Pod/Vod The Boys with the Palm Trees and Purple Sunset
posted by on January 22 at 11:19 AM
Here, to celebrate the announcement of this year’s excellent Coachella lineup, is Belle & Sebastian performing “The Boy With the Arab Strap” at Coachella in 2002. There are a lot of things wrong with this version—the sound is weak, they play the song about twice as fast as they should, Stuart drops some of the words—but there are beautiful things in it too, namely (1) palm trees, (2) a purple sunset, and (3) new lyrics: “…The cigarette catches and sets off the smoke alarm. What do you think of the sound of the Foo Fighters floating across the”—mumbles something, hard to make out over the laughter—”on a summer’s day. But it’s not quite summer but it seems like summer to us.”
God. Are you looking at that sunset?
I think the mumbled words are "polo pitch."
If you don't put an immediate stop to this Belle & Sebastian fanboyism we will be forced to revoke your mancard.
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