Mine:
1 Ease Your Feet in the Sea2 Belle & Sebastian3 Seeing Other People4 The Fox in the Snow5 Slow Graffiti6 String Bean Jean7 Don't Leave the Light on Baby8 Winter Wooskie9 The Stars of Track and Field10 A Century of Fakers11 You Made Me Forget My Dreams12 Dog on Wheels13 Legal Man14 The Model15 Me and the Major16 Stay Loose17 I Know Where the Summer Goes18 Lazy Line Painter Jane19 The State I Am In20 Step Into My Office, Baby21 Beautiful22 Simple Things23 It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career24 I Fought in a War25 Photo Jenny26 Sleep the Clock Around27 Chickfactor28 The Rollercoaster Ride29 Women's Realm30 Nice Day for a Sulk
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 07:57 (five years ago) link
I keep coming back to that "The Blues are Still Blue" Lip Dub thingy. Gloriously goofy, and I like the song about 89% more after several viewings. Thanks bendy.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, December 19, 2018 8:35 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Otm! Gave me a whole new appreciation for the song. What a joyful bunch.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
A schoolyard of teens united in song, singing and dancing clumsily around Seville orange trees could well be a dream image from 90s B&S.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
it's so cool.
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
I should have put Play for Today *much* higher. What a track.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 18 January 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
Indeed.
I had but one Peacetime track on my hastily-assembled ballot. I'm wiser now and have even, finally, procured a physical copy. (Write About Love too, fercrissakes!) I also had a nice image prepared for "Play for Today", so I was doubly sad to see it slip down the rankings in late voting.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 05:51 (five years ago) link
Put it here, You're allowed!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
This poll was responsible for B&S cementing themselves in my favourite top 5 or so bands. Before they were a band I liked generally, loving a few songs and a couple albums. Now their entire catalogue just makes me very, very happy.
Thanks, Nag!
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Monday, 28 January 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
Definitely the rare and weird category of favorite band I unabashedly adore and want to listen to all the time, except for when I don't and find them too precious and need to set them aside for several months or even years.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
Ha ha, yes. Same.
― Alba, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
Thirded.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Fourthed. (I'd practically given up on them before this poll.)
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 28 January 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
Yes! I feel this way about the Pixies too.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
I've only just worked out that the backing vocals at the end of Play for Today are 'author, author'. I've been singing 'up your jumper'.
And it bears repeating: what a fucking great song.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 10 February 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
I though it was something like "up the mountain"
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 10 February 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
I totally think it is 'up the mountain' but other days I hear 'author author' - both have resonance. Anyway, what a song and would probably be my number one if I were to vote today.
Let's fill the glass and light to share the sunThe backstage of your life.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 13 April 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
The lyrics on the sleeve are "author author" but my ears refuse to hear it as anything but "up the mountain".
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 13 April 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
The backstage of your life.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 10 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link