Scotland's for me!

I just watched the live DVD that came with the new Belle and Sebastian album. I thought it was pretty cool. I look forward to actually seeing B&S live in March. On the DVD, Stuart Murdoch says (in his Scottish accent that makes every sentence sound like a question?) something about how The Life Pursuit has a lot of songs with the F-word, because they were aiming for a parental advisory warning. The copy I bought didn't have one, but I have seen some CD's that didn't have them at first but later did, so maybe it's not too late. {g} I know Live Noise, the live album from Moxy Früvous, didn't have one when I bought it, but I later saw it in stores with one. The use of the parental advisory seems really inconsistent. Sometimes a few curse words is apparently enough to warrant one, but other times there can be quite a few expletives and no warning.

There are some Frank Black B-sides available for download on iTunes. It looks like there isn't going to be a CD release, unfortunately. I much prefer to buy physical copies of these things. I suppose that this way, it isn't possible to waste money printing up too many copies. And hey, it's cool to hear these songs. Frank's music usually takes a while to grow on me, but "Ludwigshafen" is definitely a good one, and I quite enjoy the acoustic take on "Le Cigare Volant." I'm sure I'll start to like some of the others better after a few more listens.