Late Night Tales: Belle & Sebastian

Plenty of bands talk about going their own sweet way, pleasing themselves and ploughing their own furrow, but it's hard to think of any working band or artist who opens themselves up as resolutely as Belle And Sebastian. Never tied to any scene in the first place (and still further out on a limb ten years later), these Glaswegians seem to have developed as a band that can draw influence from just about anywhere. And when there are seven distinctly individual personalities feeding the creative fire within the results are multifarious and often surprising.

Pure pop, Sixties psyche, Seventies rock, West Coast harmonies, beat groups, folk balladering, punk, indie, girl groups and bossanova, are just a few of the slants to crop up without musical contradiction within the Belles own work. So it is perhaps less than surprising that their choices for Late Night Tales crop up without musical contradiction within the Belles own work. So it is perhaps less than surprising that their choices for Late Night Tales comprehensively cover the waterfront.

Tracklisting 

Rehash - Gratuitous Theft In The Rain
RJD2 - Here's What's Left 
Lootpack - Questions 
Demis Roussos-  O My Friends You've Been Untrue To Me 
Stereolab - French Disko
Butch Cassidy-  Sound System Cissy Strut 
The Ethiopians - Free Man 
Mary Love - I'm In Your Hands 
Novi Singers-  Cos Specjalnego 
Gal Costa - Lost In The Paradise 
Innerzone Orchestra People Make The World Go Round (Kenny Dixon Jnr Remix)
Donovan - Get Thy Bearings
Mum - Green Grass Of Tunnel 
Belle & Sebastian - Cassaco Marron
Space Jam - Let Your Conscience Be Your Guidance 
Big Star - Watch The Sunrise 
Boston Baroque Badinerie - from Bach's Orchestral Suite No.2 in B Min
David Shrigley - When I Was A Little Girl