Foxbase Alpha

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Richards, Sam (16 September 2016). "Was September 1991 the best month ever for albums?". BBC Music . Retrieved 18 September 2016. ETIENNE HEAVEN] Saint Etienne songs: 7 Ways To Love". Saint.etienne.net. 29 June 2002 . Retrieved 14 June 2017. That’s true. I never felt particularly clever myself. I think what annoyed us was clever and ironic being seen as the same thing. Betty Boo never got called clever, and I could never see any difference between us.

During the early 1990s the group enjoyed extensive coverage in UK music weekly papers NME and Melody Maker and gained a reputation as purveyors of "pure pop" in the period immediately prior to the Brit-Pop explosion. So Tough reached No.7 in the UK Albums Chart. Their most popular singles of this period were " You're in a Bad Way" and " Join Our Club" (which reached No.12 and No.21 in the UK Singles Chart). [13]Foxbase Alpha is the debut studio album by English band Saint Etienne, released on 16 September 1991 by Heavenly Recordings. [13] a b Harvell, Jess (19 June 2009). "Saint Etienne: Foxbase Alpha". Pitchfork . Retrieved 24 July 2016. Was there ever anything truly innovative about Saint Etienne fusing elements from the contemporary rave scene and house music with romantic and summery sixties pop? It's impossible for me to say. At the time Foxbase Alpha was released I had as much interest in club culture as I had in the philosophical teachings of Immanuel Kant. It wasn't until a decade after Foxbase Alpha's release I began to take an interest in the band and by that time Saint Etienne had developed into something more ambient, more twee. (Who knows one of these days I may even get around to studying Mr Kant).

Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: Saint Etienne". robertchristgau.com . Retrieved 7 January 2023. Lechner, Ernesto (21 July 2000). "*** 1/2 Saint Etienne, "Sound of Water," Sub Pop". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035 . Retrieved 13 March 2016. I guess C86 was exciting, then, because it felt like it was “ours”. For people who had been too young for punk and found goth a bit unappealing. It also, if you were a nice kid, didn’t feel dangerous.Biography Saint Etienne (named after the French town's skillful football team of the 1970s) formed when Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, two childhood friends turned music journalists, teamed up to make music. Their early singles, notably " Only Love Can Break Your Heart", a Neil Young cover, were modest hits in the United Kingdom, and by the time they released their debut LP Foxbase Alpha, they were at the forefront of a growing indie dance scene in the UK.