Belle & Sebastian - The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner - Non-Album Tracks (2000-2001)

Here's another album of stray tracks from Belle & Sebastian. This one covers 2000 to 2001, which was still in the middle of their late 1990s to early 2000s heyday.

Most of the songs here are various A- and B-sides. But there also are two original songs that were only ever officially released on a compilation of BBC performances. (Two more songs from that same BBC performance will appear on the next stray tracks album.)

Furthermore, on the last album I included a couple of solo songs by members of the group that I considered as good as Belle & Sebastian songs. There are three more solo songs this time, two by Isobell Campbell and one by Stevie Jackson. There will be more solo songs on future stray tracks albums, as the group began to fracture and put out more solo material.

01 Come, O Come Emmanuel (Belle & Sebastian)
02 Falling from Grace (Isobel Campbell & the Gentle Waves)
03 Sisterwoman (Isobel Campbell & the Gentle Waves)
04 Good Time (Stevie Jackson)
05 Jonathan David (Belle & Sebastian)
06 Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It (Belle & Sebastian)
07 The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner (Belle & Sebastian)
08 I'm Waking Up to Us (Belle & Sebastian)
09 I Love My Car (Belle & Sebastian)
10 Marx and Engels (Belle & Sebastian)
11 Shoot the Sexual Athlete (Belle & Sebastian)
12 The Magic of a Kind Word (Belle & Sebastian)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15602193/BellenS_2000-2001_TheLonelinessofaMiddleDistanceRunnr_atse.zip.html

The cover art is by Peter of his Albums I Wish Existed blog. It's taken from the artwork for the cover of the book by a similar name as this album ("The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"). Belle and Sebastian have a habit of quirky covers that don't actually show the band, so I think this fits.