At 07:54 PM 11/13/97 +0000, you wrote:

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Remember this list is about BELLE + SEBASTIAN!!!!

the duke:

and herein lies the eternal Pop dilemma: for what purposes do you use Pop? for what purpose do you use Belle & Sebastian? me, i'm a firm believer in the concept of Pop as personal life informant, reflector, enabler, distorter and lover. and probably a load of other things too. See i don't think belle & sebastian are about music. i don't understand music at all. in fact i might go so far as to say i hate music, and it's here where i doubtless fall foul of many people, including i don't doubt all those members of the band who just love the bloody stuff and who witter on about the music saying everything it needs to and then shutting up. actually i don't mind that so much, what i do mind is people who will only endlessly consume the facts of belle and sebastian, that are concerned with hearing only about product and what songs they played at such and such a show and what did stuart say between songs? all interesting stuff, perhaps (but only perhaps), but for me, what REALLY makes me smile and gush about the appeal of belle and sebastian is the way in which people are here openly displaying to us something of THEIR lives, of the ways in which this Pop has touched them, moved them, informed and deformed the ways in which their moments pass.

long may you prosper. (although a few less posts about lemurs would be good... oh and who mentioned meerkats? the wolfhounds production team were called the meerkats, were they not? Tim?)

love and slobbering kisses to anyone who deserves it.

Hear, hear! Eeyore "the more you ignore me, the closer I get..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------