Saint Etienne

Only Love Can Break Your Heart..Saint Etienne are an English indie dance act, fronted by Sarah Cracknell. Ex-music journalists Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs are the other regular members of the band. They are named after a French football team, AS Saint-Étienne, European Cup runners-up in the 1970s.During the 1990s the band recorded two tracks called "7 Ways to Love" and "He Is Cola" under the name Cola Boy. However, it is as Saint Etienne that they were one of the bands that helped define the indie dance genre in the early 1990s, fusing the production values of the dance-pop that emerged in the wake of the Second Summer of Love with the clever lyrics and self-aware production of indie music. A decade after the band's formation, The Times observed that Saint Etienne "deftly fused the grooviness of Swinging Sixties London with a post-acid house backbeat".Their early recordings were packed with generic house music clichés, such as standard TR-909 drum patterns and Italo house piano riffs, but they soon found a more original sound notable by the use of found dialogue, mainly from classic 60's British realist cinema as featured on their albums Foxbase Alpha and So Tough. Some of these earlier recordings included skits by satirist Chris Morris.They began to shift towards a more atmospheric type of electronica in 2000 with the release of Sound of Water, dividing their fanbase..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Etienne_%28band%29.http://www.saintetienne.com/.You're In A Bad Way ..(Thanks to Auralgasms and 530nm).Filling in the gaps. No.91http://mog.com/Neill/blog_post/29537