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Friday, March 17, 2006

BASFOTD

Posted by on March 17 at 15:19 PM

In the winter of 1996, Belle and Sebastian, trapped in a snowstorm on Kangchenjunga—the highest mountain in India and the third-highest mountain in the world, with a name that translates roughly to “Five Treasures of the Snow”—were confronted with a Bengal fox, disgruntled, out-of-place, and hungry, as Bengal foxes feed on rats, reptiles, crabs, termites, and melons, mostly, none of which are easily found in snowstorms on high mountains between Nepal and Tibet, and the band, who had little to defend themselves with except for Sarah’s violin and Stevie’s guitar, killed the starving thing, allegedly out of sympathy but much to the frustration of keyboardist and vegetarian Chris, who convinced Stuart to write a piano-heavy tribute to the animal, titled “Fox in the Snow,” considered to be either one of the band’s greatest songs or one of its silliest, and included as track five on the group’s second album, If You’re Feeling Sinister, which also carries tracks titled “Mayfly” and “Judy and the Dream of Horses,” suggesting a rather consuming preoccupation with living creatures but, notably, no interest whatsoever, not even in “Fox in the Snow,” in the beleaguered status of Tibet.

[This has been a Belle and Sebastian Fact of the Day, now with some fictional elements, as previous BASFOTDs have been critized as being “really lame.” Belle and Sebastian play the Paramount on March 25.]


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I liked the one about them being virgins better.

The blood of that fox is on your hands Frizzelle.

Fnarf, it's true. Most B & S fans are 30 something virgins. Why else would they listen to twee pop?

I listen to twee pop, the likes of which makes Belle & Sebastian sound like GWAR in comparison. Yet I am neither 30-something, nor a virgin. Well, not technically.

Some of that twee pop's got the kinkiest durn lyrics you've ever heard, you know. What do you think "Golden Streams" by the Hidden Camera's about? "Twee" is in its very nature more perverse and subversive than all the "rock" in the world put together.

yawn....wake me up when this thread is over....

bedtime now, and must nip away to put some peppermint tea in the pot with the crocheted cozy, and sip away in my most comfy slippers until i dream about things like the smell of girls hair or the dimples on the back of my friends knees....

gag!

Did you know:

"Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying" was actually written from the perspective of Michael Hutchence (INXS) as he hung done hanged, auto-asphyxiating himself to death. In the original Jeepster cassette, it's dedicated to the "Devil Inside."

Beat that.

Here's another:

The cover art of the 1996 rerelease of Tigermilk features a tweepop girl breastfeeding a stuffed-animal tiger.

I hate this band forever.

What exactly do you have against the smell of girls' hair?

Er uh... still lame. But your passion for the Belle and the Sebestion... still admirable. Keep it rockin'.

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