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Any fans around here? I love them, especially the past two albums (well, one of the two I'm referring to won't be released for a bit over a month, I suppose, so the past one album and the forthcoming one). I think that on
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
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The Life Pursuit,
Stuart Murdoch proves himself to be one of the top writers and arrangers in the current pop music scene.
I like the earlier albums, too, but they feel less concise to me, possibly overambitious (although maybe that isn't the word).
Anyway, I love them--and they're great live, too. Anyone else?
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It was all downhill after The Boy With The Arab Strap to me. LOVE the earlier stuff.
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Well, I guess if you merged our tastes on the band, we'd have quite the uber-fan.
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Absolutely. Took some E, watched the band play the Coachella Festival in 2002, great time. They did a great version of Darlin'.
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Sounds good to me. I saw them in what I think was their first ever Minneapolis appearance on Halloween 2003, after DCW. Great show, and a band of maybe 14-16 people (including strings, etc.). Great show.
By the way, nice avatar.
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I love "If You're Feeling Sinister," that's probably my favorite Belle & Sebastian album.
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Still getting into them, but I love "Step Into My Office" from Dear Catastrophe Waitress.
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Quote from: Ian, Cpt. Howdy on December 24, 2005, 02:42:03 PM
It was all downhill after The Boy With The Arab Strap to me. LOVE the earlier stuff.
Come on, not ALL! What about "I'm A Cuckoo", "Don't Leave The Light On, Baby", "Legal Man", "There's Too Much Love", "I Love My Car", "I Fought In A War", "Your Cover's Blown", "Wrapped Up In Books", etc. No question that they have a lot of good tunes post-BWTAS.
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If you dug "Cover's Blown" and anything off of DCW, wait till you hear the next one, The Life Pursuit. It's a GREAT album, fully 2/3 of it really, really good. If it isn't one of the best three or four albums of 2006, I'll...well, I'll...I don't know what. Something. But it's really good.
"The Blues are Still Blue" is a great, Bowie/Reed-style thing. White soul, I keep calling it. Really cool.
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Quote from: Luther on December 27, 2005, 08:47:30 PM
If you dug "Cover's Blown" and anything off of DCW, wait till you hear the next one, The Life Pursuit. It's a GREAT album, fully 2/3 of it really, really good. If it isn't one of the best three or four albums of 2006, I'll...well, I'll...I don't know what. Something. But it's really good.
"The Blues are Still Blue" is a great, Bowie/Reed-style thing. White soul, I keep calling it. Really cool.
Everyone on this board should hear "Your Cover's Blown", at least once. Probably one of B&S's best, IMO.
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