participants (2)
-
Stuart Gardiner -
susannah