As per gex gex’s request in Week 17’s BÖC poll and in an attempt to squeeze as many bands in the shortest amount of time possible, The Monday 6 @ 6 Poll, will {on most weeks} feature a supplemental poll. This supplemental poll, like the regularly scheduled Blur thread will be closed and tallied one week from today, Monday August 19, 2002 at 6PM EDT. Results from both polls will be posted a few minutes later on that same day in Week 19’s regularly scheduled Bon Jovi 6 @ 6 Poll.
This Week’s Supplemental Poll Band: Belle and Sebastian
For the first time in the poll’s 4 ½ month history, the thread starter (me) will be unable to post his selections. Reason: Total ignorance of this Scottish octet’s works. I will keep a close eye on the results (if there are any) and make my first CD purchase of their music accordingly.
OK, any takers? What are your 6 favorite tracks by Belle & Sebastian?
I’m assuming gex gex will be making the initial vote. If not, you know the rules: post your fave 6 tracks (not more than 6) in any order you wish. {Most voters do however post descending from 6 to 1}. Any liner notes, blurbs or opinions you wish to give about your selections are always more than welcome.
Electronic Renaissance
String Bean Jean
Seeing Other People
Me and the Major
La Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
Dirty Dream Number Two
If you’re going to buy an album of theirs, I’d start with “If You’re Feeling Sinister.” Or you could dip your toes in with one of the EPs… go for “Dog on Wheels.”
It Could’ve Been a Brillian Career
The Rollercoaster Ride
The State I am In
Like Dylan in the Movies
The Stars of Track and Field
Lazy Line Painter Jane
Thanks to JohnBuckWLD for the thread! Get into this band - you won’t be disappointed.
I would write a blurb for these songs, but with B+S, I feel that a song lyric says more than I could.
It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
*He had a stroke at the age of twenty-four
It could have been a brilliant career…
…selling lies to the boys with the old Dansettes
Pulling the wool, playing the fool, it’s no wonder that
He is dribbling spit tonight* Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
*With a winning smile, the boy
With naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings
*
The Wrong Girl
The wrong hand to be holding
The wrong eyes to go searching behind
The wrong dream to have on my mind
Legal Man
You’re the Legal Man, you’ve got to prove that you’re no liar
I’ll render services that you may reasonably require…
…get out of the city
and into the sunshine… Seeing Other People
We lay on the bed there
Kissing just for practice
Could we please be objective?
Cause the other boys are queuing up behind us
Fox In The Snow
Fox in the snow, where do you go
To find something you can eat?
Cause the word out on the street is you are starving
Don’t let yourself grow hungry now
Don’t let yourself grow cold
Fox in the snow
I gotta say, this is the most difficulty I’ve had limiting myself to six. And there are whole albums that I haven’t heard!
Family tree
-Off of “Fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant.” To me, this is B+S with Isabel singing at their best. Since the band is so big, they get accused of pandering to the different tastes and directions of the members, but every so often, everything gels together, and that’s what happened here.
Expectations
-It’s just exhilarating. I think my favorite B+S songs, with the exception of my number 1 choice, generally are. Best part: right near the end, where Stuart starts singing, “And you’re cool, and you know…”
Simple things
-I got caught up in the first couple of songs on “Boy with the Arab Strap,” so I didn’t give this song the listen it deserved for a long time. I wish it was longer.
Me and the major
-What’s better than listening to Stuart sing “the snow is falling…” and feeling like twirling around and dancing? Nothing (well, except maybe for my #2 and #1 picks.)
Woman’s realm
-“Deny yourself the benefits of being alive,”–another song that I think demonstrates how well they use their 8 members and their different instruments.
Seymour Stein
-Perhaps it’s the Smiths connection (“It reminded you of Johnny, before he went Electronic”), but this has always been my favorite song, right down to the guitar at the end. It’s so beautiful and haunting.
6)Lazy line painter Jane
5)My Wandering days are over
4)The State I am in (Tigermilk version)
3)You’re just a baby
2)Fox in the snow
1)Judy and the deam of horses
