Pick 3 from 5: SAINT ETIENNE

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Only Love Can Break Your Heart
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31%
Kiss and Make Up
3
12%
Nothing Can Stop Us
6
23%
Avenue
5
19%
You're In A Bad Way
4
15%
 
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Pick 3 from 5: SAINT ETIENNE

Postby Canis lupus » 22 Dec 2017, 18:41

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Re: Pick 3 from 5: SAINT ETIENNE

Postby naughty boy » 22 Dec 2017, 18:46

1 and 3
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Postby Penk! » 22 Dec 2017, 19:01

I've always struggled a bit with this band. I kind of want to like them, as they're smart and catchy and have interesting arrangements and influences, but there's something that I can't really get around with them. I think it's just the combination of Cracknell's vocals and the production: it's a place in the middle of smooth, sophisticated and sweet that gets a bit too cloying and, I don't know, makes me think of trendy wine bars.

I always liked the Neil cover and I can enjoy the rest of these (why no 'Hobart Paving'? That's surely their greatest moment?) but I'm just not quite there with them.
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Re: Pick 3 from 5: SAINT ETIENNE

Postby The Modernist » 22 Dec 2017, 19:02

Great: Avenue, Nothing Can Stop Us
Very good: Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Okay: Let's Kiss and Make Up, You're in a Bad Way

My favourite tracks of theirs tend to be the album tracks, singles can sometimes bring out a slightly tacky side in them. However 'Avenue' is certainly one of the greatest thing they did, a track where Stanley and the gang indulged all their visions of an epic, melancholy orch-pop and pulled it off with total panache.
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Re: Pick 3 from 5: SAINT ETIENNE

Postby Canis lupus » 22 Dec 2017, 19:07

YOU BLOODY STUPID PAIR OF BUGGERS wrote:1 and 3


you hate the other 3 then :roll:
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Postby Ranking Ted » 22 Dec 2017, 20:22

Kiss And Make Up is out of its depth. 1, 3 & 4 with Avenue as the jewel. As a fan, however, I get slightly annoyed that all people want to talk about is the first two records. They’ve got much more to them.
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Re: Pick 3 from 5: SAINT ETIENNE

Postby pcqgod » 22 Dec 2017, 20:23

All of these are amazingly great, but "Nothing Can Stop Us" is the amazingly greatest of them all.
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Re: Pick 3 from 5: SAINT ETIENNE

Postby The Modernist » 22 Dec 2017, 20:44

Ranking Ted wrote:Kiss And Make Up is out of its depth. 1, 3 & 4 with Avenue as the jewel. As a fan, however, I get slightly annoyed that all people want to talk about is the first two records. They’ve got much more to them.


Yeah I agree. Some of the later albums have gone under the radar.
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Re: Pick 3 from 5: SAINT ETIENNE

Postby naughty boy » 22 Dec 2017, 21:16

Canis lupus wrote:
YOU BLOODY STUPID PAIR OF BUGGERS wrote:1 and 3


you hate the other 3 then :roll:
FFS


Why say that?

I'm not a big fan, I generally agree with what Ed said. But now and again they made something that was a bit better than just a pleasant noise.
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