The inevitable best Saint Etienne album Poll (Close 21 May 07)

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Tiger Bay (1994)	12
So Tough (1993)	11
Foxbase Alpha (1991)	8
Sound of Water (2000)	4
Good Humor (1998)	4
Too Young to Die - The Singles (1995)	3
Tales from Turnpike House (2005)	2
Travel Edition 1990-2005 (2005)	1
Smash the System: Singles 1990-99 (2005)	1
Places to Visit (1999)	1
Fairfax High (1998)	0
What Have You Done today, Mervyn Day? (2006)	0
Nice Price (2006)	0
You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone (1993)	0
Up the Wooden Hills (2005)	0
Fairytales from Saint Etienne (1995)	0
I Love to Paint (1995)	0
Asleep at the Wheels of Steel (2002)	0
Finisterre (2002)	0
Smash the System: Singles and More (2001)	0
Interlude (2001)	0
Casino Classics (1996)	0
Continental (1996)	0
Bulit on Sand (1999)	0
Something even more obscure I missed	0

― Billy Dods, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

All these compilations clog up the list, really.

Of their albums made as albums, increasingly I veer towards Sound Of Water but really it's a close call between that and Tiger Bay.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

I liked "So Tough" best as it had "You need.." as a free extra.

Not that that's why, but hey.

― Mark G, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

"Best Of"s shouldn't be allowed to participate in this kind of polls, as they are cheating.

I mean, obviously, "Smash The System" is the best Saint Etienne album, but I refuse to vote for it, so "Sound Of Water" gets my vote instead.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Is that the girl from St. Etienne?

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's Bob Stanley.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

stern john

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Good Humour over Tiger Bay, on a penalty kick...

― henry s, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

probably 'tiger bay'

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Foxbase Alpha, mind you I haven't really listened to anything in between Tiger Bay and Turnpike House. Listened to So Tough again recently after many many years and was quite disappointed - too many skits and it all seemed kind of hollow.

― ledge, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

It's a tricky one - but probably Tiger Bay. *Which version* of Tiger Bay, though, is a whole new poll in itself.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

an easy choice for me..

There are a lot of st etienne albums I've never even heard of. I feel like such a fraud. "what have you done today, mervyn day?" blimey!

― hobart paving, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Too distracted by Cracknell to vote. That's almost as great as the picture where she's taking the pie out of the oven.

― nabisco, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Good Humour.

Just for Sarah's first "She...." at the start of 'Erica America'.

― SeekAltRoute, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

i don't remember any "skits" on sound of water. finisterre yes (remains the one album by them I don't "get"). anyway, tiger bay.

― akm, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Long version of Tiger Bay - some days the best album ever!

― Tim F, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

Japanese version of Sound Of Water with all the extra tracks = best ever

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

long version - Is that the one with added "Hate your drug" (I have this), or is there an even longer one?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for So Tough in the end, but that was without going home and listening to it first. It was the first St. Etienne album I bought and it brings back so many good memories. I like all the samples; one of the joys was finding out where they all came from (some I knew already, like the Lord of the Flies excerpt and Rush's Spirit of Radio).

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:44 (eighteen years ago)

and "The Family"

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:55 (eighteen years ago)

So Tough wins by about 1.3km for me.

― braveclub, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

So Tough, though Turnpike House came close.

― zeus, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

I did "road test" the free CD of "Kids songs" (i.e. played it while driving")

Ah, guys! The kids would find that very dull indeed. Sorry.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

"long version - Is that the one with added "Hate your drug" (I have this), or is there an even longer one?"

It has "Hate Your Drug" and "He's On The Phone" and "I Buy American Records" and "Grovely Road" and "Marble Lions". I think that's all the bonus tracks.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

grandpoint genie! where do the samples all come from?

there was a thread once...

― pisces, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Went with Good Humour, partially because I didn't think many other people would. Perhaps I should've gone with Finisterre then.

One of the things I like about StEt is the fact that the first two albums, which I thought for years they'd never surpass, I actually like less now, and prefer the later stuff.

(And yes, too many comps in the list and fan club discs in the list)

― mitya, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's Sound Of Water. Clearly.

― Matthew H, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Ruddy Duck, they've made a lot of albums.

― Mark G, Monday, 31 January 2011 12:12 (fifteen years ago)

Half of those were compilations.

― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2011 12:19 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, but have Ruddy Duck released more compilations than Saint Etienne?

― Jeff W, Monday, 31 January 2011 12:20 (fifteen years ago)

Nobody has

― Mark G, Monday, 31 January 2011 12:28 (fifteen years ago)

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