BELLE AND SEBASTIAN WRITE ABOUT LOVE RAR 320 The Boys are Back in Town Legal Man Formato: Kbps - BELLE AND SEBASTINE WRITE ABOUT LOVE. - Lista de Temas. I have a theory for this: it's not that everyone thinks this second album is better - its simply that unless you were very on the ball and liked trawling websites for bands you'd never heard of back in the days when most people didn't know what the internet was then you wouldn't have known about this album. Although talks took place with other bands simultaneously B and S' 'If You're Feeling Sinister' became the very first album on the label with Snow Patrol the second act signed - talk about starting a new label with a bang! These characters are directionless, unwilling to submit themselves to the grinning falsehood niceties of the capitalist world but not being sure what to use as a substitute. Therefore, 'If You're Feeling Sinister' was the first time anybody really heard Belle and Sebastian and Murdoch's songwriting especially is so remarkably different and new it couldn't fail to set the world alight - even if sales trickled rather than poured in as the few people who bought it on first release told friends, family and probably their pet felines about it. Strike that. The other big move since 'Tigermilk' is the growth of the band. The real achievement of a group like Oasis was in connecting people again, being winningly catchy for the pop crowd without selling out their selves for the masses at least, not for a while. Odd as it seems for an album that never made the charts and came out on a tiny label, though, Belle and Sebastian have already done that tiny bit of selling out that made the honest verve of the first album so successful. After all, the employment youth training scheme the band was formed on isn't really there to create art - it's there to get youngsters with no other futures off the streets long enough for the fat cats in suits to look good, as the sleevenotes make clear. An excellent and brave song, that grows with every listen. For a start the band signed with a 'proper' record label, Jeepster, founded by Mark Jones and Stefano D'andrea in that could sell records in actual shops and everything. Falling Out is their American debut and it sounds like the work of a band that has been perfecting its sound for years as they in fact have since Both seem to be metaphors for the working world which plays a big role on Murdoch's songs perhaps because he couldn't experience it for himself during all his years ill in bed while his friends told him about it. Overall, then, it's easy to see why 'Sinister' caught on with the public imagination so much, even if took a long long time for word of mouth to spread. The opening sounds of children pkaying were taped by Murdoch on a portable tape recorder while on a walk around Glasgow - the band 'think' it was the school that became 'the gaelic one on Berkley Street' when quizzed about it later on their website. This record just sounds so different from anything else well, except 'Tigermilk' but no one really knew that album yet that it had to succeed and while musically timeless and more like a record from the 60s than 90s it captures what seems now on reflection to be the early-pre-Oasis s sound so well: a period of meekness, worry and hope. Long termers Stevie Jackson, Sarah Martin and Chris Geddes all join the band here and were clearly all good choices because they're still with the band now. Unless you were one of the lucky people who owned the original, chances are you never got to hear 'Tigermilk' until , when Jeepster finally bought up the rights to re-issue it as part of the band's longterm back catalogue. The band clearly feel like that too, thrown together at the deep end in one desperate attempt to escape a life in the doldrums. Connect the dots and you end up at the New Pornographers or Spoon. I think I like this one more than WB and that album is one I would consider a favorite of all-time! The title track is a confessional spoken to a minister who probably has more reason to feel guilty than the narrator and is thus a waste of time. There are some groups that were born for the centre-stage, that flourish in the attention of multi-million record deals, appearances on prime-time TV shows and endless lists of touring dates that only end after one of the band is in rehab or given an MBE or both. But good music is good music whenever it comes from and whoever makes it. The sudden snowfall, heard affecting different people in the different verses of the song, is a metaphor for some sudden problem that comes out of nowhere, making their hard routines that bit harder. Even Judy only 'dreams' about the horses that offer her the escape she needs from her lacklustre life - she doesn't have that freedom in real life and clearly regrets it. Throughout this album the band are clearly aware that signing with a 'proper' label albeit one that hadn't released anything by anybody yet might be a risky decision and that chances are the band will end up back in their dull-as-ditchwater lives sometime soon. More punk than the Concretes, less frantic than the Shout out Louds, as catchy as the most BELLE AND SEBASTIAN WRITE ABOUT LOVE RAR 320 tuneful of the U. Quote from: amg Peter Bjorn and John are three guys from Stockholm who have a knack for fine power pop-influenced and new wave-tinged guitar pop. They speak of the dole, of trials to drive busses, of art degrees that will never lead to future careers, of Chris Geddes not wanting to leave his canteen job because they've just got a new dishwashing machine that makes life easier. At the time Stevie was hired as a sort of second focal-point for the group, having been part of another semi-big Glasgow group 'The Moonglows' before being coerced some would say badgered! In-depth reviews of classic or neglected albums, mainly from the s and 70s, plus a weekly newsletter featuring all the latest news, views and music. Like 'Tigermilk', many of the narrators in these songs are wishing that their lives could be different. They also sound like I hoped music would sound in the future when I grew up, lyrical and detailed but full of great tunes and casual performances that leave all the rough elements in. The up-tempo tracks are tense and tough, and Peter's rasping and heart-on-sleeve vocals ride the melodies like a Joe Strummer who was grounded in pop rather than punk. It's this we're-like-you feeling of hopelessness and frustration that appeals to people and has made 'Sinister' such a special record for many. Mick Cooke, who guested on 'Tigermilk', is also officially merely a guest on this record too but has much to do here, with Murdoch now fresh from actually his ad hoc band on 'Tigermilk' eagerly seizing Cooke's trumpet parts as exactly the sort of melancholy voice he needs for the band. The choice was a good move: Jeepster were new and hungry for talent and despite having a headquarters in London like every British record label they specialised in acts from Scotland, particularly Glasgow. As fine as these tracks are, the soul of the record is in the ballads, and that soul has a darkness that comes only from heartbreak. In fact 'If You're Feeling Sinister' must be at least a candidate for the most discussed album of the s that never actually made the charts. It's music as an escape and solution to problems taken up by the band to see how far they can get before picking up the pieces of the real world, going back on employment training and then signing on once more. However, for now, something very much stays the same: Murdoch's songwriting. The theme of the song is one that will surely be understood by every AAA reader, the times in our life when everything seems to be going right and we get too sure of ourselves, only to see one single thoughtless comment or thought come back to bite us. They speak of real life in all its shades and that is why 'If You're Feeling Sinister' is so popular an album: it's not a band on the make, ready to take over the world and dominate the charts as Oasis did..