Alistair wrote ...

you don't have to sing 'down with capitalism' or 'down with facism' to be political.

Right, you could sing "Boo to the business world!" instead. §;^D

B&S are political in the way they do, or do not do things, and if you want to call that an 'attitude', fair enough. i just call it a a way of living. i also think that the way that stuart writes can be construed as being political because it is outside of common/popular thinking about content of songs/way of writing and by it's manner rather than content makes a political comment, if you care to see it. it's in interpretation

... and the characteristic feature of artistic expression is offering the possibility to draw further implications out of the artefact by way of *continued* interpretation owing the diversity of its expressiveness ... but as Alistair rightly said, only if you care to see it ... listen closely and P!O!P! Goes Art, which brings us to Belle And Sebastian. Politics ? I'd be very interested how anyone could defeat the political message in most obvious examples like "A Century Of Fakers" ... take the advice of another thoughtful songwriter ... "But if a picture means a thousand words Then I will paint a book for you If you can read between the lines The truth for you, nothing but the truth Observe The Painted Word" (Daniel Treacy -> Television Personalities)

respect, even though you hate me, kids.

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