does anyone still like Belle and Sebastian?

Surprisingly, this isn't such a bad thing.

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.

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...

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

The version I was on about was live, and badly breathless.

What is THE BLACK SESSIONS, then?

I think I heard 'The Magic Of A Kind Word' yesterday. How does it go?

(from B&S website)

Stuart DJ'ing in Brighton Thu 19th Aug - 2004

Stuart Murdoch will be the special guest DJ this Saturday night - August 21st - at Holdup at the Arc Club in Brighton, on the seafront. He'll play a two-hour set filled with indie classics and 80's pop hits. Doors are at 10pm and it's £5 in on the door, curfew at 3am. Go along and shake your thing!

Go along! Report Back!

But some of them I like.

I have always said that that song was very very good. Are you saying that you now agree that I was right all along?

x-post, Oh, I always liked it - sorry bf!

JtN said that someone said that emo meant being angry about being sad. As you can see, I have not forgotten what he said, JtN, or whoever else it was.

I have heard it on the grapevine that Jordi was there.

(If there's one thing that really makes me fume, it is being sad!)

From another board:

Phew...what a show...the spruced up Sinsiter sounded amazing, and that had to be the best Judy i've seen them play.....and what great seats, 4 rows from the front, slap bang in the middle! they also played....in not this order:

slow grafitti
dog on wheels
the loneliness of the middle distance runner
electronic renaissance
i'm a cuckoo
the boy with the arab strap
the wrong girl
if you find yourself caught in love

(and a couple of others i forget)

as I said there: Envy, thy name is me!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29632983@N00/46732859/

So are the 2nd and last LPs. I played them, yesterday and today!

Tone support is for nasty bullies.
-- Tom (ebro...), March 26th, 2003.

What on earth is Tone Support, and why did I not ask this question 2.5 years ago?

It is a pity I woke up at 3 this morning.

I trust that they have reached the appropriate copyright agreements.

Were you planning to smash a Pimm's Bar, I would not advise doing so with Eno.

Which in itself would be a pity, but health and safety regulations exist for good reasons.

Perhaps one day I will think of one.

But if you were watching Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid for the first time, and the song was on the soundtrack, wouldn't you enjoy it?

Maybe not.

"It's nice when shuffle brings the odd song in."

But this could be a distinct possibility at some point in the future.

As for Dear Catastrophe Waitress, I found I liked it a lot more after I got into the habit of starting it on Track 3. (Occasionally Track 2, but this is more out of a misguided sense of completism than anything else.)

Also opposed to this smashing plan -- Eno takes Pimm's bars by strategy.

Nevermind.

I did not smash up the Pimms Bar, as it was probably the most pleasant spot on the site, apart from the mingling cacophonies.

The Strokes were so RUBBISH!

The Raconteurs were so RUBBISH!

I liked Super Furry Animals, but their big top was full up. I would like to go and see them properly one day.

The BBC Sessions album est arrive.

disc 1
1. State I Am In
2. Like Dylan In The Movies
3. Judy And The Dream Of Horses
4. Stars Of Track And Field
5. I Could Be Dreaming
6. Seymour Stein
7. Lazy Jane
8. Sleep The Clock Around
9. Slow Graffiti
10. Wrong Love
11. Shoot The Sexual Athlete
12. Magic Of A Kind Word
13. Nothing In The Silence
14. My Girl's Got Miraculous Technique
disc 2
1. Here Comes The Sun [live in Belfast]
2. There's Too Much Love [live in Belfast]
3. Magic Of A Kind Word [live in Belfast]
4. Me And The Major [live in Belfast]
5. Wandering Alone [live in Belfast]
6. Model [live in Belfast]
7. I'm Waiting For The Man [live in Belfast]
8. Boy With The Arab Strap [live in Belfast]
9. Wrong Girl [live in Belfast]
10. Dirty Dream 2 [live in Belfast]
11. Boys Are Back In Town [live in Belfast]
12. Legal Man [live in Belfast]

Often referred to as the 'greatest Scottish band ever', Belle & Sebastian have enjoyed critical success throughout their career. Currently on hiatus - with no plans to record any new material in the near future - the band present 'The BBC Sessions', which features tracks from the time of their formation in 1996 right up until 2001. The sessions also contain the group's last recordings with departed cellist Isobel Campbell.