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Some songs on that record really were atrocious with abysmal singing and a chronic overdose of twee.
I tried to correct that with the record after it. Even sent them off to Townhouse Studios for the post-prod. It worked to an extent... the songs that were good songs sounded incredible, but unfortunately Stuart didn't have spine enough to tell some of the band members that they weren't great songwriters. He had the idea that a band was a democracy.
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I only found out last month that Belle and Sebastian’s ‘Dog on Wheels’ is a complete rip-off of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s ‘Summer Wine’. Like, outrageously so.
Anyway, I digress. We had been listening to Portuguese Radio Radar, when 6 Music got too much. Bit indie bland, but at least no talking.
KT_Bee
@Velocio earlier while the B&S album playback was going on I dusted off my old copy and was perusing it when I saw your name credited on the sleeve and thought “must be a coincidence” but clearly I was wrong. Some songs on that record really were atrocious with abysmal singing and a chronic overdose of twee.
As for Lammo... bless him, clearly not to everyone’s taste, but he’ll always have a place in my heart for playing my (admittedly also rather twee) old band’s poorly recorded bedroom demo on his radio 2 (!) show, describing as a ‘superb all round band effort’, aw.
plug alertOur second EP, only 11 years between recording and release, was a 2020 lockdown project of mine, and is being finally released on Friday. I’m sending it to Steve again but I doubt he’ll play it this time (even tho it’s actually much better than our old one).