Belle & Sebastian

[FieryBalrog]

anyone else a fan? I'm particularly in love with "Your Cover's Blown" right now.

Of course, If You're Feeling Sinister is just an awesome album too...

 

[nadroj1985]

They're just one of those bands that I really should love but I don't. The first song of theirs I heard was "If You're Feeling Sinister," which amazed me (and still does). So I went out and bought the album of same name, and was really pretty disappointed. IYFS is truly brilliant, one of my favorite songs of all time, but the rest of their songs are either boring or just OK, IMO.

 

[memphisXwasted]

i'm in love with that band. i have all their albumns...

 

[ladylike]

Yes, I have heard of them. I have heard about 3 songs of theirs, I like them. They are a little popular in the UK.

 

[theFijian]

They're just one of those bands that I really should love but I don't. The first song of theirs I heard was "If You're Feeling Sinister," which amazed me (and still does). So I went out and bought the album of same name, and was really pretty disappointed. IYFS is truly brilliant, one of my favorite songs of all time, but the rest of their songs are either boring or just OK, IMO.

Blasphemer!!

Tigermilk and IYFS are their definitive albums imo.

 

[nadroj1985]

Sorry

Fox in the Snow and Seeing Other People are cool, I guess.

But Stars of Track and Field, Get Me Away, Mayfly --

 

[theFijian]

Perhaps but....

* Seeing Other People
* Me And The Major
* Like Dylan In The Movies
and If You're Feeling Sinister

 

[thewinterofourdiscontent]

if your feeling sinister is impossible not to like. it's one of the handful of perfect albums ever recorded. if you don't like it, you are wrong.

 

[ladylike]

^

 

[jess anderson]

anyone else a fan?

love 'em, love 'em, love 'em!! Isobel Campbell has some solo stuff out... have just bought Amorino, she has such a great voice!! First time I heard them was because Boy with the Arab Strap (the single) was used as the theme tune for a great TV comedy called Teachers. I have all their music now!

 

[London Bus]

No. All 4/4, bass/ bass/ snare, 3 chord indie bands astound me with their prominence in spite of their medioctrity.

 

[theFijian]

No. All 4/4, bass/ bass/ snare, 3 chord indie bands astound me with their prominence in spite of their medioctrity.

Belle and Sebastian are hardly a 3-chord indie band.

 

[sad astronaut]

Just got "Dear Catastrophe Waitress". Some pretty great songs. "Asleep on a Sunbeam" is one of my all-time favorite songs. Very creative band. I can feel my brain being stimulated as I hear songs that include more than the typical rock instruments. Very talented band.

 

[sad astronaut]

No. All 4/4, bass/ bass/ snare, 3 chord indie bands astound me with their prominence in spite of their medioctrity.

You may be thinking of a different band. Belle and Sebastian are very big on woodwind instruments. "Asleep on a Sunbeam" sounds like a ukelele. I don't recall hearing any electric guitar. If I knew more about music, I could possibly identify more of their instruments, but they sound far from the typical guitar rock band. Even their most guitar-oriented sounds are "guitar" in the sense of the Beatles, if anything.

 

[Ceccia]

Interesting that I should see this thread...

..I'm a HUGE fan of the Decemberists, and I adore Bright Eyes...and have been told by many people that if I like those two so much I should check out Belle and Sebastian. Any truth to that correlation?

And if a Decemberists fan were to go scrounging on Amazon for a used B&S CD, which one would you recommend?

(Oh, and is anyone a fan of Neutral Milk Hotel? Another supposed indie band that I've been told I would like...what is their sound like?)

 

[thewinterofourdiscontent]

and have been told by many people that if I like those two so much I should check out Belle and Sebastian.

(Oh, and is anyone a fan of Neutral Milk Hotel? Another supposed indie band that I've been told I would like...what is their sound like?)

both are quite true. especially for neutral milk hotel's "in the aeroplane over the sea."

 

[Arnold_Philips]

I like them a lot. They were the first indie band that I got into (oh, memories). IYFS and Tigermilk are both spectacular, but the other albums are largely hit and miss.

They were recently voted Best Scotch Band Ever, IIRC.

 

[blackwasp]

(Oh, and is anyone a fan of Neutral Milk Hotel? Another supposed indie band that I've been told I would like...what is their sound like?)

I have several songs off of Aeroplane, and they are pretty good. "Two Headed Boy" is one of my all time favorite songs. You should PM nadroj1985 about NMH.