Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (w/ guest Justin Pope)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian are joined by musician Justin Pope to discuss Belle and Sebastian's sophomore album If You're Feeling Sinister (1996, Jeepster). Justin tells an appropriately "twee" story about hearing Belle and Sebastian on late night radio, being unable to find the band that sang the "beautiful" tune, and then finally discovering band when his crush made him a mixtape filled with Belle and Sebastian songs. Then Bill, Brian, and Justin get into the band's sound and what "twee" means, how they evolved to the point to be sharing a stage with the bombastic New Pornographers, Douglas Coupland, Stuart Murdoch vs. Morrissey, and more as we make our through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:04.9	We are talking about If You're Feeling Sinister by Bell and Sebastian.
0:28.0	We are making good. I'm going to become close friends because we get on the city and he wants to talk to me me and the major could become close friends because we get on the same thing that he wants to talk
0:33.6	but no there's too much history too much biocon What we do here every week on the podcast
0:43.7	Is take an album of music
0:45.2	And talk about what makes it great
0:47.0	Try to have the conversation around the music that fans do
0:50.1	And we tie it all together with a track-by-track review
0:53.0	In which we discuss the things we think
0:55.1	about while listening to the music and the things we like.
0:57.7	Yeah, yeah, sounds good.
0:59.0	You know, same thing we've been doing for the last four years.
1:01.6	We bring into year five.
1:03.9	And we're not going to do it alone.
1:05.5	We're going to have someone joining us to give their perspective on the music and their version of fandom. And who is that
1:12.2	joining us today, Brian? One of my, one of my favorite guests and a good friend of ours
1:17.4	outside of the show also, musician and voiceover artist, Justin Pope. Justin has been playing
1:25.2	music for as long as he's been alive, I think.
1:28.3	More or less, yeah.
1:29.4	He's been doing music in this area for a good long time.
1:32.8	His most recent project is called The Swiss Guard.
1:37.0	Yeah, very good band.
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