Re: Belle & Sebastian are the best band EVER!! Belle & Sebastian, Belle & Sebastian, Belle & Sebasti
> What are you on about!! You should be on the b&S site. Sorry, but I've
> stated my position here before.. Lovely songs on album from B&S, won't
> knock them for that (Arab Strap' is a classic), very listenable, but
> Live??? They were as dull as the thrills and Starsailor.
> And on behalf of Moz solo, I'd like to suggest that it's vaguelly
> insulting to demean Morrissey to let him OPEN for them !! F*cking hell,
> that would be brilliant, coz it would be a case of the support blowing the
> headline act off the stage and into the next universe.. Like Van Halen did
> to Black Sabbath, supporting them in 1980!!
> And God know what those sterile B&S fans would make of songs like, for
> example, NF Disco, or Speedway.. coupled with a genuine exhuberant and
> boisterous Moz Mosh crowd.. They'd be cowering at the bar with their
> alcopops. You've got me going now, being a live veetran of a 1000 gigs and
> knowing what pushes the 'right buttons'!
> What is this insistence of putting Moz and B&S in the same bracket?
> Lyrically, maybe some synergy, musically, poles apart, the smiths even
> further.. Stop trying to marry them off as a live dream ticket..
> Now, I'm off to see Half Man Half Biscuit tonight.. that's where real mena
> and girls will be later.. ! Falling down time, 22:30.. or maybe earlier..
> it's british thing!
> I'm in a very good mood today as well, yet still you got me on a rare
> rant! keep it up. I enjoy passion.
> Ruffian
I agree with most of that. B&S have some decent tunes, they're not a bad band at all. But there's little special about them.