This Is Just a Modern Rock / Slow Graffiti [Single, Import]

Belle & Sebastian | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 10, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Import [Generic]
• ASIN: B00000I2SI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #335,932 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. This Is Just A Modern Rock Song

2. I Know Where Summer Goes

3. The Gate

4. Slow Graffiti

Editorial Reviews

Four track EP with NONE of the cuts available on the folkyScottish indie pop group's acclaimed 1998 album 'The BoyWith The Arab Strap'. Contains the 7:18 minute long 'This IsJust A Modern Rock Song', plus 'The Gate' (with IsobelCampbell guesting on vocals), 'I Know Where The SummerGoes' & 'Slow Graffiti', their contribution to the Irvine'Trainspotting' Welsh-penned film 'The Acid House'. Standardjewelcase. 1998 Jeepster Recordings release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars we're four boys in our corduroys..., June 23, 2001

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nancyp (your dirty dreams) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Just a Modern Rock / Slow Graffiti (Audio CD)

4 and a half stars, really. And at the time, they were actually six boys and two girls... but anyway. Yes, twelve dollars plus shipping is a lot to pay for four songs, but in this case, you should strongly consider it. "This is Just a Modern Rock Song" is one of the best songs Belle & Sebastian have ever recorded, and indeed, one of the best songs of the 1990's. It is a sonic epic along the lines of "Hey Jude" or "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (hyperbole not present), and the beauty of it is, they're not even aiming there. Seven-minute songs nowadays tend to be pretentious, grandiose, derivative, and devoid of subtlety, musical or lyrical.... "Modern Rock Song" is none of those things... it's honesty and simplicity are its greatness.

The other three songs are top-notch B&S as well. On the whole, I'd say this EP provides more essential listening than all of "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant". Shop accordingly...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Belle & Sebastian's best E.P. to date., December 18, 2000

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Damon Navas-Howard (Santa Rosa, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Just a Modern Rock / Slow Graffiti (Audio CD)

You can never go wrong with Belle & Sebastian. With every release, I find myself saying "This is better then their last" and they have not made one bad release yet (If you disclude the horrid side projects). With "This Is Just A Modern Rock Song", we see the group exploring different aspects of folk and writing their best lyrics yet. People like me who thought "If You're Feeling Sinister" was their best album will definitely enjoy this E.P.

The E.P. opens with the title track, a slow paced western folk song which contains my favorite vocals in Belle & Sebastian and favorite lyric "I am not as sad as Dostoevsky, I'm not as clever as Mark Twain". This song represents how beautiful and grand a song can be with little effort. Primo production work. Next is "I Know Where The Summer Goes" with its church based organ and one beat drums sending you to a nice summer day. "The Gate" which features Isobel's vocals is even better then her vocal debut on "Is It Wicked Not To Care?" on their 1998 album "The Boy With The Arab Strap". I aboustley love the piano and trumpet section, the kind of heavenly movement that one might expect from Handel. The ending is the main reward, "Slow Graffiti", one of my favorite Belle & Sebastian tracks. Stuart's melancholy vocals over a lonely piano and echoing guitars.

As I say everytime I mention a Belle & Sebastian release, get everything you can by them! However this E.P. remains my favorite out of the rest because it touches all the musical aspects of Belle & Sebastian and has the feel and pleasure of a full length album.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing., April 25, 2001

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W. Bell (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Is Just a Modern Rock / Slow Graffiti (Audio CD)

Slow Graffiti is one of the best songs ever recorded....I'm not a huge Belle and Sebastian fan, but this song is truly amazing...