Storytelling (Belle and Sebastian album)

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Storytelling
Belle & Sebastian - Storytelling.jpg
Studio album / soundtrack by
Released3 June 2002
Genre Indie pop
Length34:45
Label Jeepster
Producer Tony Doogan
Belle and Sebastian chronology
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
(2000)
Storytelling
(2002)
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 59/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
NME 7/10 [4]
Pitchfork 6.5/10 [5]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Storytelling is the fifth studio album by Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian. It is the score to the Todd Solondz movie Storytelling . Belle and Sebastian experienced many problems in communication with Solondz while scoring the film, and as such only about six minutes of their music was actually used in the movie. [9] The album contains five tracks that are recorded dialogues. The instrumental track "Fuck This Shit" uses the prosody of the title phrase in a number of different keys but never the words themselves. The album was the band's final release on Jeepster, as they went on to sign a deal with Rough Trade the following year.

Contents

Track listing

Storytelling track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Fiction"2:32
2."Freak"2:19
3."Dialogue: Conan, Early Letterman"0:26
4."Fuck This Shit"2:31
5."Night Walk"2:07
6."Dialogue: Jersey's Where It's At"0:21
7."Black and White Unite"3:54
8."Consuelo"2:55
9."Dialogue: Toby"0:33
10."Storytelling"3:01
11."Dialogue: Class Rank"0:12
12."I Don't Want to Play Football"0:57
13."Consuelo Leaving"2:29
14."Wandering Alone"2:38
15."Dialogue: Mandingo Cliche"1:19
16."Scooby Driver"1:13
17."Fiction Reprise"1:22
18."Big John Shaft"3:55
Total length:34:45

Charts

Chart performance for Storytelling
Chart (2002)Peak
position
French Albums (SNEP) [10] 55
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [11] 99
Irish Albums (IRMA) [12] 42
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [13] 32
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [14] 29
UK Albums (OCC) [15] 26
US Billboard 200 [16] 150
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [17] 12

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