Somebody named Robert said...

It helped me get over the extraordinary "breakbeat" incident of the day before.

Well finally I was responsible for an "incident". An extraordinary one at that. Sorry, I was overstating things bit on my review of Looper. But I figured most of you regularly read MM and NME and therefore used to people overstating things. I gave the single a few more hard listens, and well, it still sucks. No, I'm sorry, I'm doing it again. Its merely OK. That's it. That's why I'm disappointed. That's why I was wringing my hands. It was, well a nice base line there, a nice trumpet blast there(or was the nice trumpet blast on the flip side?), a sort of nice groove going on here, and a nice story, (yet discussing a similar relationship development to the one discussed in Century of Elvis), and wait a minute, why is it getting all fast, and its slow again and its over. Where was the song? Okay when I want sheer brilliance.

that it might be...different

That's the reason I fell in love with the Belle & Sebastian in the first place. They were different. And they were taking chances. I guess the new album going's to be a Revolver as opposed to a Rubber Soul. I just hope they use the breakbeats more effectively on the album. I still say lowfi breakbeats is a musical dead end. But then again I sitting here listening to Four-Calendar Cafe, and enjoying it, even though most people think it the worst Cocteau Twins LP ever. So what do I know.

I'm not a violent man, but come the revolution all purists will be stood up against a >wall and shot.

I could take that personally, my people have a history of being lined up against walls and shot. All by well-meaning folks, mind you. And I like this bit....

Yes, or there's Nina Simone's incomparable 'Baltimore' , which with its dreamy reggae beat would prove an ideal cover to further Belle and Sebastian's fan-baiting eclecticism.

Sounds lot better than my choice. Yet with all this eclecticism talk, don't you think its odd that B&S chooses to cover somewhat obvious songs. The Smiths, Orange Juice, Velvet Underground, Left Banke? Of course the idea of them doing these songs makes me go weak-at-the-knees, esp. Isobelle singing, "In A Nutshell" was it? Lovely. Love Carrick The Not-So-Pure PS Since there's a few of you are old time pop fans, and old time Scots, I bought the Suede Crocodiles single today for 5$. Too much? Too little? And after Baltimore, how about Providence? Lots of old warehouses and houses with vinyl siding. And the pizza there has really thin crust. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------