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I pick Sleep the Clock Around.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Legal Man or Put The Book Back On The Shelf

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"electronic renaissance" or "i could be dreaming"

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

get me away from here i'm dying

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Ease Your Feet In the Sea

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Stars of Track and Field.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh, nice pick, Mark. I'll go with "Like Dylan in the Movies."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

She's Losing It.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Stars of Track and Field, for me too. It's just simply lovely.

― Sean@tangmonkey (Sean M), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"lazy line painter jane"

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

gygax OTM with the sublime and preposterous "Electronic Renaissance"

― Aaron A., Friday, 9 May 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Lazy Line Painter Jane

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Chickfactor even though it's by that "other guy" that no one seems to like but me.

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:53 (twenty-three years ago)

What is an Arab strap?

― james (james), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:06 (twenty-three years ago)

What is an Arab strap?

Geir!

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:07 (twenty-three years ago)

My Wandering Days Are Over. Not at all the point at which I fell for them, but more like the focus of a tardy blooming of fresh affection.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"Expectations" off Tigermilk... they're so good when they're mixing a little dark and twisted into their twee.
"And while you're picking up the mess / the teacher's looking up your skirt..."

― Ben Boyer, Friday, 9 May 2003 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn. Come in 16 posts in, and all your top picks are already taken. I agree with A Nairn most.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Quite difficult to choose one, there are many classic tunes to my opinion.
"Seeing other people" maybe.

― Sami (Sami), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The first one I've heard: "The State I'm In" from Tigermilk...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:23 (twenty-three years ago)

This answer is simple, as they were one-trick ponies@

The State That I Am In.

― kate, Friday, 9 May 2003 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Dog On Wheels. It's bizarrely danceable.

― cis (cis), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"Expectations". Amazing a lyricist as the man is, he'll never top "Your obsession gets you known throughout the school for being strange/ Making lifesize models of the Velvet Underground in clay"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 9 May 2003 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"Seymour Stein" or "lazy Line Painter Jane"

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 9 May 2003 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Boy With The Arab Strap"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 9 May 2003 10:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"Don't Leave the Light On, Baby."

"What is an Arab strap?"

It's a "marital aid" (read: sex toy).

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Friday, 9 May 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Photo Jenny

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 9 May 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"What is an Arab strap?"

It's a "marital aid" (read: sex toy).

The song itself refers to this man, though: http://www.empastres.com/imagenes/arabs1p.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 9 May 2003 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

He DOES look like he has a lascivious laugh. And central location, to boot.

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Friday, 9 May 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, Sleep The Clock Around. B&S go Eno. with bagpipes.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 9 May 2003 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Has it come to this?

Sleep the Clock Around, yeah.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 May 2003 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Le Pastie De La Borgeousie! I'm really shocked that hasn't come up, it's the only one I miss since I sold my records

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 9 May 2003 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

"judy is a dick slap" from the legal man EP, just because it's a brilliant title.

― jason m. (jason m), Friday, 9 May 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't an Arab strap a sex toy ... for horses?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

"Like Dylan In The Movies" altough I think "The Wrong Girl" sounds like waht "Rubber Soul" as produced by Phil Spector (in the good way).

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

'The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner'
I read an article on Tangents (forget who it was by) which claimed that the recorded version of this, which was on the Jonathan David single, is far inferior to the live version. I've never heard it live, but I find it very hard to imagine anything being better.

― Cathy, Friday, 9 May 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

That will probably be Alistair Fitchett. The live version as done on Sky TV in Dec 99 is indeed better than the version they eventually released. I've heard them play it pretty badly live too. There's a very different studio version around too, which they premiered on Radio Scotland way back in Dec 97, along with early plays of 'This is Just a Modern Rock Song' and 'Slow Graffiti'. That's great too - organ led rather than picked on guitar.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

The weakest thing about the released version is the guitar break.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Or put another way: the best thing about the unreleased version is the speaker-shredding guitar freak-out.

I can't remember which one I like best.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 9 May 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

there was this song they performed when i saw them in 98 or 99, that was about a boy in school and he was smarter than the teachers, etc. His name may have been Anthony. Does anyone know if this song has been released.

― ano ano (ano ano), Friday, 9 May 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

'Lord Anthony' I beleive. I don't think it's been released, has it?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 9 May 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

'The Model'

wait, no, 'Photo Jenny'.

― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 10 May 2003 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"lord anthony" was never released, no.

hmm, POO: I suppose either "sleep the clock around" or "the state that I am in."

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Saturday, 10 May 2003 04:40 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

'if she wants me'.

i've realised 18 months on, that their recent lp was the best one for years and years.

― piscesboy, Monday, 28 February 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

What took you so long?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

String Bean Jean!

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

for today anyway i think i'll say "I Love My Car"

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i know. i listened to it originally and that...flute or whatever it is on 'step into my office' put me right off. the lyrics didn't help. i think that blinded me to the rest. the 'fold your hands...' album was so bad that i never thought in a million years some of their best stuff lay ahead. i was a bit of a big fan once. it's a break-up album i think i'm correct in saying. it's dead sad a lot of it.

― piscesboy, Monday, 28 February 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, love the horns in "Love my car".

Ever since I got the DVD, I get "Big John Shaft" rolling around in my head every day or so.

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that's a great one too. love that part where he goes "i don't get no mail at my house anymore, my manager's my bride"

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Get Me Away From Here"

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

O Come Emmanuel(studio version)

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The Boy With the Arab Strap

I agree that a. "Expectations" features some of his best lyrics, and that
b. Catastrophe Waitress is one of their best.. has as many great tunes as their "classic" albums and the filler is much better than that of, say, BWtAS. "Piazza..." is in the same league, lyrically, as Expectations and that lot, plus Asleep On A Sunbeam might be one of the tweest (read loveliest) tracks they've done.

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Rollercoaster Ride" it's the closest i've heard anyone get to "Waterloo Sunset"

― john'n'chicago, Monday, 28 February 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm waking up to us.

The new album was also a glorious (and unexpected) return to form.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Monday, 28 February 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

No doubt I missed the ILM backlash against my pick, "Beautiful."

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 28 February 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna go for "String Bean Jean" because I really like the lyrics but lately I've been digging "If She Wants Me" off of the last album. Before I heard "String Bean Jean" it was "Dylan In The Movies" and "Sleep The Clock Around"

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 28 February 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Lazy Line Painter Jane
2. Me and the Major
3. The Rollercoaster Ride

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 28 February 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Either "String Bean Jean" or "State That I Am In". Both are great.

― his face was burned off in a flaming crossbow accident (King Kobra), Monday, 28 February 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying

and Ken, "Beautiful" is a fine pick.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 28 February 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

A Century of Fakers.

Each time I revive this thread, I think of a different answer. This is just today's, and for the first time I think I want to post it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Like Dylan in the Movies

― late adopter, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, hobart.

ailsa, that's a good pick. I almost picked that one. Truth be told, I almost picked "Century of Elvis."

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Ailsa, I think we saw the first public performance of that one. I loved that and it's still one of my favourite songs. Kept me from my Saturday gins. Actually, no it didn't.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying"

(close second: "Stars of Track and Field")

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie" or "A Summer Wasting"

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

jeez, i'll take "Judy and Her Dream of Horses"

― Jimmy_tango, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

'I Don't Love Anyone'.

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh good, I get to be the 5th person to pick "Like Dylan In The Movies."

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

SIMPLE THNGS

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

That's actually not true, I just wanted it to get some props.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

What does OPO stand for, please?

I SO keep mis-reading what Ian said about Ken's prick.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It stands for 'Only pick one', apparently. I really hate it, but what can you do?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, thanks, er, Alba.

Stuart Murdoch, then.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I SO keep mis-reading what Ian said about Ken's prick.

I wish there was something amusing to say in response..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"Judy and the Dream of Horses"

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't decide!!!!
:(

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard "Wrapped Up In Books" in the car on the radio just a little while ago and it was good. It was on KUCI, which has a weak signal, so the end of the song faded out to a Christian station, which was funny. I don't like Stevie's singing so much, but the arrangements and everything sound so "on"!

― youn, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

of ones not picked already, winter wooskie

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Step Into My Office Baby

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I choose an instrumental.

Can't decide which.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Judy Is a Dickslap

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

I Love My Car - the Dixie brass band! The clever Beach Boys references!

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Saturday, 28 January 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Today it's "The Blues Are Still Blue"

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 28 January 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Get Me Away From Here... Isn't that everyone's secret favourite? But I think for me it's a tie with Slow Grafitti. How come noone's mentioned that one yet? Just so beautiful.

― Nutmeg Akasaka (Nutmeg), Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

"I believe in travelin' light"

― Stephen C (ihope), Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

"The Boy With the Arab Strap"

It is my favorite song (ever).

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

"Seeing Other People"

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Updated for 2006: "White Collar Boy" has moved ahead of "Lazy Line Painter Jane" for me.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 28 January 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

The clever Beach Boys references!?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

"Stay Loose"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

The State I Am In..

though i would really really love to hear a proper recording of Rhoda.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 29 January 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

The clever Beach Boys references!?

Seriously man - ugh! It's too early/late to be dealing with RJG.

Okay, how about "I love my Carl/I love my Brian, Dennis and my Al/I can even find it in my heart to love Mike Love". If that's not slightly cunning then I don't know what is.

You're gonna say something short and wry without explaining what you mean in a minute, aren't you?

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 29 January 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

Stay Loose is mad because it's not like, a "Belle and Sebastian" song. The only thing I can equate it to is Ashes To Ashes, but I'm sure they're referencing something else I can't quite put my finger on. Anyone?

I never understood the love for Lazy Linepainter Jane though.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 29 January 2006 05:19 (twenty years ago)

Go and see them live when Monica Queen turns up to belt out her bits and then you'll understand. Someone (Jerry the Nipper, I think) once described her as being like Susie from the Trio adverts, tiny body, ENORMOUS voice. It's just joyous.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

"Lazy Line Painter Jane" live at Bowlie.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that was the one when I "got it".

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

monica queen's last record is amazing.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 29 January 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

"Fox in the Snow" and "We Rule The School"

― antonio, Monday, 30 January 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Yr Cover's Blown, or Le Pastie...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 30 January 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

noone for "you made me forget my dreams" its that or "dogs on wheels"

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 30 January 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Expectations or We Rule the School

― Aaron A, Monday, 30 January 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

"Stay Loose is mad because it's not like, a "Belle and Sebastian" song. The only thing I can equate it to is Ashes To Ashes, but I'm sure they're referencing something else I can't quite put my finger on. Anyone?"

Pick up "45's and Under" by Squeeze and all will be revealed.

― everything, Monday, 30 January 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I recently discovered how great "I Love My Care" "I Don't Love Anyone" and "If She Wants Me" are.

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Saturday, 25 February 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

My friends and I were listening to "I Love My Car" the other day. None of them are particularly big B&S fans but they all greed it's impossible not to like that song.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 25 February 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

'Seeing Other People' probably. But 'The State I Am In' is on other days..

― beaux knee (boney), Sunday, 26 February 2006 10:35 (twenty years ago)

"Funny Little Frog" makes me wanna dance

― holaeh (joeschmoe), Sunday, 26 February 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

"Seeing Other People" is awesome, but "There's too much love" is the best song I have heard in their catalog thus far.

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Monday, 1 May 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

Is "seeing other people" about two guys? I never got that

― huli (joeschmoe), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

I'd rather pick none, if that's OK.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

congrats

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

'Another Sunny Day'.

― boney (b0n3y), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

We Rule the School

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

Dress Up In You

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:19 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

great band to come back to after a long time away.

― pisces, Thursday, 3 April 2008 05:58 (eighteen years ago)

'Seeing Other People'

― zeus, Thursday, 3 April 2008 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Lazy Line Painter Jane followed by Expectations. "You're a star and you'll go far."

― Cunga, Sunday, 9 November 2008 07:51 (seventeen years ago)

Sukie in the Graveyard, today.

― V. sorry I killed Jimmy Carl Black (the Indian of the group) (staggerlee), Sunday, 9 November 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

"String Bean Jean" or "The State that I am In"

― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Sunday, 9 November 2008 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

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