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Saint Etienne - Pop as sience
 

offline Co-existence from Bergen (Norway) on 2003-01-27 06:22 [#00529959]
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I brought home Saint Etienne's latest album "Finisterre"
about a week ago and I've been listening to it a
billion-zillion times ever since! I'm totally hooked on
this! This is pop sience at its very best! If there was a
Nobel prize for pop they would surely be among the first to
receive it. And their cause IS truly a noble one too! You
don't see the Etiennes selling out for chart success, and
still they make some of the most radiofriendly music you can
ever imagine. Finisterre is a particularly amusing addition
to one of the most substantial discographies I've seen -
ever - in popular music. The retro theme that penetrates
this record is good fun and mixed - as it is so brilliantly
here - with the groups sensitivity for both classic and new
elements from the vastness of pop-music-culture, they manage
to create - yet again - a "nostalgia for an age yet to come"
- as the arrogant British accent announces between two of
the tracks on this album. They've done it again!

If you're not familiar with the works of Saint Etienne I
recommend the superb compilation "Smash the system", that
saw the light of day last year. Enjoy!!! Cheers!


 

offline NeoExmnist from United States on 2003-01-27 06:25 [#00529963]
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if there is a noble prize for pop then that sux.

 

offline Co-existence from Bergen (Norway) on 2003-01-27 06:26 [#00529965]
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There isn't....

 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2003-01-27 06:27 [#00529966]
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skal sjekke det ut....

 

offline NeoExmnist from United States on 2003-01-27 06:28 [#00529968]
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i can sleep ez....

 

offline diablo on 2003-01-27 06:29 [#00529970]
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Smash the System was cool. Haven't heard their new stuff.
Maybe i'll get it, copy it then take it back, saying "yeah I
got it as a present for someone but they've already got it"
urk, naughty...

Fox Base Alpha is one of their best, if you haven't heard
that.


 

offline diablo on 2003-01-27 06:30 [#00529973]
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oh and it features some of the best sleeve notes of all time

 

offline Co-existence from Bergen (Norway) on 2003-01-27 06:34 [#00529983]
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Fox Base Alpha was their first album and is a deffinite
classic. Essential! The only album I don't care too much for
is "Good Humour" from '98


 

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