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| 1. Dog On Wheels | |||
| 2. The State I Am In | |||
| 3. String Bean Jean | |||
| 4. Belle and Sebastian | |||
| 5. Lazy Line Painter Jane | |||
| 6. You Made Me Forget My Dreams | |||
| 7. A Century Of Elvis | |||
| 8. Photo Jenny | |||
| 9. A Century Of Fakers | |||
| 10. Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie | |||
| 11. Beautiful | |||
| 12. Put The Book Back On The Shelf | |||
| 13. This Is Just A Modern Rock Song | |||
| 14. I Know Where The Summer Goes | |||
| 15. The Gate | |||
| 16. Slow Graffiti | |||
| 17. Legal Man | |||
| 18. Judy Is A Dickslap | |||
| 19. Winter Wooskie | |||
| 20. Jonathan David | |||
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The songs included here date back to the early days of the band’s career in 1997 when they released 3 four track EPs ("Dog On Wheels", "Lazy Line Painter Jane" and "3..6..9 Seconds of Light") to bridge the time between the release of their albums If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996) and The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998). Also included is their most successful single "Legal Man". The set concludes with the band’s last Jeepster single release "I’m Waking up To Us".
None of these songs, which are virtually all remastered for this collection, have ever featured on Belle & Sebastian’s albums and, as individual catalogue singles become increasingly difficult to track down.
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Many of Belle and Sebastien's best tracks were laid as singles rather than on their albums, and these EPs reveal a much broader sweep to their music than their albums do.
There's a clutch of classics here - the Wurlitzer driven duet Lazy Line Painter Jane, the winsome and beautiful You Made Me Forget My Dreams, the Spector-esque Slow Graffiti... the list goes on and on. This is Just a Modern Rock Song is a wonderful, fey slow-burner of a song, A Century of Fakers and Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie rattle along like few B&S songs do anywhere, Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It is a wonderful mini-drama of a country song.
More than any other B&S long-player, this one should be in everybody's collection. It is close to pop-perfection and explains to the doubters (if explanation were really necessary) why B&S have been so lauded by so many of us over the last 10 years.
My favourites must be "The State I Am In" - (recently discovered that this is the demo version), "Lazy Line Painter Jane", "The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner" and "I Know Where The Summer Goes".
And the packaging is cool, too - hard back book style.
Go on, do yourself a favour. Forget the Coldplay album, Oasis' next re-run or even Jack and Meg - (you can get them later, Ed.). Treat yourself to some 24 carat class and discover your new favourite song.
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