Boy With the Arab Strap is def my favourite B&S album. The opener "It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career", is one of my fav album openers of all time. Except of course that I always have to walk back to the stereo because I forget how quiet it is!

i heard them in a movie once and love em til this day!

Oddly enough, Fold Your Hands Child... is my favorite Belle and Sebastian album right now. I know most fans regard this (or Storytelling) as B&S's worst. I don't get it! I mean, besides Beyond the Sunrise they're all really great, tuneful songs.

Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else think Fold Your Hands is totally underrated?

belle and sebastian is amazing

i just recently got into it.

and i love listening because its just.....great

The Model is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard.

i like dress up in you.. :)

this is my first post and I have to say that I have always loved what I have heard from Belle and Sebastian, but don't even know where to begin on what to listen to as a new listener. ANy good recommendations? And does anyone else actually remember the cartoon or was old enough to watch it when it used to be on nickelodeon? Because until a few years ago, I didn't even realize the band existed and only associated the name with the cartoon

Album wise i'd say If You're Feeling Sinister.
Belle and Sebastian cartoon, eh?

yeah, it was about a little boy and his dog. can't post the link from youtube yet though (not enough posts)

Ahhh it was in the 80's that'll be why i didn't know about it, i was a big Nickelodeon nut in the 90's though...