Taken to not sucking

Belle and Sebastian were really great for a few albums. Then, recently, they got really bad. People who know more than me suggest it's because they became more egalitarian with their songwriting. Stuart Murdoch, architect of the early brilliance, began handing the songsmithery over to his bandmates. The result, as evidenced by their most recent LP Dear Catastrophe Waitres, is utter cacophony with the only really good songs being those written by Murdoch. But even those aren't much fun to listen to because they're surrounded on all sides by dissonance and disco-throb.

Point being: Belle and Sebastian have re-released all their non-album EPs in one place, covering the years 1997-2001, when they were great, good, then at least listenable. Here, in one place, are all the songs I found on Limewire but never saw in stores.

Rejoice.