Vibrant indie jangle pop about teenage homo-curious experimentation. It also became the band's then-biggest hit, crashing the UK Top 20. The Life Pursuit wasn't Belle and Sebastian's finest hour, but the 2006 LP did sport this dashing, singalong ​pop song; a Murdoch-penned ode to romantic projection. “If you are feeling sinister go off and see a minister / chances are you’ll probably feel better if you stayed and played with yourself.”.
One of Murdoch's most fabulously-realized musical-short-stories, the narration is handed from Jackson, to Queen, to Murdoch, each telling the tale of its titular heroine, running through Glasgow streets, riding buses, and dreaming of boys. Which is Belle and Sebastian all over, really.

As well as obliviously name checking a cock ring, the title more deliberately references another cult Scottish group of the era and indulges in some sporting mocking of their singer, the titular boy (“we all know you’re soft ’cause we’ve all seen you dancing / We all know you’re hard ’cause we’ve all seen you drinking from noon until noon again”). This six-minute single has long been a favorite of B&S fans, so much so that the band often spontaneously invites girls from the crowd to belt out Monica Queen's righteous, powerhouse vocal on stage. When 80s gated-reverb guru Trevor Horn took a break from working with the likes of Seal to produce Belle and Sebastian's sixth album, 2003's Dear Catastrophe Waitress, even he knew better than to mess with the original rehearsal-room demo of "Piazza, New York Catcher," leaving it as-is on the otherwise-polished LP.

The group rehearsed in a church hall in their early years, and even the recording studio where they made their first four albums, CaVa Sound, was a former church. Murdoch does his best Dylanesque fire folk in a fictional ode to the love life of baseball player Mike Piazza which comes out sounding like a sports-obsessed Lilac Time, and will do us nicely.

Borrowing the Byrdsian jangle and Left Bankeian organ first heard backing Stuart David's wacky spoken-word on the "Lazy Line Painter Jane" flipside "A Century of Elvis," "A Century of Fakers" addresses such concerns. Skint, knackered and forever stuck on or missing his bus, our narrator’s fed up but suffers in silence like the Asian minicab driver in Old Compton who has a “love hate affair with his racist clientele”, even as he’s surrounded by sleazebags from the London cool set including one who guy who’s forever updating a hit parade of his “10 biggest wanks” (a lyric almost chopped off as the song fades out, for reasons unknown). The song that invented The Hidden Cameras, then.

Arguably the best track on their 1998 breakout third album The Boy With the Arab Strap – the one that earned them a Brit award, much to the consternation of Pete Waterman – culminates in a gorgeous, swirling, swelling instrumental, the final minute or so of which is embellished by Fender Rhodes, trumpet, synthesiser and the dulcet drones of you-know-what.

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