My overall thoughts after a deep Belle and Sebastian immersion for this poll: their faster ones are much better than their slow ones.
― kornrulez6969
What do you listen to more often, upbeat or slow songs?
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
or to put it another way, do your most favorite songs tend to be upbeat or slow?
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
Fast, but it depends on the band. There are plenty of slow Belle and Sebastian songs that I love but the fast ones are the ones I gravitate to most.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
not a huge fan of post-'dear catastrophe waitress,' but i'm still in grieving for how low some of my (few) more-recent favorites placed! 'dress up in you,' 'i want the world to stop,' and 'didn't see it coming' are all gorgeous!
― KevRus, Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
DCW didn’t rate on my albums ballot, but The Life Pursuit did.
― naus, Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
The Bolan-esque one up there ^^^ reminded me why I find The Life Pursuit such a slog.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
I've voted for Beautiful, Ease your Feet into the Sea, I didn't see it coming, and I want the world to stop, so I feel like a good boy so far. I must say I sadly missed Dress up in you.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
I voted for Photo Jenny and Beautiful (which I somehow put at #5!). Wish I could have found room for Ease your Feet into the Sea and Jonathan David.
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
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46. There's Too Much Love From Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (2000)Live at BarrowlandsPoints: 238 Votes: 15#1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
My no.7!
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
Oh looks like we're back on!
― enochroot, Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
I didn't intend to stop when I did, but brain demanded sleep quite suddenly. I'll post a few more...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
been meaning to look up the local time in australia, because i've been unable to wrap my head around when the poll results go quiet or active.
― enochroot, Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
this is their best closer imo. it's too much low
― J. Sam, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
There's Too Much Love is maybe my favourite on that album. I love it when they get a bit Northern Soul
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
XXP: Nor I, really. Been trying to get vaguely close to some of ILM's peak times without being awake at 4am. :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
I like it as long as it's as sad as this. Another of my favourite SM deliveries in "With my face head down just staring at the brown form-i-ca"Xpost
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
I want to like "There's Too Much Love" more than I do because of its use in the lovely queer film The Way He Looks, but it just seems kind of ordinary to me.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
^ I noticed such snippets amongst the homemade Youtube vids. Lots of them. Must see this film.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Dammit I really should've voted for "There's Too Much Love", genuinely baffled looking over my ballot and not finding it. I apologise to everyone for my part in it's TOOLOWness.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
44. TIE
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It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career From The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998)Youtube audio trackPoints: 244 Votes: 15#1 Votes: 0
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I'm Waking Up to Us From I'm Waking Up to Us (2001)Live on 'Later With Jools Holland'Points: 244 Votes: 18#1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
xp The only possible explanation I have is that I didn't even glance at FYHCYWLAP, just went by memory "save Woman's Realm and BURN THE REST", but this is really top 10 stuff...
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
For a few seconds I thought that was superman in the wheel chair
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
I always find I'm Waking Up to Us a bit too uncomfortable -- especially in that video. That's some real dirty laundry.
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career is, of course, brilliant, though I don't think I quite found room for it in my ballot.
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
If There's Too Much Love is this low I've got a nasty feeling my favourite Fold Your Hands track of all, Don't Leave the Light on Baby, is nowhere at all.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
i love i'm waking up to us, great song title, appealingly melodramatic. a clear tribute to forever changes, but it nearly does it justice.
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
xp Alba
i doubt that. i put it way up on my ballot, at least
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
appealingly melodramatic
This is the key, you can pretty much here the swooning
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
*hear
I'm Waking Up to Us is great but I always want to spoil it by singing "You know I love you, here's the ironing".
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
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43. Another Sunny Day From The Life Pursuit (2006)Live at Lowlands Festival, 2006Points: 248 Votes: 12#1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
'herbaceous border' appears in too few songs.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
I don't love the later stuff but this song is great. Good arrangement and playing, really highlights what a strong band they had become at this point
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
don't know if this is a Challop but Dear Catastrophe Waitress is a significantly better album than Boy with The Arab Strap
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
chocolate on the boil, steamy windows when we met
― devvvine, Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
xp think most would agree here
― devvvine, Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
The playing on TLP is so good that I felt compelled to look up whether or not they'd brought in any session players and was surprised to find they hadn't
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
TOO LOW!!!
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
Stevie's guitar just sings on it. I rated it at #13
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
yeah i'm not here for the TLP slander. Another Sunny Day stands up to any melody in their catalog and it fits comfortably in the middle parts of my ballot
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
Fantastic song. 'The referee's giving us fuck all'.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
I'd even say TLP is better than Arab Strap. I'm not saying I don't like Arab Strap it's just got a good bunch of unmemorable or annoying songs amongst the good stuff
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
i realize this is kind of sacrilege on a B&S thread, but does anyone else get kind of burned out on the horn+piano instrumental passages that features on so many of their songs? after the 100th time of hearing it they all kind of blur together
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
that's half of my problem with a song like "Dress Up In You", tbh. it's all very nice but when the trumpet comes in again it's just exhausting
you are correct that is sacrilege
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I never get tired of the trumpet. Though I guess Mick Cooke left the band a few years ago, so there should be less of it in the future?
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
I was just thinking that re the next entry. The trumpet solos, for instance, are good in themselves but they've inserted them in a similar fashion across quite a number of songs.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
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42. My Wandering Days Are Over From Tigermilk (1996)Live at KCRWPoints: 257 Votes: 16#1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
An unlikely complaint from a(n alleged) Rangers fan tbh.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link