For all the people who, unlike me, won't lower their standards and buy the 'nu-metal' fanzine known as "Melody Maker", I have transcribed the highlights (ie. everything minus the tiresome attempts at humour by the hacks at said magazine) of their "Famous last Words" column from last week, featuring the lyrics for 'Legal Man' ***L-O-V-E LOVE*** Do the lyrics of 'Legal man' point to a new hippy direction for Belle and Sebastian? "I'd just been to see Al Green play" says Isobel "and my favourite song was 'LOVE Love', so that influenced me when I wrote the lyric. Anyway, what's hippy about love?" Stuart: "Love is all around". ***IT'S COMING BACK*** "I sat around desperately trying to write a hit single" Stevie explains "and I had this line 'Love it's going away' and I thought it had to be more positive, it took me two and a half minutes to write the lyrics". ***LEGAL MAN*** No arch irony here, as Staurt explains: "The rest of the lyrics are in context, it is about a legal man". ----------------------------------------- That's it ... so from that it's difficult to construe whether Stuart had any involvement in the writing at all, or whether is't purely an Isobel/Stevie song. Either way ... I'd like to know. I think it's a bit sad that we get so little Staurt on this single. I'd also like to add my thoughts to the 'Lonliness' debate. I think it may be a deliberate ploy to release the single AFTER the album. I think 'Legal Man' is more likely to generate interest, rather than chart success. The album will (I'm sure) get good reviews, and after it is relased, when more people know about the band, they can release a "chartbuster" single. At least ... that;s what I hope will happen. Goodnight all .... Lawrence Mikkelsen http://www.akn.quik.co.nz/mikelsen/aboutme +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+