saint etienne

Bob Stanley interview in The Quietus: http://thequietus.com/articles/02685-saint-etienne-s-bob-stanley-interview-reissues-and-the-problem-with-britpop

ok i think i am in love with that girl.

Samples of the FBB versions of "Girl VIII" and Only Love..." are up on their myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/saintetienne

I think X did a good job on Girl VIII but not on "Only Love...". That bassline is a bit tedious IMO.

Was just listening to "Method of Modern Love" and remembered the little New Order bit:
"There's no sense or reason why we're shot with a bolt of blue..."

who wrote the sleeve notes for the latest batch of deluxe versions?

also coming soon "songs for the dog and duck" ...

free 3 track live ep for signing up for the fan club right now. great 'folk' version of Like A Motorway.

richard x is working with sound of arrows too.

so foxbase beta is going on sale tomorrow, but in the e-mail i received it doesn't say what time it's going on sale, just "tomorrow morning"...

Anyone else going to the Shepherd's Bush Empire show? Annie is supporting, just like she did the last time I saw StEt live in London.

http://www.ekmpowershop8.com/ekmps/shops/saintetienneltd/tracklisting--audio-samples-4-w.asp

It's up now - surprisingly, the site is not dying under the load unlike the last few times they've tried this...

omg the new mix of Only Love Will Break Your Heart that just came out on 12" is KILLING ME - total 105 bpm balearic hotness!

choice

Received Foxbase Beta today ... still making my mind up ... looking forward to So Tougher nevertheless.

are you in the US? i'm yet to receive mine.

I've racked up eighteen plays of that new 12" so far - considering it's eight minutes long, that's a pretty high percentage of my non-sleeping non-working life.

...looking forward to So Tougher nevertheless.

― djh, Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:24 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

You just made that up, right?

so tough with a vengeance

the 12" is the Richard X "extended Beta" version?

yes

wish they had spread the release dates of deluxe reissues out a little more, i still need the so tough + sound of water dlxes but i'm not in a position to drop $60 on cds right now

Well, they won't run out of them...

this is freaking great! the biggest improvement is that the bottom end is gigantic through the whole thing. "Nothing Can Stop Us" is great, as is "She's the One" and "Spring". "Only Love" is my favorite I think. really pleased with this!

I can't believe what he's done with 'Girl VII' it's just fantastic. Properly amazing warm pop music. The 'commentary' track is priceless! It seems that list of London places on 'Girl VII' had the exact effect on Richard X sitting bored in Blackburn as it had on me, sitting bored in Warrington around the same time.

It's mostly great, though I'd only point to Only Love and She's the One as being actual improvements on the originals. Don't care too much for the reworkings of Nothing Can Stop Us or Like the Swallow (ie the children's mini choir thing).

Despite Sarah's voice breaking with a cold, I really enjoyed the FBA gig in Shepherd's Bush last Fri night.

the Air France mix of 'Spring' is a bit too over-excited and kinda sloppy

Like The Swallow is my favorite update. Listening to the commentary track is really fun too.

only love KILLS it

word, can't get enough. for me wilson>carn't sleep>girl vii is slaying today! ab so lutely loving this...

was kinda wary of hearing this beta stuff cause FA is like my favorite album ever; thoughts of fantasia 3d, etc.. i am encouraged to check it out, though, due to the endorsements on this thread

must admit i'm not loving it. the sampled dialogue doesn't work for me and the conceptual cab journey seems a bit lame. shame as i love both st et and x.

that said, i do walk to work listening to foxbase alpha everyday.

you are awesome

On first listen, his mix kinda defines OTM.

totally, it is completely in the spirit of the original, he updates it and adds these little touches but retains the integrity of the originals....

so are you all in the fanclub or what? want 2 hear this...

it's pretty epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnQChL9V88g

Stoned to Say the Least is really great. It's one of my favs on FBA anyway, but this update is sweet. Wish he had made it 8mins instead of 4 but those 4 are pretty perfect.

could handle 8 min of that ^ Only Love youtube tbh

have scored 12" of this. a treat!

the extended mix from the 12" is 8mins.

so are you all in the fanclub or what? want 2 hear this...

I don't think you really need to be in the fanclub. Just ordered mine, no hassle.

Go here: http://www.ekmpowershop8.com/ekmps/shops/saintetienneltd/index.asp

anyone know where one can download the liner notes to boxette?

btw, yeah, the saint etienne fanclub is the only one I have ever belonged to. it is embarrassing, but necessary.

Wish I could get on board with the new "Only Love" but the flat metronomic drum beat sort of ruins it for me.

Really loving the remixed "Like the Swallow." The children's choir is total overkill but it really works.

who has heard Songs For The Dog And Duck?

Wasn't into Songs for the Dog and Duck at all (so much so that I sent it back to Amazon).

But the Deluxe versions of Finisterre and Tiger Bay ... delicious.

Surprised not to hear more love for the re-issues - as a series, probably my favourite "deluxe" editions ever.

Appreciate the heads up! Ordered one as well.

Here's the official store version:

https://saintetienne.ochre.store/format/1733577-international

Just realized I never received my copy of the Night in the mail! Assume they've been shipped out by now.

‘We want to stop in our prime’: Saint Etienne on their final album, turning down Cher’s 'Believe', and why pop is a dying art

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/30/saint-etienne-interview-final-album-international

hadn't the story about higgins originally offering them "believe" before, they'd do a good version of it

This bit:

More recently, 2021’s I’ve Been Trying to Tell You used the melancholic vaporwave genre to examine late-90s nostalgia (they were disappointed that no one worked out that its track names were all horses that won on the day of Labour’s 1997 landslide).

<3 terrific

https://www.racingpost.com/results/513/wolverhampton-aw/1997-05-01/236860

B-but... Penlop came 3rd in the 2:45 at Wolverhampton... "slowly into stride, soon well outpaced, headway 2f out, ran on well inside final furlong".

Ha xp!

‘I’ve been trying to tell you ‘ is such a fantastic summer evening album. One of my favorite things they’ve done

pond house is easily in my top 20 of everything theyve ever done which is p high praise

where is the new LP thread. The new (last?) is confusing me. I'm not sure I really think it's great. Please tell me I'm wrong.

* song/ single ahem

Here ya go

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