Saint Etienne: beach boys inspired album titles

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just read in the allmusic review for the Saint Etienne comp "You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone" that most of their album titles are inspired by the beach boys in some way. I don't see the connection for most of them (guess i'm not as big a beach boys fan as I thought) Someone educate me.

― jsg, Monday, 8 November 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not a Beach Boys fan either but I know for sure that So Tough is one of this albums.

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone" is the name of a Beach Boys song from the "So Tough" album of the same name.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

'Tiger Bay' references a particularly successful Beach Boys concert at the Cardiff Arena.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Good Humor is after what's written on the hat of one of the Beach Boys in a photo of them, possibly on an album.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

but i thought tiger bay was after that old movie?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 8 November 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Foxbase Alpha isn't a reference; it's place that Bob and Pete imagined as teens in Croydon. Foxbase Alpha is a mythical place where all the attractive people are, because they sure weren't in Croydon, or so the story goes..

Finisterre is a reference to the shipping forecast.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 8 November 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Foxbase Alpha isn't a reference; it's place that Bob and Pete imagined as teens in Croydon.
I've nevr been sure whther to belive that, as I've seen the packages Foxbase & Alpha appear on the same page of a software catalogue (around 1990).

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 8 November 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, as I say, that's the story, but they're pretty cheeky at times, and are possibly lying.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 8 November 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The beach boys are a surf band (sort of)
Surfin' is generally carried out in the sea
The sea is made of salt and water (and various pollutants)
Saint Etienne's fifth (proper) studio album was called Sound of Water
QED

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 8 November 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"I love to paint"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 November 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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