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~ Belle & Sebastian (Artist)
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Les détails du produit
1. It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career
2. Sleep the Clock Around
3. Is It Wicked Not to Care?
4. Ease Your Feet in the Sea
5. Summer Wasting
6. Seymour Stein
7. Space Boy Dream
8. Dirty Dream Number Two
9. Boy With the Arab Strap
10. Chickfactor
11. Simple Things
12. Rollercoaster Ride

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This highly anticipated album from Belle and Sebastian arrives with every hope satisfied. Each song is a cunning short story that wraps itself around you like a cozy couch throw. The loose theme running through this 12-song reverie is seduction. It plays out in both the drowsy sexual hopes of principal songwriter Stuart Murdoch's idle protagonists and the giddiness of bandmate Stevie Jackson's "Seymour Stein" and "Chickfactor," which document his bewitchment by the city of New York and its beautiful girls and florid pitchmen. The complex arrangements favor a whimsical diversity best experienced in "Sleep the Clock Around," which features synthesizer bloops, trumpets, and bagpipes! If you haven't figured out that this Scottish eight-piece deserves every iota of hype it's receiving, it's time to have your ears checked and your record collection gone over by a certified professional. --Lois Maffeo


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Belle and Sebastian follow up the considerable promise of 1997's fantastic If You're Feeling Sinister with an album that is, unbelievably, even better. The Boy with the Arab Strap is an immediately infectious and delicious pastiche of fey, Nick Drake-ian vocals; lilting pop melodies; shimmery arrangements; croony wonder; and tortured, lit-smart lyrics. Belle and Sebastian are smarter than the Smiths, wittier than the Beach Boys, more fun than the Velvet Underground, and even more inscrutable than R.E.M. That's heavy company, but The Boy with the Arab Strap proves they deserve to be belles of the ball. --Tod Nelson
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A beautiful album, pure and simple..., Juil 4 2004
Par Shaggy (Sioux Falls, SD USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Boy With the Arab Strap (Audio CD)
When I sit at home on a lazy summer day (bored as usual) there's a certain album that I can just lie in bed and let it take me away into another world. This album is it. I was recently introduced to Belle and Sebastian through a friend, who was listening to their album Dear Catastrophe Waitress. I liked it quite a bit, and decided to explore the band further. The end result was that I found one of my favorite bands of all time. Each song on this album for me is pure bliss, through and through. Poppy yet complex, easy to listen to, and interesting lyrics, all combine together to form a band that is certain not to dissapoint.

Highly recommended

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Good "Boy", Jui 14 2004
Par E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Boy With the Arab Strap (Audio CD)
Eight-person band Belle & Sebastian prove that pop is not confined to the brainless bubblegum genre. The melancholy melodies of "Boy With the Arab Strap" show Belle & Sebastian at their peak, with their gently complex music and quietly restrained pop songs.

"Arab Strap" starts off with "It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career," an elusive, quirky little tune that builds up from near silence. Following it up is the almost-catchy, percussive "Sleep the Clock Around," the darkly beautiful title track, the wistful "Summer Wasting," the lulling "Seymour Stein" with its magnificently shivery organ, and finally it finishes up with the pretty, downbeat "Rollercoaster Ride."

Nobody makes the sad stuff any prettier than Belle & Sebastian. "Boy With the Arab Strap" is not quite perfect -- "Seymour Stein," despite its lyrical brilliance, has a forgettable little tune, and the lyrics vary wildly. But their work here is certainly enjoyable and beautiful, balancing out the sweetness, the humor, the melancholy, and the coffee-shop-poet dissatisfaction with life.

The songs brim over with vague unhappiness, an ethereal sense of how the world is full of misery. It's best shown in "Boy With the Arab Strap": Stuart Murdoch sings with deceptive perkiness, "Do you ever feel you have gone too far?/Everyone suffers in silence a burden..." Murdoch let the others do several of the songs for this album, which gives a vague, weird feeling of creative unevenness.

Stuart Murdoch does most of the vocals, and his murmuring voice seems perfectly suited to the songs. And the piano and shimmering violin are backed up by the keyboard, organs, jazzy percussion, delicate chimes and little sonic flourishes like a jet going overhead. One highlight is the delicious bagpipe solo in "Sleep the Clock Around," which completely dominates the music.

The dismally lovely music of Belle & Sebastian is in good, though not perfect form on "Boy With the Arab Strap." Best advised for those who dream of dark coffee-houses, and poetry that drips with loneliness.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 The delightful daydream continues..., Mai 14 2004
Par jessica (Melbourne, Australia) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Boy With the Arab Strap (Audio CD)
Ok...So if you own beautiful precursor to this album 'If you're feeling sinister' you probably bought it at the start of winter and spent the next two months reading and humming along while riding on city buses for a hobby (to borrow a few words from our darling Stuart). Well, all you nerdy woolen-jumper-wearers, here is your album for spring, and possibly for summer too. 'Boy with the arab strap' lacks the lovely British-ness of '...sinister', but more than makes up for it with imaginative, pretty tunes and consistently brilliant lyrics. Of course it's all nice, but there's plenty that's, well, wonderful!!!!! 'Seymour Stein' is a glorious, mini-epic (I particularly love the line about the 'north country girl'!!!) and the title track is irresistable. I could gush all day, but instead will choose to highlight the thorn amongst a dozen roses which is 'A space boy dream'. Electronic music does not gel well with B&S's lovely lyricism (does anyone actually listen to 'Electronic renaissance' on 'Tigermilk') and disturbs the beautiful balance of the rest of the album. This minor quibble aside, this is a gorgeous album, and a must for all daydreamers, scrabble-players and bookworms.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 If this album were a girl, I'd marry her.
I have not been this happy with an album purchase in a long time. I first heard the song "Boy With the Arab Strap" about a month ago. Read more
Publié le Mars 13 2004

5.0étoiles sur 5 Great Album
This is a superior album. Isobel's singing on "Is It Wicked To Care?" is really good, very simplistic and meaningful ("rusting armor for effect..."). Read more
Publié le Mars 4 2004

4.0étoiles sur 5 Peter, Paul, and Mary for the new millennium
The Boy with the Arab Strap was my first foray into Belle & Sebastian. A combination of retro 60's sounding melodies, chord progressions, and sunshine and bubble-gum lyrics... Read more
Publié le Janv. 19 2004 par S. Magee

3.0étoiles sur 5 A solid 3-star album
Belle & Sebastian's follow-up to 'If You're Feeling Sinister' is a bit of a letdown. Although every song is beautifully recorded, they are surprisingly dull. Read more
Publié le Janv. 9 2004 par SPM

4.0étoiles sur 5 The boy with the filthy laugh...
"The Boy with the Arab Strap" for me shows a band unsure where to go. After the success of the low budget "If you're feeling sinister" album the band finally... Read more
Publié le Déc 4 2003 par kendall lopere

5.0étoiles sur 5 Better than Sinister? Hmmmm.....
I love If You're Feeling Sinister more than words can explain, but I think The Boy With The Arab Strap might have it beat, in my book anyway. Read more
Publié le Déc 2 2003 par Paul H.

3.0étoiles sur 5 Not good... but definetly not bad
I can't count how many times I have listened to "If you're feeling sinister". If you are a Belle and Sebastian fan, you know that most of their songs are written and... Read more
Publié le Nov. 28 2003

4.0étoiles sur 5 If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy
Has anyone actually looked up the word 'fey' in the dictionary? It means doomed, marked by a forboding of death or calamity, visionary. Read more
Publié le Nov. 15 2003 par F. Beal

5.0étoiles sur 5 consistantly amusing
I'll be honest, I hadn't even heard of B&S when I saw the cover and thought that it was one of the funniest things ever. Read more
Publié le Oct. 31 2003 par Cassandra Javotnik

4.0étoiles sur 5 Sequin Spattered Sorbet Scarf
Most of my friends will never understand my fascination with B&S and I'm cool with that. I realize that this album is certainly not for everyone. Read more
Publié le Oct. 6 2003 par stucktothesheets

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