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Saint Etienne
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Saint Etienne Is An Indie Dance/indie Pop Trio Which Formed In Croydon England In 1990. The Band Was Founded By Journalist Bob Stanley Born December 25 1964 And Pete Wiggs Born May 15 1966 In Croydon UK January 1990. After Recording 2 Singles With Guest Singers Sarah Cracknell Born April 12 1967 Chelmsford Essex Joined As A Full Member. The Band Is Named After A French Football Team. Saint Etienne Are One Of The Bands Who Defined The Early 90s Indie Dance Genre 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.
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Saint-Etienne - Tiger Bay
Written By Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs
Produced By Saint Etienne Released February 1994 On Tiger Bay Notes Mixed And Programmed By Rick Smith Of Underworld. The Song Seems To Bear A Debt To The Song Silver Dagger By Joan Baez. Bob Stanley Talking About The Song In 1995 "Number 47 With A Bullet. The Americans Tried To Get Us To Change The Title To Like A Freeway! Can You Believe It? We Said Autobahn Was A Hit All Around The World Fuck Off. Tiger Bay Was Supposed To Be An Album Of Modern Folk Songs Done In 20th Century Styles Like Techno And Dub. So We Wrote Most Of It In The Forest Of Dean. We Went Into The Country To Get Our Heads Together. We Wanted To Do Loads Of Songs About Death So We Bought The Local Papers To Get Some Real Stories And There Was Nothing."
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Saint Etienne Is An Indie Dance/indie Pop Trio Which Formed In Croydon England In 1990. The Band Was Founded By Journalist Bob Stanley Born December 25 1964 And Pete Wiggs Born May 15 1966 In Croydon UK January 1990. After Recording 2 Singles With Guest Singers Sarah Cracknell Born April 12 1967 Chelmsford Essex Joined As A Full Member. The Band Is Named After A French Football Team. Saint Etienne Are One Of The Bands Who Defined The Early 90s Indie Dance Genre 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.
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Written by Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs
Produced by Saint Etienne
Released February 1994 on Tiger Bay
Notes Mixed and programmed by Rick Smith of Underworld. The song seems to bear a debt to the song Silver Dagger by Joan Baez. Bob Stanley talking about the song in 1995: "Number 47 with a bullet. The Americans tried to get us to change the title to Like A Freeway! Can you believe it? We said, Autobahn was a hit all around the world, fuck off. Tiger Bay was supposed to be an album of modern folk songs done in 20th century styles like techno and dub. So we wrote most of it in the Forest Of Dean. We went into the country to get our heads together. We wanted to do loads of songs about death, so we bought the local papers to get some real stories, and there was nothing." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.