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

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

dubdobdee I believe it is the same song!

Re: THAT IS AN AWFUL PICTURE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

haha

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

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

[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)!

also seismic

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The first Greatest Hits?

You might well be right.

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.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Julie Burchill one.

[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!!

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.

Re: IDENTITY THEFT ALERT

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

who is blue russian?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That Burchill inlay blurb is one of the finest pieces of music writing I have EVAH read.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

(the film, I mean)

Re: IDENTITY THEFT ALERT

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

that in itself deserves a thread

Re: Latter-day oft-overlooked album track

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Actually I heard 'Let's build a zoo' recently and liked it, so perhaps I should relent and see if their other recent stuff is any good.

Re: Latter-day oft-overlooked album track

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it's not bad per se - it's just that I only have so many "ooh I really wanna hear some St Etienne" moments in my life, what with so much music sloshing around. and when I have one of those moments there are just other better things to choose.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

S Crackers is in the Cola Boy video iirc

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

does reynolds mention burchill in rip it up? she is HUGELY IMPORTANT yet curiously under-discussed

Re: IDENTITY THEFT ALERT

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

It's gotta be Geir.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Or 'Like A Motorway'. People are odd.