Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
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Free Music Review: Sad and ironic and somehow uplifting. Brilliant!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Scottish group Belle & Sebastian has delivered an impressive amount of high quality music in the decade or so that they've been around, and most people will argue that IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER is their best work to date. The album has all that you'd expect from a Belle & Sebastian CD. This means that you're in for slow paced rock tunes that basically sounds like Travis on novocain. On the surface Belle & Sebastian comes off as quite innocent, but listen closer and you'll hear that their lyrics are sad and depressing, yet at the same time pervaded by an uplifting (though quite black) sense of humour. My favourite songs on this CD are GET ME AWAY FROM HERE I'M DYING, THE FOX IN THE SNOW, ME AND THE MAJOR, and the title track, IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER. Great music! As long as your cup of tea isn't electronical bands or mainstream music like All Saint, but rather bands like Travis, Radiohead and Coldplay, then I'm sure you'll get a kick out of this CD.Free Music Review: NPR Saved My Butt
Hit: 5 Stars
Cruising home in the '81 Caddie and listening to NPR, caught a review of B & S's Boy With the Arab Strap. Listened once, didn't think much. Listened again, never stopped. Bought the entire catalogue. Got hooked BIG TIME on If You're Feeling Sinister. Going from "I want a drink of whiskey so I pick up the Major" to "the snow is falling" is so creative and beautiful I want to grab a harmonica and scream it out - though I'd have better luck using the harmonica to strain peaches. In Like Dylan in the Movies, the line "I will love you" reminds me how deeply I love my wife, my kids...hell, all of humanity. Buy it? That's not enough. Cherish it. Why isn't this group the most popular in US pop right now? I don't know, but when my '81 Caddie Piece'o Junk chugs and pops with a new set of problems, I plug in B & S and let it soothe my ride home. If we don't make it, I'll have something grand to listen to while I wait for help.Free Music Review: Classic Belle and Sebastian
Hit: 5 Stars
I am still getting acquainted with Belle and Sebastian's music. I already own "Tigermilk", "Fold Your Hands...", and the "Sing, Jonathan David" ep. "If You're Feeling Sinister" was definitely going to be my next Belle and Sebastian purchase. Unlike "Fold Your Hands Child, Walk Like a Peasant", "If You're Feeling Sinister" is flawless. I consider this album the band's most definitive album. Even "Tigermilk" had one or two flaws but remained a classic in my book while "Fold Your Hands..." was spotty and inconsistent. I particularly loved "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying". I found myself replaying that song a couple of times before finishing the rest of the cd. The melodies are just awesome and incomparable. There really isn't another band that can write a pop song like B&S today. There wasn't one song on this album that I didn't like.Free Music Review: Wintery Stay Indoors Music!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is definitely rainy weather, introspective music, and I love every minute of it. I've been listening to it frequently as the weather is changing to rainy fall weather, and I live in Southern California, so this is kinda a rare feeling!
The songs are bittersweet intellectual musings on love and life. The whole album has kind of a fairy tale quality, in a kind of muted childish nursery rhyme sort of way, and singer Stuart Murdoch's vocals are heart melting.
The lyrics complement the sound quite nicely. They manage to be innocent, yet knowing and sometimes sarcastic at the same time. Every track is a standout track. Really they are all favorites. This is music of very high quality. Everytime I play it, people stop and say "What is this?" This is because even upon first hearing, the music is likable, and stands out from the mainstream.
Free Music Review: Easily their best
Hit: 5 Stars
The first B&S song I ever heard was Judy and the Dream of Horses and the second was Fox in the Snow. They are still my favorite songs on here, but there is nothing bad about this CD. I was watching the movie Pumpkin a few weeks ago (it was a terrible movie, by the way, in my opinion. I guess it was trying to be funny, but NO ONE really acts the way Christina Ricci did in that. Ridiculous.) and the song Stars of Track and Field is in it. There's really no point to this story, except it's a fantastic song and it sounded like it had been written for the movie. I worked as a lifeguard at a girl scout camp one summer and I always made them listen to this at the pool. I think they enjoyed that. Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying has one of the better melodies I've ever heard. So, you don't need to go off and see a minister before buying this, because it's really good.