Belle & Sebastian - I Fought In a War

[GlassDeviant]

I liked this band until I listened to a song that wasn't entirely instrumental.

[314aloneinthedark314]

i went to belle and sebastian show once with an ex and we lit up a joint and i swear everyone got like ten feet away from us like theyd never seen one before. do most belle and sebastian fans not smoke pot? cause i ADORE them and im a giant pothead

[sensuct]

underrated song!

[AnnArckey]

I awoke with this song spinning around my head - and it's been in there all day.

[joebstarsurfer]

such a good song .

[mrscrustybread]

So few views? Interesting...

[AntonioSaucedo22]

Best song I've heard in a long, long, long while.

[de4dr4bbit]

would like to hear a version with just some acoustic guitar, maybe a haunting banjo riff in the background.i'm just not a big from of brass.excellent lyrics

[pleh48fx]

I think this is their best album.

[TheNostaglicFlower]

I still can't believe that this album recieved negative reviews. I mean I listened to all the tracks on this album and see nothing bad at all. Oh well, some people seem to have no taste in good music.

[apos82]

Favourite B&S song.

[jasonpfinch]

completely underrated album among theirs: Allmusic gives it 2.5 stars! As good as any in B&S's oeuvre, just a departure from the first few with the strings and varied vocal styles

[AllTheCloudsArePink]

Belle and Sebastian was first a book. By some french lady I dont remember her name. Madame something.

[psychodave0]

@AllTheCloudsArePink Cécile Aubrey.

[IggieDalta]

@AllTheCloudsArePink Aren't all french ladies "Madame somethings"?

[AllTheCloudsArePink]

@IggieDalta ahh.. so true .

[turdass71]

they are wonderful

[sssluis]

Thank you guys, this song really was a gift for us.

I really love this song.

[kqpm392]

definitely one of their finest songs

[kolorz]

i fought in a warcraft

[RaumVogel]

I am stunned that no one here seems to know that this tune came from the 2005 movie "Why we fight" which is a warning about the military industrial complex and how as long as war is big business, poor people will be sucked into them. I only heard of this song after renting the movie from Netflix and I had to find who did it as it is so deep. TADGELL is correct ...this song is epic!

[hidingson]

@RaumVogel it's been used before, in 2004, for a bbc documentary called the power of nightmares. this tune however doesn't come from any of these documentary... this song came out way before that, in 2000.

[ProNorden]

@RaumVogel ...Why We Fight was excellent, and this was the closing piece as they showed the kid being driven off to the to the induction base and they ran the credits. Curiously, they didn't give a credit or mention of this piece in any of the credits. Strange. It took me the longest time before I was able to find someone who could identify it..

[TADGELL]

this is one of the greatest songs of all time.

[MattSnacks]

So............anyone ever seen a grown man naked ?

[Galslacht]

Why do people abuse anti-War songs for their pro-war-movie-montage-things?

Obviously, those people never really thought furhter than the main words of ''enemy'',. ''army'', ''fight'' and some catchy tune. 

[nathanwallacei3]

like most bands i will assume they ripped of their name form something cooler..

[jafara18]

so cool

[nathanwallacei3]

Belle and Sebastian was a great cartoon

[starsweet4]

@nathanwallacei3 ya it was, they named themselves after the cartoon right?

[falstaffswims]

Please, nobody make any damned montages of you and your unit in Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever... and for God's sake, please nobody make this into a video for Platoon, the way someone did with Radiohead's "You and Whose Army." Such corny shit, and inability to appreciate music beyond literal meaning... just, embarasses me FOR you. I bring it up, because SO many people do such things. THIS IS NO CELEBRATION OF WAR--and LOOK to the right--a video of 21st c. soldiers. (F-cking SHUDDER and BLUSH.)

[psnapplebee]

@falstaffswims shut the fuck up

[falstaffswims]

@psnapplebee Right! In the meantime, go fuck your dead mother!

[keflar5]

this is the first song on the album.............in more ways than one

[TheCoxblox]

These guys suck pretty hard. But this song is fucking Epic. I don't think there is a combat survivor out there who isn't touched by this.

[Zenistential]

I love this song but can't find a single other track by them I do like. :-\

[pacostich]

did u try "your cover's blown"?

"i'm a cuuko"

"beautiful"

this group its awesome!!

[Zenistential]

@pacostich thanks but those tracks don't do anything for me.

[m3talsk8er]

@Zenistential try electronic rennesaince or sleep the clock around

[Zenistential]

@m3talsk8er Thanks for the recommendations but they don't grab me either. I think B&S just isn't my kind of band.

[conclusion1]

@Zenistential You and I are in the same boat. Don't feel bad.

[suedehead28]

wonderful record, and the perfect opener.

[Zenistential]

I'll check those out, thanks.

[henkecelt]

to go looking for the enemy.

[Ieatbeefstu]

im drunk and love them. every song on every album is great.

[coseypooh]

I love this song. Great lyrics and such meaning....... sigh

[johnbucio]

AMAZING.