Album · Belle & Sebastian
If You’re Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian
If You’re Feeling Sinister is an album by Belle & Sebastian, released in 1996. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Like Dylan In The Movies”, on 3 lists with a best position of #462.
If You're Feeling Sinister, Belle and Sebastian's second album, came out on Jeepster in the UK on 18 November 1996, with Matador bringing it to America the next year. It followed Tigermilk, with Tony Doogan producing Stuart Murdoch's Glasgow group, Stuart David on bass and Isobel Campbell on cello and guitar.
It's chamber pop of the most bookish, bedsit kind: soft drums, hushed strings and Murdoch's gentle voice spinning sly, sad little stories. The Smiths and Nick Drake are the obvious comparisons, but the wit is all his own, from "The Stars of Track and Field" to "Seeing Other People" and "The Fox in the Snow". Pitchfork later put it at No. 14 among the best albums of the 1990s, and in 2005 the band released a live version recorded at the Barbican.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from If You’re Feeling Sinister on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like Dylan In The Movies | 3 | #462 | – | 2022–2024 | |
| 2 | The Stars Of Track And Field | 1 | #415 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Seeing Other People | 1 | #534 | – | 2023 | |
| 4 | The Fox In The Snow | 1 | #839 | – | 2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.