Sinister: Observations of the obvious kind

[the duke of harringay]

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

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.

the duke

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