If You're Feeling Sinister
Has DiS seen this? Really interesting Pitchfork doc on the making of the album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4de-RHHLCBA
Particularly of note: Chris Geddes has apparently discovered the elixir of youth.
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It's true...
both that it's a decent documentary and that Chris hasn't aged a day. Good Tim that lad.
I'm unable to see the YouTube clip where I am at the moment.
I'm hoping it's one where geeks win, a bit like B&S' Fans Only.
Stuart David is hot
Stuart David
is also a very very nice man. Actually most of the band come across as just very very nice people.
Bellend Sebastian
^
although I really like Belle and Sebastian they also fill me with teeth grinding rage.
why?
Satire!
Brilliant and original work hanshitfirst.
Good doc.
The don't look back gig at the barbican was amazing. Anyone else go ?
Started watching and need to finish
Such a good album, and that old footage is niiiiiice.
It's a great documentary
It's a bit too reliant on the Fans Only footage but the new interviews are great.
Can't work out what's going on with Isobel's accent though.
this documentary is brilliant. i cried for a bit after Isobelle was going on about how great their lives were then. :'''(
the best band ever. i love when people go on about how twee and disgusting belle & sebastian are. they're the best band there ever will be.
interesting
I always saw them as a band with great melodies, interesting arrangements and a keen emotional wedge. I'll also say that they're extremely good at what they set out to do, and that Half Man Half Biscuit kinda perform their function for me (there's more in common between the two bands than one might suppose). I don't remotely object to them or their music, but I rarely feel a strong need to listen to them. I don't know where this is going. Perhaps I am fishing for recommendations? I know the first two or three albums quite well (school).
do you know the Dear Catastrophe Waitress LP? that's a masterpiece
there is some beautiful songwriting hiding behind the jaunty Frankie Valli-ness of their later stuff. Waitress and Life Pursuit are criminally underrated, mainly by morons obsessed with maintaining their knitwear aesthetic.
Also, if you don't have the Push Barman collection of their EPs, then get that, cos it's their very best work.
oh yeah I *do* know DCW!! my schoolfriend had that on rotation in our last couple of years
apart from the title-track (sorry) and 'if you find yourself caught in love' (hmmm) it was great. opener, 'lord anthony' and 'stay loose' especially, iirc
never heard the life pursuit
yeah the title track is neither here nor there
Caught in love is brilliant though! Stay Loose is so underrated, that double guitar solo.. Life Pursuit is great, VERY upbeat and poppy, and some of the music is a bit pastichey at times, but lyrically their best album since Sinister. Sukie in the Graveyard and Dress Up In You are probably the highlights.
footage
your footage sounds amazing. do you have a tracklisting for the bootleg and is it available in any way at all? was the footage taken at the same show? and [sorry for all the questions] did you ever meet the band, and if so what were they like?
life pursuit
was my favourite Belle & Sebastian album for a long, long time. Now it's ..Feeling Sinister. Never write off their later stuff, even Write About Love has some charmers (one or two..)
my favourite is probably DCW
(Album I fell in love with them to)
then Tigermilk (weirdest)
then Life Pursuit (pop perfection)
you have good taste
it's not footage sadly
just audio. I'll happily send you some bootlegs, just send me a message, only the ICA show is good quality though, there is some other good stuff if you're prepared to put up with terrible sound quality (December 97 show at Manchester town hall is a good one, live version of A Space Boy Dream).
haha yeah i've spoken to Stuart and Stevie a couple of times- i was an extra in God Help The Girl and i was in a Write About Love thing too. They were charming. Did the whole 'dancing on stage' thing too, at ATP in 2010. But now a belle & sebastian-obsessed ex girlfriend lives in Glasgow and she's part of that whole Glasgow indie pop circle, so i feel like B&S aren't 'mine' in the way they once were, sadly.
bad luck!
oh dear that sounds awful with the ex girlfriend, that's the sort of possession over music we're all susceptible to [but shouldn't really be!]. i remember when someone at school got into pavement and i struggled listening to them afterwards [he was horrible in fairness]. that would be amazing i'm more than happy to put up with bad quality. i interviewed stevie a while back and he seemed lovely.
Pitchfork actually asked me to supply them with some rare B&S bootlegs for this documentary
doesn't sound like they actually used them in the final thing, though. But the Pitchfork guy was very nice in the emails he sent. Claim to fame.
shame they didn't use it,
there's so much repeated footage in it, it started to annoy me
yeah i know, like that New York session thing from 1997
we've already seen it on Fans Only! Come on! One of the bootlegs I gave them was a great quality one, from a 1996 show with Tindersticks at the ICA, they could have at least used that.
this series is fantastic
i really love the lonesome crowded west one too
I never saw the Lonesome Crowded West one :(
I feel like there's a persistent, raging debate between Modest Mouse fans over whether or not that's their best record. I think it's Moon & Antarctica, but LCW is flawless nonetheless.
the LCW doc is very good, I watched it last night
(it's on pitchforks site if you want to see it)
There's a making of doc from the time on youtube too but I've not watched it all yet.
well watch it, silly!
http://pitchfork.com/tv/pitchfork-classic/1912-modest-mouse-the-lonesome-crowded-west/3115-entire-film/
finally watched this
it's fucking great. oh god, i don't think i will be listening to anything else for weeks now.
Not sure where else to put this, but...
...have been listening a lot to Write About Love recently. I've come to the conclusion that it's actually wonderful, after writing it off a bit the first time round.
It really is a great, mature pop record.