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Certain Songs: Belle & Sebastian – “I’m A Cuckoo”

December 7, 2014 by Jim Connelly

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Album: Dear Catastrophe Waitress.

Year: 2003.

What an uplifiting romp this song is!  And totally unexpected.

While they’d put out a bunch of great EPs in the years surrounding and following the epochal If You’re Feeling Sinister, Belle & Sebastian hadn’t even come close to putting out an album as good.  And honestly, as the 21st century dawned, it really kinda seemed – for all of Stuart Murdoch’s formidable songwriting chops –  like they were just going to fade away into the twee sunset.

Then Dear Catastrophe Waitress came out, signalling – via their version of glam rock, of all things – that Belle & Sebastian were in it for the long haul, that they were going to change up their music as needed. That record is epitomized by “I’m a Cuckoo,” featuring twin guitars, joyous horns, shuffle beat, call-and-response vocals and a chorus that I will sing until the day I die.

I’d rather be in Tokyo
I’d rather listen to Thin Lizzy-oh
Watch the Sunday gang in Harajuku
There’s something wrong with me, I’m a cuckoo

That “Thin Lizzy-oh” followed by the Thin Lizzy guitar lick absolutely kills me every single time.

Official video for “I’m a Cuckoo”

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