Runegg wrote:

Hi, So there I was, innocently reading the village voice, when I come across this b.s. about B/S, in the middle of a worshipful review of Pulp: "Belle and Sebastian might be the hot Morrissey clones of the day, but Pulp beat them soundly in terms of craft, as well as that old milk of human kindness." huhwhat? fight the power, and all that.

hmmm, i'm thinking that all the Smiths parallels i and others drew a while back were one big mistake. As was perhaps their covering Reel Around The Fountain... if simply for the fact that many may read the Smiths references and make an assumption (wrongly) about some obsession with Morrissey which completely misses the point, the point being that the Smiths interesting work lay in a two year period at most, and that it is most likely an interest in that work that informs something of belle & sebastian. I think it would be fairer and more stylish to suggest that they might be Orange Juice clones on the back of their version of In A Nutshell but of course that would be just as silly. See, what do i know? keep the faith the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent@lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------