An Oldie but Goodie! Kind of... If I had to pick some bands representative of the pop 90s, Saint Etienne would come in the top 5 somewhere with The Beloved and the Pet Shop Boys. It really summarises and mixes all the ingredients of my early twenties. An Indie feel with club beats sometimes dirty and bordering on acid house and sometimes clean and discoid. Add to that the lovely voice of Sarah Cracknell singing clever lyrics and what you have is the perfect pop band. Interesting they remained kind of 'underground' throughout their career. It is nice to be reminded of that happy era with the issue of a double CD / double vinyl compilation that includes all their groundbreaking tracks ('Only Love', 'Join Our Club', 'Who Do You Think You Are') as well as a couple of new tracks ('Burn Out Car' a re-make of a 'lost' track incidentally produced by Xenomania who are also producing the new Pet Shop Boys album). And I was going to forget there is even an edition with a DVD comprising all the band videos.
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