Sinister: Single Of The Year

[Essexdog5]

Extract from Planet Sound’s music critics’ Top 30 Singles Of 1997, UK Teletext
p484, December 20 1997:-

"26: BELLE & SEBASTIAN 3..6..9...Seconds Of Light
Swoon! Sigh! B&S aren’t so much a love affair as an addiction. This, the third
EP of ‘97 from the ‘sensitive’ Scots combo, included five slices of jangly
genius with THE best lyrics of ‘97. We guarantee you’d hate this. Probably."

And at Number One......
"1: BELLE & SEBASTIAN Dog On Wheels EP
Well, OK, you won’t have heard this (or even OF it), but at least we didn’t go
for Bittersweet Symphony like every other pop hack in Britain! A four-song CD,
this starts with a Simon & Garfunkel-esque amble through fields of whimsy,
slides into the beautiful State That I Am In, takes in an anorexia-themed
String Bean Jean and ends with the ‘jaunty’ Belle & Sebastian. Trust us,
you’ll know who they are soon."

Singles lower in the list include the likes of Pavement, Blur, All Saints,
Radiohead, The Verve, Prodigy, Hanson, Backstreet Boys, Helen Love, Spice
Girls and the Chemical Brothers.


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