Saint Etienne - And All Because the Lady Loves... A Saint Etienne Assortment (41CD Super Deluxe Selection Box) (2024)
"Following on from BB's excellent Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs post, here is a superb selection of brilliant pop classics from their legendary band Saint Etienne. The albums posted are a combination of K and BB collections."
Seriously there are enough video links here never mind anything else!
A few Top of the Pops performances and videos to watch:
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAajrxvDs4&feature=youtu.be
Nothing Can Stop Us (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdK-CKW8BA&feature=youtu.be
You're in a Bad Way (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7KGi9zo9Wk&feature=youtu.be
Who Do You Think You Are (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTO_Kf1JmI&feature=youtu.be
Pale Movie (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9BmJ4lwlS0&feature=youtu.be
He's on the Phone (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a6WU8GKJNo&feature=youtu.be
Sylvie (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJyvbFkO8dE&feature=youtu.be
Saint Etienne is an English band from Greater London, formed in 1990. The band consists of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. Commonly associated with the indie dance scene of the 1990s, their music blends club culture with 1960s pop and other disparate influences.
Their debut album, Foxbase Alpha, was released to critical acclaim in 1991, featuring their most enduring hits "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "Nothing Can Stop Us". It was followed by So Tough (1993), with the number twelve single "You're in a Bad Way", and the techno folk experiment of Tiger Bay (1994); both albums reached the top-ten. Their early period was rounded out by the gold-certified compilation Too Young to Die: Singles 1990 - 1995, producing the band's highest-charting single, "He's on the Phone" with Étienne Daho.
The band embraced indie pop on Good Humor (1998), with its lead single "Sylvie" reaching number twelve.
By the new millennium, Saint Etienne had pivoted towards ambient music on Sound of Water (2000), while Finisterre (2002) and Tales from Turnpike House (2005) distilled these stylistic diversions and a return to their early influences. The 2010s, with Words and Music (2012) and Home Counties (2017), saw a contemporary update of their sound. The band incorporated samples for the first time in nearly two decades on I've Been Trying to Tell You (2021), which became their highest-charting album since 1994 at number fourteen.
The band's name comes from the French football club AS Saint-Étienne.
Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs were childhood friends and former music journalists, who once had a fanzine called Caff which had developed into a record label by 1989. They originally planned that Saint Etienne would use a variety of different lead singers, and their 1991 debut album, Foxbase Alpha – influenced by sources such as club culture, 1960s pop, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's Dazzle Ships features several vocalists, including Moira Lambert and Donna Savage. However, after working with Sarah Cracknell on "Nothing Can Stop Us", they decided to make her the permanent vocalist, and Cracknell has written or co-written many of the band's songs.
As the title suggests, this post features a superb 41CD overview of Saint Etienne's very best work spanning their entire career to date, including all 10 studio albums with many presented as special 2CD deluxe editions, plus remixes, B-sides, rare bonus tracks and a couple of greatest hits collections.
01 Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha (2009 Deluxe Edition) (2CD) (1991)
02 Saint Etienne - So Tough (2009 Deluxe Edition) (2CD) (1993)
03 Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay (2019, 25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) (3CD) (1994)
04 Saint Etienne - Casino Classics (2012 Deluxe Edition) (5CD) (1996)
05 Saint Etienne - Continental (2009 Deluxe Edition) (2CD) (1997)
06 Saint Etienne - Good Humor (2010 Deluxe Edition) (2CD) (1998)
07 Saint Etienne - Sound of Water (2009 Deluxe Edition) (2CD) (2000)
08 Saint Etienne - Smash the System - Singles and More (2CD) (2001)
09 Saint Etienne - Finisterre (2010 Deluxe Edition) (2CD) (2002)
10 Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House (2010 Deluxe Edition) (2CD) (2005)
11 Saint Etienne - Boxette (4CD) (2008)
12 Saint Etienne - London Conversations - The Best of Saint Etienne (2CD) (2009)
13 Saint Etienne - Foxbase Beta (2CD) (2009)
14 Saint Etienne - Words and Music by Saint Etienne (Super Deluxe Edition) (4CD) (2012)
15 Saint Etienne - The Very Best of (2015)
16 Saint Etienne - Home Counties (3CD) (2017)
17 Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying to Tell You (2021)
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