Me too, for like 20 freaking years ....basically from the day I heard them. Magical. And I can still say that decades after! Very rare, they're a diamond in the rough.
I only got into them a couple months ago, but Tigermilk and especially If you're feeling sinister are incredible albums. The latter one possibly being one of my favorites of all time.
Strikes me funny (yet sad) that so many people today still get off on repeating Chuck D's quote about Elvis from his iconic album nearly 30 years ago. A quote that ended up with Chuck getting a humbling lesson after he sat down with BB King along with James Brown, Little Richard, Bobby Blue Bland, Ike Turner and other Blues, R&B, Soul artist from Elvis's era. They all basically schooled Chuck on how he bought into a ridiculous made-up rumor that Elvis was racist and was wrong for selling that to an ignorant America.. as if it was truth. He also got reminded by those guys that they all had tremendous respect for Elvis. He gave credit in all his interviews, and even beyond that, praised and defended black artists and black music. BB King mentioned in his autobiography Elvis was the ONLY white artist showing up at black charity events to help support poor black folks trying to raise money for the poor. In a segregated America mainstream racist white America, including the KKK, they HATED Elvis for that shit. He was not being afraid to show young white America that black was beautiful. BB King and many others stated in interviews over the years Elvis had guts and was brave to be doing what he was doing. No other white icon was taking all the hate and harsh criticism that Elvis took. Little Richard called Elvis his "kind & wonderful friend", and also called him an "Integrator" and credited Elvis multiple times over the years as being the one that broke down the doors and barriers for all other artists to follow him through. Chuck has acknowledged talking to these guys many years ago and he has since come away with great respect for Elvis. Most white people today won't do a *damn thing* and their entire lives remotely close to as individualistic or impactful as Elvis did. I think 30 years later one of the big takeaways for people (that have researched this subject) is that we should not get our history lessons from music artists and there lyrics. And I think it's time the pretentious snooty white folks *like these two in video* quit disingenuously quoting Chuck D and saying something that BB King and James Brown would have put them on their ass for saying. That white boy took a hell of a lot of s**t from racist white people. And by all accounts, especially the many black folks that knew him over the years, he was one hell of a good man. Clowns on this thread saying they loved it when these 2 made the Chuck D reference... LMFAO Here's a thought - Let's not be so WOKE that we actually appear half asleep or stupid.
Soul Man Thank you so much for this great comment. I was gonna go off on a long tangent, but you did it much more eloquently than I would have. The whole thing with Elvis being a racist started with one single comment that he supposedly said; which was subsequently challenged by numerous black people that knew Elvis, and said that he would never have said anything like that. It was also investigated, and the alleged remark that he made-was also found out to be almost certainly false. Because Elvis wasn’t even in the town on the date that he supposedly said it. Not to mention the fact that he was close to many black musicians, who claimed that he was not that kind of person at all. And also the fact that he played at ‘all-black-shows’ when shows were still segregated - and was known for things like: seeing a black woman walking the streets, and that he felt so bad for her, that he bought her a car. So maybe Chuck D. should do a little research next time before he decides to call people racist , when he has absolutely nothing to back up his disgusting claims.
The remark that Stevie makes in the video to the Chuck D reference isn't at all in reference to the part about Elvis supposedly being racist, though. He was just using it as a sort of humorous, unexpected non-sequitur to illustrate his point about Elvis being overrated on the whole. There was no political element at all to what he was saying. So while I of course agree that Chuck was wrong when he said that quote originally, let's not group Belle & Sebastian with these so-called "pretentious snooty white folks", because here the intent clearly wasn't to push a political agenda or anything like that. Stevie was just trying to be quippy and funny. As a matter of fact, the first time that I watched this, I hadn't heard of this Chuck D quote, and if it weren't for me later randomly looking it up, I never would have known that there was any political element to it from this vid. I think that it's unfair to accuse Belle & Sebastian of trying to be pretentious and snooty when I, who hadn't heard the quote they were referencing, never would have known that it was calling Elvis racist. I just assumed that Chuck D didn't like Elvis's music/persona or something.
That's a great comment. I just never liked Elvis's music (and love Public Enemy), but this is good to know. It's always good to be reminded that music has historically acted as a melting pot, culturally speaking, and brings people together.
Stuarts genuine shock on hearing Moby and going "The little guy?" is the most honest moment in music
not even close because moby was just a money grubbing opportunist and b&s hardly rated in broader pop culture
-Stu: "Well , he was a hero to most.
-Stevie: "But i didn´t meant shit to me..." LOLLLL
That was the best
Belle and Sebastian gained +10 street cred with that comment.
@@SirCommoner it IS lyrics
Him and John Wayne 😅😂.
"moby? the little guy?" lmao
Jack Morrison I died of laughter!!!
My favourite band of all time.
Me too, for like 20 freaking years ....basically from the day I heard them. Magical. And I can still say that decades after! Very rare, they're a diamond in the rough.
Every time Moby comes up in any conversation my boyfriend and I say "the little guy" in our best Scottish accent without fail
of course Stu loves baseball. how else would we have gotten Piazza, New York Catcher?
But is he straight or is he gay?
@@Soundofsilver2007 (Alex Johnson hasn't listened to Piazza, NY Catcher)
@@gojeffygo1066 how many nights of talking in hotel rooms can he take?
@@gojeffygo1066 It turned out he was straight
I only got into them a couple months ago, but Tigermilk and especially If you're feeling sinister are incredible albums. The latter one possibly being one of my favorites of all time.
I wonder why they did this though. I know had a couple EP's come out, but is there going to be an album?
Don't stop there though! Their entire catalog is brilliant.
Me too - I kind of lost touch with their music though recently. Fickle, I am
"I used to think my dad was Elvis, but I haven't told him that yet. I haven't told my dad either"
oh my god, my myspace quote!
belle and sebastian making a public enemy joke is p awesome
So they're really two people afterall
Which one's Belle and which one's Sebastian?
Depends; if you're English belle is on the left, if you're Chinese he's on the right. ;)
Baseball has to be seen live to really be appreciated. I went to one baseball game in Boston and it was amazing.
Love the Public Enemy reference.
Funny how Leftists are fine when the racist, homophobic, antisemite is Black.
Drunk Roku is drunk. Maybe don't jump to conclusions about peoples political views and their views on art.
BASS FOR YOUR FACE
this makes me so happy
They should have a show lmao
One of my favorite group of musicians.
Probably my favourite band ❤️❤️❤️
I fucking love them even more now
Wow Stevie is demented , thanks for that Stevie!
They are so humble
The Chuck D quote haha amazing
Stuart went to my church and is apart of the choir
Gotta love Scotland
Scotland is overrated though
Geniuses !
I fuckin died when they answered with a Public Enemy quote
what was it?
When they were asked about Elvis and they said "He was a hero to most but never meant shit to me" that's from their song Fight the Power
Love this heck YES
perfect
Hell ya
ah, it was about time
Don’t have a clue who these guys are but I like them
Ben Dixon they are a legendary chamber pop indi band from the 1990s. Check them out, they’re one of my favorites
I always assumed it was a guy and a girl since the vocals were a guy and a girl
They're a band. This is just the lead singer and lead guitarist.
carlos duarte lol
listen to "If You're Feeling Sinister"
Ha great dad joke
They speak like they are French but they're actually Scottish! Nice!
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@@handeakgun134 Exactly
Strikes me funny (yet sad) that so many people today still get off on repeating Chuck D's quote about Elvis from his iconic album nearly 30 years ago. A quote that ended up with Chuck getting a humbling lesson after he sat down with BB King along with James Brown, Little Richard, Bobby Blue Bland, Ike Turner and other Blues, R&B, Soul artist from Elvis's era.
They all basically schooled Chuck on how he bought into a ridiculous made-up rumor that Elvis was racist and was wrong for selling that to an ignorant America.. as if it was truth.
He also got reminded by those guys that they all had tremendous respect for Elvis. He gave credit in all his interviews, and even beyond that, praised and defended black artists and black music. BB King mentioned in his autobiography Elvis was the ONLY white artist showing up at black charity events to help support poor black folks trying to raise money for the poor.
In a segregated America mainstream racist white America, including the KKK, they HATED Elvis for that shit. He was not being afraid to show young white America that black was beautiful.
BB King and many others stated in interviews over the years Elvis had guts and was brave to be doing what he was doing. No other white icon was taking all the hate and harsh criticism that Elvis took.
Little Richard called Elvis his "kind & wonderful friend", and also called him an "Integrator" and credited Elvis multiple times over the years as being the one that broke down the doors and barriers for all other artists to follow him through.
Chuck has acknowledged talking to these guys many years ago and he has since come away with great respect for Elvis.
Most white people today won't do a *damn thing* and their entire lives remotely close to as individualistic or impactful as Elvis did.
I think 30 years later one of the big takeaways for people (that have researched this subject) is that we should not get our history lessons from music artists and there lyrics.
And I think it's time the pretentious snooty white folks *like these two in video* quit disingenuously quoting Chuck D and saying something that BB King and James Brown would have put them on their ass for saying.
That white boy took a hell of a lot of s**t from racist white people. And by all accounts, especially the many black folks that knew him over the years, he was one hell of a good man.
Clowns on this thread saying they loved it when these 2 made the Chuck D reference...
LMFAO
Here's a thought - Let's not be so WOKE that we actually appear half asleep or stupid.
Soul Man Thank you so much for this great comment. I was gonna go off on a long tangent, but you did it much more eloquently than I would have.
The whole thing with Elvis being a racist started with one single comment that he supposedly said; which was subsequently challenged by numerous black people that knew Elvis, and said that he would never have said anything like that. It was also investigated, and the alleged remark that he made-was also found out to be almost certainly false. Because Elvis wasn’t even in the town on the date that he supposedly said it.
Not to mention the fact that he was close to many black musicians, who claimed that he was not that kind of person at all. And also the fact that he played at ‘all-black-shows’ when shows were still segregated - and was known for things like: seeing a black woman walking the streets, and that he felt so bad for her, that he bought her a car.
So maybe Chuck D. should do a little research next time before he decides to call people racist , when he has absolutely nothing to back up his disgusting claims.
The remark that Stevie makes in the video to the Chuck D reference isn't at all in reference to the part about Elvis supposedly being racist, though. He was just using it as a sort of humorous, unexpected non-sequitur to illustrate his point about Elvis being overrated on the whole. There was no political element at all to what he was saying. So while I of course agree that Chuck was wrong when he said that quote originally, let's not group Belle & Sebastian with these so-called "pretentious snooty white folks", because here the intent clearly wasn't to push a political agenda or anything like that. Stevie was just trying to be quippy and funny.
As a matter of fact, the first time that I watched this, I hadn't heard of this Chuck D quote, and if it weren't for me later randomly looking it up, I never would have known that there was any political element to it from this vid. I think that it's unfair to accuse Belle & Sebastian of trying to be pretentious and snooty when I, who hadn't heard the quote they were referencing, never would have known that it was calling Elvis racist. I just assumed that Chuck D didn't like Elvis's music/persona or something.
That's a great comment. I just never liked Elvis's music (and love Public Enemy), but this is good to know. It's always good to be reminded that music has historically acted as a melting pot, culturally speaking, and brings people together.
Soul Man thank you for your very interesting and informative post. I have always loved Elvis and that won't stop.
You gotta remember is IS Belle & Sebastian you're dealing with here. Great music. But their politics and philosophy is generally very naive and woke.
Moby hasn’t been cool or relevant since 2000. Play was a legitimately great album though.
18 is pretty good too.
@hfanti - no, it's not. it's more cringe-inducing than animal rights.
So they're not a young guy and girl??
They were named after a kid’s picture book of the same name.
I cant handle the high level of testosterone
Fabrizio Carelle lol
Anyone who comments on the testosterone of other men is clearly insecure about his own. So, good job.
Josh B B&S have been my guiding light for 20 years and i laughed at Fabrizio’s zinger
It’s ok :)
There are lots of ways of being a man, Fabrizio. And snark is the lowest form of wit.
@@gecafe Zinger? It wasn't even punctuated correctly.
They should rate themself. They suck so much since the Jeepster days (20 y ago...)
You're tripping