Belle & Sebastian

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2022

First Recording: 1996

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Belle & Sebastian
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Inducted into Rock Hall Projected in 2028 (ranked #264) .

R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
If You're Feeling Sinister4812020

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
Tigermilk (1996)
The Boy with the Arab Strap (1998)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Like Dylan in the Movies (1996)
Lazy Line Painter Jane (1997)
Your Cover's Blown (2004)
The Party Line (2014)

Belle & Sebastian @ Wikipedia

Will Belle & Sebastian be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Saw this band at Bunbury. Both of the 'named' musicians impressed me with their multi-instument chops, Belle especially. Sebastian does most of the lead singing.

As far as induction chances (and we inducted them into Rock Hall Projected), I would say that if their set was 'Belle & Sebastian's greatest hits', then I would say 'no effing way' (and I might have voted for them in RHP). To use an example. Styx has many more killer tunes than what I heard on Sunday.

If the set was mostly new stuff & only a few 'greatest hits', then I would say 'you need to show me more'. Another great album or two to show me you still have it.

Am glad I saw them, though.

Posted by Paul in KY on Tuesday, 07/16/2013 @ 10:27am


LMAO (and responding to a six year old post). There's no "Belle" or "Sebastian"...they were just having a laugh with the crowd. So, Sebastian was clearly Stuart Murdoch.

Also, Belle & Sebastian is one of the few acts that totally mixes up their setlists from one night to the next, so you never know what you'll get. Some are deeper on fan favorites, some have a lot of rare cuts, etc.

If you give their records a listen, you'll find they have way, way more great cuts than Styx. Styx rarely ever wrote melodies as complex as Stuart Murdoch's.

Posted by Casper on Thursday, 04/25/2019 @ 20:55pm


What, there's no Sebastian??!!

All along I thought it was John B. Sebastian from The Lovin' Spoonful or maybe one of his sons??

LOL!

Posted by joker on Thursday, 04/25/2019 @ 22:15pm


Casper, have more important stuff to do than track down the correct names. :-)

They were at a fest, and my view always on fests, is that you play your best stuff. Period.

I'm now guessing they did not & that is/was disappointing. Maybe I'll see them again sometime.

I did know that wasn't John Sebastian, LOL!

Posted by Paul in KY on Friday, 04/26/2019 @ 10:09am


The name comes from a French TV series about a boy and his dog.

Posted by The_Claw on Friday, 04/26/2019 @ 14:06pm


B&S have been a quality band for a long time and put together some really fun and innovative songs. I don't think they have the mainstream recognition needed to be inducted but stranger things have happened.

Posted by A-Killa on Thursday, 08/1/2019 @ 17:47pm


They certainly deserve to be in! Unfortunately, they are only played on indie stations but deserve to be recognized as one of the greatest pop bands ever and are still going strong!

Posted by dinzdale on Wednesday, 11/20/2019 @ 07:33am


Their debut album was in 1996. Therefore they will be eligible next year.

Posted by Garrus on Monday, 12/14/2020 @ 02:49am


Who decides what their essential songs are? The three songs mentioned are not very essential at all. "Dylan and the Movies" comes closest. "State that I am in" , "I'm a coo coo", "Arab Strap". "Asleep on a sunbeam" " I don't Love Anyone" "I'm not Living In the Real world" ...Those are a few off of the top of my head.

Posted by T.J. Kiernan on Wednesday, 11/2/2022 @ 15:57pm


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