Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:11:27 +0000 From: Ricky HAGGETT <R.Haggett@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Subject: Sinister: On the radio

For ages I thought it was:

"Belle and Sebastian / on the radio / They insulted children / on the radio"

It kinda sucks when you find out that the real lyrics aren't quite as good as

what you thought they were. Oh well.

Ricky

Here I am, just got in this morning to start a day's hard graft as a corporate library assistant (the worrying is that through a strange combination of circumstances and lack of courage this is actually something of a career choice) and I flick though my sinister-digest to find this. I agree that Stuart Murdoch missed a trick when he failed to pen this fantastic alternative. I couldn't stop myself laughing even when serious-looking middle-aged men from Supplies and Transport passed through the library and nodded their morning greeting. I know we've had this thread before, but don't you think it's odd that such a softly-spoken and not very raucous (rock beast Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie excepted) band as Belle And Sebastian should create such confusion with their lyrics? On their theme tune Stuart Murdoch seems to sing his F's like B's. As in: "Bella you are ill, you'd better take a weight up off your mind" and "When I was young you were the only bun in town" which hit a particular note for me since I used to call my only-just-ex- girlfriend 'Bun' on account of her surname being Bunney. What a wittering start to my first posting. I could have made a splash, I could have been a ink polaroid competitor, I could have been a whistle, could have been a clock. Instead I'm just a late entrant to the whole party, who missed out by having lost his ear for a phenomenon when he heard B&S so long ago on the Mark Radcliffe show but didn't look up from his newspaper, merely registering Judy and the Dream of Horses and thinking it a little twee. Sigh. See you all in Manchester. Nick Dastoor nick_dastoor.bsho@notes.compuserve com Horses . I still ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------