In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction

[the555music]

The tender, pained soft vocals and uitar plucking drift the song along and yes it's very pleasant, but then what makes the song is the final section beginning around 1min 58. Epic drums, piano and shoegaze type introspective guitar with the wonderful poem recite

[sergeantfan3]

This is my favourite song of all time. In Remote Part is without question one of the best album of all time.

[shaboobal1]

vote up if you think this is the best song ever made!!

[psymibes]

wow I just remembered my early teens for the first time in ages. stunning track

[vfrl4fma]

great band, ive listened to them since i was about 7

[LauROARRR]

Best band I've ever seen

[Panicfc]

I'm sad that I have never seen them live.

[larry90944]

first band a ever saw.

[TheYeltzman]

This song makes me want to be Scottish

[sergeantfan3]

@TheYeltzman Makes me proud to be Scottish! Idlewild need to get back together ASAP.

[superjuce]

@sergeantfan3 I saw them last year - have they split up since then??

[sergeantfan3]

@superjuce As far as I'm aware, they are on a break right now, although I hear they're performing at a Scottish festival in Aberdeen sometime this summer. Apart from that I don't think they have anything else planned. Roddy Woomble, lead singer however, has just released a new (2nd) solo album which is absolutely brilliant and I saw him a few months ago. Seriously recommend. Played a couple of Idlewild classics which was such a treat!

[LilMissGorgieGal]

@superjuce They are playing at Greenbelt music festival this year :)

[humanshieldchorus]

i think everyone here can identify or can at least understand the lyric "even if the breath between us smells of alcohol call it confusion in the bes way possible"

[Kilchattan7]

Plays to a specific audience, but then I'm in the front row!!!

[accessandamplify]

fuck biffy clyro, this is the best scottish band ever.

[sergeantfan]

129 likes 0 dislikes....obviously. Absolute gem and perfection of a song

[accessandamplify]

@sergeantfan

i deliberately disliked to negate this comment

[sergeantfan]

@accessandamplify Why would you even do that?

[accessandamplify]

@sergeantfan

i have no life and am easily amused

[juampir]

It's a really good song, but the integration with Edwin Morgan's poem undoubtedly excels. It gives me the shivers and I don't have English as my native language.

[logancinque]

great great song

[RobynHutton100]

this is my uncel steven archibald on this album cover!, love idlewild

[111teamomori]

As a long fan of idlewild and an addict to their fast paced numbers i must say i think this is a compelling and utterly beautiful song and is one of their very finest works

[coloredsquares]

Edwin Morgan, you will be missed

[malcolmcog]

this resonates with anyone that has travelled in The Far North of Scotland - 'Stopped in every passing place to watch the world move faster than we do'. thus evoking a Scotland I knew and loved 40 years ago.

[GeordieLord]

@malcolmcog I as 14 when I brought this album in 2002, This song even then made me want to visit Northern Scotland, way up in the Highlands. I always got the image of the band writing this song in a country pub way up north sitting beside a log fire with me watching them from outside a window.

Idlewild have always promoted great imagery in there music for me, more so than any other band I listen too.

[williemac1]

@GeordieLord yo dude just noticed your comment,i'm from fort william in the highlands,its nice enough up here,but if you can check out ullapool,its an amazing place,stunning scenery,great people

[RicRob33]

Amazing song! The Remote Part album is definately in my top 10 and this is one of the best on there. Scottish Fiction.. Wow

[accessandamplify]

one of the greatest ending to an album i have ever heard, hail idlewild. and irn nru.

[BaToScAp227]

Can you upload No Generation please? By the way, is this album quality audio?

[TheGd1314]

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[ungulateman]

Ah, Idlewild. I can't think of a better indie rock band in the world than these people.

[BaToScAp227]

84 likes and 0 dislikes. Just shows how great Idlewild are!

[BloodRedRose1988]

R.I.P. Edwin Morgen

such a wonderful poem

[stevee470]

see iv only got the albem

[jordancullen]

RIP Edwin Morgan, 1920-2010.

[viciousxwinter]

good song.

[nuc134r]

Love

[kiltedwarrior1980]

abolsute quality ! scottish music at its best!

[untamedmusicalgenius]

very good song

[jeffbogginson]

edwin morgan really knows how to read a poem.....good lad

[musewembley17]

REMOTE PART/SCOTTISH FICTION. Such a great contrast between the two different parts.

[Clausonet]

awnsome song! one of the greatest by Idlewild

[commietommie]

Deli Meat Tree, and that...

[howmanydogs]

We'll put you in a home

[69marius]

..fuckin' orange

[DisleyGas]

Sick of it

[cutes22]

law and order wasn't that funny.  not enough Karl.

[tomgoulding16]

A crash course to animals on earth. Here's man, here's woman. Here's a dog, here's a cat, here's an octopus-HANG ON A MINUTE......

[foxpawz]

"i can't be bothered"

[Quattro444]

i´ll be no buying one of them...

[stevenuuu1212]

"Being in a hall and havin' our dog lickin' me face"

[sharlenefix]

Don't be chucking stuff about.....if you live in a glass 'ouse.

[ptolemysg8]

Tourettes Trent Darby!

[KarlPilkingt0n]

Forget it!

[jimmyrascal]

split tennis ball

[StanDellone]

I have to put that woman in the oven.

[DaveyWonda]

brit knee.

[payney007]

that part of her leg is english

[charlesworthcarl]

"...I 'll just go then"

[barrasse]

I used to nick mars bars

[Dextrous]

I was thinking Bruce Willis

[shawnamb]

.... That me name was BRETT!

Loved Guide to Law & Order!! I got up at 3 AM LAST night to download it because I knew Rick + guys would have it out in the UK by then.

[jamesthemarshall]

The Jamaican fella doesn't want anything

[wsewell12]

NILL DEMAND

[Guvna07]

Nice song. KP HLAFO

[JimmyNothing]

BONG!

Family Sick of Living on Butthole Road

[th3magicnumber]

Why are you going to HMV?!

[forman1200]

i like the poem at the end

[rdgloveshouse]

just downloaded "Guide to Law and Order" ...looking forward to listening to it and the ramblings of the bald headed manc twat lolx

[cutes22]

can't wait to hear guide to law and order. Saving it for my ride to work tomorrow. Who's this little prick, then?

[ben151fox]

I saw Ricky Gervais this evening too!! Absolutely brilliant. Great song as well!!

[jaday89]

saw gervais tonight, saw idlewild 6 weeks ago. sweet!

[polpotsdog]

negative comment here....cunt...head...round. but it does need a good squeezzzzze.

[AndyB1286]

God, this song brings back memories and feelings! Got into it around Christmas/New Year's Eve last year, one of the best songs off the album without a doubt. A few weeks back I deleted it off my mp3 player...what a div am I, lol

[starsofcctv1]

Straight up love it =]

[almarhutten]

Fucking great! If this doesn't touch you, you must be heartless!

[ERBannister]

i remember going to see them live when this album came out. best gig I've been too! :)

[welshwill86]

what a fucking tune!!!! brilliant lyrics backed up by some amazing guitar work and then a wonderful poem to top it all off!! SCOTLAND be proud you've produced a wonderful band!

[blatants]

Very underated band,i love them and think they are absouloute,CLASS.

[Pra5286]

Best album they made if you ask me.

[electrogirlxxx]

god ive not heard this in years ! i think im obsessed all over again =)

[eilidh2005]

i had the Poem on the wall up until a fortnight ago...it tore...Beautiful Song...i'm putting my printer on right now.

[Pumpkinhead77]

This album is great. I lost interest in Idlewild after this though. I preferred them when they were more... well... wild.

I still treasure my signed copy of Captain anyway.

[thebestpirate]

No, its Edwin Morgan reading it, Idlewild asked him to write a piece for the song.

[scottishbigcats]

Is that Ken Stott reciting "Scottish Fiction"? It sounds like him.

[BileYirHeid]

It is the LEGENDERY poet Edwin Morgan reading his own poem Scottish Fiction.

I still cant believe that they got him to not only write a poem for their album but persuade the great man to read it for them.

The world is a better place for having Edwin Morgan's poetry.

It dosent sound anything like Ken Stott

He is from the East coast Edwin is from Glasgow.

[Mintsauce27]

It sounds a little like Ken Stott - at the bit = "Its a red hearted vibration" :)

[Grendel1970]

I made that mistake as well, it's sounds very like him.

[humanshieldchorus]

"and even if the beath between us smells of alcahol"

[lostprophet1984]

Brilliant song

[sergeantfan]

How can you not like this song? It is bloody great! In fact make that all of Idlewilds songs...

[henricussecundus1154]

A beautiful song by a wonderful band who give life meaning. I love Idlewild.

[chemovio]

love this tune, it makes me proud to be scottish.. listening to the remote part or 100 broken windows, hill walking in scotland is a must:D

[GuyFromMars1977]

I've been away for a while, are there any album/bside tracks you would like me to upload? I have every Idlewild songs minus a few Bsides so I should have it :)

[NinjofGinj]

@GuyFromMars1977 can you upload Paint Nothing please?Thanks!

[chippyrcks]

@GuyFromMars1977 mate u series? u shud get warnings/promises up man tht is such a killer album

[graemetheshellby]

@GuyFromMars1977

could you upload the acoustic version of Love Steals us from Loneliness from the I Understand It EP? its amazing and i cant find it anywhere

[henricussecundus1154]

Greatest band in the world.

[blatants]

very under rated band,they are absouloute class man.

[joetavish]

fantastic song!

roddy has a great voice

best scottish band

'we'll call in confusion in the best way possible'- amazing lyrics

[PokefanDP]

Fantastic song.  :]

[studawg1981]

Roddy and me grew up 3 miles from each other!!!

[midshipracer]

amazing band!!

[redrose91091]

I love this song! Simply beautiful

[rhysus]

In Remote Part, All I Never Wanted and American English are three of their best songs.

[janisthegreat]

we stop in every passing place to watch the world move faster than we do.

[bushuaaaa]

What a great song and the poem is beautiful. idlewild biffy clyro, sucioperro scotland has em all

[tecklePie]

well said!!

[AliceeClare]

Idlelwild songs are so beautiful

and all so different.

I really don't see why they're not more widely known.

Biffy Clyro are good, but they cant beat idlewild.

:)

[123hero321]

Fucking amazing... simple as that.

[shortbrendan]

guyfrommars please upload i am what i am not very soon. all of "the remote part" is unbelievable. gotta be one of the best albums out there. easily

[GuyFromMars1977]

If I get some time soon, I'll upload a load of my favourite Idlewild songs which arn't youtube. :)

[zachaitken22]

Greatest song ever

[longliveinnocent]

i love this song so much! it makes me smile!

[saltythered]

Im So Glad To Have Found Idlewild. The Most Under-Rated Band In The World. What A Great All Round Band. Lyrics <3

[doliergr]

this is the best idlewild track. its just so amazing!

[GuyFromMars1977]

lmao, it had to be uploaded. I'm gonna upload I am what I am not soon

[DesolationandDespair]

The more the merryer (Y)

[Marnerbanana]

any advice on how to youtubetrak it? i can't find the right website. either that or u can put it on skreemr =)

i'm just loving this band, great when you find new music...

[DesolationandDespair]

HA! found this whilst searching for a non live scottish fiction. Good job. (Y) ... Its Richard BTW

[eddsoavit]

no comments shame on u guys lol