Playlist of Belle & Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap

5:16

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Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day

4:05

Lyrics:
Another sunny day, I met you up in the garden
You were digging plants, I dug you, beg your pardon
I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border
It broke the heart of men and flowers, and girls, and trees

Another rainy day, we're trapped inside with a train set
Chocolate on the boil, steamy windows when we met
You've got the attic window lookin' out on the cathedral
And on a Sunday evening bells ring out in the dusk

Another day in June, we'll pick eleven for football
We're playing for our lives the referee gives us fuck all
I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines
Your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds

Now, everybody's gone you picked me up for a long drive
We take the tourist route the nights are light until midnight
We took the evening ferry over to the peninsula
We found the avenue of trees went up to the hill
That crazy avenue of trees, I'm living there still

There's something in my eye a little midge so beguiling
Sacrificed his life to bring us both eye to eye
I heard the eskimos remove obstructions with tongues, dear
You missed my eye, I wonder why, I didn't complain
You missed my eye, I wonder why, please do it again

The lovin' is a mess, what happened to all of the feeling?
I thought it was for real, babies, rings and fools kneeling
And words of pledging trust and lifetimes stretching forever
So what went wrong? It was a lie, it crumbled apart
Ghost figures of past, present, future haunting the heart

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Belle and Sebastian - The Party Line

5:31

From the upcoming album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, out January 19/20 2015 on Matador Records:

Made by Cudmore + Leblanc (video credits below)

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Belle & Sebastian Nobodys Empire

5:15

From the upcoming album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, out January 19/20 2015 on Matador Records:

Directed by: Blair Young and Stuart Murdoch

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Nobody's Empire

Lying on my bed I was reading French
With the light too bright for my senses
From this hiding place, life was way too much
It was loud and rough round the edges

So I faced the wall when an old man called
Out of dreams that I would die there
But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings
And you had a different idea

I was like a child, I was light as straw
When my father lifted me up there
Took me to a place where they checked my body
My soul was floating in thin air

I clung to the bed, and I clung to the past
And I clung to the welcome darkness
But at the end of the night
There’s a green green light
It’s the quiet before the madness

There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell
She put out her arm and she touched me when I was in hell

Someone sang a song and I sang along
Cause I knew the words from my childhood
Intellect, ambition they fell away
They locked me up for my own good

But I didn’t mind cause the silence was kind
And you spoke to me in whispers
There was the sound of the wind in the cold cold dawn
And the quiet hum of business

Let me dangle a while in this waiting room
I don’t need to go I don’t need to know what your doing

Lying on my side you were half awake and your face was tired and crumpled
If I had a camera I’d snap you now ‘cause there’s beauty in every stumble

We are out of practise we're out of sight
On the edge of nobody’s empire
If we live by books and we live by hope
Does that make us targets for gunfire?

Now I look at you you’re a mother of two
You’re a quiet revolution
Marching with the crowd singing dirty and loud
For the people’s emancipation

Did I do ok, did I pave the way?
Was I strong when you were wanting?
I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke
Who was stern but never daunting

And he told me to push and he made me feel well
And he told me to leave that vision of hell to the dying

Belle and Sebastian - Im A Cuckoo

4:00

Taken from the album Dear Catastrophe Waitress, released 2013 Rough Trade Records.
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Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped Up In Books

3:43

Taken from the album Dear Catastrophe Waitress, released 2013 on Rough Trade Records.
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Belle & Sebastian Piazza, New York Catcher

3:02

Elope with me Miss Private and we'll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase

San Francisco's calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we've got no place to stay
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest ending of a book you ever had to read
The statue's crying too and well he may

I love you I've a drowning grip on your adoring face
I love you my responsibility has found a place
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
Come wave upon me from the wider family net absurd
You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job
Maybe, but not what she deserves

Elope with me Miss Private and we'll drink ourselves awake
( From: )
We'll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style
We'll comment on the decor and we'll help the passer by
And at dusk when work is over we'll continue the debate
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
He knows the drink affects his speed he's praying for
a doorway
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
Life outside the diamond is a wrench

I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
I know it wouldn't come to love, my heroine pretend
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
You'd settle for an epitaph like Walk Away, Renee
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like
a flower
Meet you at the statue in an hour
Meet you at the statue in an hour

Simple Things - Belle & Sebastian.

1:51

Great song - Top band.

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Belle & Sebastian - Allie

3:19

Video for the song Allie from Girls and Peacetime Want to Dance by Belle and Sebastian.
Produced by Forest of Black.

Belle and Sebastian - There’s Too Much Love

3:29

Belle & Sebastian Austin City Limits 2014 Live Full Show

1:51

Belle & Sebastian 2014-10-10 Austin City Limits

Belle and Sebastian - I didnt see it coming

4:28

Song with lovely Sarah

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Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane

5:53

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Lazy Line Painter Jane was released by Belle and Sebastian on Jeepster Recordings on 28th July 1997. The video was filmed by Karn David in and around Hyndland Parish Church, Glasgow and features Monica Queen from Thrum, who was guest vocalist on the track.
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Belle & Sebastian Black Sessions 1998

49:25

Sorry for the poor quality but the VHS is old ! (i recorded it back in those times) but it looks like an upgrade to the one already uploaded on youtube.
Hope you'll like it. I was there and it was such a great evening.
Thank you Bernard Lenoir & the Trafic Restreint team.

Tracklist

1 The Boy Done Wrong Again
2 Dog On Wheels
3 Paper Boat + Seeing Other People
4 Century Of Fakers
5 I Know Where The Summer Goes
6 Mayfly
7 The Wrong Girl
8 Dirty Dream Number Two
9 Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son
10 Slow Graffiti
11 I Don't Love Anyone
12 Sleep The Clock Around

recorded live for the Black Sessions at the Maison De La Radio Paris , France , 5th October 1998

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Belle and Sebastian: If She Wants Me

5:06

Song By Belle and Sebastian, if she wants me.
from the dear catastrophe waitress album.

Belle and Sebastian - Dress up in you

4:24

Song from the '06 The life pursuit

Belle and Sebastian - The Wrong Girl

3:38

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The Wrong Girl was released on the Belle and Sebastian album Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant on Jeepster Recordings on 5th June 2000. This album was Belle and Sebastian's first Top 10 hit! The video features Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub.
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Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog

3:11

Taken from the album 'The Life Pursuit', out now on Rough Trade Records:

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Belle & Sebastian - I Didnt See It Coming

5:03

From 2010’s Write About Love.

Make me dance, I want to surrender
Your familiar arms, I remember
We've been going transcontinental
Got no car, we just take a rental
But we don't have the money
(money makes the wheels and the world go round)
Forget about it, honey
Make me dance, I want to surrender
Your familiar arms, I remember
Everybody's talking about you
Every word's a whisper without you
But we don't have the money
(money makes the wheels and the world go round)
Forget about it, honey
Trouble's never far away when you're around
I didn't see it coming
I'm just not in the running
Take me on a train 'cos I'm not flying
I can see the world from a different side
Read about us in the morning papers
When we make it alive
I didn't see it coming
I'm just not in the running
And we don't need a lifetime
We're following the right line

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Belle and Sebastian - The State I’m In

4:59

Belle and Sebastian - Sleep The Clock Around

4:59

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Belle and Sebastian - Dirty Dream #2

4:19

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Belle and Sebastian - The Wrong Girl

3:38

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Belle & Sebastian: I Didnt Know An Arab Strap Was A Cock Ring

3:23

Belle & Sebastian: 'I Didn't Know An Arab Strap Was A Cock Ring'

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In this week's episode of Song Stories, Belle & Sebastian tells the story behind their much-loved 1998 classic 'The Boy With The Arab Strap', how it was influenced by music therapy and London, and an awkward innuendo moment with the local vicar..

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Belle and Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue

4:13

Taken from the album 'The Life Pursuit'

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Belle and Sebastian - Is It Wicked Not to Care?

3:53

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Is It Wicked Not To Care? was released on the Belle and Sebastian album The Boy With The Arab Strap on Jeepster Recordings on 7th September 1998. This video was played at the 1999 Brit Awards when Belle and Sebastian won the award for Best British Newcomer.
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Belle and Sebastian - Expectations

3:37

Belle & Sebastian - Perfect Couples

8:47

From the album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, out now on Matador Records:

Directed by Oscar Sansom (video credits below)
Taken from the live tour visuals

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Video credits:
Director: Oscar Sansom
Producer: Beth Allan
DoP: David Liddell
Choreographer: Sarah Swire
Make-Up Designer: Nicole Stafford
Costume Designer: Denise Coombes
Cast: Jessica Arnold, Anya Clarke, Jacob Connor, Melissa Davie, Joseph Edy,
Zoe Halliday, Laura Harrison, Danny Holmes, Lorne McFadyen, Kirsty McLaren,
Jess Nahikian, Cathy Sell, Jamie Shields, Euan Taylor, Catriona Trainer.
Produced by The Forest of Black

Perfect Couples

I know some friends of mine
Think about them all the time
Why can’t my life be like that?
I’ve seen them in the park
Restauranting after dark
Working out on their yoga mats
Stars of the dancehall crowd
Married young, took their vows
Comfort in their boldness and their flair

Dab hands for all to see
Stroke of brush and poetry
His cut of cloth, the contours of her hair

Thank you for the invite tonight
Perfect snacklets, perfect drinks
I’m getting ideas from your interiors
Perfect apartment, perfect kids

Perfect couples are breaking up
What have they done?
Those perfect couples are breaking up
What have they done?
Don’t make me feel so good
Expect that stuff in Hollywood,
Not in my current milieu

Sexual tension at the fridge
He makes for the organic figs
Belmondo lips, dangling a cig

And she, just back from her hike
And to the gallery she might glide by
With a basket on a bike

They’ve got issues too
But what can you do?
Bad times, they’ll always see them through

(It always lurked in her mind)
Perfect couples are breaking up
What have they done? (In the back of her mind)
Perfect couples, they keep breaking up
What have I done? (It always lurked in his mind)
Those perfect couples are now breaking up
What have they done? (In the back of their minds)
Perfect couples, they keep breaking up
What have I done?

Never happy with my girl
Jealous of a different world
Suddenly the years slip away

What am I waiting for? (I see those perfect couples and I)
What makes me close the door?
I see those perfect couples (Why can’t I be like them?)
I admire the most
Finding fault with my heart (Its always been the same and then)
And always back to the start
What makes me get in the fray
then just throw it away
Yeah, I throw it away
Yes I throw it away (only to find)
Yes I throw it away (only to find)

Perfect couples are breaking up…

Belle And Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby - Official Video

4:11

Belle And Sebastian
Song: Step Into My Office, Baby
Album: Dear Catastrophe Waitress 2003

Belle and Sebastian - Poor Boy

3:35

'Poor Boy' by Belle and Sebastian, taken from the new album 'How to Solve Our Human Problems' out on Matador Records.

Poor Boy - Video Credits

Directed by Oscar Sansom & Ciaran Lyons
Produced by Beth Allan for The Forest of Black
Director of Photography - David Liddell
Art Director - Cara Roxburgh
Make-Up - Debbie Black
Costume - Flore De Hoog
Lighting Electrician - Dan Filmer
Art Department Assist - Kirstin Rodger
Runners - Marie Lidén & Ansley Bowman
Trainee Runner - Ethan Doherty
Edit & VFX by Oscar Sansom & Ciaran Lyons

Cast

Onlooker Boy - Alex
BB Rifle Girl - Ellie
Cigarette Smoker - Robert Wallace
Aggro Chopper - Emma Goss
Phonecaller - Natalie McGowan
Phonebox Caller - Calum Rankine
Mirror Dancer - Michael Sherrington
Boxer - Natalie McCleary
Exercise Couple - Sinead Tierney & Bradley Wilson
Businessman - Hamish Fingland
Telekinesis Reader - Chris Lyons
Plantman - Owen Abbot
Sexy Horn Lady - Flore De Hoog
Window Peepers - Ciaran & Oscar
Incognito Customers - Stephanie Gibson, Marie Lidén, Ainsley Bowman, David McCallum, Agnes Jones, Chris Lyons

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Belle and Sebastian - Nothing In the Silence

3:50

The BBC Sessions

Belle and Sebastian - Is It Wicked Not To Care?

3:53

Jeepster Recordings is a London, England-based independent record label. The label is noted for having been the home of critically acclaimed artists Belle and Sebastian, SixNationState, The Gentle Waves and Snow Patrol.

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Belle and Sebastian - If Youre Feeling Sinister - Pitchfork Classic

58:53

An oral history of Belle and Sebastian's seminal record If You're Feeling Sinister.

Produced and Directed by: RJ Bentler
Produced by: Michael Garber, Jon Leone
Supervising Producer: Patrick O'Connor
Edited By: Michael Garber, Jon Leone
Assistant Editor: Clay Adamczyk
Camera: Jon Leone, Will Colby, Gary Young, RJ Bentler, Christopher Anderson
Mix by: Jeff Curtin
Associate Producer: Ash Slater
Transcriber: Kylie Hoffman

Special Thanks to: Stuart Murdoch, Stuart David, Isobel Campbell, Chris Geddes, Stevie Jackson, Sarah Martin, Richard Colburn, Mick Cooke, Mark Jones, Stefano D'Andrea, Tony Doogan,

Special Thanks to: Jeepster Recordings, Matador Records,

Special Thanks to: Gabe Spierer, Patrick Amory,

Special Thanks to: Glen Thomson,

Special Thanks to: Jo D'Andrea, Kay Heath,

Special Thanks to: Paul Whitelaw (author of 'Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story), Scott Plagenhoef, (author of 'Belle and Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister 33 ⅓),

Special Thanks to: Brendon Anderegg, Beth Allan, Stow College, Beatbox, Hyndland Parish Church, First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn

Very Special Thank You to: Karn David

Illustrations courtesy of: Laura Molloy

Additional Photos Provided By: Gregor Reid, Forest of Black, Jeepster Recordings, Mark Jones, Alison Campbell, Isobel Campbell, Electric Honey Records, Peter Hughes, Aggi Magoulas, Robert McTaggart, Stow College

Archival Live Footage Courtesy of: Al McCusker Thompson

Additional Footage Provided by: Karn David, A/V Geeks, T3 Media, STV, Getty Images, Cranhill Arts Project, BBC Library, Scottish Film Archive, Olympic Television Archive Bureau

'Dog on Wheels,' She's Losing It,' Belle and Sebastian,' 'Mary Jo,' 'Expectations,' 'We Rule the School,' 'The State I Am In,' 'You're Just a Baby,' 'Seeing Other People,' 'Mayfly,' 'The Stars of Track and Field,' 'Like Dylan in the Movies,' 'The Fox in the Snow,' 'Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying,' 'If' You're Feeling Sinister,' 'Judy and the Dream of Horses,' 'The Boy Done Wrong Again,' 'Me and the Major' performed by Belle & Sebastian, courtesy of Jeepster Recordings Ltd/Matador Records

Dedicated to: Glasgow Gary

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Belle and Sebastian - A Century of Fakers

4:31

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A Century of Fakers was released on the Belle and Sebastian EP 3..6..9 Seconds of Light on Jeepster Recordings on 13th October 1997. This EP was the third and last in a series of 3 EPs released in the same year, all of which now feature on the double album Push Barman to Open Old Wounds.
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Belle and Sebastian - Dog On Wheels

3:11

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Belle & Sebastian Lollapalooza Berlin 2015 Live Full Show

59:50

Belle & Sebastian 2015-09-13 Lollapalooza Berlin

Belle and Sebastian - The Stars of Track and Field

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Belle and Sebastian - This Is Just A Modern Rock Song

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Belle and Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby

4:15

Belle and Sebastian - Im a Cuckoo

4:28

Belle and Sebastian perform a stripped down version of I'm a Cuckoo after leaving their drummer in North Dakota while driving the night before. Live in the studios of 89.3 The Current.

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belle & sebastian - sukie in the graveyard - lowlands 2006

3:51

belle & sebastian - live at lowlands festival 2006

Belle and Sebastian - Paper Boat - Bowlie Weekender, 25th April 1999

3:06

Belle and Sebastian's performance of Paper Boat recorded at Bowlie Weekender, 25th April 1999. Paper Boat is a previously unreleased Belle & Sebastian track written by Stuart David. To celebrate the publication of Stuart David's memoir of Belle and Sebastian, 'In The All Night Cafe', we have made Paper Boat available to buy or stream by visiting any of the links below:

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Belle and Sebastian signed to Jeepster Recordings in 1996 soon after the limited edition, vinyl only release of their debut album Tigermilk. Their first Jeepster album, If You’re Feeling Sinister, was soon followed by the Dog On Wheels, Lazy Line Painter Jane and 3..6..9 Seconds of Light EPs which kept their growing fanbase supplied with new music while they recorded third album The Boy With The Arab Strap. The Bowlie Weekender Festival where this footage was filmed came soon after the band’s surprise Brit Award win for Best Newcomer!

Belle and Sebastian - If She Wants Me

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Belle and Sebastian - Jonathan David

3:10

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Jonathan David was released by Belle and Sebastian on Jeepster Recordings on 18th June 2001. Belle and Sebastian made two videos for this song; one with a 1960s theme and one 1970s and both were combined to make the final video.
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