I recently found a copy of their 100th best of comp London Conversations with an NTSC version of the DVD of videos and listening to the CDs is absolutely dreamy. I already have all their main studio albums, but hearing this rapid-fire succession of stellar singles is almost too much to handle. I love them. LOVE THEM.



However, I was a little disappointed that the DVD of videos didn't include the sexier go-go dancer version of "You're In A Bad Way", but I already have that one on iTunes so it's no big deal. That was the song/video that got me into the band in the first place: You're In A Bad Way Video

Love them. LOVE THEM.

Ditto!
I also buy everything and more. I'm loving this compilation too and I'm also getting the extended remastered re-releases.
Excellent!

Oh!
I went and bought the second album (my first) the day I saw You're In A Bad Way on MTV too

PANDURITO said:

I read about that too and how they are performing the entire Fox Base Alpha album live. I missed the London shows by one week--planned my vacation too early.

PANDURITO said:

I heard "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" first and was never a fan of that song (didn't like it at all initially really) so even after seeing the "You're In A Bad Way" video, I only allowed myself to get the first singles comp, Too Young To Die. Then a friend force fed me some albums until I cried uncle and bought them all myself.

i loooove saint etienne. they're reissuing all their albums as deluxe two disc versions and i'm scared because i know i will go bankrupt buying them all.

Anxiety said:

I'll be bankrupt with you. The new comp has opened my ears a bit in that I'm liking the albums a lot more now. I listened to Interlude last night and thought to myself "I don't remember this disc being this good".

Love this group. "Woodcabin" is my favorite by them.

I was working in a music shop (sorry, in org parlance: "Wrecka stow") when He's On The Phone came out and must have heard it twenty times a day for weeks on end - but still I think it's a great pop single.

sextonseven said:

interlude is a nice little collection, i need to give it more love myself.

i can't keep up with their best-of comps, though i do want the most recent one for the videos...as it is now, all i have is a bootleg copy of the "too young to die" video collection from YEARS ago, on VHS naturally.

sextonseven said:

So true. So. True.

Anxiety said:

I sold my Travel Edition CD on ebay for $2 today. I don't need more than one singles comp really. Now the rarities collections are a different story.

I love them too. I'm glad I never was one of those 'I have to have every weird 12"' types because, being a St. Etienne & Fall fan, I would have no retirement plan.

Count me in. I love Saint Etienne. Any band that can interpolate Rush's "The Spirit of Radio" deserves my attention! I haven't followed them too closely since the first two albums, but I recently got Tales From Turnpike House and am very impressed. I will have to get that compilation. Thanks for bringing it up.

damosuzuki said:

You being a Saint Etienne fan surprises me. I would have thought them much too slick and disco-y for your tastes.

sextonseven said:

I actually really like a fair bit of disco & dance-pop. It's not my favourite style of course, but I enjoy it as a change of pace every now & then. Chic, Donna Summer, & Pet Shop Boys are big favourites of mine.

damosuzuki said:

Not to mention this!

been looking to get into them. someone put them on a mix disc for me ages ago, and i really liked the tracks on there.


so this is a new comp? is it their best? if not, which comp is their best?

Moonbeam said:

Oh, well of course...how could I forget?

sextonseven said:

i think StEt does a good job of straddling disco-ey/dance-y music and experimental electronica and good ol' music geek retro producer emulation. think about an album like 'sound of water' or even (gag) 'places to visit' - there's a lot of fairly obtuse stuff on those albums. and you can tell bob stanley is a big fan of how pop music was recorded in the 60s and early 70s, because some of those sounds shine through in their music. that's one of the things i've always loved about saint etienne - you can either enjoy the pretty, melodic music or you can dig into all the things they're trying to work out and pick out all kinds of interesting things.

errant said:

It is a new comp and of all the ones I've heard, I think it's Saint Etienne's best. It has their new single "Method Of Modern Love" (not a cover ) which is positively divine.

Anxiety said:

Yes, the retro element is a very important reason why I like them so much. How can you go wrong by sampling Dusty Springfield, really?

sextonseven said:

There are 100 songs on this?????

I only have Good Humor but Goodnight Jack is stellar. So intriguing and yet I can't figure out if tragedy is the underlying theme. LOVE that the flute is the foundation of this song LOVE. THIS. TRACK!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

There are 36 songs on this collection, not 100. I meant 100th comp in that the band releases a greatest hits album every other year it seems!

sextonseven said:

OH!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I thought it had 100 songs when I first read this thread too

thekidsgirl said:

Someone understood what I meant:

Rogue588 said:

I didn't realize I was talking in fan code and people not in the know wouldn't get it.

sextonseven said:

on behalf of Supa and I...

thekidsgirl said:

YEAH!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Pipe down you two and watch some more videos!


Like A Motorway (Glastonbury 1994)


Their cover of Who Do You Think You Are (Top of The Pops)