"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Monday, October 30, 2006

My recommendations 2006:
The Life Pursuit by Belle & Sebastian

Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
Matador 2/7/2006

Available at Emusic

If you never expected to rock out to a Belle & Sebastian guitar solo before The Life Pursuit, you're not alone. Surprisingly, though, the most recognizably twee band on the planet have made a very un-twee record. The Life Pursuit runs through every style of music that was popular ca. 1970, and they do it astonishingly well. At times, I wonder whether I'm listening to Love or T. Rex, but such interludes are short-lived. There is nobody that has a voice or a wit quite like that of Stuart Murdoch.

Posted by Jonathan at 6:35 PM

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