I love that band Belle and Sebastian but the whole Looper thing doesn't really float my (paper)boat. I've got the last Looper single and as with A Spaceboy Dream, I just think "Well alright then - but so what". Except for the beginning of spaceboy dream where it sounds like " a trip to ma arse". So should I get the album or will I continue to wonder what it's all about. You know that band Steps? Don't you think they are the culmination of the 90s pop dialectic? You do? I thought as much. You don't need to be Hegel to spot the Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis at work. First of all boy bands are all the rage. The 'That and their ilk sweep all before them. Until Girl Bands arrive and replace the boy bands. The inexorable march of progress means that only one solution follows - a boy-girl band. Is this the end of history? The thing is I always saw B&S as the antithesis of Oasis. When people used to ask me what B&S were like I'd say - "You know that band Oasis, well picture that point in the music/emotional universe furthest removed from them and that's Belle and Sebastian". (That'll be my Canadian upbringing making me define myself by what I'm not..). Anyhow if my hypothesis is correct what can the future hold - a B&S/Oasis hybrid churning out stadium filling anthems about uncertain sexuality and buses. Who knows? Dame fate is a fickle mistress. xx John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+