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Hello. I spent nearly 10 years selling on that other site (you can check my feedback there; It's under the same ID as this one; over 3200 positives, 99.7%). But I thought I'd give this new site a try.
Like all of my cds, this is an Original CD, with original inserts (NO CD-Rs or bootlegs).....
Item Specifics - Music: CDs
Artist: Belle & Sebastian Release Date: Sep 08, 1998
Format: CD Record Label: Matador
Genre: Rock UPC: 744861031123
Track listing
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, A
6. Seymour Stein
7. Space Boy Dream, A
8. Dirty Dream Number Two
9. Boy With The Arab Strap, The
10. Chickfactor
11. Simple Things
12. Rollercoaster Ride, The
Details
Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a
Album notes
Belle and Sebastian includes: Stuart Murdoch, Stuart David, Isobel Campbell, Stevie Jackson.
Additional personnel: Gail Anderson, Claire Campbell, Eilidh Campbell, Euan Forrester, David D. MacKay, Sarah Wilson (strings); Ian MacKay (pipes); Neil Robertson (bass).
After 1997's IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER made them critics' darlings, Scottish octet Belle And Sebastian ran straight into a series of label woes, and into the inevitable feeding frenzy that surrounds a free agent with their prodigious talents. Their experience with one label exec is detailed in "Seymour Stein" on THE BOY WITH THE ARAB STRAP, which finds the band building on the pastoral pop charms of SINISTER, adding a palpable layer of anger and an increasingly rich sonic palette to their painfully shy tales of despair.
Near-overnight success taught the band a lot. This album moves from their trademark confessional diary sketches (still in abundance, as on the disarmingly naive "Is It Wicked Not To Care," and the tender "Rollercoaster Ride") to genuine social criticism, as on the title track, a narrative meditation on Britain's pretensions and societal ills. "Chickfactor" pulls apart the banality the band encountered on arrival in New York, an experience which only served to deepen the bashful anger that makes Belle and Sebastian so endearing.
Editorial reviews
Included in Q Magazine's 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.
Q (12/01/1999)
...Murdoch can apparently make a witty yet heartfelt song of anything that crosses his mind, from a dirty dream...to turning down a record executive's invitation to dinner... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (09/11/1998)
8 (out of 10) - ...this...is a pastoral album whose minor accomplishments add up to tremendous power when heard as a whole. Murdoch and his disciples...refuse to do anything in broad strokes, which means nothing here wears out over repeated listenings, but that you also have to lean into the album to get much out of it...
Spin (10/01/1998)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...naive and fragile on the outside, tough with knowledge of obscure psychedelic pop records on the inside....the soundtrack to staying too long in your college neighborhood and becoming one of those types who hold down library jobs...
Rolling Stone (09/17/1998)
...Murdoch can apparently make a witty yet heartfelt song of anything that crosses his mind, from a dirty dream...to turning down a record executive's invitation to dinner...
Entertainment Weekly (09/11/1998)
USED, but in great condition. NO scratches and NO signs of abuse or misuse.
Free Shipping in the US and Canada.
Multiple item discounts = $2 off any additional cds with your order
***International orders***
I can ship worldwide - Any country.
CDs can be shipped internationally for an additional $3 (with the jewel case); or for $2 (without the jewel case).
******
Please check-out my other items…..Take $2 off any additional cds you add to your order!!!!
Payment must be received 14 days for US orders. Additional time extended for international orders
Payment
I accept:
Checks
Money Orders
Well concealed USD
I can accept PAYPAL – but only if it is NOT A CREDIT/DEBIT CARD funded payment.
Personal Checks will be held 10 days before item is shipped; Money order and “other payment” items will be shipped immediately.
Any questions, Please feel free to email. Thanks. gxr100
Hello. I spent nearly 10 years selling on that other site (you can check my feedback there; It's under the same ID as this one; over 3200 positives, 99.7%). But I thought I'd give this new site a try.
Like all of my cds, this is an Original CD, with original inserts (NO CD-Rs or bootlegs).....
Item Specifics - Music: CDs
Artist: Belle & Sebastian Release Date: Sep 08, 1998
Format: CD Record Label: Matador
Genre: Rock UPC: 744861031123
Track listing
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, A
6. Seymour Stein
7. Space Boy Dream, A
8. Dirty Dream Number Two
9. Boy With The Arab Strap, The
10. Chickfactor
11. Simple Things
12. Rollercoaster Ride, The
Details
Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a
Album notes
Belle and Sebastian includes: Stuart Murdoch, Stuart David, Isobel Campbell, Stevie Jackson.
Additional personnel: Gail Anderson, Claire Campbell, Eilidh Campbell, Euan Forrester, David D. MacKay, Sarah Wilson (strings); Ian MacKay (pipes); Neil Robertson (bass).
After 1997's IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER made them critics' darlings, Scottish octet Belle And Sebastian ran straight into a series of label woes, and into the inevitable feeding frenzy that surrounds a free agent with their prodigious talents. Their experience with one label exec is detailed in "Seymour Stein" on THE BOY WITH THE ARAB STRAP, which finds the band building on the pastoral pop charms of SINISTER, adding a palpable layer of anger and an increasingly rich sonic palette to their painfully shy tales of despair.
Near-overnight success taught the band a lot. This album moves from their trademark confessional diary sketches (still in abundance, as on the disarmingly naive "Is It Wicked Not To Care," and the tender "Rollercoaster Ride") to genuine social criticism, as on the title track, a narrative meditation on Britain's pretensions and societal ills. "Chickfactor" pulls apart the banality the band encountered on arrival in New York, an experience which only served to deepen the bashful anger that makes Belle and Sebastian so endearing.
Editorial reviews
Included in Q Magazine's 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.
Q (12/01/1999)
...Murdoch can apparently make a witty yet heartfelt song of anything that crosses his mind, from a dirty dream...to turning down a record executive's invitation to dinner... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (09/11/1998)
8 (out of 10) - ...this...is a pastoral album whose minor accomplishments add up to tremendous power when heard as a whole. Murdoch and his disciples...refuse to do anything in broad strokes, which means nothing here wears out over repeated listenings, but that you also have to lean into the album to get much out of it...
Spin (10/01/1998)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...naive and fragile on the outside, tough with knowledge of obscure psychedelic pop records on the inside....the soundtrack to staying too long in your college neighborhood and becoming one of those types who hold down library jobs...
Rolling Stone (09/17/1998)
...Murdoch can apparently make a witty yet heartfelt song of anything that crosses his mind, from a dirty dream...to turning down a record executive's invitation to dinner...
Entertainment Weekly (09/11/1998)
USED, but in great condition. NO scratches and NO signs of abuse or misuse.
Free Shipping in the US and Canada.
Multiple item discounts = $2 off any additional cds with your order
***International orders***
I can ship worldwide - Any country.
CDs can be shipped internationally for an additional $3 (with the jewel case); or for $2 (without the jewel case).
******
Please check-out my other items…..Take $2 off any additional cds you add to your order!!!!
Payment must be received 14 days for US orders. Additional time extended for international orders
Payment
I accept:
Checks
Money Orders
Well concealed USD
I can accept PAYPAL – but only if it is NOT A CREDIT/DEBIT CARD funded payment.
Personal Checks will be held 10 days before item is shipped; Money order and “other payment” items will be shipped immediately.
Any questions, Please feel free to email. Thanks. gxr100
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