Eticanon

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't everybody like St Etienne?" asked Steve M on another thread. There's only one way to find out - MAN THE CANONS!

Eight picks.




[Poll #744880]

Comments

THAT IS AN AWFUL PICTURE

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

btw

Re: THAT IS AN AWFUL PICTURE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

haha

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

dubdobdee I believe it is the same song!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Prediction: nobody cares about anything after the Greatest Hits came out.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The first Greatest Hits?

You might well be right.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Having said that, I did go back and swap Hug Your Soul out for Heart Failed.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD I NEVER KNEW COLA BOY WERE SAINT ETIENNE!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a revelation of SEISMIC proportions for me - I always thought Cola Boy were faceless dance dudes with random session singer like Opus III (and haha yes like St Etienne too)!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

S Crackers is in the Cola Boy video iirc

also seismic

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

d00d you know that the wedding present is terry riley teamed up with chaka khan, no?

Re: also seismic

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am SUSPICIOUS of you all!

(who is terry riley?)

also seismic pt iii

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

St Etienne did one of the oddest-themed tennis songs ever - 'Conchita Martínez'. I think they did it because they "liked her name", and when she wasn't particularly famous. The following year...Conchita won Wimbledon.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Their album tracks up till 1994 were super ace too. Now they just make me cross (see also the waffly commentary to Finisterre). This is usually the point where I say that I once saw Bob and Pete shopping in Beanos (Croydon second-hand record shop of greatness). They were looking at that Thunderbirds single from the early 90s.

Latter-day oft-overlooked album track

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Amateur' off Finisterre - the hardest, most electro song on that album "Janine. Just nineteen. Joined the neighbourhood scheme" etc.

I thought Tales From Turnpike House was awesome when I first heard it, but I don't really listen to it ever.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

(the film, I mean)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

hey it wasn't me who asked 'doesn't everyone like St. Etienne?'!

IDENTITY THEFT ALERT

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no it was BLUE RUSSIAN!!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

People don't like 'Pale movie'??????

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Or 'Like A Motorway'. People are odd.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

top remixes:

Weatherall mix of 'Only Love...'
Monkey Mafia mix of 'Filthy'
PFM mix of 'The Sea'
Broadcast mix of 'Angel'

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Blurillaz poll swept under carpet? :)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I forgot!

I've still never seen Billy Liar, but...

[zenith.livejournal.com]

"Of course London's a very big place. It's a very big place Mr ______. A man can lose himself in London. Lose himself. Loooooooooose himself. LOSE HIMSELF IN LONDON!!!!!"

SHADRACK!

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

^

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Were there no singles from Turnpike Lane? I rly love Milkbottle Symphony :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The last two!

I love 'Milk Bottle Symphony' and also 'Lightning Strikes Twice' off Turnpike House.

On a related note

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend checking out at least one Sarah solo song - "Ready or Not," a wistful album track off Lipslide that Etienne Daho covered (with new French lyrics). Both versions are ace!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

What have they curated?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

they've done this quite good film thing at the barbie can for three or four years running

There is no reason not to love Good Humour

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Such a good album. Did people just stop paying attention after the first greatest hits, as suggested above, or do you actually not like any of the later stuff? Although I've got sentimental love towards the early stuff, it hasn't dated as well as I'd like: I never listen to it now.

YES

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I have much to add except that I'm reasonably certain that "He's On the Phone" has the saddest "yes" in the history of pop everything.