loveless
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Post by loveless on Jan 26, 2019 18:58:04 GMT
You know I don't want to hear about the group, their fans, your associations with them, their "purple patch", their lack of one, their decline.
I absolutely want to know what you make of the track. The noise that it makes, the overall effect of these three minutes.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jan 26, 2019 21:48:09 GMT
It's catchy and fun, but I can't escape the notion that it also sounds a bit high school glee club trying to sound psychedelic. In 1973.
Overall it's fine. Went with option 2.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 26, 2019 21:55:33 GMT
Y'know, Belle and Sebastian are a band I don't recall ever hearing, I thought they were meant to be twee. This is a rancid, atrocious cringeworthy attempt at a 60s psyche pastiche, and most of the supposedly good stuff from back then was fucking awful. I really, really don't like it.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 26, 2019 22:02:33 GMT
I grudgingly went with "A reasonable enough noise". The retro-'60s kitsch is off-putting, but there is something to the lyric and something to the melody, and I suspect - I would hope - that it makes more sense in the context of an album (which I haven't heard) than it does on its own.
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Post by fange on Jan 27, 2019 9:16:12 GMT
I've never owned a B&S album, obly heard a few tracks from them here or there, so i'm coming to this pretty unencumbered by emotional musical baggage.
I've listened to it three times and find it hard to enjoy it, to be honest. The constituent parts - the frenetic psych tinged drums, the 5th Dimension lite vocals, the sitar stabs - don't seem to add up to an independent musical entity in its own right, beyond the pastiche. It's ok, but sounds forced in the worst way to my ears.
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Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2019 9:23:51 GMT
I like what people appear NOT to like - it's a smart piece of pastiche, lots of attractive little details.
I just don't hear much of a tune there - mainly that one ascending melody line that's repeated throughout. So, 'a reasonable enough noise' then.
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Post by rankingted on Jan 27, 2019 10:29:57 GMT
I find it hard to come to B&S without the attendant baggage - they were a particular irritation for me, all that studied “indieness” and preciousness. However as I mellow, Ive realised there’s worse things than hairclasps and satchels and have enjoyed some of their stuff. So, apologies to Loveless.
I remember them doing this on TOTP and thinking they were giving me a personal showing up - the fear that people would see their pissweak pastiche and think “is that the kind of thing Campbell likes?”. I grew to use them as a shorthand for simperingly bad “inoffensive” indie of the late 90s/early 00s, of which there was a lot.
With the benefit of another 20 years, I’m now capable of enjoying it on a caveated basis - it does have some good elements and it’s pleasant enough on a superficial basis. I’ve listened to far worse “NEW MUSIC” over the same period anyway. In fact I’ve warmed to them (or thawed out, more accurately)overall anyway. I voted option 2.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 10:56:07 GMT
Not my favorite of theirs...the 60's psych is wallpapered on and doesn't play to their normal strengths...
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Post by guye on Jan 27, 2019 14:24:32 GMT
I like B&S, but I always thought that this single was relatively disappointing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 18:10:27 GMT
Um I think I kinda like it, in a knowingly pastiche way. But I can't put it as 'hit' or as 'miss'.
I saw Bellend Sebastian ... I have it mind that it was when they supported Roger McGuinn some years back though that seems rather odd now. They were dreadful.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 17:55:55 GMT
Somewhere between an homage and a parody.
Overall, I like it despite its worst parts. It's both lightweight fun and tries too hard at the same time.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 28, 2019 20:16:36 GMT
It reminds me of this but nowhere near as good.
I saw 'em briefly at a festival in Glasgow a couple of years back. Some cunt on stage was playing a recorder. It's hard to forgive some things you know?
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Post by phenomenalcat on Jan 30, 2019 17:21:22 GMT
This was the follow-up to The Boy With the Arab Strap, which I played to death for about a year straight. So Belle & Sebastian made a straight-up summertime jam and a pop single to boot. I understand if it's a bit too Austin Powers in retrospect, but it ran so counter to the B&S parade of dour of its parent album (Fold Your Hands, Child), it seemed a miracle that they did "Legal Man" in the first place. It was fun in a way we never expected they'd be. Polyphonic Spree built a (brief) career on this shit.
I still love it. When Stuart comes in with "To render services that you may reasonably require", it's like Mick finally breaking out of that falsetto in "Emotional Rescue". You gotta lighten up, people.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 17:41:20 GMT
You gotta lighten up, people.
Writes the man who Photoshops ABBA on Black Sabbath album covers.
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Post by phenomenalcat on Jan 30, 2019 19:51:42 GMT
You gotta lighten up, people.
Writes the man who Photoshops ABBA on Black Sabbath album covers. Consider it a public service
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