Fans of Belle and Sebastian's witty bookworm pop are an obsessive lot, and no doubt they'll snap up this cherry-picked collection of BBC recordings from 1996 to 2001. The draw for devotees is four rare songs from a 2001 session, including a hilarious fan letter to kindred indie-pop intellectuals the Go-Betweens ("Shoot the Sexual Athlete") and a kind of hushed farewell sung by Isobel Campbell, who left the group soon after ("Nothing in the Silence"). Otherwise, aside from a breezy glockenspiel revision of "Lazy Line Painter Jane," these versions are pretty close to the studio originals. But the selection is so good, the set doubles as a best-of — it's a fine intro to the group's tuneful world of lovelorn geekdom.
(Posted: Nov 27, 2008)
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- The State I Am In
- Like Dylan In The Movies
- Judy And The Dream Of Horses
- The Stars Of Track And Field
- I Could Be Dreaming
- Seymour Stein
- Lazy Jane
- Sleep The Clock Around
- Slow Graffiti
- Wrong Love
- Shoot The Sexual Athlete
- The Magic Of A Kind Word
- Nothing In The Silence
- (My Girlâs Got) Miraculous Technique
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