TS: Belly's "Star" vs Belly's "King"

"Seal My Fate"? I had the opposite impression: one of the weaker songs, poorly representative of the album.

and i LOVE the thick texture on it

i can't believe i let some of them get so scratched and crap. real ramona from amazon like SOON.

i liked "feed the tree" and "slow dog," but i guess not enough to buy the album. i bought king because i loved "now they'll sleep," then went back and got star. i like it, but to me it's a little thin, both melody- and production-wise, compared to king. they're both good records, though. and i saw the video for "feed the tree" on vh-1 classic the other night and dug it as much as ever.

(speaking of videos -- now they'll sleep

either that or green.

I read somewhere back in 1995 or so that Belly actually broke up because King didn’t sell well enough, which makes me sorta sad. Is this true? Did anybody else hear that?

King never really did it for me, it just overproduced (I know, stupid word) and weighty. Her songs seemed more magical when she was just writing them with an acoustic guitar and then sticking a band on, rather than when they were writing AS A ROCK BAND.

I saw them twice, when Leslie from TM was still in the band, yeah, they were really kickass.

Supposedly the Radiohead/Belly tour was one giant mess of horndog indie musician crushes and not-so-twee flirtation.

I imagine Belly were selling a little better than Throwing Muses at that point (circa "Limbo")? Am I wrong stats people? Who also broke up due to declining sales leading to not even covering touring costs, at least that was the official statement.

"Bright Yellow Gun" peaked at #20 on the Modern Rock Chart, which is odd considering how omnipresent it seemed the spring of '95.

Speaking of the Muses, I remember some of the promotion for University consisted of reminding people that "Hey! This is the band the Belly chick used to be part of!" This no doubt irked Kirsten Hersh.

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