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	The Boy with the Arab Strap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Boy with the Arab Strap is the third album from the Scottish band Belle and Sebastian.
		The inspiration for the album's name came from the band Arab Strap, who are also from Scotland and briefly toured with Belle and Sebastian.
		Arab Strap were reportedly less than pleased with their inclusion in the title of the album.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Boy_with_the_Arab_Strap (330 words)

	BELLE & SEBASTIAN / THE BOY WITH THE ARAB STRAP
		BELLE and SEBASTIAN / THE BOY WITH THE ARAB STRAP
		Belle and Sebastian/ The Boy With the Arab Strap
		Despite high expectations, fans and critics have every right to be shocked by the higher brilliance achieved by the Scottish septet on their third album, The Boy With The Arab Strap.
	www.musthear.com /reviews/boywitharabstrap.html (248 words)

	The Boy With the Arab Strap \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		The follow-up to Sinister, The Boy With The Arab Strap, is in the vein of those EPs.
		While it might be a better album without the spoken-word "A Space Boy Dream" and the uncharacteristically terse "Chickfactor," it's possible to see their inclusion as a good thing.
		Nobody, except possibly other rock stars, cares.) While not a pristine instant classic like its predecessor, The Boy With The Arab Strap announces that Belle and Sebastian is in it for the long haul, and seemingly committed to not standing still.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/9351 (305 words)

	Splendid: Features: Arab Strap
		Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat, better known as Arab Strap, were on the path to rock stardom.
		Over the next several years Arab Strap released five albums that continued to impress the critics, as well as their peers; Mogwai recorded a song called "Waltz for Aidan" and Belle and Sebastian named an album The Boy With the Arab Strap.
		My scheduled interview with Arab Strap coincided with a pair of snowstorms, which pelted New York City and the entire East Coast.
	www.splendidezine.com /features/arab (2816 words)

	village voice > music > by Dennis Lim
		Even by Difficult Third Album standards, The Boy With the Arab Strap is a prickly one, born of the existential confusion that must arise from continuing to hold down your day jobs in Glasgow and, say, being featured on Entertainment Weekly's It List.
		Arab Strap is the soundtrack to that emergence, and perhaps slightly awkward for that.
		FYI, an arab strap is apparently what you wear to maintain a hard-on; Arab Strap is also a boozy, maudlin Glaswegian duo, a cross-promotional coincidence that Matador no doubt appreciates.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/9837,lim,3457,22.html (790 words)

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		There is a care and craftsmanship at work on 'The Boy With The Arab Strap', their third album, that leaves almost all their contemporaries for dead.
		For there's a vivid and confident swing to much of 'The Boy With The Arab Strap', as the eight band members lock into intricately layered arrangements or build to graceful and moving crescendos - check the bagpipe-dappled 'Sleep The Clock Around' - with the kind of intuition that recalls prime Tindersticks.
		Isobel Campbell contributes the lush folk of 'Is It Wicked Not To Care?', and Stuart David expands on his Looper side project with 'A Space Boy Dream', a deadpan narrative on childish astronaut fantasies in the style (if not subject matter) of Arab Strap.
	members.tripod.com /Sparklehead/BSNME.html (709 words)

	Arab Strap (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arab Strap were a post-folk indie band from Scotland who were signed to independent record label Chemikal Underground.
		Over the course of their 10 year existence Arab Strap worked with a number of musicians including Jenny Reeve, Stacey Sievewright as well as Adele Bethel and David Gow who went on to form Sons and Daughters.
		Arab Strap's marked characteristics include sordid, personal, yet honest, lyrics -- described by the NME as "fly on the duvet vignettes"[1] At first essentially an electro-acoustic band with a brooding, spare sound later albums and gigs saw them develop a fuller sound which drew deeply on both indie and dance music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arab_Strap_(band) (518 words)

	All-Reviews.com Music Review: The Boy with the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian
		The Boy with the Arab Strap was one of the most compelling records of 1998.
		The Beautiful South and the Smiths, in their quieter moments, are perhaps comparable in using the pop song form but not becoming slaves to pop convention and sometimes subverting it, often making songs that sound peaceful but tell disturbing tales.
		The Boy with the Arab Strap is a great adult, pop record, one of the best sounding CDs of 1998.
	all-reviews.com /music/boywitharabstrap.htm (558 words)

	Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap (Album Review)
		Their breakthrough album — 1998's The Boy with the Arab Strap — is a remarkable effort, well deserving of more praise and press than it has received.
		Its songs are deeply rooted in '60s folk pop, and most are delivered with a happy-go-lucky, Donovan-esque air crossed with the dark, yet softer, side of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground.
		The Boy with the Arab Strap isn't really a groundbreaking effort, but there's a charm in the way these Glasgow students deliver their songs that is quite simply irresistible.
	www.musicbox-online.com /bas-arab.html (293 words)

	Arab Strap - AOL Music
		Over the course of their 10 year existence Arab Strap worked with a number of musicians including Jenny Reeve, Stacey Sievewright as well as Adele Bethel...
		Arab strap (sexual device), a contraption used to help a man retain an erection...
		The Boy With The Arab Strap, an album by Scottish band Belle and Sebastian...
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	Amazon.ca: Boy W/T Arab Strap: Music: Belle & Sebastian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The melancholy melodies of "Boy With the Arab Strap" show Belle and Sebastian at their peak, with their gently complex music and quietly restrained pop songs.
		It's best shown in "Boy With the Arab Strap": Stuart Murdoch sings with deceptive perkiness, "Do you ever feel you have gone too far?/Everyone suffers in silence a burden..." Murdoch let the others do several of the songs for this album, which gives a vague, weird feeling of creative unevenness.
		The Boy with the Arab Strap has found a place on the small pile of CD's atop my CD player, ready to be inserted at any time.
	www.amazon.ca /Boy-W-T-Arab-Strap/dp/B00000AFHM (1735 words)

	Boy With The Arab Strap Chords by Belle And Sebastian @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
		Boy With The Arab Strap Chords by Belle And Sebastian @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
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	ultimate-guitar.com /tabs/b/belle_and_sebastian/boy_with_the_arab_strap_crd.htm (105 words)

	Amazon.com: The Boy with the Arab Strap: Music: Belle & Sebastian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That being said, The boy with the Arab Strap is my favorite of their entire discography.
		The Boy With the Arab Strap is the 1998 follow-up to If You're Feeling Sinister, which is generally regarded as the band's masterpiece.
		Nevertheless, The Boy With the Arab Strap is as good of a place as either of the two aforementioned records to begin to appreciate this wonderful Scottish group.
	www.amazon.com /Boy-Arab-Strap-Belle-Sebastian/dp/B00000AFHM (1965 words)

	The Boy With the Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastian - Song Listings
		By the end of 1997, the Scottish septet had developed a following every bit as passionate as the Smiths did at their peak, which is only appropriate since leader Stuart Murdoch is as wittily literate as Morrissey.
		From the Motown stomp of "Dirty Dream Number Two" to the Paul Simon shuffle of the title track, there is more musical texture on Boy than Sinister, but much of this was already explored on the EPs, which means Arab Strap essentially consolidates the group's talents.
		Such small, precious gems are what Belle & Sebastian are all about, and The Boy With the Arab Strap offers another round of timeless, endlessly fascinating folk-pop treasures.
	www.mp3.com /albums/322799/summary.html (616 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Boy With the Arab Strap: Music: Belle & Sebastian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Boy with the Arab Strap is an immediately infectious and delicious pastiche of fey, Nick Drake-ian vocals; lilting pop melodies; shimmery arrangements; croony wonder; and tortured, lit-smart lyrics.
		Belle and Sebastian are smarter than the Smiths, wittier than the Beach Boys, more fun than the Velvet Underground, and even more inscrutable than R.E.M. That's heavy company, but The Boy with the Arab Strap proves they deserve to be belles of the ball.
		I would consider Boy with the Arab Strap as my favorite B&S album as a lot of my favorite tracks are there, Ease your feet is pure melancholy, Rollercoaster ride is amazing, fantastic lyrics.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Boy-Arab-Strap-Belle-Sebastian/dp/B0000274T6 (1263 words)

	plug <> Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
		I had a $5 coupon redeemable at Amazon.com fall out of a Rolling Stone I borrowed from the library, so I was wandering around their site looking to buy.
		"The Boy with the Arab Strap" is "real", in the post-modern sense of being almost irony-free.
		Likewise "A Space Boy Dream" is a spoken word foray that, like the second and third Velvet Underground albums, will remind you what the program button on your CD player is for.
	www.bluecricket.com /plug/reviews/1998/belleboy.html (556 words)

	tonevendor.com :. Belle and Sebastian - Boy With the Arab Strap CD
		By the end of 1997, the Scottish septet had developed a following every bit as passionate as the Smiths at their peak, which is only appropriate since leader Stuart Murdoch is as wittily literate as Morrissey.
		From the Motown stomp of "Dirty Dream No. 2" to the Paul Simon shuffle of the title track, there is more musical texture on Boy than Sinister, but much of this was already explored on the EPs, which means Arab Strap essentially consolidates the group's talents.
		Such small, precious gems are what Belle and Sebastian are all about, and The Boy With the Arab Strap offers another round of timeless, endlessly fascinating pop-folk treasures.
	www.tonevendor.com /item/4660 (279 words)

	Flak Magazine
		On his band's third album, The Boy with the Arab Strap, Stewart cedes some songwriting responsibilities to his bandmates.
		His one song on this album, "A Space Boy Dream" is a variant on the B-side of that single, a drum and bass groove, with a narrative about a dreamed childhood visit to Mars.
		While Isobel's "Is It Wicked Not To Care?" fits perfectly within the context of The Boy with the Arab Strap, it's hard to say how the song would stand up surrounded by others of its ilk.
	www.flakmag.com /archive/october/music/music.html (969 words)

	Artistopia Music - Arab Strap Fanfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Scottish post-folk duo Arab Strap were formed in mid-1995 by vocalist Aidan Moffat and multi...
		Arab Strap are a post-folk indie band from Scotland signed to independent record label Chemikal...
		The Scottish post-folk duo Arab Strap were formed in mid-1995 by vocalist Aidan Moffat and...
	www.artistopia.com /arab-strap/fans (867 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Sharps & Flats
		It was the kind of seamless folk-inflected pop that the word "winsome" was invented to describe.
		Now, of course, the eminently justified critical embrace of "If You're Feeling Sinister" casts a long and almost certainly unfair shadow on the band's new disc, "The Boy With the Arab Strap." And just as understandably, the new disc finds the band in a restless, experimental mood.
		But too much of "The Boy With the Arab Strap" defies you to do just that.
	www.salon.com /ent/music/reviews/1998/09/02review.html (1371 words)

	Whim - Ritz Section
		It was the group's third album The Boy With the Arab Strap that brought me into the fold.
		Right now, the group is involved in various side projects and is also finishing up their fourth studio album, to be released (hopefully) late this summer.
		With the new album, Isobel and Stevie return, Isobel singing on the cute ditty "Family Tree" and dueting with Murdoch on "Women's Realm" and with Stevie on "Beyond the Sunrise, with Stevie singing "The Wrong Girl." But multi-instrumentalist Sarah Martin makes her debut on the haunting "Waiting For the Moon to Rise," another standout track.
	www.runet.edu /~archive/season07/ritz/stories/band.html (1282 words)

	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Boy With The Arab Strap, The
		After 1997's IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER made them critics' darlings, Scottish octet Belle And Sebastian ran straight into a series of label woes, and into the inevitable feeding frenzy that surrounds a free agent with their prodigious talents.
		Their experience with one label exec is detailed in "Seymour Stein" on THE BOY WITH THE ARAB STRAP, which finds the band building on the pastoral pop charms of SINISTER, adding a palpable layer of anger and an increasingly rich sonic palette to their painfully shy tales of despair.
		This album moves from their trademark confessional diary sketches (still in abundance, as on the disarmingly naive "Is It Wicked Not To Care", and the tender "Rollercoaster Ride") to genuine social criticism, as on the title track, a narrative meditation on Britain's pretensions and societal ills.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/album.jsp?albumId=322982 (182 words)

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		The Boy With The Arab Strap - LP - Chords ------------------------------------------------------------------ It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career IndiaRubb@aol.com Just the basic chords here, nothing difficult.
		One note, though: where the song hits the "been a brilliant.." part, the bass line changes, but the guitar stays with an A chord.
		I think, as least that's how I play it) ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Boy with the Arab Strap Reid.Dossinger@bigfoot.com (When playing G, do a repetitive hammer-on to the 2nd string, 1st fret.
	www.missprint.org /sinister/tabs/theboywiththearabstrap.txt (400 words)

	Belle & Sebastian: The Boy with the Arab Strap: Pitchfork Record Review
		This Scottish septet, who made a truly wonderful album last year called If You're Feeling Sinister, has decided to parody themselves on their American debut, The Boy with the Arab Strap.
		Whereas Sinister was filled with huge hooks, loungy chord change-ups, and a fistful or two of bitingly catty lyrics, The Boy is seriously lacking in all of that and more.
		Really, Sinister is well worth your time, but whatever an Arab Strap is, it should be used to batten down the crap song hatch.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/15372/Belle_and_Sebastian_The_Boy_with_the_Arab_Strap (290 words)

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	Musica & Memoria / Belle And Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
		Musica and Memoria / Belle And Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
		Strapped to the table with suits from the shelter shop
		She came on with the boys while you were stuck in various poses
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	Belle And Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap CD: Two If By Sea Records
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