Hello everyone, I just joined the list a couple days ago. My name is

and I live near Philadelphia. I was wondering if anyone could recommend some groups someone that likes Belle and Sebastian would also like. I'm off to work, thanks in advance, mike sorry peeps, I dunno if this is really for the list but thought I'd share with you all what I'm into (you back there, stop groaning:) As some listees already know Mike, I'm pretty crazed about Belly and Tanya Donelly (I preached about her in a previous post) If you haven't heard of her or them, you really must go out and buy yourself a copy of "Star" and have your breath taken away by this deadly effective combination of wonderful tunes and sinister fairy tales. Then go and search out her solo effort too- "Lovesongs for Underdogs", which will render all those moronic Alanis-ites even more useless if that is

Mike, possible. MOst listees I'm sure have pretty varied tastes, so I'm just gonna share some of the more eclectic and disparate bands I'm into. One Dove are another band I've preached endlessly about. They make unspeakably gorgeous ambient techno (with lovely melancholy lyrics) that capture the spectrum of human emotion much more effectively than 99% of techno bands. Sadly they are no more, but "Morning Dove White" their one and only album is a thing of perfect beauty. Go buy it. Teenage Fanclub, Tindersticks, Spiritualized, Air, Black Box Recorder, Lamb, Palace and Sparklehorse are bands that can't be more highly recommended and are thoroughly essential. And not to be snobbish, there is a lot of 'big', 'commercial' bands that are magnificient also like Radiohead and Garbage. Anyway that's what I am listening to (though there are definitely quite a few more bands that I love but have neglected to mention). Nick Drake is definitely essential, being godfather of all things folk. it's a bit wierd I guess. Whenever i post, it's usually to rant n' rave about some band or the other. Hope the listees out there forgive me:) But I can get quite passionate about music (hmm have I said this before?) I'd like to share B&S stories or talk about list crushes and up my 'smut' factor but I can never find anything to talk about in those areas:) It's also hard to share B&S stories when the probability of B&S touring Western Australia are next to nil (sob boohoo) So I'll live vicariously thru everyone else I guess:) So I also guess I'll NOT be getting any list crush votes, unless anyone fancies a music freak! Anyhoo, that's all i gotta say for now. Welcome to the list Mike:) Hope you like it as much as I have seeya folks, Kin Woo With A Star Upon Your Shoulder Lighting Up The Path As You Walk ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+