This Is Just a Modern Rock Song

About This Is Just a Modern Rock Song

This Is Just a Modern Rock Song is Belle & Sebastian's fourth EP, released in 1998 on Jeepster Records. The front cover features Alan Horne, founder of Postcard Records. It is the only Belle & Sebastian release never to be issued in North America, although all four tracks from the EP were later collected on the Push Barman to Open Old Wounds compilation. A chart ruling was put into place shortly before the EP was released stating singles or EPs must contain no more than three tracks and last no longer than 20 minutes in total to be eligible for the UK singles sales chart, and thus – with its four tracks and carefully crafted total running time – This Is Just a Modern Rock Song failed to chart. "Slow Graffiti" was written for the soundtrack of the film The Acid House based on the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name. more »

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1998

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Emma tried to run away, 
I followed her across the city, 
She went out to the Easter house, 
Because she liked the sound of it.

She didn't have a single penny, 
She stuck a finger in the air, 
She tried to flag down an airplane, 
I suppose she needs a holiday. 

I put my arm around her waist, 
She put me on the ground with Judo, 
She didn't recognize my face, 
She wasn't even looking. 

Laura's feeling just ideal, 
Her horoscope was nearly perfect, 
She's thinking of something to do, 
Because she is The Birthday Girl. 

She walked out to the edge of town, 
She saw me lying in the park, 
She took Emma by the hand, 
They've got a lot in common. 

I'll leave them to do what they want, 
I'll leave them to do what they need to, 
I'll go and play with words and pictures, 
I'll admit I'm feeling strange. 

I'm not as sad as Dostoevsky, 
I'm not as clever as Mark Twain, 
I'll only buy a book for the way it looks, 
And then I stick it on the shelf again. 

Now I could tell you what I'm thinking, 
But it never seems to do you good, 
It's beyond me what a girl can see, 
I'm only lucid when I'm writing songs. 

This is just a modern rock song, 
This is just a sorry lament, 
We're four boys in corduroys, 
We're not terrific but we're competent. 

Stevie's full of good intentions, 
Richards into rock 'n' roll, 
Stuart's staying in and he thinks it's a sin, 
That he has to leave the house at all. 

This is just a modern rock song, 
This is just a tender affair, 
I count "three, four" and then we start to slow, 
Because a song has got to stop somewhere.

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Belle & Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996. Belle and Sebastian are often compared with acts such as The Smiths,Bob Dylan and Nick Drake. The name Belle & Sebastian comes from Belle et Sébastien, a 1965 children's book by French writer Cécile Aubry, later adapted for television and an anime. Though consistently lauded by critics, Belle & Sebastian's "wistful pop" has enjoyed only limited commercial success. more »

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