lol the 'intro' to the video comes off like the start of a hipster porno. Cool record for sure but the whole film/soundtrack/multimedia idea is a fail.
I'm unfamiliar with this band... I don't know if the guy is actually a part of the band or just there for the video. I was thinking, if he is a member of the band I seriously doubt he'll ever have the urge to go solo... not surrounded by THREE AWESOME BABES (with talent). Lucky stiff.
what a refreshing song and video. though i'm a child of the 80s this song somehow takes me back to a simpler, less cynical and jaded time my parents grew up in.
Finally...after years caught in the doldrums, music appears to be in a renaissance-with real vocals and violins and... a video my grandkids can enjoy too. Susan Boyle, Duffy, these talented ladies and The Sounds, I love it.
The song's appeal is its sincerity. I think what we all wish for when we feel the sting of sentiment (which Murdoch has for the 60s in a major way) is a time when we could say we were in love without thinking it's unrealistic or cliche or saccharine; the strength of most anything Murdoch does is that irony is used as a way of __making a point__, instead of being __the point itself__. Harmony, hope, humor, innocence, a sense that life is a lovely, fragile, fading thing.
I think it's more a "knowing innocence" than innocence proper, something fought for and earned rather than something given and assumed. It's the difference between happiness because you don't know pain and happiness because you do.
ok so murdoch ripped off dylan...the state im in= (i want you).also cliff and the shads etc etc.all good but why oh why did he rip off morissey. in this song.......spot the theft if you can?
I love the internet. That comparison between The State I Am In and Dylan's I Want You is so rediculous it's laughable. I challenge anyone to listen to Dylan's first and then B&S's next. No one would ever make that connection for one reason: There not at all alike! I love the internet...P.S. Morrisey is a fraction of the talent of Murdoch IMHO...
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you obviously don't play guitar.the melody is a carbon copy of the "iwant you" riff. its theft plagiarism and should be punished.look what happend to george with "my sweet lord".
murdochs good ill give you that...but not as good as he thinks he is.
I'm more a piano man. We could disagree all day about it but we will not see eye to eye. There is a website where they can find something like over 100 songs that 'rip-off' any song you choose. The point is that there are limitations to expansion of existing music. And, yes it is a grower...cheers
Must have heard the song about a hundred times. Can't get it out of my head. The vocal is so enchanting. I've even contactet my local newspaper in Norway, and asked them to do a review of the record. I'm guessing this could be the record of the year if enough people get to listen to it.
song begins around 1:25
jconstantine100 2 weeks ago
An overdose of cute :).
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gay ass faggot nigger bullshit
2666ification 2 months ago
Yay for random Logo videos!!
TheUntamedVixen 2 months ago
Nice song but it was never a single.
dirkbogarde44 4 months ago
I thought they were Scottish...?
chartreusepigeon 4 months ago
@chartreusepigeon Belle are.
dirkbogarde44 4 months ago
No way they are brits, not with those smiles... Wow.
MrExtasiz 5 months ago
hello guys,try listen White shoes and the couples company . :)
edrey2705 6 months ago
All of those girls are so hot. 60's style!! :) luv it!
SebastianNoel 6 months ago
this girl is just beautiful
the first one that starts singing
antsinmybed 2 years ago
i´m going to all the 3 concerts in edinburg, london and the hague!!!
they say edinburg is the last concert ever?
nooooooooooooooo!!!
ersatzalex 2 years ago
So bland and lifeless it's hypnotic...
professionallynasty 2 years ago
remind me sundays cocteau twins ...
paraxicosis 2 years ago
me.... Im just a bit jealous I dont have the skills .. down in the water
God4Dunoon 2 years ago
This is my Song Of The Year ! Sheer beauty ! Heavenly strings !
Can't help listening to it over and over and over again. And Catherine Ireton is an angel. Overwhelming.
AKottan 2 years ago
Beautiful girls, beautiful voices, beautiful music. Oh god i love this.
midouespeon 2 years ago
Tharg, I also have fallen for her voice, amongst other things.
TIALAINGO 2 years ago
Has Catherine Ireton recorded any other material? I have fallen in love with her voice
tharg112 2 years ago
she´s the singer of the goawaybirds - an edinburg-glasow-cooperation. check it out!
dellupino 2 years ago
Thanks. I've started a fbook group (The Catherine Ireton Appreciation Society) that's got links to some of her Elephant stuff too
tharg112 2 years ago
a Limerick-Edinburgh co-operation. good stuff as well
daithimac23 2 years ago
MAGIC ON A SUNDAY MORNING..........
akastuntfish 2 years ago
God Help the Girl is everything that Camera Obscura used to be, before Camera Obscura got so depressing and whiney.
LosAngelesWriter 2 years ago
Jaw droppingly brilliant!
ballyronanbottler 2 years ago
She's wonderful... a very beautiful young woman ... but not as beautiful as her voice I would say!
LesYeuxDeDarius 2 years ago 2
A music that just flow; very nice indeed.
But, from my humble view, please cut the first minute of the video ....
sganassaboys 2 years ago 3
Who is that highly recognisable young actor?
jordancullen 2 years ago
thats some sweet piece of ass!
winksie 2 years ago
She is the same singer that sings on the title track, "Gold Help the Girl", right? Her voice is magnificent.
hightimesbruce 2 years ago
Do these women actually exist? I havent dreamed this have I?
donstar117 2 years ago 4
it's crazy how they look like their straight from the 50s and not some girls from the 00s acting like they're from the 50s
xXMyChemicalPanicsxX 2 years ago 3
A girl doing all that "cute girl stuff" that catherine does swinging and looking like that can make my heart breaks in 1.504.256 pieces.
clauditou 2 years ago
Alex... <3 Sooo awesome!!
Morvium 2 years ago 2
Nice song, nice band, y estoy enamorado de las tres por dios lo que sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
catfromkamui 2 years ago
beautiful song, wonderful voices, great video!
vagabondsongs 2 years ago 5
Finally a real musical voice and a nice song !
Thanks and continue on this way.
Ciao
sganassaboys 2 years ago
not bad, a nice light sassy tune to make the day go better
Bagheera1977 2 years ago
The "comedy" bit in the beginning sucks. Who the fuck wrote that?
Skip to 1:22 to watch and listen to an AWESOME SONG!
LosAngelesWriter 2 years ago 4
Thanks for the skip, I'm agree to you
sganassaboys 2 years ago
i love the singeeeerrrr
cohronel 2 years ago 2
fritzo62-I agree, this is good and does resemble The Smiths some, but it's nowhere near as good. It needs more guitar.
iancurtis51880 2 years ago
modern music could use more arrangements like this with strings
RawUmbers1 2 years ago 3
love stuart... . dont car for this song though
tunegrl 2 years ago
super! podoba mi się ich styl! Genialne!
mulka21 2 years ago
Quite nice... hum.. somehow something is missing. It's....errr. like "The Smiths". Without Morrissey. And without Johnny Marr :P But nice.
fritzo62 2 years ago
lol the 'intro' to the video comes off like the start of a hipster porno. Cool record for sure but the whole film/soundtrack/multimedia idea is a fail.
omarnoory 2 years ago
no need to vote me down, i'm just saying i'd rather have a samsung solstice than watch the video.
omarnoory 2 years ago
I'm unfamiliar with this band... I don't know if the guy is actually a part of the band or just there for the video. I was thinking, if he is a member of the band I seriously doubt he'll ever have the urge to go solo... not surrounded by THREE AWESOME BABES (with talent). Lucky stiff.
valiumsummer 2 years ago 2
i got stiff.
ohxsea80 2 years ago
He's from Belle and Sebastian, and the mastermind behind God Help the Girl; Stuart Murdoch.
havoknuk 2 years ago
he is part of the band but the 3 girls arn't usually i think. except 4 this CD. :)
killergerms101 2 years ago
Awesome Ladies How did this guy get the part Lucky Bastard!! I love the song just for a Guy like me from an earlier ear!!
MrAztecman 2 years ago
just my kinda thing =)
DarlingEmmaLouise 2 years ago
it's the 'Jeopardy' Boy lol
Phoenix5107 2 years ago
i know i just got that! my cousin made me watch it with him!
ymaAMYyma13 2 years ago
what a refreshing song and video. though i'm a child of the 80s this song somehow takes me back to a simpler, less cynical and jaded time my parents grew up in.
craybee06 2 years ago
Love it!!!!!!
perseusmh 2 years ago
this song has made my day.
judyintheburg 2 years ago
This song is typical of the tone and style of the album, so if you like this, I strongly urge you to buy the album. It'll make your summer!
FlowersInHisHair 2 years ago
This is a beautiful song. I love it.
MrsP33L 2 years ago
Finally...after years caught in the doldrums, music appears to be in a renaissance-with real vocals and violins and... a video my grandkids can enjoy too. Susan Boyle, Duffy, these talented ladies and The Sounds, I love it.
7ov9 2 years ago
i concure it seems like a combination of iluminating, thoughtful lyrics with 50s doo wop vibe
TheEmowithsunglasses 2 years ago 3
cool video, great song
BrickGrease 2 years ago
what ever happend to mtv actually playing good music like this not stupid reality shows all dayy!!
rhondalynne1 2 years ago 17
mabey one of these day man......
SHAWNMCDUFFIE 2 years ago
....? why did you watch this video then? Hmm?
MrsP33L 2 years ago
@rhondalynne1 who knows, this world is coming to shit
ChowderedRust 4 months ago
I just love how far Catherine and the rest of the two girls have come! Such a great project.
dabruin2 2 years ago
This vid & song are simply enchanting. Love it.
sartorizach 2 years ago
I thought this was wonderful :~))
Beautiful song ... beautiful people!
I will buy myself the album tomorrow!
swannielake 2 years ago
The song's appeal is its sincerity. I think what we all wish for when we feel the sting of sentiment (which Murdoch has for the 60s in a major way) is a time when we could say we were in love without thinking it's unrealistic or cliche or saccharine; the strength of most anything Murdoch does is that irony is used as a way of __making a point__, instead of being __the point itself__. Harmony, hope, humor, innocence, a sense that life is a lovely, fragile, fading thing.
lurdanhelhart 2 years ago 4
I think it's more a "knowing innocence" than innocence proper, something fought for and earned rather than something given and assumed. It's the difference between happiness because you don't know pain and happiness because you do.
mrhuther 2 years ago 3
What a great trio of talent and beauty.
dabruin2 2 years ago
dreamy, totally dreamy.
illbixby 2 years ago
The guy at the start of the video was in Jeopardy, the best childrens drama ever.
bobcake88 2 years ago
Is the guy with the guitar the same who plays the role of Bernard Sumner in Control?
filipeacaeiro 2 years ago
Sure looks like him!
VacuumBoots81 2 years ago
The Irish girl could steal my gin any day....
....any day, any day.
S1m0nAmstell 2 years ago 3
ok so murdoch ripped off dylan...the state im in= (i want you).also cliff and the shads etc etc.all good but why oh why did he rip off morissey. in this song.......spot the theft if you can?
walkerandwilliam 2 years ago
i don't think it's theft just because they used the line 'Crashing bores', i take it thats what your referring to..
333snottbox333 2 years ago
I love the internet. That comparison between The State I Am In and Dylan's I Want You is so rediculous it's laughable. I challenge anyone to listen to Dylan's first and then B&S's next. No one would ever make that connection for one reason: There not at all alike! I love the internet...P.S. Morrisey is a fraction of the talent of Murdoch IMHO...
robotwookie 2 years ago 2
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you obviously don't play guitar.the melody is a carbon copy of the "iwant you" riff. its theft plagiarism and should be punished.look what happend to george with "my sweet lord".
murdochs good ill give you that...but not as good as he thinks he is.
this song though is a grower .
walkerandwilliam 2 years ago
I'm more a piano man. We could disagree all day about it but we will not see eye to eye. There is a website where they can find something like over 100 songs that 'rip-off' any song you choose. The point is that there are limitations to expansion of existing music. And, yes it is a grower...cheers
robotwookie 2 years ago
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Cmon guys, calm down, ok they're good looking but it's bit borrrring and nothing new. It's a cross between Middle of the Road and St Etienne
Hirsute63 2 years ago
Absolutely brilliant! Beautiful song, beaufitul lyrics, beautiful girls ... amazing ... Stuart Murdoch is a genius.
alf2nd 2 years ago 2
Must have heard the song about a hundred times. Can't get it out of my head. The vocal is so enchanting. I've even contactet my local newspaper in Norway, and asked them to do a review of the record. I'm guessing this could be the record of the year if enough people get to listen to it.
IrakGasse 2 years ago 5
When she said "special signal" i knocked my mug of coffee all over the keyboard. Better not watch this video again.
raahead 2 years ago 2
looool :P
Bam9696 2 years ago
Stuart Murdoch never fails to kick some serious buns.....
robotwookie 2 years ago
When she said, "a special signal" I was like "hubba hubba!"
Stuart always gets the most beautiful girls to sing. Oh, they do have very nice voices!
septip123 2 years ago
nice tune but boring video....too much just staring forward......needs more fluidity
TheChickenMoneyKing 2 years ago
I Liiiiike this Song
wallenx3 2 years ago
great song, but too much talking in the beginnin, want to listen the song in replay :-)
but anyway, its still a great song
kaail01 2 years ago
fantastik!
hlup 2 years ago
La chanson est entrainante.
Très belle voix aussi.
Sans oublier les magnifiques yeux de la chanteuse !
Electronize 2 years ago
the guy just looks like Stuart's alter ego
the song is great
simonminaur 2 years ago
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god help these women there about to get a fat dick in there asses hollaaaa
my niggas u feel me?!
IsItOnTab 2 years ago
yeahhhh good music, nostalgie of 60's, i love the bass :)
chlooe35 2 years ago
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BarnacleGooseInvalid 2 years ago
This is the most beautiful song I've heard in a long, long time. Thank-you, Stuart. I hope one day I can write music as wonderful as this.
alkalinefan 2 years ago 3
How is theres so many hot girls in this one band
danielc1620 2 years ago 11
Great, lovely, exciting, dreamy, hilarious, well done... this is the best B&S music since «Fold Your Hands Child»...
1ndi64 2 years ago
imm n loove
VonSeux 2 years ago
Jeopardy guy! haha
foreverkate 2 years ago
Is that Anna Friel? :D Anyway what a classic-feeling, dramatic sweeping song. Really is a beautiful song :)
sunnygirly2k4 2 years ago
Oh her vocals sound a bit Karen Carpenter-esque.
sunnygirly2k4 2 years ago
uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh and I'm spent.
BasingstokeBornBred 2 years ago
How is it possible to get something so right?? Ahhh I am counting down the days to the soundtrack release
kattermerrang 2 years ago
i hope stuart got his end away with at least one of those gin stealing babes
keflar5 2 years ago 3
pure beauty
chrisharris0 2 years ago 2
I bought the full subscription pack, finally some full B&S after all those years (well, partly B&S).
SuzannaM 2 years ago
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!!!! Cath you are a goddess!!!! xxx
gillianh9 2 years ago 2
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goatmilkxxx 2 years ago
I almost came too soon when Catherine said she give a "special signal".
No wonder Stuart's wife had to be at all the rehearsals and video shoots.
Ya think he pulled a Hef and auditioned them himself. Yeah!
cisopen 2 years ago
I can't believe this only has 1,076 views, and about 50 are from me. This song makes me feel like everything is right in the world.
VersaMusic 2 years ago 8
wow they look as good as they sound
elicroes 2 years ago 2
Alex Klobouk looks a lot like Olga Kurylenko, which is no bad thing, but all three of them are gorgeous!
montyburns56 2 years ago
Love the voice and the music
lennyd44 2 years ago
Love it! Heard it on local radio this morning (Melbourne, Australia). I think it's a hit.
tangshou12 2 years ago