Bestival is over! Here's a playlist. The "hits" have (mostly) been omitted in favour of album tracks and B-sides, because i) I'm a snob and ii) I'm sort of trying to convert the unenlightened, and if they've not liked Boys Don't Cry for the last twenty years, they ain't likely to change now. The rest of you are welcome to share your opinions - unless, of course, you went to Bestival.
The Playlist (#2):
Breathe. Gorgeous.
Sugar Girl. Also gorgeous.
Plainsong. In which Robert perfects the formula for The Perfect Song, multiplies it by a million and makes a recording of what happens.
A Letter to Elise. 75% of why the Wish album is underrated. As in; it's so good it even atones for Wendy Time.
Pictures of You, Robert being lovely and melancholic over eight minutes (not five) of lovely melancholia. (It's late, shush).
2 Late. Not actually a Field Mice cover, though you'd be forgiven for thinking so for all the beatific jangly bliss.
Apart. For the chemists out there, this represents the other 25% of Wish's allure (and 100% of its woe).
Catch. Though I love it and regard it as one of the Cure's finest pop songs, I've partially included this for the video, which produces in me an inexorable desire to touch Robert's hair.
Underneath the Stars. From 2008's 4.13 Dream. Yep, they've still got it.
One Hundred Years. Well it wouldn't be complete without the mandatory dose of nihilism.
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