BELLE AND SEBASTIAN TIGERMILK FRAMED LP ELECTRIC HONEY

	£		205
	$		272

THIS IS KILLING ME, BUT IM SELLING MY SECOND AND FINAL COPY OF TIGERMILK, ON ELECTRIC HONEY. FOR REAL B&S FANS THIS IS THE HOLY GRAIL, PRODUCED AT STOW COLLEGE, ONLY 1000 WERE EVER PRODUCED, ALTHOUGH ITS RUMOURED ONLY 700 REMAIN IN CIRCULATION. THE ELECTRIC HONEY CODE IS ETCHED ON THE INSIDE OF THE VINYL PROVING ITS AUTHENTICITY WHICH IS WITHOUT DOUBT - GUTTED TO BE SELLING IT I THOUGHT I WOULD KEEP IT FOREVER!!!

 

THE RECORD IS FRAMED AND IVE DONE MY BEST TO PHOTOGRAPH IT FROM EVERY ANGLE. I BOUGHT THE LP FRAMED AND HAVE NEVER PLAYED IT. IVE NEVER EVEN TAKEN IT OUT OF THE FRAME, SO CANT COMMENT ON THE CONDITION OF THE VINYL, BUT FROM WHAT I CAN SEE IT LOOKS FINE, BAR ONE SMALL SCRATCH ABOUT 9 O CLOCK, BUT I CANT TELL YOU IF THIS AFFECTS IT PLAYING. ACCORDINGLY IM SELLING WITH NO GUARANTEES ON PLAYABILITY, BUT I WOULD SUGGEST KEEPING IT FRAMED AS IT LOOKS AMAZING, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS GET IT ON VINYL REISSUE FOR £10 IF YOU WANT THE VINYL SOUND!!

 

IVE PUT A REVIEW BELOW, BUT IM SURE IF YOURE READING THIS YOU KNOW WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT. AS YOULL SEE IN THE REVIEW, COPIES HAVE SOLD FOR £400, IN FACT IN THE LAST 6 YEARS SINCE THAT REVIEW IVE HEARD OF A SALE OVER £800, SEE BELOW FROM THE B&S WEBSITE. HOWEVER AS ITS A CREDIT CRUNCH AND I NEED THE MONEY FOR A NEW GUITAR, ILL SET THE RESERVE AT £200 AND WILL SELL TO THE FIRST SERIOUS BIDDER.

 

ANY QUESTIONS OF COURSE PLEASE LET ME KNOW!! THANKS FOR LOOKING & GOOD LUCK!!!

 

 

I could be dreaming

A review by monkeymafia on Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian
December 1st, 2003

 

Author's product rating:   


Advantages: The best and most orignal Belle and Sebastian album Disadvantages: Its only got 10 songs
Recommend to potential buyers: yes 
Full review From ' The State I Am In' to 'Mary Jo' this album takes you on a musical jouney through the lyrical genius of Stuart Murdoch. This is the first and best albulm recorded by the band who at the time just composed of Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David. It was recorde as part of a college project when the two met in a all night cafe in Glasgow,january 1996. The college course that they attended usually realesed one record a year usually a single under the college label Electric Honey Records. However Belle and Sebastian had enough material for an abulm. So recorded in just three days the ground breaking Tigermilk was born. Only a 1000 vinyl copies were every made. They now change hands for in excess of £400. Own your piece of Belle and Sebastian history for slightly less.

 

 

 

Tigermilk reviewed by Roy Wilkinson, Select

Full multi-format re-release for Belle and Sebastian's near mythical debut album, originally released in a 1000-strong vinyl edition in 1996.
Features ten songs by the bands founder Stuart Murdoch, plus some Isobel Campbell dialogue on 'I Could Be Dreaming' - where she reads from the tale of Rip Van Winkle.
Near the start of 'Expectations', the second song here, there's a puzzling noise, like Sellotape being ripped off the carpet. It is in fact, according to Belle & Sebastian guitarist Stevie Jackson, "The sound of Stuart Murdoch unzipping his cardigan as he gets ready to do his vocal take.". This, seemingly, is the sound of recording legend.

In terms of recent pop history, 'Tigermilk' clearly can claim the stuff of legend. Recorded in fuve days as part of the Higher National Certificate in Music Business And Administration at Glasgow's Stow College, the album's name has long since become a by-word for impossible alt-rock desirability. In the capital's collectors shops the going rate for 'Tigermilk' now stands at around £300, while a signed copy that Stevie Jackson auctioned for charoty went for £810.

Those are the economic details, but a quick look at the slew of B&S 'net chatsites reveals the more emotional role 'Tigermilk' plyas in the lives of B&S admirers. One Elish Hope relates how, "Last weekend Eliott and I had a little 'Tigermilk' party... I think that Eliott especially liked seeing a real copy of 'Tigermilk' in person on vinyl. We had a great time!".

The question now is whether 'Tigermilk' can justify its position as lost-and-found Grail. When the album opens with that B&S archetype 'The State I Am In' - a song familiar from 1997's 'Dog On Wheels' EP there seems little doubt. Speaking to Select in 1996, Stuart Murdoch claimed his inspirations were "Boredom, depression, the weather and the fillms of Hal Hartley". With 'The State I Am In', less abstract influences are writ large. The music swings between perennial B&S touchstones, Love and Nick Drake, while the lyrics touch on Christianity, furtive sexuality, gin, disability and a konwing withdrawal from the world ("I spend my day turning tables at Marks & Spencer, they don't seem to mind"). The words echo with the combined intrigue of Jarvis Cocker, Joe Orton and Morrissey.

As you move through 'Expectations' (more trumpet-flourishing Love touches allied to tales of Debenham's lingerie departent), it's clear that there's actually nothing categorically new here. Rather, Belle & Sebastian are a glorious new conclusion to two currents in British popular culture. Alongside Murdoch's take on the tradition of arch outsider commentary, B&S sit as a shining product of the Scottish-American ley line that runs from the Velvet Underground, Love and The Byrds through Orange Juice and The Pastels to Teenage Fanclub.

If 'Tigermilk' doesn't qute invent speed romo, then, the ability to take swathes of cultural history and re-cast them into something endlessly wry and moving is never to be undervalued. Even in the light of the estimable repertoire that B&S have released in the last three years, 'Tigermilk' now emerges not as some retrospective curio, but a glowing summarisation of the B&S scheme - a poised, fully realised record miles from the amateur-hour joys that the threadvare recording schedule and initial DIY release programme might have suggested.

At root, 'Tigermilk' tackles an elemental premise - dreaming up distracting thoughts and putting these to memorable tunes. But, in this familiar field of endeavour, Stuart Murdoch is a beacon. 'My Wandering Days Are Over', possibly the finest moment here, is a beautifully effortless wave of melody. 'We Rule The School' is deftly lovely, a piano-led lilt midway between B&S' own 'Fox In The Snow' and Pachelbel's 'Canon', the classical favourite last launched to pop glory on The Farm's immortal 'Altogether Now'. It also offers prime examples of the B&S philosophy: "Reading the Gospel to yourslef is fine... Skating a pirouette on ice is cool."

If 'Tigermilk' is unconcerned with innovation, 'Electronic Renaissance' brings pleasing novelty. An askew essay on dance music ("You go disco and I'll go Funkadelic... Drop a pill and then say hello"), it sounds like Giorgio Moroder producing a lo-fi Pet Shop Boys. 'Mary Jo', on the other hand, confirms allk the Nick Drake comparisons, while also underlining the album's consistency - even the record's most negligible component is still good enough to rise above Murdoch's most Morrissey-esque lyric ("What you want is a cigarette/And a thespian with a caravanette in Hull"). 'I Could Be Dreaming', though, is a triumph, showcasing a delicious range of post-Velvets guitar styles from Stevie Jackson.

Three years on, 'Tigermilk' is undiminished by both time and the album's new alliance with the perfidious world of digital technology. Recorded on zips or not, this is a rare, rare beauty.

Five out of Five.

 

 

On 27-Jan-09 at 15:18:11 GMT, seller added the following information:

Hi, Ive had a couple of questions about sending the record unframed. Im not able to do this as explained in the item description, the record was framed when I bought it and I dont want to risk damaging it by unframing it as its all sealed at the back and seems to have been done professionally, also I dont know the condition of the record hence the warnings I put in the description, Im selling as a framed item and anyone planning on playing the record runs that risk if bidding - thanks, Phil