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Belle and Sebastian
Scottish indie pop band
Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish indie pop band formed in Glasgow in 1996. Led by Stuart Murdoch, Belle and Sebastian have released twelve studio albums.
The band are often compared with acts such as the Smiths and Nick Drake. Belle and Sebastian took their name from a short story Murdoch had written about a boy and girl, whose title was a play on the 1965 television series Belle and Sebastian.
In 1994, Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David both enrolled at Stow College's Beatbox programme for unemployed musicians in Glasgow. The pair recorded some demos, which in 1996 were picked up by the college's Music Business course, led by music professor Alan Rankine (formerly of the Associates), that produces and releases one single each year on the college's label, Electric Honey. As Murdoch had a number of songs already and the label was extremely impressed with the demos, he was granted permission to record a full-length album, which was recorded mostly live over three days, entitled Tigermilk.
If You're Feeling Sinister and early EPs (1996–1998)
The warm response Tigermilk received led to the band being signed to Jeepster Records in August 1996, who released their second album If You're Feeling Sinister on 18 November. The album was named by Spin as one of the 100 greatest albums between 1985 and 2005, and it is widely considered the band's masterpiece. Just before the recording of Sinister, Sarah Martin (violin/vocals) joined the band.
Belle & Sebastian is an indie pop band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in January 1996. The band is named after Belle Et Sébastien, a French novel by about a boy (Sébastien) and his Pyrénées mountain dog (Belle). The novel became famous and a popular children's television series in France in the late 1960s, and then internationally in the early 1970s. In October 2014 the band reissued all 11 of their releases, up to that point, under the series heading , taken from the song with the same name that appeared on 2593.
Also known as: B&S, Bell And Sebastian, Belle + Sebastian, Belle And Sebastian, Belle Ans Sebastian
From Discogs (free to use). Their entry
Liner notes
Belle and Sebastian, the records, oldest first
If You’re Feeling Sinister
1996 album
Tigermilk
1996 album
3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light
1997 ep
Dog on Wheels
1997 ep
Lazy Line Painter Jane
1997 ep
This Is Just a Modern Rock Song
1998 ep
The Boy With the Arab Strap
1998 album
Seeing Other People
1999 album
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
2000 album
The Bowlie Weekender
2001 album
A Kind of Magic
2003 album
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
2003 album
wanted
Books
2004 ep
From The Matador CD & DBL LP "The Life Pursuit"
2006 album
The Life Pursuit
2006 album
The Blues Are Still Blue
2006 ep
Introducing... Belle & Sebastian
2008 ep
Write About Love
2010 album
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
2015 album
on the air
How to Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 1
2017 ep
How to Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 3
2018 ep
How to Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 2
2018 ep
A Bit of Previous
2022 album
Late Developers
2023 album
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
"Piazza, New York Catcher" is a song by Scottish band Belle and Sebastian, first appearing on their 2003 album Dear Catastrophe Waitress. With its title taken from baseball player Mike Piazza, the song details the band's lead singer Stuart Murdoch's romance of his future wife in San Francisco.
Background
The song takes its name from MLB catcher Mike Piazza, who at the time played for the New York Mets, and discusses rumors of Piazza's sexuality. Murdoch said of Piazza, after seeing him play at Shea Stadium, "I was almost instantly drawn to Piazza. That’s the thing about him; he was a talisman wherever he went. He was the kind of player people tended to follow, and we thought he was a good guy."
