| Author | Message | ||
     Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 912 Registered: 08-2004 |
There's a free mp3 of God Help The Girl's debut single when you sign up to the mailing list. http://www.godhelpthegirl.com/ Basically it's B & S's Stuart Murdoch's latest project. Imagine if The Beautiful South had turned out decent & you're halfway there. I think it's a Rita Tushingham pic on the site so that should please Smiths fans & lovers of kitchen sink drama's too. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1456 Registered: 01-2005 |
Too bad TBS went downhill after 1992's very good 0898. I bought a couple of subsequent albums and the previous album, but they didn't impress me like 0898 did. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1442 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed on 0898, disagreed on the slide. Though I like some more than others I don't think they've put out a bad album, all the way up to their retirement effort a few years ago. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1443 Registered: 09-2006 |
I actually feel more that way about B&S...love the first three, am pretty meh about a lot of what followed. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1606 Registered: 10-2004 |
B&S are f*cking shite. A crap band for overly sensitive people people with bland tastes. Anybody I knew back in the day who liked them also liked other bland shit. I hated them then and I hate them even more now. I'd rather be held captive in a malarial swamp, strapped down with bamboo shoots growing through my body, ripping slowly and painfully through my flesh, with Beatles records blaring louder than the loudspeakers used on Noriega, than be subjected to B&S. Oh, wait!!! Sorry, about that! I seem to have been momentarily channeling Kevin/Skulldisco! Actual Jeff response: Yeah, I like the first two albums, but feel that B&S fell off after Sinister and I haven't really been interested in what they've done since. But I have checked in periodically out of curiosity. Is B&S on hiatus or something? Or is this just a quick, one-off side project of Murdoch's | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 128 Registered: 08-2005 |
Jeff, your comment made me laugh out loud. Love B&S, particularly Tigermilk, If You're Feeling Sinister and Boy with the Arab Strap. And I hate The Beautiful South with a passion. And Jerry, thanks for the link. Simon | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1457 Registered: 01-2005 |
Regarding B&S, I agree with the actual Jeff response except that I thought "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" was a short lived return to form of the first two albums. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 146 Registered: 10-2008 |
I love Belle and Sebastian. The Beautiful South are shite. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2725 Registered: 05-2005 |
Very funny Jeff! I love B&S until I saw them live in Dublin and they were so utterly dredful. Stuart Murdoch was arguing with Isobelle Campbell on stage and broke up after the show. I never bought another B&S CD after that, though I got sent a review copies of a couple more. I haven't listened to them in many years. One day I will again and I hope I'll be blown away as I was with Jane's Addiction yesterday. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1971 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hmmm. Is Kevin giving us the sh*t? Kevin . . . . Belle & Sebastian. Kevin . . . . Belle & Sebastian. Nope, I can't do it. I'm more in the Jeff category. "Tigermilk" is a great record. After that, things taper down and then somewhere they got very good at imitating the old 60s classics and at that point I jump out of my seat and hop off at the next bus stop. I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl accompanied by the LA Philharmonic. It was a good show as those things go but Stuart Murdoch was super show-bizzy. I mean he was kissing hands. I loved the Housemartins, as I hadn't heard any of the C86 bands at the time (some of whom I like much much better). They used vocal harmonies and harmonica, for crissakes! They did an acapella version of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother." Can you be more stubbornly anti-cool than that? So I bought The Beautiful South's "Choke." Instant rejection. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 913 Registered: 08-2004 |
This is a larf. I think the last 2 B&S LP's were a return to form. They seem to be able to chuck a lot of different styles in there & come up sounding fresh. There was a definite mid-period trough there though. Which could be put down to fatigue & releasing too much material. Those early E.P.'s also had a lot of bite, which they've replaced with quality B-sides on recent singles. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 147 Registered: 10-2008 |
No seriously I do like their early stuff. I never actually read Jeffs post till people started commenting on it - very droll mate!! Give me B&S over that pallid,fey UK indies 80 shit anyday ;-) | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 536 Registered: 01-2006 |
I only have Tigermilk which I hink is good and am content with that, no desire for any more really. As for the Housemartins, they started to go downhill when Hugh Whittaker on drums left them and that ponce Dave something took over - basically after London 0 Hull 4 they started turning into The Beautiful South. I found The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death really disappointing. I collected their first eight 12"s and you can hear the slide after L0H4. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3058 Registered: 05-2005 |
they just bore me now, too much and too little innovation quite frankly, they're inoffensive enough, but yawn! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 618 Registered: 07-2006 |
to this day i can't recite the full title of fold your hands... without choking on my embittered disappointment. i listened to sinister and the boy with the arab strap so much as a brooding student. then they put out that dross. i can't believe they're still about, taking the piss. thankfully i'll always have electronic renaissance and those three sublime eps. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1447 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hey, welcome back! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 914 Registered: 08-2004 |
Hello Joe. Storytelling was a bit sad, too. Have you got the new Depeche Mode yet? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3061 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yo joe! How ya? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1608 Registered: 10-2004 |
B&S were/are the epitome of pallid and fey, imo. Twee squared. I never got into the Beautiful South. I had one album (possibly their first) but thought it was kind of bland. I like the first Housemartins album, but that's about it. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 150 Registered: 10-2008 |
Who said Americans dont do irony ;-) | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1609 Registered: 10-2004 |
If by 'doing irony' you mean professing to hate 'bland' music when your stated tastes indicate the opposite, I think you've got us beat! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 151 Registered: 10-2008 |
i thought the winks were a giveaway, but there you go. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 619 Registered: 07-2006 |
hi boys. trust you've been keeping well. haven't heard the new DM jerry, though to be honest, i didn't hear the one before that either. my sources tell me it's a bit of a return to form? what do you make of it? the last one i bought was exciter. and still really like it! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2734 Registered: 05-2005 |
I didn't know that thing denoted a wink! I thought it was just a strange smile. Really. I'm not being ironic here. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 152 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yes Padraig, it is a wink. One of the few keyboard tricks that I know, apparently there are loads!! Suppose that is the problem with message boards, if you are joking about something it doesnt always translate as clearly as when having a direct conversation. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 916 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yes Joe, the new DM is pretty good early doors. To be honest, they've been improving each time since Ultra, which was a bit of a dirge. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3071 Registered: 05-2005 |
God they (DM) look like shit in their press photos. Same pose for 20 years now! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 918 Registered: 08-2004 |
Reach out & touch Dave! I think he's had some boat-ox.  | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3074 Registered: 05-2005 |
Actually considering what Dave has been through, he scrubs up the best, but Jeez the other two, keep em outta the press shots, not that i care much, but if I were their press manager, bring out the airbrush! |