Could we please be objective cause the other POLLS are queuing up behind us - Artist Poll #94 - Belle & Sebastian - RESULTS

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"pastie" and "century of fakers" are way too low

"women's realm" about right though, i love that song

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link

"you're just a baby" should've been top ten imo

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link

string arrangement on this one is ridic

resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link

I hope 'To Be Myself Completely' pops up, although it's unlikely.

frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link

One thing this exercise has clarified for me is that FYHCYWLAP is...bitchin'

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link

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29. Don't Leave the Light on Baby
From Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (2000)
Live in Rio, 2001
Points: 310
Votes: 17
#1 Votes: 0

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link

hell yeah

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link

couldn't find room for it on my ballot but a great song buried in that first side

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link

Love that moment when the backing vocals finally come in on this track. This is the only FYHCYWLAP that made my ballot.

enochroot, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link

I've never been one to emphasize the importance of good lyrics, but B&S is a band that really does benefit from having good ones.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link

There's Too Much Love is approximately 20 times better than the coasting Women's Realm you lunatics. Glad to see Don't Leave the Light on Baby make it though.

Alba, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link

5th in the row I haven't voted for.

Nabozo, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link

I bloody love Women's Realm. It'd be good to put some kind of concordance together, to track the different themes and locations in their songs. This has the classic dance/sing like you're on your own, and, I've always linked the 'Indian part of the town' to the taxi driver in TBWTAS.

Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link

"There's Too Much Love" is the only Fold Your Hands track I squeezed onto my ballot, and only at the last minute. Which now seems insane. Clearly my biggest mistake was failing to propose a ballot size of 100 slots at the outset.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link

B&S coast so beautifully.

resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link

Clearly my biggest mistake was failing to propose a ballot size of 100 slots at the outset.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, December 14, 2018 7:38 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree that you were wrong

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link

"women's realm" is just kinda "dirty dream no. 3" so i get thinking it's coasting but also i need thirty more of those songs please

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link

The arrangements on Don't Leave the Light on Baby are pure Moon Safari. In a good way, obviously.

Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link

"Woman's Realm" reminds me more of "The Boy With the Arab Strap" (the song) with the electric piano and handclaps.

enochroot, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link

There also aren't enough songs where Stuart trades verses with Isobel (cf Women's Realm).

Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link

The clustering by era in this stretch is quite marked...

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28. The Model
From Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (2000)
Live at Glastonbury, 2004
Points: 322
Votes: 19
#1 Votes: 1

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link

wrapped up in books is way too low

big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link

le pastie is the other one i voted for from this stretch

big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link

oh good this is my actual favorite song from fold your hands

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link

yup

resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link

is this the horniest B&S song

resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link

I may have slightly overrated The Model, but it's so charming. It must be the last from its album.

Nabozo, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link

nah, on certain days i think it's the ultimate b&s song, though there are many other songs vying for that title

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link

this is my favourite from fold your hands and i really should have voted for it. the constantly building and shifting string arrangement is fantastic. also stevie singing one line in every verse

ufo, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link

the harpsichord definitely is twee as fuck.

enochroot, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link

The Model is amazing. That rush of words reminds me of that story about how Dylan thought nuclear war was coming so he just took all the stanzas he'd jotted down intended as starting points for various songs and just threw them all into A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall before it was too late.

Alba, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link

also stevie singing one line in every verse

yeah this is such a cool move

resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link

to catch up with some stuff i missed:

- i like the life pursuit and i like this rollout a lot but imo "funny little frog" can't hang imo, not this high
- didn't vote for "piazza" but i think its charms are extremely obvious so i'm not mad
- i love how many people had "the rollercoaster ride" ascending their ballots during the voting period. me too! its effect is so subtle but when it hits you, it's devastating

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link

i said that about "funny little frog" but i know when i hear it in the playlist i'm gonna think "ok this song is a jam"

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link

"funny little frog" is ok but i'm shocked that it's probably the highest placing song from the life pursuit, unless "mornington crescent" is still to come which seems unlikely?

ufo, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link

i don't know if i'd ever describe b&s lyrics as "good," there's always, always, always some dodgy or obvious rhyme even/especially in the classic stuff, but i think what makes it all work for me is the sensibility, that the band have literary aspirations but are never polished about it and are willing to follow an image around a corner but are also just gonna rhyme "on the rag" with "sleeping bag." it's part of their whole marriage of the mysterious and the incredibly ordinary, which, given murdoch's perspective, he would find incredibly ordinary things deeply mysterious

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link

almost certainly not :( xp

resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link

afaict not a single song from Sinister has placed yet!

doctor johnson (askance johnson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link

lol right

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link

"mayfly" is already too high btw

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link

i'm not too surprised that every sinister track is doing this well when it won the albums poll so overwhelmingly - i really thought it might be closer though

ufo, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link

the rollercoaster ride
of all the trouble kept her inside

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link

;_;

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link

Perhaps not 'every' Sinister track. :)

I'll shall roll out some more in the morning. (Friday afternoon for most of you, it seems.)

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link

i love the gradual introduction of all of the instruments in "you're just a baby," and how it feels like the song doesn't *really* start until stevie jackson starts strumming. what an awesome guitar player

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link

Thank you! Xpost

Alba, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link

hadn't realized until just now that they are currently a seven-piece(!!)

resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link

the boy done wrong again placing above String Bean Jean would have me very upset

frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link

hadn't realized until just now that they are currently a seven-piece(!!)

― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, December 14, 2018 8:31 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when i watched the sinister doc i was completely baffled at their approach to recording the first two records, live from the floor including with fucking 6-7 people in your band? certainly the only way to do it if you have no money but also total madness

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link

including vocals*

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link


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