Saturday, January 12, 2008

The (Un)Coolest Band

Omg, you all know how much I love, LOVE Belle & Sebastian, with all the little bits of my heart and more, but they are such an uncool band! Lol! I think it just made me love them more, hahahaha. Please please please check out the vid. You don't have to watch to the end, can just listen to the really nice song, one of my favourites! Well, but I have many favourites when it comes to Belles, haha. But you have to watch the front bit of the video at least! Cos it's sad and funny, haha.



The Boy with the Arab Strap: This is such a chill kinda performance, haha, cos the song isn't really something you can do more than bop to. I'm not sure if that's the whole regular band, cos they were diff in the other vid, haha. But omg, check out the guy playing the guitar, that one in the hoody and geeky specs. He dances in such a gay way!!! And he gave a supremely unsubtle nod to cue in the drummer for a sequence somewhere in the song! But anyway, the main point is the geeky specs guy, ohh, damn funny watching him bop around with that guitar and shake his butt. Well, at least he's doing more than that guy who just claps. Oh wait, oops, turns out he was the extra keyboardist, he has more stuff to do later on in the vid, like the tambourine.

Okay, next song intro. Protons, Neutrons, Electrons by the Cat Empire. I know, the title sounds silly, and it IS a silly song, but not in the way you think! More like, silly sound? But it's quite a cool song with cool lyrics, haha. Like: Sometimes I eat KFC/Other times I give up meat/And I just eat lentils. Lentils! That's a new achievement in the song-writing world man, totally beats your asphalt Maddy, lol. So listen quick before imeem edits it to 30secs!



I’ve done too much of some things
And not enough of others
Just like all life lovers
I’ve changed and changed
and changed and changed
From one thing to another
I’ve had complicated dealings
With complicated feelings
And I’ve cut and bruised and torn
I made blinds on the windows of my mind
with the time that my back once wore
I’m a single person in this universe
And I am here to say to you:
On the day that I die I’ll just give a smile
And fly into the blue

CHORUS
(Cause we’re all just)
Protons, Neutrons, Electrons
That rest on a Sunday
Work on a Monday and someday soon
We’ll be singing the old tunes
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-doo
I’ll be sitting on the porch with you
Then I’ll die and I’ll fly off into the blue

Some night I see the world with its winds and its whirls
And I feel undefeated
But every day I see the girl with the strawberry curl
And I’m too shy to meet her
Some nights I go to bed
There’s a ghost in the air above my head
And I tremble
Sometimes I eat KFC
Other times I give up meat
And I just eat lentils
I’m a singe person in the universe
And I am here to sing a song
About the day that I was born
Till the day that I’ll be gone
And the song won’t last for long
(Cause we’re all just…)

CHORUS

And enemy is a remedy to a malady in your melody
If you’re strong not brittle
And a friend is a friend
Is a friend to the end and it’s oh so simple
A man is a man and a woman is a woman
But the times we are living in demand
That a man can change from a man to a woman
And a woman can demand to be a man
We’re just flesh with socks and locks and frocks
And I am here to say to you
On the day that I die I’ll just give a smile and fly into the blue
(Cause we’re all just…)

CHORUS

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