― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:45 (twenty years ago) link
The last single had a cool DVD edition, basically exactly the same as the 4 track CD single with videos for two tracks (cunning to hide the vid at the end of the third track (that's actually two tracks in one, yeah?))
The last single reawakened my appr. for B&S after downloading a few storyteller tracks and going oh forget it.
So, If the single is as great as all that, I shall buy the album. At fopp. if.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 09:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 09:59 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 10:01 (twenty years ago) link
and I said "That has to be "in the country", surely...
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 10:07 (twenty years ago) link
Also, I have never heard 'In The Country'. What is it really like?
I think I must still like Belle & Sebastian.
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link
― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:06 (twenty years ago) link
Baaaba ba ba baaaaba ba ba baaaaba ba ba baaaa
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Otis Wheeler (Otis Wheeler), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link
Tip of the hat, indeed. The sauce!
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
Pf it's the one that goes "you're going to find me, out in the country" and going on about it's where the weather's fine etc
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago) link
Are you people saying that B&S are releasing a new song, as a new single?
The other day, on the Ross show, they talked about Ken Bruce. Did you hear it?
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
pinefox - I don't know it either.
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link
Wow!
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
PF, you probably know it as an old DFS furniture superstore advert from the 1970s. Their shops were so big they had to locate them 'out in the country'.
Let me see if I can find the lyrics. It's a good song by Cliff standards, or indeed any standards. Maybe it's time for a Cliff revival:------------------------------------In The Country
When the world in which you're livingGets a bit too much to bearAnd you need someone to lean onWhen you look there's no one there
You're gonna find me out in the country, yeahYou're gonna find me way out in the countryWhere the air is good, and the day is fineAnd a pretty girl has her hand in mineAnd the silver stream is the poor man's wineIn the country, in the country
If you're walkin' in the cityAnd you're feelin' rather smallAnd the people on the sidewalkSeem to form a solid wall
You're gonna find me, hey, out in the countryYou're gonna find me, hey, out in the countryWhere the air is good and the day is fineAnd a pretty girl has her hand in mineAnd the silver stream is the poor man's wineIn the country, in the country
Hurry, hurry, hurryFor time is slipping by, you don't need a ticketIt belongs to you and I, come on and join me, heyOut in the country
Where the air is good, and the day is fineAnd the pretty girl has her hand in mineAnd the silver stream is the poor man's wineIn the country, in the country------------------------------It's a bit like The Housemartins. And a bit like Blur. The Farmers Boys did a cover version.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
I still like Belle And Sebastian a lot, despite liking fewer and fewer of their recent songs. I think I quite like 'Your Cover's Blown'. Luckily it is nothing like the nme's "Indie Bohemian Rhapsody" remark.
― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 08:42 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 08:44 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:04 (twenty years ago) link
i'm way more familiar with the farmers boys version, doubt i've heard cliff's more than twice.
amazon.de to the rescue
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
It's a fabulous lost track, save that it's not wholly lost.
I am listening to what may be ... THE BLACK SESSIONS, on tape? The track now is 'London Has Let Me Down, Again'. Something that we forget, maybe, is how many tracks - extras like this - that they have done, in all.
Like 'Nothing In The Silence'!
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
― the dreamfox, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:33 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link
― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
I didn't buy the new single, even with a B-Side I haven't heard, and that says a lot. 'Nothing In The Silence', on the other hand, is a beautiful, beautiful song and would have sat nicely on the new album in place of so many others I could mention.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, I still like B&S. It helps that I only started listening to them in 2001, and so missed all the cult stuff.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
You aren't listening to the Black Sessions. Well, maybe you are, but you must be listening to some other stuff too.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
So, er, fuck their fans, I thought it was meant to be a fucking rock concert.
― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 12 August 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 12 August 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago) link
I had not heard the song, or indeed heard of it before I got the Fans Only DVD.
I was singing/humming it for weeks afterwards.
This must count for something.
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 12 August 2004 06:52 (twenty years ago) link
Surprisingly, this isn't such a bad thing.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 12 August 2004 07:10 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 12 August 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago) link
There's the part where they sing something like 'la la la too fast/ la la la won't last' when the next line could very easily be 'Stop right now, thank you very much..'
I'm always a little disappointed that it isn't.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 12 August 2004 07:14 (twenty years ago) link
as ailsa said, those aren't Black Sessions but really early unreleased demos that, er, somehow got leaked into the public domain by unscrupulous bootleggers with probable links to terrorism...
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 12 August 2004 08:13 (twenty years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 August 2004 08:27 (twenty years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 August 2004 08:29 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:18 (twenty years ago) link
I didn't realise Landslide had been done in the studio - only live I thought.
I've seen London has let me down et al tacked on to a few black sessions (which is Paris iirc) tapes.
Magic of a kind word is pretty crappy though
― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link