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{{Infobox album
| name = The Bells Line
| type = studio
| artist = [[78 Saab]]
| cover = Bells Line.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 2007
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| length = 41:09
| label = [[Ivy League Records]]
| producer = [[Wayne Connolly]], [[78 Saab]]
| prev_title = [[Crossed Lines (album)|Crossed Lines]]
| prev_year = 2004
| next_title = [[Good Fortune (78 Saab album)|Good Fortune]]
| next_year = 2010
}}

{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Sunday Herald Sun]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>Graeme Hammond, ''Sunday Herald Sun,'' 23 September 2007.</ref>
| rev2 = [[Sydney Morning Herald]]
| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>Bernard Zuel, ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 26 October 2007.</ref>
}}

'''''The Bells Line''''' is the third album by Australian rock band [[78 Saab]]. It was released in 2007.

The three-year gap between albums was described in one newspaper story<ref name="Fame">"Saab Hit the Road to Fame", ''[[The Age]]'', October 26, 2007</ref> as a source of consternation for the band: "Nash says it stems from a combination of laziness and the need to juggle day jobs to pay the rent." The album's chief inspiration was described as coming from songwriter Ben Nash's four-hour commute between his childhood home, his parents' farm in [[Orange, New South Wales]] and his [[Sydney]] base. [[Bells Line of Road|The Bells Line]] is the name of the road that leads from Richmond in Sydney's west through the [[Blue Mountains (Australia)|Blue Mountains]], the route Nash would take going home.

The album's opening song, "Sleepless Nights", begins with the line, "Up on the Bells Line, we disappear ..." "That came to me as I was driving with my wife just on twilight on a cold winter's night," Nash told the ''[[Herald Sun]]''. "A lot of ideas come to me when I'm driving, and I like the way subconscious thoughts materialise that way."<ref name="Rustic">"Bell Boys Take the Rustic Route", [[Herald Sun]], October 24, 2007.</ref>

The band rehearsed for the album in an old church hall near the Nash family property before joining producer [[Wayne Connolly]] in the studio. "We froze our arse off. It was the middle of winter, but it was a productive time. A lot of ideas were thrown around," Nash said.<ref name="Rustic" />

==Track listing==
(all tracks by [[78 Saab]])

# "Sleepless Nights" – 3:38
# "Drive" – 4:00
# "One of These Days" – 3:42
# "Needle in the Hay" – 4:20
# "Messed Up" – 4:18
# "Lean on In" – 3:42
# "Kandahar" – 5:15
# "Haul Away" – 3:06
# "Nothing as It Seems" – 4:10
# "Sleepyhead" – 4:58

==Personnel==
* Jake Andrews – guitars, keyboards, vocals
* Nicholai Danko – drums, percussion
* Ben Nash – vocals, guitar
* Garth Tregillgas – bass

==Additional musicians==
* Tim Kevin – piano ("Nothing As It Seems")
* [[Jim Moginie]] – keyboards ("Kandahar", "Sleepyhead"), guitar ("Sleephead")
* Jason Walker – pedal steel ("Sleepless Nights", "Lean On In", "Haul Away")

==References==
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