"Saint Etienne-influenced"

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Fifteen years after "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," can the above term be used to describe anyone?

― late adopter, Friday, 1 April 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

I'd love to check out any recommendations.

― late adopter, Friday, 1 April 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

i am the world trade center

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Well, if you choose to believe those who claim that St Etienne invented (90's) Britpop ...

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

The Go! Team, I think. Nobody else thinks this, but NER to them.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

some tracks on Lush's last album were Saint Etienne-influenced.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Annie of course.

― Niels Aalberts (Niels), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

johnny boy, arguably

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

A few other much-loved groups with a definite Ets feel (and in some cases, an Ets link):

Spring (delectable French/Spanish trio, now sadly defunct - especially the "Spring and Friends" album)
Pizzicato Five (yeah, I know, big big big in their own right but I think their mid-90s sound owed a lot to Bob and Pete)
Tahiti 80 and Phoenix (inextricably linked for me)
Yukari Fresh

and don't tell me Belle and Sebastian never used Saint Etienne as one of their more modern templates beside Love, Nick Drake et al...

― darren (darren), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

spring and friends album?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

dubstar

― N_RQ, Friday, 1 April 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

The "Spring and Friends" album is a compilation of a mini-album they made with various DJs, and a couple of extra tracks (EPs ? I don't really know). To be honest, I don't know which countries it was released in. My CD is from Germany on the Bungalow label, licensed from Elefant. I know it was on Escalator in Japan, but I can't speak for UK, US or elsewhere ...

― darren (darren), Friday, 1 April 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

The first It's Jo & Danny album has some very St Et-type tracks (albeit more acoustic guitar based), esp. the one with the racing commentary running through it. Sorry to be so vague.

― bham, Friday, 1 April 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Through a thick cloud of Friday vagueness: what was that record that her out of Kenickie did with that bloke? Wasn't that this sort of thing?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

Wait there, I think I mean "Don't Falter" by Mint Royale. That was with Lauren Laverne right?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

that's right. and kenickie were on pete stanley's vanity label for a while yeah?

― N_RQ, Friday, 1 April 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Ah okay, so I wasn't a million miles away! (PS Pete Stanley? Bob Wiggs surely?)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

Or maybe this Pete Stanley?

http://www.rollercoasterrecords.com/images/rccd_3036_1a.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

Dubstar OTM

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

Some might say Stars and Plus-Tech Squeeze Box in part (also have a lineage going back to Yukari Fresh and the P5). Maybe the Cooler Kids too - 'Morning Star' is almost a lock for 'Hug My Soul'.

We may as well throw in Bungalow, Readymade and Escalator's back catalogues while we're at it.

― BARMS, Friday, 1 April 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

The Avalanches, Xenomania, Black Box Recorder (all neatly sounding like a different part of Saint Etienne).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Barima, what's the Cooler Kids album like, if you've heard it? I adored the songs I've heard. Xenomania, neatly, produced a few St Et songs off the last, and, as I've said before, their production on "Burnt Out Car" is basically a proto-"Hole In The Head".

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Also the genre appropriations on stuff like "Star" and "You're In A Bad Way" (referencing the past but pretending not to realise that they're doing it) strikes me as v. similar to stuff like "Love Machine" and "Some Girls".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Mono?

Koop?

Peach?

Actually, I saw Saint Etienne on their last tour, and they played a new song which bore a striking resemblance to a Peach tune.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry Tim, but Girls Aloud and Rachel Stevens records bear no resemblance to Saint Etienne whatsoever. GA aren't post-modern, they just sound like a "Seaside Special" appropriation of something groovy, like the Mike Rogers Connection or whatever they were called doing, I don't know, "Starman". And Rachel from Golders Green may have good producers, but she just sounds like the prom queen brought to the front to sing karaoke. In other words, the inspiration that makes St Et records what they are just isn't there at all.

― darren (darren), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Barima, what's the Cooler Kids album like, if you've heard it?

I HAD it. The CD disappeared from its case last summer. Good in small doses, because lyrics and melodies aside, there's little to no variation. However, the production is smart and zippy and Cecily Treasure, the singer, has a very well earned name (oh, and she sings great too). I had some of it mp3'd up -the best 3 tracks, being 'All Around The World', 'E Is For Everybody' and the aforementioned genius piece, 'Morning Star'.

I wonder if the P5-St.Et connection up above was rather more an exchange of ideas. See also bits of mid-90s Kahimi Karie.

― BARMS, Friday, 1 April 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Persil.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

King Of Woolworths

Paul van Dyk

...and, y'know, Air have been pretty forthcoming about this

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Tiger Baby (from Denmark) could be placed in the middle of Saint Etienne and Dubstar (who already sound a lot like SE).

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

The "Spring and Friends" album is a compilation of a mini-album they made with various DJs, and a couple of extra tracks (EPs ? I don't really know).

ah, it's a compilation of a couple of their EPs... the out of time 10" with pez and the spring vs. indurain single. i was hoping for a mysterious third album!

their first single was called "bob cool" after all.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

https://youtu.be/sxnS8Oy-sWA?t=1138

(it's the title track at ~18:57, in case the embed loses that information)

― etc, Sunday, 9 September 2018 19:55 (six years ago)

fucking hell that is brazen

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 9 September 2018 20:25 (six years ago)

Is it wrong to like that song?

― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 9 September 2018 20:58 (six years ago)

Preceeding by two or three years, but I get a Foxbase Alpha vibe from some of this album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAYfL2TbLRY

― everything, Monday, 10 September 2018 00:12 (six years ago)

Any Ivy album, but the last two especially

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ytxZ8rePL.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/All_Hours.jpeg

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 September 2018 02:20 (six years ago)

Rosebud - US girls

― dig me out requiem (Ross), Monday, 10 September 2018 02:53 (six years ago)

That song, I've heard it before but I don't know how or why.

― Mark G, Monday, 10 September 2018 07:19 (six years ago)

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